Teeworlds is fun, I have spent hundreds of hours in it. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's hard to stop playing once I start, and I regret ever finding out about the game. Thanks to automated solutions I don't play it much anymore.
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By the way, have you checked out Migaku's vacation add-on? I suggested it to you a while ago.
I find the website fairly useful. When I'm feeling like that it's hard to take care of things like window being closed and me not getting enough oxygen. Forgetting to eat is a thing too. Reminding is nice.
Not quite. It's health concerns.
Quoting https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/3/14/18264569/dwarf-fo... :
"Not long ago, he explains, Zach had a cancer scare. Even with a good insurance plan, the costs to tease things out were high. When Adams looked at his own plan he was shocked.
“We were looking at the health care prices,” Adams says. “If it had been me — we grew up in the same town, right; we have all the same doctors and everything — I would have been wiped out.”
“It’s just scary,” Adams says, referring to the health care system. “The whole thing. So that was on our minds. But also, the whole crowdfunding environment has been a little bumpy, just in terms of how Patreon changes. [...] That’s just how it is in games in general. People just feel kind of a little squeezed right now.”
And so the brothers at Bay 12 are doing something they thought they’d never do. Nearly 16 years into the project, they’ve pulled the trigger on a plan to make a proper commercial release. But how they’re planning to do it is the remarkable part."
1. Be the kind of a person to read books(focus on reading instead of playing).
2. Read Japanese. I'm okay at it but I have spent 2 years without using it at all.
3. Get good at programming. I have never gotten far, stuck in tutorial hell. But I aspire to manage it this year.
Another change is that territory is more valued than influence now, which too makes games less fun to watch, at least in my experience. To my knowledge, Shibano Toramaru, professional Go player, used to play highly focused on influence, and his games were very interesting to watch; it was just spectacular. But after AlphaGo came he converted to focus on territory like everyone else, only occasionally letting his beast out. But I watched only a few videos on him so don't take my word; it's just my impression.
I'm sorry, you're right about that, and yes, I don't know how good other approaches would have done it for me.
> However you cannot say with confidence what the future retention rate will be
At the time I studied, I stopped doing Japanese whatsoever, so retention dropped as it should. But I think if I have continued reading texts, I would have retained the meanings of kanji, just like it works with other languages I managed to stick with.
You have a fair point, I think we could conclude that both methods have its odds and cons and it's up to each to decide if they want to use it, so long as no rigid testing is provided, as you say.
It might be your personal experience, and I understand that mnemonics don't work out with everyone and some have better muscle memory and worse imagination. However, it's disingenuous to say that writing is a lot harder. I had no problem whatsoever learning meanings of 1500 kanji in 60 days, 2 hours a day. Other people have success too.
In addition, in my opinion you understate the usefulness of mnemonics to assist in learning. If we're to agree they do help with learning faster, you might still object as you wrote: "You can go through an entire book of mnemonics that teaches you 1,000 Chinese characters and retain none of it.". It's not much of a concern if one uses spaced repetition software like Anki.