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    Thread: 2011 Reflections and 2012 Resolutions
Post: 2011 Reflections and 2012 Resolutions

my goal for 2012 is to finish RTK (get at least 95% of them to the fourth+ column) and to start something like core2000 or kanji odyssey or whatever you call it (i started RTK in september, and am up ...
rinkuhero General discussion 93 19,349 2011-11-20, 5:26 am
    Thread: Is it really worth....?
Post: Is it really worth....?

asking if life is worth living presupposes the concept of "worth", but it is only to the alive that anything is "worth" anything. in other words, without life, there is no worth, so it makes no sense ...
rinkuhero Off topic 55 6,987 2011-11-20, 5:23 am
    Thread: How to deal with 300+ Knaji reps
Post: How to deal with 300+ Knaji reps

Jarvik7 Wrote:What are you doing that takes so long? That is 110 cards in 180 minutes. You are spending more than one minute per card? Even writing the character it should be taking about 10 seconds (...
rinkuhero General discussion 26 7,203 2011-11-17, 1:49 am
    Thread: Making Money Online
Post: Making Money Online

KMDES Wrote:As for "best-selling" SMB and BoI are great sellers when it comes to indie games, but if you compare them to games like Call of Duty, or Fallout:New Vegas or heck, let's throw in a bad gam...
rinkuhero General discussion 77 12,735 2011-11-10, 5:47 pm
    Thread: Making Money Online
Post: Making Money Online

KMDES Wrote:Another thing is, you can be the best at what you do, and still end up making no money. If you want to make money off a site, off a business, or a hobby or whatever, the main thing people ...
rinkuhero General discussion 77 12,735 2011-11-10, 8:30 am
    Thread: Making Money Online
Post: Making Money Online

instead of making a blog and getting advertising money off of it, i think it's far more effective to make digital products which people buy online. i'm an indie game developer and make a living (altho...
rinkuhero General discussion 77 12,735 2011-11-09, 5:54 am
    Thread: I am not so good at the Remembering part
Post: I am not so good at the Remembering part

this may be counter-intuitive, but i tend to get higher failure rates the *fewer* kanji i add per day. i was adding 80 a day for the first two weeks and had a retention rate of 85%. i slowed down to 1...
rinkuhero Remembering the Kanji 8 3,781 2011-11-03, 3:23 pm
    Thread: Japanese Twitter
Post: Japanese Twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/yasunorimitsuda music composer for chrono trigger etc. http://twitter.com/#!/KinuyoYamashita music composer for castlevania etc.
rinkuhero General discussion 6 2,067 2011-10-31, 6:41 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Failure Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Failure Here

failing about 50 cards out of 100 i think that there's something psychological about failing one card which makes you much more likely to fail the next, even if you would know the next one normally. ...
rinkuhero General discussion 23 6,462 2011-10-15, 4:40 pm
    Thread: How to deal with 300+ Knaji reps
Post: How to deal with 300+ Knaji reps

yeah i think the site's algorithm is fine for most purposes, but there are two things i don't like about it: - box 1 happens too late (3 days) -- i'd prefer 2 or even 1 day for the first box - there...
rinkuhero General discussion 26 7,203 2011-10-12, 1:57 pm
    Thread: How to deal with 300+ Knaji reps
Post: How to deal with 300+ Knaji reps

what i'm doing to keep my reviews manageable is that i *only* add new cards on days where i have less than 100 reviews due. this encourages trying to get a high accuracy rate because you want to add n...
rinkuhero General discussion 26 7,203 2011-10-11, 10:44 am
    Thread: Which one has more vocabulary? English or Japanese?
Post: Which one has more vocabulary? English or Japanese...

i think that even if it's not an important issue to linguists and lexicographers doesn't mean that it isn't an important issue to language-learners, who want to know how many words they know relative ...
rinkuhero The Japanese language 18 10,752 2011-10-11, 10:34 am
    Thread: Which one has more vocabulary? English or Japanese?
Post: Which one has more vocabulary? English or Japanese...

english has the most words of any language, but i think a more interesting question would be which has a larger everyday usage / recognition vocabulary. the average english user has a recognition voca...
rinkuhero The Japanese language 18 10,752 2011-10-11, 1:06 am
    Thread: almost done and getting annoyed
Post: almost done and getting annoyed

"If I keep up the pace I have right now, two more weeks and I'm free!" you probably should not immediately stop reviewing as soon as you finish; you need to keep reviewing for a time, or else you may...
rinkuhero Remembering the Kanji 33 10,455 2011-10-02, 12:04 pm
    Thread: Kindle 4 & Japanese dictionary
Post: Kindle 4 & Japanese dictionary

i've heard that credit cards and buying things online is uncommon in japan (relative to europe and the US), so perhaps that's the reason e-books haven't taken off there?
rinkuhero Learning resources 41 17,827 2011-10-02, 11:56 am
    Thread: nest0r - keep in touch
Post: nest0r - keep in touch

i think that if someone had that attitude towards learning japanese (that you can just make up your own grammar rules in the language) they wouldn't get very far i suppose "should of" can be consider...
rinkuhero Off topic 161 22,531 2011-09-26, 7:09 am
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

past 500 today (took 2 weeks); starting to go a bit slower now cause i fail about 20-40 a day
rinkuhero Remembering the Kanji 526 167,197 2011-09-23, 12:55 pm
    Thread: Heisig Wallpaper
Post: Heisig Wallpaper

some time during my freshman year of high school, which was 1994 or 1995; i was at barnes and nobles looking for some new sci-fi books to read and came across two workbooks (one for hiragana and one f...
rinkuhero Remembering the Kanji 17 13,163 2011-09-17, 12:42 pm
    Thread: Heisig Wallpaper
Post: Heisig Wallpaper

i made one for those of us who use dual monitors (3840x1080) http://pics.livejournal.com/rinku/pic/001d9q0x i don't know if anyone here uses dual monitors but me, but i figured i'd share it in case ...
rinkuhero Remembering the Kanji 17 13,163 2011-09-17, 9:39 am