These comments are pretty all over the place. Still, you remind me of a friend of mine from an MMO so I’ll just say, yeah, it sucks. I recommend online communites, since you sound lonely.

Play video games or something. At least when you’re a “loser” you’ve got the asset of free time before you die. That and according to another comment, you’re sober which is a good thing. There really isn’t a meaning to life, nobody is keeping score, and you really can just do what you want to do.

It’s a game in my todo list, but pretty low on that list. Actually, speaking to getting closer to that design, you’d think 20XX (and I guess 30XX but I didn’t play) gets even closer. It certainly scratched my MMX itch in an interesting way.

There’s something nice about not having daily rewards or gacha or always online DRM. Just me and my team. I probably wouldn’t do Blue every year, but a healthy return to 90s gaming is refreshing.

Funny, during my break I hijacked my two year old’s tablet to play Pokemon Blue that I snuck on there when we prepped it for our family trip. Initially I just didn’t want her becoming a tablet zombie kid, but I can confirm that playing through Pokemon Blue during the holidays indeed takes you to a happier place.

Oh, a lovely game and so is it’s sequel. I recently gave a spare copy to a student of mine, too, so it was on my mind when I read this post. Enjoy!

Everything pork belly is good, of course (although nothing beats my inlaws’ homemade pork belly). Okinawa cuisine is inspired largely by Chinese cuisine, so that sets it apart from the main island-- pork being the big thing. There’s also US military influence so you get some interesting hybrids like Taco Rice, or Spam and Bittermelon (Okinawa has it’s own type that’s different than the Chinese kind).

Sweets, hard to say. Purple yam is their specialty crop but it’s more novel then anything. I’m more partial to the milk flavor, which the small town of Nanjo is known for (although I wouldn’t go just for that). I have found very rich brown sugar and fresh pineapple to be very good, too, I think grown locally.

Hope that helps, as always quality varies place to place and usually the best places are off the usual tourist areas.

Edit: oh I also just remembered a place that has a deep fryer in the middle of the table and it’s like Korean BBQ but with a deep fryer. Now that was a unique experience, lol.

Oh snap, that looks lovely. I’m in Okinawa for the holidays myself, this might give me some ideas.

What blows my mind is MS fucking bought Skype and somehow Teams still can’t handle video calls correctly. The actual fuck did they do with that acquisition?