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SpaghettiCookie posted...

My ex said that technically Kylo Ren could be alive since he died in a world between worlds

but I only see that happening if everyone comes together and says that it was crap but most people are praising it

That was not implied anywhere in the movie. That sounds like your ex's wishful head canon and nothing more.

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I just saw "Jack Frost" on TV today

I also saw the Rankin/Bass Frosty sequel again and realized it is not, as I wrote before, called "Frosty Returns," but is actually called "Frosty's Winter Wonderland." It's the one where they build Frosty a wife and he gets married (they also build a "snowparson" to perform the ceremony). I got the title confused with a different special, which was not actually made by Rankin/Bass. It's the one where John Goodman is the voice of Frosty.

I also saw yet another Frosty sequel today that I hadn't seen before. It's a completely different animation style than either the Rankin/Bass specials or Frosty Returns, but it actually makes explicit references to characters in the original Rankin/Bass Frosty the Snowman. This time Frosty was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the same person who voices Patrick in SpongeBob Squarepants.

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Also finishing my first semester of my program. It's technically not my first semester of grad school, I guess, since I did an MA elsewhere, but it's my first semester in my current program and at this university. Classes finished on Friday and I've managed to complete and submit two of the three research papers I have due so far. I have until the 18th to finish the third.

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"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and "The Year Without A Santa Claus" are probably my two favorites but I'm a fan of just about all of them. The ones I found less entertaining when I was a young child became more interesting to me as I grew older.

One I always seemed to like more than other people I know is "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus." I get that some people find that one somewhat unusual but I always found it really exciting and a fascinating version of the story. The story is actually based on a book of the same name by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote the Wizard of Oz books.

I've already managed to catch three from this list on TV this year: "The Year Without A Santa Claus," "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," and "The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow." I've also seen (so far this year) "The Little Drummer Boy," "The Little Drummer Boy: Part 2," "Rudolph's Shiny New Year," "Frosty Returns," and "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July." Hopefully I'll see some more on later.

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Is it the case they consider Black Friday a holiday or that they observe a four-day weekend for Thanksgiving?
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I think the Final Fantasy IX example is intended to be case of an egomaniac having an extreme overreaction, being unable to deal with the fact the he, like everyone else, is mortal.

I don't know about others.
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Zareth posted...

I like when Han is talking on the radio in the Death Star and he's like "no, everything's fine, uh, how are you?"

I read somewhere that Harrison Ford intentionally didn't practice his lines for that part and opted to ad lib it, since he felt it would feel more authentic to the situation if he improvised.
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lihlih posted...

Wow, I just looked up en passant and never even dreamed something like that can happen(and I was runner up in my middle school school wide chess tournament).

Really? I was on chess team in middle school and we were all taught en passant. In actual play, though, you could easily play many games and never see it since it has to happen in a specific circumstance and has to be capitalized on immediately or its not applicable.
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Mead posted...

Did they actually use the word cohorts?

Is that odd? It's a fairly common word in academia to refer to groups of students who start the same program at the same time or even certain sub-groupings within that of students who will take classes together (in larger and more structured programs).
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Perhaps to prevent confusion with the term Piklopedia (the in-game encyclopedia in Pikmin 2)?
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Solar_Crimson posted...

They pretty much have a word for it already: hikikomori.

Hikikomori and NEET are different things, though it is not uncommon for people to be both and understandable for people to associate the two with one another.

Hikikomori refers to a person who is a social recluse, someone who is particularly withdrawn from society (though they may simply prefer to interact in indirect means, such as online communication). NEET is anyone not in employment, education, or training.

A hikikomori can be employed or in school and simply be withdrawn in those settings (or even do these things from home) and therefore not be a NEET. Likewise, a NEET can be socially active and outgoing.
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If I had to pick someone as the greatest of all time it would be Wilt Chamberlain.

I'm not a big basketball fan so I absolutely am working with limited information. Rather than an in-depth knowledge of teams, players, and statistics, I'm basing this on popular knowledge and information I can look up.

