The non-dumb-name out: You look circumcised

[Jazzmarazz]

This was his own though. Everyone I see has a netbook/laptop or at the very least androids/Iphones out here.

Are you loaded or using the phone?

Phone. I hope to get loaded come the evening.

[Sheik]

Do homework now? Or tomorrow?


Who am I kidding, tomorrow

In the meantime, I should get to making sure I can play BL2. Kinda got a copy from a good friend, but not sure my i7 would run it because it has an Intel dedicated graphics card.

[Zaladane]

Couple of months.
That and I would totally try to find a job that pays "under the table" before going with leisure items.

Maybe, maybe not. I see guys with garbage bags filled with cans, I mean you could probably fit a 100 crushed cans in one garbage bag and if you have 5 of those that's 25 - 50 bucks depending on if it's a pop or beer can (5-10 cents) Who knows maybe he washes dishes somewhere too

[Sheik]

Maybe, maybe not. I see guys with garbage bags filled with cans, I mean you could probably fit a 100 crushed cans in one garbage bag and if you have 5 of those that's 25 - 50 bucks depending on if it's a pop or beer can (5-10 cents) Who knows maybe he washed dishes somewhere too

It's a bit better in Michigan, it's always 10 cents no matter what. I did that sometimes because I bought too much pop with my former allowance.

[Sheras]

In the meantime, I should get to making sure I can play BL2. Kinda got a copy from a good friend, but not sure my i7 would run it because it has an Intel dedicated graphics card.

Why not 360?

[Sheik]

Why not 360?

Xbawks 1 and PS4 will come out, plus my family has gotten attached to the 360, no need to buy a new one, or strip that one from them.

[Jazzmarazz]

Pissed that the girl made us visit the inlaws. I can't design circuit boards or read data sheets...I guess I should finish SMTIV.

[Spose']

That too. Also, adding to what Gare said, it's sometimes used in other ways, too. Like... robotic / artificial speech is often rendered in only katakana, so it's not uncommon to see entire strings of katakana being used for stuff that would normally use all three written styles when the character in question is a robot or something. Also, since katakana tends to convey a sort of foreign / artificial nuance sometimes, it can sometimes be used when someone is using a kanji word that they don't necessarily fully grasp the meaning of. For example:

Person A: 私は学生です。
Person B: ガクセイは何ですか？

In that scenario, person B doesn't really understand the meaning of the word 学生, and is just mimicking the sequence of sounds that they heard, so it can be rendered in katakana to stress that lack of understanding, being that only kanji carry inherent meaning in and of themselves. If you translated it into English, it might become something like, "A stu... dent?" Like... it sounds like someone's chewing over the syllables, trying to work out what they might mean. It doesn't always happen, and it's a stylistic choice, but you see it quite often.

Ultimately, like Gare said, while there are general rules about what script should be used in what situations, they are quite often mixed up for various reasons, so take those rules as general guidelines rather than something unbreakable.

That actually really interesting, and extremely useful to know. Thanks!

[Sheras]

Xbawks 1 and PS4 will come out, plus my family has gotten attached to the 360, no need to buy a new one, or strip that one from them.

I could have walked you through it, or worked on my mechromancer more

[Elin]

That actually really interesting, and extremely useful to know. Thanks!

Not at all. It's interesting for me too. I've been studying Japanese for so long now that, while my Japanese is still nowhere near perfect, it doesn't really feel like a "foreign" language to me anymore, and I take most of this stuff for granted in the same way that I take for granted spelling or grammar in English. It's interesting to see it from a beginner's point of view again, and to think about why some of this stuff maybe is the way it is.

[Sheik]

I could have walked you through it, or worked on my mechromancer more

Won't deny you know your stuff, but first plays should be clueless for the impact factor. It's like throwing a strategy guide for a Final Fantasy game, makes the game lose its charm and now it's tedious busywork.

[Spose']

Not at all. It's interesting for me too. I've been studying Japanese for so long now that, while my Japanese is still nowhere near perfect, it doesn't really feel like a "foreign" language to me anymore, and I take most of this stuff for granted in the same way that I take for granted spelling or grammar in English. It's interesting to see it from a beginner's point of view again, and to think about why some of this stuff maybe is the way it is.

I'm glad to hear it's not bothersome for you, having you are Gare here to help me out with a lot of basics and other things has made the learning process a far bit faster!

I have a pretty minor question about "なんだ”, I've looked it up a bit online but I haven't found any good explanations on why it can have two meanings.

I've seen it used as "Why" and I've also seen it used it in another way. Kinda of like explaining that you do mean something I think is a way to explain it. The example for the other usage was found when I was trying to tell the difference between なんだ　and なに. It was "好きなんだ". I think they said in this use it has something to do with explaining it as a reason for something?

[Sheras]

Won't deny you know your stuff, but first plays should be clueless for the impact factor. It's like throwing a strategy guide for a Final Fantasy game, makes the game lose its charm and now it's tedious busywork.

Then I would have been my mechro, just started her, only lv 15. I wouldn't have gone my tryhard lv 72 commando with overpower 8 gear + turrets

[Elin]

I'm glad to hear it's not bothersome for you, having you are Gare here to help me out with a lot of basics and other things has made the learning process a far bit faster!

I have a pretty minor question about "なんだ”, I've looked it up a bit online but I haven't found any good explanations on why it can have two meanings.

I've seen it used as "Why" and I've also seen it used it in another way. Kinda of like explaining that you do mean something I think is a way to explain it. The example for the other usage was found when I was trying to tell the difference between なんだ　and なに. It was "好きなんだ". I think they said in this use it has something to do with explaining it as a reason for something?

なんだ on its own can indeed mean "what" / "why" in casual language. But that's a different "なんだ” to the "なんだ" on the end of sentences, so it's best not to group them together in your head like that. When it comes at the end of a sentence like that, it's generally either a mild way of giving a reason / explanation for something, or stressing something. I think it's one of these things that is quite hard to explain the usage of beyond a simple definition like that, so it's best to just observe how Japanese people use it and try to mimic accordingly

An aside, but Japanese people quite often also use it as a get out clause if they start a sentence in plain form out of habit and then realise that the person they're speaking to is someone they have to be polite to, as you can end most plain form sentences with んです / のです / なんです and have them sound polite. :'D

[Spose']

なんだ on its own can indeed mean "what" / "why" in casual language. But that's a different "なんだ” to the "なんだ" on the end of sentences, so it's best not to group them together in your head like that. When it comes at the end of a sentence like that, it's generally either a mild way of giving a reason / explanation for something, or stressing something. I think it's one of these things that is quite hard to explain the usage of beyond a simple definition like that, so it's best to just observe how Japanese people use it and try to mimic accordingly

An aside, but Japanese people quite often also use it as a get out clause if they start a sentence in plain form out of habit and then realise that the person they're speaking to is someone they have to be polite to, as you can end most plain form sentences with んです / のです / なんです and have them sound polite. :'D

That would explain why it was hard to find a post somewhere explaining fully the difference. Seems like I'll have to look for なんだ at the end of a sentence a pretty fair amount of times before I could use it myself. I'm probably going to have to drop comparing similar words(probably the wrong term to use I guess) to each other, it probably would help me a lot out and stop some confusions like that. I guess it could be an English habit or something.

You cleared my confusion up a lot better than most of the resources I tried to look at. I'm extremely grateful. The last bit of info will be nice to know, maybe soon I'll see it online somewhere although my reading skill are pretty bad so far(although it doesn't sound like it will be seen much online).