What have you purchased recently?

    Quote from Sentura

    fallout 3, dead space, little big planet

    Same here, except haven't bought Dead Space yet. Too much fun to be had with Little Big Planet

    Fallout 3 was WAY too short, the ending sucked and I never saw it coming, other than that it was a good game.

    Quote from Bic-B@ll

    thats the beauty of insurance i had to pay copays/deductibles for the two other visits too :\

    dang what is your copay?

    I had just dropped my dental insurance at the time and had to fork over like $800 ( had just finished school, so I was out of my parents ins. and didn't feel like paying extra 20$/mo. for dental :roll: )

    I have some kickass insurance now, though... I wish my tooth could've waited a few months before it decided to go crazy, would've only cost me like 35 bucks + about 20 for meds.

    edit: oh yeah , I forgot about having to go back to the dentist to get a crown put in, that was like $500

    sorry for going OT

    I've been busy, here's all the geeky stuff as nobody cares about my new hat, etc.

    DoDonPachi: Dai-Fukkatsu Arcade Board

    Marisa Garage Kit

    Heavy Fucker and The Kingdom of Slytherin*

    The Art of Laputa

    Guilty Gear 2 - Overture Material Collection

    Subterranian Animism

    Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black

    Ibara

    Gradius V

    ThunderForce VI

    Ketsui DS

    Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind Vol 1-6

    * Weird present for someone, not gay enough imo.

    just read a few pages, but it sure is an interesting read! i feel ive been stuffed with information allready. it also scores pretty high with hikers and such, wich convinced me to pay € 27,50 for it

    this is what urbansurvivalsecrets.com has to say about it:

    I did like the fact that the SAS Urban Survival Handbook does take into account everything from the tropics to the Alpine regions to the polar regions. Surviving emergencies, disasters, fording rivers and the fact that all fresh water fish are edible helps out!


    Overall, this is a good book to purchase for your bag/backpack. Rating - 9 out of 10 stars for addressing so many areas!

    Quote from Taylor

    DoDonPachi: Dai-Fukkatsu Arcade Board

    Just got a proper super-gun for this to replace my badly build POS. I might look into a cabinet later but I don't think I can justify spending more on this right now

    少し

    Heh, the Japanese overload is because I just got back from 2 week vacation there and skipped around akiba with geeky glee. I'm in the process of learning and I did okay while I was over there (someone assumed I was a Tokyoite and asked for directions, woo!), but I wouldn't say yes to either of those at the moment

    Quote from Taylor

    少しHeh, the Japanese overload is because I just got back from 2 week vacation there and skipped around akiba with geeky glee. I'm in the process of learning and I did okay while I was over there (someone assumed I was a Tokyoite and asked for directions, woo!), but I wouldn't say yes to either of those at the moment

    what, are you asian?! when i went to tokyo i spent most of my time in akihabara (not sure whether that's what you refer to as akiba), and it's pretty much heaven for any geek. like an arabian bazaar from the future where you can buy gadget games and where you find innocent looking supermarket buildings that turn out to be porn shops with 7 floors.

    did you go outside of tokyo?

    Nah, I'm not. I'm not really sure why she thought I was native either... Yeah akiba is akihabara, it's a pretty funky place and I spent far too much time in Hey! I love the way the buildings all contain unrelated shops on each floor, it's like a roulette.

    I was planning on going to Kyoto, but Tokyo had so much I decided we would stick with exploring that instead and still didn't cover everything.

    well yeah except all floors in the game shops seemed to end up in hardcore pornography for the last few floors. 2 weeks was just about the same time i spent i tokyo alone (i went to kyoto for a week and hiroshima for like 5 days as well), and i didn't get to see that much. but then again, the place is fucking huge... i lived in asakusa near ueno, and i could travel 90 km by subway before i'd hit downtown roppongi or shinjuku.

    as for kyoto, it's a beautiful place, but there's not really that much to do than just look at the temples and buy cheap drinks. miyajima outside of hiroshima and osaka are places i'd have gone instead, had i known. still, i don't regret going where i went.

    I’ve heard Kyoto is nice for the ‘traditional’ Japan instead of the highly commercial, full-on bustle of the new capital. The plan was to bullet out there and back over two days, but we didn’t go for it. A friend of mine wanted me to go someplace far north (descriptive), but Tokyo contains far too much to do any of that. I’m definitely going there again next time I go on vacation so I’ll branch out to other places. And now I know what to expect I can face an event like Comiket or Reitaisai for maximum geekage. I tried not to be too touristy, walking around a yaoi shop and asking for the Harry Potter section while scaring little girls with my distinctive un-Bishonen appearance will go with me to my grave. As being hilarious.

    You say lived so I assume you were around for a while and just spent 2 weeks in Tokyo? I’m also curious to when you where there, as while a lot of places had me going in and exiting as fast as possible without looking prudish - Akiba was pretty clean relative to places like Shibuya, Ikebukuro and Shinjuku. I imagine it may have cleaned itself up a bit when it became so popular. Christ, I walked through the Kabukichō district in Shinjuku on a Friday night after some poor orienteering and had to beat off fight off the gigolo’s, pimps and hookers. I must’ve been the only westerner staying in Shinjuku who wasn’t there for the STDs.

    i was in japan for a month, trying to visit as much as possible but still being able to get pissed at night, and of course trying to catch up with some of the events happening around. i went there last february/march. i guess "lived" was perhaps a bit far stretched, but i stayed there for about 10 days from when i arrived and 7 days when i got back from hiroshima.

    while i was there, ikebukuro and shibuya were what i'd call more decent places to go for a drink and a bit of fun (more "pub" style bars), places like roppongi made my blood boil, what with being assaulted by pimps and "bar-motivators" (you know, those people who try to get you to go inside their bar because it is so special compared to the other 200 bars in the area), too loud music, too expensive drinks, too many people and just in general too much. but i never really noticed anything that would fall in the category of "bad" or "unclean". nobody really did anything to anyone else, people were very apologetic and shy of conflict (except places roppongi). the anecdotes i have from down there were mostly associated with culture shock and customs.

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