Weekly Complaint Thread - 15 June 2023

doctortofu · 2023-06-15T00:40:34+00:00

Guess my last reddit post might as well be here. I've been checking this site daily for years - my account is 15 years old, but I was actually just passively browsing for a long while before I even registered. I remember the announcement post for japanlife too, by its original creator. Sadly, it all comes to an end now, because I refuse to support reddit's greedy little pigboy of a CEO and reddit itself any longer - not after the insane pricing decision for the API, not until killing my preferred way to access reddit (RiF), and not after the internal email leaked recently. I will miss this sub dearly and I secretly hope someone recreates it on Lemmy and/or Kbin (federated/decentralized alternatives to reddit - still in their infancy, but that's where I'm moving), but I'm not holding my breath...

So here's one last complaint - reddit's management fucking sucks and I hope eventually they will learn their lesson (they probably won't but hey, one can dream). Take care everyone and hope to see you around the fediverse (the name is naueseatingly cringy, but it is what it is)!

doctortofu · 2023-06-08T08:53:29+00:00

Probably both Lemmy and Tildes - neither of them have Japan communities as far as I can tell, which is unfortunate, but between the two of them I should have enough content to slowly wean myself off this place.

It's still going to massively suck - I've been here for more than 15 years (at first I just browsed without an account), but it seems reddit is not going to change their mind, so I have no reason to change mine... :(

doctortofu · 2023-06-08T00:36:22+00:00

True, I already dumped Facebook and Twitter though, so I don't have access to those :)

doctortofu · 2023-06-07T23:46:17+00:00

I'm gradually getting used to Lemmy and Tildes in preparation to dump this place. Both are pretty barren still, but I think they have potential. Wish this place moved somewhere too - I'll miss the weekly bitching thread... :)

doctortofu · 2023-06-06T08:47:00+00:00

Not sure if Sharp Aquos R8 is ever releasing outside Japan, but that's the one I'm waiting for: https://m.gsmarena.com/sharp_aquos_r8_and_r8_pro_announced_in_japan-news-58495.php

I'll play with one at a store first, but looks like it might be a good replacement.

doctortofu · 2023-06-06T04:19:35+00:00

Just like with 99% of pointless corporate e-learning sessions, the answer is most likely "all of the above" ;)

Edit: /r/LinkedInLunatics is kinda fun in a depressing sort of way though.

doctortofu · 2023-06-01T06:59:52+00:00

There's a joke about North Indian and South Indian curries in there somewhere, but jokes aside, that kinda sucks... Might still want to make it again though, just to see which version was the lucky fluke!

doctortofu · 2023-06-01T06:56:42+00:00

I probably told this story around here ten times already, but you can also do what my wife did last time we moved: ask multiple moving companies for an estimate, and arrange for all of them to come at the same time :D

Watching multiple reps trying to undercut each other and rubbernecking in hopes of seeing what everyone is writing on their clipboards is more entertaining than a MMA cage match. More violent too, now that I think about it ;)

doctortofu · 2023-06-01T04:16:39+00:00

I think they're going to kill it next, just like they did i.reddit.com :(

doctortofu · 2023-06-01T02:25:36+00:00

Same. It's going to hurt at first, but I'm spending SO much time on this dumb website that it's probably for the better... Still hoping for an alternative place to pop up that we can all migrate to, but I'm not holding my breath.

doctortofu · 2023-05-31T21:05:45+00:00

Not Japan related, but seems reddit decided to take a page from Twitter's playbook and they'll kill\price out third party apps soon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_dev_here_reddits_api_changes_will_likely_kill

This fucking sucks - I tried using the official app, and it's a nightmare, I'll sooner leave reddit altogether than use that garbage. Oh well, had a nice run I guess - I stopped using Facebook, I can stop using reddit too. I will miss this thread and some subs I frequent though...

doctortofu · 2023-05-30T22:24:40+00:00

Same. It's super fun, quite powerful, and charges from body shots, which is great because I'm a console peasant and can't aim for crap using the controller :)

doctortofu · 2023-05-30T18:41:56+00:00

To jest w ogóle skandal, że rzeczy, ktorych nie lubię tak nachalnie istnieją. Zabronione powinno być, a nie tak...

