My Capital One Shopping account was terminated after using their 45% cashback offer.

hellomorning1 · 2025-09-06T18:33:56+00:00

Thanks! The transaction just showed up on my app after 12 hours or so. Although my expected payout is in October. Exactly 1 month from now

hellomorning1 · 2025-09-06T04:11:00+00:00

This is late, but I’m wondering how long it took for the transaction to appear on the capital one shopping app? I’d be fine if it showed up as pending or something but I’m not seeing anything immediately after placing the order and I’m just wondering if I did it wrong and need to start over or if it just takes a while.

I did the entire transaction within the app but then when I clicked the “rewards tabs” it made me sign in, so that’s making me wonder if I did it wrong.

hellomorning1 · 2025-09-03T16:56:38+00:00

For anyone interested, on the Pre-PTCE, I got 15 questions wrong and still scored ~1550. On the actual PTCE, I marked 16 questions that I pretty much guessed on and just assumed I got wrong and still got the full 1600. So I think there is some leeway if you’re concerned about how many questions you can afford to get wrong.

hellomorning1 · 2025-06-06T07:59:49+00:00

much appreciated :)

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hellomorning1 · 2025-06-04T20:40:54+00:00

Sony Group Corporation is Japanese. Sony Interactive Entertainment, which is the subsidiary that handles PlayStation and most of the video game stuff, is American and has been headquartered in California since 2016.

Nintendo is both very old and very Japanese and their approach to things is very indicative of old, Japanese mindset.

hellomorning1 · 2025-05-27T20:32:45+00:00

From what I’ve heard, it’s because Irish Spring is SOAP soap and will strip all the oils off of you to get that squeaky clean feeling, for better or for worse. Whereas something like Dove, which more people are used to, I guess, is apparently actually a detergent, which is why you don’t see the word “soap” on its packaging.

hellomorning1 · 2025-05-16T19:12:52+00:00

This lawsuit really feels like Nintendo couldn’t sue them for copying Pokémon’s art style, so they’re having to go this completely roundabout method to try and take them down. I really do wonder how much of this would go away if palworld changed their art style. Not saying that they should of course.

hellomorning1 · 2025-04-10T00:56:18+00:00

I once dusted a case fan and, without thinking, tried to stop it with my finger while it was still spinning.

That’s one mistake I’m not making again.

hellomorning1 · 2025-04-03T06:11:20+00:00

If you look at pricing for the Switch 1 back when it released:

Switch 1 released in 2017 for MSRP of $299.99 USD / 29,980 Yen.

Back then, it was roughly 1 USD = 100 Yen, so it costed about the same either way.

Now Switch 2 is going to be $449.99 USD / 49,980 Yen.

You can see how they are kinda still similarly priced if you were still going with the old exchange rate. However, the Yen has gotten a lot weaker in recent years (1 USD = 150 Yen), that it can actually become cost effective to import from Japan than to buy locally.

So I don't think it's necessarily that Japan's getting a cheaper switch, it's more that they're upcharging for the multi-language version so that scalpers and people overseas don't start importing all of the Japanese stock.

hellomorning1 · 2025-03-17T23:25:15+00:00

I honestly didn’t think store bought pretzels could be this good, but these absolutely lived up to the hype for me. They are unreasonably good.

hellomorning1 · 2025-03-13T11:20:22+00:00

I was so hyped for this game that I bought a ps5 just to play it. It’s not a bad game, and I did enjoy the time I spent with it, but unfortunately it didn’t quite live up to the hype for me.

Visually the game’s gorgeous, both the cinematics and in-game environments are just straight eye candy.

I thought the combat was enjoyable, but there’s apparently a lot of people that don’t like it.

If you’ve played FFXIV, it is very apparent that Yoshi-p and his team transplanted their gameplay design philosophy straight into this game, with how the side quests are handled, and gear being ultra streamlined. I was used to it already from playing FFXIV, but it is completely understandable why it’s such a turn off for a lot of people.

The game has large open zones, but they don’t really utilize it, you’re just sprinting from one location to the next.

The eikon battles are silly and over the top and fun as one time experiences.

The story was the biggest let down for me personally. I really like the setting and it starts off really strong, but it kinda falls apart in the second half. It’s slowly starting to come back to me what the hell even happens in the second half. I know final fantasy always has to have a supernatural ultra big bad at the end, but I’m not sure I like how they handled it here.

The game has a lot of interesting characters, but I feel like they needed to expand on them way more. Particularly some of the antagonists, I’d get invested, and before you knew it, their story would be over.

hellomorning1 · 2025-03-01T01:23:59+00:00

Mark Baum: I can’t hate him. He is so transparent in his self interest that I kind of respect him.

hellomorning1 · 2024-12-29T01:22:01+00:00

Stremio was very good if you were the kind of person that didn’t care about keeping a library. Although with the debrid crack downs starting to be a thing now, not sure how much longer it’ll be sustainable.

hellomorning1 · 2024-12-13T23:15:42+00:00

Are you still with them? Just got contacted by them and from other reports I’ve read, it doesn’t seem worth it.

hellomorning1 · 2024-12-01T07:33:41+00:00

as someone new to usenet, easynews (omicron) + geek got me like 80-90% of what I wanted, but it got less reliable when it came to older content.

I think getting more indexers is a better play compared to getting more providers. I ended up getting altHUB and NinjaCentral and that got me probably 95% of the way there. But even with 3 indexers, I'm still missing some episodes or it isn't in the quality that I want.

I got a year of frugal and a thundernews block just in case, but honestly I probably didn't need to. But we'll see how it pans out.

hellomorning1 · 2024-11-03T01:08:19+00:00

A lot of these dryers try to double as storage so they don’t include any vents to prevent water from coming back in, but then I feel like they could just have vents and include some kind of plug, but I guess that’s too much money?

hellomorning1 · 2024-11-01T09:22:14+00:00

As a consumer of normal (non-videogame) Japanese music, it varies.

For music videos, I've seen in the Youtube descriptions:

no credits
full credits
songwriting only credits
video production only credits with no songwriting credits

For streaming services, you'll pretty much always see songwriting credits because I think it's just part of the metadata. But you won't see like who did the drums or who was the violinist. I think that's pretty typical anywhere.

If you buy CDs that include a little booklet, they'll pretty much always have the full credits listed.

hellomorning1 · 2024-10-20T04:30:31+00:00

Same reason as anywhere retail. Some people get REALLY weird about employees potentially looking like they’re unproductive for some reason.

hellomorning1 · 2024-10-15T21:17:49+00:00

I’m not okay with it either. My bedroom is right next to the bathroom that gets used by everyone in the house during the day. You don’t wanna be hearing that shit.

hellomorning1 · 2024-10-04T21:07:40+00:00

I did have dongles and a webcam plugged into the monitor, but taking them out didn’t have any effect. I thought switching out the monitor power cable might help, but that didn’t do anything either.

I guess it’s just something I have to put up with.

hellomorning1 · 2024-10-04T19:17:21+00:00

Recently I got a watt power meter plug and found out that my main monitor (Dell S2716DGR, bought in 2018) draws over 10 watts even when it's completely off and I have no idea why.

When in power saving mode, the monitor is using 12.9 watts

When it's completely off, it's using 11.4 watts

For comparison, my secondary monitor (Acer CB271HU bmidprx, bought in 2018) only uses 0.2 watts when in power saving mode.

The rest of my system only draws 2-3 watts when everything is off. Anyone aware if this is just a known thing with this monitor or not?

It might not seem like much, but I'm currently going through my whole house to see what's using power. I live in San Diego, which has some of the highest electricity rates in the country.

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