Wondering where ancient Chinese people learned to ride horses

I just imagined Zhuge Liang galloping off with Liu Bei and then promptly careening off and idk, I think I've just distracted myself again. I'm gonna die from holding in my laughter HAHAHA

This reminds me of an equally distracting thought I had a few months ago about what would happen to Servants without Riding. Like if they got on a horse would they automatically just get rejected off of it and hurtle through the air to the distance
I need to know, mostly because I keep imagining Berserker getting rejected the moment he tries to mount a horse or something and it's just so incredibly distracting

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I found an interview with some of the major actors of SGYY and ngl it's hilarious. Everyone is so awkward (and also in their costumes) [gonna refer to them with the character names btw, mostly just 'cause it's funnier this way]
-For one I'm not used to Zhang Fei not grabbing everyone within 10 feet of him by the collar and yelling at them. The dude is chill?
-Meanwhile Liu Bei being awkward is weirdly hilarious xD
-Guan Yu's actor keeps giving everything the iconic side-eye but also it's funny because it's clear the actor has no energy? xD
-Zhuge Liang is just Confused
-Everyone is so tired lol and also everyone there is from the same kingdom except for Cao Cao, who is kinda just there for some reason
-Canon reason for Zhou Yu and Sun Quan not being invited: They didn't want to actually reenact the Three Kingdoms (imagining their actors being there and also just being burnt out in the year of 1993 lol)
-The final part is just how this interview was in 1993 but the series itself aired only in 1994 (SGYY casually doing time traveling both historically and for its adaptations /j) (seriously HOW did a poem from AFTER the book's publication get included in it??? How???)

This was already hilarious enough to me, but my mind just added, "Their souls were still stuck in the Three Kingdoms time and that's why it looks like none of them have souls
PWNED
No disrespect to the actors of the classic btw, I know some of them are already deceased. I'm just being hecking stupid as usual

-Galaxian-

Bruh what did Berserker do to you to deserve this xDD

-Galaxian-

Stuff for COTL I'll note down before I forget

I keep thinking about how I accidentally went to Eden the first day because I expected the regions to be longer than they were
I went back the second day because that's kinda just how I am but. lol
It really shows how bad I am at gauging the scale of things, including in games xD
People can still tell I'm new because I don't have a lot of experience with chatting and leading people around. I still don't know how to lead people to spirits they need, like yeah I need to deep call (or just call, I forget) while guiding them but do the icons show the exact spirit locations or what? I feel so bad whenever I see people wanting help xD
Also for daily missions I am still winging it so that tells a lot as well. I know the regions now but not a lot of the locations, and gods don't ask me to connect a spirit with an impression of general location, appearance, expression, or anything really.

Oh yeah also the dark dragons/krill are the bane of me, one charged at me literally through a wall and pwned me, but I got found by someone and helped right after so that's good. Otherwise I think I was gonna die (or lose a few winged light) xD

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Bruh what did Berserker do to you to deserve this xDD

-Galaxian-

 
Nothing, I'm just mean XD

These dang Chinese songs and their inexplicable meanings
Linking an unofficial lyrics video so I can revisit it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMEv4ncoQxg
Also copying and pasting the entirety of the lyrics lol

正月十八 黄道吉日 高粱抬
抬上红装 一尺一恨 匆匆裁
裁去良人 奈何不归 故作颜开
响板红檀 说得轻快 着实难猜

听着 卯时那三里之外 翻起来
平仄 马蹄声渐起斩落 愁字开
说迟那时快 推门雾自开
野猫都跟了几条街 上树脖子歪
张望瞧她在等 这村里也怪
把门全一关 又是王二狗的鞋
落在家门外 独留她还记着
切肤之爱 属是非之外
这不 下马 方才 那官人笑起来