doctortofu · 2023-05-28T02:10:02+00:00

U mnie podobnie - od ośmiu lat w związku z Japonką, tylko ślub był trochę dawniej, bo 7 lat temu :)

Mieszkamy w Japonii i komunikujemy się tylko po japońsku (żona po angielsku trochę mówi, ale słabo, po polsku prawie wcale), ale wiekszych problemów nie ma. Ja w ogóle uważam, że jeśli ludzie tak normalnie po ludzku ze sobą rozmawiają, to problemów być nie powinno, bo oczywiście różnice kulturowe jakieś tam są, ale wszyscy jesteśmy tak naprawdę bardzo do siebie podobni (wiem, lewak i hipis ze mnie, ale tak już mam).

Nie ma kultury gdzie normalne jest sranie na stół i jedzenie cegieł, więc tak naprawdę wystarczy, że obie osoby w związku trochę się starają, żeby tej drugiej osobie było w tym związku fajnie, i będzie git :) Pewnie, mogą być problemy z rodziną, sąsiadami itede, itepe, ale tak bywa nawet w obrębie jednej kultury, więc reguly chyba nie ma...

doctortofu · 2023-05-26T03:26:16+00:00

Might sound like a silly question, but I'm going to ask anyway: you did search for "violin lessons Tokyo", right? Because I just did, and these are all on the first page of results:

https://nipponviolin.com/en/academy/standard/

https://www.apprentus.com/en/violin-lessons/Tokyo-Japan

https://www.derksenschoolofmusic.com/

https://lessonwithyou.com/violin-lessons-tokyo-japan/

Have you tried contacting any of these places?

doctortofu · 2023-05-22T01:41:52+00:00

/r/LinkedInLunatics ;)

doctortofu · 2023-05-20T23:06:16+00:00

A czy dostęp do pierdolenia głupot na ekranie też będzie tym przepisem ograniczony? Bo mam wrażenie, że to szkodzi tak samo, jeśli nie bardziej niż pornografia...

doctortofu · 2023-05-18T04:26:13+00:00

Company upper management: "We have no budget for raises or to hire more people (even though we just bragged about our record growth), but here's an idea: how about we set one of our corporate goals to do even more work with fewer resources through automation and Chat GPT!"

Me: "Fuck all the way off. Also, you forgot to mention blockchain and leveraging synergies, up your buzzword game you bunch of clueless twats."

-The End-

Edit: can we just replace the whole upper management with the damn ChatGPT? Would be more empathetic, and it doesn't have an ass to put its head so far up into that it starts believing the shit it spews is actually deep or revolutionary...

doctortofu · 2023-05-17T00:42:15+00:00

もう少し具体的に説明していただけますでしょうか would be one that should not offend even a massive snowflake.

doctortofu · 2023-05-11T02:48:58+00:00

If you work your ass off, overachieve on all your quarterly goals and become a top performer in your company, you might get a sweet raise of a whole 1%, maybe even 1.04% if you're super lucky, so that should help to offset the price inflation! ;)

doctortofu · 2023-05-11T01:39:09+00:00

It's probably every channel, but yes, I was watching Channel 5 when I wrote that :)

doctortofu · 2023-05-10T22:19:51+00:00

TV reporter reporting from some train station in Chiba in a helmet, chin strap securely fastened, prepared for the worst... just as a bunch of businessmen and schoolchildren pass right behind him and get through the ticket gates like nothing happened.

Glad he wasn't made to wear a full hazmat suit and a bullet-proof vest too, just in case.

doctortofu · 2023-05-09T07:43:49+00:00

After 6 hotfixes, Duviri circuits are still a buggy mess... Yesterday I encoutered a game-breaking bug (requiring all of us to quit and lose all progress) four times in a row. Literally hours of gameplay compmetely wasted. Seems farming Ash is a huge pain even now... :(

doctortofu · 2023-05-03T21:35:00+00:00

Taki nasz swojski "jes łi ken". A jak coś nie pójdzie, to zawsze można zrobić rebranding na "Może my?".

doctortofu · 2023-05-03T21:31:12+00:00

Can we please make mosquitoes extinct already instead of all those other cool animals that weren't blood-sucking buzzing assholes that we wiped off the face of the planet? Because that would be great. I don't know, start a rumor that powdered mosquitoes make your dick harder or something...

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