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That is the best place to start. Also just helps you tolerate the frustration a little bit if it's one of your favorite shows.

No amount of just passively watching anime will teach you a language, especially when you're just reading subtitles in your own language. Your brain is not paying attention to the target language, you're just paying attention to your native language.

To actually start learning, you need to do real study. Textbooks, lessons, spaced repetition, graded readers, etc.

Once you've learned a good amount of vocab and at least a little bit of grammar, you'll have to take the plunge into immersing yourself in native content.

But here's the catch: you will not be comfortable the first time you try to watch something without subtitles. If you keep putting this step off until you think you're ready, you'll never actually be ready.

The first time you start immersing, you're barely going to pick out a few vocab words, but you're not going to parse a full sentence, let alone follow along with the story. And it's going to feel overwhelming and frustrating.

But that's the grind you gotta push through. Little by little, the bits and pieces you pick out will add up. Ideally you should even be taking notes as you do it, looking up new words and making flashcards. Immersion learning is homework, and you have to really work at it. The trick is that you're not just watching passively, you're studying actively.

You'll never get to a level where you'll feel comfortable until you've spent a lot of time feeling uncomfortable first.

Flight, hotel room, and entry fee to a major tournament. If you're splitting hotel costs maybe that'll cover 2-3 trips, and enough left over for a good fightstick.

5 is great, but honestly I thought part 4 was the weakest. Not sure what you mean by part 3 being impossible without it?

Wii U Pro Controller

OP, you've done a fantastic job demonstrating exactly why some people might want spaces where they don't have to deal with the likes of you.

It's not bricked. It's just banned from online services. Sony and Microsoft do this too, for the record.

Akagi. Ended halfway through the Washizu arc because they caught up to the manga, now it's finally done so I'd love to see them go back and complete it.

Also from the same mangaka, Kaiji. Part 3 is the best and it's a damn shame that the anime ends right before then.

SF4 was my gateway drug into fighting games, and I've put a solid chunk of time into playing the classic titles on FightCade, but I have no interest in anything Capcom does today. Skullgirls, UNI2, and Them's Fightin' Herds are my main games.

My save file says I got a little over three hours into the game. I think I ran the battery down to around 20% before going to bed. I did try to use a portable charger, but it still drained faster than it charged and so I decided I should save that juice for my phone. Honestly not great for a power outage situation, but under normal circumstances I'm never gonna be far from an outlet so eh.

Concentrate builds GRD, which is a sort of tug-of-war meter. Every time the circular timer in the bottom center completes, whoever has more GRD goes into a state called Vorpal, which grants some key buffs that effectively put them in control to press their advantage state. For Vatista, being able to just set a gem in front of me and Concentrate is a way of forcing my opponent to make a move - I have the life lead, I have Vorpal, I'll wait. They tried to just Concentrate back at first, but since I'm already ahead that just maintains an equilibrium in my favor.

Finished Deltarune on my $450 Deltarune machine. I don't know if I can handle waiting another decade for the full thing to be finished.

Storm knocked out my power yesterday (just got it back this morning), so I figured that at least until my batteries die, this is the time to start on that copy of Sea of Stars that's been sitting on my shelf after I bought it on sale last year. So far very impressed by it. Also nice that I can actually use handheld mode again with working JoyCons, my Switch 1 hadn't left the dock in years.

Here's an Under Night In-Birth II clip.

Relapsing back into Puyo Puyo Champions, again. My relationship with the game remains complicated, as does my sadness at feeling like queue times are getting slower and slower...

Also dusted off Splatoon 3 for the new Jet kit. There's gonna be a casual bracket at a convention I'm going to next weekend, so I gotta try and derust a bit.

If you wanna take the attitude that you can do whatever you want with it including piracy, fine but you're on your own. If you can't get your flashcart working offline, tough shit. Too bad, so sad. It's your fault for using the flashcart.