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I would say that as long as you are worried about what’s going on and that you are consciously making choices that make the situation worse, that would already be a lot better than what the average person in a developed country is doing. Neither am I making all that much of an effort to stop it, but I would say every effort, however small, counts. You don’t have to be Greta Thunberg to make a difference. You don’t have to make a big difference - a small one is fine.

As I was writing this comment I also felt motivated by my own words lol. I should start acting more too. I might join protests calling for Israel to stop the genocide against Palestinians. I could also try floating problems like global warming or pollution during conversations with friends so that they know that people actually do care.

There are quite a bit of fake multiplayer .io games, but the ones I got into are all real multiplayer games. A lot of mobile games with “.io” in their names are fake multiplayer games. Those apps are just hooking onto the popularity of “.io” and they often don’t even have a .io domain.

I haven’t been able to get to the books piling up in my room. I have a series of a wuxia novels (The Deer and the Cauldron) that has been rotting away in my room for quite a while now.

I’m mostly learning Spanish just for the sake of it. I’m only learning it because it’s fun and maybe because Latin American food seems really appealing to me. Not because I see myself working there or even traveling there in the near future. It’s a hobby, and you’re allowed to have fun choosing whatever hobby you like. You don’t necessarily have to learn a language only because it will be useful. In fact, other than going to places where people speak this language, you also have the choice of simply consuming content in the language online. Make it fun!

I have also been a bit hesitant about learning German and Korean (before my infatuation with Spanish started) because I don’t see myself having use for them in the future. After I went to the Mexican restaurant though, everything changed and I realized that there’s nothing wrong with learning a language as long as I enjoy it even if it won’t be that useful.

Thanks! Yes, learning English is required here, but my English mostly comes from watching a lot of cartoons in English and consuming a lot of English content on YouTube when I was a child. The English classes in the school curriculum didn’t help me much. When the peers were thinking about all the grammar rules trying to pick out the correct option in their heads, I was doing the English tests and exams following my guts. By the way don’t worry about your memory! We haven’t talked about this before.

I do still need to improve on my English more though. I find myself using some certain words excessively (though, but, quite, hopefully, just, etc.), especially in speaking where I have less time to adjust the phrasing. I’d like to fix my overuse of these words maybe.

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Your little media server sounds great! I don’t really store much actual useful data on my home server. Nothing more than the expenses. Great that you’re archiving YouTube channels!

I see! So the game was modeled after a genre called rage game? I tried looking it up but all I could find was a 2011 FPS game called Rage. Surely that can’t be it, right?

I have so many books about tech that I bought but haven’t really gotten through even half. Books about Java 8 (!), Python 3, Git, two about Linux, four about Minecraft, Word 2010 (don’t know why I bought this one tbh), intro to computer science… you get the idea. My hobbies also go quite like yours: I get into them, and then I almost always eventually quit. Ones I’ve quit include: German, Java, Toki Pona (I was so into this for like 2 months), competitive programming (never got far though), Minecraft… The only ones I haven’t quit are probably Linux and privacy (is this even a hobby though?). Linux sticks around for some reason. Oh yeah, Spanish too. That’s probably because it’s relatively new. I’ve already started feeling that watching those Dreaming Spanish videos I mentioned is a chore. A month ago I would even do flash cards every day, but not anymore. But hopefully that’s just because I’ve been traveling the past 3 weeks (to Okinawa and Taipei) and that I got hooked onto Stardew Valley. Going back tomorrow so I’m gonna pick it back up. I do still feel passionately towards Spanish so that’s something.

I put an event on my calendar such that I remember sending you the game!

The Romance languages are indeed very similar! But I think it might be best to try to perfect your Spanish skills instead of also learning Italian and risk mixing up and saying Italian while speaking Spanish or the other way around. Since they are so similar, I heard that most Italians can sort of understand Spanish anyways. Learning just a little bit of Italian to understand it as a Spanish speaker might work just enough. But again I don’t speak any of the Romance languages good enough so take this advice with a grain of salt.

PS. Sorry for the late reply! I’ve been a bit busy the last couple days.

I also dabble with a lot of things! In fact I think I have also used the words “whatever catches my fancy” to describe what my hobby is before. I used to do quite a lot of ricing on my Linux desktop - obsessing over the details of my desktop and trying to change everything. I also like trying… uhh… different software such as different browsers or just some cool thing I found recently. I (used to?) often waste the whole evening just fiddling with stuff and making no real progress. I also host my own tiny homelab server though not much is going on there. Only a expense manager (Firefly III), Pi-Hole (DNS server to block ads and other unwanted domains), and that’s basically all.

Cool game you got there! I like the ball buster. A twist on the classic ball busting game!

We are also gonna make a game in the university club! We haven’t even really decided on what to make yet though. Will let you try it once it’s done! It will probably be done by around November, so if you haven’t heard from me by November please send me a message to remind me haha.

I have long been interested in linguistics and learning languages in general, but here’s why I started learning Spanish: Once (back in April I think) I went to a Mexican restaurant and decided it was prime time that I learned Spanish. That’s it. I had never ever considered learning Spanish before that. Pretty random, huh? I even remember watching a video about someone cramming Spanish before going to Latin America and me thinking “I’m probably never going to learn Spanish but maybe German or Korean.” But here I am learning Spanish.

