/jp/ - Otaku Culture

pack it up boys, emersion is over

sleeping over at a friends. showed him my anki cards

>>31417339
are u gonna fuck

>>31417339
make sure to touch each others decks

finna read

>>31417433
>卡
china wins again i learned the wrong language

>>31417392
already did
>>31417416
already did

can anyone repost garbage day? hololivers flooded the archives with streamables so i cant find them. thanks

>>31417638
じょうげ？

there are 2 garbage days unless jamal finally made #3

>>31417755
ka3

>>31417711
nice good shit bro

been obscenely lucky lately, feel like the universe is giving me a lot of second chances lately

thinking of getting into vtubers for listening practice, where should I start?

>>31418077
buy a gun or rope

>>31418077
pekora because bunny cunny

>>31418077
no

anyone have a link to that site that plays tts audio of random numbers in japanese

Bros, why the fuck are there so many words for boss or president, etc.?
Shachou, Kaichou, Danchou, etc. etc.
I'm really struggling to figure out the difference between them all

>>31418276
you dont need to just read more

>>31417711
jealous

>>31418077
i search for 実況s of games i might enjoy watching and look for someone i can put up with
but if youre more into the talking streams or the other usual stuff i got no advice

>>31418276
the shachou is the chou of the sha the kaichou is the chou of the kai the dan chou is the chou of the dan

what does that make the hokage tho?

the kage of the hoes obviously

>>31418276
dont think about similar words like this youre going to really struggle to memorize differences between them words and its not going to add anything to your comprehension if you do
after enough years the answers to these kinds of questions usually become real obvious

What's even the purpose of this thread? There are 1000 posts, and not a single one is useful. The same goes for this board

booger went down my throat into my mouth

actually there are only 31 posts, nowhere near 1000

gochisousama

absorb the emersion

>>31418511
31 is pretty close to 1000 if you consider how many numbers there are

>>31418602
woah

>>31418602
how many are there

>>31418602
definitely gonna need to hit a bowl for this one hold on bro

Can't keep up with all these new threads.

bout to filter all capital letters if you don't stfu

>>31417723
Garbage Day 1: https://streamable.com/q1lj9a
Garbage Day 2: https://streamable.com/zv9y3l

>>31418602
There are an infinite amount of numbers between 31 and 1000 though.

>>31418791
depends we talkin real or natural ?

>>31418712
thanks

i can tolerate the 3dpd talk, but infinitesimal talk is taking it too far

kachite ? kachite ?

he sounds so distraught that there was no wa

>>31418712
jesus fucking christ

there was no no

still cracks me up how fucking matto is somehow the most dekiru of all ecelebs

that 'dafuq' always gets me
funny shit there

always forget about anime godfathers tweet and how he doesnt know the te form

>>31403681
thanks i corrected it on my local version
might take some time to show up though

can't wait till japanesegaryben reveals his power to the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaK5Z3mfL8g

still lmfaoing at nuke looking up chuunibyou at the end of ep23

>>31419275
i hope you read the anime anon

>>31419312
huh? never read an anime

i meant the manga its time to sleep lmfao

manga isn’t reading

dont care

reading manga is harder than vns because you cnat texthook them

Page 1 pun. I'll post the answer in a bit. Please do not cheat!

透明なガラスを３枚重ねると、とたんに不透明になります。不思議ですね。なぜでしょう？

i give up

>>31419577

Would anyone be so kind as to rate my pronunciation? I'm planning to go to the small japanese grocery by my house and force myself to talk to the kawaii cashier-chan

https://voca.ro/16bRjav41yMW

ザワルド
時をとまれ

まさか。。。それはジョジョの参照？！

>>31420008
kys

>>31419538
Answer:
３枚のガラスは、スリーガラス（つまり磨りガラス）になる。

>>31419938
Your 'r' is shit, sounds like american

Thought this was funny because you guys are always arguing about pitch accent. (note the chat)

https://streamable.com/o9302z

>>31420377
>you guys
mattodrones*
gtfo uppercaser

Any have the video of Yoga and Nuke having a ""conversation"" in Japanese? Mostly just the Yoga going fullblast and no one having an idea what the hell was happening.

https://streamable.com/mdhkq9
パンツのいろ

downvoted. fuck holoshit

yikes quiz whats wrong with you my man

what? i added to the pitch accent discussion

don't think i've ever cared about the color of a woman's underwear

>>31420667
https://streamable.com/4a302d

>>31420990
add anime recommendations by difficulty to the animecards site

>>31421203
think that's too redundant

>>31421262
hmm ok i trust u qm san

>>31420984
It's vitally important. White if she's a younger lady or tan if she's more mature. Anything else is complete shit.

