tiredofsametab

I’d really like to visit sometime. I’ve been studying Norwegian (I’m roughly on the border of A2 and B1) and read the news for practice which is exactly as you point out, heh.

I have fiber in rural Japan as well, surrounded by mountains on 3 sides and the ocean on the other.

I live in Japan (more than a decade now) and grew up in the US. Life here in Japan is getting harder as the currency weakens against others, inflation has been going crazy, and wages aren’t keeping up. A lot of energy is imported as are a lot of materials. Gasoline is up over 20 yen per litre since the start of last month and that will translate into increased costs for anything requiring shipping. It also means, at least for those of us with family overseas, that seeing family members is much harder and more expensive than before. It’s also hard to bring my wife because I never know what the ICE is going to do with a non-white woman who speaks almost no English and that’s a risk I won’t take.

We have a big overtourism issue which is leading to a lot of people thinking foreigners = trouble and giving racists an excuse. Japan just elected Japanese Thatcher which is a setback for the rights of women, LGTBQI+, and more (especially around the koseki system and marriage equality).

Tech jobs are in a bit of a crunch right now with the whole “AI” thing going on and some places wanting to go all in on that. I am starting to think I want to change jobs, but finding another remote software engineering job is going to be very challenging.

For everything else, though, rural Japan treats me quite well.

Really depends on the company and management, really.

There are a number of ways to count continents, none of them super great for all usages. Some separate North and South America.

I’m related to one. They believe everything Fox News says and will twist themselves into logical pretzels to attempt to justify it when presented with evidence countering the narrative Fox says, even if it directly contradicts their own experience.

I normally have semi-sweet chocolate chips (~40g/day). I occasionally have Reece’s mini cups when someone sends them (not made in Japan) which is to say a couple of times a year at most. The only other thing I have somewhat regularly are chocolate-covered nuts (peanuts or, if I feel fancy, almonds).

Wife - basically all day every day since I work from home.

Wife’s family: we meet a few times a year for holidays and mostly eat, drink, and visit others in the area.

Else: basically see them once every five years or so since they live on the other side of the earth. We hang out, eat, talk, etc.

This is my guess. If you’re talking about the white poster, I’m kinda 50-50 on it being Indian script. I can’t tell if the line is above the writing or just unrelated so it looks like script. If it is, I guess it could also be Bangladesh (and technically Nepal, though I find that less likely).

EDIT: derp, there’s actual writing, not on the white poster, on the wall. The top line is connected, so I think that indicates eastern India into Bangladesh IIRC.

I watch stuff in languages I barely understand and can at least somewhat enjoy it.

In Japan, many films get Japanese subtitles, but the US is less into that. (A lot of films also get dubbed which can delay releases for like 6+ months, if they even release in theatres at all, but that’s another story).

I would love it if it let me live/work in Shengen countries

You assume people are eating so close to bedtime. I last eat 4-6 hours before bed. You also presuppose that the meal that has dessert is the one right before sleep, which may not be true in some or all cases.

Metric all of the things. I haven’t lived in the US for over a decade now, but spent the first ~30 years of my life there.

No. If I have problems with a creator, publisher, etc., I’ll stop consuming. If I previously purchased and own some work (i.e. an album from a band that turns out to be shitty), I will still sometimes engage with that, but no new money is going to them.

I think Link to the Pastis still my favorite Zelda, probably followed by the original. My former roommate was definitely all about OOT and why I tried to play through it back then

We’re in a prime area to see it. As such, it will be cloudy and moving between rain, sleet, and snow (we’re not sure which yet) at ~17:44 local time when it comes over.

Zelda OOT. The controls, especially when first using the slingshot and such, with the camera just sucked. I never got far with that after I finally tried it in my mid-/late-20s. It’s one of those I found much more enjoyable watching someone else do.

Played Goldeneye for the first time at a barcade in my early 30s and I didn’t really enjoy that much.

As I think about it, anything on N64 and maybe Gamecube that I would try once I had time and money later in life just were not great. I had been playing better PC games, even in the same years, and have zero nostalgia for it which probably doesn’t help.

I moved to Japan a decade ago and there are not time changes (though I’d argue that, at least for eastern Japan, we’re in the wrong timezone). It is much easier on my body not making that change twice a year. I have a really sensitive sleep schedule so this is very important to me.

I thought I was going to get drafted just after 2001-09-11 as a young man in the US and nothing has really felt quite at that level since. I did buy a dosimeter when Ukraine was invaded. I don’t know what the future holds. I’m glad I don’t live near any US military bases nor in the US anymore.

Don’t forget your FBAR as well if you have basically any non-us bank accounts, securities, etc.

When I lived out of my car, peanut butter was my main staple since it would survive well at about any temperature. I survived off that, bread from a bakery outlet, and, when the weather was cool enough, cheese.

Edit: for non-food, grooming/hygiene supplies are generally good.