tiredofsametab

Live in Japan and seconded. It can be sweet, but making it all sweet is just missing out on so much.

I was specifically avoiding the name to leave some ambiguity in case someone might want to read it, though probably overkill. But, yep, him

I wondered this the first time going to a temple or shrine in Japan. It’s also quite common here. I wondered if maybe it came over with Buddhism and it made it’s way into the now-mostly-unified Shinto practice (pre-meiji-restoration, beliefs and practices were a lot more local). It could also have come in at the time of christian missionaries, but that seems a lot less like especially since it persists after the christians were forced to leave, convert, or die (though hidden christians remained, often meeting in caves in the hills and such).

I think one would have to search through what written accounts of people remain, particularly those of outside observers in a new place.

I thought maybe it came from some older homo sapiens practice, but even things such as nodding for yes aren’t consistent, so maybe not.

I started reading Dragonlance novels around 10 years old. When I got my hands on the third main one (IIRC), one of the main characters who’s a knight died and that impacted me for quite some time.

Reece’s peanut butter cup minis. Perfect ratio of peanut butter and chocolate to me. Best if kept in the freezer. They’re not sold in Japan apparently because one ingredient used, so I only get them once or twice a year.

I’m from the US and this is what I remember from elementary school (the only school that had a fence in my case) in my case that would have been years 3-5

I hate that my phone turns “its” into “it’s” seemingly every single time. I often forget (I don’t post from my phone very often) and often only notice later and have to edit a post. It’s maddening.

Sites, but it’s just fedia and reddit for the most part. Exceptions are YouTube, mail, and calendar.

In Japan, tons of people send LINE messages to each other. Some of the older generations still call. My US family and I emailed for what little data that comprises.

I’m 2-3 times a day. it was 5+ until we figured out my body hates gluten

You’ve already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there’s only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it’s also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.

SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

As someone who frequently uses Japan’s bullet trains, that max speed is cool, but also of limited value since trains tend to stop in places. There are some areas, moreso in china that Japan, where that might make sense, but even if your train doesn’t stop at all stations, you’re still behind the ones that do until a track split to allow passing.

Japanese bullet trains had to get a redesign due to something akin to sonic booms when leaving tunnels that annoyed the hell out of residents several times an hour.

I dunno, I think giant meteor could deliver on their promises

I don’t have to fully imagine since northern Japan has gotten alerts thanks to a certain neighbor. As for us, there’s that can be done. Nowhere has basements. I do t know if anyone nearby even lives in a concrete building. Wed likely then make our way to the municipal office at some point as it’s our closest designated disaster/evac point.

I actually prefer not laying over when flying to the US East coast, but I also only use japanese airlines which tend to have higher quality food and service.

As someone doing IT for over two decades, I guess I’m somewhere in the top half of the image? I don’t care for anime that much so no bottom right and fursuits creep me out so not bottom right.

I had it for the first time around '90 in a financially struggling family and, while it was something of a treat, I never wanted to go back. To me then, I think it was just weird in terms of flavor (to me at the time), so maybe I was just off to a bad start. Today, I love in Japan and grow my own ingredients to make the tex-mex (and sometimes more traditionally Mexican) food I would later grow to love

Maybe there’s some vestige there but I asked upwards of 20 people and no one could explain it. Texas did historically have german-speaking communities and even cities, but I wasn’t aware of any Dutch nor had I heard anyone mention it. It’s interesting?