That's cool. I wish i had been playing pre-UIGEA but i hadn't even heard of poker then really. But it's fun now, the games are tough and challenging which is cool. And i imagine money can be easy to come by as a live pro because games are always good from any of my casino experiences.

When i stopped playing golf myself i was shooting high 70's at my home courses which was cool so i was around the same standard as you are. I'm thinking of getting back into golf right now but i feel when you get your handicap down to single figures it's just so much more of a grind to actually keep it there and consistently shoot low scores. So much time is required.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

nice place keyser. how much does a 1br apt go for in vegas? i'd guess something like $800 a month?

how old are u? where'd you live before moving to vegas? do you know other people there? always fascinated by people who just pickup and move somewhere else. (idk if that's even your case or not)

Kil, how can you be anything except ecstatic about having a hot 18yo Japanese **** buddy? You're seriously infuriating me. Stop being scared and just enjoy your life for once.

I am drunk....and still drinking. Woot! HU4rollz?

Wow what a cool place. I usually am not into art but those pieces are cool. I especially like the hallway pieces, I think you posted those before a year or more ago? Did you get those custom made?

I wish I had more money so i could afford nice stuff :P

My hourly has got to be higher playing online but in a sadistic way I'm enjoying live poker. It's a nice change of pace and you can definitely play higher live which is nice. Of course it's tediously slow. I've played like 22 hours this week without having a set, and I'm not saying that in a woe is I type of way because I've been running good still, it's just funny that not flopping a set for that long is probably not even statistically improbable. Like, what if goofyballer were a live pro? He could theoretically go a 24 period without putting a dime in postflop!

Mine is $850. It cost more than some others I looked at but I really liked the private garage and the community seems more secure. You can get decent 1 brs in decent parts of town for $700-$750, or $600 in less desirable parts.

I'm 26. Lived in DC before, Missouri, St. Thomas, I don't know, relocating is easy. Making friends isn't that hard especially in a place like Vegas where there are lots of 2p2ers around or people to golf with and stuff. I kinda enjoy my own company though so if you're the type who needs friends around 24/7 the second you move then it might be more difficult.

Yeah, had a friend who put me into contact with a local artist. The ideas were all mine. He drew some sketches of what I wanted and we polished it from there. It actually doesn't have to be very expensive if you get into contact with some art school students or broke local guys.

I have a pretty big night tonight after not really going out for a few months. I would be more excited if scoring stuff wasn't such a pith

narf,
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just let you know now, 900 hours isnt even remotely, remotely close to fluent, in any language (I actually spent more time playing SF4)

Ive been in Japan for quite a while, and go to a Japanese college, with all my classes in japanese, and not even remotely close to fluent. It will be another 10-15 years at least for me


but yeah, tokyo is fun. Glad to hear youre trying to learn the language

Its not fear. Its just... a feeling of emptiness


shes kinda cute, but the only reason I slept with her is because she came on to me so hard

not only that, but she constantly emails and sometimes talks about the guy she likes, and the guy she wants to date. She also asks me who I like, so she can help me.

Also, when I call her randomly, like I do with any of my girlfriends, shes like 'wtf, whats wrong?'

I dunno, I just feel uncomfortable with a sex buddy. Plus I dont see it ending all that well.



other side of that; whoooooo, sex buddy thats 5 years younger than me!!!1

My friggin god ATVs are so fun !

mmm, prob not the optimal time to bump this but whatevs.

Getting pretty good reviews so far imo

like this one glad you enjoy it sir

yeah... spent so much time when i was younger playing video games. Good thing i only play like FIFA nowadays.

Haha i guess it means what we describe as fluent. Nobody is obviously going to be as good as a college student native japanese speaker in 900 hours. Im mostly referring to the JLPT guidelines. ~2000 kanji ~10,000 vocabulary. Which i imagine would place somewhere around an HS student, pre college student according to the Kanji Kentei test.. But, then these are 900 "good" hours working almost nonstop...

Anyways i don't think i'll ever be fluent in Japanese.. I don't have anything pulling me here except a mild interest, so its hard to find any real motivation to study. Plus, i couldn't really imagine myself living in japan for longer than a year or so... being around Asians 24/7 kind of drives you a little crazy. So, i don't see a huge long term benefit in learning the language. Plus... Japan just seems like one huge level to me while im there. Probably cause im not doing anything very productive. If i could get to the level of like a 5th-7th grader i would be completely satisfied. In all honestly, id probably rather be learning mandarin right now if it wasn't for ridiculous pronunciation scheme.


also im pretty sure kil is leveling you guys half the time.

How much did you have to pay orange to shave his ass and then write on it?

frstly, my ass is bare...i'm not hairy like you stupid crackers.

secondly, i have a leatherass, so unless i went on jenny ****ing craig for a few months straight, those bumps aint gettin out.

ahaha that's awesome narf

man I can feel my heart skipping beats and fluttering past two days. Scared and stopped smoking now

If youre talking about JLPT guidelines then thats completely different

I passed level 1 in about a year btw

oh so it is pretty doable in a year. How long do you think you studied total/hours per day?

went to a japanese language school at the time

it was 5 hours a day 5 days a week

plus I had an additional hour nearly every day of 1 on 1 time with the teacher, asking questions. Plus I was living with my japanese gf and self study time

overall maybe 9-10 hours a day


btw, doing it in a year is very hard. I studied my ass off and passed by 4 points, and even then I think I got very lucky on the questions

yeah i bet it was tough... thats pretty sick. I know those Japanese schools are pretty intense.

Unfortunately i don't have as much time to study, since im double majoring in college right now... and not in Japanese..

I think i'll go for JLPT 3 this December or something. I could probably pass JLPT 4 if i review for a couple days. My personal goal is just to reach 2 by the end of July or something.


yeah when i hear stuff like this... i think its stupid that people think its easier to learn a language as a child. No way you're almost fluent in a language as a child in under a year.

do japanese people dislike foreigners with accents speaking japanese? just curious because i don't mind people speaking english poorly or with an accent