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@Heavyarms55 I spent 10 minutes reading that whole thing. If that doesn’t make you feel important I don’t know what will.
I don’t want to get into a huge argument about which country is better, but I can safely say that I feel you. Everybody wants to make an impression on other people rather then live and be happy.
@Apportal
I took photos and record some moments during playing ACNH. 🤭
Whenever i found something funny or possibly hilarious, i took some screenshots and turned them into meme or gave them some comments.
@Apportal
Oh, yes.
I drew them by pencil then i took photo of them and transfered to my computer to be edited with CorelDraw and Corel Photopaint. I drew them with vector shapes on Corel Draw then i arranged them with Corel Photopaint.
I have calendar 2021 projects and they are Ice Skate Boxers and Avian Kickboxers.
They are still in progress.
My current avatar, Shawn the skunk was based on Kicks' head model.
@Apportal
Um... 1 year to finish 24 different characters.
I submitted my drawings annually every January on Deviantart.
My calendar 2020 projects were very terrible late, blame to my slacks during year 2019.
This year i have designed my characters earlier to avoid panic hours like Home Alone panic time.
For my 2021 projects, i will create 12 Ice Skate Boxers and 12 Avian Kickboxers.
The Avian Kickboxers are 12 different Anthro birds with kickboxer outfits. They can fly so i will announce their official sport name later.
Btw, this is one example my Avian Kickboxer by hand drawing + some computer edit.
@Heavyarms55 Yeah, post-truth politics continues to be fueled. And it's fueled by deregulated money in politics. But i don't know if there are enough people that can recognize it. And, yeah, US cars are excessively sized compared to the rest of the world, and use much more energy & carbon. I think the Japanese K car size was made to fit on older tight streets. Whereas the us built its town's around the bigger-is-better cars. There needs to be real consideration to population size. There's not enough land & resources if the current population all wants suburban homes, cars, beef. I think japan respects sustainability because they are an island country, granted, a large one.
I said it before, but i envy the respect and unity of japanese culture. And their respect for public service. This is why I will vote.
@Heavyarms55 That must suck. Best advice is to do what you personally think is the right choice. If you want to go back, go back I'd say. I imagine any decent family will understand that.
Regarding the infrastructure. I live in the Netherlands, and I think it's quite comparable to Japan in the sense that it's relatively small for its population; has great public transport, etc. I've recently subscribed to a Canadian YouTuber living in Amsterdam (Not Just Bikes). The channel is all about comparing various aspects of travel, urban planning, street design and (public) transport between The Netherlands and Canada and the US. I've never realised how different the two countries really are. Just the idea of being tied to a car to travel to the supermarket sounds awful to me, how everything is a 15-20 minute ride. Supermarkets look like giant tool warehouses, buying in bulk to avoid having to ride there too often, and turning your own house into a miniature warehouse. I'm so glad I have three or four supermarkets within walking distance, or within a 3 minute bike ride. I've also heard that one of the reasons for this is that certain regulations make it impossible for stores to open up in residential areas for example (don't know if it's true, but that would make a lot of sense).
@Wavey84 Yeah, something has been really lost in the world. Things that matter don't matter, everything is throw-away, and humans have no intrinsic value, they're just a number on a page of metrics as compared against all the other metrics and the machine standard. "Life" was lost some time ago, and we got put on this weird hamster wheel. Though i remember when TV was just 6 inglorious channels plus PBS. ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, And whatever unaffiliated networks were the other two UHF channels at the time, and PBS. That was it. that was television. Take it or leave it. I didn't really understand the appeal of cable when it popped up in the 80's, and I don't really understand it or youtube still. I subscribe periodically to youtubeTV (cable) mostly to get specific shows, which is ironically just the stuff on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, whatever those other unaffiliated networks are going by today, and PBS. And really only seasonal/event stuff. I've never been much of a TV person (but there was "that one video that aired at 3:00AM that night on PBS that I spent 30 years looking for again and never found." You don't get that anymore.....it goes viral and is everywhere so it's therefore nowhere.
