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I think people misunderstand what "liberal indoctrination" or whatever you call it is in colleges. I worked for the University of Washington as an adjunct professor. It's an anti-labor, profit seeking shit hole that only cares about paying teaching staff as little as possible, skimming as much as possible off of grants, and charging students as much as possible in tuition. The reason you see so many foreign students will be coded with liberal buzzwords like diversity, but the reality is it's wealthy people from other countries that can afford the higher tuition rates they get to charge foreign students. Meanwhile adjuncts receive pay less than a single undergraduate's tuition to teach a class to hundreds only to have their yearly contract disappear without warning once it's time to cycle in the fresh PhD. Meanwhile you are actively told not to grade students harshly and ignore cheeting because the goal is to simply cycle as many students through as possible. Teacher evaluations don't matter either, it's all performative.

So what does that have to do with this topic? All this resistance to genocide coursework is just marketing. They think her speech would damage their revenue stream, so they are cancelling it. That's the reality of academia at these places. The right goes on and on about woke whatever and it just distracts people from the rampant profit seeking going on.

I think a lot of the nostalgia for boomer shooters is less about how they look and more about how they play. The gameplay is quite different than modern FPS games. The shitty 3D graphics era of games hasn't been inducing much nostalgia in general. Some people are nostalgic for classic survival horror, but again that's for how they play (not an action game and not an all you can do is run spoopy jump scare simulator).

Have you tried doing Soul Level 1 runs? Those can be pretty hard, especially if you are also going for the no deaths achievement at the same time.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Given their tendency to work themselves into misery I would think it's the opposite (companies don't invest in employees who aren't willing to chain themselves to their desks).

Though I do think they're starting to turn a corner in concepts like work-life balance.

Japanese people work less hours on average than Americans. There are some really bad companies, called black companies that exist, but Westerners seem to think that's the norm. It isn't. Next you will tell me everyone in Japan is killing themselves. Again US has a higher suicide rate. Now you will say the birth rate is super low, but it's the highest in East Asia and comparable to Spain and Italy.

Stereotypes and real life are not actually the same.

WarfireX posted...

Are you speaking from experience as someone who lives in Japan?

Yes? Did you even read my posts. The idea we aren't taking lunch breaks is nuts. You guys need to stop believing random shit you see online.

WarfireX posted...

Does anyone remember those videos of the Bento boxes that fit into wrist watches because taking a lunch break is dishonorable in Japan? Were those for real, or was it a joke?

Everyone takes a lunch break. That's a bunch of bullshit.

pinky0926 posted...

What would be the typical consequence of something like this? Just shunned by colleagues and dressed down by bosses constantly?

If you have a bad employee you usually shun them, give them demeaning tasks, etc. until they leave of their own volition. Firing someone is a pretty bad move for companies for a variety of reasons. You have to do something major to get fired (like at my work of you were drunk driving you would get fired instantly, probably for other jailable offenses as well). But honestly the stuff you're describing sounds pretty minor. My wife does maybe two hours of actual work in an 8 hour day. My job doesn't have set hours or a boss (researcher), so I can't comment from my own experience, but Japan is well known for being reluctant to fire employees (and foreign companies often hate how difficult it is to fire employees here). Unions are very strong, so if you aren't a temporary worker, your contract will usually make it pretty damn hard to get fired.

It's incredibly difficult to get fired in Japan.

Man I used to go wild on those bowls when I lived in Seattle. Both kinds of beans, that vegetarian meat substitute, all the veggies, spicy salsa, guac. So good.

Look I have kids and this is a show for kids. It's more entertaining than a lot of the shit out there if you're an adult, but we also have that cool haunted candy store anime where the kids die sometimes in Japan, so the bar is pretty high here.

Found the first episode on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=meU9bTsTZ4M

I played them both when they came out. They were absolutely not masterpieces. It's just Sonic has become such a shit series with mediocrity being the best we can hope for that they retrospectively seem like a masterpiece for a Sonic game. Actual masterpieces from that time are still appreciated today, even by young gamers.