>>31420990
qm posting something with that title
if only he knew what irony meant

>>31420990
nuke btfo

kinda disappointed that quiz didn't say anything about light novels in his website guide

>>31422211
there isn't much to say honestly because it's straightforward but i did plan on at least introducing the bibi reader in the 'other content' section
otherwise if you want to mine you either convert to html or if reading on kindle copy and work with the clipboard file

>>31422211
fuck lns

>>31422326

Do you have any experience with text hooking video games? I know I've seen it done with emulators at least.

>>31422907
i honestly don't (never bothered and just screenshotted the text) but if there is a useful method that consistently works i can definitely add it to the site, the problem with video games though is that the text usually appears all over the place in a ton of menus so really there isn't a reliable way to hook it
i recommend just typing the new word out or ocr'ing it, adding it per yomichan and screenshotting the rest of the text for the context

Do translators just try come up with things that an english speaker would sound natural say to express roughly the same? Because I think a lot of the time I find that harder than understanding what the japanese is saying.

>>31423150
the hard thing about translating is formulating in your target language, you essentially have to be a writer to be a good translator
of course you also need to know the target language, so it's really two things required of you and there is very few translators who adequately do both of those

>>31423247
I think that is what I mean. I could probably come up with some awkward sounding sentences that would get the literal meaning across but when I try think of something an English speaker would actually say in that situation without it sounding stupid in some way whilst still meaning the same then it becomes a lot harder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYDipWXvxg
きた！！！！

>>31418077
one of the 切り抜き channels, short clips with subs
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM_y1ZuijUzlqq_tAvnJP9w/videos

QM seems to like the 紙芝居 one, but theres not as many uploads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2viNvmMmAA

then once you find some vtubers you like use this site to watch their livestreams
https://hololive.jetri.co/#/watch

glad i could help

>>31418077
watch ange katrina and tsukino mito

>>31418077
Watch tokino sora and sakura miko.

>>31419275
just had a dissociative episode thinking if i was the one that made this post and forgot

>>31418077
Kenmochi Touya

>>31425324
>>31425361
>>31426000
kys

this has been in my recs for over a month now and i always have to laugh when i see it
not watching it though

>>31426274
i still dont get what those lines above the letters are meant to mean

>>31426323
it means you say it longer than a normal letter
ときょ = tokyo
とうきょう = tokyo but with lines over both o's

its some stupid convention some gaijin made up dont worry about it

if you converse a lot/mainly learn through conversation you will be able to fake your level upwards to an extent
basically you learn techniques to appear more native like and enable smooth communication
but your actual knowledge about the language is still lacking and reading is problematic
exact opposite problem with people who only read/watch or interact passively with the language
they know a shit ton about the language and understand everything they are told
but they lack those native like compensation techniques, or i suppose to summarize, talking in the language is a skill of itself
ultimately a mixture of both is the best but it requires you to be a certain type of personality/learner that is kind of rare, most people prefer to a lot of one thing and little of the other

dunno why anyone would want to talk to nips

>>31426274
Dogen needs to be hanged for his crimes against Japan.

>but muh Pitch Accent

http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/eng/pages/home

There, a way for you to learn PA without this faggot mocking Japan.

Site is a bit unstable tho, so it might require a reload or two.

>>31418077
>thinking of getting into vtubers for listening practice, where should I start?
Okayu because she's slow paced.
Otherwise just embrace the Pekora.

