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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
To what end?
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No love for Amiga on the Nova?
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seattle was non-stop 90s/00s movie banter.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a lot more problem gambling in China than is documented IMO. Online credit-based gambling through Vietnamese and Filipino casinos with Mainland thugs who come threaten you at your job. Seems weirdly common in my personal experience.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I feel like you are getting a little paranoid about this. My wife is from Irkutsk Oblast and about a 45 minute drive from where the incident happened. She and her Mom (who still lives there) talk every day. Russian social media is actively talking about it and it's all memes and jokes.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had a similar thought recently reflecting on why so many of my friends and I went into food and beverage. The instant gratification of providing good service can really be great and hard to replicate. Most of us are in production or corp mgmt now but the face-to-face stuff developed certain skills
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is good stuff. Long-time viewer. I really appreciate how incisive your analysis is on this seemingly complicated topic. Very rare for anyone to go straight to collective bargaining for college athletes when that is so obviously the end game of these NIL shenanigans.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hell yeah
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's the definitive set. Looks great. New expanded subtitles are even better than the old Madman ones. Great booklet. Nice to have new versions and subs of all the shorts too. Radiance is really crushing it.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The upscaling on the disc looks great. They did a fantastic job with a tricky source.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is me but with second hand enterprise 16TB hard drives.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Have you even looked at CGTN? It's like if Russia Today had the energy and forcefulness of midwest daytime news that 50 people watched on YouTube. And that's their best stuff!
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have had many friends who have worked in various positions within foreign bound messaging of the Chinese government. The true target audience of Chinese propaganda is a middle manager who doesn't speak English but fills out a spreadsheet saying this much text or video content was published.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As a long-term Beijing resident, this is probably the most perceptive "just came back from China" article I've read since the pandemic. Very thorough for such a short piece.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Looks great, but my setup needs wireless.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Chinese malls have become super weird. I go to a giant rock climbing gym in an old shitty mall. Last month I got lost in a newer mall basement looking for a taproom. Endless corridors of hobby shops. Warhammer, anime, Magic, jigsaw puzzles, etc. Found the taproom across from another taproom.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I love the new color grading. The dream sequences in particular are stunning.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is this on 1.5.0 or a nightly build? Just updated to 1.5.0 and don't see this option. The damn thing just works exactly as I need it so I stopped paying attention to firmware developments. Better fonts would be nice though.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Been brewing this one for almost a decade but only last year scaled it up for nationwide distribution. Our attempts at getting Otsuka Pharmaceutical to sign on as an official collaborator have not been successful so far, but we ask them annually.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yeah, I can't quit the stuff. If you drink, you should grab my Pocari Sweat beer.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
After they opened the new packaging facility in Tianjin, they changed the formula. The flavor is so off now. Luckily still some old bottles floating around but they are drying up. Considering just buying the powder from Japan for now.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very annoying immigration agents too. So many questions. One time they didn't believe my job was real. Had to pull up the website.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Bulk Rename Utility
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
MKVToolNix
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Commuted by bicycle in Tulsa for a few years. Only like 10 miles a day at most. Absolutely terrifying. Lots of times you need to be on the major roads. People throw trash at you, try and run you off the road, yell slurs. Happy to deal with the nonsense of biking in Beijing any day.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good choice. I bought a Thor earlier this year due to the hype, but the DSi LL still can't be beat for DS games.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I hate to be one of those guys, but this is very easy to find online. I'm personally against anyone profiting off piracy so let me know and I'll send you the 1080p or 4K/HDR file. Whatever Blu-Ray you buy will be worse quality.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Have you not seen the SLUSHi Twist?
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I hope they can turn it around. Got a business trip to Seattle next month and taking a Chinese colleague to the penultimate season game. I promised "meaningful baseball!"
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Kurosawa is probably on the biggest heater now of any working director. So excited for this one.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wow, that's a blast from the past. 220 is an ooooold (and reliable) seller of modified DVD/Blu-Ray players. Out of the box, the Sony players are region-locked. If that's the player you want, I'd definitely trust them to mod it properly.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The X700 is a great mainstream option, but isn't region free and lacks a lot of the features of the GIEC players. I'd only consider the GIEC if you want all the extra features, want to save some money and are willing to put up with janky Chinese software design.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What you want is the GIEC G5300. All the expensive UHD Oppo clones are just rebadges of this guy. Even the ones that cost like $2500. I bought mine for less than $200. Does region free for all discs, external subs, plays full UHD discs over USB/Ethernet.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I just booked a September Beijing-Seattle round trip for $500. Short (overnight) layover in Seoul, but still seems like a good deal.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I run beverage production for a national brand that also operates a restaurant group in Beijing. So I hire a mix of factory labor, lab techs, and stuff like that. Food and beverage industry has been hit particularly hard lately due to poor consumer sentiment and involutionary market behavior.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The economic outlook of the average person is not great right now. People are scared to quit their jobs because there are so so few opportunities available right now if you arent in a key industry. I hire 2/3 times a year and it's insane the high quality candidates I get now for an entry-level job.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's closer to Japan at the end of the Bubble IMO. Overcapacity, aging demographics, inflated real estate market, easy credit, low consumer spending, high youth unemployment, incredible infrastructure (in places), dominating export market, staggering wealth inequality, overworked populace.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
That's more counter space than my current Beijing apartment.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Going to Powell's would have been a dream for 14-year-old me in OK. I ordered most of my second-hand books from there at the time. Got a big gift card from there as my Christmas present that year.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They sell these cheap fancy buckets to capture your tea tray drainage as well. Definitely worth picking up if you want a cleaner setup.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You can see my little dragon and turtle here. Decade-long tea companions at this point.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Education (and marriage) are the only real ways of upgrading your hukou so there's a lot of buy-in into the system for those with university education in my experience. Especially the people I know who graduated from the elite universities here in Beijing.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's also why the emotional character beats often miss the mark. He's at his best when he's juggling a bunch of plot strands in increasingly complex ways. The characters need to be borderline cyphers to make it all digestible. That's why Tenet is his best film and Interstellar is his worst.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Nagisa Oshima hosted a talk show for a few years. I've never seen any clips, but apparently it was quite successful. It was a call-in type show dealing with women's issues. I imagine Mishima would have a spectacular blow-up about some trivial nonsense that would get him booted from the air.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Curious if the Spoon drummer can handle The Rat.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Could never get Game Pass to work because of how shitty the Xbox App and Microsoft Store are. Frozen updates. Games downloading multiple times. Login loops. Removed the Xbox app from my PC because it pissed me off so much. Nuked from orbit with PowerShell commands.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
RIP to Tony Rayns. The greatest film critic to ever live and a man whose work changed my life. Without his countless essays, commentaries, interviews and documentaries I don't think I would have explored so much Chinese cinema as a teenager and felt comfortable moving to Beijing right out of college
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Their skill sets have different levels of rarity at the current moment.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I've never had equipment that properly deals with CEC so I've never really used it. Is it that much of a game changer? I don't mind juggling remotes.
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hipsofjw @hipsofjw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Really enjoying your work on the subtitles for these releases. Opened up lots of interesting questions on localization, but more importantly made movies I've seen a million times feel fresh again.
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