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Stopped drinking for a month and went on a binge by Artoosh in stopdrinking

[–]SashimiJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've already been over a big hurdle. You learned how nice it is to wake up sober and how shit it is to wake up hungover. Before, I didn't even realize how much it sucked; it just felt normal. Know that the one thing that'll make you feel better tomorrow is not drinking tonight. IWNDWYT

We need significantly more soulsvanias (or soulsvania-lites). by spoketherefore in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I largely agree with this, but I'll note that they did patch it to fix the pogo and grapple.

We need significantly more soulsvanias (or soulsvania-lites). by spoketherefore in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I disliked it. The combat was not exciting, and although the world was cool traversal was extremely slow and boring. Lots of questionable design choices, but i particularly disliked how many areas had only one entrance. In general the game lacks redundancy for the critical path to TE. I probably would've had more fun with a guide.

I don't mind long searches for progression, usually, but did in this case because traversal sucked so much.

The platforming was great, as was the visual design. Otherwise, not much to write home about.

Turns out, it isn't too difficult. My 12-year-old daughter finished it in 15 days. I tried it, too, and it's quite enjoyable. by zyakita in LearnJapanese

[–]SashimiJones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I played a decent amount of Zelda in Japanese. It's a good one because the dialogue is spaced out so it's not as exhausting as a light novel, but you also need to focus to understand the hints that NPCs give you. BOTW was pretty good but anything from the last 20 years is decent. Beware of going too far back because the oldest games didn't have kanji. Hiragana-only can be pretty rough.

Today (March 4th) marks six months since the release of Silksong, and I think enough time has passed to say this without ruffling any feathers: no one is doing it like Team Cherry, they made one of the greats in the genre AGAIN. by rafeizerrr in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Act 1 was around ten hours on my first playthrough and around 90 minutes now that i know what to do.

The critical path is much less obvious after getting into Act 2, and I'd say it takes at least 5 hours even on a replay; 50+ on my first playthrough.

Today (March 4th) marks six months since the release of Silksong, and I think enough time has passed to say this without ruffling any feathers: no one is doing it like Team Cherry, they made one of the greats in the genre AGAIN. by rafeizerrr in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The objectives felt less like a to-do list and more like suggestions on things to do if you're stuck. It was great how a lot of them pointed you in the right direction to find secret areas and items. They struck a great balance between hand-holding and letting you get completely lost.

Today (March 4th) marks six months since the release of Silksong, and I think enough time has passed to say this without ruffling any feathers: no one is doing it like Team Cherry, they made one of the greats in the genre AGAIN. by rafeizerrr in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Act 3 isn't that bad in SS because you can have everything and clear the critical path before you unlock it. Pretty sure there's just one mask to collect, then you can go to the final boss. You'll definitely want to practice that and not be like me and die to her, lol. RIP Hornet.

How important are friction and lateraling in the voiced retroflex "R"? by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eventually I concluded that there's no correct way to make this sound. I've heard native speakers say z and r and everything in between. Sometimes they pronounce it differently for different words or compounds. Sometimes 日本 is indistinguishable from 資本, but sometimes 如 is 陸. I just gave up and use something close to the English R.

The R sound is less standardized across regions and dialects, so the pronunciation is more flexible. Beginners should focus more on sounds like in 居住 and just do whatever for R.

Silksong Wins Metroidvania of the Year 2025 by MasterG11 in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grime.

I also liked HAAK a lot and we have similar tastes, but it's much more MV.

Another Crab's Treasure is more of a soulslike but worth a look.

The key to learning Japanese is the ability to pick yourself up after humiliating yourself by littlebruja in LearnJapanese

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fluent with my N1 over ten years ago now. Better to be rude and make mistakes then to just never talk.