はいはーい

おおみそか

なにたべる？

>>31426923
ultra cringe weeb japan worshipper

kys

yes I worship japan so what of it

dont worship anything

>>31427561
apart from bbc

>>31427210
cringe

can really tell the newfag level is high when wojacks are posted

>>31427806
that's from the twitter he linked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md8PRvrbt6g
カキたべたい

柿じゃないほう

yes I worship jks so what of it

>>31428015
かき

>>31428061
actual jks or the idealized abstract jks in your mind?
because i totally get worshipping the latter.

>>31428065
wtf my downwards arrow after the か disappeared

マヨネーズのソースは

しろめしにあわないとおもう

>>31428154

>>31428015
oysters are fucking disgusting but i only had them raw. nearly spat it out but i was at an expensive restaurant with my dads boss and his family so i had to take it

>>31428289
なま？

あれなまでいくの？

>>31428284
almost barfed

>>31428379
i had them in the US and it's common to eat them raw there with some lemon on them

>>31428379
https://youtu.be/tdXxVxQvieQ?t=593

>>31428546
isnt that the crazy carnivore guy

>>31428596
yeah they eat the raw oysters they find on the beach cuz its free food

summer in the netherlands is great cause theres like 1-3 weeks where it's above 30c and the rest of the time it's ~25c. also it gets dark at like 10:30 pm lol

>>31428682
na its shit theres cringe dutch everywhere

don't care

>>31428760
yeah that's true but i never interacted with any of them since they're weird as fuck

mined 好転反応

>>31428804
based

なまかー

なまはおかずにならないきがする


ひわいなことかいてるきがしてきた

earthquake happening right now bros this might be it for me

>>31429040
you can count that as japanese immersion

onomatopoeia is the final boss this shit is beyond impossible

>>31429012
なまはめーんです

mined 誤嚥 and 咽頭

>>31429939
feel it out

>>31430045
i cant

important video for yall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtJO87RtMg

>>31430370
this bitch seems like a soulless plan every time i see her speaking

https://streamable.com/yp935

wtf how long until I can read this fast??

>>31430654
the fake reactions japs do for shit like this makes me want to superman punch the continent into a vulcano

>>31430654
judging by that giant fat pile of books, you probably need to do 2 hours of anki reps everyday

can feel a fat turd making its way down toward my asshole

>>31428284
imagine learning a hard language like japanese for this.

>>31427210
no im djts "jamal"

i dont use that alias outside of anything djt facing

>>31432415
dunno where to begin with this post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQK6MB96wk

yea of course i wake up after 4-5 hours with a fucking headache. fuck me.

pissmaster doesn't say shit about mining in his new site.

cant wait to bait djt in a few days pretending to be a new years learner

>>31430814
へえええええええええええええええええええええ

>>31432866
ye he does

>>31432866
he set up precisely to cater to retards but people still find a way to be too retarded to learn

>>31433078
>>31433397
im talking about what to mine rather than the way one should mine
should one add words or sentences in the same way as matt says?

>>31427248
>ultra cringe weeb japan worshipper
ultimate cringe faggot regurgitator clown worshiper

>>31420008
自殺しろ

>>31433456
quiz mined words so what do you think he's going to say

he should fucking explain himself .

@og congratulations i nominate u to be the official djt advice giver to the new years friends
if they take on board what you say they will be sure to quit after a few days and stop shitting up the thread

does anyone know how to rip the drm from an ebook on u-next? they have the console wars documentary as an exclusive in japan and im going to do a free trial to watch that. they have the ebook as well so i figured i should rip it.

anything easier than yotsuba to read

fuck genki

anybody know how to rip this?

https://video.unext.jp/book/title/BSD0000178035/BID0000282043

>>31433906
しろくまカフェ

hope ur not talking to me

>>31433770
bunko chan noooooooo ur getting owned by r0m30 u hate to see it

>>31434030
>>31433973
>>31433896
>>31433796
kys retarded namefag

you grind 10k core until you are prepared enough to start reading

simple as

>>31419938
>eekurah

>>31434834
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGun2cWbPEM

why the fuck dont you go ask natives about your pronunciation?
holy fucking shit why are jsl so fucking cringy.
https://streamable.com/f43ix

>>31437433
only in the japanese language community do ppl do this kinda shit where its like cant use japanese until its perfect which is insane bc u just end up like matto where the more u see the more it all falls apart and all their effort was just less efficient than what it would take to just talk to ppl regularly

>>31437462
>italian
>straight

>>31435345
Manga source, please

>>31421262

>If you haven't done so already you should verify you are using a Japanese font and not a Chinese one. (*)

It doesn't seem like there is a followup to this anywhere (assuming there's supposed to be a footnote)

>>31437972
you post a fucking vocaroo in a place with lots of natives, is not like you walk up to some random motherfucker in the street for tips about your pronunciation.

