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Gordon_4

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Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm, I guess.
One of my favourite YouTube channels, Paolo from Tokyo, has helped reinforce in my brain just how small Japanese living spaces are. Seriously I feel a little cramped in my 3bed1bath home but it has to be twice the size of the average Japanese apartment of similar fit out.

I say all this because I can only imagine this guy’s YT income must have been substantial as hell because I cannot fathom how 15 people were fitting in a 3LDK Japanese apartment so must have had a much larger property.

Of course I’m assuming he is living in one of the large metropolitan areas. Houses in the rural parts would make this a much more viable arrangement since they’re much cheaper.

Still, what the hell?
 
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One of my favourite YouTube channels, Paolo from Tokyo, has helped reinforce in my brain just how small Japanese living spaces are. Seriously I feel a little cramped in my 3bed1bath home but it has to be twice the size of the average Japanese apartment of similar fit out.

I say all this because I can only imagine this guy’s YT income must have been substantial as hell because I cannot fathom how 15 people were fitting in a 3LDK Japanese apartment so must have had a much larger property.

Of course I’m assuming he is living in one of the large metropolitan areas. Houses in the rural parts would make this a much more viable arrangement since they’re much cheaper.

Still, what the hell?
3 wives?!?!? I'm up to my eyeballs dealing with the one!
 

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Ok, this is a bit niche, but always seems a bit odd to me that the tactile tiles they have at the edge of train platforms look similar in different countries, that that's decided on the best way to make them. Always thought that there'd be a zillion different ways of doing them that'd work about as well, but apparently not.
 

Zykon TheLich

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I suppose from my POV this belongs here...

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I shall refrain from commenting further.
 
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Hey! Hey!

You wanna know a surefire way to make any woman unreasonably mad?

Grace them with the knowledge of men's underwear WITH POCKETS
 

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Has anyone noticed that someone has been putting shit in the Escapist content subforum? Like there's new articles - for lack of a better word - in there. Bots?
 

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Has anyone noticed that someone has been putting shit in the Escapist content subforum? Like there's new articles - for lack of a better word - in there. Bots?
I think it's the escapist staff. Who are probably bots.

I imagine it's some sort of SEO thing.
 

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Has anyone noticed that someone has been putting shit in the Escapist content subforum? Like there's new articles - for lack of a better word - in there. Bots?
The one we can't post in? Yeah, I noticed.
 

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Hey, buddy! Wanna buy a new SSD for your PS5? How about one that costs more than four PS5s?


Interesting that its specs match another SDD they were selling for $580 a couple years ago....
High capacity SSD prices are generally stupid as hell. Anything above 2TB was always overpriced. This is violently, abusively overpriced though. If it wasn't officially licensed for the PS5 I'd have assumed it was some absurdly overpowered enterprise product. Though for curiosity sake I checked one of my national online vendors: prices for SSDs trend towards - at this cursed moment in time - about $500/TB: so as obscene as this price is, SanDisk aren't the only ones doing it: Samsung's 9100 Pro 8TB is $4000. So you know, to paraphrase William Shakespeare, "A pox on all your houses".

*checks link* Oh fucking hell, this is the second product that I despise using and ergo sullying, the name of my cartoon robot dad. Look, Hasbro, I know you're basically C-list members of the real life Legion of Doom or Sinister Sex-Pests, but for fuck sake would you trademark the SHIT out of the name Optimus so your A-list mates can stop doing this.

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Speaking of weird shit not on my bingo card:

AMD releasing Anniversary Models of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Ryzen 7 7700X3D chips

What's really, really fucked is that if the price just south of uncomfortable, I'd probably buy one of these to upgrade my main rig. I can either get the 5800 and drop it in and go, freeing up my obscenely overpowered 3900XT to go in my server as a productivity uplift. Or I can do a whole platform uplift with the 7700X3D would obviously cost more but would get me off AM3/4.

Knowing my luck these fucking things will go for $1000AUD a pop.
 
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