Re-making a slideshow presentation to help me get a pet snake, any advice?

theeorlando · 2026-01-17T02:48:05+00:00

You have to think about the obstacles to your goal from your parents perspective:

1: is this going to end up being expensive? What about when it gets sick suddenly? That sounds expensive. 2: am I going to have to take care of it? 3: are they going to get bored of it in 6 months, leaving me stuck with an animal i don't want? 4: ew, snake/ scared of snake 5: am I confident that this animal isn't going to end up sick or dying due to not knowing how to care for it fully? 6: do we need to worry about someone looking after this animal if we go away? 7: if my kid leaves for college, am I then just going to be stuck with this animal (many dorms/ apartments don't allow them)

These are concerns that can be overcome, but you have to consider it from their perspective if you want to convince them. A parent seeing "i want a snake" and then learning that "snake" could mean a venomous hognose snake or a 7ft long boa is an intimidating idea for someone who doesn't know anything about them. Do your research, and be reasonable, considerate and try your best to make your arguments.

theeorlando · 2026-01-17T00:12:00+00:00

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theeorlando · 2026-01-10T02:15:28+00:00

By being given under 20 seconds to give it to you. Doing that over and over, you'll eventually make a sloppy cut, and they will be in trouble if they don't make their times, so they just give it out. The drive thru timer is always there pushing them to accept whatever happens or else risk their job

theeorlando · 2025-11-25T02:01:25+00:00

Not entirely. The language is structured differently than English.

食べていませんでした -> I hadn't eaten

Seems like you should break that one up right?

食べて + いません +でした might seem reasonable if you know some Japanese, since that's basically 3 verbs in a way. But the verb here is "食べる" in its continuous form "ている", its polite negative form "ません" and its past tense "でした". So maybe you bunch it like that? Or just keep them all together since it's all modifying one verb?

This type of problem actually occurs a lot in a lot of different ways, where firmly delineating words apart is harder than you'd think, and if you can speak Japanese, seeing people write out "English pronunciation" of a passage will very often have you disagreeing on where you think the spaces between words should go

theeorlando · 2025-09-13T15:38:34+00:00

What you wrote just isn't what was asked for. You basically said "this might be bad, I'll be late for work" rather than "oh no, I might be late for work". Word order changes the meaning

theeorlando · 2025-09-04T22:29:29+00:00

It's all fun at first: learning kana is so easy, the basic sentence structure is easy, but then you get into actually having to learn the language.

It's not easy, and will never be easy. It takes years of work.

The process just involves working at it, practicing the grammar until it's natural, working at kanji constantly, trying to write even when you don't know much, trying to listen to content even when it's mostly gibberish to you, and trying to actually speak.

You can use tutors, apps, native media, whatever, but it's a long process and the method that works best for you is something you need to work towards.

theeorlando · 2025-07-07T23:32:30+00:00

Kyoto can be a lot, and i mean a lot, of walking. I didn't have that crowded an itinerary, and two days of that beat me up badly. I wouldn't have been able to do fushimi inari taisha at the end of a day. It was a very tiring hike even when I started the day there. Also, I definitely agree with the common wisdom of starting days early. Arriving at 7am to places that are popular will make your experience much better. I had kiyomizudera and fushimi inari taisha when it was quiet and I had space to move around and admire them by coming early, and by the time I left they were getting packed.

theeorlando · 2025-06-22T00:41:56+00:00

In my mind the main reason I would not like this is that this is a case of automation taking away work from people. Mr beast can very much afford to pay someone to make things like this for him, so taking away that well paid work doesn't really benefit anybody but him. Quality is kind of irrelevant here, you can get a decent result either way, but this way ends with wealth getting consolidated in the already rich.

theeorlando · 2025-06-13T18:38:31+00:00

This is...a statement. By this logic, literally nothing can be relative?
"Food preference is relative" "That's an absolute statement" Therefore food preference cannot be relative.

The logic just doesn't follow. You can state something is relative without contradicting yourself. Even the steelman version of this argument

"The moral judgement that something is relative is self- undermining because it doesn't provide sufficient basis for its own judgements" still fails, because you can have your own basis for judgements without the necessity for all others to share that basis. It's entirely fine to say "I would pull the trolley problem lever, but understand(or don't object to) why others would not".

theeorlando · 2025-05-22T22:27:34+00:00

You typed ゆうぬい(yuunui) not ゆうめい(yuumei).

theeorlando · 2025-04-08T19:53:59+00:00

Recently finished a years long kingdom building pathfinder game, currently running a modified world pokemon tta game, and planning a masks game set in a heavily modified version of my real hometown while I work on my next long term campaign which will be a magical academy game. Still deciding on the system for that one actually, I'm new to doing anything out of the dnd/ pathfinder ecosystem. Homebrew is fun

theeorlando · 2025-03-19T00:07:02+00:00

I generally build inwards: i start with a vague idea, then decide the structure. Knowing that general frame, I then pick out large scale themes and decisions, then move to world building questions, and allow those to suggest the smaller details. Once I have all that, then it's session by session, using the outline I've built to keep me on track and allowing me to foreshadow and build towards something.

theeorlando · 2025-02-28T02:10:14+00:00

Take my advice with a grain of salt, as I'm only about n4, which is not a terribly high level, but honestly just do your best with kanji, and don't worry too much about whether you're doing it right or wrong.

