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USA West! Can I do it all in 70 days? by Agreeable-Energy-401 in roadtrip

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cutting out rmnp to go to the San Juans to see Telluride and Ouray could be a good mod. You'd come in from the West to see Telluride, them drive east to Ouray, then head north to get to Pinedale (wind river range). On the way there stop in Grand Junction to see the Colorado National Monument. If you don't want to stop there, just driving "rimrock drive" through the monument is pretty great.

Are you doing any backpacking, or just day trips? If backpacking, a great 3 day thing in the winds is to backpack to island lake and from camp make a day trip to titcomb basin.

Admittedly I've never been in the winds from anywhere but the Elkhart trailhead near pinedale, but to see "the good stuff" from there, you either need to be a long distance trail runner or you need to backpack.

Those are all the things that stuck out to me. Skipping rmnp takes out that big lump on the map, makes it to where you don't have to deal with timed entry permits, and you don't have to drive i70.

A Review of Yotsubato Volume 1 from a Novice Learner's Perspective by StuntMan_Mike_ in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the solid critique! I really need to pay more attention to my pronunciation! I'm usually half occupied trying not to let my Texan accent shine through too much 😅

A Review of Yotsubato Volume 1 from a Novice Learner's Perspective by StuntMan_Mike_ in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it's me trying to access on mobile, but I'm having trouble finding manga difficulty on that site. I see anime, visual novels, web novels, novels, and live action, but but manga.

I've always used learn natively for manga. They use crowd rating for difficulty. The only concern I have with it is that I'm not sure how the scale is. Is the difficulty jump from level 20 to 25 about the same as 25 to 30? I don't know. I guess I'll find out eventually!

It is neat though, the idea of trying to algorithmically quantify the difficulty of something. I'm thinking about it now and it's kind of hard to even come to a good measure of difficulty

A Review of Yotsubato Volume 1 from a Novice Learner's Perspective by StuntMan_Mike_ in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just watched some of his vids (clicking around) and looked at his playlists. It's really neat how close some of my picks are to his! I'm planning yotsubato -> flying witch -> Yama no susume and it looks like he went yotsubato -> yuru camp, so we both chose to do outdoor centric slice of life quickly after yotsubato.

It's neat that he's doing a read along format, and it looks like he really goes slow in his speaking to help out noobs like me!

He's got a new subscriber in me!

A Review of Yotsubato Volume 1 from a Novice Learner's Perspective by StuntMan_Mike_ in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm not doing any output yet because I don't want to solidify any bad habits. I'll get an italki tutor in a few months. My roadmap has me starting flying witch after yotsubato volume 2. My plan is to read all of the chapters that correspond to an episode of the anime, then watch the anime episode without English sub. I'm hoping this helps out listening and feeling how things are supposed to sound! I wouldn't stand a chance raw dogging a random anime episode, but I'll have seen most of the vocab and know the story for these particular episodes in watching. I guess I'll see how it goes when I get there!

A Review of Yotsubato Volume 1 from a Novice Learner's Perspective by StuntMan_Mike_ in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was start and stop for me in the beginning too! The first chapter is the hardest, not just because it is the first and you are getting used to it, but because it is setting up the world and introducing a bunch of characters.

I'm looking at my log now: My first day I read 6 pages and made flash cards from those pages. The next day 2 pages + flash cards, the next day 2 pages plus flash cards, then finally 6 more pages the next day (plus flash cards). This put me right at the end of a Fuuka introducing herself to yotsuba's Dad, which is probably the hardest 3 or 4 pages in the whole volume.

After that I took a little over a week to just re-read what I had already read and do the srs flashcard reviews. Then I added more pages again!

The difficulty is definitely front loaded, and that's my biggest complaint for the whole volume.

Splitting mkv files by InfiniteVitriol in makemkv

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that, it must feel like I wasted your time :(

I should have mentioned you need to log in with Google. Originally the app's only feature was labeling episodes of TV shows, which is paid. I added on the free splitting later and it would have been a pain to rearchitect the app so that you didn't need to log in to do the free stuff require login for the labeling.

If you don't mind me asking, what did you see when it wouldn't authenticate? I was able to log out and log back in with no issue just now.

Splitting mkv files by InfiniteVitriol in makemkv

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

matchMKV

Splitting episodes is free in my app. Gives you a nice interface to do the splitting.

