Krem [he/him, they/them]

i didn’t start learning chinese seriously until moving to china as an adult and was exposed to simplified characters long before traditional. i worked in a 广场 and though “广 makes sense, it looks wide and spacious”. later in HK/TW i often misread it as 黄 until i got used to it

oh you can watch tv from the side?

Traditional characters definitely look more aesthetically pleasing than their simplified counterparts

not always in my opinion. sure, 區 looks better than 区 whick looks like an “image not found” 車 and 龜 do look like a wagon and a turtle while 车/龟 look like… runes? 頭 has a bean in it which is cute， but i do like the minimal aesthetic of many simplified characters like 广, 门, 县, 个, 书 etc where 廣, 門, 縣, 個, 書 look unneccessarily complicated and cluttered

aw well, put me back on if we do something that pan-eurasians-pacifics can watch when the western hemisphere is sleeping

HK and Macao use traditional characters, sure, but it’s not because they “adopted” the characters that the ROC used. They became foreign colonies during the Qing dynasty, which also used traditional characters, since simplified characters weren’t invented yet. However, they are used to write the cantonese language, not the mandarin language that the ROC used.

Singapore transitioned to using simplified character and now you’ll pretty much only see mandarin written in simplified there. Malaysia is in the process of transitioning, hence it’s more of a mess.

Taiwan still uses traditional out of some sense of national pride

However “traditional” is not the original characters exactly, and some traditional characters are already simplified to some degree

oh wait this is a meme why did i type all this

he sure did the nasty in the past-y

aww this is way past my bedtime so i guess i’ll catch up later by watching this on youtube so i can make memes about it

it’s the most 2000s show imaginable, but it’s cool that they show the good guys^TM Space-USians living under foreign occupation for a few eps and resorting to martyr bombings