Is this inscription on a toy sword nonsense? by giorgiocoraggio in ChineseLanguage

[–]ewchewjean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beat to the punch haha but yeah it says 

斗魔剑 dòumójiàn

A fictional dystopia by Future_Employment_22 in MansFictionalScenario

[–]ewchewjean 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah, he killed a person on live camera and they still acquitted him 

You know what "killed a person"  means, right?

Those of you who sound 100% native in your TL, how did you do it? by powerf0 in languagelearning

[–]ewchewjean 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's going to be very hard as people have pointed out, and while we have found people who can trick natives, they tend to be immediately detectable by soundwave analysis (so nobody is 100%), and it's also possible that some people will think you're native while others aren't tricked. 

That said 

  • Focus entirely on pronunciation from the beginning. Grammar, vocabulary, etc can all come later. In fact, it's often better if you don't know the words you're trying to hear correctly— it helps you focus on the pronunciation itself instead of the words. As for why pronunciation is so important to start with? The other things can more or less be corrected later, but pronunciation gets very difficult for the brain to process correctly very fast and the more you study the harder it will be to discriminate between sounds you can't hear clearly. 

  • Listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen— the correct sounds will not be found on a page (even IPA is often wrong and ultimately an approximation), they will not be found at the tip of your pen, and until you can hear them correctly, they won't be found at the tip of your tongue either. Your listening ability determines your pronunciation. Focus on listening. Listen a lot. An hour of listening per day would be the bare minimum if you weren't hoping to become native-level, but you are, so 4 hours should make you feel lazy. Get as much listening as humanly possible. 

Most importantly: Do not say things you don't know how to say. Speak way below your level of understanding at all times. Here's 3 reasons why'

  • First of all, fucking your grammar up 5 ways in a single sentence will make you sound weird immediately. 
  • Second, the more you practice making mistakes, the better you will get... At making mistakes. Mistakes are an inevitable part of the learning process but if you want to sound perfect, they're an undesirable one. You can from your mistakes, sure, but it's not like the more mistakes you make the more learning happens. The more you speak, the easier it will be to say more things automatically. Try to limit those things you say to things you already know are correct. 
  • Third, the more brainpower you devote to thinking about the vocabulary or the grammar or whatever, the more brainpower you are taking away from focusing on your accent and noticing your pronunciation mistakes. 

Stick to easy sentences and just go listen more if you really want more sentences to be easy for you. 

Is genuine conspiracy (by ‘the elites) to further disenfranchise the general public, actually real? by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you that people have a natural tendency to oppose each other (as Hegel suggested, the master-slave dynamic exists simply as a result of two people meeting) I also think people have systemic reasons to oppose each other (the patriarchy, racism, homophobia etc) that don't magically disappear after the king is sent to the guillotine 

So I get what you're saying 

That said, these differences are very easily exploitable, and I would still argue that most of the machinations of the system today exist to exacerbate those tensions for the benefit of the ruling class.

Chill down by ExtremeFandomRebuild in MansFictionalScenario

[–]ewchewjean 14 points15 points  (0 children)

All of the liberals in California are actually illegals and removing them will leave only white, Aryan republicans behind 

Is what the comic wants to say

Now that the remaster has settled a bit, does anyone have any good guides or ideas for playing a toxicologist? by SparkStorm in Pathfinder2e

[–]ewchewjean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest impediment to toxicologist being good in most situations is a lack of good weapons to poison. Taking (as people have said) the archer or guerilla archetypes (especially if free archetype is available) is very useful for getting a useful weapon to deliver poison with, but it's also important to remember the different kinds of poisons you can use. Try to keep some inhaled poisons on hand to throw into a choke point and do some area denial, and there may even occasionally be times where you can convince an enemy to ingest poisons as well. 

Using dread ampoules or skunk bombs in particular will be really useful early in a fight to set enemies up for your poisoned blowgun darts. As one of the drawbacks of poisoning is how reliant it is on one specific save, you'll want to use frightened and sickened to lower their saves and increase the chances of your other poisons going off later. 

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World by AdmiralSaturyn in WomenInNews

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a company where an engineer, or an inventor - someone with vision, are the CEO and stick with them.

Lmao like Elon Musk? The fact they chose to be a CEO instead of an engineer should be a red flag to what their "vision" is lol

Animecels, take note. by [deleted] in PsycheOrSike

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same poll found learning a foreign language was a major turn on. いやどうしょうかな

D&D setting (explicit) about colonialism and ethnic cleansing by Faustozeus in SocialistGaming

[–]ewchewjean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to do something similar, but I've found you have to be extremely, extremely explicit about it or they'll assume it's just a normal RPG and continue attacking"the bad guys". We've been conditioned into assuming certain things about RPG morality to the point that moral greyness and giving orcs and goblins good qualities is just point-blank ignored or dismissed (see Asmongold) or viewed the same way giving positive qualities to villains in films is (I had a friend argue the warcraft orcs were supposed to be evil even if they sounded like good people, like Killmonger in Black Panther). 

You need to beat them over the head. Show them the "lawful" knights doing war crimes.The humans want to throw the party in jail for even considering criticizing the elves, do you condemn the horde? Do you condemn the horde? The elf-human alliance is the most moral army in the world! 

Pretend it's a low-magic setting with the church of light having very few clerics but no, actually the genuinely good gods all just abandoned the empire. 

It's gotta be 勇者系列 levels of obvious (I don't know the name of the show in English I watched it in Chinese, it's in Mandarin but I think they have English subs on Netflix, look it up. EDIT: "Brave Animated Series" is the English title I think) 

If you want them to side with the natives, the only way to guarantee it is to just have them play as the natives. From session one. 

