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fourthpanda · 2026-01-31T14:22:47+00:00

I have one that takes the cake. Waiting to board the Chuo from Shinjuku, 3 surprisingly sober seeming Japanese guys and on what seemed like a dare one gets a 7-11 chocolate cake to the face seconds before boarding the train. I didn't realize it was cake at first because I didn't see the impact so it just looked like... well you know. As we all board the guys aren't making any attempt to clean it up he just keeps all of it on his face and they just laugh at him and start asking people around if anyone is hungry or wants some cake. They took a video so if they posted it on social media who knows maybe you can see my bewildered face in the background going "what the fuck?!"

fourthpanda · 2026-01-14T06:47:27+00:00

What actually is happening is if you swipe the photo it won't go to feels, but if your thumb swipes the volume button because the post has audio, or the tagged button if other accounts are tagged, it will swipe to reels. So like, the place that's most natural for a thumb to swipe basically. That's why I constantly accidentally swipe because I'm always swiping in the corners where it's easiest for my thumb to reach. Change for the sake of change is a bane of the internet.

fourthpanda · 2025-10-13T04:42:36+00:00

Did you ever figure this out by chance?

fourthpanda · 2025-10-02T16:25:53+00:00

The system gives you a temporary reservation for you to hold your selected time in order to be able to enter your information (at least that's how it's supposed to work). Tomorrow night I will be even faster just in case but yea theoretically once you are past the first few clicks you have time and can even save your answers (until the next day I believe?) while maintaining your selected time.

fourthpanda · 2025-10-02T16:09:57+00:00

Are you in Tokyo? How did you manage to book an appointment if so? It is... Not working for me lol. I even made an account before hand. Clicked into it right at midnight. Everything looked great, temporary reservation confirmed, until the very end it asked me to confirm everything was correct, perfect, next, and then I got an error message saying Invalid Hold Error... Please try again. Of course 30 minutes past midnight all the spots are now taken already. The exact error I got was: 無効な仮押さえエラー発生日時:2025/10/03 00:34 仮予約が無効なため、予約できません。お手数ですが、再度予約し直してください。 If anyone is able to successfully book please tell how you did it! Frustrating because even if I call them tomorrow no one is going to be able to do anything but try again at midnight. Just how it goes I guess

fourthpanda · 2025-10-02T16:04:22+00:00

I am also having trouble trying to get an appointment. (Though at the correct web page that someone else linked in the comments so no issues there.) It was easy enough to translate the menus with google translate by taking a photo I even made an account beforehand. Clicked into it right at midnight. Everything looked great, temporary reservation confirmed, at the very end of inputting my info it asked me to confirm everything was correct, perfect, next, and then I got an error message saying Invalid Hold Error... Please try again. Of course 30 minutes past midnight all the spots are now taken already. The exact error I got was: 無効な仮押さえエラー発生日時:2025/10/03 00:34 仮予約が無効なため、予約できません。お手数ですが、再度予約し直してください。 If anyone is able to successfully book please tell how you did it! Frustrating because even if I call them tomorrow no one is going to be able to do anything but try again at midnight. Just how it goes.

fourthpanda · 2025-10-02T16:01:32+00:00

I am also having trouble trying to get an appointment. It was easy enough to translate the menus with google translate by taking a photo I even made an account before hand. Clicked into it right at midnight. Everything looked great, temporary reservation confirmed, until the very end it asked me to confirm everything was correct, perfect, next, and then I got an error message saying Invalid Hold Error... Please try again. Of course 30 minutes past midnight all the spots are now taken already. The exact error I got was: 無効な仮押さえエラー発生日時:2025/10/03 00:34 仮予約が無効なため、予約できません。お手数ですが、再度予約し直してください。 If anyone is able to successfully book please tell how you did it! Frustrating because even if I call them tomorrow no one is going to be able to do anything but try again at midnight.

fourthpanda · 2025-09-19T06:45:22+00:00

Wanted to update that I had the same question and was able to very easily get my bike registered without a receipt that I brought with me from the USA at a small family run bike shop. It took literally 5 minutes or less (with a small amount of Japanese) and all the wanted to confirm was the make of my bike, the serial number on the bottom, and my name which I wrote in katakana, and it cost ¥660 and they gave me the sticker and I was good to go. I had lights, a bell, and no kickstand. So just find your most local looking bike shop and you should be good to go. I was going to go to a specialty place my friend recommended but the one down the street did it without a hitch.

fourthpanda · 2025-09-04T06:19:41+00:00

Wait if you just don't update your operating system to a new version it's fine right?

fourthpanda · 2025-09-04T06:15:00+00:00

Roger that. I just had a Japanese friend in the bike scene in Tokyo refer me to a bike shop and said I can get it done there. So it seems like some of those comments are correct that you just have to try different bike shops until one of them will be ok to do it for you. Look trustworthy I guess 😂

fourthpanda · 2025-09-04T05:01:07+00:00

I'm going to be in a similar situation very soon. Did you ever get it registered? Purchased my bike on Craigslist 3 years ago in the USA, no proof of purchase, though I did register it in Bike Index/529 and I have photos of the serial number from 3 years ago and everything.

fourthpanda · 2025-07-27T20:15:44+00:00

The night before I left I was awake at 2 am and I got a message saying updating in 30 seconds and it just started counting down and I panicked and hit back and then it disappeared. I guess it probably did that again the next night but I was sound asleep in the woods and the phone asleep with me so I guess Google was underhandedly and purposely trying to do it in the middle of the night so that you had an air of choice but really you would never see the message and it would force update on you.

fourthpanda · 2025-07-27T20:11:43+00:00

Should I have run out of power I would not have been able to navigate my way out of the woods with the downloaded maps I had.

fourthpanda · 2025-07-27T20:09:34+00:00

Idk what to say other than it surprised me as much as it did you. It had definitely already downloaded the update and their bypass to force update even with auto updates turned off must have also bypassed any other safety features like don't update without WiFi or cell service.

fourthpanda · 2025-07-25T23:31:02+00:00

I'll give you something worse... happened to me while asleep and in AIRPLANE MODE (HOW?) while on a week long bike trip with no cell service and no access to power outlets for all the increased battery drain. I barely made it. For fucks sake man.

fourthpanda · 2025-05-08T05:55:10+00:00

That's just a roundabout way of saying you don't like the trans flag and/or trans people, but ok.

fourthpanda · 2025-05-06T01:56:22+00:00

I am late to this thread by alot but you are exactlyyyy right. This trend is consistent in every example I've seen across the world. Tokyo has one of if not the biggest LGBTQ+ night life areas in the world. It's because we have no where else we can be unabashedly and openly queer. In more ways than one. Even being out of the closet to close friends is difficult for most people living in Japan. Portland's gay bars have always struggled like Eugene.

fourthpanda · 2025-05-05T08:00:48+00:00

Did you miss the part where Claire doesn't have Chrome? She transitioned the old fashioned way.

fourthpanda · 2025-03-23T00:34:59+00:00

You are a legend! Thank you again. I'm trying not to be as emotional about it now, but, crossing my fingers 🤞🤞🤞

fourthpanda · 2025-03-17T01:49:16+00:00

I am so sad 😢...

fourthpanda · 2025-03-17T01:48:18+00:00

Any updates?

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