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Posted March 17, 2011
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xa_chan: Ha, yes, Gunma is closer to the disaster area, that's true. You might also feel more afterquakes than people in Tokyo, right?

I have the same feeling: buying things to keep my mind off the whole matter. Too bad I don't have enough money for that for the moment...

Yes, we are not effected by power cuts in Osaka for the moment. Doesn't prevent chain mails to announce it... I guess there are dumb people everywhere, who will deliberately believe more in a chainmail written by somebody they don't know than in official statements because, come on, everybody knows governments and corporations are nothing but liars...
Hard to tell if we feel more aftershocks or not, after all Tokyo do have larger buildings and the higher you are, the more you'll feel. And what with the wind blowing around (I really hate that wind) it's hard to tell if any shaking, rattling is due to the wind of a mild tremor. Still, certainly did feel another shock yesterday evening.

I also don't really have the money to buy stuff, but when I see an exchange rate of 78 yen to the dollar, I don't care. I put an item on the credit card and work out how to pay for it next month (and I always pay the credit card in full). In the end I went ahead and purchased a game for $50 (3930 odd yen at the time) today, same game would be 4070 odd and who knows what the yen will do next.

And I heard about those chain mails. How stupid some people are =/

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RangerSolo: Don't believe the hype.

Here in Kanagawa Zushi. Power is off now and will be off again later on tonight. Twice a day for my area. Unless we get spared.
We were spared the double power cut when it was our turn for them earlier in the week. But we did have the power cut yesterday and may lose it between 3:20 and 7pm tonight.
Posted March 17, 2011
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xa_chan: everybody knows governments and corporations are nothing but liars...
Although it seems preposterous—at first—to trust chain mail more than the Japanese government; I have never received a chain letter trying to convince me World War II didn't happen.
Posted March 17, 2011
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bansama: Yeah, it really isn't helping. Thanks to the Embassy's new advice and all these claims of "apocalypse" (puh-lease!) my folks are urging me to leave, my wife wants to stay put, my children are too young to understand any of it... We've both got jobs we can't really easily take time out from and it's not like we could leave anytime soon anyhow -- my wife's passport expired about a month ago and she still hasn't had time to apply for a new one.

I wouldn't mind leaving now just so that people would stop urging me to leave/stay/pretend nothing's happened, etc. I mean, we can only take so much of it before stress kicks in. And wouldn't it be far better to spend all that media time and speculation on the more important problems; all those people who don't have a roof, who have even less food than we/Tokyo do, who are still searching for loved ones.... This power plant stuff really shouldn't be the center of attention anymore. There are certainly enough qualified experts ready to help deal with anything that happens so let them concentrate on that without all the scaremongering.
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xa_chan: I couldn't have said better! Except that for me, stress is already kickin' it, thanks to french news and my mother who is on the verge of totally freaking out and my japanese wife who doesn't understand why we all make so much a fuss about all that when we (common citizens) can't do anything about it...

And I'm in Osaka! I don't want to imagine how it would be if I was living in Tokyo...
Yes! these are exactly my feelings, too. The stress put on me from outside media, family and friends is at least as worse as the situation itself (in Tokyo).
I am so happy I am not the only one with this feelings.
down to the "Buy games to distract myself" thing.

You really helped me guys!

My Wife has a brick&mortar job and cannot leave easily. I work on the internet for a Geman Magazine so I can go everywhere where is internet.
But I also working on my doctoral thesis though, so I cannot earn enough money to support us both.

Anyway we are going to Osaka over the weekend until Monday just to get out of Tokyo for awhile. Meet with friends and decide.
My Wife is determined to come back to Tokyo.
Post edited March 18, 2011 by dyscode
Posted March 18, 2011
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dyscode: Anyway we are going to Osaka over the weekend until Monday just to get out of Tokyo for awhile. Meet with friends and decide.
Escaping to Osaka sounds like a good idea. Not something we're able to do right now. Perhaps it's time I try to find a better paying job. I used to earn almost twice what I do now but that's the problem of choosing to work for a very tiny company I guess -- sure it allows me to work from home (or anywhere with net access) and thus actually see my children, but it came at the price of a drop in money. Seemed like a good choice at the time, not so much now.