That said, I think he has to be in the conversation and a strong contender for the title. His achievements and records are incredible, such as scoring over 100 points in a single game. The closest anyone has come is LeBron James at 81. But in many games whole teams have lower scores than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Wilt_Chamberlain

What's also really interesting is how the NBA implemented numerous rule changes to basically nerf him and maybe a few others like him who were just doing things nobody else could do. Granted, some of this advantage was a result of his height, but still, you have to be making quite an impact with your playing if the league is changing rules to reduce your advantage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain#Rule_changes

I'm curious to see what those more knowledgeable on basketball think of this and have some questions about it. Do we simply hear about him less now because of time since he played? Were Jordan and others of the 90s just culturally more significant than Chamberlain and thus resonate more in popular memory? Was Chamberlain's skill and success attributable largely to his stature and build? I know others have been of similar height and not achieved the same thing. Or was his competition just not up to his level? That is, would he have performed as well against players of later decades?
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I currently work in one, so just a few days ago. The last time I used resources there as a patron was a couple of weeks ago.
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The world maps in Spore are true globes.
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Distant_Rainbow posted...

DarkRoast posted...

Banchan <3

...wut

seriously, wut

that's not a dish

Banchan is the word for the variety of small bowls and plates of side dishes served to the entire table along with the main dishes. In most restaurants, these are included automatically with any meal without you specifically specifically ordering them.
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codey posted...

When I was stationed in Korea our liaison would take us to these random little hole in the wall places where they would bring us just massive amounts of food. Outside of the main dish, we usually didn't know what any of the sides were. You'd just take a little and pass it on, and it was almost always delicious.

That's one of the best parts of Korean meals, especially at restaurants. The side dishes served like that are called banchan () and what is served is usually based on chef's choice and what they have available and ready at the time. You can usually bet on cabbage kimchi being among them. And usually they will keep refilling them as long as you are still eating purchased food.
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It is (or at least can be) done with the Japanese katakana letter (tsu). There may be another way I don't know. If it requires that character, then I assume people who don't type Japanese themselves are copying and pasting it from other sources.
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I can't tell what this is about or where it came from. It's not clear.
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I know there was a writers' guild strike at the start of Season 2, but I think it was over by the end. I can't imagine "Q Who" having been developed during the strike. The strike is the reason several early Season 2 episodes were adapted screenplays of stories originally developed for the never-produced Star Trek: Phase 2 series. I also remember reading somewhere that they originally hoped to introduce the Borg near the start of Season 2 and tie it in more explicitly to plot of the Season 1 finale, "The Neutral Zone."
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Apparently it was done to save money since the budget for the season was running low as a result of the introduction of the Borg in "Q Who" and higher-than-normal expenses for some other episodes.

I hadn't seen this in so long that I had practically forgotten about it.
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For my university, some of it is mandatory, but it seems much of it is optional and based on personal choice. Orientation for the grad school is officially a little over a week, but that really seems to just mean that this is the time dedicated to orientation and mandatory events cover less than two days based on the calendar. The rest appears to be optional events and department/program specific events during a few dedicated days.

The mandatory portions seems to be mostly just initial processing so you can receive your ID card, fill out some paperwork to ensure your accounts are set up, get access to things, etc.

The optional events look like fun things and familiarization to get to know people, learn about the university and the community, and connect with relevant organizations and resources. Some of the events are for specific demographics to learn about resources applicable to them or just get to know people.
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I also once owned an NES, but not anymore.
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50 days until my orientation begins.

I have started looking at courses and picking out some that are of varying levels of interest, but I know they don't have them all posted on the course search system yet. One that isn't there that should be (to my knowledge anyway) is a theory and methods type course for all first-year students in my department. Since that's a required course, I can't really bet on taking any others until I know when that one is going to be.

Also, I will see my advisor again at some point before orientation anyway, so I'll consult with him as part of my planning.
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I have a GameCube packed away somewhere. I might take it out after I move and at least put it somewhere I can easily access it and connect to the TV if I want to play it.
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Not yet, aside from passing through airports in Japan on the way to or from South Korea. I will definitely get at there at some point, almost certainly as a leg of a trip to Korea, since I my personal and professional ties to that country keep me going there and it's obviously pretty close.
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It's a different product based on a similar concept and made by the same manufacturer as part of the same line.

Unlike the Kinder Surprise, the Kinder Joy can be sold in the United States, because it doesn't violate the specific regulation against selling food items with non-food objects within them, which effectively prohibits Kinder Surprise. I don't think the Kinder Joy was made specifically to get around the U.S. law, though, as it was around in other countries long before it was introduced in the U.S.
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NinjaBreakfast posted...

You can only do something ironically for so long before you start doing it unironically

This is exactly what happens on an episode of The Goldbergs. Barry and Adam learn all about New Kids on the Block and use it to irritate Erica, but then they end up becoming huge fans themselves.
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fuzzylittlbunny posted...

