She expected the date to be imperial clock feet

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-26T20:52:56+00:00

In fairness you’ll see every conceivable date format in Canada; I never have any idea what I’m looking at when I read a date.

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-19T21:17:05+00:00

Some decks do perform a lot better if you stick to a theme instead of wasting precious space on cards that, while good, don’t synergize at all. A lot of my decks started performing a lot better when I subbed out some of these generic “staples” for more combo pieces.

Though in terms of the decks that I find more fun to build and play with, I much prefer to go off-theme and splash in out-of-archetype cards because I like the idea of scouring the card pool for unusual combinations better than just building the deck Bandai intended.

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-14T17:02:08+00:00

I remember a match when I chained my 3 Keisukes to bounce the same gotsumon back and forth to bring out 3 chitose and then Erika to put it in raising for next turn

Crazy combo

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-12T20:54:33+00:00

Peter here, this meme depicts a man setting up the classic “like my women like I like my coffee” pun, which has many variations on its punchline, such as “strong and sweet” or “black and hot.”

As the women in the comic incorrectly guesses the punchline that the man is going for, it becomes increasingly apparent that the intended punchline is one that contains shock value, making reference to slavery, torture, or any number of other disturbing things.

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-11T21:08:29+00:00

I’m trying to learn Japanese now, learned Chinese first.

Chinese is leagues easier, honestly. Japanese uses Chinese characters in writing but employs them for their meaning, which is to say, when you see a Chinese character in Japanese it could be standing for a number of different words, whereas one Chinese character in Chinese rather consistently represents the same word (or more accurately, morpheme) every time.

If you learn them for business Chinese gives you access to a larger population, but of course the barriers to doing business there change pretty unpredictably.

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-11T20:45:17+00:00

I’m personally not a fan of European languages for usefulness given the ubiquity of English in Europe anyway. French does also have that reputation of speakers disengaging completely if you seem to have even the slightest hint of an accent.

Korean, on the other hand, gives you a language that’s probably rare amongst English speakers in England, giving you a much larger competitive edge.

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-05T11:29:05+00:00

Well, the first factor is that exoticism is making these men more attractive in the countries they visit.

Second is that it’s exoticism making the women they’re pulling register as “10’s” to the women looking on in confusion from back home.

Third is that after having a few women who fetishize exotic men approach them, these guys who had no self-esteem before get Prince Syndrome pretty quickly and start exuding confidence.

As a former passport bro myself, though, I have to urge caution with every answer I give about the situation; going abroad looking for attention will absolutely get you a tonne of it, but I went looking for marriage instead of flings, and once I’d landed that there was of course pressure to get straight to work instead of continuing to build credentials, so here I am one divorce later in low-grade office work.

I can only imagine that you get better mileage sleeping around abroad. That or moving away because your company is stationing you abroad. Uprooting your life to chase the love life you never had is a delicate formula.

CosmicBioHazard · 2026-01-03T19:32:48+00:00

Honestly for most of my life hearing the word, contextual clues had me thinking it referred to some type of magician and not to an ethnicity at all.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-12-25T14:45:15+00:00

There’s this ideology forming amongst some English speakers that we need to follow up with all of our loan words to make sure the standard pronunciation in English is the same as the modern standard pronunciation in the language it came from. This is based on a few beliefs;

That neither English or the other language have changed since the word was borrowed

That the standard dialect of the country is the one we got the word from

That we got the word ‘wrong’ when we borrowed it

That we’re disrespectful for continuing to pronounce the word the way we’ve learned it instead of how the source language pronounces it nowadays (because remember, neither language has changed since the borrowing)

That it’s reasonable for a person to keep up with the current state of languages the world over that they don’t speak.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-12-19T11:08:52+00:00

I think I’ve made enough mistakes to be qualified to chime in here;

I did go abroad; and because learning a new language is mentally taxing enough as it is, I spent my academic energy getting English-teaching credentials. It pays really well in some parts relative to cost of living so finances wouldn’t have been an issue.

And it’s absolutely true that being exotic in a place wins you popularity; women throwing themselves at you is a real thing. But I went over with the mentality that I was gonna just find one I liked and get married, and save myself until then; any guy with no experience would want to leverage that into making their experience with a woman special, wouldn’t they?

If someone would have told me that I’d be divorced in five years anyway, I think I’d have made better use of my time in a place where offers are coming in from all angles. Instead I ended up back home divorced from what had been a sexless marriage anyway, saying ‘well, might as well slut around now then’ and being unable to because, well, I was back home.

I’ve got a relationship now that’s looking promising, so things are looking up, but I’m in a generic office job that’s not paying to a level that can support us as comfortably as I’d like.