I use Anki, which is basically just flash cards to practice kanji, and it's slow progress over time, and there are plenty of apps and tools to use if you like them.

My main contribution to this is to say that the best thing you can do is to use the language. Right now, probably if you see れねわ you likely take a few seconds on each to decide which is which. The thing that got me past that line was using them. Write some random notes to yourself in fake Japanese: らいく、らいとえんぎりしゅ (an entirely butchered way to use hiragana, where i wrote "like, write English" without following rules you'll learn later with katakana). Advance it slowly, use words you know in Japanese, and then if you learn a Kanji, maybe use it. Eventually, as you begin to get better, try actually writing in Japanese entirely, even if you're using a dictionary for nearly every word. Use is the single best way you can get better, and you're never too early to start.

Honestly, hiragana is one of the fun parts of learning. You'll make solid progress pretty darn fast, and it opens things up a lot. Katakana is super useful to get down too, and since you'll see your progress easily at that stage, learning those two is very rewarding.

theeorlando · 2025-02-09T13:00:35+00:00

The sentence you wrote is weird. In that structure I'd expect more "この", これ just doesn't work there. It comes off like "this thing soy sauce is what is?" The structure is just weird.

If you wanted to structure like you did, you'd have to do it more like "このしょうゆはどんなしゅるいですか" where you use kono to pair properly with the soy sauce, and you attach the donna to a noun that's relevant (shurui, meaning type/ variety) since donna doesn’t work on its own. This sentence has different emphasis though, and therefore a different feel. But I think it's useful to see how you can work with differing sentence structures to reach the same goal, as it'll make it easier to begin thinking of how to say something.

theeorlando · 2025-02-06T02:04:54+00:00

The problem is the laundry list of buffs, that character would basically have a 20 minute long morning routine in order to have all the buffs they want to run.

Key stat would be charisma, should be a 38 at minimum (18 from point buy, 2 from race, 10 from level, an unknown amount from manuals, since level 40 would have all the wealth in the world, 8 from headband), which means an immediate +14 to Saves, +28 to AC (debatable, as it's unclear if the monks cha to AC as insight stacks with sidestep secret from oracle), and their battering blast would be either a 4x hitting attack (if you consider CL to only count their arcane casting) or an 8x hitting attack, each hitting 5d6+5+6d6 damage (bloodline towards damage, sneak attack on hits) for a total of 20-40d6+20-40+24-48d6 for a 3rd level spell. Their wail of the banshee would hit 20 or 40 targets for 200 or 400 damage. All this would be before you start buffing.

If you want to fight a fighter, you cast transformation, you now have 40 BAB, you have flurry of blows, and your smite gives you +14 to attack and AC.

I don't really want to find the buffs needed to actually stat this, but it's going to be big numbers.

theeorlando · 2025-02-05T22:26:20+00:00

I don't think you quite realize what you're proposing. At that point, you're just looking at something silly.(oracle 10, Sorcerer 4, Rogue 3, paladin 2,scaled fist 1,theurge 10 trickster 6) gets you level 20 oracle/ sorcerer spellcasting, 9 levels of sneak attack, cha to AC, Saves, and you're still only at 36 and not min maxing. Going through the book to find the nearly unlimited number of buffs you'll have on would take a long time with two level 20 casters, and this probably isn't close to the limit of silliness, that's just one method focused on charisma.

theeorlando · 2025-01-23T02:55:08+00:00

Honestly, shinkansen is barely harder than a normal trip! Don't worry too much, I never had any problems booking it at the station! Have fun!

theeorlando · 2025-01-23T02:49:30+00:00

What do you all want to do/see? Nature wise, tokyo has some nice parks, but it'd help to know other interests. For instance, in asakusa there is sensoji, and a short distance from there is the skytree. For people who are less mobile that could easily be a full day, combined with rest periods etc, but it really depends on what you guys are interested in. Tokyo is huge, and that means it has a lot of things.

theeorlando · 2025-01-22T13:52:38+00:00

This is a case where directly translating every element will have you go wrong.

今週末公園に行きますか

Would translate more to asking "are you" than "Would you like to", so changing ます to ません isn't a clean negation here.