>>31438354
What would be the opposite of immersion? You're spraying everyone?

>>31438436
posting in djt

who is the guy failing to read 勝手 in garbage day 2?

>>31438605
he posts on >>>/int/djt so ask there

>>31438570
that's clearly the other girl that lurks in here.

>>31438605
some discord fag, even wrote an anki guide lol

>>31417120
>oto na
WHo writes this?

>>31438819
なんがですか？

reminder that you haven't truly experienced cross channel until you've read george henry shaft's translation and essay

>>31420990
Yoga is an absolute beast.

>>31439360
lmfao

>>31418712
This gives me great hope for my future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HiftV-nSPo

>>31439913
good post

>>31440446
>>31440255
>>31440256
stupid trolls. fuck you i'm never returning.

cuz who's gonna stop them

bunko you should learn thai you'd have a lot of fun with it
https://youtu.be/gKVtpCByEy4?t=302

>>31440716
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbAzYk9y18

>>31441006
dont need to speak to bang lady boys

cope

>>31441111
can't argue with those numbers
not in our lifetime though

>>31441111
worst koreans are disgusting subhumans
>>31441119
>quality
>ladyboys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jpNGbvvu5g

>>31441236
nah i'll stick to the child prostitutes, ladyboys are ゲイ

>>31441323

>>31441491
ゲイ

>>31419938
shes chinese

>>31437321
wanna punch the patriarchy out of your system

we have so many characters in djt we are literally a 動物園

*見世物小屋

>>31441111
keeping what's a constant reminder of their cultural inferiority to the chinks is retarded.

>>31442174
dont care

finna teach my dog japanese

冷血漢 lmao

Does anyone have a link to Dogen's (or any other usable) phonetics videos?
I can't for the life of me figure out how to correctly mimic/pronounce the う-row, as well as [ra, ri, ru, re, ro].

how can I rip an ebook from bookwalker?

crazy how everyone has such shit taste (except me)

same but me

it's great news fuck miyazaki

i think 2021 will be my last year
i'll ditch anki at new years and just consume without mining a single word

yikes

all of miyazakis works are easily better than any shounen

>>31443090
>>31443001
>>>/wsg/3735694

fuck memehaki and his not!disney

myiazaki is just a too deep for u retard

still better than any shounen

>>31443128
you think so but yet here we are

>>31443286
/a/ is making it a thing. we have no say.

https://youtu.be/v1eTNN8Yoqg
banger coming through

>>31443128
no not really

filtered banger

>>31443275
https://vocaroo.com/cXhIno63MFG

i dropped the manga around the part where they cross-dress as prostitutes
only reason why this mediocre shounen got so popular is because ufo animated it.

>>31443256
>jap bugs
your opinion doesn't matter, you're just a dirty gaijin who can't understand japanese culture. maybe you should stop studying japanese.

so glad i live in the suburbs area of my metropolis

>>31443364
you may be a bug but youll never be part of the swarm

>>31443343
>only reason why this mediocre shounen got so popular is because ufo animated it.
you're half correct

>no such thing
sorry sweaty but it is

reason why it's more popular than whatever garbage you guys like is because it's better than it simple as kimetsu chads keep winning

>>31443432
berserk is shounen????

>>31442071
u would really hate japan then

kimetsu no yaiba is dogshit

if you use the term chad ever especially in relation to your gayass taste in shounen you should get beheaded

>shojo magazine
i'd subscribe to that one

>>31443510
https://vocaroo.com/12tkw3L16zF9

if you aren't japanese you aren't allowed to try to categorize manga

>>31443586
true true

>>31443510
and yet it's the most popular anime in japan. can't be that bad if japan says it's the best.

