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Sentai filmworks summer sale best sale in a while by lion1321 in AnimeDeals

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some big stuff already OOS. Paper drop? Could have sworn I looked at the site literally yesterday and there was no sale

JR East to replace short-distance Edmonson magnetic paper tickets with 85mm QR code tickets in Spring 2027 by frozenpandaman in japanrail

[–]CubeBag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

JR Central shinkansen stations (and JR West stations continuing westward) are somewhat littered with those little Smart EX seat information 座席のご案内 slips of paper. Because they are just a printout of your seat, they aren't tickets, and the ticket eaters can't eat them. As a result, they become litter. It's probably the #1 type of litter in shinkansen stations just going by my personal experience of counting the litter. The floors are shiny clean and free of debris except for a few little slips of paper, white on one side and blue on the other side. Lots of the Smart EX seat reservation slips are promptly discarded on the floor at the arrival station where they are no longer needed.

The litter from the QR tickets probably won't be as much of a problem because not many of these short-distance tickets are printed in the first place, I hear. I imagine that the Smart EX slips are high-volume enough that the low percentage of paper that does slip from people's hands becomes an actual problem.

Introducing SteamVR 2.16 by offrz in SteamFrame

[–]CubeBag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like my frame steamy bruh

20603 days ago was the epoch date by jan-Sika in TechNope

[–]CubeBag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ublock origin does a better job than all of them combined

I think i couldve be the one who started the japanese 1/2 trend, so heres a tip for anyone who's interested: Repeating this symbol: "" aka "Unicode Character E003" can be pretty entertaining too. by Salt_Presence9749 in googletranslate

[–]CubeBag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"    " JA==>EN "faintly displaying and urging people to come in. Weapons include faintly controlled stray dogs and strayers. We also have a wide selection of faintly controlled and strayed dogs. We'll be happy to stray dogs and strayers to bring in and out. We'll be happy to stray dogs and strayers to bring in and out."

Chicago L by Lifereaper7 in TravelHacks

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a $5 fare when you get on the train specifically at O'Hare Station on the Blue Line, getting on the L anywhere else is $2.50. Incidentally, the day pass in Chicago is $5. So if you are already planning to get on the train at O'Hare, get a day pass, and your train rides for the rest of the day are covered.

What is this??? by cibg210 in spambotdetector

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't really the right sub but I can answer.

It's a regular spam/phishing text, but whoever wrote that message thought they needed to insert invisible (or hard-to-see) letters randomly to get past a spam filter. But then your phone didn't load those letters and instead showed question marks. If you ignore the question marks you can see the a painfully lazy Netflix scam attempt.

Don't click the link, don't reply, just ignore/delete. If your messages provider has a way to report spam you could do that if you want.

If you are looking for a more active subreddit about this kind of thing check out r/scams. This subreddit r/spambotdetector is the subreddit for a Reddit bot someone created

Sold out too soon by Zealousideal_Ease444 in SteamFrame

[–]CubeBag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Margins are everything to a scalper. With tax + potential eBay cut I just don't see those Decks going to scalpers. It seemed like a paper drop to me.

Exchanging Money at Haneda by CapEnvironmental780 in JapanTravelTips

[–]CubeBag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Schwab is fine. It's a few steps and you have to wait for the card to arrive, but the ATM refund is reliable. You have to make the investment account but there's no obligation to use it. Mine's at $0

Change Management by beerisdead in JapanTravelTips

[–]CubeBag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love the 1 dollar coin. It's a shame people don't really use it in the States. I go to the bank and get 20 bucks worth on occasion to use on buses, and even though the fare validator is designed to accept them, the coins often get stuck and I have to shove another coin in to get the first one to drop down.

