| Hello, fresh meat here starting at NNPTC, and I've sorta figured out how to balance out time between watching my series-es, class, study hours, and what have you. (Still got Power School and Prototype to handle, though T-T) I don't get out to the fleet in another year and a half (NO SUB VOL), so I was wondering how it would be like to try to keep up with my precious animu while working on a carrier and whatnot. (I've been told many times that there IS internet on carriers. :S ) |
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| I have a small library of anime on disc I would be willing to ship to an APO and in return an official carrier ballcap or t-shirt. If that works for you, send me some titles and I will search my local resale shop. I will be able to kill two birds with one stone: I'll get to watch more anime and send you the disc's when I am done. |
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| The best why is to build your own library. Make sure you use the internet to keep track of new titles coming out. When your at home port find the local store that sales anime DVD's and go shopping or rent a APO box and order from Amazon.com. |
wilcruz2 said: Well, there may be internet on a carrier (wasn't when I was on Connie, but that was a long time ago in a dista....I digress), but I can almost guarantee you won't be able to torrent anything and most likely it will be a wired ethernet connection for security purposes (and the fact that ships are made of metal which has a hard time passing WiFi signals). Which means you will most likely have to share connections with other crew members and unless a group of you get together to watch a streamed episode, you will have people wanting to use that connection for a Skype call to their family at home or to do a quick check of their Facebook page and your time will be limited. So you can pretty much forget about CrunchRoll, if they don't block those kinds of sites altogether. For some reason the Nav's a real stickler about it's computer security.Hello, fresh meat here starting at NNPTC, and I've sorta figured out how to balance out time between watching my series-es, class, study hours, and what have you. (Still got Power School and Prototype to handle, though T-T) I don't get out to the fleet in another year and a half (NO SUB VOL), so I was wondering how it would be like to try to keep up with my precious animu while working on a carrier and whatnot. (I've been told many times that there IS internet on carriers. :S ) One thing you may want to consider is checking with the ships RecServ dept. and see if they have an anime club on board. With a crew of 6500+ when deployed and anime becoming more and more popular in the States, it wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't one. Sure they may not all want to watch the same thing you want to, but chances are you probably don't want to watch the same things they do. That's why you have clubs, to learn things about other people who like the same kinds of things you do and learn about new things. davismw2000 said: The best why is to build your own library. Make sure you use the internet to keep track of new titles coming out. When your at home port find the local store that sales anime DVD's and go shopping or rent a APO box and order from Amazon.com. What davismw2k says there is a pretty good idea. However, you may want to check with the seller as to whether or not they will ship to an FPO (not APO, that's for zoomies, davis!) address or not. Frequently, they may ship hard goods to an FPO, but not soft (i.e. MUNCHIES!). But sometimes they don't, regardless of what is in the package. Don't be afraid to buy from the "New or like new" tabs as well. You can save some serious change that way. I just bought a pair of hardcover books for a total price of less that $10. It almost cost as much to ship as I paid for the books. And they're in outstanding condition, the binding still crackles! The other thing to remember is that while you may have some personal space in your shop and under your rack, it is limited. VERY limited! Carriers are huge, yes, but the Nav wants all that space for things they consider to be important, like jets, engines, fuel, etc., etc..., and they don't consider anime DVD's that belong to some lowly PO3 or 2 to be all that important, regardless of how that third or second class feels about it. This has a point which I am getting to. Make arrangements with a family member or friend on-shore to expect packages from you on occasion and when you get too many to store in your shop, wrap 'em up and mail 'em home. They do need to be put into some kind of storage that won't ruin a DVD or CD. The basement of a house is pretty good. but the garage is borderline (unless it's air-conditioned). The trunk of a car or an attic don't cut it. The heat generated in those places will warp the disc and cook the info right off of it. Somewhere I have a rifle scope that I need to send off to the manufacturer for repair that has nothing wrong with it except that it sat in my trunk for a week in El Centro, CA in July and now all the internal optics are like looking through a bathroom window in SoDak in Jan. Frosty! |
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| Wow... that is some VERY helpful (and extensive lol) advice. I'll definitely take all of that into heavy consideration. What if I were to just bring a laptop and a portable hard drive loaded with anime? It'll suck to not be able to torrent the latest series/episodes, but it'll definitely be better than nothing. And how do time constraints on the job work against any actual free time I'll have to watch anime? |
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wilcruz2 said: Typical work schedule while deployed is 12 ON/12 OFF depending on your work. Engineering worked it a little differently than the rest as they wanted their personnel at their best all the time, but again this varies from ship to ship and department by department. In port it was usually 3 x 8 hour shifts and it depended on which shift you got assigned to as to how much free time you got. Mind you this is all based on my 4 years on the Constipation back in the late '80s. What they do on the newer boats may be completely different. After all, I left the Connie in Jan '90, about a month before she went to Philly for SLEP, so I'm sure a lot of things are different now. Have fun!Wow... that is some VERY helpful (and extensive lol) advice. I'll definitely take all of that into heavy consideration. What if I were to just bring a laptop and a portable hard drive loaded with anime? It'll suck to not be able to torrent the latest series/episodes, but it'll definitely be better than nothing. And how do time constraints on the job work against any actual free time I'll have to watch anime? |
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