I preferred the thread title as it was in Part 5 over the shorter version in Part 6, and so I decided to copy the style of the former. May this THREAD Restoration usher in a new era of peace, prosperity, progress and posts about current thoughts for /dqn/!
Dokyun - one Internet, makes derogatory term used in Nihongo slang.Yankee (bad) and disease, poor head as violent violent people, you can use lack of knowledge by using an error referring to the poor.
My captcha was wi.
must suck for engaged dqn
poured 40oz out of my piss jar onto the street for you homie
Turns out I don't like guro after all.
>>463
*formerly engaged
Man Finnegans Wake is a fucking FASCINATING book. I've been rereading it recently. It's surprising how much it changes, how much the book grows with you. I originally wrote it off as being just silly bullshit (that wasn't even silly!) but I feel that shows me much better than any mirror ever could. Goddamn it's so exciting.
>>466
Tokiko, have you only read five books or something?
You remind me of when I was about your age and I showed one of my friends some bad racing game for the PlayStation. He hadn't really played many video games before so it completely blew his mind, and for months he wouldn't shut up to everyone about what an amazing game it was.
Why are people on /jp/ still stalking and harassing me? I haven't posted there for months.
For too long have they stolen our time from us. Enough! Tonight the hours are ours and ours alone!
>>467
Not "Tokiko" but Finnegans Wake is perhaps the greatest work of literature of all time. It's not right at all to compare it with some "bad racing game" because it is the magnum opus of who is considered the best author in the English language. Finnegans Wake is an important book within the context postmodernity and, to a greater extant, in the literary canon, for its unique and creative deconstruction not only of myth and the metanarrative but also Western literature. It is not a satire of one specific book or one specific story; Joyce's Wake mercilessly attacks all books and all stories. It may be difficult to read, but that does not mean it is a bad book. Saying "Hurr durr this book is hard to read, therefore IT'S dumb" only makes YOU look like an idiot.
Fucking php.
>>468
Tom somebody's rally? I don't want to look it up or I'll go one of those five-hour nostalgia binges.
Whaahoo! Perfect.
>>469
People need to get over the whole “Hitler” thing. It's in the past and he's dead anyway, leave the man alone.
A girl just (3.5 hours ago) texted me the following: "Heyy"
It's been so long since I received a text message that I really don't know how to respond... I'm thinking about ignoring it .
Why did I even bother trying to listen to American music again. Ew.
Girls are gross!
captcha: faghod
Chinese food is all about utilizing seasonal and locally grown produce. Because it's cheap.
CHEAP: The original Green.
/r9k/ is such an awful place why do I even go there.
Because you hope that you'll be able to (unexpectedly) anonymously talk there with your online acquaintances who wouldn't otherwise talk about their personal matters?
( ﾟ -ﾟ) That might just be me, though.
( ﾟ -ﾟ) People still go to 4chan
I thought /r9k/ was supposed to be some original content board? That's the #xkcd-signal one, right?
Doesn't 4chan have an /adv/ or am I getting mixed up with some other integer-chan?
I'm learning 1-2 new kanji a day. It's going well.
>>487
It was, but then it was filled with lonely neck beards who raped it to the point where it's nothing but a board to rage/cry about how they'll never feel a vagina.
>>488
I envy your steady progress. This summer, I learned ~300 and then forgot half. I'd study with fervor and dedication, if only for a few weeks, and then reject anything Japanese at all.
Are you following a specific method outlined in a book? Actually, it's silly of me to assume you're a beginner. What have your methods been?
Oh, I'm a beginner. I started this summer. I just look up Kanji on Saiga-JP, I really don't have a good method at all...
This is a very different kind of contentedness. Not better, not worse, merely different.
This essay on minimalism is coming along well, but I can't help but feel it's inadequate and I should start over.
