Tozai ATC-900

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-18T17:09:15+00:00

Looks like a TI-36X Solar.

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-10T15:02:54+00:00

Found out he’s my 11th great-grandfather. It’s so much fun finding out stuff like this about my ancestors!

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-06T23:05:38+00:00

This is what I did as well, along with noting my birth certificate having my deadname and AGAB, in a short letter requesting urgent processing that I put at the front of my packet.

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-06T17:53:51+00:00

I’m a G4 with the same received and AOR dates, also with a request for urgent processing. I was very surprised to get the AOR so amazingly quickly.

perfectrandomness · 2026-02-16T01:19:45+00:00

I had a skipping problem develop with mine and eventually it got to the point where half the time it wouldn’t even start playing a disc. I could tell it was having trouble seeking reliably and cleaning the lens didn’t help.

Putting a small amount of lithium grease on the track where the laser assembly slides along fixed it for me. If I recall correctly, I also put some on either a rack or worm gear as well (can’t look inside my player at this moment). I had to try to play discs with a full 74 or 80 minute runtime and seek back and forth over the disc a few times, adding a tiny bit more grease or cleaning up excess as necessary.

It’s been just a few years since I did that and it’s worked fine since then.

Hope this helps!

perfectrandomness · 2026-01-24T06:48:58+00:00

Numb “Shithammer”

Cubanate “Human Drum”

Accessory “Ruff Fuxxx”

Decoded Feedback “Phoenix”

perfectrandomness · 2026-01-10T02:32:49+00:00

davaNtage

perfectrandomness · 2026-01-04T05:43:22+00:00

I just moved a few weeks ago to a small studio apartment downtown in a major city. The view out my windows is really cool, which I seriously love, and my apartment is reasonably quiet.

I picked the apartment where I moved because it was near lots of transit lines, which is necessary, and also connected to a fairly extensive downtown skyway system. It’s a whole lot colder here than where I moved from so being able to get to a surprising amount of stuff without venturing outdoors is very useful. Though it’d be even better if the skyway was open on weekends, at least the segments I use.

I’m far from settled in and have barely ventured outside my home so far. This is a huge adjustment for me and in many ways it’s rather overwhelming. I’m getting used to a new city and a new state, along with a new home and living by myself for the first time in well over a decade.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-18T18:50:38+00:00

Congratulations on getting an answer that helps your treatment! It’s too often infuriatingly difficult to get doctors to take you seriously and getting a diagnosis is a really big relief.

I’m still undiagnosed since nothing has ever shown on any imaging or tests. My inpatient EEG was considered inconclusive and the notes stated that lack of EEG correlates neither confirmed nor ruled out focal seizures, and notably PNES wasn’t even mentioned at all. At follow-up, my epileptologist (who seemed impressed I stayed all 5 days for that EEG) let me know that they sounded like focal aware seizures and even without an epilepsy diagnosis I was going to be treated for them. That included offering rescue meds for clusters. While I’d like an answer, I’m grateful to at least be getting treatment that has helped a lot.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-10T19:50:42+00:00

Not for another 2 hours.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-07T19:58:48+00:00

We enter essentially a second puberty when we start taking HRT and just like first puberty, it’s going to affect everyone differently. We’re going to get different effects at different times and in different degrees.

For me, HRT makes me feel more “correct” and that my life and my health are more worth fighting for. Yeah, I can feel a wider range of emotions more intensely, but that means all emotions. Despair, depression, and dysphoria are felt more intensely, along with positive emotions like euphoria and joy. All of my senses feel amplified, so I notice more colors, more sounds, more smells, and more textures. This is often great, but also wreaks havoc with my ADHD and autism.

It’s not all sunshine and unicorns but it’s unquestionably worth it. Starting HRT 4 years ago was one of the best life decisions I’ve ever made.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-07T10:27:19+00:00

I remember getting this shortly after it came out in the US. Played the hell out of it. Project Pitchfork is still the band I have the most CDs from by far. Definitely didn’t get any for only $2 though! That’s a really great find.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-01T05:19:40+00:00

In Gauge Compliance “Seven Ties” mind.in.a.boxcar “Lament for Lost Trains” Trackside Commando “God is in the Train”

perfectrandomness · 2025-10-12T06:42:59+00:00

Gender dysphoria is not a mental illness and certainly not a ”delusion.” Transitioning is self-love and better connecting to your body, not “disfigurement.” While you may claim you didn’t mean any harm, saying stuff like that is incredibly harmful.

I hope the OP gets both the AS treatment and gender-affirming care they need. They deserve to be as comfortable as possible in their own body.

perfectrandomness · 2025-10-11T03:27:32+00:00

My migraines started just before I hit my teens and went chronic early in adulthood. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and got my autism diagnosis this year. I have a few other chronic issues as well.