Maybe you could go to Shanghai. I heard the food is quite good there. Maybe even Singapore, though you risk everyone switching to English upon hearing slow Mandarin. Maybe you could also check out Chongqing. Basically just stick to the big cities, unless you’re mentally prepared to have to do everything in Mandarin. In any case you don’t have to commit to one city; just use the rail to visit multiple cities.

Though not in China, my personal recommendation would be to try going to Taipei. It’s a cozy city with nice people. Taiwan’s the first in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage, which is quite something. The boba tea there is also awesome. Affordable and so much better than whatever they’re selling over in the States.

Lol I don’t have a wife or a husband (nor am I in a relationship, for that matter)! I simply sort of found the lessons fun so I felt the urge to do them. It’s not even a habit thing where there’s a fixed schedule and that I don’t feel comfortable not doing it (in fact I have missed multiple days) but rather this… thing that calls on me to do it. Though after finishing the lessons I have sort of lost a sense of where to head next on my Spanish journey. Probably gonna make some flashcards for words.

I just realized that there’s a 3D printer that I can use at my club (extracurricular group activity thing at my university where we do game dev, web dev, server management, and almost everything computer-related). I haven’t really gotten around to using it though. I’ll check that one out too.

My ability to grasp the gist of a sentence at first glance has also been improving. Hopefully it gets even better as I read more. It has also been the same for me with Japanese - reading is just fine but actually producing output in the language is another thing.

Edit: Oh I just realized you thought I was the other commenter because you were talking about their wife. Sorry for having bamboozled you haha.

I did the LT lessons at 1 lesson a day, sometimes 2. Once I even did 4 while walking back home at midnight lol.

Cool thingiverse you got there! Maybe it’s time for me to buy a 3D printing machine though I’ll probably just borrow it from my friend haha.

I had planned to watch a lot of (easy) videos in Spanish, but this week Stardew Valley got the better of me and I have been hooked onto it the past week. What I’m doing is setting the game language as Spanish. I have to put in a lot of effort to understand the in-game dialog (written, not spoken) and look up a lot of words, but it has actually been quite a good experience and I’ve learned quite a bit of new words. The cognates with English words really do help a lot.

Please do try going to China or Taiwan! It’ll be fun, I guarantee!

I would personally say 我(的)中文還不怎麼好啦/我的中文还不怎么好啦 (wǒ de zhōngwén hái bùzěnme* hǎo la). 啦 carries a bit of humbleness and is often used when denying a praise. 啊 wouldn’t really work here, though I can’t really tell you why. Might be because it can (depending on tone) sound like you’re denying sth impatiently and that it should be obvious, I think? … sorry I don’t really know how to put this into words precisely.

*Although 怎麼/么 is usually said to be pronounced as zěnme, I have always felt it’s more aptly described as zeme.

I’ve been learning Spanish with Language Transfer too! I’ve only just recently completed all 90 lessons of it. I’ve also been watching Dreaming Spanish to get more of that juicy comprehensible input.

I believe it should be

我還沒去過。我很想去。
我还没去过。我很想去。
wǒ háiméi qù guò. wǒ hěn xiǎng qù.

I have not been [there] yet. I would love to go.

出國/国 (chūguó) means to leave the country (presumably your home country).

Holy shit I didn’t read it properly. Yes indeed I believe that’s what she’s trying to say. She wants to be content like her husband.

not sure if a virtual desktop is the same thing as workspaces in Gnome, but what I do is I only really open one window in one workspace. The first window I open since system startup goes into the first workspace, etc. Usually the first one is the browser (Librewolf).

Penguins are called 企鵝/企鹅 (qì’é, [tɕʰi˥˩ ɤ˧˥]) in Chinese. It would be better literally translated as standing goose. It just so happens to share the same character 企 with the word for business. Most people don’t know that 企 means standing anymore though.

Very true. I used to poweroff my laptop every day, but now, after getting into servers, I sometimes leave my laptop up overnight (even though the laptop isn’t the server)

I see! Wow, sugarfree Coca-cola has no labels!? Yeah I guess it wouldn’t get any of those five but I would never say it’s healthy. Maybe they should revise the standards for the labels, especially if they’re gonna make a snack marketed as healthy that gets 3 seals. Seems like being made from natural ingredients (such as cane sugar instead of sweeteners) and without flavorants or colorants (opposite of what Zero Coke did to not get any labels) is one of the big selling points of this chocolate bar, so perhaps it would be a good idea to account for this with the seals somehow. But then people might think the government is just changing the standards to their conveniences so I don’t really know.

Now I don’t really know that much about their system, but I would assume that almost every sweet would get at least one seal unless it’s made very healthy and not a sweet anymore? I don’t really speak Spanish, but in the link you sent there is an illustration of a girl smiling and holding a bag of cookies with two seals and with sparkles on the bag. Maybe the point is to choose the ones with fewer seals, and not to try to go for none?

Can anyone explain why this post is funny to me? I don’t know much about Interstellar.

Thank you! I’ll try that out.