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kirbymuncher posted...

I can't find the study again (ok I probably could if I looked but I'm busy atm) but I remember seeing a thing that put teaching in japan at the top of total work hours compared to teaching worldwide, while at the same time near the bottom of time actually spent teaching. Which I guess can get you lots of time to prep for high quality lessons but the working time was honestly absurd

and it sort of balances out with what my brother's said about his experience teaching english there, there's a lot of time when they want you around and "working" when there isn't really any work to do

Teaching in Japan is a really bad job in general. They have a huge issue with turnover. And every job definitely has a lot of doing nothing at work, Japan has among the lowest productivity per hour worked in the OECD. My wife works a regular 40 hour week but she does maybe 10 hours of actual work. She has been on a combination of maternity leave and other parental leave for about 1.5 years now, but the company honestly probably isn't losing out on much. She used to work from home a lot and I would see her playing games on Steam. I definitely feel bad for any of the people working at black companies or any other jobs that require absurd hours.

Zwijn posted...

I dont know shit about America, Im a European who deals with Japanese people enough to be told what they think of foreigners. I have also personally seen the black vans, you know the ones Im talking about. Its possible that the people I know themselves are racists in a bubble but that seems weirdly unlikely to me. Also Japans culture is fucked, the demographic crisis is worsening harder than the stance against immigrants is bettering. Japan is on the verge of a demographic collapse, together with South Korea and a few European nations. I was never talking about hate crimes or being attacked, Im talking about acceptance.

Japan takes in the most immigrants in East Asia. The inability to take in more immigrants to meet quotas currently is due to low wages from the weak yen. Most immigrants until recently were from China but now it's Vietnam. Yeah right wing extremists exist, that's what the black vans you are talking about are related to and those people are a loud minority, not normal people. You are racist because you apply a stereotype based on one group of people and assume that's the whole country. Far right parties get a couple percent of the vote at most. The moderate right gets about 35% every election. You think even the 10% voting communist or far left parties are the racist stereotype you posted about the black van guys you read about online? Do you think everyone in your country is a neonazi? Because I can find plenty of pictures and articles about them online.

Zwijn posted...

How is it a racist to say certain cultures are completely fucked? Its discrimination at most, but racism? You think I say this because I hate other colors or something? I know Japan well, I know Europe well. I know how these cultures operate and I know how screwed they are in the near future.

I'm an immigrant married to an immigrant in rural Japan. I live with my wife's family who are also immigrants. What you described is a stereotype and not reality. You do not know Japanese culture well. What you know is racist shit you read online. Racism exists in Japan, but their culture isn't fucked, and we are much safer there from a hate crime than we would be in America. No one was attacking Chinese people in the streets during the pandemic. It's ridiculous how all these white people post online about how racist Japan is when they don't even live there or speak the language. You don't know shit about it.

As far as the work culture stuff goes. The US works more hours on average. We have 13 national holidays, most people have 10-20 days off paid leave (I get 20), most people are just working a regular 8 hour day. The crazy horrible stories you hear about overwork at black companies are real, but stuff like that happens everywhere. You are just focused on Japan and assuming that is normal because it's a media narrative online. The fact is they aren't actually working insane hours, the US works more hours, the US has a higher suicide rate, you just don't know that because the memes online have replaced facts.

Zwijn posted...

Its great for tourism, not great to live in. Its a work-addicted bureaucratic nation of depressed cynical racist pencil pushers, with a lot of strife between the older generation who cant find a way out of getting the nation to not die a slow death and the youth who has given up all hope. It is exactly the same here in The Netherlands and a few other European countries. Some places are too xenophobic in nature and you will not be happy there.

This is just racist nonsense though.

WesternMedia posted...

@ssjevot

I don't teach English or know people who do, but it seems like a bad job.

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/majority-of-japanese-show-scant-interest-in-established-religion

Japan is 68.2% no religion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Germany

Germany 43.8% no affiliation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom

UK is 52% none.

Among rich developed countries the US is very religious.

Smallville posted...

oh really? what percent is religious according to that poll, it is very similar to the world population? not sure

The percents are listed in the poll...

Man I 100% Kurohyou. It's fun, very different combat.

