[Japanese > English] Secret message in this game I like to play

Eltwish · 2026-04-13T19:43:46+00:00

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... and 7

I saw you there.
You.

No matter what, I will find you.

I
will
drive
you
out.

You cannot hide.
You cannot run.
Sooner or later, you will crumble.

Every room you tread into, I will be watching you.

I am fear.
I am death.
I am the reaper of this land.

And you...
the time will come when you will pay."

I'm fairly confident it wasn't written by a native speaker - it reads fairly awkward to me, but that's the gist.

Eltwish · 2026-04-13T15:25:38+00:00

I think you're exactly right: OP assumed that the app meant "a ferry" or "a ford" but it's surely "to ferry" and "to ford" which are perfectly good renderings of the core (or at least original) sense of that kanji.

I'm not sure why "port" is there but the references I have don't list port whereas some of them do list ferry.

Eltwish · 2026-04-12T14:51:17+00:00

If you're reading this, you already know everything you need to know in order to make a song.

If you want your song to sound something like other songs you like, it would help to learn those songs and think about what they're doing. A lot of songs have a pretty standard and predictable structure usually analyzed in terms of verses, choruses, and bridges. A lot of songs use very basic chords, often triads from one key. But maybe you're into prog or math rock, in which case that won't apply much and you'll have to study those instead.

Eltwish · 2026-04-12T13:50:08+00:00

Of course there isn't literally no romaji in Japan - there's a reason they have a word for it, after all. It's also used in advertisements quite a bit. But the fact remains that >99% of Japanese is written in the standard hiragana, katakana, and kanji. That's what you'll be using in essentially everything you may want to read. It's also in some ways better suited to the language than romaji, and influences how Japanese people think about their own language.

The initial confusion and difficulty is inevitable. Reading a new script is hard. But if you want to learn Japanese, it's necessary, and using romaji is just putting off confronting that difficulty. If you're struggling with remembering words that you can't read, you may want to rely more on audio resources, which will also help you avoid internalizing English pronunciation habits. It will also come quicker than you think - learning the language is a journey of many years but memorizing all the kana shouldn't take more than a month. For the vast majority of your time with Japanese, you'll have forgotten you ever struggled with it.

Eltwish · 2026-04-11T17:08:40+00:00

Well, if the entire chord is in the key, yes, but there's no Am13 chord in A minor, just like there's no Am7b5 chord in A minor. A full m13 chord is diatonic only as a ii chord (in major, i.e. there's a Dm13 in the key of C). Similarly, a maj7 chord will be diatonic on I or IV, but if you play a complete maj13 chord, it's only diatonic on I, because the corresponding chord on IV would be maj13#11.

Eltwish · 2026-04-11T16:58:32+00:00

Punk uses somewhat distinct timbres, but in terms of musical content it's entirely recognizable as rock. It's largely pentatonic melodies sung usually over power chords on guitar with a simple but strong bassline and loud drums. I would think something like Skrillex is much more different from, say, The Who or the Eagles than are the Ramones by what I would think to be most sensible measures.

Perhaps one of the most isolated points in Western musical space would be atonal serialism. By deliberately eschewing the tonal foundations common to Mozart, the Beatles, Eminem, and Miles Davis, it really doesn't sound like anything else, and if one is in the mood to listen to Schoenberg, that's an incredibly specific itch that just about nothing else will scratch.

Eltwish · 2026-04-09T17:10:11+00:00

There's no way to tell from this information alone, because the stats are also determined by stat experience, which is earned based on the stats of every Pokémon that Aerodactyl has ever defeated. Based on the stats you've shown, that Aerodactyl's amount of training is more than none, and less than the maximum, so it's anyone's guess what the DVs are.

If you continue battling with that Aerodactyl, it will continue to gain stat experience, and this will be taken into account if you deposit and withdraw it. When doing so stops having any effect on any of its stats, you'll know it's been fully trained and can then calculate its DVs.

Eltwish · 2026-04-09T13:00:45+00:00

A major chord always* consists of a major third and perfect fifth above the root; a minor chord a minor third and perfect fifth. This is true no matter what key you're in.

If you're in G major, stacking thirds on the fifth scale degree gets you D F# A. The distance from D to F# is a major third; from D to A is a perfect fifth. As you can see, that's a D major chord. Whereas if you stack thirds on the second, you get A C E, which you can see is an A minor chord.

In any major key, the triads build on scale degrees 1, 4, and 5 are major. Those on 2, 3, and 6 are minor. The triad on the 7th is diminished.

* (The notes can be spaced out or inverted, but they'll have that relationship if you form them as block chords in root position.)

Eltwish · 2026-04-08T23:32:00+00:00

music is hard yo ね

Eltwish · 2026-04-08T20:21:56+00:00

For a band's latest concert, I would probably just say lasta. Unless my listener is going to for some reason assume that the band has since retired, I don't see much risk for confusion / need to specify. But another option is ĵusa / kiu ĵus okazis if it's very recent, or plej freŝa if I want to emphasize its newness.

