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I use Anki to keep my French and Japanese from deteriorating any further. Why those langauges? For Japanese, it’s the usual answer: anime and manga. For French, I had to learn it in school and I just don’t want to let it be forgotten.

A good number of the decks I use for language learning, I made for myself. Those that I’ve gotten from AnkiWeb were already gone, but here’s some similar ones:

• French Sentences — a collection of French sentences, sorted from easiest (most simple) to hardest (most complex). This deck begins with very simple sentences, and slowly gets harder as you progress.

  I’m pretty sure this is an exact, if not a close copy of the one I got a while back.

• Dictionary of Japanese Grammar - DoJG — a deck made from the entries of “Dictionary of Japanese Grammar” (basic to advanced).

  My copy of this deck has undergone significant changes in card design (and function, like showing a random selection of the example sentences), but this one should be similar.

• Core 2k/6k Japanese Vocab — likely one of the copies of the various Core 2/6k Japanese Vocabulary decks that were recommended to me back when I started. The description I managed to find for my copy of the deck has this description:

  Using vocabulary and sentences derived from Smart.FM Core 2k and 6k and sorted by Cangy’s program via 2001.Kanji.Odyssey kanji order. This detailed deck is designed so each new card contains the minimum amount of new kanji (and by proxy new words) creating an optimal i+1 learning environment.

I think if not fleshed out in the mythology being used in the setting, it’s in the DM’s prerogative. If I were DM, I’d say the Phoenix has to actually die before it can respawn.

Slicing off a Phoenix’s wings will just result in an injured and very pissed-off Phoenix.

Moreover, I’d stipulate that whatever Phoenix parts (butchered, raw, or cooked, or even partly-digested) would disappear whenever that Phoenix respawns. And for a spicy twist: someone who digests any part of a Phoenix will have a psychic link to the Phoenix. Wisdom check after every long rest (three days after ingesting the Phoenix) to determine whether or not the person retains control of their body. Failing this wisdom check thrice in a row results in the Phoenix gaining complete control. Succeeding this wisdom check thrice in a row results in the person regaining complete control of their own body.

EDIT:

Thinking about this more, I think this can be fleshed out even more. There is only one Phoenix, which was eaten by a bunch of people believing eating it would result in gaining whatever powers the Phoenix originally had, maybe being impervious to fire. However, the Phoenix took over their bodies instead. Many many many years later, the Phoenix never really dies: it just choose a body it controls, and transforms it to “its original body”. Thus, now, the Phoenix is known for its “immortality”.

The problem with ingesting Zeus is that I’d have a good chance (nearly 100% based on my Greek mythology knowledge) I’d end up being pregnant and incurring Hera’s wrath, or being whisked to Olympus as his winebearer… or both!

I’ve actually tried that once, but the Jesus wafer ended up real soggy.

Charcoal grilled phoenix might be good! Maybe basted in some really hot chili sauce? Or maybe even as simple as a soy sauce based baste. Keeping the phoeinix moist with some basting liquid is probably a good way to keep it from burning.

I don’t mind a deep-fried baby Phoenix tho.

Jesus wafers with grape jelly is something I’d definitely snack on.

If your installation process lasts for more than four hours, better consult your disk doctor.

Heck, I’d probably be a repeat customer and have them help me rice my Linux install.

Who’s got time for sex when there’s ricing to be done!

I have blocked 37 users (on this account). I haven’t had any need to block communities nor instances, thankfully enough.

I usually block users for being spammy, or outright just spamming shit. Otherwise, I tend to treat blocking as the nuclear option which I only use if I’m absolutely fed up with a lemmy user/community/instance.

EDIT:

just added a parenthetical phrase for clarification.

Oh, yeah!!

We can say “Yoink that thing and yeet it out of here,” and even if the person doesn’t know what ‘yoink’ nor ‘yeet’ is, they can probably guess what you want them to do just from the sound “feels” alone.

Seconding this. I originally came from lemmy.world, but eventually mained on lemm.ee after some really bad downtime issues around July/August 2023.

I also keep accounts on other instances as a backup, but I sort of use them as separating different interests, like my lemmy.dbzer0 account is for the tech-related interests, while this one is the more general one. If ever I follow more anime-related communities, I might make one on an anime-centric instance.

I prefer “yote”, but I wasn’t even thinking it’s the past tense, funny enough. I think what I had in mind earlier is “yote = had yeeted” but upon thinking more about it, it doesn’t make any sense.

“Yeeted” seems to be becoming more common than “yote” tho, but it isn’t too bad.

If you miss a day or two it can be daunting to get back in the groove and work on your review backlog.

This is really why a lot of people I’ve talked about this are adamant about never missing a day of Anki reviews. Far more than keeping the streak going (which is a nice ego boost), avoiding this backlog of reviews is why you shouldn’t miss a day of reviews.

But even without missing a day, you might still face an ever increasing amount of reviews, which in my personal experience, has put people off Anki—people who I managed to convince to give it a try.

Anki was a part of my language learning routine, but now, it has become my language learning routine. It’s not ideal, nor do I like it, but as I’ve decided to temporarily stop my language learning, I continued doing Anki in hopes that whatever I’ve learned continue to stick, and not be forgotten.