It's still overwhelmingly religious despite being relatively wealthy and developed.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/

WingsOfGood posted...

look at the graph

mobile is ADDED onto the total industry value

so console games are still making record profits and continuing to climb and explode

The most profitable console game is Grand Theft Auto online. A live service microtransaction shit fest.

Why do you keep ignoring the fact that most of the money is coming from mobile microtransaction and live service games?

Elden Ring made a billion in profit? Cool, Dungeon Fighter made 22 billion. And it's just shit microtransactions.

WingsOfGood posted...

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2023/5/11/elden-ring-game-sells-over-20-million-copies

Elden Ring, one of the most expansive games of the current gen, is thought to have made about 1 BILLION in profit

maybe don't make bad games?

Did you see the link I posted? Those games aren't bringing in the big profits you think they are. The greed part is right, but the profit is in live services and micro-transactions. From Software has a niche of basically making a good traditional game without the bullshit that is standard now, but that's not bringing them the insane profits mobile games and live services are for other companies.

Punished_Blinx posted...

You're making the assumption that those record profits are coming from traditional video games and not because of GAAS and mobile games. Live services make up 73% of EA's revenue.

Yep:
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_video_games

The traditional games on there are largely arcade games from the Golden age which basically operated off microtransactions.

WingsOfGood posted...

The answer is VERY
VERY
VERY SIMPLE

30 years ago you sell a $60 game an less than 1 million people buy it

Actually that's not quite it. The physical games cost much more to make back then. Per unit costs are extremely low now. Some games had their prices increased just to compensate for the cost of extra storage or performance chips in the cartridges. Development costs are higher now but the per unit cost is negligible now (it's actually mainly the cost paid to Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve, etc. for a sale on their marketplace).

Did Gale do anything wrong?

LeadPipeCinche posted...

BTW. Game prices are about the same as they were +30 years ago. I was paying $80 for games on the NES & SNES back in the day.

Due to inflation they're actually much cheaper now. And the average price is also lower due to all the Indie games and small publishers releasing at $10-30.

Are they actually socialists, what Americans call socialists, or tankies? Very different groups of people. I mean libertarian is a similar thing as well, is it what Europeans call a classical liberal, is it an embarrassed American right winger, or is it an anarcho-capitalist?

I would prefer 500 libertarian socialists if that's an option.

Guide posted...

Pungent? Either you got some weird kind of tofu or it had gone bad. Standard, fresh tofu has almost no odor at all. Or taste, for that matter. Kind of the whole point is to mix it with other stuff.

Stinky tofu in Hunan is top tier. But yeah this topic is really exposing the American "palette".

Amakusa posted...

Any "halfway decent Chinese joint"'s fried rice is made from the previous day's rice. Panda Express's fried rice is freshly cooked rice.

That's how you are supposed to make fried rice. If you think Panda Express fried rice is good you inhabit an alternate taste dimension.

Rika_Furude posted...

Literally never heard of panda express is this some more American shit

Yes. And it's awful. Also you can find authentic Chinese in America if you actually live in a place with a lot of Chinese.

ai123 posted...

Interesting. I'm not from the US, so I don't understand how that works. What happens to the donations they have received?

So they can keep receiving them since the campaign isn't actually ended. No one wants to pay debts with their own money.

ai123 posted...

Has anyone ever un-suspended their campaign?

Or is it just a way of avoiding admitting that you're fucked?

It's done for financial reasons actually.

PowerOats posted...

I hope he's fun af. I don't wanna bench him if I have to. Remake has 5/5 characters that are fun so far

I think the best part of remake is every character plays differently. The original materia system made it so only the main attack and limit breaks differentiated characters in the original which also made the relative strength unfortunately dependent on their final weapons and limit breaks. Here it feels like everyone has something going on and different fights favor different team compositions.

This would be convincing if he wasn't already like this.

The US has increasingly transferred power into the executive branch and it wouldn't be surprising if it becomes a dictatorship in the near future. It sucks the system is garbage top to bottom but the top is disproportionately important. This isn't a parliamentary system.

creativerealms posted...

Powerhouse and Titmouse are two big American ones. Powerhouse is located in Texas and Fit muse California.

Oh cool, didn't know that. I looked this one up and it seems a French studio did it.

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I believe it's actually a Western production. There is no 2D studio left in the West as far as I know.

