I'm so used to using my PC all the time to the point where it became painful to read anything in a paper format. But at the same time reading English articles on my PC, for some mysterious reason, hurts my eyes. I wanted to start reading English articles, but it seems not as easy as I expected...
10 times more active would be ideal to my taste. But I think I should be thankful for having as many as a few people considering the situation of the board.
I thought there was a good documentary series about the Vietnam War on Netflix, but I can't remember the title of it. Maybe it's not available anymore.
Oh, no! The Big Bang Theory will be removed soon! I was watching it a while ago and I'm in season three.
I feel like watching something involving strategies and tactics. There is a genre called Death Game. In a death game, you participate in a game risking your own life. Kaiji, Liar Game, Battle Royale, Jinro Game are examples.
I enjoy movies in other genres also, so the genre of a movie doesn't really matter as long as the movie is well made and interesting.
I wonder what happened to Nico Live. I like watching live streams, but those who live streaming don't look very lively. Does it have some bad effect on those who do live streaming on there? Or possibly live streaming itself might not be very good for mental health as it has no particular purpose.
I wonder what my Hongkonger friends are doing in Hong Kong. Maybe some of them have already fled to other countries. Ukraine is under invasion, and Taiwan is said to be next.
There's a chance that democracy might die out in the near future. We have been taking it for granted, but it might be more fragile than we believed it to be.
On YouTube, you can publicize your videos when time comes. I don't like this feature. Videos appear in the subscriptions view but you can't watch them until time comes. It takes up my working memory.
Clean installed Windows 11. The new taskbar and start menu is the part where I need to struggle a bit more, but other than that I have no big complaints.
I'm glad I could come back here by successfully installing Windows 11. I'm going to declutter files from the old environment.
I came to know that the anime Dragon Quest stopped airing due to a cyber attack. I recently lost lots of data due to a hard disk crush. How devastating the damage would be for the animation company...
I need to further strengthen my measures to protect my remaining data.
Decluttered my PC. Having accomplished what I had to do, upgrading to Windows 11 and decluttering my PC, I lost my goal and motivation. I need to come up with things to do.
Bought a new iPad. I expected it would change my life in a mysterious way, but it didn't happen. Compared to my old iPad, the new one has a larger screen and better front camera. They will be useful for browsing the web and talking to people.
The new iPad is for my family, not for myself, to be more specific. I was thinking of buying one for myself, but I figured if I'd buy one, I'd buy a Mac PC instead. I'd be able to do many more things with a Mac PC.
I created a system for creating and managing websites. It's a so-called content management system, and it generates static HTML files instead of running on a server.
I wonder how many of us will get a third vaccination. I'm personally inclined to getting it but not as motivated as before. The side effects for my second shot were relatively severe and it was like influenza. If side effects alone are that severe, I assume real ones are more severe.
The Japanese Yen is losing its strength rapidly and drastically. It's natural to expect that imported goods will rise in price. I'm considering buying an iPad for myself. The one we bought the other day was for my family. I could use it, but having my own one would be handy.
It's not an absolute necessity for me at the moment, and I'm not sure if the iPad is the one to go for.
Ordered a monitor arm. Didn't know which one to buy, so I ordered a popular one. It was a relatively high expense, but I hope it works for more than its cost.
My life has been in disarray for the past three weeks or so. The situation in Ukraine, unstable economic situations and upgrading to Windows 11 have been making me uneasy. (Lots of unpredictability in short.) I need to restore my daily life.
A monitor arm costs 10,000 yen when a monitor with a stand costs only about 30,000 yen. The reason I want to buy a monitor arm is the monitor stand of my current monitor has legs and they take too much space on my desktop. If the monitor had a flat base instead of three-dimensional legs, I wouldn't need a monitor arm.
Also, I'm not very satisfied with my current monitor. (It hurts my eyes.) If I buy a new monitor, I'll get a better stand and it's possible that I won't need a monitor arm. (But at the same time, I'm not sure if I should go for a new monitor.)
I don't mind very much about wasted money, but I do mind wasting resources (metal in this case). Also, failing might have a negative effect on one's mind.
The monitor stand shakes as I type on the keyboard. My desk is on tatami matless, so the desk itself tends to shake easily, and the monitor stand has only one arm (obviously) and it amplifies the shake coming from the desk. Um... Nothing is perfect...
I ended up changing my desk. Now it has become very stable.
I wanted to buy protective plates to put between the clump of the monitor arm and the desk, but customer reviews say they make monitors wobble. Maybe I don't need it.
One of the side effects of changing the desk is that my environment became simpler. It gave me a chance to reorganize stuff around my desk.
I'm trying to change the desk position in my room hoping it will magically solve problems in my life. My desk is facing the wall and I feel stuck. I don't know if it's because of the desk position. Maybe it's just because I'm a lazy person.