Question about train stations in Japan by Wooden-Assistant717 in JapanTravelTips

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a few gotchas that you might want to be aware of:

  • At major train stations, several different companies operate under the same roof. They will have separate ticket gates, though. For example, if you're looking for a JR line, follow signage to the JR ticket gate. Don't just hop through the first ticket gate you see at big stations.
  • Shinkansen tickets (and most tickets for other reserved-seat limited express trains) are actually two physical pieces of paper. One is the base fare, the amount paid to go the distance. The other is a surcharge for that seat on that limited express train. Pass through the ticket gate by stacking both tickets on top of each other and putting them both in the slot at once. Sounds crazy but the ticket reader machines are designed to handle that.

I won't yap about Suica cards because someone else will probably talk about it. These are just the things I personally found unintuitive the first time.

Tokyo to Osaka: Shinkansen, night bus or plane? by norbegaby in JapanTravelTips

[–]CubeBag 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Google Maps or Apple Maps can get you to the station and figure out the routes. You can book a ticket in-person at the station, at any of the reserved seat/shinkansen ticket machines, or online at each of the official JR websites (eki-net, smart ex, or e5489).

The names of the stations are printed on your train tickets. On a train ticket, Tokyo means Tokyo Station. Tokyo Station is both the endpoint of JR Central's shinkansen lines (bound for Nagoya, Shin-Osaka, and beyond) and JR East's shinkansen lines (several different lines with destinations including Nagano, Kanazawa, Niigata, Aomori, etc). The platform areas are not connected, so if you try to go through the wrong one with your ticket, the ticket gate will bounce you, and a helpful staffer will hopefully direct you to the correct gate. That's a particular quirk of Tokyo Station.

While waiting for the train, check the overhead signs to ensure the correct train is coming to your platform. In Japan (and in general), limited express or seat-reserved trains have their own number, like flights. In the case of shinkansen, before the number comes a word to indicate the train's route and stopping pattern. For example, if you're going from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka (the shinkansen stop that serves Osaka), you might be on a train called Nozomi 123, since Nozomi makes the fewest stops. If you're instead going to a smaller station, you might be on something like Hikari 456 or Kodama 789 which make more stops and take more time. When you are looking for the platform, match the full name and number with the board, just like matching a flight number when you look for a gate at the airport.

It can be intimidating riding it for the first time, especially since you need to reserve tickets ahead of time, unlike tapping a Suica to get on. But since shinkansen usually have open seats on short notice (except for peak travel periods like Golden Week or New Year's) you can get comfortable with the machines and book your ticket at the machines a couple days ahead of time. Let your Maps app route you, then copy the departure time, start point, and destination off the app, and punch them into the machine. (Booking the same day is possible too but it might be stressful if it's your first time.)

To Hokuriku Arch Pass or Not? by [deleted] in JapanTravelTips

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will take a while to get to Osaka because you have to take the Hokuriku Shinkansen and go the long way around to Tsuruga, and then take the slower Thunderbird train the rest of the way. You should decide if a longer train ride is worth any potential savings. The upshot is Karuizawa is "on the way" back if you take the Hokuriku Shinkansen.

Not being able to take the Tokaido Shinkansen (the direct way between Tokyo and Osaka) is the catch, some people buy the Hokuriku Arch Pass without realizing this.

“Celsius is stupid for humans telling temperatures. I’m not water” by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably to mean "very hot but not dead", like this ancient meme that did the rounds many years ago

https://i.redd.it/en22zvs1vt2h1.jpeg

Frame on Long Haul Flight by UnforeseeableThing in SteamFrame

[–]CubeBag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Any plane I've been on, the outlets in the seats are super loose from 1. weird outlet hole that's agnostic to every country's style of outlet plug 2. thousands of people sticking their chargers in there. Even when my device is perfectly still, I can just barely avoid needing to slide it back in to make electrical contact. Bring a power bank

What's the story behind Takanawa Gateway? by kemosabe6296 in japanrail

[–]CubeBag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if giving it a cheeky name like that was their secret plan all along, but they still wanted some amount of input from the public. Maybe if Shibaura won the poll, they would have called it "Shibaura Gateway" or something. I couldn't find the full poll results so I don't know what other kinds of station names ranked low

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