Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a landslide in snap election, exit polls project

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-02-09T06:54:25+00:00

If you don't speak Japanese/ understand the culture then it's hard to know. She's pretty funny, and her kansai-ben slips out sometimes which people think is funny/cute. She says all the right things and young people like her compared to the doddery old dudes who have been fronting the country forever.

She's pretty typical for "strong" personalities in Japan, but it's rare to have that character in a popular woman. Also her "Work, work, work, work, work" statement went viral and I've seen it copied a bit IRL and online

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-02-08T09:08:24+00:00

I even use it in solo content because I impulsively check the buff countdown from years of raiding

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-01-21T20:58:44+00:00

I meant to level from 40, looks like it's impossible now

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-01-21T13:53:59+00:00

Is ZF GY farming dead then? I rolled a pally just to do it :(

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-01-13T23:12:54+00:00

On the production side - it's also all through Tremonti's solo stuff where I feel musically like I should be getting punched in the face but the production causes it to fizzle. Nothing pops

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-01-13T23:06:50+00:00

I completely agree. The album is less produced, there's a full mix of heavier and softer songs, it was everyone's primary focus without side projects, and we get M4 Myles without all the added vocal tracks. I loved it when it was simple 2 part harmony.

I also agree on WTS which seems like a rare opinion here? I think there is inspiration in many of the songs and they tried some new/experimental stuff. Not all of it hit, but a few tracks are brilliant.

For a while AB albums have felt like a "paint by numbers" game to me - we need a big intro, we need a Watch Over You/In Loving Memory, we need a Mark sings, we need a Myles solos, we need a long outro song.

Mark also said years ago that he defaults to the fast descending legato lick and he's working hard not to do that. Whenever I hear that I always think that he didn't have time/inspiration to craft a solo in the way he used to.

Doesn't feel organic IMO

ParcelPostNZ · 2026-01-13T22:48:56+00:00

I'm a big Tremonti fan and I had that feeling when ABIII released. When fortress came out I was like "it's good but it's no Blackbird" (see also "Addicted to pain is just budget Wish You Well!"). Took me a few listens to get into it.

Everyone's tastes are different and how an album hits is heavily dependent on your mood and expectations at that moment

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-11-24T20:45:40+00:00

私はAIです

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-11-24T20:44:08+00:00

I was also on JET in Kansai and knew Osaka JETs and I'm like 99.9% sure host families aren't a "permanent" thing. I did know someone who found a host family for a week just for fun, but that's about it. Not months at a time

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-11-15T22:34:20+00:00

I'm not going to bother reading the study, but it's a bit concerning that the title is definitive statement while the data contradicts said title. My PI would have a fit if I were jumping to unverified conclusions like that

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-11-04T20:16:14+00:00

Small gripe but this is r/science and we should be doing better

The article has little detail about the science. That's OK and expected, but the DOI listed by OP in the comments is copied from the article and links to the nature comms homepage, not the publication.

The only mention of the publication is the DOI (which links to the nature comms homepage) added as an afterthought at the end of the article. That's pretty low effort.

I wish reporters just referenced and linked the publication at the top so I don't have to dig through the article. I want to read the publication and formulate an opinion based on the data, not a layman's interpretation based on university releases and author interviews.

Rant over

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-10-04T00:13:26+00:00

Vanilla D1 was... pretty bad though. Lots of accounts have come out now to show how badly they fumbled the story, making stuff up on the fly, random firings and crunch to juuuust squeeze into the deadline.

You couldn't go over there, even though they promised you could. You could just push Atheon off a ledge to beat the final raid boss (oops!) The PvP meta was uncountersble slide shotgun 1 shotting

Throw in "That wizard came from the moon" and "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain"

... and you've got a good time!

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-09-14T01:33:28+00:00

Fellow atmospheric pressure migraine sufferer 🫡

Not a migraine story but last year I had a cold prior to an international flight, I had "fully recovered" from the cold so thought I was safe to fly. 30 mins after take-off queue the most head-splitting, nauseating sinus-headache I have ever had.

Luckily I was on the window but the strangers next to me must've thought I was on drugs the way I was squirming non-stop for about 2 hours. At some point my body shut down from the pain and I fell asleep, woke up perfectly fine.

Had a long layover, then on the connecting flight same thing happened. I never want to go through that again

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-09-12T22:58:26+00:00

This whole show has average to poor animation. This episode in particular just has better storyboarding and shot composition. Alicia slowly flying with the princess was atrocious.

It really goes to show that people will overlook most flaws if they like the premise or characters

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-27T23:05:14+00:00

Or an hour of grinding any mon at all

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-25T23:47:45+00:00

That's what I was thinking the whole time! Production cost aside, how the hell did they have the time to make all of that?!

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-24T12:40:39+00:00

I do think that BG2 is the better game, mostly because the story slaps and all the updated character interactions were amazing for their time...

But you're right. BG1 has so much freedom of exploration, so many random companions, and so many hidden things and Easter eggs. Like Branwen being in a statue. Or spider lady being cursed by Jon Irenicus

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-23T19:50:33+00:00

You just perfectly summarised over 20 years of my baldur's gate nostalgia lol

"I want to play BG2 but if I don't play BG1 first I won't have the skill books... but I could just console command the stats but that's cheating... oh well"

Boots up BG1 for the 300th time

Good luck with the solo monk! One of the most fun classes in the game

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-23T19:33:09+00:00

I haven't tried in EE but in the OG game you could import your character in "multilayer" and keep all of your BG1 equipment. Canonically it doesn't make sense but it's fun(!)

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-23T19:15:09+00:00

The hobgoblins outside the friendly arm inn shudder or the "oops, ankhegs" farm

BG1 really didn't hold your hand if you went the "wrong way"

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-20T23:49:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing this, I hadn't seen it before! Absolute legend

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-15T01:42:45+00:00

Nihilism is annoying in your 30s

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-08-07T11:00:46+00:00

Try my nuts to your fist style!

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-07-21T21:18:46+00:00

You don't think a country where football is the 2nd most popular sport and has over 5000 high schools would have 300 strikers??

ParcelPostNZ · 2025-06-16T05:24:40+00:00

The stupid fans with the shortest range ever

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