@gabriel_true Day 113: The ninth episode of a drama I've been watching was postponed today...that makes me sad cause I was looking forward to it all week lol, but now I have to wait for next Saturday instead for the episode to officially air (boo!). I hope you don't have any postponed shows, because you deserve to have good things, but it seems life just hates me I guess? *flops face first on bed and cries in sad*. Nah, I'm being dramatic, I'll live...even if I was bored because I had nothing to watch today lol. - Can't Wait For Next Saturday: Wei-Wei

Also, can we be allowed the use of a few more carriage returns. I think after 10 or so our ability to paragraph disappears. Any way to increase that +5.

I agree. A tool is just that, a tool. It's supposed to make the artisans job more efficient, not do their job for them, or replace them. After all, AI isn't actually creating anything new. It's just plagiarizing from a vast library of other people's work. And it doesn't know when it makes mistakes. Management is often to blame for the misuse of tools. Since you're jobs now slightly easier, we need you to move up the schedule, or do it with less budget, or less staff. Now instead of a tool, it's a crutch, and quality suffers. After all, the bottom line is often their biggest concern. Not the quality of the product. It's the artist that care about the quality. It's their work after all. There's no substitute for that. Don't get me wrong. I've seen some pretty amazing AI art. But I've also seen infinitely more almost good pictures ruined by little mistakes a real artist would never make.

If it got me out of work Monday..... Heck, why not. That whole exploding pager thing was some next level shenanigans. Then the exploding walkie talkies the next week. I picture the person who came up that whole plan saying, "You know, I didn't actually think it would work a 2nd time. Maybe we should try something with some cans and string."

Basically all of the advice people give for language learning is tactical: use these apps, learn this first, read this textbook, study this content, etc., etc. However, the most important thing for learning any language is understanding your own motivations and goals. Why do you want to learn Japanese? Maybe you have Japanese heritage and want to get closer to your extended family. Maybe you plan to visit Japan when you graduate from university. Maybe you're really into visual novels and the translated versions of the VNs you want to read just aren't coming. Maybe you don't actually care about Japanese specifically but you just like the idea of learning a language and Japanese seems cool. I'd recommend completely different strategies and tools for each of those situations and you need to be careful taking advice from anyone who doesn't know what YOU want from the language. You could be perfectly happy never learning kanji and focus entirely on speaking while I could read a novel a day and never speak a word of Japanese because we just want different things. To actually learn Japanese to a reasonably high level will take thousands of hours over years so if you don't have a north star to guide you you're just going to burn yourself out and quit. As a first step, pick the smallest language goal that aligns with your overall goal for Japanese that would make you feel proud if you accomplished it then study only the Japanese you need to do that one thing. Some common short-term goals are: - rewatch an episode of a children's anime like precure without subtitles - read a short manga like yotsubato and laugh at the jokes - learn all of the words and pronunciation so you can sing your favorite Japanese song well - read a Japanese picture book - write a reply to a Japanese tweet in Japanese - chat in a Japanese vtuber's livestream - order a meal at a Japanese restaurant in Japanese - introduce yourself to someone in Japanese in VRchat Once you've accomplished that thing, do some introspection and see how you feel about it. Did you like learning Japanese? Do you feel like it's worth it to learn more? Are you excited about setting an even harder language goal? If so then you now have some experience with the language and you can build off of what you've already done.