As someone in his mid-40s, yep. I don’t think that’s all that new, though.

American who left the country over a decade ago.

Many (of course not all) speak more loudly than they think and more than is necessary. This is especially noticeable when not competing against other people’s voices/loudness in quiet places. That is, the default is higher and you might work to lower it or at least be aware of it depending upon the ambient volume and norms where you are (Americans aren’t the only ones like this).

Many US folks also act differently to even other English-speaking countries. This can be extroversion, small talk in countries that don’t do that, certain expectations of how things should work, etc. USAmericans are the folks I hear most saying “but it’s not that way in my country!” (though again, not exclusively). How direct you are vs others is another one; many can be quite direct whereas other countries use more context and subtlety. My advice would just be to watch how other people interact more intently than just being around in the space until you get used to it. I’ve never lived in Australia so I couldn’t specifically say

I just searched earlier and DDG had a link telling me to try its AI (I think it was on my mobile on firefox). At least it didn’t force it, I guess.

Japanese enters the chat:

Left: numeral; middle: regular writing; final: certain formal and non-forgery usecases.

または in point 7 means either variant is OK

The last line says one can use the modern yen sign as well (though some would argue that it’s bad manners in at least some situations, but I have no dog in that fight).

万 = 10k. Several countries use both 1k and 10k units (Japan traditionally was on the 10k side but had a lot of influence so now we see both a lot. A used car price might be 130万円 or something ( = 1,300,000 yen)

数字	通常の漢字	金額で使う旧字体（大字）  
0	零	零  
1	一	壱  
2	二	弐  
3	三	参  
4	四	肆  
5	五	伍  
6	六	陸  
7	七	柒（または 漆）  
8	八	捌  
9	九	玖  
10	十	拾  
100	百	佰  
1k	千	仟  
万	万	萬  
円	円	圓（もしくは「円」のまま）  

Chart from here that looks better: https://saiseich.com/business/kanji_kingaku/

We have a way of writing numbers in certain situations. Think of it like checks in the US where we write things in a certain way so that the numbers can’t be easily changed to increase the value or something.

The headline does say “woman with shotgun”, though :)

As someone who was once homeless (thought lucky enough to have a car): this view can fuck right off.

AC working

Also, in some parts of the world, not having this in the current climate is deadly. Japan, where I live, has tons of deaths per year as the heat and humidity claim lives, particularly those of the elderly who can’t afford to run or repair theirs, but young as well.

I mean, fuck racists and xenophobes but the piece isn’t blaming foreigners for this. At the end, it mentions them not really being attracted to izakaya and, before I lived here, I wasn’t really either. It gives a host of actual reasons in the article linked.

The title is kinda shit since it can be interpreted in more than one way (as in “Japan’s izakaya don’t attract tourists and are going out of business” instead of “japan’s izakaya are going out of business BECAUSE they don’t attract tourists” which is not what I believe the article was saying)

Edit: the actual source won’t load for me. Jin news reports it strictly as rising prices. Yahoo News only mentions they’re not seeing any benefits from the surge of inbound tourism. The rocketnews headline is bad.

Former gas stove person here. I now use induction and love it. I have a cassette gas burner if I really needed it for some reason, but I’ve never broken it out.

Absolutely not. I remember themes and notes buti do not store exactly the dialogue or anything.

Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They’re the ones doing it.

My bowl of rice comes from one prefecture over. I’d buy more locally if I could, but I prefer brown rice to white and they locally polish basically everything.

I have one of those and it was also my first bike :)

I got into D&D in the late '80s. My super-christian grandma even tried to play. My dad’s church thought I was going straight to hell, though.

Heh, I honestly can’t remember the last ad for a game I saw. Maybe on japanese TV since I don’t get ads on YouTube where I spend most of my watching time. I’ll keep an eye out for it, though; that does make sense.

/ As I type this, I realize I’ve seen several war thunder sponsored segments in videos, but I just ignore or mute.

Does that mean something like Eve Online or an MMO actually done with spreadsheets somehow?

I enjoy watching some people play games. I cannot watch them play RPGs or similar with choices nor puzzles. Even if their puzzle solution is right in the end and mine is not, I still just get frustrated by the experience.

Yep. We have copilot do reviews but also require human reviews

Now I want to eat 盛岡冷麵 (Morioka Reimen)

The app gets messed up on my Japanese LG TV every now and again (and I seem to have lost the ability to thumbs-up videos again), but it’s never been unusable. The app on my android phone looks fine at the moment.

I might be open to a new MMO at some point. I’m 100% out if it requires grouping for the main storyline, is super grindy, or I have to do corpse runs. I have two jobs and no time for that. I enjoy doing some group stuff, but I don’t want to pay for a game where I get nowhere because of my schedule.

I’d also be out if it had some parry system (quicktime events, basically) or souls-like combat in general as it’s just not my bag; I’m there for the quests and story more than anything else.