I think it's easiest to put it in terms we can all understand. Would you want to take the spaces out of English? Kanji is largely there to break up the text into something more intelligible. When you see it, you read multiple syllables at once and your eyes won't get lost on the page. It's a lot easier to read "watashi no na mae ha" than "watashinonamaeha". Those spaces are inserted at the intersection of kanji. And, of course, you'd never say "Watshi no namae ha", simply because it would make you sound like a gaijin. Just say "desu" after your name. That, and if you get a chance, watch some "Hakujin Sensei", cause that man kills me.
If you ever tried to read Japanese in only kana, you'd shoot yourself. Every beginning learner wants to do away with kanji, but it's absolutely necessary. It's hard enough to tell where one word ends and another begins, but without it you'd be lost forever. Also, furigana is provided for any real hard kanji.
I came here (Tokyo) last year with a friend who had the same level of Japanese I did (3 years in College/Minor), though we both had separate agendas. His was to learn Japanese, mine was to find a job. While I got my job and studied a little bit in my spare time and am capable of getting by, he entered a school dedicated to teaching Japanese to foreigners. His Japanese now is what anyone would call pera pera (fluent). He can read Japanese better than a goodly number of Japanese and can write it better than most (Japanese don't actually know kanji that well unless they kept it up in college and use it daily), but he is still behind. The heart of any language is idiom, and it's something that simply cannot be 100% expressed in another language.
So while it's always good to learn another language, A) you're not going to learn Japanese anywhere but in Japan, and B) you're never going to be that good at Japanese (I'm at least at the point where I can tell the gaijin personalities on TV who may even know more about Japanese culture speak with strange accents and have strange word usage).
On a side note, I loved anime in America, but coming here, it really is rather obvious how childish it is. If you're caught watching it here, girls will be screaming "AKIBAKEI!" and shit at you. A gaijin even saying the word "anime" here makes me feel hiku (umm.. like embarassed, sorta).
Isn't it already a crime to hide the source of your revenue though? Isn't this how they bring down the mob? Basically, in America, if you can't account for where your money came from, you're in pretty hot water.
The IRS needs its money... neeeedddsssss.......
So let's be clear on another point. Your funding of your goverment is resulting in the killing of people you have never even met and likely had no real reason to kill. I don't see you drawing your support away from there though. Mod me and parent TROLL.
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You just haven't gotten there. There are gambits for that type of command, and they are insanely useful. I have one person set to cast weak cure spells on moderately injured people and another casting huge cure spells on people near death. Of course, I'm about 50 hours in and have found a ton of gambits in treasure chests, so I can't tell you off the top of my head where this particular group is found/purchased.
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Controlling your partners just involves hitting right or R1 or L1 or whatever. I do it all the time to switch to my magic user or to have someone use a special skill or summon. As for the camera angle, in tight dungeons, it can get tricky, but they largely avoided tight dungeons in the game. I've only been in one dungeon so far that gave me even the slightest camera trouble. As long as you pull the camera back a bit to allow all your characters to be seen, you're good. Of course, there are some enemies that are so massive that you can't see all of them, but that sort of contributes to the feeling of scale. I mean, when I fight a 30 foot tall statue that I thought was just a decoration on the wall, it'd look pretty silly to see the whole thing, as my characters would be so tiny in comparison.
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...I have to say, the gambit system is just a little bit of genius. The thing is that, to maintain an active, well-paced battle system, you have to have some automation. That said, the people who see the gambit system as some huge, new, radical thing are complete idiots. This is the exact same way you've always played an FF title. You make your choices in advance, then your characters follow through on those actions. Honestly, did you need the freedom to tell your mage to cast ice on an ice elemental? No. Set that shit up in advance and control the less tedious actions of the game. I usually don't even use gambits on whoever is my lead character at the time and let the other 2 rock whatever we're fighting however I told them to. And if you really wanted to go the tedious route and tell your character "use a regular attack" or "steal" or "cast fire" or "heal me", the option is still there, it just slows down the gameplay back to those FF7 and before speeds. Every round would require you to input your commands. They didn't take anything away from you. This article is just shouting for the sake of shouting. Just like this comment.
So we're going to say that the asian invention of black powder and advanced geometrical concepts well before their European counterparts is not at all related to genetics? There's never such a thing as "a few geniuses" in the pack. Society creates these people, not chance.
