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Life-changing revelation: you can hold L2 (PS5) to run in Blue Prince. 🤯

Ending a day in Blue Prince with a pocket full of gems and/or coins and/or keys feels terrrrrible. I WANT TO USE THEM, BUT CANNOT.

"I'm speechless," she said.

These are awesome, thank you so much for sharing! I love the company mascots. :) the goodest bois!

PLEASE keep your little ones safe by teaching them to be aware of their surroundings and to enter/exit on the curbside, keeping an eye out for oncoming bikes!

Again, in the middle of a busy residential street, with limited visibility due to cars parked along the street and a trend of cars going way too fast.

SO DANGEROUS. 😫

She then crossed the street and greeted her little sister, who ALSO cross to the car and opened the street-side door to climb in.

Just watched a small child exit a car paused on a busy residential road right into the street, freezing with the door open as an oncoming car abruptly stopped due to her sudden appearance.

Please teach your children NOT to enter/exit your car on the street-facing side. 😫

But I feel like that enthusiasm needs to be balanced with a sense of responsibility and ethics.

Passionate enthusiasm for a thing does not excuse the harm wrought by said enthusiasm.

Technology, for example.

Fandom, for another.

I'm in technology, went to a technology school, love technology, and am also an enthusiastic fan of things.

Oh interesting, 頂好 (ding3 hao3) is a phrase I'd heard in other contexts in the adverb usage (had better; it would be best), but I was unaware of its colloquial adjective usage (very good). TIL! :)

Please do!

Now I'm curious what phrase it is? :D

And then, you have the number alternatives: 4 (し or よん) 、 7 (しち or な な）、 10 （れい or じゅう).

よん for 4 makes sense. Like in Chinese, し also means death.

But when do you use しち instead of な な for 7, or れい for 10? 🤔

But then you have さんぴゃく、 ろっぴゃく、 はっぴゃく and other oddities, and the brain spins. 😵‍💫

(Btw our teacher is teaching in Romaji and we haven't started hiragana, so please correct me if my kana is wrong!)

Knowing Mandarin Chinese while learning Japanese is nice, because then things like the numbering system aren't startling and weird. And the kanji is the same, too!

10十
100 百
1000 千
10000 萬

Boycott Elon Musk.

"person-san no kagi" totally makes sense! I was mostly interested in how far you could take nested "_ no _" clauses. 😂

Our class is teaching us by-the-book formal grammar, so we're encouraged to use "watashi" even if, colloquially, it would normally be dropped. it's good to know it's not the norm!

(I was very clear that I was just sharing what I had learned from reading as another participant, not as a member of the program's staff.)

Anyways. Maybe I need to tone it down a bit. 😅

Perhaps I was over-enthusiastic about responding and engaging, b/c another participant (who was, on an unrelated note, aggressively promoting plant-based diets in chat) demanded I introduce myself.

Another example: In a nutrition webinar today, I was responding in chat to some other participants' questions sharing things I'd learned about steel-cut oats vs. rolled oats, protein powders with simple ingredients (OWYN), etc.

So we learned about how the construction of Japanese sentences usually involves putting the "less important" parts towards the beginning of the sentence.

Answer to my Q would be a nested series of increasingly important "[Subject] no [Object]" clauses: "Anata no watashi no ie no kagi". (Awkward.)

If you want to say "house keys", you'd say "ie no kagi" (lit "keys of the house").

If you want to say "my house keys", you'd say "watashi no ie no kagi" (keys of the house of mine).

I asked: what if you're moving in with your SO, and want to give them "their keys to your house?"

I'm the annoying classmate that asks complicated, weird questions and tries to help fellow students way too much.

Example for the former: in my Japanese I class last week, we were learning the basic "[Subject] no [Object]" grammar form for possession.

When you feel like you're flailing at work and dropping the ball all the time, it means a lot to have a coworker tell you that they see all you do and how much they appreciate your work. :')

You have so much amazing content to catch up on. You'll LOVE the newer Smosh cast members, seriously.

So fluffy!! So cute!! 🥰

Yes!! He and Ian reconnected, re-established their friendship (stronger and better than ever), and bought Smosh back from Mythical!

Seriously agree with everyone calling the last year of content the Golden Age of Smosh.

My favorite happy escape this past year has been Smosh. Such a diverse, wholesome, mutually respectful, and outright hilarious group of amazing comedians, who genuinely seem to like each other and be friends - absolute aces.

Discovered them right before Anthony returned - what perfect timing! ❤️