megane-kun

I can count to ten in seven languages. Not as many as some of the others here, I suppose?

Yes, I sometimes count in one of my target languages.

I always found the Gilgamesh -> Holy War conversion far more useful for the Omega Weapon fight, especially if the fight is over before I even manage to use half of the 10 items the conversion gives me.

With a low enough level, and a powerful enough junction setup, every single fight (even the final boss fight) is complete child’s play. Too bad I didn’t already know that on my first playthrough.

It is a measure of how your actions get you closer to your goals.

Hence, if my goal is learning Japanese, and I spend time in reading raw manga, I can argue I’m being productive. However, if my goal is to learn Rust, then reading raw manga is not being productive.

Productivity does not have an end goal other than what you set for yourself.

EDIT:

Edited the last sentence to make it say what I meant it to say. “Productivity has an end goal…” isn’t it. 😅

I’ve never fished at all, but I’ve seen some people do some sort of fishing (with a fishing pole) along the coast. I haven’t really stayed long to observe what they do, but I saw that it involves a lot of waiting, and I feel increasingly awkward watching a guy do some fishing so I left. It might be that the spot that guy chose (or the area in general) just doesn’t have enough fish, being in the city and all. That, and pop culture (including some anime) characterizing fishing as needing patience and the capacity of being incredibly still while being capable of incredibly fast movements. Like a ninja meditating, only to do intensely quick movements to pull in the fish even before it had the chance to react.

Thanks for clarifying the misconceptions I had. I’ll look forward to having an opportunity to do some lure and fly fishing.

I can’t really explain it, but it is akin to tuning it out. Basically ignoring it as it it were tinnitus.

Of course it can only be done if you can afford not to engage it (or engage in it such that you can fake engaging in it). IDK, it’s really hard to explain.

Oh, I know! 😅

In my current playthrough, I used just a few of the techniques I know to get 3×100 Flare for my party to junction to STR and 3×100 Thundaga to junction to Elem Atk (you can get two of them, and the Siren has the third IIRC–it’s been a while since the SeeD exam and the playthrough proceeds at a snail’s pace) before the SeeD exam in order to defeat the “Crab Mecha” on the first available opportunity. All that, while keeping my levels at a minimum (under lvl 10, ideally).

I have the patience for it, but it still gets incredibly tedious and dull.

Disengagement.

If I can physically disengage, walking away from the situation, I’d do it. If not, I’ll mentally disengage. Enough times of this, I’ll just default to it: not giving a shit because apparently, no one does.

If I must engage in it anyways, maybe I’ll return to it once I’ve calmed down. If I must do it there and then (so, no time to compose myself), I’d do minimum I can get away with.

In real life? Nope. I don’t think I have the patience for that, sitting perfectly still for hours on end. I would probably enjoy the scenery and the vibe though.

Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game

It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.

The fishing minigame from Breath of Fire 4. There’s just something that’s both simple and relaxing, as well as complex and engaging in that minigame. Even better, it’s not a requirement to finish the game.

And then there’s the fishing minigame on Stardew Valley.

I wonder if answering “I don’t know, I haven’t checked” would count as:

• “Why is this bastard even trying to apply for a job when they can’t even count the number of toilets in their house?”
• “Probably trying to dodge the question, not good.”
• “Homeless motherfucker? REJECTED!”

I used to change WASD keybindings to ESDF for a similar reason. And in most of my emulators, IJKL stand for triangle, square, x, and circle (or their other console equivalents) respectively.

The rest are more or less assigned depending on the console. Since I mostly play PS1 games, the rest of the bindings are follows:

• L1: A
• L2: Q
• R1: ;
• R2: P
• Start: G
• Select: H

It’s a matter of social convention. I grew up where there’s a variety of foods that are typically thought of as “breakfast food”. There are those that would fit in nicely with a typical American breakfast (some bread, coffee, and perhaps some egg; chocolate rice porridge; congee), those that would be proper meals (some rice, either fried or plain white, some protein or two, and an egg), and those that are kinda in-between (noodle dishes, some can be thick and hearty).

I think it’s just something that can quickly be served up while I’m half-asleep and low on energy. A simple garlic fried rice with last night’s left overs or some fried sausages and an egg or two would be more than enough to kickstart my day, but it can be too much of a hassle to prepare on some days. Hence, I can understand why some people would fall into a habit of eating a “dessert breakfast” — high on sugars and easy to prepare.