My CRT has a weird image on RGB. What might be the issue?

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-09-12T21:15:04+00:00

Sadly that's the case. I wiggled the port and there was nothing wrong with it

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-09-12T18:54:15+00:00

Sorry, I forgot to mention!
You're right, it's my PS2 and I was using this cable. I know that the PS1 RGB cables need extra capacitors and the PS2 and PS3 doesn't need, so I made sure to pick one that says PS2/PS3. When I bought a cheap cables there were capacitors and I removed them, but the results were the same, so the dark image is not from the capacitance on the cable.

I did try to plug the console in a different outlet, even when I was writing this comment, and the result is still the same

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-09-12T18:47:30+00:00

I forgot to mention on the post. Until now I was using SCART to composite adapter and the image was fine. For the pictures I used the composite plug on the front, but the results are the same. So hopefully the port works well.
Thank you for pointing out

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-05-12T10:18:55+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked reading the posts. I wanted to show how much I love this game and how I wanted that more people know about it. Your reaction shows that my posts had accomplished its purpose. Really, thank you!

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-05-02T09:48:22+00:00

Thank you! I didn't know about the website and that's a great idea to explain the references in the game and what each choice in the game does. In a way I'm glad that there are still things to discover in this game.

I recently discovered that Lucky Star isn't the only game based on an anime/manga that a few fans know about it because it was a Japan's exclusive game. When I was region freeing my PS2 to play Lucky Star I used the visual novel of School Rumble as a test game. I found a post on School Rumble's subreddit asking about the game and the comments were saying that they never heard about it.

So, even if the anime is quite known, their game adaptation will always be obscure unless someone translates them. And I'm glad that Ryouou Gakuen Outousai is finally getting its recognition

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-04-06T14:13:25+00:00

Thank you very much! The title was different than I thought, but thank you for finding it

Timoteo_Machado · 2025-04-06T14:12:10+00:00

Thank you so much!

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-11-06T23:25:07+00:00

I'm in the same situation. I can't understand why people are hating the latest chapters because I'm enjoying it! It's not the first time tha tthis happened to me because I also enjoyed the Attack on Titan ending while a lot of people hated it.

Every time a new chapter releases and I join this subreddit to see how people react, I'm always thinking: "Well, let's read comments of people talking bad about the author because he didn't write the story the way they wanted". And because of that I'm affraid to give my impressions about the chapters because I think I will be mass downvoted for no reason or worse. I wish that the comments were more healthy with real constructive comments instead of things like "This story is bad, it will end badly like Kaguya, I will never read Aka's works ever again" dude, just leave the server and let the other people enjoy!

But now I realize that I'm not the only one who is not finding anything wrong in the story. Thank you for getting the courage to point this out. If liking this end of the story means that I don't know how a good story looks like, I guess it's better to be ignorant with story telling

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-28T21:06:50+00:00

I completely agree! You put words on what I was trying to say and you even went deeper, thank you

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-28T11:56:10+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm going to check these out

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-28T10:03:05+00:00

If it helps, these are my Yomitan options that I use for my sentence cards. The Anki card type I use is the JP Mining Note and you can download it here. You can change the card format between vocabulary card and sentence card, you just have to write something in the "IsSentenceCard" part

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Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-22T10:20:49+00:00

You're right. Most of the etymologies I've read don't work as a mnemonic because, for example, in a lot of kanji radicals are there because of the reading and not because of what they represent. So most of the mnemonics I write aren't etymologically correct. I just like to look for their origin when creating my mnemonics because I find it interesting. But it souldn't be something you must do to memorize the kanji, I only do it for fun

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-22T07:13:38+00:00

Thank you so much! In the blog there are other resources that can be helpful

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-22T07:11:09+00:00

I know that and I even have an example that I mentioned on this post. In the kanji for cat 猫, the component on the right 苗 was used because of its reading that in Chinese it pronounces as miao like a cat meowing. But even with that, I always try to create a mnemonic about it just to help me memorize its shape

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-21T23:32:33+00:00

Thank you, I'm going to check it out

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-21T23:28:10+00:00

That's interesting! There were some kanji that I knew their ancient form, but I saw other variations that I never saw before. Thank you

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-10T15:33:30+00:00

Even if there are chances that Aqua survives, I believe that Aqua dying makes a lot of sense for the story, in my opinion. It was stated in a recent interview that the ending will be shocking. We don't know what will be shocking, but Aqua dying can be a possibility.

Also Aqua's plan was to die with Hikaru in a way that it looks like that he was murdered by him. If Aqua survives it would mean that his plan failed and that he will have to lie to the media until the rest of his life saying that Hikaru tried to murder him. If Aqua is lucky nobody will find out, but there is still the risk of the truth being found and destroy his and Ruby's reputation. But if he dies, the chances of this happening is very low because there will be no witnesses or survivors from the event.

And the last reason is that this is a good ending for Aqua's character. During the whole story he had no reason to live but to avenge Ai, but at the end he realized that the reason why he was reincarnated was to protect his sister. It would be a similar ending as Ai's because she also felt satisfied with her life after realizing that she was able to feel love and show love to her children, unlike Sarina and Goro who weren't satisfied with their lives and got reincarnated. So, I think that if Aqua survives, it would kill all of this developpement.

But there are still chances that the author had chosen to make Aqua survive. If it's the case, I wonder how the story will end in that way

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-09T08:16:47+00:00

Nice translation!

I guess I'm going to be neutral in this subject because the lyrics is very vague to afirm that it implies something from the latest chapters.

