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Tyranthraxus posted...

The little mermaid penis on the VHS is real it was just only in the first print

It is absolutely real. I have that VHS.

It's not very expensive in Japan and it has a really awesome selection. Also when I travel outside the country I can see shows they don't have in Japan on the same account. Really good deal for me.

Real talk of the major convenience stores here (Lawson, Family Mart, and 7-11), I think 7-11 has the worst onigiri, but obviously they're all super cheap and not very high quality. I think Family Mart is overall the best though (for onigiri).

SuperVegitoFAN posted...

And there are indeed ways to legally get BIOS, IE from your own console.

I have no clue how, i just know it exists.

There are also alternative open source BIOS for basically everything up to PS2. Maybe more as well. The Polymega uses those.

I literally got suspended once (it was overturned) for doing a giveaway of PS4 keys (purchased ones). They said I was giving out PS4 ROMs. Yes they called them ROMs.

21 Jump Street: or How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love the Jews.

CRON posted...

This is a very common misconception. In normal everyday situations, they're behind the curve. Most businesses still only accept cash, they bought into the smartphone hype years later, and computers are still viewed as something akin to household appliances to the point where many people are still using desktops from years ago. You can see this for yourself by going to Japanese websites. They still look and feel exactly like websites did in the late 90s-mid 00s. Streaming television/films still haven't become as popular as in other countries because legacy cable is still a thing.

I live in Japan, very rural Japan. Even here most places take credit card and payment apps are also taken by most places now (stuff like PayPay, RakutenPay, Docomo Pay, etc.). Japan had feature phones with internet, payment functions, etc. far before the rest of the world which is why emoji were invented in Japan. Most people have smart phones now, but it was due to how advanced the feature phones were that smart phone adoption lagged. Computer point is just weird, every country is neglecting home PCs in favor of mobile and tablets. Websites is true, most websites suck, but that's due to a lack of web developers. Streaming is very popular here, not sure why you think it isn't. Other countries also still have cable, so again what is your point?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Bloodstained seemed unnecessarily grindy, or maybe I just sucked at it.

Depends on the difficulty you picked. On normal it definitely doesn't need any grinding.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

first of all

when not invading or being invaded, just allow pausing. this is trivial
when paused, eject them from whatever queue there is and put them back in once the game in unpaused

then after invading or being invaded there are 2 acceptable options

1. no pause
2. allow a 60 second pause after which the other player can unpause
this has already been implemented in other online games effectively, and theres been no convincing argument itt for why its not possible in From games

FF14 is different because its not 1-2 players, but thousands

Sure something like that could be done, but I think that 2nd option is very much unfeasible, because it's not 1-2 players, it's 1-4, and having everyone able to pause with 4 people will just be annoying guaranteed, so I think only the no pause after invasions start makes sense. The que resetting though could cause some issues. I am not sure how much of an issue, but I don't think it's as simple as saying there would be no problems.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

What online games have you played? Its trivial to do for from games in 99% of cases

I was playing FFXIV concurrently with Elden Ring. It doesn't let you pause. Only other online games I play are fighting games, and you can't pause when playing online. I used to PvP a lot in DS2 and I can't imagine how annoying being able to pause would be. I would probably have dudes pausing on me after I invaded just to troll.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

It has been covered and been proven false

Where? Online games usually do not allow pausing for obvious reasons.

Not sure if it has been covered but the reason Sekiro has a pause button is the same reason the other Souls games don't. The nature of how multiplayer works (Sekiro has no multiplayer). You need to exit the game to pause for that reason.

Kastrada posted...

Yeah that's how it is here. Actually, it's pretty openly corrupt. It's a universal understanding that a person can get away with anything if they were drunk. The excuse is they wouldn't act like that in a sober state. That plus blood money.

Dude the drunk excuse is fucking terrible. It works way too well. At least drunk driving is zero tolerance here. Very different than the US. You do it once your license is gone, your work will probably fire you, everyone will consider you a bad person, might as well move.

VampireCoyote posted...

omg mansplain much

Dude you proposed an impossible situation.

Kastrada posted...

Is it like South Korea where the cops try their best to "smooth" things over so they don't have to do paperwork and stuff?

Like here, they would have just had the guy bring back the stolen stuff, apologize, and then try and get the store to not press charges.

