音姫 [おとひめ] (otohime)
noun
Melody or flushing sound played by a Japanese toilet to mask excretion sounds.
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To toot my own horn very vigorously, something clicked in my head the other day and my enjoyment of browsing Japanese webpages has improved tremendously. I had seen all the pieces before but the puzzle finally was solved.
Basically, it was to set up a mouse button that when clicked opens up a drawer attached to the window that shows definitions for whatever word that may happen to be highlighted. I believe this should work in many applications but having it in Safari is more than enough for me, at least.
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遣り逃げ [やりにげ] (yarinige) having sex with a woman and then breaking off contact with her (esp. after telling her that you love her), wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, hit it and quit it, fuck and chuck
I love the things I find in the dictionary by accident.
I threw Snatcher into my Saturn and began to play. I was sitting at my kotatsu with my DS prepped with Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten and JEDict ready to go on my iMac.
And I couldn’t help but wish there was an easier way.
Isn’t that ridiculous? I can take a hunk of plastic and scribble it on some device and look up Japanese characters within seconds. And I want to be able to do it with less effort. If I were to have played this game back when it was released, I’d probably have to spend hours digging through paper dictionaries to look up kanji I don’t know just to be able to figure out one word. I can do that within seconds now, but that’s not good enough for me.
I really need to just sit down and crank through some Japanese games again. I’ve been mingling through for the past weeks but I haven’t actually been doing anything constructive. I really do live in a technological paradise and yet I’m not getting motivated enough to make use of it. That’s a shame, and really almost a crime.
本番 [ほんばん] [honban]
(1) performance, take, going before an audience or on-air
(2) game, season, crucial moment
(3) actual sexual intercourse (i.e. not simulated).
I failed the JLPT.
I would like to say I studied hard for it, but I didn’t. It’s fairly disappointing that I only got a 52%, but it’s mostly disappointing that I’ll have to shell out for the test again. Oh well, time to pick back up the books.
I did worse last night in Street Fighter 4 in terms of wins, but I feel I did better overall. I was pulling off more moves1 and was winning a round more often, even if I couldn’t win two in the same match. I heard I can get a decent stick for around ¥5000, which if I can sell a good chunk of my US games to this one store that carries imports should be nothing big. I’m mostly thinking of the investment for the sake of my poor thumb.
Devil Survivor has gotten pretty rough as I am nearing the end of Day 2. I have done one fight over at least five times already. I have to make sure two characters don’t die along with keeping my own team alive and this is proving frustrating. The one young woman is trying to run to a certain tile on the map to escape, and if I do not take care of enemies close to her fast enough they will get her. But she’s at least trying not to die. The other guy is steadfast in his belief that he will soon die so he keeps charging into everything and, well, dies. Doofus.
I’ve been kinda in the mood for a horror game, so I think Nameless Game will be my next venture when Devil Survivor is out of the way. Although with the rate I am going, that might be a while.
- Until my thumb started hurting like hell. [↩]
Finally found a copy of the game that I will be soon starting to translate. I had to hit up about five stores before I found one and it wasn’t even boxed! Annoying but at least it isn’t rare.
Walking through Osaka as I write this so I am going to keep it short. Don’t mean to be mysterious (or do I?) but don’t want to say too much before I make good progress.
While the legality of ROMs is pretty unquestionable, I can’t help but think a little foray into some hacking and translating might be good for all the skills I really want to work on for the future. I have been playing around with hex editors and tile viewers today and I expect to announce a project within the next week.
Stay tuned!
I have tasted many different animals in my time in Japan. Horse is surprisngly tasty. Whale is great but a little greasy but nice. Fish reproductive organs and pregnant fish aren’t my favorite, but they are okay.
Tonight I got a chance to have wild boar. We made it nabe style which is basically a big pot with various vegetables and other shit. Thing is we thought there would be more people and didn’t even make everything that we have and had ore than enough to split between 3 people.
It was good but I learned I really don’t know how to describe food. I mean, it tastes like meat with a little excitement to it. I have heard the word “gamey” thrown around before. Hard to know what that is. I guess this is it?
Solid meat, though. Would eat again.
There are several stores that I hit up in Japan for my used game excursions and they all seem to haev their own little deals. Point cards and so on for the most part.
This one store I go to has a little lottery that costs ¥1000 (about $10). You get a capsule and there is a coupon inside. Now, the basic “You lost” coupon is a coupon for up to ¥1500 (about $15) in games. You can’t go over, so unless you pick out some games that total the amount, you’re bound to lose some of that bonus cash.
But if you’re going to buy a couple of cheap old games anyway, it seems like it would be worth shooting for a prize, which can range from a game that’s around ¥2000~¥3000 or a Playstation 3 at the top prize.
So, they make a little less money off of me with the basic coupons, or, almost a little less but I was planning on not spending any money and they got ¥2000 yen off of me and I got a bunch of cheap used games that they probably paid less than that for. Everyone wins, I guess?
