Hello, and welcome to this blog. Make yourself at home, pull up a chair. Go ahead, put your feet up, the furniture’s not mine, I rented it from WordPress.com.
Comfortable? Good. Now, let’s begin our journey. How can one go on a journey while sitting in a chair with their feet up, you ask? Well, it’s a magical flying living room or something; it’s not important.
I’m waldrumpus, a quiet, well-behaved man with an interest in computer science, languages, and a third thing. I’ve been studying the Japanese language as a hobby over the past few years. The main reason for that is that I love video games (oh, that’s right, the third thing was video games), and the ones from the eighties – my childhood – mostly came from Japan, as did many more great games since. I want to be able to appreciate those games in their natural state. Savor the atmosphere, the humor, the drama in the original language.
My goal for this blog is to now and then post interesting findings from the games I’m playing, and try and find out what they mean. Things like bits of dialogue, idioms, anything I don’t quite get at first. I’ve reached some beginner intermediate stage in studying Japanese; this means I can understand a lot, but also there’s a lot I cannot. Understand. I want to write down some of my research here as a reference for myself and for you to hopefully enjoy. Maybe we’ll also have some nice discussions about language, life, and love. And the Oxford comma.
I think that’s about enough for the introductory post. It’ll be some time until I start the first of the games I want to blog about; I’ll wait until then before I tell you what game it is, if you have no OBJECTION. Therefore, it’ll be a few days before the first real meaty post (incidentally that sentence would make this a terrific last post in an abandonened blog).
If you want, you can also find me on Twitter, I’m @waldrumpus – be warned, may contain occasional profanity.
Thanks for visiting, I hope you’ll stop by again so we can share many memorable moments.
waldenheim 