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That’s the one! Dang COVID. So many fish left in the sea they could have caught!

I also just remembered:

Working!! / Wagnaria!! (restaurant)

Do It Yourself!! (DIY project club)

Hanasaku Iroha (hot spring / traditional hotel)

Some I like that I don’t often see mentioned:

Supercub (motor bikes)

Silver Spoon (farming)

Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (fishing)

I still have clear memories of trying to download the huuuuuuge 20MB install and a phone call ruining it when it was almost done. All that time, wasted. I think of that every time my phone is now downloading apps updates that are around 90MB in a few seconds.

I miss the excitement of going 14.4>28.8>36.6k baud and 2x>4x>8x CD ROM drives where each update was very noticeable. Nowadays I do the majority of my computer stuff on my phone, so a bit of the magic is gone.

The last PC I got was a hand me down my old boss gave me that he built for playing Flight Simulator. I think I had it for at least 10 years. It had Vista on it, but sometime in the last couple years I put Mint on it.

I used it originally to play World of Tanks until something broke on it, I think the wireless card, and I fixed that. After that it served as a media PC to stream things. Now it mostly collects dust as my phone is powerful enough for 90% of my computing, and anything more fancy I’ll use my work laptop or the wife’s PC we get like 4 years ago when she went back to college.

I also use an ancient Walmart grade HP laptop that takes like 5 minutes to boot and has no battery to play with synth and piano VSTs hooked up to my piano.

I’ve wanted a used PC for a bit, maybe a Mac Mini as I hear they’re better for audio, but I’ve never gotten around to it.

Same here.

I was in college in the late 90s and remember being in Intro to Business. One of the exercises we had was something about looking at a list of applicants and choosing who to hire. The teacher had looked over everything and got disgusted and read a bunch of replies in front of the class. The answers were basically all about who seemed to be the most exploitable at the advantage of the fictional company, ie who would work overtime they didn’t want to but they had family to support, etc. He couldn’t believe that people were looking at business that heartlessly.

It really gave me a bit to think about, and I remember that more than anything else from that class, but it seems a lot of others really felt they were on to something, since that seems to be how things played out. Maybe my teacher was too idealistic or this was still just Reagan era economic policy kicking in, but it does feel like this is the kind of business world we’ve built since then.