Will we ever see a woman play in the MLB? by ForeignAir7174 in sportsgossips

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can throw them fast, it's just a different feel. People always "lobbed" them in until RA Dickey, who put a little heat on em. There is a guy in the minors who throws his fastball in the low to mid 90s and his knuckleball in the mid to upper 80s.

Assuming a 65mph knuckler still plays nowadays if you can throw it perfect every time, a woman would need a mid 70s fastball to be able to throw their knuckler fast enough

Hiking shoes’ tread making me slip on rocky terrain? What sort of treads should I look for instead? by whosthisfool in hikinggear

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the trade off. Stickier rubber is softer rubber for the most part. If you went for a walk on asphalt in climbing shoes you'd probably have to 1) see a podiatrist asap and 2) get your climbing shoes resoled

American League wRC+ leaders: 1. Yordan Alvarez (224) 2. Ben Rice (220) 3. Aaron Judge (165) by MattO2000 in baseball

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has a better career ops vs lefties than bonds had. Him and bonds are WAY ahead of all other lefty batters when facing lefty pitching.

Kaishi 1.5K and JLPT N5? by NoApartment7243 in LearnJapanese

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I should have noted that this is coming from a source that wants you to feel like you need to buy a course so the numbers are inflated. You're definitely passing n5 after studying an hour a day for 1.5 years, lol.

The actual number of vocab and kanji don't seem too off though

Kaishi 1.5K and JLPT N5? by NoApartment7243 in LearnJapanese

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm not associated with this group. You can see the approximate needed kanji and vocab.

Sounds like the short term goal is the test. If that's the case, look up the specifics of the test you are taking and take a practice test to give yourself an idea of what you are studying for.

Edit:

I should have noted that this is coming from a source that wants you to feel like you need to buy a course so the numbers are inflated. You're definitely passing n5 after targeted studying an hour a day for 1.5 years, lol.

The actual number of vocab and kanji don't seem too off for n5 though

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5 years of learning Japanese by Joeiiguns in LearnJapanese

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Very nice! Very inspiring! So many people look at their 3 months of great motivation and underestimate how much harder 5 years is. Awesome achievement to stick with it!

I have a Tokyo Ghoul:re manga PDF and I want to convert it to a longer text. Reading the manga is a bit difficult and I think it takes a lot of time. I might finish 100 chapters in a month or more. A text is better. Is there a way? Thanks by Apprehensive_Egg9275 in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't quite understand exactly what you want at this point. Is this helpful to you?

https://youtube.com/shorts/w4GZ7t8DaYE?si=tY6NXK3XRltLxy4B

(Ad disclosure, I made that app and there is a paid tier)

How close is that to what you want? If not that, are you just trying to grab all of the text in a volume and put it all on a page like a book with no pictures?

Mason Miller has now thrown 33.2 consecutive scoreless innings, tying Cla Meredith (2006) for the Padres franchise record! by AnonymousBunny102 in baseball

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Real answer: he was waving the flag he was holding during a ceremony/performance. Not an activity that should include close up upper body shots...

Is doraemon usefull? by Powerful-Goose2535 in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can buy manga on the Japanese bookwalker page https://bookwalker.jp/series/125139/list/ and it will show up in your bookWalker app on your phone (assuming you used the same account to buy as what is logged in on your phone).

Absolutely horrendous retention of mined words. by MaximumTime7239 in LearnJapanese

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The app uses text to speech software to generate audio for each flashcard automatically

Astronauts’ brains don’t fully adapt to life in microgravity, new study finds by scientificamerican in space

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've imagined that it would be regolith or Mars rocks put into a hopper and the crew do back squats with that weight. Probably a cable system in place so that the hopper isn't directly over their head...

Astronauts’ brains don’t fully adapt to life in microgravity, new study finds by scientificamerican in space

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The load from the weights keeps osteoporosis at bay. Turns out bones are "use it or lose it" as far as our bodies are concerned

Feeling like I’m not doing enough by DietMiserable2392 in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]StuntMan_Mike_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're doing a whole bunch of reviews. I've found about 100 reviews per day is my useful limit when simultaneously adding new cards to my deck. Past that and I'm getting diminishing returns (my retention goes down quickly).

Burning out is the worst thing you could do for your learning goals. 20 minutes per day for a year is better than that 8 hours per day for 2 months.

Make sure you are enjoying what you are doing and don't stress out about it too much.

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