Muji is a Japanese retail brand known for minimalist household goods, apparel, and stationery. Unlike traditional home goods stores, Muji also offers a rich selection of stationary and art supplies. Muji is renowned for their high performance pens, mechanical pencils, and premium paper notebooks.
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This classic video game brand derives its name from the ancient Japanese board game Go; it means “to hit a target” in Japanese. It created iconic video games such as Pong, Combat, Adventure, and Asteroids.
Shangri-La Frontier[c] is a Japanese web novel series published in 2017, which was adapted into a popular manga in 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by C2C aired in Japan from October 2023 to 2025. An English dub was released on Crunchyroll in 2023 but I didn’t discover it until last week.
The series main character is Rakuro Hizutome who’s in-game handle is Sunraku (サンラク, Sanraku). He’s a Japanese teen in the near-future where fully immersive “full-dive” VR games are played.
The series covers his in-game adventures in a triple-A MMORPG named Shangri-La Frontier with his online and IRL friends.
• Unlike every other Isekai, this series isn’t a reincarnation scenario or a story where the user is “trapped in a video game world”. It’s just a video game, where the players have real lives. Unlike romance video games shows, the video in-game is the main story and the mechanics and play is realistic.
• Realistic gaming details from MMORP and RPG video games like Boss Battle mechanics and combat tactics.
• The hero skips and ignores the tutorial info and missed out on key upgrade mechanics and only learns about these basic game mechanics later at level 40.
• Negatives: Does have Rei Saiga who falls into the Shonen female love interest clichés
• Inspired by games like Roblox, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and World of Warcraft
– WoW came from the game Warcraft, which was a failed attempt to make a Warhammer 40K game.
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This brand is THE original video game company, founded in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It pioneered arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers.
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Riton is an American optics company that designs innovative, stylish, world-class scopes, binoculars, and combat optics. At SHOT Show 2026 they showed off a new high-power binocular and their new compact pistol green dot.
Their newest member of the 5 Primal binocular line is a beast with 15×56 glass. This high-power optic provides the extreme magnification required for scanning and ranging for hunters in the western US, where distances between ridgelines are measured in miles and not yards. This new 5 Primal offers Riton’s ED glass for clarity and brightness.
Riton is an American optics company that designs innovative, stylish, world-class scopes, binoculars, and combat optics. At SHOT Show 2026 they showed off a new high-power binocular and their new compact pistol green dot.
Their newest 5 Primal is a 15×56 long-range binocular. This high-power optic provides the extreme magnification required for scanning and ranging for hunters in the western US, where distances between ridgelines are measured in miles and not yards. This new 5 Primal offers Riton’s ED glass for clarity and brightness.
On the tactical side, Riton debuted the new 3 Tactix MPRD XL. This new reflex sight offers a 2MOA dot and 32MOA circle, selectable reticle in green. The MPRD XL has an enlarged window that is nearly the size of a RMR footprint reflex in a RMSc footprint. This makes it an ideal optic for popular 1911 and 2011 pistols that have narrower slides than Glock and striker-fired pistols.
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Leapers Integrix is their high-end optics line which features scopes made in Taiwan using German-made Schott ED glass. In build quality and optical performance, it holds its own with some of the top scopes on the market. At SHOT Show 2026 they showed off their new fixed focus scope for Service Rifle competitions with a fixed 4.5x and designed with the input of the the top Service Rifle shooters in the country.
On Broadway, near the corner of 72nd avenue is a modern day legend of cheap eats. Founded by a former owner of Papaya King, this clone was founded in 1973. It serves hot dogs and home made tropics flavored drinks. When I lived in NYC it was known for being a cheap lunch. You could get a drink and hot dog combo for $1.99. Today, its now $5.99 but still cheaper than most lunches you can get anywhere in NYC.
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This Italian luxury fashion house was founded in Florence, Tuscany in 1921. It got its start by making high-quality leather luggage before expanding into luxury clothing and accessories.
E Pluribus Unum, Semper Fidelis, these are words that define America. But they are not English, they are Latin. They come to us from the Roman Republic. But Rome didn’t emerge from orphan twins raised by a she-wolf, it came from an older Italian culture and civilization, the Etruscans.
