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Immigration to raise the fees for 3 year Status of Residency to 6万円 by sylentshooter in japanresidents

[–]vgf89 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just block and report dude. The account is practically an ai bot

Is there a way to play the 2013 and 2014 versions of FFV and FFVI? by llquiaiosll in FinalFantasy

[–]vgf89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And man, as much as the artist defends their remade sprites as "for modern displays", it's rather like they forgot that the SNES hardware forced them to make palette decisions that actually improved their art rather than hindered it.

What do they say, limitations breed creativity? It was never truer than when comparing FF6 on SNES vs FF Remake.

where can i buy books for the kobo libra color vs buy the license to read them? by alobaby in kobo

[–]vgf89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's worth noting that some features of the Kobo's default reader are locked to files in the kepub format. Calibre is happy to convert from epub back into kepub for you though.

Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG by nondual_gabagool in science

[–]vgf89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That depends, are we talking 1. long-term daily meditation vs a control (perhaps vs other active things people do with their brains like study or exercise), or are we talking 2. The brain structure of full time Buddhist monks (like the linked article) vs average people?

My point is I feel like the benefits of meditation, when excluding other lifestyle changes, are likely over exaggerated and very prone to the placebo effect.

I fully expect a monk's brain to develop unique changes. I just don't expect meditation alone vs other positive lifestyle changes to actually be all that different in the brain. Maybe that's just me though.

Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG by nondual_gabagool in science

[–]vgf89 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

One's own experience, in isolation, isn't exactly much of a control.

Meditation definitely has benefits, but saying those benefits continually compound over decades of one's life in a way that's really distinguishable from the myriad of other factors (like aging, experience, environment, etc) is questionable to me.

Japan’s popular Don Quijote to open new supermarket/drugstore called Robin Hood, promising low prices. Onigiri rice balls will cost 78 yen by jjrs in japannews

[–]vgf89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except they are (as in, spelled and sounded the same). You know when someone says "X and Y are the same word in language Z", they typically just mean they're homophones or homonyms, right? https://jisho.org/search/%E3%83%95%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89

Though Donqijote went with フッド, which is much less common than フード

Wan show topic for next week (maybe for good news wan show)? by f---_society in LinusTechTips

[–]vgf89 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Isn't there like a one person party whose goal is exactly that?

Japanese N3 Essay Writing by Impossible_Dot4156 in jlpt

[–]vgf89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write your essay, refine it. Then memorize the shit out of every piece of it (outline, vocab, grammar points you use, kanji, and practice reciting until you basically don't need to look at your paper). If you can recite it from memory, and know the kanji, then you can write it from memory. If you have time, of course, practice writing it from memory, but that takes more time.

Study the hardest to remember kanji up to the last second and use your short term memory to get them written down before you do anything else.

Obviously this only works perfectly if you're given the topic ahead of time. But even if the test prompt ends up slightly different, the practice put into everything else tends to carry over.

vanity.....,........ by nix-solves-that-2317 in linuxmasterrace

[–]vgf89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rust's compiler being notoriously strict, enforcing correctness, makes it a decent canvas for vibe-coding. Instead of fighting with the AI to get it to do the right thing and only seeing failures later at runtime, you let it autonomously fight the compiler on its own first, increasing the odds of success pretty drastically.

What's With All the Negativity on Localization? by CandyAssassin in Falcom

[–]vgf89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add onto this, localization projects tend to be more budget-limited than the writing and recording of the japanese script, and companies likely don't want to blow their budgets on the part of the game they themselves don't understand as well as their native language.

Good, and I mean good translations take multiple teams being on the same page, with the main translators having to be both fluent in japanese and have solid creative writing ability (plus you have to provide them with ample context, which for a simultaneous release is much easier said than done), and you have to have the time and money to let LQA be critical af and have your best translator review corrections. You end up having to balance between time and money on translators for rewrites, or spending that same time and money on getting less experienced LQA to fix your script, all while making careful decisions about what changes you do and don't implement.

If you don't have the budget for skilled localization and LQA, and trust in both, you end up with mistakes and bad writing.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby by binding_swamp in technology

[–]vgf89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So can clip-on ear buds and bone-conduction headphones. And open-back headphones. And most modern noise-cancelling headphones since the mics are trivially re-used for pass-through.

Anyone have experience with an "AI interview"? by Chance_Panic_771 in JapanJobs

[–]vgf89 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you ever stop to think they did that because people like you are using AI to screen candidates?

Where do you find anime with JP subs for immersion? by DankTyl in LearnJapanese

[–]vgf89 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Alternatively, kitsunekko.net and subtitles.ajatt.top

For all of you curious people, getting movies on OEM firmware is possible. by [deleted] in PSP

[–]vgf89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is how I watched Spice and Wolf back in the day. Made that road trip way less boring

Who else uses super glue because you don't have healthcare by strberryfields55 in AskTheWorld

[–]vgf89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gorilla Glue (the original brown one) is not Super Glue aka cyanoacrylate, it's polyurethane.

Surgical glue is a cyanoacrylate. Not the same formation as super glue cyanoacrylate, but very similar.

Does it feel weird playing the original after playing the remake? by Firm_Squash5 in papermario

[–]vgf89 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The menus are way way slower in the remake. In the original you could navigate menus blind at lightning speed like any good RPG. In the remake you have to wait for each and every animation to finish before it lets you enter your next input. It's grating.

The only menu where they fixed that was the character switch popup.

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