One of my co workers said Korean was easy to write since there are a limited number of symbols, but you have to learn the stacking or whatever.

I think hangul (the Korean alphabet) is definitely one of the easiest to read and write, in terms of both learning and continuously doing it, and thus makes reading and writing the sounds of Korean relatively easy (understanding and communicating meaning is considerably more difficult). It has distinct letters representing each consonant and vowel sound used in the language. The number of letters is not that high but they can be arranged to form more complex sounds fairly easily. The rules are not too complicated and the spelling and pronunciation is remarkably consistent among the languages and writing systems of the world. There are situations in which the letters' pronunciations change based on context, but even these exceptions are rather consistent.

It's not perfect, of course, and a big caveat is that it was designed specifically for the Korean language, so rendering of foreign words, English loan words being a very common example, does not precisely match the original pronunciation.
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coolcono posted...

Do you know any other languages?
Chinese isn't really that hard. I had a Vietnamese background going into it. Pretty similar.
Vietnamese is the hardest one to speak.

Aside from my native language of English and having studied Korean a long time, I have some formal training in Japanese, but with a high emphasis on reading comprehension for research purposes. My spoken Japanese is extremely limited. I took German in high school but I've barely used it since and so I can't really speak it now and can basically just recognize some words and very short phrases here and there, when I'm lucky.

I want to study literary Chinese (aka classical Chinese) a bit because it's useful for understanding older documents in Korean and Japanese.

Vietnamese is another one of the languages from within what is sometimes called the "Sinosphere," the region around and including China that has historically used Chinese characters for writing at some point and have had their own languages and literature influenced heavily by Chinese, even if not being "genetically" part of the same language family. If you know any one of those languages, you will often notice some similar words (and sometimes even patterns among the similarities), which helps with the learning process.
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Kastrada posted...

Deganawidah posted...

Contemporary Korean uses Chinese characters so infrequently that you rarely have to read any, but the language can be written with them and has been written in them historically.

So how does that work for names? Like 95% of my students/coworkers/friends have hanja names. Are their names just hangul versions of hanja?

Side note: I have zero knowledge of hanja.

In most cases yes. The majority of Korean names are based on hanja and so each syllable has a hanja character associated with it. There are some people who have names not based on hanja. This is becoming more common with given names nowadays but the majority still appear to be based on hanja. You can usually ask a Korean speaker with a Korean name about the hanja for their name. Usually they will at least be able to say something about what they mean and can often write them. The hangul is basically just the phonetic writing of how the hanja is pronounced in Korean.
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Do they incorporate much vocabulary and grammar? I assume the kanji one has to involve memorizing some meaning but I get the impression it's more about learning individual kanji rather than a lot of vocabulary as it is used in sentences.

I guess I could probably just play a regular game in Japanese, but the concept of gradually converting to more of the language and introducing things in ways to help you learn is intriguing. I studied some Japanese formally but I'm rusty and would love something to help me refresh in a fun way.
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orcus_snake posted...

legendarylemur posted...

orcus_snake posted...

i read somwhere that korean is one of the easiest to learn becausre the people that made the language were very efficient with the structure and shit and it doesnt have billions of exceptions to the usual rules like English for example.

Yeah it's made to be easy to write for the peasants back in the days, when people spoke the language but couldn't learn to write the Chinese characters for it. However, it's considered one of the hardest languages to learn in terms of grammar. Most likely people instinctively understood the language and was hard for others to pick up

wait what, korean does not use chinese characters, that is japanese.

Japanese borrowed the chinese kanjsi and changed the reading but not the menaing of the symbols while adding hiragana and katakana for their shit, are you sure you are not confusing them?

Contemporary Korean uses Chinese characters so infrequently that you rarely have to read any, but the language can be written with them and has been written in them historically.

Korean was originally written entirely in Chinese characters (called hanja in Korean, kanji in Japanese), either fully in what is called literary Chinese (basically the way Chinese was written for educated people many centuries ago) or in a system called idu which mixed Chinese characters used for meaning with some used for purely phonetic purposes to represent Korean words or grammatical particles not found in Chinese. Hangul was invented in the 15th century as a phonetic alphabet to better suit the language. As legendarylemur said, it was especially meant to be much easier to learn to read and write than Chinese characters and greatly increase literacy. At this time in Korean history, most people couldn't read very much outside the educated elite class and government bureaucrats.

