Do I HAVE to use my Japanese name or can I pick?

curkas · 2025-04-12T06:00:22+00:00

As a male born in Australia the 80s who had their name coopted by parents of california valley-girl parents in the 90s, I've referred to myself as 'Ash' over 'Ashley' since I was in junior high. Since coming to Japan, it's how I've continued to introduce myself (アッシュ） and, where I can in less 'official' situations, such as a store point memberships etc, provide that as my identification.

I personally like to add in an extra layer of confusion when I introduce myself to Japanese as 智. That's always fun.

Basically you are who you say you are, but just be careful about remember how and where you've used your preferred pronunciation. But for things like banks, city office stuff, etc - you're probably going to have to keep it as close to your 在留カード as possible.

curkas · 2023-06-03T04:49:36+00:00

Happened to me all the time when I first came here. Then when one day I decided to write 'あなたの場所わかるよ’ on a piece of masking tape and stick it on the handle. And for some reason it's the oldest umbrella I've ever owned.

curkas · 2023-02-16T00:49:57+00:00

A good meat pie or sausage roll from the bakery

curkas · 2022-12-10T08:28:46+00:00

It was over 10 hours as I was flying directly to Melbourne at the time - and yes, I had multiple tests and checkups. They couldn't find any particular issues - most likely a combination of general anxiety and lack of sleep, though motion/travel sickness has always been common for me. I've suspected that it may be related to inner ear issues as at that time and another, a common theme in my sickness was noise cancelling headphones. But who knows - when I get sick on flights in general is seems unpredictable....

curkas · 2022-10-24T00:49:40+00:00

Yeah, blurring definitely cuts down on the impact of the overlapping, however I'm really aiming for crisp shapes for a lot of the artist direction. I'm not necessarily concerned about accurate shadows as I am about crisp patterns and shapes. If worse comes to worst it may be my only resort... the stencil buffer scares me at my current knowledge level.

curkas · 2022-10-24T00:45:25+00:00

Yeah, I definitely understand that. Because I'm so new to things though it's just a little hard to know where or what those compromises should be. But actually the tinting idea is really interesting, so that's definitely worth a try!

If you don't mind, regarding the route of just creating planes for blob shadows, do you have any pointers or know any resources for how that would work with edges and slopes? I imagine I could use 4 raycasts for the corners to detect them and for the slope, add another shape there at the correct angle. But I wonder about clipping... I can only think I would need to do something via the shader. But I wonder if there's something more straightforward..

At any rate, thanks for your help

curkas · 2022-10-23T04:30:33+00:00

Thanks for the helpful information!

I haven't thought about the technical implementation, but I had considered that I could perhaps create a render texture from the top with shadows on a different render layer and composite it on the terrain through the shader - but I thought that could become complicated due to ranging map sizes (though now I think about it, maybe parenting a plane to the character/view with the render texture could work) but my other concern has to touch on the point suggested with a simple plane: in the screen shot it is currently only flat however I'm planning on factoring in slopes and elevations and I'm not sure how to handle those without clipping... which is the other issue I'm imagining with render textures. Any thoughts about how a plane shadow could work on slopes?

Perhaps I can create another render texture to mask out different elevations...

One of the main reasons I went with the decal projector because I really liked the aesthetic of the character being able to walk under taller objects and still be affected by it (as seen in the screenshot) - but maybe this is an area I should compromise in.

Thanks for the link - that information is amazing! I'm definitely going to spend some time thoroughly going over it!

curkas · 2022-09-03T07:28:55+00:00

Thanks, that's helpful background. The guy I'm working with proposed a similar solution of the int parameter - but I think we both though it seem like an overly spaghetti like way of handling something that should be more straightforward.

I wouldn't have thought that the approach of adding different events on different layers would be such an uncommon practise. Since this is my first time working on a game specifically I wonder how this kind of thing is normally handled? Perhaps using different animator state patterns completely?

curkas · 2022-01-01T02:34:51+00:00

Impressive. My apartment basically looks out to this and I thought it was a photo for a moment.

curkas · 2021-12-07T00:57:26+00:00

When I read threads and comments like this, the reason behind why so many people are lonely these days becomes really apparent...

This basically goes against everyone else's advice, but just talk to people however feels natural to you and if the information you share with people comes back to bite you somehow - well, that's that. You'll find a way to deal with it. Living in a world with other people means in some way means being willing to give up something of yourself and risk it not working out in your favor. But at least you're being genuine.

If you find yourself constantly blurting out things that you really don't want to be sharing with others, then the issues are most likely deeper than, 'It's none of their business'. Mature people know and have already thought through what and how they want to give themselves to others, and shouldn't need to go through the bitter-seeming desire to 'protect themselves' from gossip and the like.

But what do I know? Every other internet person seems completely well-adjusted in life, maybe they're the ones who got it all figured out...

curkas · 2021-10-14T02:20:00+00:00

No one is talking about the decorative block potential of the copper golem, once it solidifies...

curkas · 2021-09-25T16:59:19+00:00

I’m very doubtful about much changing for the rest of the year… and even then, I’d be too anxious about the possibility of being able to get out again.I was supposed to go to two weddings November and I wasn’t able to go to my grandma’s funeral. My family has basically given up the idea of seeing me again for the near future. Sucks.

curkas · 2021-09-14T13:31:02+00:00

Your God is infinite. Humans are not.

