What a coincidence
This is how we become the front page of the internet -- it's not gonna be instant, but keep posting and understand with content here first and slowly but surely we'll be the place to be
It's always CedarWolf
Maybe we should pull a Hacker News and start a culture of putting the year of articles in the title
A lot of these jokes are literally older than some of the people in my computer science program
Wow this is exactly like the stock images of the internet as a whole 20-30 years ago. Amazing how time is a circle, hope federated stuff doesn't get enshittified in the same way the normal internet did
White rook collapses in earthquake
It's so much more expressive and looks like it has so much more creative energy than the New smb series. Excited to play this
Tips: check tabelog (Japanese yelp) for restaurant recs. They're real harsh on reviews there -- if a restaurant is rated above 3.5 you know you're in for a good meal, and finding one above 4 is very rare. Many of the "best meals of my life" I talked about were from restaurants rated about 3.8 or so on tabelog (the 4+ ones were too expensive or too hard to book).
If you know some Japanese, calling restaurants to reserve will sometimes let you eat somewhere that you wouldn't have been able to otherwise. Many restaurants in Japan are very small and/or reservation only without an online option, so being able to reserve in Japanese is a huge advantage. I used Skype to get a Japanese number to reserve with
In terms of Japanese language, like the other guy said prioritize your katakana reading ability. It's by far the most useful bang for buck you could get in terms of language ability.
I did a lot of research before I went so there wasn't much that we didn't expect, but one big thing was how gruelling the jet lag is after the 13 hour flight. We definitely didn't schedule enough restful days upon landing, and next time we'll be sure to take it easy when we first arrive. Best of luck planning your trip!
An absolute blast! So much good food there. We essentially planned our trip around the food and restaurants we would try and said "this is the best meal of our lives" on quite a handful of different meals lol. 10/10 would recommend
Portable pots are great axles for bikes and tricycles