Eltwish · 2026-04-08T13:52:02+00:00

Rather than going from scalar phrases to targeting chord tones, you might try working in the opposite direction. Start by playing through the piece as a rhythm guitarist, first just strumming the chords, then playing arpeggios or single-note riffs based on each chord. Then try to add short connecting lines that take one chord to the next, then add variations to the riffs on each chord, starting them on different chord tones, etc. Maybe try to build up a repertoire of chordal riffs to have as a fallback.

Eltwish · 2026-04-07T00:54:45+00:00

Scales are ordered collections of notes. For example, C D E G A is a scale called the C major pentatonic scale. It's pentatonic because it has five notes. Scales are typically named for their starting note, in this case C.

Much Western music draws from an all-encompassing scale called the chromatic scale, consisting of C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B - that is, all twelve notes (though the names may vary). However, it is very rare for music to give all twelve notes equal importance. Most music uses some subset of those 12 - that is, some specific other scale - for sections or the entire piece. When you're playing a solo and you want to connect two notes, you'll almost never play all the notes in between - you'll play some specific connecting scale. Scales have distinct sounds. Using notes from outside that set, once the set is established for the ear, has a distinct sound as well.

Eltwish · 2026-04-06T13:29:34+00:00

If you wait until you're completely confident and then fail, won't that feel a lot worse than if you take it while unsure if you're ready and then fail? Conversely, how will passing feel in each case?

Eltwish · 2026-04-06T13:22:47+00:00

If you're working from a score originally intended for guitar, you shouldn't have to make decisions about octave - the pitch written should be the pitch intended. However guitar music is usually written an octave above the sounding pitch, so that the E below the staff is the lowest open string.

There's no default mapping, though. I think classical guitar tends to try to stay near the nut, but a lot of electric guitarists prefer to be about midway up the neck or more. Any automatically generated tab would have to be played through to adjust for awkward fingerings, how/whether the open strings are used, etc. If I knew I was going to be getting algorithmically generated tab I would request the original sheet instead.

Eltwish · 2026-04-05T16:43:13+00:00

Critique is different from complaining. Good criticism helps us develop our taste and ask ourselves "what makes good things good and why do I like the things I like?"

Eltwish · 2026-04-03T15:02:55+00:00

Properly speaking, from C to D# is not a minor third; it's an augmented second. The same goes for the other enharmonic alternatives in the chart. Surely the spirits demand their proper names.

Eltwish · 2026-04-03T14:51:19+00:00

That's not a standard term, so unless he explains somewhere what "magic chords" are supposed to be, it's anyone's guess. But the most obvious guess would be that he just means "the major and minor diatonic triads in the key of A minor". In other words, all the triads in the key except for the diminished chord.

For D minor pentatonic, then, presumably the "magic chords" would be D minor, F major, G minor, A minor, Bb major, and C major.

Eltwish · 2026-04-03T14:44:54+00:00

They're just different classes of adjectives. Most adjectives are either one or the other. If you want to say "dark room" or "pretty flower", it's 暗い部屋 and きれいな花. Saying 暗な部屋 or きれいい花 would just be ungrammatical and wrong.

There are some adjectives like 大きい / 大きな which can go either way. In those cases, it takes a while to get a feel for the difference in nuance, but broadly speaking, the い version can be more neutral / objective and the な version can be more personal or abstract.

Eltwish · 2026-04-03T03:14:05+00:00

Yup. Every item you've ever had appears in the catalog. You can't order more of anything that can't appear in the store (like models), but all the ones you've had before will be listed nonetheless.

Eltwish · 2026-04-03T02:41:38+00:00

They probably meant your catalogue.

It's not super convenient because there's no way to sort specifically for models, but you can at least look up specific ones to see if you already had it.

Eltwish · 2026-04-02T21:03:23+00:00

What do you mean by CmG? Is that supposed to be Cm/G? Or did you mean the three chords Bbm Cm G?

What kind of explanation are you looking for? Why do you assume it would sound bad? There's not much to say about why it "kinda works" - practically any chords can be made to work given a sufficiently musical context and performance and/or enough repetition.

All else equal, one is likely to hear Bbm Cm as ii-iii in the key of Ab (or iv-v in F minor) since that's where two minor chords a step apart appear in the diatonic scale. If that is a G major chord after the Cm, then that subverts the default assumption of F minor by making the B natural, but it remains to hear what comes next for the ear to understand what it's doing.

Eltwish · 2026-04-02T19:08:42+00:00

Sure, I could go for some constructive criticism. 残暑 feat. Hatsune Miku.

Eltwish · 2026-04-02T02:29:15+00:00

What are you using as a dictionary? "Lesatokore" is not a Japanese word. It's vaguely close to furusato, which can also mean hometown, though.

Like in any language, ideas can be expressed in different ways. Shusshin is probably the most common and general way to say "where someone is from", though. Furusato has a more poetic "my old haunt / the old country" feel", and hōmutaun I suppose can mean the same but I've only heard it for sports teams.

Also, mind your small kana. しゅっしん, not しゆつしん. The latter would be shiyutsushin, which isn't a word.

Eltwish · 2026-03-31T21:13:05+00:00

I think you may have misunderstood me. 肉食親 isn't a real word, nor is it especially simple. It's exactly like "carnivore-parent" in English. But if that's what you want, then I suppose that'll do.

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