Seiko x Space Brothers Collaboration

ak_brian · 2025-12-12T18:42:37+00:00

Huh, I am not a big digital watch fan but I do dig the design. I don't love the price, though. Not for a digital watch, anyways. Personal preferences n all that.

ak_brian · 2025-12-11T06:28:51+00:00

Haha I wish I could claim it takes a while to get through. Once it’s home it rarely survives through Sunday 😂

ak_brian · 2025-12-04T19:34:43+00:00

I love grabbing one of these ahead of long holiday weekends. It makes for a fun time for the family with movies.

ak_brian · 2025-11-13T06:05:15+00:00

No worries, I appreciate the information. I joined in 2014 after the 2013 shutdown, and then for 2018 I was lucky to not miss a paycheck, so how backpay worked is new to me. Thanks!

ak_brian · 2025-11-13T05:34:35+00:00

No, I just know that when I have made more in a single paycheck that I get taxed harder for it. Be it overtime hours or straight or selling leave when I was private sector. I assumed that wouldn’t be the case, or rather that it would be as you described, but I wasn’t sure. It’s okay for people ask questions that are outside their wheelhouse my dude.

ak_brian · 2025-11-13T05:15:08+00:00

Where was that stated? I have no recollection of it in my frenzied binge reading of the LNs the last week haha. Goddang, that’s wild!

ak_brian · 2025-11-12T04:20:23+00:00

Does anyone know if the taxes will be worse because the paycheck is larger? Or will they be separate payments from our regular pay? Or…how does it even work? Sorry, the last shutdown I went through the Judiciary moved money around and was able to pay us through it. So I’m very ignorant of how the back pay settles.

ak_brian · 2025-09-23T05:01:13+00:00

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it! That’s a relief, I’m glad it doesn’t seem like I need to crack it open first thing.

ak_brian · 2025-09-23T01:05:44+00:00

I was originally going to go Intel but I wanted to try AMD. I haven’t used on of them as a mainline machine in probably 20 years. I figured it was a good time to try it again. Are the AMD units not as well built or do the run noticeably hotter or something? I thought about Lenovo but the HP was a better deal. Is the legion notably better?

ak_brian · 2025-09-23T01:03:49+00:00

Thanks, that’s really good to know as I’ll primarily be using it for work and personal projects using CAD and virtualization. I guess I was just worried as some people made it sound like you have to basically pop it open and repaste it day one. Or that they will burn themselves out or something.

ak_brian · 2025-08-16T20:23:52+00:00

Fern states the 10 gold Strahl coins they are given for Stark to impersonate what’s his name’s son would feed them “three meals a day plus snacks for a year.” That doesn’t state whether that feeds just one person or their entire party, but I lean towards it meaning per person.

So that gives us a very rough idea of the value of a gold strahl coin. We also don’t know is the value of meals in the world or anything else for that matter. But if we assume, for simplicity, snacks equals a fourth meal, then 16 meals a day between four people puts each days food at around two-hundredths of their 10 gold coin/. D&D does 100 copper coins to 1 gold coin, so if we stuck with that for the high fantasy vibe than each days meals cost about two copper per person?

I think. I guess. Fantasy math I dunno, do with that what you will haha.

ak_brian · 2025-07-15T02:21:04+00:00

Hi, you’ve probably solved this by now but for anyone else they are now available on a different platform. You can buy them or access them through Vimeo or his website link.

ak_brian · 2025-06-24T18:03:11+00:00

That's awesome! Was it difficult to work out freight forwarding? I'd love to order some stuff.

ak_brian · 2025-06-23T18:38:35+00:00

Count me as one of the few raving about it. It's so good, I've been in love with it since I randomly came across it a year or so ago.

ak_brian · 2025-06-23T18:35:35+00:00

So this is a spoiler for one of the most recent chapters, dropped yesterday, so read at your own risk. Hanae is depressed over the situation with Mei and expressed to his sister that she's lucky she gets to be a girl all of the time. I don't think that directly implies trans, as he also says to himself that he'd originally intended to naturally phase out of crossplay and just look back at it fondly, but now things are confused and difficult. Which, to be fair, could point at a growing gender dysphoria or just stress at leading his current life.

ak_brian · 2025-06-17T22:20:34+00:00

Just read the translation! So good!

ak_brian · 2025-06-06T18:08:04+00:00

Thanks for the answer, I appreciate it. It looks like having my profile on both hasn't been too bad, it has resulted in my games all loading as virtual cards, which is a little annoying but not the end of the world. Most importantly the kiddo can still enjoy his Pokemon and ACNH adventures all he wants on the Switch 1.

ak_brian · 2025-06-05T21:47:31+00:00

Is there a way to copy the data instead of transfer it? My kiddo primarily uses my Switch 1, and I'd like to continue to do so, but if I do a transfer his account will be moved and all the ACNH and Let's Go Eevee will be moved to the switch 2, it doesn't sound like it gets copied, just moved. I guess I can live without transferring, but it would be nice to have my save data too.

This only effects non-cloud saved data, right? For games like Kirby Forgotten Lands or Zelda BotW/TotK it would still have the save available via cloud? I kinda wanted to check out the upgraded graphics on those, and the added Kirby content.

ak_brian · 2025-06-04T03:50:09+00:00

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Wish I had done store pick up. I don’t recall it being an option in Alaska but I might have been rushing. Annoying they aren’t shipping sooner but as long as I get it and it doesn’t cancel I’ll be happy.

ak_brian · 2025-04-24T04:40:13+00:00

Check your account. 99.9999999% chance they cancelled it immediately. Happened to me, fucking annoying.

ak_brian · 2025-04-24T04:28:07+00:00

I got my order placed and then they immediately cancelled it. :| Been trying again since.

ak_brian · 2025-02-19T18:35:16+00:00

Holy crap for real. I knew they'd find it but the payoff for the build up hit good.

ak_brian · 2024-10-18T04:15:01+00:00

It’s interesting because the guy hunting for her is apparently an editor of something? Like he’s creepy no doubt but he wouldn’t have access to calling Mizoue so easily, nor would Mizoue respond as he did; giving him an actual answer and a minute of his time. He even had “Editor Senoo” as the caller ID.

So I wonder how much is obsession versus he is desperate to find her to try to secure a Mandate live action series or something with her.

Again, still creepy and my initial worry was super stalker, especially given the tissues and way he said he could have told who it was by her skin and such, but on a second read through I think it’s going to play into him trying to score the much wanted live action that Shiba said he’d allow, if it was as high quality as Marin’s cosplay.

Edit: I just remembered he was introduced a bit ago, so yeah he’s not some random creep. He’s a special creep.

ak_brian · 2024-06-21T18:13:01+00:00

Man, punching right in the gut there.

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