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It used to work decades ago

Now people realize that PC has almost every third party game, Sony has almost no exclusives, and MS is also on PC. Only Nintendo fans need consoles, and thats because they have decades of being mostly a first party output

LtZim posted...

I went to Japan and while I was visiting the zoo I got adopted by an entire highschool baseball team and their teacher too. They were so excited to see a white guy and hang out and everyone wanted pictures and to try asking me questions. Ended up just walking around the zoo with them as if I was just another chaperone. Yes they were like the nicest most polite high schoolers you'd ever met. But it was like that everywhere, you visit Japan as gaijin and you're a celebrity to a lot of people just for existing in their country. I expect that will start to change as tourism ramps up

Depends on where you live and what you look like, really. Certain. Types are favored above other foreigners.

Ive definitely been the center of attention though. Got compared to celebrities I look nothing like, asked if I knew famous people, asked about guns, etc.

One of the nicer experiences was when I lived in a small town. It was right before Golden Week, and this old man was just standing around outside the supermarket. He stops me, asks to talk, asks some pretty mundane questions (in English, mind you, which is super rare, especially for his age), thanked me, and walked off. It was nice and genuine.

Sometimes I actually feel uncomfortable sticking out here, cause people do treat you differently, and sometimes even put huge expectations on you to be good foreign.

One bad example was this woman who kept comparing me to other foreigners. I was the good one and all the others were bad. I told her that this type of thinking hurts me too, and keeps me from major purchases, renting things, and other normal things which Japanese never have to worry about. She said it is fair, because those things need to be that way thanks to bad foreigners. It was bizarre and felt gross. Kind of like an old racist grandpa who has that one black friend.

Within a certain limit and boundary. Its ok to ask if they want kids in the future. I dont feel comfortable if someone asks if we had kids, would you

Super nostalgic. Miss that high energy Sega arcade vibe.

PerseusRad posted...

Hm, maybe beating Kingdom Hearts at level 1? I was considering getting all characters in Elite Smash in Ult, but I have the sense that fewer people have done the former than the latter.

I don't do super challenging stuff very often.

How hard is it to get Elite? Ive still never done it.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Ok? lol

Then I'll believe the person wasn't lying about what they ate for lunch vs the very strange angry man insisting she's lying but can't say what about.

You know, like common sense.

Still love the metal gymnastics in acting offended/insulted because you were asked what the person you called a liar unprovoked was lying about.

Everyone calling her out for her videos are talking about culture, not what she ate for lunch.

Youre the one who got angry and started lashing out demanding proof, and then talking about her lunch. Sounds like major projection.

Im done.

ICCs in some shmups.

I play bemani, that counts right

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Only because you called someone a liar but refuse to say what they lied about, then just said "my experience was different, therefore she lied" which is super silly

Take her bike broke down so she borrowed her landlords, her hair poked out so she looked like a cockatoo, then ate lunch, only had 2 classes, the kids clean the classroom, there's not much English or Manga in the library, she was given an ice cream, she cycled home and was given a cabbage

Where's the lie? Which part? How do you know?

You're right we can't see it lol

You're coming across as weird here dude

By your logic if any two Americans claim to have had a different experience ever, then one is lying

Believe what you want then. Im not forcing you.

Forgotten World is so good. Cant wait to see how they continue from that one

Everything is a toilet in the US

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Damn, that's a shame. I don't want to be patronized: I want Japan raw!

Its still a nice place. She just exaggerates everything, and glamorizes things. Theres a half truth to it all.

She shows up on my timeline every single day and Im just tired of feeling patronized. I get it is just for clicks, but i appreciate where i live and want people to see what it is really like.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

"This person is lying!!!! Don't listen to her!!"
"Really? What is she lying about?"
"WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!? I'm not replying to you anymore!"

lolwut

And yet you can't cite any examples.

Hell "I live in Japan and my experience was different in ways I cannot communicate or specify" doesn't mean she's lying. Just means you had 2 different experiences.

Are you even a teacher?

Because you came out questioning my integrity, and also have shown hostility to other posters in this topic.

Other people who know her have said, in this topic, that she generalizes and gives a bad image of foreigners, and misrepresents Japan as a playground.

Since you really want to know, watch her videos about things foreigners wouldnt understand or whatever its called. Also her videos about work life. Yeah obviously she has had different experiences, but she also makes bold statements about the culture and the job that anyone who has actually been here can say are not true. Its clickbait for foreigners who dream of Japan, and its not accurate to the actual culture or things she is even talking about.

Sorry, I cant prove its a lie. You need to be here to see it.

Karovorak posted...

Now we only need a place where this description would not fit.

True. I just dont like people acting like this place is a weeb paradise. It has serious social issues. Its a beautiful place and I love living here, but I know it isnt for everyone and some people get very hurt when they come here and see the reality.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

And yet you can't cite any examples.

Hell "I live in Japan and my experience was different in ways I cannot communicate or specify" doesn't mean she's lying. Just means you had 2 different experiences.

Are you even a teacher?

Whats wrong with you? Do you actually live there?

Since you must know, I had her job years ago. Shes playing influencer. You might be a fan, so I wont reply to you anymore.

Tell the owner in front of everyone to pay the workers properly.

wonder if anything good was scrapped.

