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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • go through the menu for every three episodes

    So many providers these days STILL don’t get that the more control you take away the less incentive people have to buy their product. Oh I have to see a mandatory FBI piracy warning splash screen and the speed control is locked at 1.5x max? Jeez it’s a shame you can’t compete with the pirated file that has no nag screens and I can blow through at fucking 20x if I want.














  • I tend to think of dropping the subject in Japanese as somewhat equivalent to using pronouns in English. If we don’t know what the context is in English you need a (named) noun. Without context, saying “She tore up the grass” doesn’t tell you exactly who was doing it. Could be a cow, a driver, nosy neighbor Mildred, etc. But after the speakers agree on context, continuing to use the noun instead of the pronoun sounds awkward pretty quickly.

    In Japanese it’s pretty much the same but instead of switching to pronouns they drop the subject entirely. Frustrating for language learners, I can assure you. At least in English the pronoun gives you a hint, even if you’re lacking the full picture.