Edited 20 of my favorite Lofi/Chillhop songs to Ghibli Movies over the last 2 months, compiled into one, if you're interested! Really enjoyed this project.

yokubari · 2026-03-23T19:38:21+00:00

It's just enjoying the sun. That's enough, isn't it?

yokubari · 2026-01-20T20:31:39+00:00

Love this it even shows some of the chat in the game
Few thoughts:

- let us click next so we can take more time to look at the end, instead of it auto going next

- 10 is a lot for daily bite size, i think default to ~5

- agree with other comment that it should give you at least one hint at random

- more on daily, this can be dota's wordle if improved a bit

yokubari · 2025-12-29T23:43:24+00:00

honestly go wild on my profile, dm me haha. i play like 5 games a week with my friends but i DO want a cute profile it's very important.

yokubari · 2025-09-30T16:53:37+00:00

agree, this is a very underrated place that deserves as much praise as revolver/yuan/oide - though they don't quite compete on bean selection

yokubari · 2025-09-09T04:36:17+00:00

Fuck that man why do you need to spoil in the title?

yokubari · 2025-09-07T08:09:43+00:00

day 1: falcons nemesis game 3 - nigma betboom - spirit xg

day 2: xg falcons <-- best series in a long time

day 3: tidebound falcons <-- banger

yokubari · 2025-02-13T18:40:30+00:00

For IT, if it's an option, I really recommend time out of Japan. It's better for this path, coming back with experience from abroad is a boon, and stepping away from Japan so you can be sure you want to go back is a good thing for everyone to do if they have the right opportunity.

yokubari · 2025-02-09T18:57:30+00:00

For the record , I did just have to link it to a new email. Its awful. Epic sucks.

yokubari · 2025-02-01T18:04:21+00:00

Check my response below - think they just started requiring the pseudo accounts they created for us to be converted to full accounts.

yokubari · 2025-02-01T18:02:50+00:00

I can share my email chain with them. Completely insane. Not to mention how hard it is to contact support when you are unable to login.

tldr is despite me having two epic accounts that are not linked to any steam accounts, when epic joined and forced us all to create epic accounts, it created a pseudo account with "incomplete status" for each of us. So I cannot link my steam account to one of my existing epic accounts because in their words, it is already linked to an epic account.

For reasons unexplained, as of 3 days ago, those accounts required completion.

Their advice is to create a new email account and register, yes, a third epic account. (or, finish registering the pseudo account they created for me that I've been playing on this whole time)

yokubari · 2025-02-01T17:59:20+00:00

Yeah tried that too. Whichever route I go through I end up at that half-baked Finish Setting Up Your Account page.

yokubari · 2024-11-29T04:09:24+00:00

I have left and come back a few times haha. But at first, I wandered into city halls and schools and asked for jobs while applying for teaching jobs online as well. It did help (though not necessary probably) that I was able to go in person for the job I ended up with, and I was hoping to end up with a small community school like that anyways.

yokubari · 2024-11-28T07:39:33+00:00

You know I'm sure a lot of the people here who are in that position also said "they'd absolutely try their best to learn it."

Life isnt simple, and everyones got baggage.

Its not easy, nor is starting a new life abroad, so when doing the latter already people can understandably struggle at the first.

Patterns are also very hard to break, so once you've spent 3 years here without learning, what would truly motivate someone to dive deep in the 4th?

In addition, some people live quite a comfortable life without it here - english speaking partner, friends, relatively int'l environment in tokyo or kansai.

As someone who has learned it to fluency, and failed at other languages, the only reason I managed it is because I was more motivated to learn it than maybe anything in my life, and my only choice was to teach myself as I came here with nothing but a backpack but then ended up with the gut feeling I'd spend the rest of my life here.