>>31443629
lol

*takes a shit on all the kny haters*

the absolute state of anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm6efEtpYPo

>>31443665
with games, always the most dogshit titles are popular in japan
they are the definition of casuals, even worse than that

their taste in all media is probably similar to that

*effortlessly evades ur skinny pencil thin dump*

why do ppl like shitty girly boy anime instead of a true epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGyzA1iCIgc

>>31443856
ofc girls like slam dunk but it still retained enough testosterone for boys to enjoy it and invoke feelings of epic win in them

now u have shit like kurokos basgayball where only girls and low t boys like it

>>31443432
>>31443586
we kneel

>>31443821
your opinion doesn't matter アメ公

steve comes off as a weak man

https://youtu.be/Sm6efEtpYPo?t=671

>>31443910
you too

>>31443888
you're a fucking retard. that's like saying sailor moon is a shonen. just shut the fuck up already.

>>31443815
imagine actually being called chad

>>31443923
not watching this

i feel like one outs was definitely for girls judging by the op

sailor moon is a high t show tho

>>31443928
im not the one trying to reorganize well-defined manga genres. you guys are retarded, that's a fact not an opinion.

if any girl liked one outs i might marry them

>>31443923
steves old and gay but really he has nothing to do w. ppl who just wanna learn japanese cuz hes into all languages or w.e which its his right but its also fuckign gay

>>31443576
westerners know what demographics a story fits in the west. japanese publishers don't. this is why k-on is not considered seinen in the west.

>>31443996
it was literally made for little girls and absolutely nobody else

>>31443923
sounds absolutely based to me

>>31443966
?? so u agree girls watch the cute boy shows so they can schlick to them ? cuz thats what we watched sailor moon for my dudette

btw gonna have to tap the sign now that the incorrigible woman is stomping around >>31437321

i only read manga on sadpanda

you guys are fucking retards and you spread your stupidity like the plague. im closing the thread and never coming back, off to japanese sites only to avoid できない faggots like you guys. if you see quiz remind him to kill himself.

>>31444125
lame

and so djt lost it's most valuable nakama

>>31444139
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-KmOd3i7s#t=61

>>31444117
don't say shit name. make meishi?

>>31444175
you got it

>>31444168
when the music videos had so many true metaphors

big win for translation question guy

ne1 got howies 3x3 thats pretty much the only way i can gauge if hes worth listening to

finna watch tokyo godfathers

satoshi kon figured out the secret to making good anime so they killed him

>>31444262
it wasn't me

>>31433906
https://djtguide.neocities.org/reading%20list.html

squid girl is probably your best bet but if you don't have X amount of vocab learned it's going to be a losing battle my 友達

>>31444384
the answer is yes

>>31444434
yea the secret was for him to stop making anime

IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS A GOOD VN? WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS GARBAGE?

fuck i got a bad ending in my vinnie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqf0vWmkZUo

>>31444501
nekopara

>>31444453
someone needs to update this shit

>>31444501
honestly if there's nothing out there for you the problem is probably on your end

>>31444501
hanahira

>>31444501
no and i dont like vns

>>31444537
dont ever respond to me again

>>31444629
phoenix wright doesnt have romance elements

i remember just starting with japanese and downloading unred night for some reason and reading and then all of a sudden out of nowhere the bitch starts sucking ur dick, was quite shocked since i didnt realize vns were just porn games

they should make a vn for soft seinen fans like me without any annoying women

most classics and nobel prize winners have romance elements

>>31445281
they're called boys love games why don't you try them out you raging homo

don't care about "classics" written by old white men

>>31445305
the good ones don't

welp just killed my computer again
thought i fixed that 'nuke the ram' bug but its trickier than i thought

>>31445357
like what?

