Uncensored Version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNFokmDKrE

I’m pretty similar in the console to PC shift. Pretty much had all consoles and handhelds through Xbox 360/Switch/PS3.

I still miss the Wii controls (I hate moving my neck for anything VR) but I don’t think with Switch 2 motion controls/mouse will get me back on Nintendo. Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Trilogy were awesome on Wii. Only reason I bought a Switch was for Zelda but I didn’t care for it and eventually gave my switch away, never finished BoTW. I don’t think Metroid Prime 4 is enough for me to justify buying a whole console. So I’m planning to get a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.

If we ever see a world where nintendo games are on steam and you don’t need a nintendo account to play them, I would totally buy up all my favorite games and play them on PC.

Otherwise I really don’t care for the business model of re-buying the games I already own, just re-released on the latest console. Don’t care for paying for online access. And the few games they have really aren’t compelling enough for me to justify buying a console when I have hundreds of unplayed games in my steam library. (my humble bundle subscription snowballed my library lol)

please do. I stole the term myself from the japanlife subreddit.

The most dangerous part of living in Tokyo isn’t the typhoons, earthquakes, or tsunamis these days, its the mothers on electric assist e-bikes ‘mama-chari’ mid-afternoon on their way back with the whole family.

Toddler in the front, middle schooler on the back, she has pedal assist and is booking it on the sidewalk while looking at her smartphone because its legally permissible to ride with the pedestrians when you feel unsafe on the streets. The bike lanes here aren’t separated from traffic. And the bike lanes here are de-facto 15-minute loading parking spaces for the massive trucks, drop off points for taxis, and uber eats scooter parking spots. So you either have to merge into traffic due to all the parked vehicles, or ride on the sidewalk.

If you ever come to Toyko, walk on the left and look over your right shoulder so you don’t get run over by a whole family on a modern day chariot.

Yup, everybody looking down at their pocket computers and fucking up their posture.

Tokyo is full of meanderthals walking and biking while looking down at their phones. Standing still while waiting for the lights to change is tame.

There’s even a word for it here: aruki-sumaho

Notable sightings so far in 2025:

• A pack of middle school boys all playing a mobile game while walking with their faces in their phones and blocking the sidewalk. Three abreast in marching band formation, maybe 15 of them.

• Salaryman holding a laptop and on a conference call while rushing towards a train station.

• A few face-in-tablet while walking, that always gets a smirk out of me.

• Lady in heels, approaching the upward stairs while watching a video on her phone in landscape mode, arm fully extended and airpods in. Misses a step and eats it, goes full scorpion. I was impressed she managed to hold onto her phone and keep all her teeth, she just missed chomping on a concrete step by a few cm.

Its extremely common here. Enough that I usually have to stop walking on the sidewalk and just wait for them to notice me to look up and move out of the way, you can’t always side step them because they’re frequently not walking straight and they’ll wander across the path anyway, hence the term meanderthals.

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Second this. Get an aeropress, a burr grinder that can go down to espresso fine grind (or find a local roaster that will roast and grind your beans to your liking), a thermometer, and a scale.

Skip the machines that can break down and are expensive to replace or hard to clean.

Edit: If you decide to go with the aeropress, I’d recommend getting one of these flow control caps. A lot of recipes for the ‘inverted method’ of brewing deal with balancing the aeropress upside down and messing around with hot coffee sludge. Just get one of these instead of doing anything inverted and risking burning yourself or spilling hot coffee sludge everywhere.

https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-flow-control-filter-cap

I’ve tried every way to make coffee at home and aeropress is my favorite (over moka pot, french press, pour over, Mr Coffee, espresso, nespresso, keurig, turkish, etc)

Magic wand time: Make the entire bay area a single entity like NYC, Tokyo, or London. Extend the zoning plan to the entire bay area, get rid of minimum parking space requirements in other cities in the metro, invest in transit and build infill stations in the new areas with planned increases in density.

The drug problem is another issue, but if the bay area were more affordable there would be fewer people forced out on to the streets who then turn to drugs.

I’ve only ever heard Autumnal used for the equinox. Otherwise Autumn and Fall are also used as adjectives in American English. Fall colors. Fall planting. A cool autumn breeze.

In most of these sentence examples, an American would use fall/autumn interchangably where autumnal is used.

I propose a combined American, British, Australian vernacular only using the word with fewer syllables. (New Zealand and Canada are welcome too)

British Wins:

• lift not elevator
• chips not french fries
• bin not trash can
• torch not flashlight
• loo not toilet/restroom/bathroom
• pram not stroller/baby carriage
• tap not faucet
• petrol not gasoline
• chemist not pharmacy
• sweet not candy
• jug not pitcher

American Wins:

• fall not autumn
• hood not bonnet
• truck not lorry
• pants not trousers
• cart not trolley
• subway not underground
• eggplant not aubergine
• sink not washbasin

Australian Wins:

• thongs not flip flops/slippers

Thanks for this, I appreciate the info!

There’s two moving parts here.

The 360 degree swivel part was fine.

The left-to-right 180 degree swivel part failed. Which is the most important part cause the USB-C port is on the bottom of my phone and I like to charge it when I’m holding it.

Try this brand https://www.sceptre.com/

Yeah its perfectly fine and tasty! Especially if you know what a soda bread is an are expecting that. The lemon poppy seed one looks amazing, I might try to make one from scratch since I have all the ingredients in the pantry anyway (except for ascorbic acid)

The best thing you can do for these types of recipes is to stop mixing immediately after the dry bits are incorporated, and bake the batter immediately after mixing since the baking powder and baking soda make bubbles immediately when you mix in your fizzy acidic beverage of choice. Same reason why you don’t wanna over mix pancake batter, better to leave it lumpy and slightly undermixed.

Edit: Compare the top of your baked bread to the top in their marketing materials: did you add too much liquid (the recipe says 10oz not the full 12oz beer) or overmix?

Time to invest!

Its all losses on paper, unrealized losses.

I could see them all coming out ahead in some other way, tax minimization, write downs/write offs, other financial methods not accessible to normal people that don’t have a fleet of accounts and tax lawyers on retainer. And they’ll all be ready to profit massively during and after any future crash.

The cynic in me says that they all have a bunch of call/put options, algorithmic high frequency trading and dark pools at the ready, or other bets that’ll make them massively rich and any upcoming stock market crash is calculated and planned by influencing a bought president. Maybe that’s giving them too much credit but the people that advise these billionaires and the president are definitely ready to profit off of whatever is coming.

Only ‘Third Place’ we have left is starbucks. Where Have All the ‘Third Places’ Gone?

This is why I stopped using sites like Agoda for over a decade. Only time I don’t book direct is when its through my credit card rewards portal, redeeming points for nights.

And horoscopes

https://mntre.com/index.html

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

For anyone wanting to try inverted recipes, I recommend getting the pressure valve instead of inverting.

You don’t need the literal balancing act or risk spilling hot coffee sludge everywhere.

Edit: or the fellow prismo like OP mentioned, its the same function.