It definitely fits in with 3 and 4 in terms of tone. But everyone needs to be real with themselves about Fallout. There is absolutely no consistent tone or serious lore maintenance. This stuff is getting ridiculous. 1 was somewhat serious and then 2 was extremely whacky (and it's also a really good game). Literally nothing about the setting actually makes sense if you think about it and instead of just enjoying games or the show people are freaking out over minor lore shit. And you want to talk about shitting on the lore? Ever play Brotherhood of Steel? Shit games predate Bethesda and were much shittier. People really need to stop taking a series never meant to be taken this seriously (okay maybe 1, but even then it isn't that serious), so seriously.

BlueKat posted...

It was ahead of its time. Too bad they left it on a cliffhanger and never made 3 ( -_-)

It's weird how they just abandoned everything. That game was just so amazing. It somehow came out when I was in high school and yeah it still feels more advanced than a lot of shit we get now.

kirbymuncher posted...

do you have to have that special scannable chip thing in your phone for this?

they've been adding phone payment like that to some things where I live but my phone is too old for it :|

No. NFC is only for using your phone as a replacement for an IC card. That's a different thing. For stuff like PayPay (AliPay works for this too if you're Chinese), LINEPay, WeChat, etc., you use QR codes. Any phone, tablet, etc. should work just fine as long as the screen isn't too dark.

Edit: Found a picture showing services you can use at any place that does PayPay.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/00b108ef.jpg

Fenriswolf posted...

Not sure about Vietnam but last time I visited Japan most of the shops are cash only.

They aren't. Not even in the middle of nowhere. Between credit card and digital payment (especially PayPay), it is rare you find a place that is cash only.

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It's optional to wear it and the picture someone posted of someone allegedly wearing it doesn't look bad. So I would say it's an overreaction.

_____Cait posted...

Why is SE so dense

They haven't said anything. This topic is based on speculation.

Guide posted...

Flap only exists for when we're in formal enough clothing to have a belt and tucked-in shirt, and it would be annoying to retuck without wrinkling.

Yeah basically this. If I have a bunch of shit on then I am going to use the flap. If I am chilling at home with no belt, then I won't bother with the flap.

The sprites look good but the character portrait art is not my style at all. If it's good I'll play it.

I was in high school when that took off. I remember some people playing MtG and YuGiOh, but never the Pokemon card game. I can't imagine it was banned though.

I think it's good. I mean if you're going to be super stringent about only 1, 2, and New Vegas being good then the series I already ruined, so who cares if it isn't in line with the lore from those games? It's an enjoyable watch and I can still play the good Fallout games whenever and this doesn't really affect that.

Kinny100 posted...

what are u guys even arguing about itt

Whether sexy characters are good or bad and whether Korea is good or bad. Lot of deep, honest dialogue coming from all sides.

The combat isn't really like NieR, not sure why you are comparing them. NieR is basically just Bayonetta with the dodge penalty removed (and other simplifications), you can even get a chip that gives you Witch Time.

His deleted post earlier included racist stereotypes of Chinese and Koreans so maybe he just wants you to know you're one of the good foreigners or something.

I know a foreigner like that who plays loud music and when I tried to explain to him it annoys people around him he got super defensive. Some people are not capable of considering anyone but themselves and unfortunately it makes us (foreigners) all look bad.

DoesntMatter posted...

seems we have two contradictory claims about the historical veracity of popular media depictions of seppuku. but one has a couple citations, while the other is basically "just trust me bro" soooooooo

I live in Japan. Westerners largely base their idea of Japan off extreme versions of reality. So seppuku is super common and samurai care about honor more than anything etc. But when you actually read about historical figures it's very few that are caring much about honor and you just get a few noteworthy instances of seppuku (and then those get heavily dramatized and played up in fiction, such as the 47 ronin). You also have some very pro-samurai revisionists like Kurosawa who made great movies that were very popular in the West, but it's important to understand they were revisionist. They don't reflect the reality of what most samurai were like.

You don't have to go back in time to see this though. This board constantly goes on about how much Japanese work and commit suicide. If you point out the US works more hours on average and has a higher suicide rate they either ignore you or claim the OECD (or whatever other source) data is fake and their stereotype is a better source.

Kai_Laguna posted...

You should ditch that rotting corpse you call an emperor and join the best faction.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/738202ed.png

That's not a Craftworld I'm familiar with...

Guide posted...

