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    Thread: "Steam" Games in Japanese
Post: "Steam" Games in Japanese

Alan Wake on Steam is available in Japanese with both dubbed voice acting and text. Great game, too.
walruz Off topic 84 48,830 2012-03-28, 3:27 am
    Thread: Thread of entertaining or useful Japanese-language websites
Post: Thread of entertaining or useful Japanese-language...

I haven't seen a general link thread around here, so I'm starting one. This isn't meant as a thread of language learning links (we have one of those already), but rather general websites that you find...
walruz Learning resources 7 2,560 2012-03-06, 5:26 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I came upon a bug today. I haven't encountered it anytime before during the couple of weeks I've been using rikaisama. Awesome plugin, btw. After having saved a lookup to text file, it stops displayi...
walruz Learning resources 859 244,141 2012-02-27, 6:06 pm
    Thread: Philosophy question (I won't bite ^^)
Post: Philosophy question (I won't bite ^^)

ファブリス Wrote:PS: I've always wondered, can anyone here read without hearing words in the mind? I can't but still wonder if it's possible. I think it was a post on this very forum that claimed that th...
walruz Off topic 30 5,517 2012-02-27, 5:40 pm
    Thread: I just went Tokyo for three minutes
Post: I just went Tokyo for three minutes

NoSleepTilFluent Wrote:[Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biHe4Vyiv6A] [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcUQDCtLbA] I just gotta say, your username made me chuckle :)
walruz General discussion 5 1,575 2012-02-27, 5:15 pm
    Thread: African French Resources
Post: African French Resources

IceCream Wrote:Oh, one more resource, not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but Lingoes: http://www.lingoes.net/ is Rikaichan for multiple other languages, and has tons of different dictionar...
walruz Off topic 11 2,944 2012-02-26, 7:45 am
    Thread: Can I review more using the koohii interface?
Post: Can I review more using the koohii interface?

When I first started RTK 1, I used surusu (AJATT's SRS platform). It's not exactly bad, but it's extremely bare-bones (at least, it was when I used it). There were a couple of features in Anki that re...
walruz Remembering the Kanji 5 1,164 2012-02-24, 3:21 pm
    Thread: PC games in Japanese
Post: PC games in Japanese

merlin.codex Wrote:My recommendation is Baldur's Gate 2. Quite an old one but still interesting and fully translated into Japanese. Is there any way to get this without ordering it from japanese ebay ...
walruz Learning resources 19 8,671 2012-02-20, 7:19 am
    Thread: Which font is more correct?
Post: Which font is more correct?

So, for example, 祇 shows up in MS Mincho with the altar primitive looking like 示, but in the kanji stroke order font the altar primitive looks like in RTK. There are a bunch of other kanji in which M...
walruz Learning resources 8 2,231 2012-01-31, 2:01 am
    Thread: PC games in Japanese?
Post: PC games in Japanese?

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:Skyrim can be purchased through Steam and played in Japanese, yes, so can some other games, but not all games that have a Japanese version can be set to Japanese if purchased thr...
walruz Off topic 19 8,964 2012-01-09, 1:29 pm
    Thread: Signal Primitives
Post: Signal Primitives

There are probably a bunch of sites hosting pirate pdfs of the books in question. Seeing as how you've already bought the paper copy (I assume), the only real difference between downloading a pdf or s...
walruz Remembering the Kanji 3 1,250 2011-12-18, 5:36 pm
    Thread: Core 10000 anki deck?
Post: Core 10000 anki deck?

There used to be a deck in the anki shared decks database called "Japanese Core 10000 with audio v2", but it doesn't seem to be there anymore. I can't find any external site hosting it, so I'm wonderi...
walruz Learning resources 38 23,617 2011-12-18, 5:30 pm
    Thread: PC games in Japanese
Post: PC games in Japanese

Off topic since it doesn't concern patching games, but on topic in the sense that it is about PC games: Anyone know an online vendor that a) sells Japanese PC games (preferably western games translat...
walruz Learning resources 19 8,671 2011-11-21, 9:03 pm
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Seems like quite a useful plugin. Can't test it, though, because the following keeps popping up when I'm trying to export as per the OP of this thread: Quote:An error occurred in a plugin. Please con...
walruz Learning resources 443 136,523 2011-11-20, 3:25 pm
    Thread: Other kanji with the "cactus" primitive from RTK3 (聯)
Post: Other kanji with the "cactus" primitive from RTK3 ...

So, the cactus primitive (lower right part of 聯). Yeah. Heisig himself says that it doesn't appear anywhere else in his book, but that it's good to remember for writing old forms, among other things. ...
walruz The Japanese language 3 1,812 2011-10-28, 11:28 am
    Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration
Post: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab...

Excellent tool. It took me a while to figure out why files couldn't load. Changing the text in the "File was unable to load" dialog box to something like "File was unable to load. Make sure the file a...
walruz Learning resources 298 107,866 2011-09-18, 5:06 am
    Thread: Help me find the epic hanzi vs hanzi vs kanji spreadsheet
Post: Help me find the epic hanzi vs hanzi vs kanji spre...

So, a couple of months (or weeks, can't remember), i saw a google docs spreadsheet someone had posted here that contained the simplified hanzi, traditional hanzi and kanji version of each character, a...
walruz Chinese and Hanzi 1 1,261 2011-04-22, 2:08 pm
    Thread: Large vocab deck with tags for Genki, IJ, Tobira, JLPT plus homophones
Post: Large vocab deck with tags for Genki, IJ, Tobira, ...

Just a question: Definitions seem to be from JDIC, but from where are the information in the "Meaning" field? I'm wondering specifically because 一切 is listed as "not at all, not one bit" in the Meanin...
walruz Learning resources 23 10,911 2011-01-20, 1:08 pm
    Thread: buonaparte's audio and text links
Post: buonaparte's audio and text links

cb4960 Wrote:nest0r Wrote:Request cancelled! It's all Taken Care Of™. Though someone should still post something eventually just in case. In the interest of reducing load on the JPod101 servers, I’ve ...
walruz Learning resources 497 279,056 2011-01-19, 7:55 am
    Thread: buonaparte's audio and text links
Post: buonaparte's audio and text links

buonaparte Wrote:Brown, Dan - da Vincikoden Koontz, Dean - Nar manen skiner It might be easier to find da Vinci-koden and När månen skiner, though (not trying to be snarky, just trying to be helpful)....
walruz Learning resources 497 279,056 2011-01-19, 5:32 am
    Thread: Reading words that are the same but aren't.
Post: Reading words that are the same but aren't.

To jump straight to the point, I'm having an extremely hard time finding the difference in usage between a couple of words which are spelled the same, but which have different readings. When do you us...
walruz The Japanese language 11 3,943 2010-12-18, 5:10 am