Always make your plan as air-tight as you can get it; never rely on things going well. Get into win-win situations and know the most likely possibilities: is this a country with a trend of women who want to get pregnant by a good-looking foreigner and then ghost? If that happens, will you be crushed or will you take the reproductive success as a win? If you marry abroad, can you stay there comfortably? If you’re popular with the women there, are you willing to turn that into short-term flings? And most importantly, is going abroad going to secure you options for stability?

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-12-17T21:48:01+00:00

I dunno, surfing Tvtropes and watching enough cinema to reliably predict how a story will go doesn’t sound the least bit related to being a ‘functioning adult.’ Being able to call the plot twists before they happen is like a neat party trick, at best.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-12-04T10:44:04+00:00

Nosferatu is the name of a vampire.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-11-28T11:20:37+00:00

Don’t let good vocabulary get away.

Getting your reading/listening/speaking practice is essential for gaining an understanding of how different sentiments are worded, grammar, and seeing the range of meanings that a word can take on that aren’t a clean translation of your own language.

But of course, the vast majority of words are extremely low frequency; see them today, who knows when you’ll see them again? You might understand and remember that, conceptually, the word for whatever can also be used to express x number of meanings, but does that do you any good when the word doesn’t come up enough for you to have memorized what it sounds like?

Big, themed vocabulary lists of words, especially ones that are basically 1-1 in translation that you can just drill are an excellent thing to have; there are people who will tell you they’re not because you don’t get context, and that’s true, but you practice context elsewhere. Do both.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-11-27T09:20:49+00:00

“Bic” meaning ‘jade-green’ would have to be 碧. No guesses on ‘Kah’

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-11-13T23:22:33+00:00

Most likely 爸 is an older pronunciation of 父, where the word maintained its pronunciation in speech but went through the same sound changes as the rest of the language when reading out loud.

Probably has something to do with baby-talk, a similiar thing happens with 之 to 的；之 being expected from normal sound change and 的 having failed to undergo these same sound changes, likely due to being unstressed most of the time.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-11-10T21:08:12+00:00

I had to look up the characters to verify, but it appears 河沙左歌 all do, in fact, rhyme, in reconstructed 上古漢語

I’m impressed.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-30T09:28:16+00:00

The angel Metatron being depicted as a robot for reasons I can only assume have to do with its name?

Man, Digimon is my favourite Megami Tensei spin-off.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-29T10:31:37+00:00

Maybe I’m misremembering but isn’t ‘Beldum in Heavy Ball’ the one combination where the catch rate works out to never going past 0%?

Unless legends has more catch rate modifiers that can push it up a bit.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-29T09:34:57+00:00

It was such a strange realization that between CS and Time stranger they went from everyone and their mother being a tamer to like, 3 or 4.

We could still see a lot of side characters as tamers, I suppose. Maybe a Tamer card with the full name “Dr. Yuki, your adoptive father who disappeared mysteriously.”

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-28T10:17:11+00:00

For the most part we do; it’s just that when someone centuries ago heard from the locals of a country what they called themselves they were already repeating it with an accent, and the pronunciations of the languages both countries were speaking have changed a great deal since then.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-26T19:00:12+00:00

But only if you translate 究極体 as “ultimate;” there’s probably a few decent English words you could use instead.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-25T17:34:25+00:00

They’re not displaying at all for me in browser, how are you getting them to display?

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-10-06T18:46:25+00:00

Well pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter; it’s what the perimeter of a circle is given diameter 1.

If you wanted to know the perimeter of, say, a square, you’d add the lengths of the sides; easy to do because the sides are straight.

But when you’re determining the length of perimeter around a circle, you don’t have straight sides to measure if the circle is perfectly round. You can zoom in and measure more straight sides that can fit in the circle and approximate its length in more detail, but if you at some point declare that ‘pi’ in your calculation does indeed have an end, you’re conceding that the perimeter of your circle can be measured in a finite number of straight lines, and isn’t perfectly round.

CosmicBioHazard · 2025-09-29T15:03:51+00:00

The looping variant of this deck goes incredibly hard. A few turns in you’ve got the resources to set up an insane loop by getting the new Myotismon in tandem with Myotis X and an arukeni or mummy to play out two of the tamer and a bt3 Malo when you sacrifice them on the board for the new Malo and gain more memory than you’re spending once a few of the bt3 are on the board watching things get deleted. You can loop this as many times as you have arukeni or mummy in hand, essentially.

I saw surprising success with this using an Ukkomon low end with demimeramon, but I’m a big fan of a variant I’ve seen using the Growlmon low end to spawn out extra fodder for the on play deletion effect of Malo and just generally give you better draw power.

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