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trevorreznik posted:For some reason I thought the summer Olympics were going to be in LA, but it doesn't matter. They will in 2028, which is probably what you thought of. I’m looking forward to being jealous that it’ll be an Olympics with actual life in the host city, Tokyo was essentially still locked down and all the events were without fans in 2020-in-2021. Happy new year, here’s to another trip around the sun. Here’s to a good finish to bowl season and then the NFL playoffs before settling into the long offseason of shitposting.
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BlindSite posted:If everyone waited for certain times none of us would be here. Do everything you can to put the odds in your favor of course but you can't let what the world might do dictate your life choices too much. Yeah, this. You’ll never be perfectly, 100% ready to be a parent - all you can do is try to set things up. I’m glad my wife and I traveled a bunch in 2019, because the pandemic happened and now maaaaybe it’ll be possible to bring the little one along this year. I’m glad we have the little one we do, and we’re discussing going for two, but we’ll see. What BlindSite said about seeing a child go from potato to toddler is amazing and true and accurate in my experience, and it’s also exhausting sometimes. Oftentimes. Thankfully better now that they’re closing in on two years old. Also re: grocery lists and tracking, I use the Goodnotes app on iPad, also have it on my phone, and they can sync over iCloud to allow me and the missus to write out meal plans on there and then use it to order groceries or go to the supermarket in person. Pretty handy.
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Jan 3, 2024 12:19
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FizFashizzle posted:Has there ever been a parent who said “yeah my kid is loving dumb” one of my friends is sometimes like "man I dunno" about his son, but seems like some of it is just toddlers are dumb. hard to tell. the one, honest, true regret I have in my life, is that the timing of things went such that my little one came around a couple years after my mom passed away. She was looking forward to being a grandma so goddamn much, it's the one pain that I do have. almost everything else that was a forking path can be balanced out by how it actually has turned out, but man, that is the one that hurts. Hug your moms, if you're able and want to.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:13
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General Dog posted:I wish someone could make them run on time. Japanese bureaucracy apologizes when they run ahead of schedule  GD_American posted:Everyone in the NCAA thread has long known this.  Longest drive I've done is Portland to Boulder, that was done once each way and split in half at Salt Lake each time, but I couldn't share driving duties either time.
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Jan 6, 2024 16:44
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Android Apocalypse posted:The Oregon Zoo is fun. I've seen "Weird" Al Yankovic perform there several times. Back when that awful teen drama/reality show was on the air, we had fun with which one was the "real" O.C. Oregon Zoo is fun, we took my little one to the zoo here in Tokyo area (Ueno Zoo) a couple days ago and she loving loved it, so next time I'm home in Portland we're definitely going to Washington Park.
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Jan 7, 2024 09:52
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Joey Freshwater posted:wtf we’re about to watch Glass Onion on Netflix and the little preview thing spoils part of the reveal at the end. Oof. You should still watch it, but eesh.
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Jan 8, 2024 04:50
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Hi TFF Friends, *puts on Fun Police mod hat* FYI - the strong preference is for anything sold this way on SA to go through SA-Mart. I appreciate trying to do mate's rates for somebody in here who may need it, but SA-Mart is the proper dedicated space for that.
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Jan 8, 2024 12:04
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CannonFodder posted:Doesn't he have his own apparel line anyways? It may have been through Nike as a subsidiary / whatever, but there was Tiger Woods branded apparel and he could take the logo to another clothing manufacturer. Depends on if he owns the logo or not, it was quite likely a Nike invention (the nested T-W, specifically). and yeah, I remember hearing in the Golf thread that it sounded like Nike was getting out soon. makes sense, especially if Tiger's deal was timed to January/early part of the year.
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Jan 9, 2024 00:37
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Happy Birthday (or belated if this is now too late), hope y’all are having a good start to the year. One playoff just ended, now looking forward to an NFL playoffs of chaos since I have no direct rooting interests.
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Jan 10, 2024 11:43
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Jan 11, 2024 07:04
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Pablo Torre is out in these streets saying Vivek was That rear end in a top hat in college, because of course they went to college together. If somebody who went to Harvard is saying “this guy was too pretentious and up his own rear end for Harvard” then that sounds pretty awful. You also are not paying me to pay attention to the GOP circus, so I’m not volunteering any brain cells to it. Moving away from not just the city but the country helps to lose touch of a lot of people from high school, turns out  I only lived there for 3/4 of high school anyways, so it’s not like lifelong friends. I’m sure plenty of people are doing well from there, but not too many super high profile so far as I can tell.
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Jan 13, 2024 10:37
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T-Square posted:I’m alright with them. I grew up with a couple of friends that loved MGS and enjoyed watching them play it. It sounds like it’s basically a port of the MGS HD Collection that came out on PS3, but if you don’t have any of the MGS games already or old systems it should be acceptable. MGS 1-3 are all incredible, and it also has two older 8-bit games as well. Sounds like it’s available everywhere, but the Switch version runs MGS2 and 3 at 30 fps. I do love the MGS intro, as well as some of those beginning/end of chapter Yakuza series cutscenes. So many are so good and melodramatic.