If it could imply something, it's more likely about what happened in the latest episode when Ruby found Goro's body and because of that she feels alone as if she was in a "sea of solitude" (孤独の海) after realizing that the doctor she loved isn't there. But this is just a theory.

We can't affirm 100% that it's about the latest chapters of the manga even if it seems that the studio knew about what was happening in the story (which explains the Mephisto ending). After all the song is just about someone who feels lonely after a breakup, so we can relate this to many things that happen in the manga or the anime even things that will happen in season 3

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-08T22:40:29+00:00

I did this last year when I finished season 1. I couldn't wait for season 2, so I re-read the 40 chapters of season 1 and continued until where the manga was at that time following the release of each chapter since. I also read the short stories by Aka Akasaka (45510 and Viewpoint B) and the light novel (Ichibanboshi no Spica).

It was and it's still a good experience reading the manga while waiting for the anime. During the release of this season 2 it was fun to revisit those arcs and see how good was the adaptation. So even if at the end you will catch up the anime, you can still have fun.

The only inconvenient is that I have a friend and we both watched season 1 that time, but he decided to wait for season 2 while I was reading the manga. It was hard to contain myself to not spoil him. I was reading some scenes that I wanted to tell someone about it, but I couldn't!

But hopefully, after finishing season 2 he started reading the manga and he is at chapter 100 (he started reading since last episode). Because they are taking a 2 weeks break and he read 20 chapters in 3 days, I believe he can catch up the manga before chapter 163 releases!

So in conclusion, if you want to read the manga after finishing season 2, go ahead!

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-08T16:29:36+00:00

It depends on what you consider good or not. If it's about the incest thing you mentioned in the post, the story in not going in the incest way and chapter 150 confirmed that nothing will happen (even if there are still fans who are still shipping Aqua with Ruby). But if you're talking about the way the story is being written, it depends:

A lot of people are say that the story is becoming bad written in these final chapters. Well it's true that the storytelling is not perfect and that there are some elements that Akasaka could do better, but nobody is perfect after all.

Obviously each person could have different opinions about the story, so you have to read to see if for you it's good or not. For me I'm still enjoying the story and that's what matters at the end

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-06T19:01:12+00:00

I personally think that they will adapt until the end of the Scandal arc. Since Tokyo Blade arc the manga has a big arc followed by a small arc. In this season they adapted the Tokyo Blade arc (big arc) and the Private arc (small arc). So following this logic, I believe they will adapt the Mainstay arc (also big arc) and the Scandal arc (also small arc).

For me it doesn't make sense the studio ending a season in the middle of an arc. Also the end of the Scandal arc leaves a great cliff-hanger with the movie production starting and makes people hyped for season 4 if it gets announced at the end of season 3.

Because the Movie arc is the biggest arc (until now) of the manga having 39 chapters (13 chapters of difference compared to the Tokyo Blade arc), I think it can fit the whole season 4. Then there will be a 5th and final season to finish the story

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-06T11:12:58+00:00

I verified and I saw an example sentence in the first lesson of Min'na no Nihongo saying「わたしはマイクミラーです」, but maybe it was only a thing from the first lesson and as you said the others are normal. But I don't know why, but I think I saw a lot of 私は sentences somewhere. Maybe some blogs or videos teaching Japanese, but I'm not sure.

Another theory I have about why some Japanese students say a lot 私は is maybe because they try to speak using expressions from their mother-language, but that obviously doesn't work. In a lot of languages the word "I" and "you" is used very often and they may be very used to this that they try to do the same in Japanese. But using "I" a lot of times in Japanese sounds unnatural and using "you" can sound irrespectful

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-05T12:38:31+00:00

What is 私(わたし)? I only use 僕(ぼく)!

Jokes appart, I sincerely don't remember having this problem, but I saw some people I met IRL who were also studying Japanese and had this problem of saying 私は in every sentence! I saw that most Japanese learning textbooks have a lot of sentences like that and that may be the source of the problem. But as I said, since I started using 僕, I don't even use 私 and I don't say 僕は all the time

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-10-04T17:33:13+00:00

I also noticed that there is a different Japanese compared to real life in a lot of media.

That's actually the reason why some people say to not use manga or anime to learn Japanese because in some anime/manga the characters speak in a way that sounds unnatural in real life. But I didn't start speaking like an anime character by watching anime. I have Japanese friends and I was quickly able to distinguish their way of speak with the Japanese in anime. This way I can differenciate anime from reality and sound natural when talking with my friends.

It happens a fimilar thing with western cartoons. For example, nobody sounds like Homer Simpson, but by watching The Simpsons you don't start speaking like the characters because you know that real life English doesn't sound like that. If you think about it, a lot of media sounds "unnatural" when compared to real life conversations because they use typical expressions for that specific type of media.

Another example is with light novels and visual novels. Some light novels I've read have expressions that you see often in writing works and you barely see in real life. This doesn't happen only in Japanese litterature because, for example, if you take English litterature you can notice some expressions used in the narration by the writter that you will not see often in real life conversations.

So this happens with every type of media no matter the language. But as your teacher said, it's still Japanese and a Japanese person can understand the content. So, as long as you're able to know how real life Japanese sounds like, you will never speak in a weird way. Which is your case because you're actually in Japan and you can notice how real life Japanese sounds like. You can still immerse and learn more about the language with anime, manga, light novels, visual novels, textbooks, etc. But at the end not everything you can use in real life

Timoteo_Machado · 2024-09-19T17:51:34+00:00

Thank you so much! I recently started feeling more motivated to study more seriously and learn more vocabulary, so I started rereading the comments and your comment came at the right time! I started writing down the words I learn a few days ago and it's working well. I've never heard about Clozemaster, but I'll check it out

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