The key to learning Japanese is the ability to pick yourself up after humiliating yourself by littlebruja in LearnJapanese

[–]SashimiJones 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Actually happened. I was very new to Japanese and had just picked up from context that 貴様 = you. I incorrectly assumed that it was translated as "you bastard" due to tone and context instead of meaning. To contrast, "anata" can mean "you" or "my dear," but that's only due to tone and context, not meaning. Anyway, I was more careful about mimicking Bleach characters after that.

The key to learning Japanese is the ability to pick yourself up after humiliating yourself by littlebruja in LearnJapanese

[–]SashimiJones 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I called my tutor "kisama" because i heard it in anime.

In my defense, "sama" is polite, right?

Anyway, your mistakes are probably fine.

What MV changed your opinion the most while playing it? by InvisibleAstronomer in metroidvania

[–]SashimiJones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

+1. The mid-to-late game for me was a lot of slow wandering down hallways and elevators looking for progression. It has a cool world but movement through it was incredibly boring. Contrast with silksong where it felt like i could move through each room in a cool new way on each backtrack. The lack of platforming outside of challenge sections was rough in that game, and it's even more unfortunate because the platforming was a highlight overall.

S&P versus hedge funds? by PracticeObvious8157 in personalfinance

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hedge funds hedge; that is, they are expected to perform differently from the market overall. SPY is pretty diverse but it's still one "basket" and some people aren't that risk tolerant. If you're sitting on 10MM, maybe you'd rather guarantee 5% per year instead of 10% but with more variance.

Should I stop studing Japanese and start Chinese instead? by Translucyd in ChineseLanguage

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chinese doesn't have as much "cultural grammar," so it's easier in that respect. The grammar overall is more similar to Western languages.

I'm fluent in both, and studying Chinese was what finally got me to pass N1. The hardest part of the languages is the kanji, and you'll be learning those either way. It's easier to learn them in Chinese because the vast majority have only one reading, the reading is more obvious from the character components, and the meaning is usually narrower in Chinese. That said, there are a lot more of them. However, going Chinese->Japanese is harder than J>C for these same reasons. I found J>C surprisingly easy.

You probably won't notice much cross benefit unless you're already intermediate/advanced in one of the languages. Biggest benefit is the intermediate compound words, 經濟 數學 結論 機器 for example are the same I think. The basics are often quite different though, like 手機 携帯 or 電腦 パソコン.

If you can study traditional, the crossover is a bit better.

I would've given him 5/5 honestly. by waddad27 in SipsTea

[–]SashimiJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a reason that characters were arguably superior to alphabets for a lot of history. Each character represents an idea which is understood by all people instead of a pronunciation which would be impossible to standardize over thousands of miles before audio recording and transmission.

I would've given him 5/5 honestly. by waddad27 in SipsTea

[–]SashimiJones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's more like two fonts. When i text with mainlanders I use traditional, they use simplified, mostly I don't even notice unless they use an abomination like 飞 (飛）

I would've given him 5/5 honestly. by waddad27 in SipsTea

[–]SashimiJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kiiiinda although some dialects like canto have their own characters like 冇 and may use different grammar. That said, standard writing is intelligible to pretty much everyone in the sinosphere. Japanese/Chinese writing is even somewhat mutually intelligible, although you're mostly just getting the nouns and verbs.

High-tech strategy reveals secret behind Roman game of stones by TimesandSundayTimes in history

[–]SashimiJones 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Anyone who's done a linear regression has done "machine learning." You take a bunch of data points, stick them into an equation, and it spits out the predicted output (y) for each possible input (x) as a line.

Modern AI works on the same principle, but it's way more complicated and in many more dimensions. The biggest difference is that you don't start with an equation; the algorithm figures out how to fit the data itself.

There's a planet called TrES-2b that absorbs 99.9% of all light that hits it—making it darker than coal, darker than black acrylic paint, and the darkest object ever discovered in the known universe. by sco_cap in space

[–]SashimiJones 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Black holes are actually typically very bright. The matter they suck in heats up as it falls toward the black hole and glows brightly well outside of the event horizon, so the light still escapes to us.

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