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Lived in Japan my entire working life, 10million yen (70k USD) is really good. The average salary in Tokyo is around 6m for tech, but if you’re single and living within your means, 4~5m is perfectly acceptable.

Well that, and a hot drink. Tea, earl grey perhaps?

Yeah yeah, we’ve all heard that bullshit from employers before. “Sorry you got passed over for a raise and a promotion this year, but you’re just too valuable at your current position”

Well, more like …

Mario, Mario, Pokemon, Pokemon, GTA, CoD, wtf Animal Crossing?, CoD

Axis and Allies. I dunno, maybe I’ve just lost patience as I get older, but the 2 times I tried playing it with my group we spent so much time going over the rules and setting up the board that we really didn’t get it enjoy it much.

How do you prove someone in the central government didn’t take a bribe and tamper with the records? What if you’re from a country where the central government is less than stable? How would you prove ownership if something were to happen to that database? How do you prove that someone is who they say they are? How do citizens and businesses access that database? Is there a standardized format for it? Does it use some proprietary software built by the lowest bidder?

Not saying that blockchain has all the answers or that it is the right tool in all cases, but these are some of the problems it is trying to solve.

Take it from someone who was around back then, you didn’t really miss much. The NES revitalized video gaming and brought the industry back from near-death, but the SNES/Gensis era was truly the golden age of gaming. Maybe because the tech NES was so limited or something, but most of the early franchises back set the stage for greater heights, but other than Super Mario 3 nothing is really worth going back to. Zelda, Super Metroid, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Mega Man X, Contra, Tetris, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania, Phantasy Star, Chrono Trigger, Mother 2/Earthbound, F-zero, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, etc etc etc etc all REALLY got their start, and became what they are today, in the 90s with the SNES and Genesis

One that never clicked with me back when it came out was Halo. Everyone else claims it’s this amazing, must play game, but I just couldn’t get through it. I even tried again this year and bought the Master Chief edition in t he steam sale for $10, but got bored with it by the time you board the Covenant ship. I really want to know what I’m missing here, but to me it seems like a cookie cutter FPS with the most basic, boring-ass story. Sincerely asking, what makes this game so good?

Dr Bashir: Captain! It seems you have a case of the whiteboard flu!

Sisko: What makes you think that?

Dr Bashir: It’s because you look remarkable!