I knew a guy named Tyler in college. One of the worst people I ever met in my life.

archizzy posted...

I just watched it a week ago. I thought it was ok. Look I know its a movie but the way their suits can just deflect all these bullets and he walks around shielding his face by just using his jacket is fucking stupid. They are falling off buildings and getting hit by cars and just walk away.

I still think the first movie is by far the best in the series.

That's exactly how I feel. Also the bulletproof stuff made fights drag on too long and get boring. Also having to climb that staircase twice? Man it just dragged on.

It's kind of hard not to in Japan. I get most of my news from there and between Yahoo Shopping and Yahoo Auctions, that's most of my online shopping too.

It's known that Russia helped boost her campaign and she spent the immediate aftermath of the election not complaining about Trump but denouncing Russiagate. She never said anything bad about Russia or Putin. It's completely transparent and hilarious the usual suspects are the ones defending her here.

The Vita actually had a data plan and could make calls on Skype.

People in Hong Kong pay extra for Japanese eggs to eat them raw. I don't see why a raw egg is scary to you but raw fish is fine.

Yep, annoys me for the same reason. My wife is Chinese and taught herself English and Japanese. Would a video of her speaking fluently at a restaurant in Japan or America get millions of views? Probably not.

I should post a video of me answering e-mails at work. "Foreigner writes fluent Japanese work e-mails!"

I don't think people realize how hard it is to come to America legally. Chinese people make up the fourth largest group crossing the border in Mexico. Let that sink in. People are flying to Ecuador and joining caravans to Mexico to cross the border illegally because it's easier than going to America under a visa.

UnfairRepresent posted...

With no cables, controllers or games?

The value is in a working console. Most sell without those things already.

I actually used to repair the first gen ones that play PS2 games and you can resell them for a good amount if they work, so this is pretty good for me actually.

videospirit posted...

Promoting self determination is one of the UN's core agendas. It's why they've gone so hard on decolonization among other things and why appearing democratic is important for nations of the world today.

This is so silly. The permanent members of the Security Council is made up of the greatest colonizers in history. Why are people acting like platitudes have practical consequences?

Dark_Arbron posted...

So as far as the UN is concerned these are democratic countries worthy of holding permanent security council seats. Seems legit. I mean they say they are, so who are we to argue?

The UN has never been concerned about democracy and the security council was established to prevent a war between the major powers. Also China claims to be a democracy and a dictatorship at the same time:
Article 1 The Peoples Republic of China is a socialist state under the peoples democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.

The socialist system is the basic system of the Peoples Republic of China. Disruption of the socialist system by any organization or individual is prohibited.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Also it probably looks better to the UN, at least officially. Doesnt China similarly have elections that dont matter?

Yeah, and they decided to have Xi get 100% of the vote for his 3rd term (though only the rubber stamp congress is allowed to vote). You used to be limited to two terms and there was always at least token descent to give an illusion of choice.

Smackems posted...

Japan has one I think. Might be the longest "sword" in the world. You'll have to do your own digging if you care enough though

It's important to note that those ridiculously long ootachi or nodachi were often just gifts to temples not actually meant for battle. It wasn't considered a very practical weapon, especially as guns and spears became dominant.

Samurai primarily using swords on the battlefield is largely for movies. Spears and bows, and later guns, were by far the most used weapons.

Arcanine2009 posted...

Then, on Monday night, Democrats also introduced a censure of Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) after he compared innocent Palestinian civilians to innocent Nazi civilians.

That really demonstrates the black and white thinking they use. To him there were no German civilians, even babies were just Nazi babies and therefore any deaths were warranted. He assumes others think this way and so then assumed they will feel the same about Palestinians. In his view all Palestinians, even babies, must be Hamas terrorists, so they cannot be innocent.

_____Cait posted...

English is strict here but it isnt taken seriously. English is studied for tests. Kids really dont retain much of it unless they seek outside sources. You know, cause languages reburie output, and nobody speaks English here.

I was interviewing this dude last month. He tells us he's really skilled at English. I ask him some basic questions in English. He can't respond at all.

This isn't even the first time that happened. I think they just assume I don't speak English since the interview is in Japanese, but I am waiting for someone to say they are good at English and actually be able to answer a basic question.

Someone says it's lupus.