It’s not as impossible as it may seem. My friends and I saved frequent flyer miles from our credit cards for two years. By the time I went, I didn’t have to pay for the plane ticket, and only paid for around 20% of lodging. It’s just a matter of planning over a long period of time.

That’s awesome! Now if we could only get one in Texas...

Really? Fascinating. If I’m ever in the area on business, I’ll be sure to make a point of stopping in.

There was also an extremely bad-ass looking Berserk pachinko machine up there that I kind of lost my shit over. Unfortunately you cannot see it in the video.

Aki was very different than what I expected. I thought that the retro stores would be like, the size of a large Gamestop here in the US, but, Japan. Even the very famous stores are quite small. I also expected the selections to be far more comprehensive, but the actual experience of trying to close out my buy list…

I ended up buying a massive duffel for $8 and throwing all of my clothing and toiletries in it, then carefully packing 110 volumes of manga, two Super Famicoms, 30 games, and a Framemesiter into my suitcase and carry-on.

Book Off (as a whole) was hands-down my favorite store I visited during my time in Japan. I did find several titles at good prices in other locations, I was just pissed that the Akihabara location was too lazy to price their Super Famicom games appropriately. And my God... the 100Y manga section. I went to Japan…

I went to Japan in July, and most of my time in Tokyo was spent combing through various retro gaming shops, trying to find everything on my buylist. A quick run-down:

Yeah, but it was a *really* good mod!

Or, y’know, some people might like this way better.

I still just don’t get it. Maybe I never will? I must be like the only person I know who really liked that game. In fact, I beat it, which for me is a rarity these days. It was only afterward that I found out it had a bad rep. And, I can’t think it’s simple fanboyism, I’m known for being critical or even overly harsh…

Welcome to not understanding ai programming.

I respect that headline sir.

Do you want things to get better, or do you want to get mad? When someone gets down on their knees and admits they’re wrong, you have to be big enough to help them back to their feet again. If you don’t, why would anyone change their minds?

If it makes you feel any better, I too now feel inadequate compared to your father. :)

And nobody who works in software is surprised. At my company, we’ve found that even something as small as sitting directly across from one another, but having an eye-level screen between you makes collaboration harder. Unless you can literally swivel in your chair and talk to someone, there is always a collaboration…

Last month some friends and I went to Hiroshima to visit the Peace Memorial Park and Museum.

So until last month i had only read up until volume 18 or so. I can see why this series goes on break so often now. I always thought Miura was a pretty fair artist, but after the Mozgus arc up to now, the quality of his drawing is... inhuman. Some of these panels must take days to draw, and against all odds his art…

If anything it follows the manga *too* closely. TV and manga are different formats and you can’t just turn one into the other panel for panel and expect the result to be good. The pacing of the show is bizarre because they try to cram every panel in instead of choosing to include only what makes sense for the show.…

Guts continues to grow and change. If that appeals to you it’s definitely worth reading.