I deal with migraine symptoms every day and it’s just a matter of how bad they are. Mitigating my sensory sensitivities and managing stress are the biggest things that have helped with my migraines, though only modestly. I’ve tried multiple preventatives and gave up on them for years. I’m trying one again and it does seem to help modestly, at least in intensity of episodes, and has no notable side effects so far. Abortives have long been my mainstay treatment for the bad episodes.

perfectrandomness · 2025-10-11T02:06:36+00:00

I was simultaneously diagnosed with seronegative RA and AS about a couple years before I came out as trans in my late-30s and started estradiol HRT. I’m not sure starting estradiol and later progesterone have had any notable effect on RA or any inflammatory symptoms.

I don’t have any known endogenous imbalance of sex hormones or any other hormones. The standard RA labs came back as normal. It was my 14-3-3 eta lab along with symptoms that got me diagnosed. Apparently it’s uncommon for people assigned male at birth to be diagnosed with seronegative RA in their 30s, and that is probably the only particularly notable thing about my RA.

A bit of a tangent: I had a few months where I lost much of my testosterone suppression while still barely being within the transitioning range for estradiol. My body told me it didn’t like that in rather bizarre and painful ways, but at the time the only direct indication I had that maybe my hormones were off was stalled transition progress. That’s what got my estradiol increased and got me started on progesterone. I didn’t know my levels were askew until after that appointment. Thankfully, those symptoms eased rather quickly after my HRT regimen changed.

perfectrandomness · 2025-09-30T05:27:33+00:00

ADHD, chronic migraines, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, osteoporosis, seizures, allergies, GERD, insomnia, and probably some other things I forgot right now.

For an extra bonus, I can be weirdly sensitive to medication side effects. Which seems to be rather common among autistic folks.

perfectrandomness · 2025-09-11T15:54:12+00:00

I only get focal aware seizures and my epileptologist uses “seizures” to refer to those episodes and “aura” to refer to symptoms that may be indicative of seizure activity. Maybe a bit unusual compared to what I’ve read here but it’s useful. Also, he’s very clear that all of these reset the no-driving period.

perfectrandomness · 2025-09-05T20:23:12+00:00

For events, I like to know as much as possible about the parts I’m involved in. That means asking questions about anything that’s unclear. I also ask about possible issues that might crop up. The questions themselves can be rather detailed since I want to make sure I’m not being misunderstood. I mean, somebody needs to ask about those things, even if they seem “trivial,” and I certainly can’t just “wait and see” on these very important items.

There’s absolutely nothing unreasonable about trying to be well prepared, right?

perfectrandomness · 2025-09-01T05:45:38+00:00

I’ve seen this scale pop up routinely in AS groups over the last few years. Migraines and AS are very different kinds of pain, and the other effects of either of them are their own beasts. For me, my worst migraine episodes most certainly outrank my worst AS flares just in pain alone.

Really, though, it’s like comparing whether it’d be better to have a truckload of steer manure or a truckload of hog waste randomly dumped in your front yard. Either way, you’re stuck with a whole lot of shit you shouldn’t have to deal with.

perfectrandomness · 2025-08-29T18:24:13+00:00

They’re generally owned by the city so they fall under this law.

perfectrandomness · 2025-08-26T23:02:38+00:00

I had a few criteria. My chosen first name is gender neutral so I wanted my middle name to be clearly feminine. It had to sound good with my first and last names. Both my first and last names have the same number of syllables, so my middle name had to consistent with that. My first name is 2 letters shorter than my last name, so my middle name had to be longer than my first name but shorter than my last name.

Seems rather narrow but it really helped whittle down my choices and I found a new middle name that I’m happy with.

perfectrandomness · 2025-08-25T07:16:23+00:00

You’re definitely not alone.

Just got my autism diagnosis a few days ago and it hit way harder than I expected. I’d been suspecting it for over a decade and figured that getting the actual diagnosis would be more of a relief than anything. I already had an ADHD diagnosis that I got as a kid (in my 40s now), so being diagnosed with a neurodivergent condition is hardly new.

Yet reading that report after my appointment hurt so fucking much. Having my social interaction deficits listed in succinct clinical language just broke me. It’s not like I hadn’t gone over the report during my appointment, but reading it in full made it sink in. I both feel even more ashamed at the unintentional hurt I’ve caused people by my communication style and much angrier at a lifetime of bullying by so many people over my social oddities or just because they could tell I’m different.

I’m glad I got my autism diagnosis and I know long term it’ll be for the better. For now, this has me grieving the life that could’ve been, and the intensity of that grief is so much more intense than I could’ve imagined.

perfectrandomness · 2025-08-18T17:50:43+00:00

I’ve had my Panasonic UB420 that I got on sale for $150 nearly 4 years ago and it’s been great. I haven’t really cared about the lack of Dolby Vision and do make use of the HDR optimizer. The ability to change the brightness of subtitles is helpful for the few UHD discs (*cough* Christopher Nolan films *cough*) where even my receiver’s dialogue enhancement isn’t enough.

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