@ehhh@varishangout.net No, no, they're very clever and avant-garde! They see "cute girls doing cute things" and think "the best I can do is belching hags, and dudes."

@jerkdouglas@shitposter.world >You'd think there's some equivalent difficulty for chinese people learning English, too. I've observed that while learning written Japanese at an adult level requires learning ~2000 kanji, the complementary difficulty is English pronunciation. It's easy not to realize this, but English (being an amalgam of languages) has us creating ~1500 different sounds, and our pronunciation rules make no sense because everything's an exception. Japanese has maybe 15 consonants and five vowels which combine in an extremely finite number of ways. Chinese is probably only a little more complex, but I've never really studied that. >Is there a primer I can read to properly figure out all of their retarded folk history? The "golden core" is probably referring to a particular sort of Taoism focused on "cultivation" or using meditation and alchemy to become some kind of superman. Popular in fiction, but I reckon it otherwise holds the same place in Chinese culture as Biblical literalism— that is, if we were churning out untold numbers of comic books about Jesus. Not sure what you'd read to understand that. Probably not Alan Watts, since he was more interested philosophically than culturally or historically. Maybe an annotated Tao Te Ching? I don't know what the core books of Taoism or Confucianism are, but I think you'd want to head in that direction if you actually wanted to understand this stuff.

@Xeraser@varishangout.net @Goalkeeper@nicecrew.digital >dpad and face buttons What do you suppose the knobs are for? Etch-a-sketch?

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