tiredofsametab

Fully mine? 286SX16 IIRC, followed by an Amiga 500. Shared would be a Vic 20 followed by a C64.

The forecast doesn't have them blooming for a couple weeks yet.

I've drunk with some people who did voice acting of animes here in Japan. They generally work a lot and don't get compensated nearly well enough. Salaries here are generally lower than somewhere like the US, but people in entertainment and arts often have a rough time.

Mine does :) it's gone for a swim once when it slid out of it's case. My bath has a shelf in front so it's generally not over the actual water

It mostly gets used to watch YouTube during my nightly bath and when I'm traveling.

Smartphone is my least common choice. PC most of the time, smart tv for YouTube, tablet, then phone.

Gamestop was a much-lampooned company with awful practices and many a horror story from employees and customers alike. I found it gross that the internet would rally behind such a company and never understood the whole thing (aside from the people with neither shame nor ethics wanting to make a buck).

True. They also mention the person's rural upbringing and then moving to the city. That mirrors my experience and my hearing issues pre-date using noise canceling headphones. I always had a rough time anywhere there were lots of people and noise, but it just wasn't super common previously (I grew up in rural Ohio and have lived in some big US cities.followed by nearly a decade in Tokyo).

Did the boomboxes-next-to-heads and the walkmans of the '80s and discmans of the '90s not count? I think a lot of game boy users also used headhpones.

I actually didn't use them that much at all, but I still have trouble hearing with background noise. Noise-cancelling headphones have actually been an amazing thing in my life because (a) it helps overstimulation and anxiety and (b) it actually helps me hear someone talking to me because it filters out the other stuff. I suspect my problems are a combination of mostly-neurological (ADHD and probably (though not officially) ASD) and maybe impacted by loud concerts and general aging-related stuff. I can still hear really high-pitched sounds and the like whereas many of my peers around my age and younger can't as well, but it's all mud to me when there's a lot of sound.

Just as a reminder, it's also good to ask "is there any big disadvantage?". Sometimes, a thing evolves traits that don't help but don't cause enough harm to stop being passed on.

6 pro has it show up most of the time I look. I've never tried to use it to play/buy music so no idea on that front.

I shop at Costco Japan and I have a feeling the chicken I (soon to be used to) buy comes from the US. Thankfully, the bacon and pork are local or Canadian, the fish local, and I think the cheese is from Korea. Definitely changing my shopping habits.