SE is one of the most incompetent companies right now. Bunch of old men at the top who are out of touch with consumers. They follow trends without knowing why they worked.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Like what?

What has she made up?

How do you know she made it up?

Because I live in Japan, and have seen her videos. She just says stuff tourists and weebs will like to hear. Her experiences are not what most people who actually live here experience, and she s been called out on it before.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Same. Weebs were right: Japan is better >_>

Wait until you live there and see their politics, their apathy towards anything, their fear of change, subtle racism, and lack of efficiency in anything not involving toilets and food.

I still prefer living here though.

Also to TC, kids are always polite in school here. Outside of school, they act like any other kid.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

You should watch that "Day in a life of an English teacher in Japan, " YouTube channel and compare notes

https://youtube.com/shorts/2FuMaBqDCjI?si=rzgHHODnTkZtRWlO

This person often makes stuff up and misrepresents Japan a lot. I recommend you stay away from her. Although she did show me how to use the 7-11 smoothie machine

https://youtube.com/shorts/7fTHD07Q9Pw?si=cwV-OMjp39GYj--k

This is a pretty big thing in Japan recently. You can go and buy toys of it too. There are some other variations as well. Pretty sure it is a kid thing.

It makes me feel old.

Context?

A piece of paper.

Sop giving these dorks attention. They are just grifting

America

Some jobs do require proof though. Its really easy to just lie on paper. Happened to me once. We hired a guy who said he worked with a major company, and the work we got from him was worse than a teenager.

Do you get mental instability and life threatening disease like most of these villains do?

Doan kay

Florida Dump

https://youtu.be/v0yp61OTf0I?si=J4fT-MztP5VroE42

Apparently the demo is on Steam.

Lol what is this music

This is six months old, and nobody has talked about it

Nobody argues that it can be useful.

Its how it gets used for the dumbest things that people hate.

People used to hate books in the 1600s too

It looks like his head should be able to be popped off and replaced sith another

That will show it

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

You want to convince conservatives that net neutrality is essential? Explain to them that without it, Comcast could block you from news from everywhere but NBC.

Or find their illegal photos from their HD

Its probably nothing people would notice, but it probably makes it easier for people to gather and sell or just straight up look at your info with cookies,

I agree, i do not like the 6 normal battle theme. Everything else is good though

Actually if you are that poster who just moved to Japan, try watching the Asadorama. They are very simple, inly about 15 minutes long, and contain pretty good standard Japanese. When i first moved to Japan, it gave me a lot of context to things I would hear daily. Plus, they repet three times a day.

PoIkan posted...

I think the more you do Japanese, the more you actually love Kanji. At the start, it's intimidating as shit. Then when you look at Japanese more, it's like 'Wow, I cannot read what this sentence is saying because all the hiragana blend together and it looks like a run on sentence'. When you know what the kanjis mean, it's like kanji actually make reading Japanese a million times easier.

yeah, this

Why does she talk to him still

CableZL posted...

That was one thing that confused me because the spelling in hiragana is actually o chi ya, but its just pronounced ocha. Ive spent about half of my time learning Japanese today on the small/silent characters in hiragana. The difference is rather subtle as it is written in the Duolingo app, so Im trying to pay more attention to it now.

It isnt o-chi-ya. Its o-chya. There are other weirdo blends that duolingo really sucks at teaching. The -ou sound being the main culprit.

Hiragana and katakana can be very easy and only take a week to remember. Just get a notebook or get a poster and write every day, and put the poster on your wall.

Kanji is the killer.

Duolingo also kind of sucks for Japanese. Not only is it not natural spoken Japanese, but the way it recognizes non-roman script is really off, oftentimes misusing kanji pronunciation or context.

DL in Japanese is good for upkeep, but not for learning the actual language. Being immersed is the best way.

Im also gonna say avoid anime Japanese unless you want to sound like an idiot to people. Its like a foreigners talking like a Spongebob, or GI Joe character.

Same reason why americans freak out when they find out a hamburger has a vegetable on it.

They avoid unknown things.

People dont know what censorship is.

censorship is when another party deliberately changes your thing to match with their views.

Not when a company changes it themself, in order to fix mistakes or make something easier for everyone to get into. It is also nit when a game isnt 1:1 during localization.

And in the case of this game, the game is the same. They changed some graffiti. Wow game ruined.

It is almost always racists and really gross people who get upset over this kind of thing for some reason. But they also dont mind when their beliefs force others to hide, or even be assaulted.

Infinite is so bad. Like, the game itself is fine, whatever. It works.

The story is just Babys first game that makes you think, and everything is such base-level tripe. Like, this is like when we were in high school and thought anime, KH, or Invader Zim spoke to us on another level.

Leslie is VERY competent. She just doesnt know how to lead people in S1.

Almost all of the sidequest stuff is optional. You can safely jump to story sequences whenever you want.

Side stuff in the game is handled much better. Every sidequest involves a party member, and you get some character insight, good interactions, and good items or weapons for doing them.

In Remake, it was like, help these kids collect some dumb stuff to watch an adult talk at you in a kid body for five minutes.

The early seasons are great. They just arent what the later seasons are.

Its called evolution

Game Nest
Round One
Red Note
Pinball Hall of Fame

Las Vegas has a very active arcade scene

Dennys has good burgers, not gonna lie