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Heh, I honestly can’t remember the last ad for a game I saw. Maybe on japanese TV since I don’t get ads on YouTube where I spend most of my watching time. I’ll keep an eye out for it, though; that does make sense.

/ As I type this, I realize I’ve seen several war thunder sponsored segments in videos, but I just ignore or mute.

Does that mean something like Eve Online or an MMO actually done with spreadsheets somehow?

I enjoy watching some people play games. I cannot watch them play RPGs or similar with choices nor puzzles. Even if their puzzle solution is right in the end and mine is not, I still just get frustrated by the experience.

The app gets messed up on my Japanese LG TV every now and again (and I seem to have lost the ability to thumbs-up videos again), but it’s never been unusable. The app on my android phone looks fine at the moment.

I might be open to a new MMO at some point. I’m 100% out if it requires grouping for the main storyline, is super grindy, or I have to do corpse runs. I have two jobs and no time for that. I enjoy doing some group stuff, but I don’t want to pay for a game where I get nowhere because of my schedule.

I’d also be out if it had some parry system (quicktime events, basically) or souls-like combat in general as it’s just not my bag; I’m there for the quests and story more than anything else.

Japan set the allowed alcohol limit to basically zero sometime in the '90s so drinking anything and driving here can see you lose your license and spend time in Jail… as it should be IMO.

Maintenance is done at night and, when that’s not happening, they run freight trains. In Tokyo, last train used to be like 1:30ish on some lines and started up again a bit before 5am. Now it’s more like a bit after midnight and starting again closer to 5am. JR is a private company (a group of them, actually) and they keep squeezing things further, presumably for more profit.

They did start a bus line between nightlife areas a few years ago, but it never got popular and was closed (and also just took drunk people around from one party area to the next and not home).

Bars here in Japan are often open until first train in the big cities (~5am) with some going later. I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with that in itself (especially for late shift folks who want to enjoy the same after-work experiences as day shift folks).

That said, fuck this guy for many other reasons.

Prepositions still causing havok 70ish years later (and I’m struggling in the opposite direction learning Norwegian now)

I’m still not buying your console, Sony.

I think, over the course of hominin history, NOT eating something that wasn’t blatently poisonous was the weirder move. My theory is that a lot of texture aversions are recent (and often local). For instance, Japanese natto which are slimy, string, fermented soy beans. Also yamaimo (some kind of tuber) is slimy as hell.

Except when looking for a new job and now so are 8k other people :/

I left back in 2015 after realizing that, had I stayed in the US, I probably would have killed myself. I haven’t renounced so that I can help my parents (and, yes, I keep voting), but the punishing tax and retirement investing issues make things a huge pain. So much paperwork everywhere, can’t invest in things, potential double-taxation, hours of forms to fill out for a country I’ve spent ~15 days in in the last decade, etc.

Yep. Retirement investing is also a huge pain. Many things are PFICs which can take hours of work each to figure out how to fill in US forms for (and a punitive tax for your efforts), not all accounts are treated as tax-advantaged in both US and target country, etc. I will be renouncing when my parents pass (or I can convince them to GTFO, but that seems unlikely).

The Evil Dead Guy.

One Guy of Darkness.

None in my village. I’m not sure if that’s fortunate or unfortunate. We definitely have bears that come within a couple KM of my house.

It only bothered me because I saw that it was a school assignment and I thought it would be to a higher standard. In casual speech, I don’t really care unless the meaning is unclear.

I don’t knowingly use AI at all in my person life and projects (I say ‘knowingly’ since many products have it shoved inside now, but I disable all I see). At work, we have AI code reviews which, as a concept, I think is fine and useful.

Probably the Switch. It’s … fine, I guess? NES? Awsome. SNES? fantastic. GB? amazing for its time. Genesis was killer. Atari 2600 was huge in its day. The switch? Meh.

It doesn’t help that I’m generally unhappy with nintendo being a bunch of greedy fucks as I see it.

This is why I don’t use it for coding at all.