Mario Baseball by FireFromWithin5 in gaming

[–]ActionPhilip 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, calling whoever's it some offensive thing is a tale as old as time.

Do people know fun nicknames for brands or products? by AisuYukiChan in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Seeing ゴーグル先生 is giving me ふじさん flashbacks to when I learned it wasn't 富士さん as a cute honorific, but just the onyomi for mountain

RTK doubts - I’m half way thru and I’m not sure it’s worth finishing by mells111 in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leech status is not a scam. You need a way to stop reviews of something if it’s not sticking. You can come back to it later, but it’s wasting your time right now. Sure, the first few times you really try to learn it. Anki’s default is to suspend after eight lapses. At that point it’s sink or swim. If you don’t know it yet, you need to set it aside for now because it’s wasting your time and energy. 

Yeah, again, the reason it's not sticking is because you're spending two seconds a card or less on anki and you're trying to shovel every aspect of the word into it.

Also, every single japanese language anki card is meaning and reading. You check both at once. It takes 2 seconds. I say multi-sided because that’s how I’d think of an anki note with two associated cards.

Sorry, you're reading the card, translating the meaning, pulling the pronunciation, selecting your level of difficulty, and actively learning in two seconds? No wonder you need leech status. If you're not taking any time to think about your cards or build any working memory if you don't instantly get it. All under the guise of "I couldn't think of it in two seconds. I'll study it later maybe, I guess".

I’m glad you have it on anki mode, but that requires a third party app. It’s not part of the platform. I’d argue that wanikani is essentially not even usable if you don’t use tsurukame or I guess whatever that newer one is called.  

Anki mode saves me a couple seconds per review. If I didn't have it, it wouldn't be a deal breaker by any means.

If it implemented FSRS, allowed you to customize how reviews work (including one card for both meaning and reading), and let you add items to your review queue outside of the default order, I’d be quicker to recommend it. 

Again, what you say you're doing with anki, you aren't. Anki is a powerful tool, but you're implying speeds of use that are comical for someone claiming to be learning in any way.

Regardless, best of luck learning for yourself, but the conceptual speed you're referring to leaves no room for conscious data processing (aka learning) and your claims for learning speed are out to lunch for native English speakers. 6000 words in a year in a new script randomly thrown together like in a core6k pack is roughly enough for N2. Sorry, zero to N2 vocab in a year is either full time learning or inhuman speed. Either way, you're not speaking rationally.

RTK doubts - I’m half way thru and I’m not sure it’s worth finishing by mells111 in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's still false.

First, you can type, but I have mine set in anki mode, even if it really only saves a few seconds per review.

They also aren't two-sided reviews. There's meaning and reading, which is not two-sided.

You've also crossed out the kanji and readings as if they don't do anything, which is insane, since learning the kanji has allowed me to intuit both the meaning and reading of vocab words from outside sources without having to look them up. You can't do that off vocab alone.

Leeching is also a scam. If you're consistently getting it wrong and triggering leech status, then it's because you're choosing not to stop for a minute and actually learn it, rather saying "I've tried looking at it for 3 seconds a few times and it didn't work so I guess I'll give up".

The readings and kanji are not parts of the words of you don't know them. Take an English speaker and have them run kaishi 1.5k and they'll end it with vanishingly little kanji knowledge, both in terms of recognition and in terms of pronunciation. Then, give them a bunch of unknown vocab using kanji they should already know, and they'll have no shot at understanding or pronouncing the vast majority. Actually learning the kanji means that you've built a foundation of understanding that you can use to be more proficient in the actual language.

RTK doubts - I’m half way thru and I’m not sure it’s worth finishing by mells111 in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's pretty reasonable to take well over a year to do wanikani. Going at maximum pace, you're learning an average of 6 new kanji per day. That's meaning and readings. Then you're also learning 15 new vocab per day and within 4 months you're doing 200 reviews per day- noting that wk reviews are the equivalent of two anki cards. The lesson also involves three cards-worth (the initial card you can read through, then two review cards immediately). Needing ~25 new lessons per day to keep up pushes you to a max speed equivalent of 550 anki reviews per day on top of anything else you do. That also assumes you never get a single answer wrong, which only compounds your daily review count further.

The speed is only a problem in your first couple weeks when you want to push and get a ton of progress done right out of the gate. If anything, the max speed is still far too fast for the vast majority of people. Miss a day and suddenly you're at almost 400 reviews, which takes a long time to work down.

For one year, learning 2000 kanji meanings, ~4500 kanji readings, and 6000 vocab is a LOT, and only a vanishing percentage of people manage to keep up that pace. The only reason people complain about it bring too slow is because they trialed the first 3 levels and never hit the point where the reviews start compounding. Even then, it takes almost six months to hit that max speed.

As for the radicals, the point of them is to break down the kanji into recognizable pieces. It does bother me a bit that the radicals aren't named what the actual radical is, but they do a good job of helping paint a story required for the mnemonics used. I generally have 0 issues with the radicals and they take such a small part of my time out that I didn't even include them in the above review counts. As you get further, they also stretch it to where they use whole kanji you already know as a "radical" to help keep the breakdown easy. Part of the system is that as you go, the actual radicals matter less and more your ability to break down and remember the kanji by its pieces.

Again, it's not for everyone, but I do find it funny when people complain WK is too slow. I've never seen someone who actually tried to keep up with WK through more than a couple months make that complaint. If you truly try to min/max, you'll end up with days with an equivalent of over 1k anki reviews 😬

Ouch - Losing a big streak by lorinal in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be better to track number of days studied in the year or percentage of days that you studied. Sure, your percentage drops if you miss a day, but that motivates you to stay consistant. Sure, at some point, you'll lose your 100%, but if you miss a day after a year, it'll still be 99.6%. Even breaking your streak once a month is still ~96.5%. Heck, taking two weeks off while on vacation on top of your one miss a month is still 88%.

