Wandering Adventure Party

@DripDripDrip@vivaldi.net Even as a non-Spanish (+variants) speaker, I can hear the difference.

Getting my wife the ROG Ally with the dock ended up being a good idea because, not only can she play games on a TV, she can watch Crunchy Roll too.

When I go to a Mexican restaurant in San Diego, I always preface it with “I’m from Canada—sorry for my bad Spanish pronunciation.”They always smile and are understanding. Because they get it. I don’t come across Spanish in my daily life.

@scottag When you order dim sum, are you attentive to Cantonese tonal accuracy—all nine of them?

Looks like Stadia all over again. Netflix is removing 22% of its games library. https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-games/netflix-to-remove-over-20-mobile-games-including-monument-valley-trilogy-and-hades/

@MishaVanMollusq Taco Centro.

@rob Pretty high, and the commute on top of it is rough.

OH NO THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US!!!

@rob Out of curiosity, how much is the rent?

Really wish I could go to Tijuana, but being a Canadian, I know it would be trouble coming back to San Diego.

@Wolf We were there yesterday. She complained about how expensive it was.

I can’t convince my wife to go to a Chinese restaurant in San Diego.

@atomicpoet @Lazarou This is CLEAR EVIDENCE that our strain of humanity evolved on a planet orbiting a red dwarf star! WHITE PEOPLE ARE ALIENS. Where is my saucer ride home?

Just spoke to a San Diego local who commutes every day to Orange County.Which is a 2.5 hour round trip.This is how people want to live?

Went to San Diego’s pan-Asian neighbourhood, browsed a local music shop—this is what I found weird:It only had K-pop. There was no J-pop, nor V-pop, nor Cantopop. What’s more, none of the people who worked there were Korean. They were Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. They all loved the pop music of their respective cultures. And yet, the only thing they were allowed to sell—in this pan-Asian neighbourhood—was K-pop. So I asked why that was. And apparently, their shop is some kind of pilot project to assess the feasibility of “Asian music”—and they’re convinced Americans only have an appetite for K-pop.

Here’s what genuinely surprises me:San Diego has an incredibly diverse ethnic population, and an equally incredible opportunity for cultural exchange. But you’re not really going to get that with a bunch of disconnected strip malls that are only accessible by car.

Now spent 5 days in San Diego. Trying to make the most of it but… it depresses me. The car-centrism. The endless strip malls. The sheer genericism. So much of what is actually unique about this place—it feels like the powers-that-be try to stamp it out.

Playing Tomb Raider Remastered I • II • III on Steam Deck.Two things I like: 1. Tank controls are default, but modern controls are an option2. You can switch back and forth from the graphical remaster to original low-poly on the fly by pressing “Start”This is a landmark game but the original really didn’t age well. I’m not a fan of remasters simply for their own sake, but Tomb Raider really needed it.

@MishaVanMollusq Okay, Little Saigon is interesting but I’m going to have to research it more because every time I try to go to a notable attraction in San Diego, it turns out to be a strip mall.

Told my wife, if I had my way, I’d dress more dapper. She said, “Yeah, but then you’d look uncomfortable, and seeing you uncomfortable makes me uncomfortable—it’s upsetting.”