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Antinumeric

simonwolf wrote: »

This lady is also asking if I've looked into other avenues for improving my Japanese language abilities, which is her main concern

ma'am you are aware I am living in Japan right now

I am getting immersion'd

Nah man you should try Rosetta Stone.

I hear it's really good.

Jacobkosh

my no moving game did surprisingly well at 11049 points

my biggest miss was mistaking a mountain road in northern Norway for one in Switzerland

I got a place in Southern Brazil to within 400km though

simonwolf

I've heard arguments that Rosetta Stone can be pretty good for non-Asian languages, actually

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

simonwolf she wants the D.

Antinumeric

simonwolf wrote: »

I've heard arguments that Rosetta Stone can be pretty good for non-Asian languages, actually

It was designed with Spanish in mind IIRC. Apparently it's quite good for that.

But learning non-romance languages?

japan

16228 with moving around and googling the things I find (Radio Nuevo Leon, a shopping centre in Cancun, a Quebecois estate agent, and the aforementioned shrine thing).

At least I managed to get the correct country each time this time.

Casual

stahp jacob

stahp

come back toward the light

this is an intervention

Mojo_Jojo

simonwolf wrote: »

I've heard arguments that Rosetta Stone can be pretty good for non-Asian languages, actually

The trial is fucking atrocious for French.

Echo

So my web host moved servers around MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO meaning my site has been down since then.

Grade A incompetent clusterfuck.

japan

Also to be fair I could have racked that score right up, but I'm generally happy enough with finding the right municipality and/or urban area, even if I've figured out the street address.

override367

Geez I'm writing this paper for this play and I guess the teacher thinks that we're supposed to think that the protagonist is a STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMAN and make a head snapping motion while saying "you go girl" because she leaves her husband and children after what is apparently the first fight in the entire marriage

this lady is a horrible person but the professor seems to think she's the bees knees, even if you're a strong feminist women aren't always the hero in a story if they stick it to the patriarchy

"yeahh, fuck my kids, they're shackles holding me into servitude! I never want to see them again" *applause*

simonwolf

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT wrote: »

simonwolf she wants the D.

no comment

Antinumeric

Ignoring the media influence, how difficult do ESL people feel English is to learn?

I imagine the grammar is easy but the vocab / little dumb rules are hard.

TTODewback

Spent my first night at the new place.
Slept like a baby.
Right through the alarm....
And still got to work 15 minutes early.
Love the new drive

Elendil

override367 wrote: »

Geez I'm writing this paper for this play and I guess the teacher thinks that we're supposed to think that the protagonist is a STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMAN and make a head snapping motion while saying "you go girl" because she leaves her husband and children after what is apparently the first fight in the entire marriage

this lady is a horrible person but the professor seems to think she's the bees knees, even if you're a strong feminist women aren't always the hero in a story if they stick it to the patriarchy

"yeahh, fuck my kids, they're shackles holding me into servitude! I never want to see them again" *applause*

nora is great you hater

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

simonwolf wrote: »

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT wrote: »

simonwolf she wants the D.

no comment

YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE

override367

Elendil wrote: »

override367 wrote: »

Geez I'm writing this paper for this play and I guess the teacher thinks that we're supposed to think that the protagonist is a STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMAN and make a head snapping motion while saying "you go girl" because she leaves her husband and children after what is apparently the first fight in the entire marriage

this lady is a horrible person but the professor seems to think she's the bees knees, even if you're a strong feminist women aren't always the hero in a story if they stick it to the patriarchy

"yeahh, fuck my kids, they're shackles holding me into servitude! I never want to see them again" *applause*

nora is great you hater

Nora sucks and Torvald sucks and Krogstad sucks

Nora has like, absolutely no redeeming qualities even if her husband is an idiot

Elendil

medea is the best feminist of all time tho

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

TTODewback wrote: »

Spent my first night at the new place.
Slept like a baby.
Right through the alarm....
And still got to work 15 minutes early.
Love the new drive

Time to adjust that alarm.

skippydumptruck

I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke
Now I slam it when I'm done to make sure it's broke

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Help

I'm being harassed

By a small orange cat

RMS Oceanic

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

Help

I'm being harassed

By a small orange cat

?

Casual

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

Help

I'm being harassed

By a small orange cat

in the work place?

sue his mysoginistic ass

skippydumptruck

@arch http://swoopbags.com/

Organichu

Antinumeric wrote: »

Ignoring the media influence, how difficult do ESL people feel English is to learn?

I imagine the grammar is easy but the vocab / little dumb rules are hard.

It was east for md but I'm brilliant.

simonwolf

Okay, re-reading her email, she essentially seems to be saying that she'll talk with her boss about being my supervisor, but she wants to be sure that I've done my research and have investigated other universities before I submit my application

as though I won't be applying to multiples regardless

override367

hmm last day of poli sci do I want to go

or do I already know how the supreme court functions

skippydumptruck

Organichu wrote: »

Antinumeric wrote: »

Ignoring the media influence, how difficult do ESL people feel English is to learn?

I imagine the grammar is easy but the vocab / little dumb rules are hard.

It was east for md but I'm brilliant.

*nods*

Kalkino

11000 points second go!

21stCentury

Augh, I sleep so well, i have a lot of trouble getting up in the morning.

Jacobkosh

desert, trailer homes, English signs, weird-looking pyramidal Christian church, okay, this is obviously the American Southw-

wait a minute

weird-looking road sign

NICE TRY SOUTH AFRICA

Mojo_Jojo

21stCentury wrote: »

Augh, I sleep so well, i have a lot of trouble getting up in the morning.

I routinely wake up an hour before I need to get out of bed. It's pretty rubbish as I'm still tired.

simonwolf

suck it, nerds

TTODewback

Sleep is the best.
I have no food or drink nor TV or computer set up in my new place. All I have is a bed and couch.
I will be doing a lot of sleeping

RMS Oceanic

My acceptable chat thread has allowed me to breech 1000 awesomes!

TTODewback

simonwolf wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/ujcVLXU.png

suck it, nerds

Don't zoom out or they'll realize what state you're in and laugh at you maniacally.

Abdhyius

Jacobkosh wrote: »

I mean it depends entirely on what we think the game is supposed to be testing

I mean frankly if it's just selecting street view coordinates at random the odds suggest we're most likely to end up on some remote road going through a deciduous forest or flat plains in canada, the US, europe, or russia. is it testing our ability to discern one forest path from another? it's not like the resolution is good enough to figure out the exact species of tree!

if it's testing our ability to suss out clues and cultural context, I think moving down the road looking for signs and actual human beings is fair play.

Generally you can recognize - roughly - where you are solely based on the trees and the look of the land and the shrubbery

I notice when it's different but a lot of the time I just don't know what place in the world looks this way.

21stCentury

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

My acceptable chat thread has allowed me to breech 1000 awesomes!

I bet if i ever make the chat thread, i'll be more likely to be infracted than awesomed.

Such is my cross to bear.

simonwolf

and another at 0.027km for 6477 points

me am best at game

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

you geography nerds.