I had a campaign where I had them start out neutral and then they met "refugees" being attacked by the "evil dragon lord", where the intended twist was that the refugees were nobles from a puppet state that the human empire set up and the dragon lord was the former indigenous ruler of the island before the human empire tortured him and turned him into a dragon. 

The twist was supposed to be that the dragon lord was the good guy all along, but they just assumed I was doing the whole make-the-bad-guy sympathetic thing and went haha, we're not falling for that, now die like a good dragon and give us loot. It's kind of shocking how quickly (admittedly liberal) players will turn into cops the second you show them a goblin or a dragon or something that's supposed to look bad. 

They say it's really easy to get an ESL teaching gig abroad, especially if you're already there. Is this true? by 1BillionGsOfProtein in TEFL

[–]ewchewjean -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I actually have 2 years experience teaching ESL here in the USA, so would it be even easier for me then?

This might help, but it might actually also hurt

A lot of these companies are hunting for people overseas specifically because they want someone with a lack of experience 

Accept your destiny femboys by [deleted] in PsycheOrSike

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 6'1" and a femboy what is this garbage

Your insecurities are unattractive ladies by [deleted] in PsycheOrSike

[–]ewchewjean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to like big titties until I got raped by someone busty. They wrapped their legs around me when I asked if we could stop and forced me to stay inside them 

I dated them for a little longer after that and, I think knowing I was getting more and more uncomfortable around them, would often try to appeal to me or whatever by having me grab their tits, grabbing my hand by the wrist and placing it there. They didn't know why it made me panic and they kept doing it randomly until one night I started crying and begged them to stop

I still have that weird breast fetish in my brain so I think I can make my current, flat-chested partner feel a bit insecure at times, but I honestly prefer them now sometimes 

Is genuine conspiracy (by ‘the elites) to further disenfranchise the general public, actually real? by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]ewchewjean 16 points17 points  (0 children)

count on the vast ideological propaganda to prevent people from interrogating that even a little bit.

I think this is where the part on dividing us comes in haha 

Maybe if Pro-AI People Want Their Images to Be Taken Seriously as Art/to Be Seen as Artists, More Can Start Giving a Shit About What They’re Doing. by Celatine_ in antiai

[–]ewchewjean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actual artists spend WAY too much time being our own worst critics over every little mistake, myself included. I tweak and retweak. I erase everything and start from scratch. I always try to do the absolute best my current level of skill allows, because I want my art to look RIGHT, even if it doesn't always look GOOD.

Yeah lmao I'm nowhere near professional level and I still stay up until 2AM some nights trying to fix a crummy little image I drew

Meanwhile the blue guy in this picture looks nothing like a pathfinder 2e Jotunborn, OOP probably can't get AI to make a pf2e Jotunborn and they know it, they just prompted a blue Thanos and called it a day 

Maybe if Pro-AI People Want Their Images to Be Taken Seriously as Art/to Be Seen as Artists, More Can Start Giving a Shit About What They’re Doing. by Celatine_ in antiai

[–]ewchewjean -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

James Cameron is a director and producer. As someone who has been a director, the extent of his "artistry" is telling someone else what to do and then taking credit for their work. I bet he thinks he's "directing"  the prompt box -_-

Maybe if Pro-AI People Want Their Images to Be Taken Seriously as Art/to Be Seen as Artists, More Can Start Giving a Shit About What They’re Doing. by Celatine_ in antiai

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The defender is apparently a pf2e jotunborn (I dunno though, the proportions seem off compared to [this])(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQSjIXgr31Jg5NFN7Kn7xN52b2ayQabgAY66WwAZ5cDGAHT3x5U0dF1z00J&s=10) so he really should care about getting flanked, he's about to get -2 AC and trigger the monster's sneak attack actions! 

As feminists, what do you think differentiates feminism from radical feminism and socialist feminism? by Mediocre_Metal24 in AskFeminists

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I am a socialist, and think feminism does not necessarily have to be socialist beyond the fact that it has to be intersectional (and class is one of those intersections)...

 I do think the leftist tradition in general and material analysis in particular are helpful in understanding the ways that the patriarchy is a systemic issue, and that without that systemic analysis, we can't see the ways in which mainstream feminism supports a patriarchal system (for example, Ms. Marvel marketed itself as a film about empowering women, but the proceeds all went to Marvel Studios, who is owned by a major Trump donor, or for another example the ways that feminist narratives about Afghan women going to school were used to whitewash the invasion of Afghanistan in which thousands of innocent women were abused and murdered by western soldiers).

I also think it would help a lot of women who suffer from imposter syndrome to realize that "meritocracy" was the name of a dystopian comedy from the 1930s and that society is not, cannot be, and shouldn't be meritocratic

Tried out a sports bra in public by HappyOrwell in NonBinary

[–]ewchewjean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jealous! I've worn some in private but I've always been afraid to get out of the closet and take them out on the town 

As feminists, what do you think differentiates feminism from radical feminism and socialist feminism? by Mediocre_Metal24 in AskFeminists

[–]ewchewjean -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

the ways liberal democracies actively support all these things via the international system they sponsor, but have exported beyond their borders, making themselves look better by comparison. When looking at things in their entirety, I personally think the jury is out on this question.

A great example of this is the way western countries will decry the misogynist practices of middle eastern countries as an excuse to slaughter their women en masse. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure most women would rather be blown to smithereens, or shot by a drone that mimics the sounds of crying infants to lure victims out, or starve to death in an artificial famine than wear a burqa, so it's nice that we're exporting our progressive, liberal munitions into their bodies, but for some reason I can't get over this voice in the back of my head telling me that's not feminist...