dividing the day into three segments: pre-jlpt, jlpt, and post-jlpt
pre-jlpt, as planned, I did not study at all and instead let myself rest. unfortunately I rested so hard I did not end up doing anything else of note such as progressing in games or working on personal projects. just kinda egged around
the jlpt was in a relatively urban tokyo area not too far from home and the environment was good, which was a relief. overall I'd describe the test as "never exactly the same difficulty as the practice exam", where a good portion of it was trivially easy but also there were some sections that completely blanked me. but I think given the requirement to pass, I'm happier with 50% sure-shots and 25% challenging question instead of 75% fairly confident questions
(I also started reading the latest volume of Instant Death Ability during the break, and it's as good as ever)
post-jlpt I had some hotpot to celebrate not having to cram in a way that is sort of orthogonal to actually knowing japanese (I'm going to need to immerse hard for N1 imo, so time to crack open the shinymas mines again), then went home and finally got some good progress on my gt4 randomizer. I have the base modifications setup and just need to generate the actual setups.
writing this out, I was planning on doing an approximation of "how powerful is each car" but maybe I can actually start with 100% total randomization just for practice
oh yeah I forgot to add in yesterday's notes - I played a good amount of TGM1 on Saturday. game feels so good to be back in, even though I was never more than a 500-timer-outer in TGM3 and even though TGM1 lacks, for what I know, any feature other than "play tetris".
I like the online ranking and I hope the fact that I'm rank like 200 with a weak grade 1 is convincing enough to secure future releases of the TGM series. now back to learning how I kicks are really weird to my head until TGM3