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I like to try and pick a mix. I've been leaning more mage lately. Sometimes magic is super op, sometimes it's just an interesting system. Sometimes it's neither tho, and just clunky. So it's really kind of a toss up on whether that's a good decision.

Warriors are probably the best pick lots of times - just because gear systems often incentivize them. Finding a cool sword or shiny armor isn't very exciting when you're just hurling fireballs all the time anyway.

"We built the phone in between" [a smart phone and dumb phone] is a pretty appealing tag line. In the last half of the 2010s, when I finally dragged myself into getting an actual smart phone, I really wished I could get a flip phone that was more capable. The feature phones still on the market at the time seemed to be right out of 2003.

This implementation seems a little off. It has the flip form factor, and can run most android apps, great! But then it sounds like they arbitrarily block browsers and 'social media'? I think just leave them out by default, and let people go that route if they want it. The form factor already limits how well some of those would work.

Oh, nice! I tried searching and it didn't come up, so I thought parent comment was correct. Glad to see it.

Pumping through Anki cards this week. But probably over-doing that, need to actually be reading and listening more.

Consciousness: a Very Short Introduction.

I can't vouch for that particular book, but the VSI series is usually a good bet.

!kagismallweb@lemmy.world is basically an RSS feed of little blog posts. I've randomly seen a bunch of interesting stuff on there.

I also didn't realize the community was doing the bingo thing, that's kinda cool. Might try to get into that, and I can use the summer reading stuff as a jump start.

My library is doing summer reading, and they added a version of the challenge for adults. Their goal is to read 4 books over the summer, for bonus points one can be a non-fiction book about dinosaurs (their theme).

In the spirit of that, planning to read 4 library books. I've checked out Dragon's Teeth and Thunderstones: Quest for the Meaning of Fossils (McNamara) since it was out in the display and ostensibly about dinosaurs.

So far I am not loving it, lol. It's slow, spending a lot of time reiterating that ancient people made stuff out of rocks and sometimes those rocks were fossils and they thought those looked cool. And the author has repeated the phrase 'they looked for all the world like _' like 6 times. Distractly uncommon phrase to use so much. On top of that, it's not really about dinosaurs even, most of the fossils mentioned are sea urchins. /shrug At least it's short and has pictures to make pages go quick.

But alongside it I also checked out The Memory Police (Ogawa). In the opening pages it seems really interesting and well-written. The premise is a bit on-the-nose dystopian tho, so we'll see how well it's executed.

No idea on the federation issues. With Lemmy I guess I never feel sure whether I'm seeing everything either.

For getting back, I think you're on the right path. Just keep doing some consistently. Motivation comes and goes, but as long as you have a consistent habit, I expect you'll be fine.

If it helps, try to think back to why you want to learn [whichever language]. What would it enable you to so? How cool would it be? What if you had consistently worked as hard as you want to starting 10 years ago? Then realize today is 10 years before some other day.

It sounds pretty good. As long as it does have a systematic way of approaching Kanji, I think that's what counts.

Heisig's way is similar but different. It's just kanji only, no vocab or readings. And since he thinks you need all the common kanji anyway, it's done purely by components with no care for how useful the character is. The building-up-parts and mnemonics stuff I like, but I do think the ordering could use a little more consideration.

The Kohii app is actually a Foss thing that's not officially associated with the book or author. You can customize all the keywords and you record your own stories (or use ones shared by the community). I think it could still be useful for tracking characters you know, even if you're already deep in another app. (Then again, you've got a system and it's working, so no need to overcomplicate things and spend time on tools you don't need.)

How does MaruMori handle kanji?

I think RTK has definitely been good for me. I was doing Genki stuff and common words in Anki for a while before I tried it. Building up kanji knowledge the RTK way helps with not getting similar characters confused near as often, and not having to copy every time I write one.

You can get a lot of milage out of just reading the first bits about the method if you don't want to go all in on flashcards.

But getting that strong familiarity with kanji makes it easier to learn new words and such, so earlier is probably better if you want to do it.

Made my way through learning to write 75% of the Joyo Kanji via Rembering the Kanji and Kohii. Love the way this satisfies the number-go-up instinct in my brain, even if going through doing isolated kanji study isn't the most valuable thing.

I've also just generally been kinda absorbed in Anki this weekend. Had a few days where I couldn't really watch/listen to anything, but I could kill time on my phone w/ flashcards. Caught up on my Core 2k/6k deck (I'm about 1100 cards deep into that).

Also messed around with importing media decks from Jiten and messing with those. It's like a buffet tho, where my interest is higher than my capacity. Looked at these decks, but ultimately realize I should be focusing more on my core deck if anything, to get all these common words out of the way. The media decks are more compelling when they can be less than 1000 cards for high coverage, but for a season of anime or something, I'm still looking at about 2k card decks for 95% coverage.