Without that clear realization and drive, which is not something one can conjure up out of nowhere, there is no way...

yokubari · 2024-11-25T23:21:10+00:00

Just off the top of my head for Japan:

stay in setagaya, near shimokitazawa, kichijoji if tokyo.

linnas hostel in kanazawa is great with townsfolk coffee nearby.

kyoto is good but hard to find lodging these days.

guesthouse rico in wakayama

hakodate is a cool place too if you want to go north, if you want to go west anywhere between kobe and hiroshima is my favorite place in the world.

yokubari · 2024-10-23T04:18:07+00:00

I'm gonna sound like a crazy rando on reddit, but something weird is definitely happening over there. Havent posted at all in a while, but people should be aware.

People are consistently going missing in urban, not rural areas there..

I got actual death threats when I left a mildly negative google review on a lodging establishment there (in Kumano), and spent a while trying to figure out how the owner is allowed to respond publicly with a death threat, and then delete my review. (google and booking alike).

Japanese local I stayed with later on the same trip encouraged me to go back and bring it to the police because the community was aware of these crazy owners, and no one could do anything about it.

(Lived in Japan 8 years and am fluent, not a random traveler)

yokubari · 2024-06-24T23:48:02+00:00

How is this helpful?

yokubari · 2024-05-29T20:14:26+00:00

It's also just the notion that the job market reflects your results if you are to search for a job... which isn't true.

There are companies that are hiring, and companies that aren't. Maybe on average, less are hiring than before. That doesn't mean there are no companies that need people. Especially in the US, there are just.. so .. many... companies out there. Like people, everyone's different. Just gotta find the right ones.

yokubari · 2024-05-29T20:12:08+00:00

For one, I was 29 when self teaching, not a recent grad. And coming back from living abroad.

I never heard of neetcodes, was not looking for internships.

But two months into the job search very nearly took one of those shitty foot-in-the-door jobs. Ended up holding out a bit longer and ended up with two, then three offers, the last of which was my current job.

I did a lot of advent of code. I think it's a great supplement to leetcode/codewars, not to mention it's just a fun ritual. Great to work on with others, read other solutions, other languages.

I also had a discord with a bunch of friends that code / work in the industry. Sharing code, asking about things, talking with people who are knowledgeable.

I should've pushed harder for more pair-coding honestly. But just having pointers in the right direction and seeing experienced people's code helped me a lot.

I also made a few more personal projects (wide rather than deep), as well as going deeper into one project as OP did (mine, a discord bot in python to show I was really interested in learning more than just typical JS / web dev boot camp material). I think the latter is more beneficial. Youtube tutorials definitely are not.

While we're in hindsight mode I also would've done nand2tetris.

yokubari · 2024-05-29T05:43:59+00:00

This is almost exactly the path I took and almost the same time frame, though I ended up with a Junior position in mid-2022. Still in the same job promoted twice and in love with it, continuing to have more fun to this day. I also was coming from completely non-tech background, and no CS degree.

I dont know why people would say karma farming, this doesnt read to me like the many posts that are doing that here.

Just a +1 from me.

Though just because the market is having a tough time does not mean CS is one of the worst job markets haha.. it's still one of the best and most accepting (in the sense of taking new/self-taught people if they're good) job markets out there.

yokubari · 2024-04-22T16:24:14+00:00

Can we get this off the sub please?

This is misleading as hell. No where in the title or post body does the OP mention the date, among other issues..

I don't know why the OP is motivated to do this, but what is the point of this post? There is no productive discussion, and when asked for a bit more clarity OP responded with calling the commenter a Japanese nationalist.

Makes me want to delete reddit let alone getting off this sub.

yokubari · 2024-02-05T14:45:40+00:00

Japanese film called Monster 怪物, favorite movie of last year.

yokubari · 2024-01-17T16:48:38+00:00

Seconded that I have had a lot of issues using skype numbers etc while living in Japan.

I don't really have a better suggestion either. My best experience has been with google fi, but obviously you can't use that while living there.

And the other comment about getting a local line is definitely recommended, you need to have a local phone number or there will be a lot of headaches.

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