那官人乐着寻思了半天
只哼唧出个 离人愁来
她这次又是没能接得上话 她笑着哭来着
你猜她怎么笑着哭来着 哭来着
你看她怎么哭着笑来着
(一拜天地)
(二拜高堂)
(夫妻对拜)
堂前 他说了掏心窝子话
不兑上诺言 岂能潇洒
轻阴 叹青梅竹马
等一玉如意 一酒桶啊
她竖起耳朵一听 这洞房外
那好心的王二狗跑这 给她送点心来了
她这次可是没能说得上话
她笑着
哭来着 你猜她怎么笑着哭来着
哭来着 你看她怎么哭着笑来着
正月十八 这黄道吉日
正月十八 这黄道吉日
正月十八 这黄道吉日
正月十八 这黄道吉

The creator has commented that the essence of the song is in conflict/contrast, which is for sure what got me listening in the first place. The main tune is so scratchy too, in contrast with the title (which is used for Chinese weddings--it's made up of the same character on two sides, "Xi," meaning "happiness/joy".)
Some have commented that it's a song about a funeral for a woman disguised as a song about a wedding, but idk. I think for me I only understand there are 3 characters, and my current interpretation of the story is that a man marries a woman out of obligation to fulfill a vow, but neither is actually happy about it, and the woman in particular actually already loves someone [Wang Ergou?]. But idk, I never have the most confidence on my understanding of Chinese, and the comments are not helping. I found a story interpretation that I found, but it really doesn't click for me. 
Oh well.

-Galaxian-

I know stereotyping is inaccurate and technically bad but my current experience is just.
Biology profs: Ask you for your name so they can try to remember it, try to add funny/cute/pretty pictures to their slides so students don't get bored, spend a lot of time going over what the course looks like, work with you to get your issues fixed, emphasize they're here to help
Chem profs: Emphasize they're here to help, but also assign a quiz on the first week. Call you the wrong name and send the wrong email responses. Make you read 300 pages telling you certain things will blow up in your face if you screw up safety procedures (btw you're responsible for knowing this). The sessions you were supposed to attend were all cancelled last minute without notice? Your problem, get better lol. Slides are just Problems (which I can appreciate since I didn't have a math class my first semester, I just. xD)

Also I was forced to buy a specific type of calculator because of a certain class (hint: starts with a c) and am salty about it xD like bruh you think I am big brain enough to program in cheating on a graphing calculator? Sir, I just wanna save money
Adding that my Honors Chem teacher had the same personality as my current Chem professor and I just find that hysterical.

-Galaxian-

I enjoy how that one art piece comparison just gets worse every year, showing my progression of "getting worse but getting better at making decisions" 
me not doing it in 2023 also shows how 2023 was. Oh yeah, and we don't talk about how I have no way of finding most of those pieces unless I look at everything. My disorganised nature (and refusal to formally archive my art) will never change!!

-Galaxian-

My time progression (and mental age) is really out of wack
I register that 2020 was 3 years ago but it feels so far away and yesterday at the same time, you know? Sometimes it feels like I've known you guys for 3 months and 6 years at the same time.

-Galaxian-

"I should redraw Kenshin" says Galaxian every year, only to never do it
I mostly wanna go over GGaD!Galaxian's arc again just because I was yanked along at some parts (and at other parts I had no idea what I was doing)
My mind tells me this was related to something I was thinking about (GGaD!Galaxian's character/nature) but just leaves it at that. I :')

-Galaxian-

I like how yesterday I could think about GGaD!Galaxian and today it's just "wow if Wiley were gay for this one guy I wouldn't even fault him for it"
We're doing fine. (I wanted to draw a funny crackship thing since I can't do anything else anyways but ended up drawing a serious thing that lowkey makes the crackship part of my brain cell even worse)

-Galaxian-

Welcome to my brain cell, where we:
"JFIODSJFOD" (*reacting to their own OCs*)
"His hands are probably big enough to him to grab someone's face and crush their skull"

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

"who's the gay one now" well I'm not very happy about this, Wiley

 
Fellas, is it gay to

Sorry just logging in for the sake of it

I had a wacky experience to share
So yesterday a friend invited themselves over and was looking through their phone to show me pictures and poems and stuff, when in the middle they got a call
They looked up and was like "Galaxian,,, why are you calling me" and I was like, "I'm not??" and pointed at my phone to show them. The phone of course was almost out of my reach and clearly just resting on my desk.
"See," I said, holding the phone up (the screen was clearly dark because the phone was shut off)
They flipped their screen around and showed me my name clearly just. Calling them
After waiting for the call to finish, I opened my phone and opened the app I use to message them ('cause I don't have a carrier) but there was no history on my end whatsoever of the call. And on their end the call was a normal one, which is impossible because I have no phone carrier.

