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I'd read that. Because the honest title, and I'd be curious as to why they're doing it, and if there might be a niche way to actually make it worth it one day.

Yep, the people who marketed Katanas and Samurai were straight up liars. It was eye-opening to see how much they were shilling. It was the old equivalent of "clickbait" back then, and definitely fake news. I remember reading that they only folded the metal something like 10 times usually because folding it too much would just make the sword brittle.

I was also surprised that Katanas weren't that strong and couldn't really be used to block and might snap if used against bone too many times. And could be stopped by stuff like thick wooden armor. It's why Samurai didn't carry handheld shields. Since Katanas couldn't penetrate their armor, they just used parts of the armor to block.

Then again, most swords weren't useful against strong armor. That's what spears and hammers / maces were for. The more I learn, the more I realize medieval fantasy (and historical fiction) tropes are so incredibly wrong.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. There are definitely big differences, but in some surprising ways, Japan always struck me as being like the England of the east.

This is why the rich who think that they can just buy their way into an enclave that'll protect them from climate change are wrong. This and basically everything else that's happening.

It'll get bad enough and broad enough to affect them personally, but it'll be too late for them to regret it by then.

Hibachi's a personal charcoal heater, sometimes used in times of strife (like war) to heat food too. It's kind of similar to a charcoal grill, or the Japanese version of that, which is called a Shichirin.

If people are thinking of a steel plate, that's Teppanyaki, cooked on a steel surface, or Teppan.

It's 2023 people, no reason to be ignorant about "foreign" countries anymore. Japanese is practically the world's official Asian language due to Anime and Manga, video games, etc. which is highly ironic given the aims of Imperial / Fascist Japan and the absolutely wrongheaded way they were going about it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Italy. Italy has like, a falcon and a snake / lizard on it somewhere.

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@readbeanicecream Are big box stores better? Like Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, etc.

I think it's a smart move. I like my G502, but have learned that ambidextrous mice are more for me. I get soreness if I only use my right hand for mousing all the time.

That only works for 1 or 2 generations, when the immigrants' descendants find out what the pre-existing citizenry already has found out: that it's too expensive and difficult to have children, particularly when you're overworked all the time.

Plus, immigrants are usually only brought in for jobs that are shittier, harder, lower-paying, and with fewer benefits than the current population of native born citizens already have.

I'm a children of immigrants in the USA who is childless (hell, most of my cousins are too) and I live around immigrants of every nationality, and most either want to wait until 30 to have kids (and generally only like 1 kid at that) or want to have no kids.

It's like that in a lot of western nations with birthrate problems. It doesn't take long for new people to start acting like the old people if the conditions are bad enough, and they are.

Knowing them, they'll probably do it. It'll just take a year or so.

Edit: that said, they should've done it to start with, and not kept it off of X-box. They're killing their brand and mindshare here.

I expected animals, but human kids are cute too.

I don't really understand why Russia keeps doing stuff like this. If they keep this up, they'll end up doing Ukraine's job for them. I read that they're having big trouble staffing manufacturing jobs. Gee, I wonder why?