>>491
Remembering the Kanji helped me for a while, but I truly lacked dedication, so now I'm not sure whether I should start all over again (for the third time). I have been considering following Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar and just learning the kanji from that. I may try that. All Japanese All the Time has a good list of links to Japanese things to do, though being on DQN you probably have enough of those. The site also supports the philosophy that one should learn Japanese as a Japanese baby would, but I'm not too sure about that. There's also a thread on our Film & TV board that discusses streaming Japanese TV, assuming you weren't part of that thread in the first place. Playing Japanese ROMS of most games is fun, as most of them don't have any kanji. The Chibi Maruko-Chan titles for the Game Boy are of the most interest to me. Sorry for the unsolicited advice. Truly, I spend more time looking for ways to study Japanese than studying it.
Strangely enough, when I get lazy and give up on kanji, I give learning perl a try. When I get lazy and give up on perl... Maybe there's a pill for that sort of thing.
>>492
That's not a bad idea. That's a good balance between "don't bother learning any kanji until you've taken at least two Japanese courses in college" and "learn ALL of the kanji before you learn the coupla."
>>494
Less is more, when it comes to essays on minimalism. You should write the shortest essay possible that gets your ideas across. And print it in the simplest, plainest font. On plain white paper.
>>496
My plan was rice writing for ultimate minimalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_writing
I blew two wads today with about 30 minutes in between. Hadn't done that since the day I discovered lesbian porn.
>>495
I have seen many, many referrals to Heisig's method over the years. I have given it the once-over, and I agree wholeheartedly with the critics: The biggest problem with RTK is that it is exactly what it says on the tin. You may remember kanji... but that's all time you're not spending learning Japanese. It's time spent reading and thinking in English idiom, which is a surefire way to not learn a new language. So what the hell is the point, then!?
Not going to say that the methodology is all bad, though. Associating stories with things to memorize works really well and all the super-memorizers do it. But the best stories are the ones that fire quickly from your own neurons (dirty stories work really well). Or if (for example) you find ways to associate the metric shitload of kanji pronounced "dai" and associated vocabulary with James Bond in Die Another Day, that's another way of going about it. And there is something to be said for understanding the components that make up kanji; when you understand that comparatively few building blocks make up most of the set, it becomes much less of a deal that there are hundreds of kanji left to learn.
To sum up: for to learn a language, live her as she is spoke.
Today has been dreadful, but at least I can spend my last ten minutes of lucidity with my beloved.
Sweden
Song of the Silent Age
Number 150
Ace Attorney is great! I can't believe I hadn't played it until now. It's exactly as good as I expected.
A wild kanji appeared! It's 卵, the kanji for egg! (Tamago)
>>502
Oh yeah. That reminded me of an OVA I watched called Tenshi no Tamago. I'll make sure to remember this kanji.
>>503
Damn it. I have been downloading that for a week. There's only one guy seeding and I always get shit speeds. Right now it's at 96.6%, 3kB/s.
>>505
Here is a faster torrent: http://bakabt.me/131620-angels-egg-tenshi-no-tamago-niizk.html
It's a really good film.
How upset people are over "cisgender" upsets me. It's a term for something that has always existed, and of course you're going to get a few nutjobs. Stop giving them attention and assuming everyone is the same.
I'm less concerned about global warming and more concerned about how much shit (both figurative and literal) is being dispensed into our oceans by inconsiderate douchebags. Fish might not be self-aware, but they're kind of vital, and considering how many species make homes underwater, if sea creatures go down the natural world is going down with it.
This particular Monday I'm going to try not to post about cake on DQN. Instead, I'll post about not posting about cake on DQN.
>>509
You really need to stop.
Apparently I'm going out for a meal tomorrow and not getting home until around 9:30pm?? I had assumed it would be much earlier than that. This is concerning.
>>499 I used to remember the hiragana "ya" as if he was a wee man running away with a baby under his arm, and I remembered it in my head like "ya bastard, you're stealing ma baby!" and "su" is like my friend Sue because she has massive tits.
>>507
Terms for things that have always existed aren't always good terms. For example, before the term cisgender was coined, the closest thing that particular latin prefix was used for was cisvestism/cisvestite, a rarely used term in psychology for the practice of wearing clothes intended for the same gender but not that person's proper station (e.g. a grown man who dresses in boy's clothes... or all sorts of dress-ups you see in porn, though I guess that's more like a fetish and not the now not-exactly-credited psychological condition).