In Feng Shui, they say it's good to place your desk in a command position (a position where you have a wall behind you and you can see all the entrances). It seems reasonable and I want to try it out, but the problem is my room is tiny and I not only study in the room but also sleep in it.
Thinking about room layouts is like trying to solve a puzzle. It's fun.
I mistakenly posted my previous comment in a wrong thread.
It wasn't a big deal, but I always feel that potentially I could make a terrible mistake in posting on 5ch where you can't delete your posts. I could, by mistake, copy and paste my personal or private information.
It seems like a good precaution. I've seen people mistakenly posting screenshots with their personal information in it. I get very cautious when I post screenshots.
I have some Filipino friends and they work hard. (They live in the Philippines.) They are English tutors and I used to take their lessons when I was taking online English lessons a few years ago. I still can see their shifts and seeing them working hard as always makes me motivated.
I've been thinking of leaving 5ch and moving to another place as I see 5ch as a sinking ship and I want to find a place hopefully in the English world, but I haven't found any place yet. Twitter seems too closed. (You basically speak to your followers and you need to care about not messing up their timelines.) Reddit is topic based. I want to write (and read) about random topics. I don't like complete chaos, but it seems like I like some degree of randomness. To some extent, I want to see people talk about things they are interested in even if I'm not interested in them.
I wonder why there are no good tiny speakers for PCs. Tablet devices such as the iPad have very high quality speakers and they are tiny. I want the same speaker used in the iPad, but speakers available out there are huge and the sound quality is not good. I just wonder why.
Something made me want to buy a set of speakers and I almost got swamped into the world of audio. I tried Sony's speakers as a reference, and I found out my cheap earphones sounded a lot better (at least clearer) than much more expensive Sony's speakers. It appears that I don't like bass sound and instead I like high end clear sound as bass sound makes it harder to listen to human speeches. I didn't get swamped, but I'll want to buy new earphones when my ones get broken and it could be another swamp.
People freely create new threads every time they want to say anything. Those threads get some comments, and they move to next threads. No threads ever grow.
I wonder where the differences in the styles of forums between Japan and Western world come from. On 5ch, we try to grow existing threads and try to not create new ones if similar ones already exist. On some boards on 5ch we have threads for chatting like this one, but they don't on Reddit.
I prefer Reddit to Twitter in terms of the maximum length of a comment, but Twitter might suit my needs more. It feels like I don't have a place to fit in...
The website will be my personal one, no plans to write about political stuff, but I might mention Ukraine and/or Russia as they became increasingly relevant to us this time around.
I want to gamify my life. To be more specific, I want to design a game to make myself move.
I was playing Slay the Spire, and it seems randomness is key to make yourself hooked. We are weak against random rewards, and I want to exploit this defect of myself.
Talked to my friend on my new iPad. The color was vivid on the new iPad and she looked real and it felt like she was next to me in the same room. On my laptop PC everything looks a bit slate, although I don't notice it unless compared. Now I want an iPad for myself. (The one I used was for my family.)
Talking to her had good effects on my mental health. I had been shut myself in my room and hadn't talked to anybody other than my dad for quite a long time and I was having a difficult time coping with anxiety.
I heard some people connect to each other on instant messaging apps all the time. It's called online dousei. They start calling each other once they get home and they don't hang up. I'm not really into the idea, but it does sound interesting.
I don't know if the entire online world is dying or not, but, yeah, I do sense that the populations of websites I visit have been decreasing. Maybe people have been sucked into social media as you pointed out.
I want to buy an iPad for myself, but don't know which model to go for. I want to read books on a retina display. Then I came to think that maybe a Macbook Air will do the job since it also has a retina display. Rumors say they will release a new version of Macbook Air in the second quarter of the year and it'll have a slightly larger display, which is nice.
I need to clarify what I want to do with the iPad. I want to try out the Apple Pencil and note taking with it, but I don't know if I will like it since it's completely new to me.
Ordered an iPad. Credit card payment failed for some reason in 3D secure, so I had to pay by bank transfer from a different shop. Purchased it from a seemingly new and small shop and I'm a bit worried.
Matz started podcasting, which made me do my own, in English in my case. How liberating it would feel if I could express myself freely in English, I wonder.
I have created a system similar to ones used by online English schools. Tutors can open their slots and students can book them and talk to the tutors. In my system, I am the only tutor and people can talk to me directly from my website.
I have been having a hard time making myself understood about this system.
I wrote a message to my friend, and immediately after sending it it felt like I shouldn't have written the message. This happens all the time. Maybe I shouldn't write long messages at all. I have things to do, and she has things to do. Maybe I shouldn't bother her with my unnecessary messages, and that's what this feeling means.
Maybe it's key to keep messages simple. You can't move forward by writing or reading messages. Excessively long messages just make the other person tired.
My old friend gives me a new year's card every year. She gave me one last year and this year, but the situation didn't allow me to give her back my ones.
I don't know what to do. If I give her my one, she will surely give me her one next year. I feel sorry for letting her down by stopping writing back to her.