Yeah. The cops don't want to actually go through the criminal process. Most people who are arrested are released without charge, even for serious crimes. It's the same reason Japan has a 99% conviction rate. They only press charges if they are sure they will be found guilty, because a not guilty charge can ruin your career as a prosecutor (the idea being that if he wasn't guilty and you tried to prove he was anyway, you should not be a prosecutor). You end up with this situation where foreigners will complain about Japanese conviction rates, while praising the low crime rate and prison population in Japan, failing to realize the connection. The truth is most people just don't get in any real trouble. Even for major crimes.

VampireCoyote posted...

victim blaming

Not even remotely. He was in a bad place long before this happened and didn't get the help he needed due to severe social stigma over mental health and a general lack of concern for those who have checked out of society. But people talking about random American shit that doesn't apply to Japan isn't why this happened.

VampireCoyote posted...

you heard me

what did he take that was so bad? Probably some pain medication for his kidneys and a granola

He would need a prescription for pain medication and there's no reason to steal that, because medicine isn't expensive and your insurance will cover it anyway (if you don't have a job, the public insurance you have will pay for it). Again this is Japan. Also I have only ever seen granola in huge ass bags here. You would get caught stealing that pretty easily.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I'd say the worst popular anime rn is Records of Ragnarok by far and it still has way more soul than this garbage

None of the CG garbage being cranked out has any soul. At least the AI will automate the CG garbage proces and continuously get better. The fact that a dude edited the first episode of the new NieR anime in a couple of hours and posted an improved version by simply adding a filter onto the garbage CG they used says a lot about how little care goes into a lot of this. If no one cares to begin with they should just have an AI do it.

It looks better than a lot of the shit modern anime fans put up with for some reason. There's a lot of great stuff being made out there but there is also a lot of absolute shit that people tolerate for some reason.

DipDipDiver posted...

The cops in this story are dumb as fuck. Not for letting him go back to his apartment, but for letting him out of their sight to walk into a different room unaccompanied. This man was supposed to be in custody. He could have just as easily come back with a weapon or something

He wasn't under arrest. He was asked to come to the station voluntarily for questioning (had he refused they likely would have started the process to get a warrant for his arrest, but it wouldn't have been possible on the spot). That's usually how it works here. And also people attacking police with weapons isn't a huge concern here. Japan isn't America.

I watched that and I don't get it. Is this a comedy?

MabusIncarnate posted...

The clothing between her legs looks just like a vag

I feel like you have to be looking for that to see it (had no idea myself until I read this). I don't know if that was the artist's intent, but it's pretty vague.

Revelation34 posted...

What proof do you have that her children have the same exact views?

I said her estate. She already has donated to TERF organizations. I could see her putting continuous support for those causes in her will because she is literally consumed by this.

Tyranthraxus posted...

In about 70 years people gonna have debates about who fucked up their own legacy worse, Lovecraft or Rowling?

Lovecraft was considered racist even by his own contemporaries. He died poor and had no copyright on any of his works. His legacy became separated from him the minute he died. Other authors had even been working in his setting before he died, so that it effectively functions as public domain makes it very easy to separate the art from the artist.

Rowling though is actually benefiting from her work, and the copyright will continue long after she dies and her estate will likely continue supporting TERF things. This makes separating the art from the artist very hard, because even if you want to play Hogwarts Legacy for example, you have to support financially a woman who has basically dedicated her life to hating trans people at this point.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

but Kaling likes Modi and Rowling? hmm

Can we get some context on this? She "likes" the Queen of Twitter TERFs and a borderline fascist? Is this show actually "woke"? Or is it just "some people aren't white"?

Honestly I feel like everyone just throws shit around and it's hard to actually find out if anything has any substance.

Foppe posted...

Reviewers have seen 8/10 episodes, and most of them gives the thumb down.

I am pretty sure this show will bomb but RT has it at 63% based on 8 reviews, so most are actually giving it a thumbs up.

FL81 posted...

To this day, I have no earthly clue why the JB subreddit or /r/shoplifting was ever allowed

I still have disturbing memories of going on library computers and typing in reddit.com and autocomplete recommending that fucking pedo subreddit.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I would be surprised if even 1000 fans of this show actually read the old comics. Nobody cares about the original material.

I like the show and read the old comics (as well as watched the old show and the old movies).

BeantownHero posted...