And then after 3 minutes my phone just started lighting up for no reason whatsoever. Like no calls or notifications or anything. 

I was about to die from laughter. 
Anyways, spooky,,, I wonder what that sort of thing comes from?? If anyone knows please do tell me because I was using humour as a way to not overthink things ngl xDD

-Galaxian-

We at it again (forced myself to not procrastinate on logging in and talking to friends,,, like what the heck tbh xD)
Thanks Time xD. Y'know, I didn't think about the possibility of it being a scam, but I'm not very familiar with how scammers route numbers to start with. It's just weird 'cause that friend of mine is very much an extrovert and knows a lot of people, so it's weird that my name would be the one showing up rather than anyone else that presumably calls/texts them more often (I don't call them at all). I guess there could be a recency thing too, like maybe I was one of their more recent contacts...but again, I don't text them much, and they for sure were messaging other people around the same time too. So all in all it was just a spooky anecdote. 

Real-life update, Galaxian has been doing stuff but it seems like it's never enough. I'm always somewhere in that spectrum. Sometimes I do nothing. But recently it's been that I do stuff but never all of it, so it's never enough. If that makes sense.  
I'm getting a bit less worried about chemistry. It looks like I retained the knowledge well enough. Most if not all of my classmates seem to be taking it for the second time (to raise their GPA or because they failed), so that means in labs I'm the only one panicking, but that also means that I have a standard of comparison. 
Believe it or not, Chemistry is making me feel more grounded because of the math component. It turns out I'm so used to doing some kind of math that when I don't (see last semester) it feels incredibly wrong. I'm pretty good with math (except a certain unit in Calculus), so I guess it boosts my confidence. I also do like the subject (chemistry) even though I suck at it.
Presently I'm typing all this in the library instead of working on my lab report. Speaking of which, the chem lab is so cool. I've heard a lot of complaints about using 2-3 hours to make something change colours but really, isn't that so amazing? I mean, I think if I had the power to change how things look, then I'd count that as magic. So even though the basis is scientific, it's very worth it to me.
Chem is funny because the professor for sure does not like me. He kinda just Stares at me and I think he might be expecting me to fail (based off a remark he made after I told him I'm missing a prerequisite...or rather all the prerequisites other than 9th grade chemistry because of, well, online school). But I'll take it as a boost since I'm competitive and do better when certain others doubt me. He's a lot nicer when he smiles, that's for sure. But mostly he just hollers stuff like "Do you understand?" (He's nice imo because he doesn't yell that at me, but still he's scary and he Stares.)
Another thing, I'm taking philosophy and the class is very cool. I'm very dead inside during lectures (because it's usually dinnertime at its hour), but it looks like discussions will be fun (even though they're too early) since I typically do a lot more talking during humanities class lectures. I dunno, I just feel like the humanities bring a good amount of life back into the entire learning thing, and for me, even though I don't think I have as much of an issue seeing the appeal/"human component" of the sciences, I like seeing others react in ways that aren't just dead inside. 
Anyways, Galaxian likes school! But only in specific parts. I feel like I might be weird when it comes to this because my personality is pretty different from the one that's fostered by school culture. I think it's important to do a lot of reflecting and remember the value of what I'm doing, or else I'm prone to falling back on my pessimistic/denigrating tendencies. Let's hope this doesn't bore you guys out of your skulls though xD.

In terms of the forums, I'm trying to remember to login (but watching is soooo fuuuunn). Let's see if I can catch up with some posts too 'cause rn I'm doing a really bad job. xD

-Galaxian-