>>11937 >Ignore this post, and your wife will leave you i'm becoming a pirate?

>>11937 how scary....

>>11945 i cannot imaging jumping 500 times...

>>11937 i have no wife to lose, and here's to that

>>11954 what if it could've been your future wife hikarin...

Why does this hikarin need to establish communication with its neighbors? It seems that approaching them would be too intrusive, so its better to wait for them to show interest. If you're doing it just because, it doesnt make sense. Are you hoping to build connections for the future?

>>11949 >Why does this hikarin need to establish communication with its neighbors? It seems that approaching them would be too intrusive There is an old saying, a close neighbor is better than a relative far away, I feel like not making friends with neighbors is a bit dumb.. I don't know.. I wouldn't know if it's common to not make friends with neighbors in an apartment block. >so its better to wait for them to show interest. If you're doing it just because, it doesnt make sense. Are you hoping to build connections for the future? I managed to wish them an evening today, so I think I did well! They waved off when they went into their room, I was picking up food when I came across them and they smiled after I wished them, then went inside. I just don't know if they're ever free to speak to for longer periods. I'm hoping to make friends with them, I wonder if they feel alone similar to me, I guess to speak and connect to someone reliable or help them if they ever want anything. I don't know why I psychologically think this way, but I guess it is a desire to connect and get to know others, what do you think Hikarin?

I dont think a couple would feel lonely. Besides, truly lonely people dont often leave their homes. Older people like it when younger people are interested in helping them or having simple conversations, so its easier to get closer to them, and theyre more open-minded. If you helped that old man, I'm sure he remembers you. The next time you see him, you can try to strike up a simple conversation with him, asking about his life. It should be subtle, and you might be able to help him again.Why didnt you know your neighbors until now, Hikarin?

>>11951 Thank you Hikarin! I got to know them only recently, I moved in over here a few weeks ago.. The grandpa had it a bit hard in that his voice is rough, so I mostly spoke a lot while helping him.. is there any way to connect with truly lonely people? I never know of them, or when they go out..

Lonely people find refuge on the Internet, in places like this, I think. In reality, such people are more fearful and therefore it is difficult to make contact with them. It will be easier to get to know those people with whom you live on the same floor at the beginning. While you have moved quite recently, you will not be considered strange, perhaps they will only think that you are not familiar enough, you should not be shunned. Try to be polite and greet those tenants whom you see. Going back to the topic of single people, it's also difficult in reality because it would be very awkward for both of you. It depends on how unsocialized people you would like to interact with are.

>>11841 why not melatonin?

>>11863 doesn't that need a prescription

>>11865 nah, its over the counter. I highly recommend against relying on it to sleep though

>>11866 I once tried to purchase it and they wanted a prescription should i try again in another pharmacy i don't like in America

>>11832 Sleep too much, and ye get fired Sleep too little, and ye get tired and get fired Sleep normally, and ye get tired and want to go to the other extremes HOW DOES SOMEONE SLEEP

>>11924 Gass

Just ate burnt ass and it tasted like bussy

Just ate burnt bussy and it tasted like ass

Just ate medium-well bussy and it tasted like chicken

>>11924 gushy??

>>11871 yakuza hikarin......

>>11884 Proof?

i got a day off today

>>11899 Lucky hikarin, hope it was a well rested day!

i am off sick today

>>11675 I can't tlel the difference between her and Kagamine Rin

>>11671 good. I live for their 2D tardbrain content

tutte >>11678 ok that's just racist

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>>11927 THE TRUTH HAS COME OUT

>>11751 I joined and then left the military, it was a horrible experience but also the only interesting thing I ever did in my life I then moved to the capital to further my education but had to move back home as it was clear that I would have no money left by the end of it I am now a NEET struggling to find even downie-tier employment or an affordable car and my parents want to kick me out but hey at least I passed the JLPT N1 last year I don't think I even spoke to any women let alone handholding any

>>11928 Sounds like someone joined the wrong branch with the wrong job. I'm living like a king and almost like a neet with how little I work

>>11929 I wouldn't know, I didn't even graduate from training. Pay-wise I would barely have made more than my past job

>>11930 Thats crazy. I was making 19 an hour at a factory and I make twice that now with so much PTO that its crazy.

