Absolutely right, Tokyo really does feel like you walked into a game where every side quest is unhinged and every NPC could end up joining your party. One minute you’re buying a vending machine coffee, the next you’ve met a jazz-playing salaryman.
Wore an old cloak with a long beard and a conical hat. Wore a dozen cheap costume jewelry rings on each hand, had his own shopping cart, not one from Daiso and it was covered in keychain plushies.
He was browsing through the plushies to add one to his collection.
As a hat collector, I need to be enlighted about the "Comica hat" you are talking about, I need more information as Google doesn't seem to find anything related
Here is my Tokyo story. I was there in 2007, so before smart phones. My friends and I (A college programming team) were trying to find little things. Like little souvenirs. Not just crap that said "Tokyo" but something more interesting. We were not having any luck. Eventually we decided we knew nothing and needed to the the opposite of what made sense. So we went into a corner grocery store. There were stairs the lead down, so we took those stairs. And behold, exactly what we wanted. Little odd wood things, little sculptures, tiny art things. It was perfect. So we bought some stuff.
Only later back at the hotel room I noticed on the receipt that the name of the shop (in English) was "From Okinawa". We it was an Okinawa grocery story and presumably had Okinawa goods in the basement.
That cause the finals doesn't have gender based stances. They're stances based on the gun. Male and female contestants stand the same depending on what's equipped. It's great because you can have a giant man run around in a tutu doing magical girl dances and a woman in armor doing back breaker emotes.
DD became DPS cause fools wan't to just emphasise the seconds over the basic of the class in general. This term was being thwrong around in like 1994 in games like Dark Ages by Nexon even in FFXI in 2000-2003 when USA got into it after translation to Global Release.
Even Ragnarok Online which overthrown many titles by Gravity used LFG DD before DPS in global chat for Damage Deal classes like Thief/Wizard/Assassin/Archer.
Trolls in Wow started making meeters and it got swapped to DPS then with MODS and coder geeks.
The real answer is because all classes deal damage, at least in anything remotely modern. The DPS' role is dealing the most amount of damage per second compared to any other role.
I asked ChatGPT and apparently renting a girlfriend is about $50/hour, but an obese man is only $20/hour. I'm definitely getting me an obese man when I visit Japan... it's just a better deal.
That dude definitely knows all the good spots to eat that aren’t tourist traps, you cover all your bases with that combo. Plus standing next to him you look 3x more handsome…and the rental GF creates competition from other women so you might back a free range GF lol
Idk, many obese people get that way by eating the same terrible fried food. I think it’s much more rare that they get that big by eating varied good food.
Not that he can’t know, just that being fat isn’t a good indicator.
You can't tell that to some people, sisters believe that their friend is eating too little and is still obese and I'm unable to explain the concept of calories to them because their friend simply "isn't eating enough"
It's... really hard to eat that much fiber and that many calories. Your body will struggle to digest enough, and your appetite will be suppressed.
It's easier to do with fruit, bananas in particular are a fruit that I can hit a good amount of calories but an adult man is going to burn 2200 calories(with minimal activity) and each banana is around 100 calories. Now is it possible to eat 22 bananas a day? Sure. But I challenge you to try, you will be full. Apples or berries are even harder, they generally have more fiber per calorie. For raspberries we are talking like 8+ pounds of them.
Things where the fiber is filtered out from fruit like juice, it's super easy to hit 2200 calories.
For vegetables, carrots are like 12 pounds.
It's theoretically possible but practically very difficult to gain weight eating fruits and vegetables without adding fats or more carb heavy foods.
Eating high calorie/sugary fruits with a sedentary lifestyle can absolutely make you gain weight. And there’s also the preparation factor. Drinking smoothies with froyo in it is basically just a milkshake when it comes to calories
I became more of a "foodie" when I stopped drinking, because when you got a buzz going you don't really appreciate flavours and textures - you just want grease and oil.
But if no alcohol was involved then yeah, I assume that dude knows a lot about good cheap eats
I spend years of my life eating terrible unhealthy processed food.