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Jan 14, 2024 11:34
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seiferguy posted:I found out in Costco Japan food court, instead of a chicken bake, they have a bulgogi bake, and man... that sounds so much better. I had that last time I went to Costco, it’s definitely a calorie bomb and about all you’d need for a lunch. Bulgogi inside the same baked bread outer. The other fun thing is they give you two spoons or straws with the frozen yogurt desserts, which are the same size as what you’d get in the U.S.
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Jan 15, 2024 06:21
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Intruder posted:The downside of working from home is work is never closed We haven’t had a real “everything’s closed” day for either snow or hurricanes since COVID, but we basically canceled a day last fall because the daycare asked us to keep kids home because it was supposed to be a bad typhoon. It didn’t really hit and we had the only child out for that grade
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Jan 16, 2024 01:58
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Qwijib0 posted:Very poe's law I like how the tweet said "This video itself is a parody, but the situation is real"  
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Jan 16, 2024 14:57
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They call that thing the Wall, somebody better be making “now your watch is done” jokes once they’re eliminated from the playoffs in the future. I see you trying to build an indoor basketball Kop and I wish you good luck with it, Microsoft man.
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Jan 17, 2024 07:12
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swickles posted:I saw a pair of Timberlands that I like and want to know if they are worth it? I’m not sure if Timberland has a fancy line but Danner and Red Wing are definitely fancy ones as well. seiferguy posted:So I'm sort of stuck at this well-paying job that is unfulfilling, but at the same time, I can kind of half-rear end it, get good marks, and do other stuff. This is very underrated as a way to live life, especially if you can travel/have hobbies/do whatever you want off that paycheck. It’s roughly how I’m doing in my position and company.
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Jan 18, 2024 05:38
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Ether Frenzy posted:My wife is English and I've received medical attention in both Spain and Greece for like 10 euros each time back before England decided to lose EU benefits, so my socialism bona fides are very big, and very strong. That poo poo rocks I'm actively involved with the union at my workplace  plus we have the whole "kids' healthcare is basically free" thing too.
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Jan 18, 2024 09:52
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BlindSite posted:I will never respond to a work enquiry outside of my contracted hours. Same and same. Any overtime is paid as, well, overtime, and we have a general corporate culture that any actual overtime has to be aligned with higher ups before it’s needed. Otherwise just take a day off at the end of the month or something to balance time out. So yeah, a reason I’m happy to stay where I am (company wise and in Japan versus hypothetically with my company in Europe or the U.S.) is that real sharp divide of work and life balance. Many Japanese companies only pay for overtime for full-time salaried employees after the first 30 hours of overtime in a month. I didn’t know much of this when I was searching for work — happy with many options that weren’t teaching English here — but I’m very lucky and fortunate to have fallen rear end-backward into something good. Oh, and unions are good, too.
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Jan 19, 2024 11:58
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Amy Pole Her posted:Yeah Jackass 1 and 2 were both truly epic college audience experiences. Hell even American Pie 2 in a packed theater was a great experience. Snakes on a Plane in theaters was a good time
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Jan 21, 2024 08:42
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DaveWoo posted:And by "before Tuesday" we mean... Easiest joke is “should be forced to carry it to term.” LeeMajors posted:Somewhere in CSPAM there was a quote from somewhere (yes this is vague but fun) which said, roughly, ‘we were promised that Desantis was Trump without the baggage, but he’s actually Ted Cruz without the charisma’ which is devastating as hell. That was in the big NYT piece last month about the DeSantis campaign and how bad it was
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Bird in a Blender posted:I just renewed my passport and they sent my old one back to me. Can I just toss this in the garbage? I actually wasn't expecting it back and I don't know what I should do with an expired passport. I have my prior passport and keep it because it has proof of when I moved here, which was necessary both for buying a house and getting the Japanese version of a green card/permanent residency. But if you’re not living overseas you just have travel mementos, yeah. I need to go get my little one a couple of passports. That’s gonna be fun.
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I might have to go back and watch some of that, I didn’t realize so much early stuff was shot in Portland.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:My fave social media trend is content creators doing DIYs or remodeling projects where they brag about how little it cost and you the viewer can do it too!!! Only $120 in materials!!! <shocked YouTube face> This was always my dad's chuckle at This Old House or New Yankee Workshop stuff on PBS. He still watched it a bunch, but would joke about "oh yeah, real easy Norm, let's not count that enormous shop you've got there."
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TheKingslayer posted:There any good podcasts on football history or historic events in football? Or even just like, retrospectives on whole seasons? For the NFL or college? College podcast Split Zone Duo has done a few episodes of a series they call Dead Letters about college programs that have declined, and why (see: Nebraska). It’s behind their Substack subscription, but it’s well worth your time.
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Jan 27, 2024 13:14
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Grittybeard posted:Not a podcast exactly but if you haven't already seen it check out Jon Bois's thing on the Falcons. There's a lot going on there, and a lot of material. The Falcons one is good, plus the Vikings one as well. Both excellent, though there’s less of that dumb bird around for the Vikings naturally.
