Passport photo booths are better if they are slightly creepy.

Wow, a blast from the past! The only animation/comic I ever really enjoyed, back in junior high 30 years ago...

Even now going to Akihabara often there are figures and characters on every building and walls and shirts and I just don't know it. But I still remember every character from that series😅

I like to pronounce calculator as "CAL-cue-luh-TOR" like it's an evil villain against superheroes

It just feels good to me to say it like that

But I can't use it around people because I'm shy

With Mr. Donut raising prices I'm surprised everyone isn't celebrating the beauty of Jack in the Donuts. This is a toffee and Biscotti tea old fashioned that's just 250 yen.

(Of course the best donuts in Japan are Happy Donut in Mobara but there's a line out the door and it's a 2 hour drive for me)

In case you didn't know that this activity actually exists for women in Japan also

(Video had no connection to toilet activities but thank you YouTube for the recommended search result I guess)

Not looking forward to the eventual deluge of illegal overstayers to work illegally instead of paying 2-3 months of their native country's wage to renew, and looking forward to the eventual reversal of this policy to try and stop the ills it will cause and to increase necessary immigration.

In the plans to pass the diet this year is a 10-20x increase in visa fees in Japan.

Renewal/status change to be 70000 yen.

Permanent residence application to be 200000-300000 yen.

Not so impactful for me personally but passing it along in case anyone with the capacity to apply soon can do so.

A round trip plane ticket to Japan to buy all the animal crossing amiibos for about US$3 each or less? Or did you feel the need to buy all stock you saw like you were saving shelter animals?

Otherwise I don't feel so bad with the weak yen knowing how expensive everything in the US seems now 😮

Immigration: Addition is not Subtraction. YouTube video by Japan Game Junk

Just a few thoughts here in the Japanese town with the highest percentage of population of immigrants

youtube.com/shorts/ptrM2...

A nice Monday with 4 hours so far gambling with fake money that is guaranteed to be down to zero on a long enough time frame

Not a crypto exchange! This form involves cute animated foxes and bees and rabbits and lulls you with hypnotic color and circus music

So actually kind of like crypto I guess

You inspired me to come here today... Meatballs will be to go

Also decent chips and salsa are in almost every well stocked food store.

Young people will usually have had good exposure to Mexican food so this is much more reflecting his age than this culture and understanding. It's similar to an elderly American eating "sushi" of can tuna on long grain rice 😂

To be fair you can't get American cheese here

These seem to be QBB slice cheese cheddar blend but perhaps another brand

Great Mexican food is available in Japan much like great Japanese food in America at least when I was there. It exists and you find your favorite spot. Mine is "Mike's"

For people wanting to experience Japanese burger chains

MOS Burger is for gentrifying hipsters

Dom Dom Burger is for the real ones

I loved the ending theme so much that I saved a game right before it played. I would plug a cassette adapter into my Game Boy Color so I could listen to it blasting in the speakers of my Nissan Maxima at 18 years old. 26 years later it still pops in my head.

8 slimes fuse to become a king slime!

Haha one or two won't cut it

Chronicling them on the YouTube channel in individual videos including price and place of purchase

#1267 just uploaded today and theoretically uploading faster than acquisition so in the end they should all be up and all actually played 😎 (for seconds at least)

Subway here doesn't even have them... They were removed from the menu years ago and I can't even get the bad ones. Turkey breast too.

Just about supply and demand... Japanese people can't appreciate such culinary excellence I guess 😭

However, I can always go to Ikspiari!

That's in Ikspiari, the shopping mall attached to Tokyo Disney! I go often as the Ikspiari credit card gives me free parking😅

It's fun, low cost, and decent, but I admit I don't go often... Ikspiari has many specialty restaurants that offer food I love but not common in Japan like meatball subs 😁

So wistful!

In Japan those are the "typical 11" that Virtual Boy collectors can find for reasonable prices and the EXACT games I had for years and years until deciding to put some effort into getting more a couple of years ago, now adding Space Squash, Fishing, and Innsmouth.

Just 3 more to go...

I love women and wish I were a Sega Genesis

Haha good thing you stopped there and didn't go another hour north or you would have wanted to escape right back 🤣

In any case we're both in better places now 🙂

Oh wow! I would go with my mother with the easy drive down I-75 into Cobb County every month and often to Cumberland Mall!

Maybe we ran into each other there unknowingly at the time. That would be just before my own big move and I had started games as a collection ☺️

It's Hut Day in Japan so I'm glad to be alone in the office until the evening.

In minutes the car and then the workplace will be thick with the scent of pepperoni.

If there was such a thing as "final smell" for me on death row this is what'll be pumped in the room when the needle is being inserted

That must have been an AMAZING feeling at the time if you were waiting for it...

As an adult, day one system buys are the norm, but as a carless teen in rural Georgia there was no place to even buy one in town. Imagine a Chattanooga mall 30 miles away being your best access for reliable game buys 🤣

Some of us are working hard to catch up and I'm doing my best... I might appreciate the beauty and functionality of said structure more than anything

That being said, get your colonoscopy everyone. I had two removals in my last one, it didn't hurt, and the cute and funny nurse almost stole my heart

I have almost 11,000 physical games in a library in my house so "Don't forget" for me is for everything other than game playing 🤣

I never even learned what discord was despite game pass continuously offering "3 months of nitro free" which I guess makes it faster on the road

Just like cancelling all other social media it seems the decision to avoid unblockable anonymous online contact remains a win. I'm pleasantly unaffected.

Coincidentally played it live on stream last night...

I don't know if the North American version was the very flawed Japanese launch version or the fixed "Circuit Edition" that was released soon afterward... Hope it's the latter.

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi should have won all awards in music

Oh nice! I had no idea it was outside Japan. I was there yesterday and go often!

The only annoying thing is the compulsion to eat in 500 yen increments to get to the next capsule toy game... I sometimes need 2 or 3 plates even after being full 🤣