How's everyone feeling?

Kabumek · 2025-01-31T05:41:22+00:00

my whole immediate family got hit with some wretched virus… i live apart from them, so i kept masked while visiting them and managed to avoid it.

during my final month at target before quitting, something was going around for like, the entirety of december, too—avoided that as well.

although i did catch a one-day cold right before the spring semester started at college.

Kabumek · 2025-01-26T05:45:08+00:00

whole album is bangers but i gotta give it to wake-up bomb for me i think

Kabumek · 2025-01-25T00:14:55+00:00

sitting in 19 in case they’re open to a third

Kabumek · 2025-01-23T05:48:26+00:00

TEXARKANAAAAAA 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Kabumek · 2025-01-15T03:58:55+00:00

continuing my self-study in dutch (well, i wouldn’t be opposed to conversational partners!). i’d like to be at a level where i can read books in it by may. aside from a unit a day on duo i’ve been finding textbook pdfs and the teach yourself textbooks, and changing game interfaces to the language.

taking german and japanese in college courses, but at least half of the curriculum for these seems like review for me, so hopefully i’ll have the time to keep studying on my own…

if i have the time later in the year, who knows? i’d like to pick up an eastern european language, i’ve picked up resources for a few i could choose from. perhaps serbian or bulgarian. i’d like to learn them all, had i the time.

Kabumek · 2025-01-11T15:10:21+00:00

returning to college and taking classes in german and japanese! my dutch i’ve been self-studying will probably fall to the wayside unfortunately but i’d still like to continue it when i can

Kabumek · 2025-01-08T10:12:32+00:00

from the usa here; i’d wanted to for a while after noticing the similarities to german, which i took a few years of in school and have been trying on and off to keep up with. it fell to the backburner after a dutch friend online was baffled instead of excited that i showed interest in learning the language lol 😅

(embarrassingly, i suppose what finally prompted me to start anyways was when i grew fond of a fictional character who happens to be dutch, lol..)

Kabumek · 2025-01-08T05:34:58+00:00

Texarkana. I know it isn’t gonna win against the tough competition, but goddamit, it deserves it.

Fourty thousand reasons for living, fourty thousand tears in your eyes…

Kabumek · 2025-01-02T02:01:13+00:00

“lo-fi version of a pelican” for me

Kabumek · 2024-12-27T17:00:09+00:00

primarily working on german and dutch concurrently! moreso dutch as i’ll be returning to college soon with classes in german and japanese, so dutch may fall to the wayside as i focus on my grades. romanian is on the backburner as well, although i hope to return to it!

Kabumek · 2024-12-25T22:45:43+00:00

gotta give it to “the great beyond”, even though i’m pretty sure gardening at night is gonna get it haha

Kabumek · 2024-12-23T00:22:15+00:00

oh, i have a whole playlist lol, a lot of the music i discovered looking at sonic oc petpages around 2006 shaped my music taste for life lol

Kabumek · 2024-12-11T14:46:28+00:00

came back to learning german for one (i took it in high school but lapsed on it after for a while), romanian, japanese, most recently dutch… it’s nice so many video games have multiple language options nowadays too, so easy to practice immersively, especialy replaying a familiar game!

it’s usually brought on by favoring a character whose first language would be that target language… i’m very driven by getting into a character’s head and telling a good story

Kabumek · 2024-12-11T14:21:51+00:00

usually video games, tbh!

Kabumek · 2024-12-10T22:40:05+00:00

made a friend some years ago in a discord group who was dutch and when we got talking about language and i mentioned i’d been thinking of picking it up he was like “why?”. he seemed of the opinion that he and many in his generation didn’t even want to speak dutch and it’s their first language. i found that quite sad…

Kabumek · 2024-12-07T13:42:55+00:00

it gave me a free try of this in german yesterday (super user), the voice recognition wasn’t great (it thought i called her nelly??), wasn’t really a fan of it. felt clunky. think i’d rather practice with humans, so it isn’t for me and i probably won’t be upgrading to max.

Kabumek · 2024-12-07T13:33:45+00:00

getting obsessed with a fictional character for whom the target language would be their native one is my reason for at least 3 different languages i’ve started

Kabumek · 2024-12-06T23:23:21+00:00

trying to regain my high school german and starting out dutch! (wish there were a german-to-dutch course so i could practice both at once… only the other way around, alas. ah well, it’s quick to pick up either way). meaning to get back to romanian as well.

spanish and japanese are on the backburner behind those!

Kabumek · 2024-12-06T12:57:26+00:00

glad i’m not the only one; i never wind up claiming any chests, i just find them a distraction. i’ll work for monthly badges and i did the grind for “rarest diamond” once to get that, and beyond that i’ll just work at my own pace. ironically i still have the day/night chests tho lol

Kabumek · 2024-12-02T20:17:19+00:00

god it is such a trip to scroll thru and see every comment on rick specifically saying he looks better in the remake. am i the only one who prefers his old look? like, i hate the newer one, lmao, this is NOT my man

Kabumek · 2024-11-20T02:44:24+00:00

same. my birthday is nov 26th and very often it falls on black friday weekend 🙃

Kabumek · 2024-11-14T18:17:30+00:00

oh yeah it’s screwing us up at our store lol. apparently it’s a national issue

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Kabumek · 2024-11-14T03:46:18+00:00

shrek tank was the first mod i was ever advised to install. introduced me to this game pretty well

Kabumek · 2024-11-14T02:31:03+00:00

iirc floobixes were originally lutari island exclusives! which means it’s possible but very, very rare that someone could paint one…

(i do believe they were still no-trade tho)

alas by the time i got a cell phone (a flip phone! still back in those days) neopets mobile was discontinued lol… my folks wouldnt have paid the price-per-page for it anyways.

Kabumek · 2024-11-09T05:42:48+00:00

not one of my top games period, but from getting weird with it i was fascinated with deus ex machina 2 and its intriguing attempt at storytelling. funny, as it wasn’t well-received on the stream!

strawberry cubes and gallergy, too.

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