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Silly Burrito posted:well I am a dumbass In fairness, the Lions stopped playing that way
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I only get the rare piece of spam (usually trying to trick me into “checking the status of a package”). It’s nice to live in a country where you aren’t allowed to contact voters by text message. Or TV ads, now that I think of it. These things are why I told my friend he was crazy when he suggested the vans with loudspeakers that are allowed here were more annoying. Nah man, they drive on by. I think he underestimated how bad it’s gotten in the U.S.
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LeeMajors posted:Tell me you don’t have kids without saying you don’t have kids. This right here
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I just remembered on my first brick phone in 2004 I paid like $2 for a ring tone of Sirius Instrumental by Alan Parsons Project. For a very long time in the iPhone era I used Roundball Rock. Now it’s perma-silent and I have an Apple Watch most of the time, so. I do have a couple fun sounds I can use for alarms or such, like the Metal Gear codec call sound. Sucks if they made it harder in iOS. Also missed barber chat but since my first year of college I’ve either buzzed my hair all the way down with clippers or (for most of the time in Japan) shaved with a razor. Few options when you go bald fairly early.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I wear an Apple Watch when I work out or when I’m just out running errands or whenever. So beyond the notifications deal (which is nice, because either your phone buzzing on a desk or being in a pocket and somehow not feeling buzzes are equally annoying), the big reason I stuck with my Apple Watch was early on in the pandemic, when they added the feature to unlock your phone with your watch if it was in range. E.g., unlocking your phone when you couldn't fully get Face ID working - like with a mask on. That was just useful enough, and the notifications on watch a nice enough feature, that I've stuck with it since, and upgraded twice. I'd like to wear my automatics again more (original era Seiko Monster sitting on my dresser, sad and alone) but it's just too useful to use the Apple Watch. Qwijib0 posted:don't make the mods get a strap 
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Its Rinaldo posted:What happens if I want to go to a park in the AFC? You probably need a better quarterback looking at how things are right now 
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LeeMajors posted:I’m putting way too much pressure on myself to keep a 4.0 I think but I also want to differentiate hard because of my age. No need to pile that much stress on, honestly. Even for a bachelor’s, just having it is 95% of the way there. Work hard at it and the results will come.
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Its Rinaldo posted:How many goddamn times do they need to tell FF7 jesus It's been re-released on different consoles, but hasn't been re-made. And this isn't a bog-standard remake either  Joey Freshwater posted:This is still the second time. This is just the next game - it’s a huge rear end story in total. I think it’ll be three games in all. Yeah, I think it'll be three total. And in all it probably is closer to the Evangelion movies in terms of what it's doing. Kalli posted:Yeah, for sure. I'm like 8-10 hours in, and it was extremely funny how long the prologue is. Just straight up all the promo stuff is in Hawaii and you're bumming around Japan for like 4 hours of prologue. The saddest thing to me was when you get released to Hawaii and it tells you your money has been translated to US Dollars, and what exchange rate they used for it 
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Timby posted:Oh, so he's pulling a full Steve Jobs. GB News isn’t the greatest of sources (I think it’s in the Fox News/OAN territory), but yeah, guess we’ll see. Transitional
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Maximo Roboto posted:I kinda love how bad this list is https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/which_cities_should_get_an_nfl_expansion_team_020424/s1__37690346 The largest metro area in the world “might be one of the NFL’s biggest markets overnight,” get bent.
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Joey Freshwater posted:My gf and I live together and I guess I’ve always loaded the dishwasher. I like doing it, I like the “puzzle” and organization aspect of it. I too handle the dish cleaning, and feel the exact same way.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I love Tokyo Drift. I still can’t get over that guys accent being his actual accent. It sounds fake as hell Tokyo Drift is a documentary. I can say this with authority 
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Neil Armbong posted:the affliction tees and stitched/bedazzled jeans lmao. soon. I recently watched the David Beckham documentary series on Netflix, and holy poo poo the late-90s through 2000s fashions I had locked away in my memory. Wowzers. Neil Armbong posted:Wonder if they've stopped building a native windows app and are using a webview or have moved to web driven api's vs system api's. Likely a cost saving measure to remove redundancy ro costs. You should shed a capitalist tear for their efficiency and cost savings for the shareholders. yeah I'm guessing it's similar to Mac being able to basically run iOS apps natively on the new computers, it's probably building off of the mobile version. thank god my company still has us on Win10 laptops and older versions of the desktop applications. My additional gripe is trying to default move everything to Sharepoint or some kind of cloud storage, where my brain much more wants to either save files locally or drop it into a shared server folder instead of Some Mythical Cloud. Kalli posted:Jesus would get really depressed about the infighting between the various splinter caucuses, get cancelled, stop attending meetings, and get really into Yakuza Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ...have you played the game yet because lol
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“Sunny place for shady people” and Miami being “the capital of Latin America” both seemingly hold true, even if more WASPy shitbirds fled places like New York for Meatball Ron’s Free Florida. I’m sure most of the South Floridians here hate that poo poo too.
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