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Hey, what’s up all of you boys, girls, and cats. My name on here is Igmdigm, and I’m a cat on the internet. I also use a myriad of other aliases that I won’t even go through the hassle of listing unless you want me to- anyway, you can also refer to me by my real name, Dakota. I’m, without a doubt, a gamer. I love playing games. I love the culture, I love meeting new people, I love a lot of things about gaming. However, the one thing that I’ve loved about it more than anything else is its foundations.
While it’s not like I don’t play a lot of more modern games(I should learn to stay away from LoL), there’s nothing that humbles me more than gaming’s roots. I’m sure you can figure out that all of these roots stem from no other country but Japan. One of the biggest reasons it keeps coming to the forefront of my thought is this one, although there are plenty of others as well. I could keep ranting on and on about my passions, but I suppose some of it would be a little esoteric if I just kept going.Back to more relevant things, I decided to learn Japanese because I actually wish to live in Japan. One of the biggest reasons is the fact that they are vastly more interesting to me than anywhere else. Their culture, media, language, and people have a lot of unique content to understand, and only having immersed into a small amount of their media and history, I want to be even more immersed, so that I might even drown in it. And how else do you drown in a culture besides living in it?
I don’t have any special connections or personal stories to relate to Japan(some of you have some wonderful narratives) besides my affinities for gaming, anime, and history, but that’s part of the reason I want to go there so bad. I’m young, and I want to be able to have some stories to tell in the future, especially about a country that just seems to keep me gravitating toward it.Anyway, I don’t want to bore you, nor do I want to keep spending any more time that I could be using to learn. I think that’s most of what you need to know about me(besides the fact that I’m gay), but you can always feel free to ask me any questions since I’m open about pretty much everything. I hoped you enjoyed reading my intro, and I hope moreso that you have a nice day!
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Igmdigm.
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Noice.Welcome to TextFugu!
Nothing wrong with esoteric. ^_^
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Guide for using Anki 2 with TextFugu:
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List of Common Errors in TextFugu:
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がんばって！
はじめまして、よろしくおねがいします！
Technically, America is responsible for the origin of video games. Japan is responsible for the resurrection of video games after America killed them in the late 70s. I like to think of it as a team effort though ^_^
Not from the desk of Eihiko. Eihiko's boss took his desk away from him.@Eihiko I didn’t necessarily say origin. I’m aware that America is basically responsible for the inception of it, but as you know, it barely survived due to the fact that almost none of those developers necessarily knew what made an interesting and memorable game, and even those that did hardly had the marketing means to spread it. At that point, Japan just walked in with the NES, which basically shocked the world in sales and ignited the market. I could cite evidence, but it does truly come down to opinion. I believe that, internationally, there would a very distinct lack of variety and popularity in gaming had Japan only kept their market domestic, but everyone’s entitled to their own opinions on the matter.
(In case you haven’t noticed, I like to write a lot.)OT: I really appreciate the warm welcome. I hope my learning experience can be all the more enhanced by the company of all of you.
Noice.One of the happiest memories of my life (top 10) was getting my Nintendo when I was 8.
Yeah pac-man was cool, and Atari was amusing, but Nintendo… Dude…
Whole new level.
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