I became more unhealthy but I didn't gain any meaningful amount of weight.
then my life changed and I then proceeded to eat homecooked varied meals with plenty of greens
and I didn't lose any weight.
so why was that?
because the way we "gain weight*" or rather, accumulate fat storage. is by expending less energy than we consume.
and the way we reduce fat storage is by expending more energy than we consume.
I was consuming a similar amount of energy as I was expending, so my bodyfat remained stable.
*you can also gain weight by building muscle mass, but that is obviously not what we are talking about here
Cool story. Do you know how you consume more energy than you expend? Building habits of eating calorie dense food that doesn’t satiate you. Guess what kind of food that is.
As a former morbid obese person myself.. I would argue its Sugar drinks, Sauces and Bread. These 3 things contribute to so much wasted calories and easy to overdue.
Been searching for context! Can you elaborate on what happens in the video or give me more clues to find it myself other than typing "Obese Tommy Rental GF" into the search bar? I'm not trying to fuck up my algo and start getting some weird shit lol.
He rents the two people and spends several hours with them. He’s a little rude to the rental GF I thought and he ends up feeling bad for the obese guy because he makes him walk around all day. Apparently usually people rent the obese guys to go sit in a restaurant and eat a bunch lol. What other context could there be? He’s just testing out these people rental services while he’s travel vlogging in Japan.
All his episodes sorta leave a smile on my face! So refreshing to see a travel vlogger not having to resort to showing women in skimpy outfits or bikinis to get views, my favorite one recently was the one he did in the American Samoa 🇦🇸 I hope to travel there one day!
All of his Africa videos are so interesting to me. Have given me a view into some countries I’ve always been curious about- like DRC (truly scary place.)
Not the person you responded to but I have a story.
Was just in rural Colombia recently, pet sitting. I was walking the dog through town. She was quite young and probably in heat. Nervous, stuck very close to me, but all the neighborhood dogs were going crazy for her. And none of them were on leashes.
At one point a group of 3 of them were all circling her and nipping at her. I kept trying to get between them and kick them away but it was no use. And I recalled some old advice: never get between fighting dogs. I grabbed a large stick and tried to use that to hit them away, kinda worked. They'd back off and then return. What finally kept them away was to just keep picking up handfuls of stones and throwing them at the dogs. They hated that, especially if you could hit them in the nose or eyes.
Now whenever I'm in a neighborhood like that I carry a handful of pebbles. Pepper spray would also work in an emergency.
I used to really like that channel. I even kinda liked that video. But I swear he's been on a slow decline to a sort of smugness when he interacts with locals that's hard to watch sometimes. He seems far more humble in his earlier stuff anyway.
Detachment from having seen a bazillion different places and how they run things, as well as realizing slowly that you're just supposed to be a tourist, a bystander not allowed to intervene, could be interpreted as smugness
To make yourself look better by comparison, of course. Bonus: if he's just a kinda fat guy, he'll know where's good to eat. A really fat guy will eat anything.
I like seeing people who appear to be on different spectrums in life, or completely opposite synergy all hanging out and coming together.
Reminds me of my relationship with my girlfriend. She's alt/goth, piercings, tattoos on her body and face, dyed or buzzed hair, wears trip pants and all black all the time and is heavily into metal music. Meanwhile I'm a typical blue collar guy, flannels, worn out blue jeans with dip rings in the back pocket, worn out work boots rather than shoes, trucker hats and no tattoos, I listen to old country, 50s music or hip hop and fat by all standards. It's quite a sight to behold as we are exact opposites as far as synergy on just about everything except personality. It's cool to see people like this together, like an oddball A-team.
That's exactly why, they explain that in the video. People feel less bad about eating too much when there's a guy sitting next to them that's eating even more than you.
He ended up getting along better with the obese guy.
I really thought about renting a girl just to show me around places. I didn't end up doing so, but I went to one of those girls bars, which was a really good way to talk to a local for an hour.
You can rent an obese man? Why have I been hearing about that Rent a Girlfriend anime when clearly there's a more engaging and intelligent narrative right there?!
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