My goals for this trip:
- Locate and buy a used 1981 "Epoch Cassette Vision"
- Do not sink time into following developments in, or writing social media threads about, the United States election (I am not saying this is inherently a bad thing but it is simply not what I should be doing right now)
If I do this right expect this account to consist of pretty much photos for the next month
Okay I asked and apparently Mastodon wants to see what the Japanese Laserdisc cover for "Barbarella" looks like. (In my opinion: This is a very good piece of packaging.)
PS what is this second movie [EDIT: It's The Gorgon (1964) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee]
Went to a Japanese arcade and was expecting to come out complaining about how everything's rhythm games now but instead I'm walking out just super impressed with the high production values on these incredibly polished rhythm games with compelling mechanical concepts
Also: all the games feature music by Toby Fox. Good for him!
Oh by the way also at the arcade there was an AMAZING ddr successor called "Dancerush Stardom". Instead of the nine plates there's just basically a giant touchscreen, it has depth because it's clear with an array of flashy lights underneath, it richly combines elements from multiple rhythm game concepts (not clear from the video but it often has you drop your foot and slide it left or right), some tracks assume two people on the plate dancing around each other(!)
@spookysquid playing:
Extremely incredibly good: Waking up with the sun
IMO not so good: the sun in Osaka, Japan at the end of October raises at 6 AM and sets at like 4:30 or something
Japan doesn't have daylight savings time, but of course daylight savings time would make this problem literally worse. Sometimes I actually kinda wish the world had daylight savings time in reverse
EDIT: Wait. DST is in the *summer*. Is what I really want for DST to be year-round?
@mcc probably? that's the time most places in NA want to stay on if the time switch is abolished (Ontario already passed the law but it requires neighbouring states and provinces to change too, so until America changes, we will keep switching)
i know conceptually, the sun being at the highest point at 1pm and not 12pm bothers people, but the way our modern society is structured, our days aren't spaced evenly around noon anyway, a 9-5 day is 3 hours before noon and 5 hours after, and most stuff closes at 9-midnight, almost all events are held in the evening, most of our days are spent in the latter half of the day, so more sunlight later makes more sense
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