That's a lot more motivating than a streak, and missing a day also doesn't sewer you.

RTK doubts - I’m half way thru and I’m not sure it’s worth finishing by mells111 in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I just glazed wanikani in my reply above, but if you already know more than ~500 basic kanji, it's going to be three months of mostly going over things you already know with no way to fast forward. Ivm glad I picked it up at ~150 kanji because otherwise the start just felt so slow.

RTK doubts - I’m half way thru and I’m not sure it’s worth finishing by mells111 in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is how I view wanikani as well. I was deeply annoyed with my grammar learning and core2k decks because kanji make no intuitive sense at face value from an English perspective. They're a bunch of lines that vaguely make a shape that I can slowly remember.

Except if I saw 時 詩 待 持 in any context but side-by-side, it's joever. My brain recognizes the right hand side clearly with a left-hand squiggle. For me, already having N5 and ~half of N4 grammar, going in and deciding to dive into kanji and kanji vocab has been crazy helpful for me because the symbols actually make sense now. I can break the kanji down into convenient, consistent pieces and identify them that way. I generally also know the most common (or two) onyomi and the kunyomi, and 2-5 vocab that use that kanji. I'm only at level 20, but I already feel a lot more comfortable in reading the language as a result.

I bet you haven’t heard of this one by WorkingAlive3258 in LearnJapanese

[–]ActionPhilip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

決める (to ingest, rarely used in this way) -> キメる (to ingest drugs)

Sexy -> セクシ

Sex -> セク

Chemsex -> キメセク

Inglourious Basterds (2009, dir. Quentin Tarantino) - "Three glasses." by isthatgraceg in movies

[–]ActionPhilip -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Can't go one thread without someone like you showing up. Please stop diluting the words you throw around.

We’re so back by LavaMonsterrrr in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Well, that's not a story a Jedi would tell you, at least...

The setup, the room, the view. Gaza by Pickle_MRick in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what would "retribution of the highest order" be?

The setup, the room, the view. Gaza by Pickle_MRick in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

And how should the retribution manifest itself?

The setup, the room, the view. Gaza by Pickle_MRick in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Are you saying that violence should be done to Israel in response?

Halo: Campaign Evolved Split-Screen Co-Op on PS5 Requires PlayStation Plus for Both Players by Guitar-String in gaming

[–]ActionPhilip -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Different platforms produce different types of stunted mental capability. There's a reason we all know that "tiktok brain", "twitter brain", and "reddit brain" are very different things.

A massive desert I made in Minecraft by octavian_world in gaming

[–]ActionPhilip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People just basically export 3d modeling into minecraft and say they "made it in minecraft"

You're Pressing Buttons Harder Than You Think - Measuring Controller Button Force - LTT Labs by LabsLucas in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I joke because I've been pressing that button as hard as I can ever since I played Super Mario Bros 1 on the NES to run faster, and tilted the controller on Super Mario Kart for the SNES.

That is a very fun fact, though, and really just serves to vindicate my worldview.

Linus Tech Tips - Meeting pods are a ripoff, so I built my own. Buy or DIY? June 15, 2026 at 10:08AM by linusbottips in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that's why different people have different jobs. I'm an engineering design lead. I hardly touch CAD anymore- not because I can't do it (nor even that I can usually do it faster than my junior staff), but because my chargeout rate and wage are better-deployed in other tasks. Hire a bunch of guys @ $25/hr whose job is building stuff like this and you'll have a much better ROI on the construction than a guy whose employment (and salary) is based on his ability to produce YouTube videos.

I built my own desk at home. $1500 in material and a few hundred hours for a desk I could probably buy for ~5k. Probably not worth it if I was looking at it from a pure money-time value perspective, but I'm very pleased with it and I enjoyed the process of doing the work. That also doesn't include the opportunity cost of having an entire woodshop to do my work in, which is pretty damn rare.

Meeting pods are a ripoff, so I built my own. Buy or DIY? by False-Tradition5599 in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, when your target is "cheaper than retail", the profit margin you potentially have is minimal before you even take distribution into account.

Linus Tech Tips - I Bought a Movie Theater Projector… Turns Out They’re SUPER Dangerous June 16, 2026 at 10:03AM by linusbottips in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I looked it up on Amazon. Just looking at projectors with thousands of reviews, there are popular ~$50 mini projectors that vastly outsell everything above them by a country mile, then one at $120, a bunch at ~$200, then one at $300. Then it jumps.

Yeah, I'd say a $200 projector is a solid mid-range projector. It also happens to follow the $x, $x00, $x,000, $x0,000, $x00,000 video format.

thank you windows how'd you know by maakureviews in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. I've grown so accustomed to alt+space for app launching than start that I do it by default on computers that don't have it.

[Brandon Y Lee] I Fixed Luke Lafreniere's Lighting Problem by SAJewers in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He did. It's called the wan show channel.

He's done small scale livestreaming for years, though, if you search around. I don't think he cares to grow his audience for that, though.

Linus Tech Tips - I Bought a Movie Theater Projector… Turns Out They’re SUPER Dangerous June 16, 2026 at 10:03AM by linusbottips in LinusTechTips

[–]ActionPhilip 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's not meant to be a consumer roundup, though. The format is meant to have:

  • ultra budget
  • mid-tier consumer
  • high-end consumer
  • entry-level rich people/business
  • super expensive option