I even miss payphones. they were gross, yes, but they were a way of life that involved actually scheduling things and coordinating things with other people. The tech was worse but the act of operating with the tech was human, and civil. Versus the cellphone era. Instead of coordinating with people, the least civil ones dictate the flow of society - they do everything whenever it's convenient for them-self, and expects everyone else to be available and jump for them. Technology didn't make life easier. It made life easier for the kind of people that used to be pushed to the bottom, and floated them to the top.
@ThanosRexx I could write too many text walls on the above, sadly. It's not an aging stereotype that "things were better then" - and I'm convinced it never has been, now. Things actually always are getting worse. Humans have a way of continually making things worse, and in the west we have an obsession with handing the keys to the "youth" and effectively letting kids run the society - so naturally it always gets run further into the ground with each generation until we end up self-immolating and start all over again. I think I understand the western cycle of history now.
I'm reading all your "revealations" here and I'm thinking....have you not actually read a single text wall I've posted in the past several years in this very thread?
I have mostly agreement and a few disagreements side views to yours. Mostly agreement all the way across.
"Affordable apartments" is an odd subject though. The entire American way of life has been the "suburban house" for a long long time. And that didn't used to be unaffordable. Not building microapartments isn't what went wrong. You shouldn't actually want one - that's not what used to be the cultural desirable norm. It's the fact that actual ho uses that used to cost less than what a car now costs now costs over a quarer million. THAT is what went wrong. OLD America meant you could buy that 2 bedroom house for less money than a modern Jeep Wrangler, and actually OWN it for life - not this new world where it takes 3 incomes to own a house. Desiring cheap apartments is asking for a bandaid while the sores fester uncontrollably. And when they do build them all they do is urbanize and gridlock the area by densifying, calling it better, and the apartments are still more than half anyone's income. It gets worse for the people that scraped by before and doesn't really help the people that didn't.
Agreed otherwise on nearly all the rest, of course, though, as I've been ranting about for YEARS right here.
And I do agree. Maybe it's 5 years. Maybe it's the past 10 years. I can't tell. But this is absolutely a different society than it was 10 years ago. I thought it was just regional on the East Coast, but apparently it's worse than I thoguht and is everywhere, even in the boonies. Unless you're just in an area where all the New Yawkers went....which seems to be "everywhere" and if so, yeah....I feel that pain. But the society today is absolutely not the same one it was in 2010.....I never even left here and I feel like a foreigner completely. It changed all around me while I didn't, to the point that I don't feel like a citizen, I'm just a foreigner getting by.... Without having ever left. And it's the worst imaginable feeling - imagine if you left your country and it got nuked, occupied, and is entirely gone and erased from maps while you were gone? That's how I feel - my actual culture no longer exists. It's on maps, but it doesn't exist there anymore. I don't know what exactly happened to it either. But one day it was just gone, and I didn't see it happen. Maybe it started around 2000.....maybe it was cell phones that did it. It seems to conincide...
The only caveat I'll give "everyone else" is people not saying hello and looking strangely...I mean you do realize there's a plague going on? I'd flip you off if you tried to say hello right now, too....that's respiratory droplets that didn't need to be shared, after all...
American humor always sucked, though. It's gotten progressively worse. But it was never good. At least not since Bob Hope and Henney Youngman died. That one's just repatriating.
FWIW, though, no, you're not ever going to feel comfortable here. You have the same problem I do, and it has nothing to do with having been in Japan. You're one person - you went one way based on how you were raised, and society around you here went another. You can either somehow convince yourself to become just like them, or you'll always be an outsider and nothing more. And a decade ago, that wasn't the case. "Welcome back." Worse, I tend to say I'm "culturally Japanese" despite not being ethnically Japanese or having ever been to Japan. It's kind of a misnomer, of course, but the idea of the "politeness culture" is precisely how I was raised...in that regard I was raised for Japan's society, accidentally. Unfortunately, apparently, none of the West is like that. "Bad parenting". We should have been raised to be hoodlums.