So this will be my last ever response to a troll, as it has become obvious that there's really no fighting the stupidity the internet allows.
I would simply like to point out that, when insulting someone, it is best to do so in a manner that will actually affect them. Insulting my school, which I already said I was not proud of, is ineffective. Insulting my syntax/grammar/spelling in an online forum (notably a source of colloquial to sub-colloquial language) is also ineffective. At best, from what I've given you, you could insult my insult. Go to town.
Are you proud of having been rejected from UF, too?
That was weak. Seriously, were you even trying? I may have been taking a pot shot, but taking that big of a stretch, you had the gun turned 180 degrees.
For future reference, recursive insults are best left to the professionals. Expanding your horizons can be good, but in this case, you gotta stick with what you know, even if it is fart jokes and calling people gay.
i don't recall exactly, but i think they get 2 months paid absence and mandatory counseling (despite the stigmas of counseling). it's like if the police shoot someone in america, they're required to take a break.
you seem to not really know what stigma means. it's like you read it in a dictionary and just went off the definition, hoping you got it right. you're saying that there is a stigma associated with suicide due to the fact that the person is admitting they've "fucked up". that means that the suicide itself isn't actually negative, the "fucking up" is negative. therefore, the stigma would be on the "fucking up". if a stigma was attached to suicide, the act itself would have the negativity, not the cause of the act.
i finally find a job in japan where i don't teach english, and here i am having to do it anyways.
the part where it says that suicide is a "crime" in 6 states. you can smoke weed in vancouver in the streets, but it's still a crime.
the irony is that i would love you to move to japan to kill yourself legally and quit bugging me, but your closer proximity would likely be physically painful.
Given the stigma attached to illegal acts in Japan, I'd say they wouldn't commit suicide. It's a pretty odd society. I mean, the people who actually commit crimes are largely yakuza, and why the hell would they kill themselves?
In the U.S. suicide has never been treated as a crime nor punished by property forfeiture or ignominious burial. (Some states listed it on the books as a felony but imposed no penalty.) Curiously, as of 1963, six states still considered attempted suicide a crime--North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Of course they didn't take matters as seriously as the Roman emperor Hadrian, who in 117 AD declared attempted suicide by soldiers a form of desertion and made it--no joke this time--a capital offense.
I don't mean to be rude, but really, this was just stupid.
Having lived here awhile now, the idea of suicide in Japan is completely different from what it was in America. There are a couple things you have to keep in mind:
A) Mental illness is heavily stigmatized B) Suicide is legal and only vaguely stigmatized
Oh, and if you kill yourself by jumping in front of a train (I don't know how many times I've sat on a train where we couldn't move until they cleaned it off), your family has to pay Japan Railways for the cost of repairs/cleaning. So, if you're crazy and hate your family and work 70 hours a week, suicide doesn't seem that bad, really. Nobody seems to care that much about it either. People always laugh and joke when the train comes to an abrupt stop.
Internet suicide is old news here. Just like your silly "cellular phones" and "computers". Telepathic communication is the new thing.
Am I the only one here who finds this article terribly appropo given Penny-Arcade's recent rants about guerilla marketing?
blah balh blah. tin foil hat. blah blha blah.
sorry, this is bs.
it's not a lack of genius. let's say someone makes a genius game. the automatic result is that someone else copies it as best they can. everyone buys the copy, cause it's so much like the original. now multiply.
if it makes money, people will do it. making cheap knockoffs makes money, so people will do it. making a truly innovative game is just a huge risk that only people who don't care about money would consider, and last i checked, even the super-rich weren't lighting cigars with 100s, no matter how much we want to believe they are.
This is the same problem that will soon occur with podcasts. It's not at all the industry's fault. It's the fault of the public.
To put it in terms of the podcast community, the reason the big name casts are the most popular is that you see a name you recognize and check it out, and continue to check it out, despite that it might not be the best there is. Now, you check 20 other things as well that are all independent, and you think "oh, i'm supporting indy more because give them more attention."
The problem is that the indy things you check aren't the same 20 indy things everyone else checks, but the corporate america things on your list are the same as everyone else's, so when you multiply your individual model across everyone, you get a spike in the big corporations and little tiny spikes for indy.
I'm not throwing stones. I'm human. I have a CNN link under my news with slashdot and drudge and a couple tiny sites nobody checks, but that 1 CNN link is crushing everyone else.
DOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE A SOLUTION TO THIS?! It's a human condition concerning pattern recognition, which is the nature of our consciousness. What can you really do about that?
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I think it's easiest to put it in terms we can all understand. Would you want to take the spaces out of English? Kanji is largely there to break up the text into something more intelligible. When you see it, you read multiple syllables at once and your eyes won't get lost on the page. It's a lot easier to read "watashi no na mae ha" than "watashinonamaeha". Those spaces are inserted at the intersection of kanji. And, of course, you'd never say "Watshi no namae ha", simply because it would make you sound like a gaijin. Just say "desu" after your name. That, and if you get a chance, watch some "Hakujin Sensei", cause that man kills me.
If you ever tried to read Japanese in only kana, you'd shoot yourself. Every beginning learner wants to do away with kanji, but it's absolutely necessary. It's hard enough to tell where one word ends and another begins, but without it you'd be lost forever. Also, furigana is provided for any real hard kanji.
So while it's always good to learn another language, A) you're not going to learn Japanese anywhere but in Japan, and B) you're never going to be that good at Japanese (I'm at least at the point where I can tell the gaijin personalities on TV who may even know more about Japanese culture speak with strange accents and have strange word usage).
On a side note, I loved anime in America, but coming here, it really is rather obvious how childish it is. If you're caught watching it here, girls will be screaming "AKIBAKEI!" and shit at you. A gaijin even saying the word "anime" here makes me feel hiku (umm.. like embarassed, sorta).Isn't it already a crime to hide the source of your revenue though? Isn't this how they bring down the mob? Basically, in America, if you can't account for where your money came from, you're in pretty hot water. The IRS needs its money... neeeedddsssss.......
So let's be clear on another point. Your funding of your goverment is resulting in the killing of people you have never even met and likely had no real reason to kill. I don't see you drawing your support away from there though. Mod me and parent TROLL.
You just haven't gotten there. There are gambits for that type of command, and they are insanely useful. I have one person set to cast weak cure spells on moderately injured people and another casting huge cure spells on people near death. Of course, I'm about 50 hours in and have found a ton of gambits in treasure chests, so I can't tell you off the top of my head where this particular group is found/purchased.
Controlling your partners just involves hitting right or R1 or L1 or whatever. I do it all the time to switch to my magic user or to have someone use a special skill or summon. As for the camera angle, in tight dungeons, it can get tricky, but they largely avoided tight dungeons in the game. I've only been in one dungeon so far that gave me even the slightest camera trouble. As long as you pull the camera back a bit to allow all your characters to be seen, you're good. Of course, there are some enemies that are so massive that you can't see all of them, but that sort of contributes to the feeling of scale. I mean, when I fight a 30 foot tall statue that I thought was just a decoration on the wall, it'd look pretty silly to see the whole thing, as my characters would be so tiny in comparison.
...I have to say, the gambit system is just a little bit of genius. The thing is that, to maintain an active, well-paced battle system, you have to have some automation. That said, the people who see the gambit system as some huge, new, radical thing are complete idiots. This is the exact same way you've always played an FF title. You make your choices in advance, then your characters follow through on those actions. Honestly, did you need the freedom to tell your mage to cast ice on an ice elemental? No. Set that shit up in advance and control the less tedious actions of the game. I usually don't even use gambits on whoever is my lead character at the time and let the other 2 rock whatever we're fighting however I told them to. And if you really wanted to go the tedious route and tell your character "use a regular attack" or "steal" or "cast fire" or "heal me", the option is still there, it just slows down the gameplay back to those FF7 and before speeds. Every round would require you to input your commands. They didn't take anything away from you. This article is just shouting for the sake of shouting. Just like this comment.
So we're going to say that the asian invention of black powder and advanced geometrical concepts well before their European counterparts is not at all related to genetics? There's never such a thing as "a few geniuses" in the pack. Society creates these people, not chance.
But when can they get it to grow my S2 organ?
Is this a new Slashdot cliche in the works? Will it be added to soviet russia, elderly koreans and the like?
I would simply like to point out that, when insulting someone, it is best to do so in a manner that will actually affect them. Insulting my school, which I already said I was not proud of, is ineffective. Insulting my syntax/grammar/spelling in an online forum (notably a source of colloquial to sub-colloquial language) is also ineffective. At best, from what I've given you, you could insult my insult. Go to town.