>>11931 yeah I would have been a sergeant and making nowhere near that much. it wouldn't have been worth it when I would realistically ended up doing myself in

>>11922 >I spent the last 10 years enclosed in my room, and I'd like for me to get some good memories that are not just four walls. >I already got a job so that may be the least of problems for now. But I still live like a neet, never really ever going outside. Lucky I dropped out of high school when I was really young.. I wish I could get a job but it's so hard where I live. I don't know if a GED will be hard. It's hard to make friends now that everyones on their phones, maybe go outside to community places, public transport for example, strike up conversations if you see the same people over and over again, and if they ever invite you somewhere, go there. You could go to a coffee shop and hang out with old people, or to a bar which is a bit less exciting, and keep going there to have fun. I've always been frightened of the gym despite being around 60kg You could always volunteer, which country are you from? You could look at apartment posters, or whatever poster is there in the community. The phone kind of made everyone a NEET in a way, and university is probably the last place to make friends officially. You could check out sites like Tagmap(even if it is dead) with weird anons. Try going to conventions, anything. I've felt that the feeling of being a NEET leaves you once you regularly develop a habit of studying. Good luck hikarin!

>>10327 Is anybody here learning Chinese I wonder what came first, the script or the sounds I like the character 了 because it's unique to me and a bit efficient desu also, let me drop a few resources for you boys https://www.hanyutales.com/ a website for chinese stories https://hanzicraft.com/ draw chinese characters and get da word https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen/ extension to view the definition of each character https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-vocabulary/ HSK vocabulary if you're interested in mugging it all up https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page a great wiki for chinese grammar https://www.hackingchinese.com/ very useful website on learning chinese https://www.chinese-forums.com/ a forum which i like for its emphasis on chinese culture good luck hikarins

>>11198 https://taiwancenter.taiwan-world.net/material/basic here is a taiwanese government website with resources! they have a lot of workbooks if anyone wants to learn I might start reading Du Fu's and Li Bai's poems, a native told me to give them a try, they're very famous in China's education system https://ctext.org/ a website for free chinese textbooks

yongle civilopedia https://www.civilopedia.net/rise-and-fall/civilizations/leader_yongle

>>11672 Hikarin, have you been playing Civilization VII? Do you know if there are any good mods for Civilization VI? I wonder if it's received updates I learned about the Chaoshan region of China, it had been the origin of a lot of derivatives of it's culture, as it had been home to a lot of migration overseas. It had a lot of impact on Singaporeans, along with Indonesian Chinese, who were often the majority landowners, strangely often. Quite a few people there speak a variety of Mandarin that is the closest to ancient Chinese, and they're often referred to as the Teochew people. They also have a coming of age ceremony. Interesting people. https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/ A useful page for people trying to learning languages, a lot of documentation I'd recommend the movies, „An Elephant Standing Still” and „To Live” on https://kisskh.ws/ which I found a lot of East Asian shows in Also try out https://lightnovelpub.org/ for quite a few webnovels, albeit in English, Qidian would be better for Chinese https://www.konglongmandarin.com/ Another interesting website I came across to learn Mandarin from Peppa Pig

「 衆鳥高飛盡 孤雲獨去閒 相看兩不厭 只有敬亭山 」 「 The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. 」 A poem about the Jing-Ting mountain, related to Zazen in Buddhism, which is related to the meditation. It's interesting how Japan diverged from Chinese Buddhism with schools of esoteric Buddhism with skull rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa-ryu Chinese esoteric Buddhism never really flourished because of the persecution that arrived shortly after it began to be taught, and the name for it is literally related to the Tang dynasty - 唐密 It seems to be undergoing a small revival, with the designation of these temples by esoteric monks as important sites, because of their cultural influence outside China

>>11918 >if any of you hikarins knows how i could stop thinking like that or some other way to fix my issue, thatd be nice. i dont know why im writing this like im having a tech problem and am asking on reddit well... do you think poems are corny? even if it looks corny, what maters is that you made it, and that you made an experience. think in the flow, the best thought is infact, no thought is your game an rpg? i believe in you hikarin!