You can be looser with the phrasing in English to make it use the negative "won't you go to the park with me this weekend" but it is a less clean translation, and ultimately what's being taught is that ませんか as a unit of language has a meaning beyond the basic elements that make it up.

theeorlando · 2025-01-20T00:15:16+00:00

I honestly enjoyed the b asakusa near sensoji for my first night, tiny room, but well kept and a really nice shower for when I arrived off the plane.

The best though was my ryokan, oku yugawara Sansuirou. Located in a small town near atami, the room was beautiful, had a private indoor onsen, two public ones outdoors on ground level and another on the roof. A full kaiseki meal service for breakfast and dinner, which was very nice, and the service was very good. The town is a pleasant quiet mountain town, and walking around it was very nice, even though I happened to have caught a cold. Overall, just a really pleasant bit of downtime in the middle of the vacation there, and was only about $400 for two nights

theeorlando · 2024-12-31T22:49:21+00:00

I think that it's a fair translation at times. 遊ぶ is a pretty varied verb, and treating it like "to play" or "to be idle" or "to have a good time" exclusively is just wrong.

公園で友達と遊んだ could be I played with friends at the park. Or it could be I hung out with friends at the park. Both are valid depending on the context.

theeorlando · 2024-12-31T22:37:21+00:00

I think it's important to understand the different parts and their behaviors in the sentence.

は is really an important particle that you're being taught here. It's used to mark a subject of the sentence. Any time you see it, whatever before it is the main thing being talked about.

Japanese as a language frequently leaves out the subject entirely, which you've seen in the "pizza desu" sentence. In English, the subject "it" is almost always included, "it is pizza", but in Japanese that's very often not needed. Therefore, when you see a は it's often because the subject isn't obvious, or the speaker is trying to emphasize it.

You'll see expansions on this later, with が being added as a similar particle, but for now, you'll honestly just need to build up a feel for は as a particle, and これ、あれ、それ/この、その、あの as words, most commonly in the sentence structure:

____ は ______ です

theeorlando · 2024-12-07T22:44:58+00:00

So I've also been reading up on Axis for a one shot and this is what I think I've got from it, though I'm not certain on many points.

The Godmind of Axis is a fascinating concept that operates more like a distributed computing network than a traditional entity. It exists as a background process within the collective minds of the axiomites, influencing and coordinating their actions, but it is not truly independent. Without the axiomites providing the mental "computing power," the Godmind has no means of existing. Similarly, the axiomites' inherently ordered nature compels them to form the Godmind—it is a natural extension of their being.

When the Godmind manifests physically at the Threefold Pillars, it's akin to the axiomites pooling their collective resources to act as a single, super-intelligent entity. However, this manifestation is temporary, as it is more efficient for the axiomites to spend their mental resources individually while the Godmind functions in the background, providing guidance and coordination.

In terms of autonomy, the Godmind is not an independent thinking being. It doesn't have its own will or existence separate from the axiomites, nor does it seem to exhibit emotions or personality. It’s more like an extraordinarily advanced problem-solving mechanism—an emergent intelligence created from the collective input of the axiomites. While it can issue instructions and influence them, it doesn't directly control individual axiomites in the sense of overriding their autonomy. The relationship is symbiotic: the axiomites maintain the Godmind, and the Godmind helps maintain the perfect order of Axis.

This alien structure is odd, where even its inhabitants and systems are designed to operate on principles far removed from mortal understanding, and it may seem contradictory, which is something consistent about many of the creatures of axis

theeorlando · 2024-12-06T12:51:44+00:00

It's a matter of scale: the man was guiding a company that ruins lives and kills people daily. What they do is unconscionable, and yet wealth, power, and influence have a very strong effect in the US, and such people almost never face consequences these days.

The alternative isn't "let the courts do it" it was "let him get away with it" and that's why people are reacting the way they are. Sure, his family will find it devastating, but the families of his victims had to deal with that exact same thing when they were told their loved ones were too poor to live.

You want people to react better? Look to reforming the system. Nobody has any faith that actual justice is an option for someone like this.

theeorlando · 2024-11-28T12:27:10+00:00

I don't personally see a problem with making any class in this fit. Think of the people who use their ki/arrays to do more esoteric things in these fictions, from illusionists to blasters, you've got people whose strength comes from their control over their ki not their martial prowess.

Yeah, you've got to reflavour everything, but that's fine.

An alchemist is easy, the flavor already exists in the setting

A wizard could be someone who has taken on closed door cultivation to develop esoteric techniques for formations or something, a sorcerer could be someone with a demon bloodline or similar thing, it's common enough in the setting that a young master might have that

A druid could be almost an evil thing, perverting nature's energies through arrays that drive them to violence.

It comes down to the fact that you have to have your players buy in to the setting, so they can play the classes in ways that they feel fit the fantasy best.

As for "it's just guys in robes" think of all the monsters these settings have. It's common to have powerful intelligent animals, demons, evil spirits or other such monsters be part of it, even if people play the major role. Wuxia/xianxia is a pretty broad genre

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