My dad started using the iPad we bought in his room, which was originally intended to be used in the living room. I'm thinking of buying another iPad for the living room.
We had a devastating day three days ago... A former prime minister was shot and killed. I saw several video footages and was shocked that security officers just froze and failed to make a quick move at the moment of the crime. It looks they are inexperienced and not well trained in guarding VIPs.
They must have received training, but maybe they didn't expect attacks involving guns would actually happen. The gun was homemade. Japan was a mostly gun-free country, but it might not be true in the future.
One thing that also made me sad was the fact that not a small number of people on 5ch support the culprit. It was an attack on the underpinnings of democracy and shouldn't be justified regardless of your political views.
Made a post on a language exchange app. I have been trying to make posts on the app in the hopes of making some friends, but it's not really fun. Maybe I should create my own website and post there. I should have greater inner peace.
Watched the movie, After the Rain. A high school girl falls in love with a middle-aged guy. From the perspective of male audience, it can be seen as a story of a middle-aged man who got liked by a high school girl. I've seen a similar movie in the past. Such movies are good. Pure, lively, and sad. Love that never fulfills, because of the difference in age.
Getting attracted to the female protagonist of the movie, Nana Komatsu, I also watched the movie, Ito, in which she played with her future husband, Masaki Suda. It felt like they would make a good couple. They each met the right person.
Your Japanese Vocabulary Size is: 35794 ★★★ Top 0.15% Your Japanese is as good as Natsume Soseki! You can even create new words that will expand the Japanese dictionary.
Former Prime Minister Abe was killed, and it wasn't even politically motivated nor done by a group of people. How should the regret of Mr. Abe be comforted, and how severely should we punish the culprit? If the claim was legitimate, then at least somebody gained something. But it was just to seek attention, even though the situation the culprit was put in is sympathizable.
Similar situations emerge when terrorists attack civilians instead of their true target. It just creates other victims and sorrow.
I lost a place I used to call my online home. There is a possibility that my real friend might know the place, and if that's the case he might eventually find out I'm among the people there.
My sleep was interrupted by the disease I have, and I was unable to sleep after that. Maybe I should give up trying to get to sleep in such a situation and instead decide to get up and do something else.
Also, I had an appointment to talk to my friend yesterday, which was part of the factor that made it harder for me to sleep. I had only a few hours to sleep.
Maybe having no promise at all would be better if possible. People can call me at their convenience and I have no issue with that.
It's becoming clear that I am not primarily interested in discussing the English language. I am learning it primarily as a tool and not for its own sake. If I were to write in Japanese on this English language discussion board, it would be off-topic as I wouldn't be discussing the English language. However, if I write in English here, my post meets the criteria for this board as the language used is relevant to the topic of discussion.
There is a girl who speaks fluent English in this documentary video. She looks, or sounds, more like one of us rather than one of them maybe because she speaks fluent English. I wonder if she sees the world differently from her peers.
Write an acrostic poem about the status of ChatGPT.
C: ChatGPT is currently down H: Huge demand has caused the site to crash A: All users will have to wait T: Time is needed for the servers to catch up G: Go grab a coffee and check back soon P: Patience is key in this situation T: Trust that the team is working hard to fix it up
>>163 The girl's name is Ma Gun Hui. It's unknown how to spell her name in Chinese. She is the finest student of the high school and is allowed to go to Pyongyang University to continue her language study. I wanted to see her speaking once again, and I decided to watch the documentary film again. She looks attractive to my eyes maybe because of her intelligence.
I wanted to read blog posts by individuals with similar personalities to mine, but found that they do not have blogs. It's understandable. I do make shitposts, but it's different from blogging.
It means you can write about anything without caring about the conversations that are going on in the thread. It also means that you shouldn't get hurt by getting ignored by people when you write something here in the thread. You can freely talk to people, and you can freely talk to yourself. You have freedom here.
Which is more commonly used in the US, monolog or monologue?
Both "monolog" and "monologue" are used in the United States, however "monologue" is the more commonly used term. A monologue refers to a speech or composition delivered by a single person, usually for the purpose of entertainment, such as in a play or stand-up comedy performance. The word "monolog" is sometimes used, but it is considered a misspelling of the word "monologue."
In two weeks he did something that took me 8 months to do, which demonstrates that a child has more neural plasticity than an adult. It's clear from this experiment that children have a much more plastic brain than adults. That's why the best time to learn a language is when you're a young child.
>>217 For some reason, my device couldn't send or receive SMS messages using Povo. It turned out that it was the fault on the device, not on the service or the card.
I contacted the customer service and they kindly gave me advice. I was instructed to use another device. I used the SIM card on my main phone and this time it worked fine.
I like Povo, but I haven't used it. I decided to do kind of 断捨離.
I have learned that DMM Eikaiwa is offering a discount, and I am considering taking lessons there. However, during my trial, I experienced difficulty booking and taking classes as they did not have enough tutors available.