VLC for macOS does not offer up an update, and insists that 2.8.8 is the latest version. Maybe they haven’t uploaded the new binary to those servers yet, but it works fine to manually replace the .app file with the version from the website.

Sounds like a bad-guy-of-the-week on Firefly.

The Star Wars Holiday Special: The Series

Hey, you... keep doing what you’re doing.

I’ve been here long enough that the weirdest part of that picture is that there’s a foreigner in it.

It’s less an out-of-the-blue surprise rather more an inevitable step forward. And uniform-swapping is not unprecedented in Japan.

If the reverse of this pops up on the internet, I’m blaming you.

RIP, her toes.

I live in Chiba, I can confirm that kaiju attacks are no laughing matter.

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Most surprising is that there is still any locomotive infrastructure in America left to crumble.

Hurrrrrrr!

Well, unlike other franchises that are forcibly being re-invented, current Mission Impossible still feel like classic Mission Impossible with a much larger budget. They got a little overboard with the action in John Woo’s movie (Which is a thing of beauty in its own right), but after that they seem to have found a…

I never once thought that the movies were connected to the TV show. Was that Paramount’s intention?

Phelps was a traitor in the very first movie. It’s been Hunt’s IMF ever since.

If you go to a place that lets you tap your chipped VISA card, that’s international NFC, and that’s rare in Japan. Apple specifically uses the FeLiCa standard on the iPhones sold here. The readers that accept Apple Pay are the same ones that accept Suica/Pasmo/etc.

Ah, but just a word of warning; Apple Pay only works in Japan if you’re using a Japanese iPhone. Japan uses a different NFC protocol called FeLiCa, iPhones from other countries don’t transmit on that band.

If there’s a alternate Jennifer that belongs in Biff’s 1985, we never meet her. The only Jennifer we are aware of is the original that comes with everyone to 2015, then back to 1985b. They leave here in the altered timeline, and the Doc literally tells Marty in a scene in the movie that she’s safe and that the…

The Google Translate app is indispensable, and does not require a Google account to use.

It’s a common misconception that there are no trash cans in Japan. The truth is, find a convenience store or a train station (extremely easy if you’re in any decent-sized city), and you are almost assured a place to toss your garbage. Same goes for public restrooms. Though there’s a 50/50 chance that you will have to…