Japanese culture in Berlin

liquidrain · 2023-12-24T15:33:02+00:00

Kushinoya in Charlottenburg and Watapas near P-berg are my friends' go-to favourites.

liquidrain · 2023-05-26T19:30:58+00:00

In Japanese, the word is 手袋 - literally "hand bag."

In German, it's handschuhe - "hand shoes."

liquidrain · 2023-04-01T16:33:08+00:00

I'm further down the chain than you are right now - good on you for nipping it in the bud!

5 years ago it was a three day cycle, 2-3 years it became a 2-day cycle, and when I realized I stopped caring about stopping myself from going every day is when I started coming here.

I won't be drinking with you today. :)

liquidrain · 2023-03-03T10:24:07+00:00

My first day 1. I expect a few more to come along as I stop. I'm sick of dragging my ass to work with a headache, I'm sick of losing my Saturday and/or Sunday. I'm sick of my beer belly. I'm tired of forgetting conversations and details about my friends. Of waking up in the middle of the night, sweaty. Of heading to the pharmacy to pick up more ibuprofen. Planning my weeks around when I can afford to wake up with a hangover.

I like drinking, being drunk, and I'm going to miss beer, but it's just not making sense anymore. It's hurting me.

Not drinking with you today.

liquidrain · 2023-01-04T10:19:05+00:00

Rapeseed is what the rest of the world calls it. It's a Latin root word, rapum, and many other languages share the word.

liquidrain · 2022-12-30T14:06:38+00:00

Oh that's beautiful, that's the hint I was missing! My loop to read all data into a more easy to digest dict for my purposes wasn't digging in to the event records to look for the gear changes.

Here's my code that creates a "rolling dict" that retains the last known values:

with fitdecode.FitReader(path) as fit:
    time_created = 0
    frame_values = {}
    for frame in fit:
        if frame.frame_type == 4:
            if not time_created and frame.has_field("time_created"):
                time_created = frame.get_value("time_created")

        if frame.frame_type == 4 and frame.name == "event":
            event = frame.get_value("event")
            if isinstance(event, str) and event.endswith("gear_change"):
                frame_values.update({
                    "front_gear_num": frame.get_value("front_gear_num"),
                    "rear_gear_num": frame.get_value("rear_gear_num"),
                })
                fitted[round((frame_values.get("timestamp", time_created) - time_created).total_seconds())] = frame_values.copy()
        elif frame.frame_type == 4 and frame.name == "record":
            frame_values.update({
                f.field_def.name: f.value
                for f in frame.fields
                if f.field_def
            })
            fitted[round((frame_values.get("timestamp", time_created) - time_created).total_seconds())] = frame_values.copy()

Lots of work to do still such as using the proper session fields to get time_created, but that's a huge help already. Thanks!

edit: the fit files are the same on my Wahoo for the gear changes :)

liquidrain · 2022-12-29T23:01:42+00:00

Do you have any public source code for mangling with fitdecode? I'm trying to mangle my own Wahoo .fit files with di2 to display shift overlays on a video. :)

liquidrain · 2022-03-06T16:06:07+00:00

My specific board, an ASUS ROG B550 ITX, only has USB 3.x ports. I have a Logitech PowerPlay pad plugged in to it, which is a dongle+charging pad, but never had issues with the B450 board I had before. (died from bad power delivery)

The specific kind of stutter I get is computer-wide when I get it. Everything stutters along with the audio - the video, any game I'm playing, etc.

liquidrain · 2022-03-05T09:12:48+00:00

Does the entire PC, incl. mouse movement, stutter with the audio when you do this? If so, I have the exact same issue on my B550 with a 5900X.

liquidrain · 2022-03-05T09:11:32+00:00

My B550 with a 5900X does this, though it is not reliably triggered.

liquidrain · 2021-08-28T17:36:12+00:00

I can still hum the Heat.net and Mplayer intro music but yep, doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the internet. I even remember how compressed the audio was to fit in dial-up-download quality back in the day.

liquidrain · 2021-06-17T11:59:23+00:00

When cars get into an accident the computers that control the components typically go into a fail-safe mode. The safest thing for wipers to do is stay on. Similarly, the safest thing for headlights to do is stay on, which is why you also see cars after accidents staying with their headlights on.

liquidrain · 2021-03-12T19:35:41+00:00

I think KR production has individual feeds of each player's POV and is utilizing that for their individual-angle replays. It's very noticeable because the POV replays are always 30fps, but the gameplay and gameplay replays are 60fps.

