Just saw a YouTube short demonstrating a yoga pose except half of the pose was cut off by the vertical video. Really great stuff going on around here.

I'm sorry hwwwwwaht

なんでも映せる水晶玉

Suppose I should do these. Haven't touched a single card since last year.

一週間挑んでいたが、やっと錦上京EXクリアできた。 ムズカシィィィィィィ

ちなみに、１０月末から二週間、日本にいます。 In other news, I'll be in Japan for a couple weeks from late October. Gotta find stuff to do now. I'll be in 東京 -> 名古屋 -> 京都.

Haven't been out and about much lately. Here's a spotted pardalote from yesterday's hike. This bird is very smol.

I need to do less reading and more listening so I should get back into anime again. I think I've averaged about 1.3 anime per year over the last 5 years. Dangerously close to fake weeb territory now. I wonder what's considered good these days. Must resist the urge to re-watch something from 2007.

Finished WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode 1. It took me 66 hours to read a 9 hour VN. How disheartening. Can safely say this is the most challenging thing I've read to date. I was planning to have read all 3 by now but I'll leave the rest for after the JLPT.

This fucking VN man. I've read more トイレs in one story than in my entire Japanese reading career. It's really bothering me.

生き返ったのにすぐ死ぬやつ

Heheheh. Also, lol. 2014 btw

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Alright I bluescreened my linux. What do I win

Got some snazzy weightlifting shoes since I'm taking this thing seriously now.

Signed up for the JLPT N1 this morning. I feel like I should be able to pull it off this time if I ramp up my listening practice these next 3 months. I failed by 2 points last time so I'm pretty close.

Squatting 2 plates today let's gooo

Writer: also can you make him look like a bad guy Artist: I know just the thing

Phew, that's gotta be past the halfway point. Video game: *plays intro song*

Mediascape decided to put the other Touhou games on sale on Steam. If you're interested in getting them, they're 20-30% until the 24th of August 2025. store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...

o(〃＾▽＾〃)o

It has been 5,158 days (14.13 years 😱) since I started my Japanese vocabulary deck in Anki. Today, I mined my 20,000th word.

Here I am looking up くるわ損 thinking it's some kind of cops-love-croissants joke akin to cops+donuts in other parts of the world. Had a bit of trouble parsing this one.

I've had World End Economica in my steam library forever (came in a bundle) and never bothered to read it, both because I figured the language would be too hard and because I never had an interest in the subject until recently. But now I love stonks! This was made for me! Gonna read it.

Bananza looks great, but it doesn't strike me as a very...educational game, language-wise. I think I have to earn this one. So, time for a new VN.

Recently completed The Glitch Fairy and found it worthwhile to 100% it. Nice game. Would recommend.

JLPT application dates announced. I'll set a reminder so I don't miss it (they get snapped up within a day over here). I'm going to attempt the N1 again this year but I have no intention of studying for it. Just gonna vibe my way into getting that certificate.

I swear Northern Hemisphereans don't even know we exist. "We plan to launch our thing in spring!!" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. I don't know where you are! I don't even have my globe here!

After months of wavering I finally decided on (most of) a new computer. Forked over the cash for an X870E for future proofing since my last desktop lasted 11 years LUL. So much for being "into computers" right? Reusing psu/case so some cleaning is in order.

GET. FUCKING. STOMPED. NERDS #Tetris99

I was under the impression that Amazon was a good shop. After many years, they finally sent me a defective product. They: - Deleted my 1 star review of the retailer which had pictures of the unusable product - Are asking me to send the defunct product back to get a refund, photo evidence be damned

Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru i.e. I'm gonna Miku the shit out of you

little Frieren 💜✨ #art

Hey follow my word bot, if you want. @kotobad.bsky.social

選挙カー同士を引っ付けてラップバトルをする候補者たち

天使？のアニメまとめ #アニメ作ってみた

Okay so here's my dumb idea. I'm going to make a Bluesky bot account that will routinely post a bad word from JMdict (the free J-E dictionary). Trust me, it'll be fun and educational. They're Japanese words. They're bad. They're 言葉ッド. Huehuehue. It took me a whole week to think of that.

I have fallen into the trap of enjoying Tetris again and spent the last week playing Tetris 99. Everybody thinks they're good at Tetris until they meet people who are good at Tetris. This game is hard. I'm determined to win at least once. I've made it into top 5 once so far, so it may be possible!

Here's another Kookaburra #photography #birds

チルノ #東方Project

Ehhhehehhehe I love positive feedback. It makes this kind of work feel rewarding, even though it doesn't really have massive reach (Anki add-ons are like a niche within a niche).

So it turns out you can just go into your Nintendo account and change your region to Japan, which then lets you download the Japanese versions of the console applications. Both EN/JP versions work at the same time. Had to cancel the subscription auto-renewal before it let me change region.

Just 100%ing Super Mario World for the 387th time because what else can you do on a Switch 2. The form factor is so convenient that it's tempting to play more SNES games. Sadly I can only get the English versions ;_;

this image changed my entire view of sql because now when im making queries and i get bored i think this is the patchouli language and i can suddenly do it amazing art by @profitwalrus on twitter

Finally arrived. Now the hard part is not reading it in one day.

Today's walk #photography

I'm very disappointed with the Switch 2 joycons. They are way too big, especially that protruding inner edge. Instead of it resting in my palm I have to grip it with my bottom two fingers so it doesn't fall out. Can easily lead to a repetitive strain issue with extended play.

frog surveys aka tad polls