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Just DuoLingo, watching Japanese stuff without subtitles (including cultural guides for further understanding) to force myself to listen, and then looking up words I don’t know when I come across them.

My goal was never to learn how to speak or write anything; just understand it well enough to watch Japanese media in the original language. I still often have to rewind and play back stuff to get it all. Especially if they are saying a long sentence really fast.

It also probably helps that Language itself is one of the things that tickles my autistic brain.

I’ve been doing daily lessons on it for almost a whole year with the goal of being able to watch anime without subtitles.

I have achieved my goal almost completely. I just need to learn more vocab because DuoLingo has only taught about 150 or so words. Gamifying learning works; if you can stick with it. Which is the whole point in making it like a game: so you stick to it.

Whether or not that will continue to be the case when everything is handled by AI has yet to be seen. I am doubtful, considering how fucking God awful LLMs are at providing ACTUAL info and not just creating a madlib with what it has been trained on.

I wish I could at least be like Ed and too stupid to understand how shitty it is here.

I have 5 google drives at 100% capacity with the images I save.

I had to take care of my pile yesterday because one of my dogs peed on it. 😬

My dream is to be the monstrosity. Playing the villain in a superhero movie would be dope.

I asked for a Butterfinger once as a kid and for the next 30 something years, my parents treated it like it was my favorite candy of all time (hint: it’s not).

The laser produced power? How do we harness that so we can power the world with lasers? 🤔

This is actually a legit plot point in La Blue Girl (a hentai about ninjas that fight with sex).