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Musashi

June 16, 2014
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Just earlier I was reading a wiki about the old province of Musashi, and I was a bit surprised to see a proposal that its name is of Ainu origin and roughly means marsh. I’ve been interested in the name itself for a while, considering how it keeps popping up all over the area of the former province (which includes where I live). On the other hand, I find it quite fascinating that while the English wiki only lists Vovin’s Ainu origin theory for the name, the Japanese wiki doesn’t even mention such a possibility. Remember the axioms of Japanese society:

1) Japan is a homogenous, monocultural society.
2) If reality is otherwise, then 1).

Why League of Legends is evil

June 15, 2014
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A week or so ago I started playing League again. I just wanted some entertainment more active than watching anime and less randomly frustrating than KanColle. Well…

Except League eats into sleeping time and it is way more frustrating than KC due to the utter idiocy of a huge portion of the people – and it’s just as luck/random dependent who I get teamed up with as are drops, compass decisions and critical hits in KC.

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Why was life created?

May 31, 2014
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Indeed, why was life created? It’s such a complex and mysterious thing, one of those few out there that go against the universal law of entropy, that it must’ve been created by some higher intelligence. And intelligence acts reasonably, so there must be some reason to the existence of life, and thus to our human lives as well. What could be that reason? Who was the creator?

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Insulation

May 31, 2014
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So apparently my flat faces west, something I only noticed recently as days’ve been getting hotter. I’ve kept my windows open for weeks now, and in the morning it’s always nice and cool to wake up, and even when I get back home for lunch… But then when I get out of work and arrive home in the evening, it’s a whole different story.

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Underline media franchises

May 28, 2014
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The other day I was riding the train to the suburbs of Tokyo with a colleague to pick up some cuts for the show in production, and on the train I saw this (maybe junior high?) girl reading a book.

Now, I thought, what can make a kid read nowadays? I can rely on my own experiences in the matter even less that with other stuff, since when I was junior high age, my favorite book was (drums, please) Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Note that wouldn’t change until I discovered Neil Gaiman after I entered university.

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Bloody Sabbath

May 22, 2014
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My Saturday (nor the days following) was in no way shorter than my Friday. I started the day in Akihabara, checking out the lineup of airsoft shops. We’re going airsofting in Ibaraki with a bunch of colleagues on Sunday, so I looked around, tried out some guns at a shop with a test shooting range (fun as hell), and bought nothing. Gonna go back the day after tomorrow for some of the essentials, mostly protective gear.

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Quake

May 14, 2014
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The thing in the post title is something I didn’t have any experience with before coming to Japan. It only became a part of my daily routine since I moved to Tokyo almost two months ago. Sadly I’m not talking about the FPS game.

I’m pretty sure I’ve experienced more earthquakes in Tokyo just the past two weeks than in the 4 years I spent in Hikone. “Best” of all is that some of these weren’t even small. Small is when everyone just tweets “omg it’s an earthquake” then forgets all about it ten minutes later.

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Az a fránya angol

May 12, 2014
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Megy a majré, hogy milyen felháborítóan nehéz volt az emelt angol érettségi hallásértési feladata. Az a bizonyos Picasso. Biztos csak a külföldre szabadult ember beszél belőlem, de erre csak annyit tudok mondani, hogy: Magyarország. Ugyan miért nem rinyál a magyar ember?

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Playstyle

May 11, 2014
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Now that the spring event is over, my KanColle playstyle changes once again. Back in university I had the time (or just didn’t care that I don’t) to play actively all day every day, and I was clearing all the quests, even those vastly cost-ineffective. Which as a side effect resulted in that I was poor. I remember feeling rich having 7-8 thousands of resources.

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Originality

May 11, 2014
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During the past month, one question we were asked pretty often was whether we want to move on to the creative or the management side of production. I answered management without hesitation, since I don’t feel an ounce of creativity in myself that I thought to be essential for the other path.

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