@NasColdChain This type of review system was invented for video games and even the publications that invented it eventually abandoned it because they felt it was a bad way to review video games.
If people started doing this the site would be unusable. It would be a constant barrage of the most insipid bullshit you could imagine. Like have you ever read r/truefilm? You want a whole website of that??
“In german, ‘will’ actually expresses a present tense expectation or intention, and doesn’t constitute a true future tense, unlike english.”
“That’s great hon what about tomorrow?”
“John’s getting here at 8, we’re leaving here at 8:30, and our flight is at 10:45”
Dude it’s so funny that we got conned into believing that english has a future tense for hundreds of years, even though the more certain we are of something happening in the future the less likely we are to use the ‘future tense’
@allsundayjelly@dadsweb67@jailorete Pulled out my old copy of 2nd edition to check and the furigana on 富士山 is ふじさん. Tae Kim makes some mistakes in his guide but I doubt he’s calling it fujiyama. So gotta be that anki deck o yours.
Japan's ramen industry has a "1,000 yen wall": the belief that raising a bowl above 1,000 yen will scare off customers. But Tokyo's Ramen Break Beats charges 2,000 yen (USD $13.50) serving Michelin Guide-level bowls.
The hustle, the bustle — and the bodegas that fuel it all. The late nights that turn into early mornings. The hook ups, break ups, make ups and shake-ups. The fact that it may not be easy, but at least you know you’re having the time of your life. And — yeah — the freakin’ pizza.
Skull Island expedition, september 10 1937:
I saw a giant crab get eaten by a giant millipede which got picked up by a giant bat but then that got swallowed by a gargantuan parasitic worm which got trod on by a brontosaurus which tripped and fell onto a big ape