And the first few times someone comes across a word makes all the difference. These days, it seems someone who matches the description is likely to first come across the term while they are being insulted (e.g. being told they have "privilege", are "scum", are "transphobic", etc.), or come across it in a similar context where someone else was being insulted. Then in connotation, it is no longer the neutral term it was used as--a bad term guilty by association (in reverse, this is how you can slip backhanded compliments under the radar: sugar-coat an insult someone doesn't know well enough, and they'll probably think "nepotist" means philanthropist or something). It will take years to see how things ultimately pan out, but if the next few decades pan out the way I'm thinking they are, it's definitely going to ride the euphemism treadmill simply because some radical elements have used it in insulting ways. No great debate was ever carried by this style of name-calling.
It's not time yet but I want to go do something.
Is anyone else watching the new Yuru Yuri?
>>516
Not my kind of thing, and it shouldn't be yours. You should all be ashamed.
Aspirin is exciting.
Lie-ins are nice but I wish I didn't have to worry so much about getting the bus at the right time.
I haven't been on IRC in a while. That was nice.
I'm back on Twitter.
Bleaurgh.
I hate liars! People who lie fill me with disgust! Those who lie to themselves are only slightly worse! I wish that people with warped views of reality and the need to mislead others would kill themselves!
I'm so heartbroken I want to puke.
MATRICIDE!
I wonder if anyone has ever put "Good game, next map!" on their tombstone.
I'm an espeon!
Check your entitlement, cis scum.
i got a good feeling!
Yes...no...
I can't decide.
Let's flip a coin. QEII: No.
...flip!
Yes.
Saying "cis scum" makes you just as much of a bigot as anyone else. I'm sorry, but it's true. Stop thinking you're so special.
I love making my cis scum.
Try reading it out loud.
I hate the people who whine about the people who point out that certain post/ers are un-DQN. It's just flat out hypocrisy. Be honest: There ARE certain posters who don't belong here, and you're ONE OF THEM if you describe yourself as being the type, even unconsciously so.
Also >>539,542 should go back to /b/. Probably that fag Espeon talking to himself
>>543
I'm not a fag. And you should probably go back to /b/ with >>539,542 because you're a hypocrite. And everyone knows that anonymous is a hypocrite.
Also, if I was talking to myself I would attempt to embarrass myself in a hilarious way, like "accidentally" forgetting to clear the name field whilst replying. Or I would probably troll myself into tears. I would do something to entertain a reader, you know.
>>544 the most entertaining thing you could do is stop posting
>>536
Typical cisgender entitlement. Nobody thinks they're "special". When blacks were fighting for equal rights, they weren't just attention whores who thought they were "special". It was a real issue, and even now white privilege still exists.
It's exactly the same with transpeople and cispeople.
>>246
Haha you're acting just like one of those dumbfucks who use tumblr
Gender is a social construct and artificial. It is useless to create your own gender identity or describe yourself as being "male" or "female" mentally or in other non-physical terms for this reason. It is purely artificial. If anything, gender is more a linguistic construct than all else.
If you have a penis, you are male. If you are male, you have a penis. Why should it mean anything more than this? This kind of relationship works and it is how people expect it to work. Go ahead and wear dresses, but I do not see the point in saying that you're a woman if you do not have female genitalia.
>Gender is a social construct and artificial.
Then we're in agreement. And if people want to identify as a social construct irrespective of their sex, why not let them?
What you're referring to in the second part of your post is biological sex. Nobody denies that people born with a penis and XY chromosomes are different to people with a vagina and XX chromosomes. But if those people choose they want to be a gender different to their physical sex, or that they were born as such, what's wrong with that?
>>547
I like how you accidentally ended up attack someone who insulted Homestuck.
I used to think DQN was un-trollable. Now I realize it's quite easy, just make a bunch of shitty posts.