It was. Like, Japanese history during samurai eras is full of people just fucking killing themselves at the drop of a hat.

No it wasn't. Actually the movie Seppuku (called Harakiri in the West) is a pretty good movie about how much of a joke the entire thing was for the most part. There was basically a problem with poor samurai threatening to commit seppuku (but not actually intending to) in order to get more money from their lord. It also shows how little honor factored into the real world. It's just a movie, but in general if you move outside romanticised samurai fiction you see a lot of stuff like that. The entire trilogy of samurai movies by Yoji Yamada is also a nice realistic portrayal of samurai "honor".

These are my simple grim dark Ultramarines (came free with a paint set):
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/36807c20.jpg

havean776 posted...

Dark Angels, easiest to paint.

Ultramarines can be really easy to paint if you go for a grim dark style instead of the silly parade style Games Workshop uses for their official stuff (but then in games, promotional art, videos, etc. they're dirty with scuffed armor...).

Most of the samurai rituals and Bushido stuff is post Sengoku. Basically once samurai were bureaucrats they had to start coming up with stuff to help justify their existence as a higher class in a peaceful country.

Shogun though is fiction loosely based on real history, so this sort of thing is pretty whatever. Ghosts of Tsushima also inserted a lot of Bushido and other ahistorical stuff even farther into the past and people still largely liked it.

Only one episode in and the only thing I don't like so far is they keep wanting Ghouls to be actual zombies that sleep in graves. This is a Bethesda problem though.

s0nicfan posted...

It was all fun and games in Counter-Strike 1.6 until you realize you accidentally stumbled in during a clan's practice night and every player on one team is actively coordinating and communicating and the other team is filled with randos.

I'm sorry you ended up as op for on my clan server.

Yeah the porn ban is ridiculous, but everyone just uses VPN and watches Japanese stuff which is why they are having that JAV meet and greet event there this month (which the Christians freaked out about and tried to get the government to ban).

Edit: It looks like the government actually just banned it. Lol, well there you go.

deoxxys posted...

It seems like it's always that way. America's all about sleeping around but people hate sexuality in media for some reason

Even though they only make up about a 1/4 of the population the Christians in Korea have a lot of political sway. There isn't really a socially progressive party there (the politically center left party is probably more conservative on social issues). Abortion was only recently decriminalized by the supreme court with neither major party wanting to actually pass legislation to legalize it.

I'm pretty sure he is mocking people that make those arguments.

No, but I literally met a guy who said eating meat was his identity and he hated vegetarians. Which I would assume isn't a real thing off the internet but I met him in real life, so...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Example #3,854 of the anti-woke reactionaries claiming something will suck, only for the exact opposite to happen.

A beautiful track record

What was allegedly woke about this?

Fenriswolf posted...

Pretty much. Just look at how many Americans actually believe that "social credit" exists in China, despite being debunked by US researchers. But having a credit ratings system that encourages spending and getting into debt, while having bad rating or even refusing to provide one could lock one out of housing and employment opportunities? Totally fine!

Dude you literally drink Chinese propaganda like water. You are the last person to be commenting on this.

US culture is extremely propagandized but they will insist they aren't and everyone else is. They're really bad at spotting propaganda.Almost everyone in Russia knows there is propaganda everywhere, they accept it as a fact of life. Americans legitimately think they aren't falling for any propaganda (and many then ironically fall for Russian propaganda).

For internet memes, All Your Base was pretty early.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The full bingo:

Early Access, Open World, Survival, Crafting, Zombies

If you have all 5 of those tags you getting blacklisted immediately.

Wow. That's like my exact list of stuff I can't stand.

It's so crazy how normalized being a Nazi is getting. Remember when Kanye said he was a Nazi and loved Hitler and then it blew over and he just released another album? Like professional critics just reviewed it like it was no big deal.

Colour does reflect the French historical spelling yes (it's couleur in modern French), but is originally from the Latin color either way.

It's spelled color in Latin, which is the original source of the word.

TERS? Is that a type of TERF?

Revelation34 posted...

I doubt most would know Donkey Kong or Zelda.

Dude that game was huge. It really put Nintendo on the map outside Japan. I remember watching my mom and dad play it in the arcade as a small child.