Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan

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Cake day: April 25th, 2026

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  • Japan sells both an international version and a domestic version which is language-locked (and region-locked?) and I don’t think can get support outside of Japan. Pretty sure it will only work with a Japanese Nintendo account which, at least in the past, only worked with a Japanese credit card, though I’m not sure that’s true anymore. I don’t think it’s worth the hassle.



  • The early '90s felt really hopeful to me growing up in the US. Berlin wall fell and Germany re-united, the USSR broke apart, technology was advancing, the promise of the internet, etc. I also wasn’t out on my own in the early part of the '90s, though, so there is certainly some things I wasn’t experiencing nor aware of. It’s not to say things were perfect at all. I don’t know that I ever felt that hope for the future again.

    All that to say, this meme has basically always been around is generally accurate.