At the San Francisco Legion of Honor art museum, I visited a new exhibit The Etruscans. Many of the pieces were lent for the exhibit from the Vatican museum and are examples of Etruscan art, burial artifacts, and personal items. It also included a copy of one of the oldest pieces of Etruscan literature that was recovered from an Egyptian mummy.
• The Roman arch and aqueduct are Etruscan inventions
• Roman numerals are actually Etruscan numbers
• Our alphabet comes from Latin, which was derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which is a simplified form of the Greek alphabet (minus some letters like omega and xi)
• Words like “Person” and “Rome” are Etruscan words
• Etruscan, Basque, Finnish, and Hungarian is not Indo-European. But there are no modern Etruscan speakers.
• Etruscan means people of Etruia or Truia; what is today Tuscany (Tusci < Trusci < Etrusci). The Tuscan dialect of Latin is the basis for modern Italian.
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This Italian fashion brand has become synonymous with luxury. Its name has become military and urban slang for high-priced or top-tier equipment.
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They say, you get what you pay for. In the case of the Discovery LHT, you’re also getting less because this is one of the lightest 6-24x scopes I’ve tested; it is 4 oz lighter than the Vortex Viper. The LHT has the slim profile of a traditional 3-9x hunting scope, with cross-over tactical features like a FFP reticle and exposed locking turrets.
This LHT 6-24×44 is nearly identical to the LHT 3-12×42 scope, but with a longer tube section forward of the turrets. Its glass performed like a budget optic. It has noticeable distortion and softening on the outer edges with some chromatic aberration. But its higher top end of 24x provided acceptable resolution at the center of its image to identify target rings at 100 yards.
What makes LHT scopes stand out is its value. This LHT has a street price of $150, making them a better value than Walmart-grade scopes. Its light weight and above-average performance make this a serious upgrade to modern or vintage rifles. I’m putting this on my Glenfield 60.
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Group -1 / Element 2
Magnification: 6-24x
Objective.: 44mm
Tube Diameter: 30mm
Click Adjustment: 1/4 MOA
Elevation Adj. Range: 60 MOA
Windage Adj. Range: 60 MOA
Focal Plane: First
Parallax Adjustment: 25Yds-Infinity
Eye relief: 3.5 in (89mm) -3.3 in (85cm)
Exit Pupil: 7.5~1.8mm
Length: 14.3in (362mm)
Weight: 18.5 oz (525g)
Wuben flashlights are exquisite examples of futuristic industrial design. The new X5 is their flat/blade-style EDC made popular by the Surefire Stilletto and the OLight Arkfeld. The X5 feels better in the palm than expected Despite its angular cyberpunk looks.
Its flashlight and UV mode controls are in a simple-to-use selector dial. I wish simple analog controls were also used for brightness control, which still requires cycling the activation button. Thankfully, it has mode memory. Next to the activation/brightness button is a laser button, which independently activates a green laser pointer.
The X5 is powered by an internal battery pack, which is recharged through a USB-C port. The X5’s most handy feature is that the battery pack can be replaced by 4xAAA batteries. In my tests, the X5 output over 1200 lumens with a substantial runtime of over 3 hours starting on high.
The X5 is a great option for those who are looking for a bright blade style EDC that doesn’t look like every other flashlight. Or anybody who’s into Star Wars cosplay.
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X5 SPECS
Max Output: 1300 lumens
Color: White / UV
Modes: 6 + strobe
Max Throw: 118 meters
Laser: 2W Green
Waterproof: IP65
Body: 6061 Aluminium
Battery: 1200mAh pack or AAA
Charging: USB-C
Weight: 128g
Dimensions: 13.7 cm × 3.5 cm × 2.1 cm
A few months ago, I tested CVLife’s tiny rechargeable magnetic laser boresighters. Now, they’ve added this device to an even bigger kit, which includes spirit levels.
The key tool in this kit is a barrel-mounted spirit level clamp. After you have visually leveled your rifle, you clamp the level onto your barrel. Should you accidentally cant your rifle while installing or tightening down a mount or scope, the level will indicate a shift.
The kit includes 2 additional magnetic spirit levels that you can use to confirm the level on your rifle rail, scope mount, rings, or the turret on your scope. Aligning these levels to your barrel-mounted level, easily lets you align your scope reticle to your rifle.
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I captured this moment in Rockefeller Plaza. Maybe this wasn’t a First Date. With the way they were kind of arguing, it could be a last date?
