ObamaSama

Japan is still Wakanda for white people but I think the sustained ridicule of weebs over the past decade or two has contributed to a sharp decline in Ken-Sama types. That and the huge boost in tourism in the past few years have made it much less of a mysterious, “exotic” place, a lot more people have firsthand experience that it’s a normal country with normal people like any other.

After I moved out from a place I was renting with my ex last year I crunched some numbers and realized that it’s cheaper to travel around the world and stay in a mix of hostels/long term stay airbnbs/share houses than it would be to rent a place by myself in a MCOL area while paying for a car. It’s absolutely fucking criminal how much price gouging there is in the US, I’m currently paying ~700 USD/mo for a cozy apartment in downtown Kyoto. It’s clean, quiet, safe, and I have literally everything I could ever need within a 20 minute walk. I don’t think anything comparable even exists in the US but the closest is likely downtown NYC/Boston for $3000+ a month while that same price might get you a place in bumfuck nowhere, North Dakota where a car is absolutely required.

So all of that is to say, OP, get the fuck out of the US if you can.

I got banned from twitter simply for having the Hezbollah flag as my pfp. I never posted on the account and set the pic over ten years ago, tried logging in ~3 years ago and saw I was perma banned for “TOS violations” lmao. Meanwhile I can’t get the other account I made as a dumbass high schooler with my real name and pictures taken down despite dozens of requests

Lost Highway goes hard, just watched it last night to kick off a lynch marathon. Had a really lovely discussion with my partner about how the possessive behaviors inculcated by patriarchal society almost inevitably lead to male violence towards women and other men. Probably one of Lynch’s most explicitly feminist films, Alice’s final line “you’ll never have me” goes hard as fuck

Still pissed that the first post I tried to make on there with lukewarm old genzedong memes got blocked immediately. The ebil CCP censorship is real, they won’t even let me shitpost about how awful the US is

Waking up and panicking for a solid minute wondering where my gf is before remembering she left me last night 🤠

Know your limits fren but also gravity ain’t shit. Dangling your feet off a thousand foot drop is the same as a ten foot drop in terms of likelihood of falling. Wear good shoes and take great pics

I think you’re doing the right thing, my partner is doing the same for me and has been telling me to focus on just Mandarin for now instead of flip flopping between it and Japanese like I have been for the past year (despite currently living together in japan). I find switching my brain to anything but English results in them all swirling around together so I currently have a weird mix of Korean, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin to cycle through when I try to think of something in another language. Definitely not the most efficient way of doing things so I need to focus on one at a time, sounds like your partner learns the same way. Obviously it’s more fun to learn and practice with your partner but think of it this way: once she masters German your Mandarin will be good enough that you can help teach her and practice conversation together while knowing enough to correct common mistakes!

Gotta love it when your partner always tells you to open up more and then gets the ick when you actually do

Is anyone aware of a mandarin version of the book? I wasn’t able to find anything on Google and it doesn’t seem like there’s an “official” translation out there

Man I’ve been in Japan for months and have yet to see a single MGS related thing, very sad. Meanwhile evangelion posters and figures are everywhere and I hear cruel angel’s thesis at least once a week. I thought MGS was pretty big but maybe just in the west? I even went to a paremovedo parlor hoping to find the fabled MGS3 paremovedo machine, no luck

Three of my buddies there are saying it’s a complete nothing burger as far as affecting everyday life, “martial law” here does not mean the military shutting anything down. Just some internal power struggles that somehow scapegoat the DPRK?