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  • I often still do. In japanese, google even became its own verb (possibly because it works phonetically and syntactically) both as google-suru and google-ru (グーグル)

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    Prank calls don't really exist anymore with caller ID and everyone sending unknown numbers to voicemail.
  • Where I grew up, we only ever gave the last four digits of our number because the whole town and then some was the same. Later, they changed the area code since it was running out of numbers and then we moved to 10-digit dialing. I remember how weird it felt when things like long distance calls just kinda stopped being a thing

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  • Final fantasy. The controls and camera on oot we'e so annoying I quit after about 30 minutes. That's not to say ff doesn't have its own issues with camera and such.

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  • Native English, conversational japanese, survival German (I was conversational at one point, but it's mostly gone), a tiny bit of french (same as German), very basic Spanish, and a tiny bit of Hebrew (I wanted to learn something in the semitic family and it seemed less intimidating than Arabic to start with)

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    Harris pledges to work to end taxes on tips for service industry employees, echoing Trump vow
  • Good luck getting a car/home loan when your salary looks like minimum wage (as a former coworker who didn't claim her tips found out). The whole tipping thing is idiotic. Pay a loving wage to workers.

    Edit: also a living wage. I can't type on mobile apparently

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    What's your most profound "small world" moment?
  • I grew up in a very small Ohio town. I moved to Houston, Texas and met one person from the same town and later one from a town over at a bar.

    I quit Facebook/etc. not long after moving to Tokyo. I ran into a guy from Columbus, Ohio that I knew from when I lived there.

    I've also run into friends of friends randomly in Tokyo.

    Now, I love away from Tokyo in the countryside, so I'll be super surprised if I meet anyone again, but who knows.

    Edit: for context, on a business day, there are more than 30 million people plus tourists in the Tokyo metro

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    How much stuff do you carry around daily just to cope with weather, other people, hygiene etc.?
  • When I still commuted for work (western 23-ku initially and later out towards okutama), I had a portable wifi, power bank, water, a protein bar or two, a book, sunglasses, folding umbrella, sunscreen, noise-canceling earphones, and ibuprofen in my bag (in addition to work stuff or whatever for that daily activity). Being stuck on a train that loses power makes one prepare.

    Now, I love in the inaka and work from home. I really should throw some water and calorie mate in the car, though, as I think about it.

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    Flight Simulator 2024's huge ambition means 'you can now exit the plane, walk around… you can land on every ship, and it looks like a first person shooter environment'
  • Scope creep: this time we're sure it won't be a disaster at all.

    Really neat if they could pull it off and have it not ruin anything else in the game, though I think I'd want any social stuff to be optionally enabled rather than always on.

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    TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture
  • Japan is slowly getting better, but it's a long road ahead. There are more laws and they're actually enforcing some of them with regard to harassment and hours worked (a lot of people would clock out and keep working, but they're trying to make the penalties bit enough to stop it from what I hear. My company is certainly strict about it).

    It'd be nice to have european-level vacations before I retire, but that I don't see happening

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    Borderlands is failing already.
  • I resolved to stop paying full price for anything Pitchford and his touch based on a number of factors. I did buy the latest BL game when it was on a big sale and thoroughly hated the main story and various plotholes (seemingly from cuts made by the company/directors rather than the writers). I bought Tiny Tina (again, on sale for over half off) and it was a game with all kinds of bugs that just never got fixed -- it's the first game I didn't immediately roll a new character to replay after beating it. At this point, I'm not sure I would buy anything else they put out.

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