>>31445347
nah boys love games are even worse because they're written for and by the annoying women. they are just the opposite side of the same coin

>>31445564
and thats literally the gayest book known to man unironically

>>31438209
yeah it's TBA that star is just a mark for myself

just mined 午睡

>>31445535
performing various operations on matrices that exceed 3.2 billion elements
everything except this last operation works now, im already working on refining my fix

>>31445727
why blog about it in here if you're afraid of saying what you're doing lol

>>31445727
who the fuck even are you

>>31445766
i just told you what im doing

>>31445654
if you mine such obvious words you are gonna overwhelm yourself with new cards pretty soon

>>31445813
in the most vague meaningless terms possible. "what are you doing?" "oh yeah km just gonna drive 5 miles down the road get out my car and go in a building"

>>31445862
it wasn't an easy word for me because i was mayotteru whether if meant afternoon sleep or morning sleep but it was the go from shougo not gozen or gogo

>>31445941
kys

time for 8 hours of reading

if you care about anki at all youre "ngmi" so i hope the ngmifaggot wastes all his time on anki with no self awareness

is he the duke of shibas or しばづけ?

>>31445877
sorry bro, i dumbed it down for you
the matrices are large images, ~30m/pixel resolution. im running a bunch of different filters on these images. edge detection, median filters, laplacians, gaussian blurs, etc. the goal is to get useful results from the filters so that when i use gis software i can have machine learning determine patterns for me then i look at the patterns and categorize them
i cant get more specific than than because i dont know what the end results will actually look like yet
my ram nuke is one that strips a brightness gradient from the image before passing it through a huge median filter to smooth out small features and let low frequency features stand out more

>>31446040
just do reps while watching chinese cartoons, its not that hard

>>31446166
forgot pic

>>31446108
kys

>>31446369
you should be tech savvy enough to figure this one out on your own

>>31446406
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAE51Bo9VOM

>>31446133
where's "go to work" in this schedule

>>31446461
this is really cool

>>31446461
Thanks will check it out.

same, i drew a summon circle that /x/ gave me as a joke and now ive got demons

>>31446615
i was being sarcastic it's obviously fucked try reinstalling it in a diff location or something

>>31446575
everything

what is nihongo worth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_Y77q1Pqk

unironically better than most anime

watching 笑いの王者が大集結!ドリーム東西ネタ合戦2020 on tver right now
2 hours 20 minutes of お笑い芸人

pretty funny so far

>>31447486
>>31447506
my iq is higher than both of urs combined

hate people that have more than 100 images in their 4chin folder

>>31447700

>>31447700
dont have a folder
every image i post is single use then i delete it

>>31446575
pretty sure this is just nonsense strings of 音読み

copic markers are so expensive wtf almost 9 bucks a pop here

>>31446575
色即是空
空即是色

>>31446461
Again thanks for this I've found the sutra I was looking for.

how long do resolution fags last?

i like bunkobro, he can keep posting.

>>31448478
that's not many. you probably made 3* that

>>31448478
he's the least mad namefig we have tho

wrong

>>31448441
still find pretty funny how 英語上手 the op is

>>31448441
good post

>>31448478
that aint shit
u should have seen me and 邪魔l in our prime

i miss the 'i found jamal' posts

>>31448761
nobody knows or cares who u are

>>31448761
literally who

How many new words did you guys learn a day your first year? I keep seeing people say they learn 30, 40, or 50+ a day on anki. I'm learning 3 or 4. Are you guys actually learning and retaining those words? Am I retarded? I get burned out after a while and can't learn any more new flashcards that day.
>was doing 10 for a while but now I work full time

>>31448832
when u dont know any words u dont have a lot of readings in ur head which make learning other words a lot easier but 3-4 a day is still almost nothing lol

>>31448832
ngmi

>>31448832
No one in the world can learn more than 5 words a day. That's a cope and a lie. Never believe them they can't speak japanese.

>>31447286
>>31441600

>>31449122
no the goatfucker is a new guy compared to the guy

i wonder if queeran is so small that if you tossed him off a building his terminal velocity would be slow enough like a cats that he doesn't die on impact

dangan is pretty shit
i can understand complete vn noobs liking it though

thread is quiet for 4 minutes and its at the bottom of the catalog fuck

>>31449259
who cares, what difference does it make if it dies now or after another 800 posts

>>31449259
doesnt matter how many posts happened in the last 4 minutes, wed still be at page 10 dumbass

dangan is full of bangers

watched honobono log cause i was bored and man was it depressing lmfao

>>31449034
not a fan of that new age danganromper shit honestly but go with what u wanna do

u wanting to do it is whats gonna get u the "gainz"

Are these vtubers actually good or what