I have no doubt there is at least one small, enthusiastic group in Tokyo dedicated to building/promoting miniPCs lol. That city has a niche for EVERYTHING that has penetrated Japanese social consciousness.
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I don't even see this option on my account. Old Canadian account, but my phone/Paypal app is EU.
As shit as social media is, I do think the aspects of it that allow stories like yours to go viral nowadays and bring eyes to a situation beyond the local community can be helpful.
My niece's school also had an intense bullying situation, and several students posted on Tiktok about it. The videos went semi-viral, and the school got bombarded with phone calls and negative Google reviews (I didn't even know schools HAD Google reviews until then lol). The regional news station got wind of it this way, and came sniffing around. Suddenly administrators were VERY concerned and attentive to the situation, when they couldn't even be bothered half of the school year.
I actually think the victim's family were able to settle something legally because a lawyer offered their services reduced cost or pro-bono, again by learnings about the situation from social media.
...well that's just great, I wish someone had told me this before my eyesight was at -6.00
I think the entire province of Quebec just shuddered at that description of cheese curds.
For real. Women, men, aliens, monsters, they're all practically naked. Equal opportunity impractical clothing.
Society has regressed so far😞
My history teacher said that the greatest curse you can give someone is telling them "May you live in interesting times" and boy do I feel that now.
Net cafes are already a thing there, but personal gaming at home has always been dominated by the portable market or consoles, partially because Japanese companies are the ones making 2/3 of them, but also because the majority of the "gaming" demographic are younger people who live in small studio apartments in Tokyo, and would opt to have a TV with cable television and consoles in their living rooms.
With streaming becoming a big thing, at home media centres are slowly shifting to personal laptops (especially during the pandemic). I have maybe seen two actual gaming PC towers when I lived there (because again, you can go to a net cafe/PC bang for that), but a lot of the gamers I knew were slowly shifting to modest gaming laptops for their at home setups.
I think my eyesight getting progressively worse every year is a bigger contributor to the glasses industry than planned obsolescence 😭
Canada took in all the Confederates fleeing, including Jefferson Davis
HUH????
You're telling me slaves fleeing using the Underground Railway could have come to Canada and then MET THEIR SLAVERS WHO ALSO RAN AWAY?
2nd panel made me realize that I would LOVE a Buffy the Vampire-like show with the DS9 cast.
...anyways completely unrelated question: do Star Trek fanfiction circles still exist or...?