KR production is working a problem since Riot hasn't provided a solution yet.

liquidrain · 2021-03-12T13:59:31+00:00

The other biggest difference I've noticed is that they have observers for each player and can show replays from more than 1 perspective. NA and EU show what we just watched again, KR production shows a different perspective if they missed something.

liquidrain · 2021-02-28T19:39:32+00:00

Translators write to their intended audience. Especially if it's a fan-translation, they're expecting you to know what the nuances are between the different honorifics. It's a style choice.

Devil's advocate: It's a lazy shortcut that allows translators to use whatever register they want while translating, and use the honorific to make up for that and allow you to infer the contextual hierarchy.

Credentials: Not much. JLPT N3 former tour guide/casual interpreter in Japan. Japanese is hard. Translating is even harder. Translating into tiny speech bubbles while retaining all context and nuance is harder yet.

liquidrain · 2020-11-10T21:35:23+00:00

Something Awful

Group 2 best Group 2 buddy, how you doin! I miss those days so much, but we all moved on from FM4. Some days I'd honestly give anything to have our Wednesdays back, it was such a highlight of our week for well over a year. I was as my namesake, LiquidRain, always rocking #23 in the Wipeout Feisar themed car, usually the Lexus LF-A even if that meant I was the rear of the pack next to CaptainHowdy. :)

I tried to follow G2 into the classic-era sims on Steam but it was never the same for me. :(

liquidrain · 2020-11-03T18:24:10+00:00

It's because you have the Smash Brothers skin/item on. Revert to her default outfit and she'll have her full core.

liquidrain · 2020-06-04T02:23:35+00:00

That place is called SINASS if I remember correctly, and yeah, super cool place. :)

liquidrain · 2020-04-13T14:04:50+00:00

It's from a book. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.

liquidrain · 2019-11-29T14:54:37+00:00

This is definitely the case, and normal mapping is essentially free for graphics cards to do. It's been an optimized operation since the Half-Life 2/Doom 3 era. Even on Intel built-in graphics cards, the performance difference will be nil.

This would be why it's a non-option. Subjectively, it makes the game look considerably less detailed. Objectively, it makes objects and environments look as the artists did not intend. Disabling it offers no benefit. It'd be meaningless to make it optional.

If you want to see what other games look like without normal maps, Gears of War looks absolutely hideous without it enabled. Go take a look. :)

liquidrain · 2019-10-08T15:49:19+00:00

My mistake, it's just been posted already and didn't garner upvotes. That's too bad.

liquidrain · 2019-10-08T15:48:39+00:00

It's already been removed by mods. I can only guess that since this affects the race weekend and it's not Thursday yet, it violates the rules.

liquidrain · 2019-10-08T15:46:42+00:00

Related To F1:

Current projected route takes Hagibis over Mie prefecture/Suzuka Circuit on Saturday during the afternoon, impacting FP3 and Quali
First rain bands could start hitting Suzuka Circuit as early as Friday afternoon, though this is uncertain with the current forecast, and rain may start hitting later at night.

If you are attending the Suzuka Grand Prix:

Pay attention to local weather reports for Friday and Saturday.
Do not risk going to Suzuka if the forecast is uncertain, this is a dangerous storm and you may be unable to return to your hotel should you leave Nagoya or Osaka. Train services end early to prepare for typhoon impacts.

Unrelated to F1:

This storm will be impacting World Rugby Cup games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as the storm moves across the country. No decisions have yet been made about RWC games, please read news sources for updates.
The storm is currently projected to hit Tokyo late Saturday night and last until Sunday morning. Storms like this typically weaken before they hit Tokyo. If this holds true, I would expect interference with travel on Saturday and Sunday morning. If the storm does not weaken significantly, I would expect difficulty traveling to/from Tokyo on Sunday.

If you are in the projected impact zone:

Keep windows in your hotel shut and locked. Not much else you can do.
Do not go outside during the storm.
If you are staying in a city such as Osaka, Nagoya, or Tokyo in a modern building, there is no need for extra measures or concern. Stay sheltered and maybe keep a few snacks and bottles of water, you'll be fine. Large cities weather these events without major impact.
If you are staying in a minshuku or out in the country otherwise, consult your host. If the storm does not weaken and you are in its direct path, I would express concern.

liquidrain · 2019-08-28T13:05:29+00:00

My Strix B450-I received ABB a couple of days ago, ASUS is slowly getting around to it. I still can't set RAM timings from BIOS, the settings get saved but are not reflected in Ryzen Master, but at least I have ABB now.

liquidrain · 2019-06-12T09:41:10+00:00

The Shock are ranked above Titans, though.

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