tigeruppercut
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- Comment on East Asia 4 days ago:
Yeah, first guy was Akebono, followed by Musashimaru, both from Hawaii (although Musashimaru was born in American Samoa). Not too many mainlanders join sumo, although there have been a few over the years.
- Comment on Pizza 🌟 5 days ago:
who would waste good caviar on you? And because taste degrades so steeply with price
I’m not sure caviar is the best example here. A lot of people just don’t like fish eggs, which is fine. But tons of other people eat fish eggs that aren’t caviar, like salmon eggs, which are a common sushi ingredient and relatively cheap. Fish eggs definitely don’t need to be sturgeon caviar to taste good, even if most people don’t like them in general.
But unless you’re in Japan, you’re probably a somewhat rich westerner if you’re eating any kind of fish eggs regularly, so maybe rich people just tend to have more access to things that would expand their palates.
- Comment on East Asia 6 days ago:
And then the Mongolians move to Japan to dominate the sumo world.
The first foreign born champion was in 1993 (from the US), and since then there have been 11 more who have made it to champion rank. 4 have been Japanese (2 in the 90s and then a gap til 2017 and then 2025), 1 more was American, and the other 6 were Mongolian. And that’s despite the fact that each training stable is limited to one foreigner only.
- Comment on I'm just better 1 week ago:
Even within a time zone things can be odd because of how big they are. Like sunset in the summer in Maine is like 8 but in Michigan it’s 9.
- Comment on Pride month 1 week ago:
He’s had a LOT of practice
- Comment on Mr Incognito 1 week ago:
Before I figured out DNS adblocking I clicked on an ad for a golden top my news app served because I thought it for sure it was a clever ad for some parody site. Nope, turns out you can buy executive desk toys tops for like 200 bucks, and for months my app thought I was really into expensive office kitsch.
- Comment on He's an arborist 1 week ago:
I mean, chainsaws were invented to cut up the pubic area, so you wouldn’t be far off.
- Comment on A tragic tale in one image 1 week ago:
No, I’m just old.
- Comment on A tragic tale in one image 1 week ago:
I could probably point to several things I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with in HS, but promposals has gotta be somewhere near the top of the list.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 week ago:
I saw a yt vid awhile back making that claim. Don’t think I agree with it all but it’s an interesting take on it
- Comment on stony tony 1 week ago:
Couple with the Pink Trombone
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 1 week ago:
What, you mean you don’t still rock out to the Newbeats?
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
Secret of Mana for the SNES
I definitely played through that a few times, but in retrospect standing around and holding the attack button for like 10-15 seconds to charge your weapon was perhaps not the most fun mechanic.
- Comment on Hail power! 2 weeks ago:
Dange danger! High voltage!
- Comment on Can't wait. 2 weeks ago:
Eh, not as bad as it usually gets.
- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 2 weeks ago:
Not anymore, technically:
GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s mistranslated. They say hyō which is leopard. Puma is pyuuma.
So the leopard could be in Africa or the tiger and leopard could be together in India. Still wrong but slightly less so.
- Comment on Anon mishears a coworker 2 weeks ago:
If you start in Detroit
Looks like the east side of Detroit doesn’t hit Canada to the south. Just from eyeballing it I think you’d hit Cuba first.
- Comment on Choose chicken. 2 weeks ago:
I think this is related to why Japanese uses the same counter words for rabbits and birds. You can’t just say a number plus object in Japanese alone, because you need a counter word with it. So 2 bottles is “bottles 2 long things” and 4 pieces of paper is “paper 4 flat things”. Small animals are usually counted with the word “hiki”, so you’d say “salmon 5 hiki” or “dogs 2 hiki”, but birds use “wa” instead. I think rabbits are also wa so people could basically say “Uh, no we’re not eating meat, we’re just having some long eared furry birds.”
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll second this. My issue with the entire series is that they’re smashing a ton of mechanics together (driving, fighting, shooting, etc) and everything is just functional but not great. Any time I was shooting I just wished I was playing a shooter. Any driving you did just made me wish it was a racing game.
Nothing was done well enough to make me want to keep playing. I think I put a couple hours into 4 and then 5 and lost interest.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t say “banks good”, I said “crypto bros (also) bad”. You don’t think the ones running the crypto schemes are also “greedy corrupt pedophiles”? Maybe you’re “heavily misguided”.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 weeks ago:
banks managed to convince everyone
I don’t think banks have been in charge of the countless pump and dump crypto schemes in recent years. And Bankman-Fried (despite his name) wasn’t running a bank.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure in daily life he goes by his professional name Mr. Richard.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 4 weeks ago:
There was a This American Life where an author got in his head about bad reviews on Amazon, so he clicked one of the profiles of people who’d given him 2 stars, and found that she had given 5 stars to a lavender polka dot cupcake stand. And from then the bad reviews didn’t affect him so much.
- Comment on Uh well actually- 4 weeks ago:
Thomas Kincade, vomiter of light!
- Comment on Language barrier 4 weeks ago:
The huge number of loanwords is a bit of a boon, but the benefits are canceled out by the small amount of sounds in the language. There are so many homophones and words with similar sounds that learning vocab is really difficult.
Also it was years before I found out that hambaagaa is a hamburger and hambaagu is a meat patty on a plate.
- Comment on Language barrier 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes it can be the opposite as well, because missing a key word or two renders all the other stuff you understood in the sentence basically useless. If you understood “He has a new X and he’s gonna try Y tomorrow,” you got everything except the gist, but constructing basic sentences doesn’t take all that much study.
Anyway, I’d recommend not trying to do Japanese through immersion.
- Comment on Depluralize 4 weeks ago:
We have managed to secure a much larger budget than usual, so we will certainly be able to outshine our rather underfunded 2014 production of Roald Dahl’s classic… James and the Peach. Or last Christmas’s The Lion and the Wardrobe. Or indeed our summer musical: Cat.
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 5 weeks ago:
I teach foreign language students and they often write about how their food was “very delicious”, and it always sounds so jarring to me. There are a lot of really strong words that native speakers tend to not use very with.
eg:
very difficult task / very monumental task
very good cooking / very superb cooking
very happy man / very elated manFor some reason intensifiers like so and such don’t have those restrictions:
The task was very/so monumental.
It was very/such superb cooking.
He was very/so elated. - Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 5 weeks ago:
It’s an older use, to the point that I’ve never heard it used. Merriam marks that definition as “old-fashioned” (which is a bit odd, because I thought they only used the archaic or obsolete terms).
The lazy sense is probably what’s meant from the old bible quote about “idle hands” related to the devil.