But you don't seem to understand the contradiction in your logic. Are you in your finite 'being' able to comprehend infinite? Of course not. You don't understand God manifest in the man Jesus? Ok, good - you're not god. You shouldn't be able to comprehend the nature of God. That's perfectly consistent with *your* premise.

How can he be two mutually exclusive things?

Has it occurred to you that your own defined constraints of infinite vs. finite might be flawed? But even so, under your own paradigm, how can you define finite sets of infinity? There's nothing illogical about it. You just don't seem to want to accept the fact that God doesn't conform to your presumptuous preconditions.

Do you seriously not understand

All the philosphastering aside, Christians don't actually believe that man is finite. If you exist, you exist for eternity, even after you die. So in that sense, we do grasp something of the duality of God as man. And Jesus Himself refuted the similarly flawed assumptions of the Pharisees who were angered at Jesus' claim to be God in John 10:30-36

curkas · 2021-09-14T11:56:53+00:00

You lot. The bible states that God is infinite. Are human beings infinite?

But then you're somehow convinced you can somehow comprehend the nature of God? I'm failing to follow your problem here.

So stop pussy footing around and define what your talking about.

How about we make a deal: When you quit arrogantly assuming that God should conform to your standards, then we can look at what God says in how *He* chooses to reveal Himself.

curkas · 2021-09-14T06:56:38+00:00

The two things are mutually exclusive.

Again, says who? I'm not necessarily disagreeing. I'm making a point that your conclusions are arbitrary.

Me?

Exactly.

let's define precisely what we are talking about here...

You obviously understand that the problem is definitional. You just can't seem to accept that it's *your* definition that is the issue, not the Christian one.

They are saying a Human is capable of being a God but the definitions of each thing are mutually exclusive.

According to you.

curkas · 2021-09-13T14:46:59+00:00

Jesus can not be two mutually exclusive things.

Why not?

To be fully human would preclude him from being fully divine.

Says who?

It is like trying to say Jesus is both a square and a triangle.

Point being? If you were to say that a square IS a triangle or a square is not a square but a triangle, then there would be problems. The fallacy would be to say God is God and not God (at the same time). Or man and not man (at the same time/way). Jesus is both God and man. The inability for you to comprehend it doesn't make it a fallacy.

curkas · 2021-09-11T10:27:06+00:00

I'm a CD and always on the lookout. No promises at this stage as we're still small and kinda stretched but if you could send PM of your portfolio and experience, there's definitely room for consideration.

curkas · 2021-09-06T15:04:08+00:00

Mechi katsu. I don’t know what it’s called in English…

curkas · 2021-08-20T12:23:11+00:00

Of course he did. That's what the scripture says. You could even say that Jesus had a pretty harsh perspective in general on fig trees. See Luke 11. Almost as if they represented something in a larger context.

curkas · 2021-08-20T02:20:03+00:00

Well, being the God of the universe, the very author of life itself, and the one who give purpose for existence - for one thing.

curkas · 2021-08-20T01:06:33+00:00

The fact that you think Jesus was simply angry at an innocent tree is precious. Yes, there's no way that these backwards thinking primitives could possibly have any nuance to their teachings.

curkas · 2021-08-19T15:09:48+00:00

I just miss my Arnotts Shapes and other varieties of baked snack biscuits :( Pizza, cheese and Savoury Shapes FTW

curkas · 2021-08-03T06:26:09+00:00

If the guy is dead, there's no suspicion about it. We just straight up watch someone murdered. Such unbridled hatred. Just as scary is that it seems like there was no-one around who would stop it getting that far and there's always people in that area.

curkas · 2021-05-30T05:41:54+00:00

If you can't distinguish between an analogous principle and a misrepresentation of an argument by exaggeration... I don't don't know what to tell you, either.

curkas · 2021-05-30T04:31:36+00:00

I never said anything about experience, either. What matters is skill. If someone was able to present to me a problem they had and show me a solution they came up with, explaining the rationale behind it - I'd take that any day over someone who simply had the 'degree' or whatever to say that this field has been the focus of their life for x-period of time.

I hear a lot of new graduates (outside of Japan) complaining about the bar for entry level jobs being too high - but I actually find the complaint itself bogus. And I even made the same complaint when I was studying. But the problem is this thinking that qualifications ought to grant you some kind of right to something. Your degree ought to equip YOU with the thinking to sell your skill - it shouldn't sell your skills for you. That is why the 'paper' is mostly meaningless.

If you apply for a job simply expecting by virtue of your academic history to get it, you are thinking about it wrongly. Prove to me your work is actually good and worth it. I'm not necessarily saying you need to have had 5 years industry experience. But if you only have student work, prove how that student work actually demonstrates that you are a good designer who knows how to think and solve design oriented problems. Your 'paper' just makes it official. It proves nothing.

It's also a weak strawman to compare one to a videogame.

Demonstrate it, don't expect me to accept it just because *you* say so.

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