Drone:

The Maryland governor actually posted a picture saying he was worried about drones and it was orion’s belt with a couple other stars in the picture.

https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-drones-restricted-areas-2002176

Ooh, are we posting random webcomics?

OOTS

Also singular they is older than singular you. So any idiots who complain that “they” should only be plural should only be using thou/thee for second person singular.

You mean how do you teach a language to foreign speakers if you don’t speak their language? It’s an interesting question with varied answers in terms of effectiveness, but for practical purposes in this discussion, the cheapo language schools in Japan really want their teachers to not use any Japanese in the classroom. They have you teach out of a series of textbooks and mostly don’t care about the outcomes for the students. In fact, the worse students do, the longer they stay applied to the courses that schools offer-- a relatively cynical view on things, but there’s a reason Japan ranks pretty low in English ability among Asian countries, despite being a wealthy nation. Like I mentioned above, there’s a reason you’re working for peanuts (and why the major language school companies don’t tend to want actual licensed teachers).

If you’re serious about wanting out, I’ll put links here to the major companies, but just keep in mind that they’ll pretty much provide you with a method of existing in Japan without being able to put away much savings, and like many large conglomerates they don’t really care about you if any problems come up-- there’s always the next weeb ready to take your place.

Ideally the best you can do is the JET Program, but that’s a long application process (about 6 months IIRC), and you’ll need to be under 40 (and from one of the listed native English speaking countries).

https://jetprogramusa.org/

The rest I don’t have much direct experience with but the salaries are all less and they all sort of suck equally (Interac may be slightly better):

https://interacnetwork.com/
https://www.gabateachinginjapan.com/
https://recruiting.altmoot.com/
https://nova-holdings.jp/teachinjapan/
https://www.peppy-kids.com/

And there’s one that takes applicants to teach in universities, though you might need some credentials in ESL/EFL, but I haven’t checked very closely

https://www.westgatejapan.com/

If you have any questions let me know. I’ve been in Japan awhile, though I eventually managed to get a teaching license and masters, so I’ve been out of the ALT (assistant language teacher) game for over 10 years now.

If you’ve got a college degree you can pretty easily teach English in Japan for peanuts (though still more than the minimum wage offered in 20 US states).

Looks like my s10 won’t run it either unfortunately

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief?useskin=vector

Doncha like the 'do?

The narration from that video has a poetic bent

I wake to the warmth of the waxing salt sun, and before I draw breath it sidewinds to the beetle moon. I muse on my many selves, think of the jewels I’ve loosened from the lime, and all the myriad forms space and time have lathed me to. I dream of the sky shelf and its cosmic tilt, the movers that ferried strangers across stellar gulfs and toward their numinous ends. The earth falls away to light and dust, and I dream no more. Now we become the specters that peopled the Caves of Qud.

Yeah it looks fun but I’m worried the learning curve is a little too steep to approach casually. I could see getting into it but it’d have to be at a time when I could really sink some hours into gaming time, like during some holidays or something.

That vaguely works in Japan, because they have a ton of English loanwords, and a lot of them wouldn’t be understood by a monolingual Japanese speaker unless you say them in a Japanese accent (it’s a bit more complicated than that but that’s the gist).

I wonder what separates games from movies as disposable media, especially with games that are meant to be cinematic/telling a story. Like Spec Ops is loosely based on Heart of Darkness and has a strong narrative, but without that is just a sort of middling shooter. So once you know the story it doesn’t have a ton of replayability, but it’s still impactful in the way a good movie is.

Why are you assuming the sign is about Americans? There’s no reference to the US anywhere except OP’s title

From an award winning war movie made by one of the most prominent directors of all time that had the referenced line sampled in a famous hip hop song?

Or was it something else?

Why not the free weekly epic giveaways as well? There have been some good games for free in the past

I thought Henry Winkler

haven’t played it-- how do the mechanics change with the story?

sorry, badly phrased-- I was trying not to give away the mechanic. In the game the literal controls on your keyboard/controller get altered in order to advance the story

Maybe literally the only game that’s ever done storytelling through gameplay mechanics-- really cool concept