Little Things That Make You Smile 7: The Joy Department

[Asura]

Quite literally a little thing that made me smile...

We recently got into the Disney Lorcana TCG, and out of some boosters, I got one of the top foil rare cards in the game which on eBay is, no ****, going for perhaps £200, with a minimum of £100.

Whacked that straight on eBay.

[Yakumo]

Looking swarve as a Ken

->Open Spoiler<-

[Colin]

Was cleaning a cupboard out today that we're about to remodel and found such random stuff in there, including a full set of Topps Batman trading cards from 1989 that have somehow avoided the bin for over thirty years.

[dataDave]

I was thinking about those Batman cards just the other day!

Also Garbage Pail Kids. Been telling my son about those and showing him JPGs. He’s well into it, but unfortunately we can’t have nice stuff in 2023.

[Atticus]

I still have a full set of the original Garbage Pail Kids cards from the mid 80s ... I should put them in a folder or something

[Golgo]

My spectacular dumbness. I got some PS5 Pulse headphones expecting to be blown away by the '3D' locational sound. After 90 minutes of Remnant 2 combat that found me spinning the wrong way to audio cues, I was left befuddled, underwhelmed, and with a pounding headache. Then realised I had them on the wrong way round.

[Yakumo]

My spectacular dumbness. I got some PS5 Pulse headphones expecting to be blown away by the '3D' locational sound. After 90 minutes of Remnant 2 combat that found me spinning the wrong way to audio cues, I was left befuddled, underwhelmed, and with a pounding headache. Then realised I had them on the wrong way round.

To be fair, Remnant 2's directional audio is misleading even when your set-up is correct. Sometimes enemies in front of me sound like they're coming from behind. It's quite annoying having to look behind myself all the time just in case.
The game is tough enough without misleading audio.

[Colin]

Had an incredible business weekend and sold 750 tickets to our next beer festival in a matter of hours. Delighted that my old mate from my London days [MENTION=3822]fuse[/MENTION] will be heading to Scotland for it next year as well as [MENTION=8265]CMcK[/MENTION] coming for a second year.

[Wools]

BBC Radio 6 Music.

It’s just so perfect and diverse. If you were like me and for the past decade just listened to new music through playlists on Spotify or Apple, download the BBC Sounds App and when you fancy, tune in. So much great music and I’m constantly noting tracks where I’m like; I’ve never heard of them before!

Radio continues to be a better curator of new music than Music Apps.

[Golgo]

Got my ancient - maybe 30 years old - Seiko 'Perpetual Calendar' working again after several feckless watch repairers refused to touch it for being too finicky and complicated and time-consuming and too easy to break the circuit board. Found an excellent Youtube vid which showed how you need to 're-program' the calendar day, month, year and leap year by repeatedly shorting the plus side of the battery against various microscopic contacts on the circuit board. I thought, I'm blind as a bat and I'll probably **** this up but I got nothing to lose here, and it worked a treat.

[randombs]

After a gruelling four-hour wait at Tokyo immigration, I got my Japanese permanent resident card today

[briareos_kerensky]

Congrats! Does that entitle you to a Japanese passport?

[Anpanman]

Not sure but I don't think so, I could be wrong but unless you give up your citizenship you can't become Japanese, or in other words you can't be dual nationality as an adult.

[importaku]

After nearly a year after the council gave us the official deadline and told us we have to leave this place finally been offered somewhere new to live so i can leave this black mould ridden dump of a towerblock. Nice area too, central bus routes to getting to both town & arcade club. A pretty much brand new refurbished 2 bedroom bungalow, just have to get through the horror of moving everything now it's gonna take ages as i can't lift anything heavy gonna need to hire proper removal people i think.

But i'm glad that we can escape and it's close to the health centre for mum, now will also have an extra room we didn't have before as it has a dining room but i see that more as a hobby craft/gaming extra room. Nobody needs a room to sit and eat, least i no longer have to battle the 190 flats in these 3 blocks that all have to move out and fight for places to live like we do, there's very little places to move to around here that isn't another ghetto council towerblock or really rough part of leeds so we got very lucky.

Finally something going right in my cursed life.

[randombs]

Congrats! Does that entitle you to a Japanese passport?

Thanks! It's not a passport, but I can:

1) stay in Japan regardless of my employment status
2) do any job, not just what my Engineering work visa allowed
3) freely change my job without informing immigration each time
4) kiss goodbye to visa renewals (I'll renew the card every seven years, but there's no paperwork involved)
5) get the same interest rate on a mortgage as a Japanese national

(I think a spouse visa also gives you perks 1-3, but I just stayed on my work visa)