Now, with that out of the way, I want to describe how I actually used and continue to use Anki.

I’ve been keeping up a streak that has gone unbroken since 2020. Before that, I’ve got a good streak going on in 2019, but felt too burnt out I had to stop. The highest number of reviews I had to make was just under a thousand. Some Anki users might think it’s rookie numbers, but that’s really a bit too much for me especially as I’ve only got like an hour devoted to Anki-related stuff.

The way I do it, I only have one review session (though this review session might be scattered throughout the day). I go through each of my decks, review them, and then move to another deck. Sometimes, I add new cards to the review queue when the reviews for that deck go below a certain threshold. For some decks, it’s zero, but for some others, it’s some value I’ve come up via trial and error. More about this later.

Anyways, there is really a learning curve to using it, but I think the biggest issue people face in trying to use Anki is pacing.

One problem I faced quite early on is just the number of reviews I have to do everyday rising up. Even just adding one new card to the review queue every day would quickly add up, and adds up at a faster rate if you’ve got lots of decks. So at some point, I was reviewing well over 500 cards in a day, and I was close to burning out. Then I decided to just stop adding new cards to the review queue, and just let the review pile get lower and lower. It got to the point where I was reviewing only a card or two per deck in a day, at which point, I shouldn’t bother, right?

So, I came up with a way to try to keep my reviews at a healthy number: by varying the number of new cards I add to the review queue. For some decks, it’s a simple threshold (e.g.: if reviews < 32, add a new card), for others, it’s multiple thresholds e.g.:

if reviews < 8, add 1 new card;
else, if reviews < 4  add 2 new cards;
else, if reviews < 2, add 3 new cards;
else, if reviews < 1, add 4 new cards

Currently, I’m averaging just above 120 cards for all my decks per day, which is an amount I’m okay with.

Some people might disagree with me and think my way is inefficient, but I think it’s really all about finding your own way to use Anki the way that best fits your situation. I am not a medical student and I don’t need to study for exams (I currently have no plans of taking language certification exams, like the JLPT or the DELF), so I don’t really need to cram. Furthermore, I am in no rush, so slow and inefficient might just be okay with me.

If your method allows you to study consistently, I think it’s fine.

I like the word “yeet”. It gives me this mental image of someone chucking out something without any regard or care, like for example: “Even if we yeet the implications of such a statement out of the way, it still is not a good statement to come from the mouth of a head of state in such a meeting.” Or: “Don’t just yeet your clothes after taking them off, the hamper is there for a reason!” Or even: “Someone yote their banana peel and this guy slipped on it.”

Agreed!

If I were in that situation, I’d profusely apologize for having to pass through, and would give as much thanks as I did apologies after I’m through. I’d also make sure my footwear touch the floor as little as possible (likely by walking on my toes or the sides of my feet), and try to stick as close to the wall as possible. All just so that they can just redo a limited area after I’ve passed through.

I’ve never done that for a living, but I dread having to clean my room, sweep the floors, mopping it and such. I really feel for those people who had to mop the floors in high-traffic areas.

People being shitty to customer service workers and utility, and people not being courteous to them.

Heck, I sometimes judge people for not thanking service workers and utility. For example: if a janitor lets you pass a hallway they’ve been busy cleaning, I’d silently judge you if you don’t thank the janitor for letting you pass. Another example is in a fast food setting: if the person on the counter gives you your order, I’d silently judge you if you don’t say “thank you”.

That’s infuriating. Why couldn’t that guy just let someone else do their set while he does his breaks? Heck, if I were that dude, I would have made an arrangement with someone to alternate sets with.

Even if we assume the guy has a fatigue issue, that’s still no reason to hog the machine.

I’m surprised beef tongue was cheap over there back then.

Beef tongue here is one of those “special delicacy meat” that I usually get to eat during really fancy feasts. It’s probably a pain in the ass to cook, but the texture is really something. So is beef cheek, but that’s a different topic.

That’s similar to the way my mom usually cooks hotdogs and sausages.

1. In a frying pan or skillet, put a little bit of water just enough to submerge the pan in like a couple of millimeters.
2. Put the hotdogs (or sausages) and cook over a low fire.
3. When the water has all boiled off, there should be some fat that remains, and that could be enough for a bit of frying. If not, add some bit of oil. The oil should just be enough to cover the frying pan in a thin film.
4. Fry to the level of desired doneness/crispiness.

My method, however, since I’m lazy, is to:

1. Microwave the hotdogs (or sausages) for a couple of minutes (I usually do two minutes in high)
2. Remove the hotdogs (or sausages) and pat dry them with a paper towel.
3. Collect the fat drippings (if any).
4. Pour the collected fat drippings (if any) or some cooking oil into a frying pan. Again, there should just be enough oil to coat the pan’s surface in a thin layer.
5. Add the dried hotdogs (or sausages) and fry to the desired level of doneness or crispness.

It’s usually the same result, but in less time and less worrying that the water has already boiled off and I’m already starting to burn the hotdogs (or sausages).