 Snestrunk Welcome back to Snestrunk plays magic sword And since there's not a whole lot going in the going on in the game, you know, just the same old stuff of dancing skeletons Hacking and slashing and all that good stuff. Let's do story time with with snestrunk one more time My allergies are crazy today Um So I apologize if I sound a little weird I recorded the first episode and then something came up and I had to resume recording today, so That's why I sound different and more allergy if you have a diamond rink rink what? Oh, that's a beeping sound is so pleasant. Oh, I just wish I could hear that in my dreams Don't like the ninja. This guy's much better. Hey Yeah, let's stick with the ninja. He's goofy looking. There we go Away with you beeping noise. Anyway um, oh Wow, my guy leveled up or changed somehow Strange. Oh, I didn't know that stuff could actually kill you weird anyway, um It was around this time of year when I'm recording right now that I'm recording in the middle of May But it was around this time. I think five years ago when my friends and I went to Japan I don't know if that's five years ago six years ago, but um If you've never been to Japan or Tokyo It is the closest you can get to being on another planet while still being on this planet, especially if you're From America if you're from the United States hell even if I'm sure if you're from Europe or whatever Australia it's probably just as just as freaking weird Anyway, yeah, I had an opportunity. My friend was going anyway He'd been there before he'd been to Tokyo before and he was gonna go back. He speaks the language fluently and he was gonna go back. Wow, that is a really short level and And Open the treasure chest with gear Gare Gary Garrett Yeah, he was going back. So he asked me if I wanted to come with and I said, yeah What am I ever gonna get the chance to go to Japan again with a native speaker? So I had a I think I ended up getting a huge Bonus not bonus, but tax return or something like that our renters refund that year that went entirely toward this Tokyo trip so or so I was like I'm gonna spend it on airfare and Train ticket there was another I forget how much that cost it was really expensive to get It was a pat we were there for like 12 days. I think 11 or 12 days and the So the train passes a few hundred bucks Totally worth it. The train system there is absolutely amazing. I So wish we had something like that in the United States. It would be just the greatest Nobody drives there if you drive you there's no there's no signs telling you where you are or where to go or anything Does that say let's Murray? weird We had a boss fight here Oh Anyway, yeah, the train system there it does take a few days to To figure out understand what where the hell you're going. We stayed in a region called Takeda, Nobaba at a youth hostel There are people from all over the world staying there most people spoke English But yeah, Japan is very very intimidating It's not even the people at the airport who are supposed to help you know how to speak English other than this way and Your bags, you know, just very simple phrases like they don't Understand like nobody there speaks English outside of a few a few words So if you go to if you go to Japan highly recommend you go with somebody that knows how to speak the language There's no way I would have survived without my friend who speaks very well. In fact natives there were like wow your accent is Incredible like you're doing some random white guy That's the other thing about Japan is people will if you're a white dude help your black dude I made sure to make my hair was really long back then it was down to my shoulders And I kept it that way specifically for Japan. I wanted to get as many stairs as I possibly could Be careful Yeah, I remember one day we were wandering around aimlessly in this town not not sure where to go and I think school just let out. We were happened to be walking past like a middle school Yeah, they're continue happen to be walking past this middle school and kids just like stop and stared and laughed at us like they and According to these few kids. We were the first white people they'd ever seen. I was just the dragon My boredom, but what were you doing before I got here just sitting there? Oh It's another Griffin thingy didn't I already fight this guy Yeah So yeah, it's Japan is very very. It's our first night there. We got there It's like a 15 hour flight or something like that was longer than that We Got there. Wow that was fat. Oh, I thought I killed him already we got there and It was really it was like I think already 10 30 or 11 o'clock at night People all over the streets just wandering around I guess there's a college where our hostel was and so it's all like college-age kids goofing off and doing stuff And we our hostel was like locked up. There was nobody there. Everybody was out for the night I guess so we had no way of getting in and we had no way we weren't very keen on waiting around because we were so freaking exhausted from From the flight kind of slow down is ridiculous here so what we decided to do was We got a taxi and we told him take us to like a hotel or something The cheapest one you got these and he I guess you know speak Japanese is talking to my friend Game over What? Used up all my continues. You know what you can do though. You can say fuck that boss and let's just Let's just skip to the 13th floor. Fuck it. I want to keep playing Okay, whatever. Anyway, yeah, we took a cab and my friend asked the cab driver just take us where there's a hotel He said I know just the place I guess and he dropped us off at what's called the capsule hotel And that was the most surreal experience of my life probably because We finally destroyed no you didn't you liar or just skipped past him That's funny this game makes you a liar No, your guy stays leveled up to he's at level three and he died he disappeared what a bunch of bullshit Um Anyway, yeah, we went to a capsule hotel and It's so strange. We went to the front desk there's a lot of people there waiting in line to talk to people and get a capsule for the night and The capsule is basically like a casket, but it's open at the feet. It's like a tube you sleep in There's like TV. There's a TV that's propped in there You put you put yen in there you put coins in there and it you can watch TV in your capsule It is it's really weird I Slept for about four hours and woke up like where the fuck am I? But yeah at the front desk We got a right. I should say I got it my welcome to Japan In the form of I should probably get a companion, huh? Thank you. You're welcome. Um, the uh, I Got that thing finally died Actually can actually kill those things I learned the the front desk The area by the front desk is like hardwood floor But the area to walk into the building was I don't know like regular floor I guess and you're supposed to have your shoes off For regular how am I supposed to get past this? The the area by the You know you're supposed to take your shoes off your hardwood floor I didn't know that so everybody was staring at me aggressively and my friend was like dude shoes shoes I'm like what the fuck you talking about and I noticed there's a place for you to put your shoes So I take it I take off my shoes and then when I go into you know, we get our room It's It's uh You're I forget to put my shoes back on there's a place where there's normal floor. I guess it's also arbitrary and Yeah, and though everybody in the whole place is staring at me like the front desk people are giving me looks Shoes shoes put your shoes on. I'm like Jesus fuck I'm coming up to the end of the episode so I'll keep lathering about our first night in Japan next time Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your day. What's what's the what's he gonna say here? Let's go and be careful good advice