Learning the local word for sorry is really handy! I feel you, my partner and I struggle with the same sometimes. Most people everywhere are patient and polite, and want you to love their country!

Oh shit, you meant not to visit but to relocate to? I think I'd have a different set of answers for longer term; I was thinking for a vacation!

Yeah, lots of LGBT+ culture in Scandinavia, and a fair bit in the rest of western Europe (Paris, London, Zurich come to mind). Though I've spent plenty of time in eastern Asia (and lived near Shanghai), I don't know that scene super well there. I did karaoke with a bunch of gay people in 道頓堀 in Osaka, and it was dope, but not much else.

If you're looking for longer term living outside of NATO, I'd look to some Latin America countries, Oceania, and Switzerland.

If you're looking to just visit, Japan, Scandinavia, most of western Europe are all very easy. A few places I've been are a lot harder language wise, and I don't know that I'd wanna go right to the hard mode that is Shanghai if I hadn't even left the states

I've got a few thoughts, as someone also playing on the lowest difficulty setting (cis ~straight white male, america. (Though ex patting in mere weeks, after years!)):

Japan is an incredible place to be a tourist. Learn a few phrases (すみません、ありがとうございます, etc) and a little culture, be respectful, mind your shoes and manners. You'll do great, and there's SO much to see and appreciate. It's a brilliant culture and society, and so different in lots of ways. Very very safe.

Any Scandinavian country is VERY easy to visit as well. English speaking, easy to get to from the states. See how a proper society can function! (I am biased as a soon-to-be-Danish resident)

I'll write more soon, dinner time for me

This is a great alternative to not crossing the NYT strike line. Really appreciate you posting it!

I loved the game. We put the soundtrack on all the time still. Great art form from Lucas Pope

That was fantastic.

"Past the heart, past the tumor– healthcare gonna be really important this election"

That is brutally tough and fantastic

I was hoping that'd be a Dan video. He has another one about how it's Rude to Suck at Warcraft, which I found enlightening on how things have changed in WoW

Huh. Someone on F1 TV said that it was KMag's last weekend in F1 in Mexico. Maybe it wasn't a slip? Weird

Hope he feels better

Quite good. Sans any real spoilers:

Space is a lot more accessible in the early game, and in space ~~no one can hear you scream ~~ there's a lot more complications than normal, including really turning factory planning and scaling on its head on one planet.

Really mixed it up, much more than the SE mod did (which was good, but just felt like scaling more than unique challenges)

No clue on budget yet :) it's not clear to us how much the move will cost in general

I had considered voltage transformer (or swapping all the 120 internals for 240) but the cost of shipping the unit alone is just prohibitive for us. So new it is!

Ah, gotcha. I knew that was II back there but I didn't recognize Brandon Toews. Thanks!