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◘ I finally have time to think again

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I APOLOGISE FOR NOT REPLYING TO YOUR EMAIL SOONER. ONE DAY ALL OF US WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE OURSELVES THAT WE SPENT THE GIFT OF TIME ON EARTH WELL.

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“제가 진짜 폐인이었거든요. 방구석에 박혀서 나온 적이 없었어요. 학원도 안 다녀서 나갈 일도 없었고 집에서 게임만 했어요. 그러다 작년 여름부터 방에서 탈출해서 매일 공원에 나오기 시작했어요.” “갑자기 운동하게 된 계기가 있었나요?” “우연히 공원에 나왔는데 다른 친구가 운동을 하고 있는 거예요. 막 철봉 위아래로 ���아다니는 게 진짜 신기하고, 동작이 크니까 주변에 사람들이 몰리면서 구경하고 있었어요. 간지나더라고요.” “I was a real loser. After school, I would stay shut in my room and never went out. I didn’t go to tutoring school either, so I didn’t have a reason to leave. I was at home playing games all the time. But last summer, I escaped my room and started going to a nearby park.” “What made you suddenly start exercising?” “I just happened to go to the park one day and saw a friend working out. Him flying from bar to bar was so cool, and his movements full of energy made people gather round to watch. It was sick.”

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Korean Reality shows are superior

Where else do you get a caption like?

“Luxury brand ambassador picking and eating berries in front of a toilet”

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Easter eggs   -   Rutger Hiemstra

Dutch, b. 1975-

Oil on canvas,  90 x 120 cm

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if you keep a bunch of random garbage on your computer you'll always have a bunch of stuff you can delete whenever it starts to get full. so its actually better than if you were more careful. if you were careful, it would get full and you wouldnt have anything you could delete

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i'm in this really annoying cycle of intermediate japanese where i can read but it's really slow and annoying because i don't know enough kanji, and i need to read more to learn more kanji, but i don't want to read because it's really slow and annoying etc

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the three rules of game dev:

1) your editor will crash

2) your editor WILL crash

3) save frequently

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Underwater forest with tadpoles, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by Eiko Jones

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I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

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life !!!!

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i drew him

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👋 hi language learner! yes, you! have a favor to ask of you :)

for my graduation, i’m researching ways that technology can enhance the language learning process through visual media (series, movies, but also news etc.). for this, i need to speak to learners (of any language, genuinely, no matter your rate of fluency or how long you’ve been studying for) to interview and possibly test my prototype a few times through a link i’ll share with you. it’s also perfectly okay if you haven’t had experience with tools that help you learn through shows and such, but instead have worked with other things such as duolingo.

anything we discuss can be entirely anonymous and can be done via chat here or discord or whatever you prefer, that’s up for discussion. i don’t need to record your voice, provide your real name or show your face, so typing is also fine.

i’d love to hear your input on your wishes for language learning programs and your experiences if you have any so i can design something we may be able to use in the future to learn, that’s hopefully an improvement upon currently existing methods.

as i’ve mentioned, the language you learn is unimportant to me as any feedback is great feedback; but as i need to pick a language to prototype with to keep the scope of my project doable for the period of my graduation (even though i’d *love* to do it for all languages right off the bat ☹️), korean and arabic learners are somewhat preferable as these are languages that i’m familiar with. please don’t let yourself be deterred by this if you’re learning any other language though!

on top of that; i’ll be taking accessibility into account, so if you’re able to give me input on that front, i’d be eternally thankful as well.

if you wanna help me out (thank you so much), please react with a ❤️ to this post. if not, i’d appreciate if you would spread around the message by reposting.

thank you for your attention!