Oddly enough, even though we lost an hour due to that silly Daylight Savings hipster trend, looks like the wee one actually went to sleep earlier than normal. Which means it’s time for another exciting episode of Today I Learned: where I basically take notes so I can read them whenever I want later. This should take us to the half-way point of what’s currently available to watch in the Unreal course. Read More >

Wow, it’s been over a month since I last tried to follow along with this course, and there’s been an entire new section released in the meantime. Now that I’ve cleared some other things off my to-do list I’m planning on focusing on clearing my way through learning this material and then trying to put some of this newly gained knowledge to the test. Time to get crackin’! Read More >

Scratch one item off that perpetual to-do list! I’ve now “mastered” all of the 420 non-kanji words in Influent. Mastering really is their word, not mine. It means that I have successfully identified the words by selecting the object associated with them three consecutive times when presented with 10 different options to choose from. It doesn’t mean I have the ability to look at a given object and recall the Japanese word for it.

So I’ll probably continue to open it up now and then as a refresher to try and maintain and better cement the known vocabulary, but for the time being I get to move it off of my “to-do list”. At some point before the year is over, I’ll need to revisit it so that I can learn the kanji associated with the various words. I’d be surprised if there’s a lot given how many words used katakana. Read More >

Now that the school term is over, I’ve graded all the assignments and it’s time to clear some items off of my to-do list once again! Number one on my to-do list is clearing out the rest of the words from Influent. I’m probably closest to that than other goals at the moment so it seems like a pretty straight forward thing to tackle. So let’s take a look at 50 more verbs and adjectives! Read More >

I did it! I finished the game! I’m actually off to a rather slow start this year. Which is good? I guess it means I’ve spent more time being productive than playing games as it’s the first game I’ve finished in 2016. At this rate I might only manage a third of the games that I completed last year! It’s also kind of exciting as it’s the first time I’ve attempted to play through something in a different language. How’d that work out? Read More >

Menu, menu, menu. Everywhere you turn, there’s a menu. It’s been a while since I’ve had some spare time, but let’s dive in. I need to finish this game!We’re out of the woods with the “main menu” now, but of course there’s some additional screens that need attention here. We’ve got the “Pause” menu with some warnings in it, and we’ve got some hints being thrown at us so we can understand how to play the game. Let’s take a look! Read More >