Anyway, as you say, it *is* good to hear that others are feeling the same and it does help.

Enjoy Osaka and recharge your batteries =)

I'll be spending some of the weekend playing Plants vs. Zombies with my eldest I think. She's taken a liking to that and now keeps running around the house shouting "brains!" >_>

May have to consider buying another copy direct from Popcap so she can play it in Japanese...
Post edited March 18, 2011 by bansama
Posted March 18, 2011
It's odd now that I think about it.

Didn't know so many of us are in Japan together.
Posted March 18, 2011
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RangerSolo: It's odd now that I think about it.

Didn't know so many of us are in Japan together.
Heh, true!

dyscode> arf, too bad it's on such a short notice, I'd have loved to meet a fellow GOGer in Osaka! ^_^ If it's still time to plan something, let me know!
Posted March 18, 2011
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TVs_Frank: She's a fake, guys.

Was trying to gain notoriety for a comedy deal.

Then the death threats came....

She deleted her account and went into hiding.

She should have figured 4chan was big anime fans, eh?
I thought she was just doing it in irony to be a smart ass because this is the type of stuff that's usually rammed down everyone's throats.
Posted March 18, 2011
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RangerSolo: It's odd now that I think about it.

Didn't know so many of us are in Japan together.
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xa_chan: Heh, true!
I was pleasantly surprised either.

dyscode> arf, too bad it's on such a short notice, I'd have loved to meet a fellow GOGer in Osaka! ^_^ If it's still time to plan something, let me know!
hey xa_chan
that would be coo, acutallyl!
you can safely contact me over my website contact. and everybody else who feels invited :)
www.dyscode.com
Post edited March 18, 2011 by dyscode
Posted March 18, 2011
Just got the time table for the next round of power cuts over the three-day weekend. We're scheduled for two cuts on both Sunday and Monday =/
Posted March 18, 2011
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bansama: Just got the time table for the next round of power cuts over the three-day weekend. We're scheduled for two cuts on both Sunday and Monday =/
just hope it helps anything with cooling those damn plants.
Posted March 18, 2011
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dyscode: just hope it helps anything with cooling those damn plants.
While I hope it would, But I think those plants are pretty much lost already. The sooner TEPCO admit that, the sooner they can really sort the situation out.
Posted March 18, 2011
Watch this video

http://www.abc.es/20110318/internacional/abci-video-conductor-graba-tsunami-201103181100.html
Posted March 18, 2011
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xa_chan: Heh, true!
I was pleasantly surprised either.

dyscode> arf, too bad it's on such a short notice, I'd have loved to meet a fellow GOGer in Osaka! ^_^ If it's still time to plan something, let me know!
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dyscode: hey xa_chan
that would be coo, acutallyl!
you can safely contact me over my website contact. and everybody else who feels invited :)
www.dyscode.com
Message sent! ^_^

bansama> unfortunately, it seems that some people in charge start to think about burying the whole thing "the Chernobyl way"...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110318
Posted March 18, 2011
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xa_chan: snip
Well they better make up their minds quickly for the sake of those workers who are pretty much killing themselves to try and rescue the situation.
Post edited March 18, 2011 by bansama
Posted March 18, 2011
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dyscode: hey xa_chan
that would be coo, acutallyl!
you can safely contact me over my website contact. and everybody else who feels invited :)
www.dyscode.com
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xa_chan: Message sent! ^_^

bansama> unfortunately, it seems that some people in charge start to think about burying the whole thing "the Chernobyl way"...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110318
Really bad.. What about the waterbearing stratum? And how to prevent explosions?
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