Even after the promulgation of hangul, the educated elite and the bureaucrats continued to write primarily in Chinese characters, seeing hangul as lower class, but hangul was used by people who had less access to formal education, especially women. It was also used more during the 1592-98 Japanese invasion of Korea because they wanted to communicate things in a form that could not be easily read by the Japanese army. Hangul gradually came into greater use over the centuries. By the early to mid twentieth century, Korean was typically written with a mixture of Chinese characters (hanja) and hangul similar to the ratio of kanji to hiragana/katana in Japanese today. By the 2000s the language had come to be written almost exclusively in hangul in most situations, though you do still see some commonly known hanja appear on signs, labels, news headlines, etc. and even more are used in books and articles to provide clarification of meaning (usually in parenthesis after the hangul word).
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As I said above, I think my own perception of Korean as "easier" in terms of remembering the grammar is just subjective and a result of the fact that I had studied Korean a long time before beginning Japanese.

While learning the general rules of structuring Japanese seemed fairly easy to me since it is very similar to Korean, it is remembering all of the new grammatical vocabulary where I find myself having major gaps compared to Korean. But I don't think this is because the Japanese is harder to remember, it's just I already know so much more Korean so it feels easier to me now. In comparison, I felt that learning Japanese nouns was much easier because so many are pronounced similarly to Korean words (usually the ones borrowed from pre-modern Chinese).

The perceived difficulty of any given language is always dependent on the individual and the circumstances. Native language, prior second languages, learning methods, learning environment, interest and motivation, and other less measurable factors (such as what just makes intuitive sense to a person) all affect how well someone learns a given language.
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I personally found Japanese to be more difficult than Korean, but I have to admit that since I started Korean over a decade before seriously studying Japanese, there is an unavoidable bias there. I do think objectively it is harder to learn to read and write Japanese, due to the number of writing systems and complexity of them. There are, of course, some advantages to kanji (Chinese characters) since they communicate meaning and clear up ambiguity (especially in Japanese and Korean in cases where words have the same pronunciation but different kanji, and thus different meaning). But that advantage is dependent on first remembering the characters. I find the grammar to be of similar complexity. I have more trouble remembering Japanese grammar specifics, but again I think that's more a matter of having much more experience with Korean.
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orcus_snake posted...

i read somwhere that korean is one of the easiest to learn becausre the people that made the language were very efficient with the structure and shit and it doesnt have billions of exceptions to the usual rules like English for example.

This is true of the Korean alphabet, hangul. The hangul alphabet is phonetic with distinct vowels and consonants. They are arranged into blocks that form syllables. It is true that the spelling and pronunciation are very consistent and the few cases of letters changing in sound based on where they are appear are also very consistent. Hangul has been nicknamed "morning letters" because it is said you can learn it in all in one morning. The alphabet was invented in the 15th century at the behest of the monarch, King Sejong the Great, and promulgated with the express purpose of being a writing system better suited to the language and easier for the general population to learn.

The language, on the other hand, is considered to be among the most difficult, from the standpoint of learning it as a native speaker of most European languages. It is one of the easier languages to learn if you are a Japanese speaker, though, due to the remarkably similar grammar and syntax and the large number of words with similar pronunciation.
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Of those, option Bort.

My personal funniest:

That's a good one! That episode is really good in terms of how they put together jokes and build on them. The toilet flush direction bit is so great because it builds on the whole reason they ended up in Australia in the first place and then the Ambassador, Homer, and the presence of the American flag on the device all come together to reinforce this notion of ludicrous American pride in the direction a toilet flushes.
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The joke itself is funnier in the Bort bit, but I think the delivery is better in the saxamaphone bit and hits better.
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I think I've responded to one or two such surveys in the past, in situations where I received good service from an individual. My wife responds to them more frequently, at least in cases where you can receive coupons or prizes. She has won free movie tickets this way before.
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VFW and other veterans service organizations (such as American Legion) are not run federally or by any other government agency. VFW is a private, non-profit organization.
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I was in high school, at the start of my junior year. The principal announced over the loudspeakers that planes had crashed into the towers while we were in 1st period classes. I was in English class at the time and our teacher assumed it was some horrific accident (the principal didn't provide a lot of information, which was probably in part due to limited information at the time) and wouldn't turn on the TV, as some of the students requested, because she felt that wanting to see it was just some kind of grim voyeurism. Fortunately, when I arrived for my 2nd period German class, the teacher had the TV on and was not really holding class, just watching and discussing the news. Sometime not long after that they dismissed everyone for the day.
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