@foxysen Anki is definitely *some* amount of work - it varies based on how fast you want to go.
You'd have to do some initial set up, but ideally you spend <20~30 minutes a day reviewing cards. Making new cards is pretty easy if you use a pop-up dictionary like yomichan. If you link your anki deck to yomichan, you'll be able to make and export cards for new words with a single click.
Not a method for everyone but it works for me.
Reading and immersing in content is the fastest way to payoff!
Oh god.
I recommend getting the basics of the language down first: hiragana, katakana and basic grammar.
Then I would start doing anki to build up vocabulary knowledge (a consequence of this is that you also learn kanji... eventually).
There's a frequency deck with the 2k most common used words in Visual Novels, that's a good place to start.
Learn around 10~20 new words a day.
As you find new words that aren't in your deck, make anki cards for them. There are good tools for this.
Interacting with living things, there's always this feeling of personality. Especially with pets but even with small animals.
Even at a distance, most text delivers this gut feeling that *someone* is at the other end.
Old abandoned web posts have this vibe of a cold, empty room after a party - people were here, but they're somewhere else now and you missed it.
The stuff that LLMs produce has this impression of re-animated, amalgamated horror to me. Like a shambling puddle of corpses.
It's super scary!
Tablets and smartphones are such curated experiences that it's basically magic. Walled gardens and stuff.
Sisters came over to play Minecraft and eat dinner and I had to show em how to plug in the monitor and turn it on.
It's strange to imagine being young and not knowing how computers work.
@f00fc7c8
I'm trying to convince my dad that my stepsisters need an *actual* computer instead of tablets for this very reason.
Either learn how it works and wield it or it's gonna wield you.
IDK tho maybe disengagement is a better overall strategy for tech, and I'm the one whose screwed.
It's nice to know how tech works, but I spend 12+ a day staring at a screen and it's a little distressing sometimes.
MMM I didn't get as far as I wanted to, but I learned a lot and it's finished at least!
https://coaltar.itch.io/curse-of-malbouros
Onto the next one!
Freya Holmér