Max Brooks
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My name is Max, English teacher in Japan, lover of video games, RPGs and miniature painting.
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The Feel of Nagasaki
My sleep schedule is fixed! I went to bed at 23:00 on Sunday and woke up at 7:00 rested and energised. Unfortunately, I had a little cat sleeping on me who refused to be moved meaning I still had to lie in bed for half an hour until she allowed me to get up to shower.
By Max Brooksabout 12 hours ago in Wander
Back To Work
My wife believes wholeheartedly that the week starts on Sunday, however I cannot abide by that and begin the first full week of 2026 on Monday the 5th of January, the last day of the winter break. We originally plan to drink some energy drinks and power through from 1:00 AM all the way through to the evening in order to fix our sleep schedules which have been ravaged by two weeks of no routines or outside influences.
By Max Brooks15 days ago in Humans
37 Yen Coffee, How Bad Can It Be?
I am not a coffee drinker. I tried y'know, I really did. But alas, it is not the drink for me. Unfortunately my parents, in-laws, colleagues and most of my students all love coffee. Until recently I was getting my energy through caffeine pills, Monster energy drinks and power-metal blaring through my headphones loud enough that my phone starts sending me health warnings.
By Max Brooks7 months ago in Feast
Oh my God I've been here a year
Okay. It's taken about a year but I think it's finally sunk in. I live in Japan. ... No. Still hasn't sunk in, this still feels surreal. Every so often I'll look out my office window that has an absolutely breathtaking view across the bay, or be walking to work and look up and see hawks circling in the sky and the first thing I'll think is "Holy shit, I live here.".
By Max Brooks3 years ago in Wander
I was never going to buy Hogwarts Legacy …
I’ve been wanting to get this off my chest for a few days. It’s about Hogwarts Legacy so if you're tired of hearing about the "wizard game" don't read. It's fine, honestly you deserve the break because it has been everywhere. But the people buying it have been being very, very weird about it.
By Max Brooks3 years ago in Gamers
SWAT the Hell?
I'm back on the Halo Wagon. 343 Industries released the tokusatsu themed TROOPER armour for Halo 2 Anniversary, and anyone who knows me knows that I want my grubby weeb hands all over them. But before I can make my dream Kamen Rider and start gunning people down to RealxEyez I first need to earn enough Spartan Points to buy the damn things.
By Max Brooks3 years ago in Gamers
Going back to Nagasaki
From September 2015 - June 2016 I was a foreign exchange student at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies in Japan. In September of 2019 I was living in Stirling with my girlfriend, herself a former student there. We would marry each other in December of the following year, in a very small and very hectic ceremony before she headed home to her parents’ for Christmas.
By Max Brooks3 years ago in Journal
The Black Library Samplers (Part 2)
I'd originally wanted to just write one article about the Games Workshop Black Library Samplers that they give you for free to get you hooked on literature. However, I realised I had a little more to say than I thought I did about the 2021 Black Library Celebration book.
By Max Brooks4 years ago in Geeks