@WoomyNNYes The flip side of that is population needs to be managed around the way of life. The US way of life involved the home the beef, whatever. To allow exponential population growth to the point that's seen as unsustainable then requires people to "vote" to steamroll over the way of life people that were already there lived. It effectively means the new, younger, larger population declares war to end the way of life of the rest, either by pricing it out and making life harder and harder and harder, or by actively regulating it out (or manipulating it.) Which is probably a big part of why the politics is where it is. You have a whole faction declaring that an entire other faction's way of life, that was always the way of life, now has to end.....to accommodate them. Sounds like the Spanish Inquisition in reverse....so people will fight tooth and nail AGAINST them - rather than promoting any given cause of their own. They're perpetually on the defensive against invasion more or less. And they aren't wrong. There's no escape from a mess that needed to be quelled in the 60's, not now.
@Octane Not Canada, but for the US, yeah. Now where I am we have a few normal supermarkets...within a 10 minute drive...which is rare. And they're more conventional than the tool warehouse ones. But that's still too far, with traffic. I do have one very close one but due to the layout it still isn't a 3 minute bike ride, even though I can see it from here (and you can't really keep going there. You house does have to be a mini warehouse, and at this point I couldn't imagine living any other way. Especially post-covid I'm just used to a 3 month stockpile of food now. Anything else is unimaginable.
But it's not just regulations that keep stores from opening in residental areas. Most of it is cost. They keep re-zoning commercial space to be residential because commercial never moves in. Retail is dead. Online replaced it. It's seen as a liability. And the cost of real estate in any populated area is so astronomical no business could really survive except the ones making 500% profit. So nearby all you get is highly expensive luxury things, small boutiques things like that. Any real shopping is at the big cheap-land shopping districst.....and that is a MINIMUM of a 30 minute ride each way by car. It's best avoided....so you just replace it with more online. And before you know it, there's no need for shopping stores, because everything is done online. But the alternative is a 1 hour travel time by car just to buy a plastic cooler you could have bought on Amazon. And that's if you don't get stuck in traffic. And you WILL get stuck in traffic. So 1-2 hours to buy that one item you want, or just click on Amazon and get it in a day or two. How COULD retail survive? All because retail left the areas where people actually are and make you go to THEM instead. Walmart started it. They bought super cheap land in the middle of nowhere in rural america and forced everyone to them in open country with cheap prices. By the time they were done, no one was left, and you HAD to go to them. And then the other stores built around them.
@NEStalgia I don't think it's inevitable. It works over here, so I don't see why I can't work in the US or any other place for that matter. I'm certain it requires a lot of structural changes. By the sounds of it you're essentially giving up the free market for giant mega-conglomerates to dominate the online retail industry, and what's left of the actual retail industry. But hey, being stuck inside a car in traffic means freedom, right? And the rest is communism, so let's create also this system where only a handful of companies rule and dictate the country. Sounds lovely
And don't get me wrong, it's happening over here as well. Amazon opened their online store here earlier this year, and they've been trying to crush the competition with incredibly low (and unfair) prices. But I have some hope left that the smaller shops can endure this. But really that's another global problem we're facing, and not too many people are bothered by it it seems. Anyway, it's another topic entirely.
On my way home from work, or uni, I stop at the greengrocer, the supermarket, and sometimes the butcher. I do it all on my bike, and it probably takes less than 20 minutes, the ride included (which is about a 3km ride). I can't imagine it any other way really. Shops are allows to open up anywhere AFAIK. It probably requires a request at the municipal level, and you have to be registered at the chamber of commerce, but it's possible. Anyway, I rarely buy groceries for more than a day or two in advance as a result. And it works, because you also don't need a ton of space to stockpile all the extra food. And most of the vegetables are fresh every day.
@Apportal Ha, Yeah, we’re both relatively new, but I think I’ve managed to gather that the thread won’t die anytime soon.
@Anti-Matter OMG, you read my mind. I always am mad at this for having sandwiches. I don’t even know if it’s possible to have sandwiches when your a player, and it annoys me so much. You’re drawings are wonderful. I always thought you did them completely on a website, I didn’t know you draw them IRL. I’m not too good at drawing. I’m better at piano.
Wanna know if a user is old?
Ask If they know who’s Chicken Brutus, James Newton, or The Black Dragon.
@Eel I know The Black Dragon, Chicken Brutus rings a bell and I know nothing of a James Newton. You see, I have a habit of reading old, locked or dead threads, so I know lot’s of the old users.
Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.
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