The icon is an Ryukyuan castle? That’s so random!

I think you’re basically talking a modern lemmings or warios woods, and I would totally play it. That AAA rating is so clever haha.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered this last issue but a lot of NES games had doors you couldn’t go into but they looked exactly like those you could enter. So infuriating.

I offered to teach in one of those communities through videogames but I haven’t been able to start a community or find the time to actually get a session going :(

I feel bad because some people seemed genuinely interested. I’ll have to try again soon.

The Japanese changed a lot of hanzi to make it easier. The Chinese reaaaally simplified their hanzi to a point that I, as a native Japanese speaker, find it hard to decipher. With traditional Chinese, even with the more complex strokes, I can sorta make sense of signs and even some snippets from a newspaper article.

Also note that even though each character might have the same-ish meaning across languages, we might use different combinations to describe a word.

I’m just gonna assume my school never had one and not that I wasn’t invited.

I dunno if you watch anime but most mainstream ones start off with a high school kid discovering they’ve got a special gift.

I’m Okinawan, so I never really understand the mainland Japanese obsession with cherry blossoms. But then I got to see it for the first time last year and now I get it. I hope you get to see it too one day!

The tiny bit of the cityscape you can see at the vanishing point is so cool!

I think they give out free spicy air at protests lol

The drink was very weird. I was expecting a bit of savouriness with the spice, like I’d get to drink friend chicken and beer at the same time, but nope—just irritating! I also thought it tasted more like piperine than capsaicin.

Darn. Well let me know what I need to sacrifice when there’s an opening.

Ah, thank you. I was looking for the expression “power creep” to describe this phenomenon. In Japan, we usually call it “power inflation,” and I couldn’t remember how to say it in English!

Do you showcase your work anywhere (preferably on a federated platform) or do we need to join your cult to see them?

I tried some spicy beer. 🌶️🍺

My shitty brain is trying to figure out what it would like like at the equator. Would it be flipped 90 degrees? If so, cw or ccw?

They’re not even really using it as a metric. They’re just staying a fact and you’re getting all worked up over nothing. The article even mentioned an electric scooter rider who died after they got launched off their vehicle after they hit a pothole: this could have easily happened to a cyclist.

Oh I have no idea. It was just a joke based on your username. Jagarico is a calbee brand, right?

Do you perhaps work for Calbee? Lol

I live in japan and it’s ok as long as you don’t work for a Japanese company. I actually don’t like all the attention the country is getting on social media.

Merci!