That was weak. Seriously, were you even trying? I may have been taking a pot shot, but taking that big of a stretch, you had the gun turned 180 degrees.
For future reference, recursive insults are best left to the professionals. Expanding your horizons can be good, but in this case, you gotta stick with what you know, even if it is fart jokes and calling people gay.
(No, I'm not proud of having graduated from FSU, but I am proud of having not graduated from UF)
another world
another time
in the age of wonder
another world
another time
this land was green and good
until the crystal cracked
once more
they will replenish themselves
cheat death again
the power of their source
the crystal
can't you can't you trip like i do
can't you can't you trip like i do
this is my authoritative view.
i don't recall exactly, but i think they get 2 months paid absence and mandatory counseling (despite the stigmas of counseling). it's like if the police shoot someone in america, they're required to take a break.
you seem to not really know what stigma means. it's like you read it in a dictionary and just went off the definition, hoping you got it right. you're saying that there is a stigma associated with suicide due to the fact that the person is admitting they've "fucked up". that means that the suicide itself isn't actually negative, the "fucking up" is negative. therefore, the stigma would be on the "fucking up". if a stigma was attached to suicide, the act itself would have the negativity, not the cause of the act.
i finally find a job in japan where i don't teach english, and here i am having to do it anyways.
the part where it says that suicide is a "crime" in 6 states. you can smoke weed in vancouver in the streets, but it's still a crime. the irony is that i would love you to move to japan to kill yourself legally and quit bugging me, but your closer proximity would likely be physically painful.
Given the stigma attached to illegal acts in Japan, I'd say they wouldn't commit suicide. It's a pretty odd society. I mean, the people who actually commit crimes are largely yakuza, and why the hell would they kill themselves?
From TFA you quoted:
In the U.S. suicide has never been treated as a crime nor punished by property forfeiture or ignominious burial. (Some states listed it on the books as a felony but imposed no penalty.) Curiously, as of 1963, six states still considered attempted suicide a crime--North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Of course they didn't take matters as seriously as the Roman emperor Hadrian, who in 117 AD declared attempted suicide by soldiers a form of desertion and made it--no joke this time--a capital offense.
I don't mean to be rude, but really, this was just stupid.
Having lived here awhile now, the idea of suicide in Japan is completely different from what it was in America. There are a couple things you have to keep in mind:
A) Mental illness is heavily stigmatized
B) Suicide is legal and only vaguely stigmatized
Oh, and if you kill yourself by jumping in front of a train (I don't know how many times I've sat on a train where we couldn't move until they cleaned it off), your family has to pay Japan Railways for the cost of repairs/cleaning. So, if you're crazy and hate your family and work 70 hours a week, suicide doesn't seem that bad, really. Nobody seems to care that much about it either. People always laugh and joke when the train comes to an abrupt stop.
Internet suicide is old news here. Just like your silly "cellular phones" and "computers". Telepathic communication is the new thing.
Am I the only one here who finds this article terribly appropo given Penny-Arcade's recent rants about guerilla marketing? blah balh blah. tin foil hat. blah blha blah.
sorry, this is bs.
it's not a lack of genius. let's say someone makes a genius game. the automatic result is that someone else copies it as best they can. everyone buys the copy, cause it's so much like the original. now multiply.
if it makes money, people will do it. making cheap knockoffs makes money, so people will do it. making a truly innovative game is just a huge risk that only people who don't care about money would consider, and last i checked, even the super-rich weren't lighting cigars with 100s, no matter how much we want to believe they are.
This is the same problem that will soon occur with podcasts. It's not at all the industry's fault. It's the fault of the public. To put it in terms of the podcast community, the reason the big name casts are the most popular is that you see a name you recognize and check it out, and continue to check it out, despite that it might not be the best there is. Now, you check 20 other things as well that are all independent, and you think "oh, i'm supporting indy more because give them more attention." The problem is that the indy things you check aren't the same 20 indy things everyone else checks, but the corporate america things on your list are the same as everyone else's, so when you multiply your individual model across everyone, you get a spike in the big corporations and little tiny spikes for indy. I'm not throwing stones. I'm human. I have a CNN link under my news with slashdot and drudge and a couple tiny sites nobody checks, but that 1 CNN link is crushing everyone else. DOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE A SOLUTION TO THIS?! It's a human condition concerning pattern recognition, which is the nature of our consciousness. What can you really do about that?