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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
This is especially common in Japan now. I was looking for an audio documentary of the crusades and half of them were done in squeaky anime AI voices
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
yep. at that time, I would have had to take it to the exchange, with my passport, pay a fee, and barely break even. I really didn't think that needed to be said, but people always come out of the woodwork to convince themselves they ar
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
I don't know what kind of friends you have, but mine take offense to being offered something they didn't ask for, like they are beggars or are owed something. He stayed with me for a week last year. We had a big bbq. I stuffed him
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
I still do that in my head-- minus two zeros. But nope, not even close now. It was a habit for so long, it's hard to correct...
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Please explain how the situation I described is me "trying to make a buck". You're saying he regretted the terms he presented, and is forever resentful that I didn't drag him to a bank to look up the exchange rate at the
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
He literally put 100USD in front of me, said he forgot to get more yen before his trip, and asked for a favor. Am I really in the wrong from your perspective?
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
I live in Japan and five years ago my drinking buddy at the time only had USD and was about to get on the shinkansen. He needed Yen ASAP. So he said, "dude I'll trade you a 100USD for 10000YEN." At the time it was an easy fif
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Yep, unfortunately the only fix would be a world government. But that will never happen. So everyone's going to reach for a bigger slice of pie at any expense no matter what happens, no matter how clear the evidence is. (I'm not n
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Besides my saying that it used to be contrary to Japanese cultural expectations (もったいない)?
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Well, at least they are honest about their stupidity. I live in Japan and am constantly shocked how many raised SUVs with the oversized max-grip tires in cities. Japan used to be a "doing it right" country in terms of not going ov
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
I paid for a yearly AppBlock subscription. I tried locking up my phone (literally, in a drawer with a lock), uninstalling almost everything, and just plain old willpower, but I'm the type that needs to see money go out in order to moti
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Interesting, yeah I thought there must have been some consultation there. Especially because there's a couple instances where the hackers rely on social engineering over the phone first, and faking the "coin added" noise on t
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Thank you! I'll definitely look into this.
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
On a whim I watched my favorite childhood movie last week, Hackers. It's goofy in some ways, but man it captures the "wild west" feeling of early and mid 90's internet. It was just you, a slow connection to anywhere, and
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
There is something so charming about the N64/PS1 era. They were so unique in their own right and you could tell at a passing glance which system was displaying on the screen even if you didn't know what game it was. Two radically
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
It's incredible how much it does, how quickly it does it, and how it just works every time. Whether I'm trying to deal with gigs of 4k video, embedding multiple subtitles into an mkv file, or just fiddling around with trimming a f
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
Well I think the key point is that caffeine has a half life of 6 or 7 hours in adults. So 4 coffees before 10am is worse than one coffee at 2pm. That's how I look at it anyway. Regardless, I limit myself to 2 cups before 8am. Now I not
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
Great write up, thank you. Actually I've been messing around with ARM assembly lately so have been keeping my eyes open for a cheap used GBA. There are a lot of them here, but most are close to 100usd and in really rough shape. So your
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
Very cool. I live in Japan and see NES carts in all the second hand stores that are everywhere here. Very tempting but in the end I know I wouldn't play it. Whenever I go down a "weee let's try retro" path I lose interes
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
Fukuoka here (about 100km from Kumamoto) and definitely felt it, so it must have been a real big one in Kumamoto itself. My friend was driving home from work closer to Miyazaki and didn't feel the quake, but had huge hailstones hitting
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by shoobiedoo 3mo ago
these "secret police"-- did they only operate recently?
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by shoobiedoo 4mo ago
hah tribes just randomly popped into my head yesterday. it was the only fps that ever really had me hooked for long periods. such a great game
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by shoobiedoo 4mo ago
My wife and I live in Japan, and her job is in a very, very rural area, while I am able to work remote. Before I moved into her house, we checked her local internet, it was 11mbps with a wired connection. yikes. On top of that there are oft
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by shoobiedoo 4mo ago
yeah it's nothing like it used to be. back in the old days it was like the wild west. nothing was off the table unless it was illegal or grossly against the forum rules. now it's just a forum version of reddit or bluesky like you
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by shoobiedoo 4mo ago
That little bit of personality is what made forums so much fun. The early 2000s somethingawful forums were such a goldmine. I've never laughed so hard in my life at the antics between users. When this person or that guy or some infamou
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by shoobiedoo 4mo ago
Japan too. never thought I'd see it here but a taxi driver took the long way after a work drinking party. I guess he thought we were too drunk to notice. Well my boss sure did and lost his mind at the guy.
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by shoobiedoo 5mo ago
I bumped mine from 5g daily to 15 and noticed way less anxiety. It's a must have for me now. Besides that is the regular benefit of being able to squeeze out a few more reps during my kettlebell workouts
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by shoobiedoo 6mo ago
I'll never forget my first week working housing demolition in the Japanese countryside a few years ago. We were outside tearing down an old house, when I saw what I thought were bats. In broad daylight. But they were moving slowly... a
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by shoobiedoo 6mo ago
Wonderful breakdown. I love reading this kind of thing. thank you
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by shoobiedoo 6mo ago
Since we're a bunch of nerds here, just wanted to throw this out there: cheesemaking is really, really fun. I highly recommend it. I lived five minutes from a dairy farmer in Japan and he sold it to me for around a dollar a liter, so I

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