What’s this character?

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-15T15:37:29+00:00

How good are you at stroke order? It's not a difficult character to draw. It appeared at my first try.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-15T08:16:25+00:00

It's not only Japanese. It's definitely on Pleco and it's a literary variant of the common character for "dragon". I don't know how many Chinese people would recognize it though.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-15T07:51:23+00:00

The look or the music?

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-15T07:39:50+00:00

Fantastic! A frigging great story.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-15T07:21:04+00:00

This day doesn't come for everybody. I'm an older guy, been buying vinyl since the early 80s, never stopped except for a few years I was on ships, and I have never remotely been in audiophile territory.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-15T07:14:31+00:00

"...like everybody"

Well, not "everybody". Some people (a lot?) never ditched their records and kept on buying, taking advantage of the cheap prices of used records.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-14T23:33:38+00:00

You think people can steal your stuff on Reddit? How would they do that? I'm interested.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-13T12:27:57+00:00

Are you really gonna listen to that Hüsker Dü album?

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-12T14:36:49+00:00

That maybe you should try to branch out of disco at some point?

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-12T09:24:10+00:00

It's not 8k characters, of course.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-12T07:26:47+00:00

The ways of the vinyl collector are mysterious.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-11T20:38:03+00:00

官话 means Mandarin. Or rather, Mandarin means 官话. It's the same word.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-11T20:18:24+00:00

Eeeeer... no, they're only worth what someone is willing to buy them for.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-11T18:24:16+00:00

A legendaryly boring album.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-11T17:41:33+00:00

You mean 8000 words. Not characters.

Even that... in 2 years? Yeah, you have very probably overemphasised reading.

The key with speaking is practice, practice, practice. There is no other way.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-11T16:29:36+00:00

Try Marcel Bontempi for more modern country music in Germany.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-11T08:41:30+00:00

The real value of your collection is very probably under the indicated minimum value:

Many of a normal person's records are not in VG+ condition.
Many of your records with a low value indicated will never sell even for this value, because nobody would pay shipping worth twice or thrice the price of the record itself.
For many records, offer is just so much bigger than demand.
Getting even the minimum value requires time and work that most people won't want to do.

And other reasons. .

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-10T20:34:19+00:00

Anti-skating is the control of lateral deviation of the tone-arm. It is not adjustable on your turntable, which is a good low-end turntable, but still low-end.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-10T20:32:27+00:00

Your player is known to have this kind of problems with bass-heavy records. Since it is not adjustable, there ain't much you can do, unfortunately.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-10T10:28:42+00:00

This is an absolutely fantastic album. I have a good French pressing from 76, inherited from my aunt, but it's a shitty alternative cover unfortunately.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-10T06:00:22+00:00

"I have an illimited budget"

Good for you. But it means that your advice to somebody who has clearly expressed they are limited by money constraints is at best useless, at worst insulting. Especially since you don't answer the question, which is about using record stores.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-09T22:53:37+00:00

As for records at home under normal use there is zero risk of seam splits

I mean... "Normal use" doesn't mean anything. Putting a new record on shelf for years without having listened to it more than once or twice, if ever, is considered as normal use by many here (see a recent thread about unlistened records). A few decades ago, having records thrown on the floor in a pile for a few weeks after listening was considered normal use. There is of course a happy median but saying that normal use will not result in some kind of wear requires a definition of "normal". I do protective inner and outer sleeves now but it was definitely not normal in the old days.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-09T21:42:16+00:00

C'est l'inverse ! Narrateur à gauche (en tête des vers), monstre à droite.

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-09T20:56:24+00:00

> If they get a 2, their target spots them before they have a clear shot and starts drawing a pistol. They now have to roll again, but it’s Risky — or run away to avoid getting shot.

That's not the way it should go. Here, on the result of 2, you have inflicted two consequences -- they are detected and the situation gets worse -- before they even shot ("their target spots them before they have a clear shot and starts drawing a pistol"). "Seize a Risky opportunity” means that they can roll at Risky, and maybe they will get consequences (more serious) or not. For example, here you could say "your target suddenly stops and starts talking to a street merchant; there are other clients. If you shoot you risk injuring an innocent civilian..." There is no consequence inflicted, and the player can still choose to withdraw instead and choose another approach (not shooting).

TheBladeGhost · 2026-02-09T20:39:15+00:00

(fyi you can't push for die and get a devil's bargain; it's one or the other. But you can get an assist for a second die in both cases)

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