Dormmamu

He was the villain in the first Dr. Strange.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Theres probably a couple of republican subreddits

Theres definitely Russian and Chinese shills that run rampant, I think they have their own subreddits somewhere as well

r/Russia and r/Sino are the main ones but they have tons of others and also run many other subs that should nominally not be related to China or Russia but are run by either shills or government employees themselves.

Rumors of him having cancer, Parkinson's, etc. Aren't really useful. I am also not convinced by any of the explanations offered. Like even medical professionals have to do multiple tests to make a firm diagnosis but I am supposed to believe you watch a couple vids and can say he has a certain disease now?

I hope we get AI that can blend the garbage CG most anime has to use to save costs so it doesn't stick out so badly.

Blue_Dream87 posted...

This seems to be a common sentiment and, if I get into it again, prolly what I will do.

The game was fun, but compared to Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro (still not finished)... it felt shallow. At some point I was just telling myself "This is cool but I'd rather play these other games"

The problem is that for whatever reason most people want an open world experience. If you make something open world it sells better. You probably felt all the best areas were the legacy dungeons that played more like those other games. This is because a linear experience is crafted around providing the player something specific the creators felt would be interesting. Think of it as a guided tour versus just wandering around a place. But beyond that you also run into the weird difficulty balance issues. You can go through the game in any order you want to a degree, but difficulty is scaled around a certain order.

On the other hand there have always been a lot of people who say they want to explore in the Souls games and don't really like bosses and hard combat and those people often found Sekiro the worst (largely bosses with small largely inconsequential exploration sections between them, no way to mitigate difficulty with summons or leveling, etc.). So it might be boring to you if you really enjoyed say Sekiro.

Wait is Obama counted as white?

Ivynn posted...

Undertale is a JRPG made in the West.

Dark Souls is a WRPG made in the East.

I am sorry but this categorization is straight up nonsense. Souls is the spiritual successor to the King's Field and Shadow Tower. Just because they were little played JRPGs (and actually the first JRPGs were action based and the first WRPGs were turn based) doesn't make them not Japanese. If we want to say turn-based or action RPG we should just say that.

An authoritarian regime without a clear order of succession in place that loses the two people who ruled it is obviously going to collapse into infighting at a minimum.

GOOGLE posted...

As I said above. Its only good use is speculation now.

But that's the only use it ever had. Bitcoin especially is worthless. At least stuff like Ethereum can actually be used to make something (even if largely useless, scams, or both).

I always find it weird when people say crypto is dead now, I check the price and it's what it was when I cashed out for insane profit years ago (when I got Bitcoin it was able to be mined with a normal computer and worth a few bucks). So I guess if you got it when it was even higher than it is now you lost 60% or whatever, but man that shit was literally worth next to nothing for years. If it's dead it should probably go somewhere close to that and not thousands of times more than that.

lennethsoki posted...

It's funny because that's its reputation in Japan, and partly why anime otaku have such a social stigma: "it's for kids." The typically most commonly accepted anime/animation/whatever there tends to just be some anime series, Ghibli and ESPECIALLY Disney.
I legit had no idea Disney was so popular there until I stayed for a while. But you can make almost instant friends and have instant conversations if you talk about Disney with damn near everyone. At least, that was my experience there.

Contrary to popular belief, anime stuff really isn't that big in Japan overall. Again, some series become popular (Like Shounen Jump stuff), but they're exceptions.

I've lived in Japan for five years and I can tell you this is simply not true at all. Anime is extremely popular and mainstream in Japan. It's everywhere. The most popular songs are often anime themes, most watched shows on Netflix etc. are usually anime, highest grossing movies are anime, my town has anime themed train station, bus, and an anime museum, and it's not the only town like that.

Anyone trying to claim anime is actually no big deal in Japan is just letting you know they are lying.

I had fun playing it with my wife, but I wouldn't call it the best of all time or anything. It's incredibly easy which can be good or bad depending. It does have a lot of fun hidden stuff if you look for it though, which I really enjoyed. I can't really think of a truly bad section, but some are better than others.

I never played it after the patch. But I was a melee build and it was awful when I played it. I really should replay DS2 though.

They've been doing all kinds of stuff to paper over the whole sexually harassing an employee to the point of suicide. And the sad thing is to a degree it works. If you want to find a reason to forgive them to pay for their game, they've given you one.

COVxy posted...

Indeed, fundamental organizational principles are highy conserved across all mammals.

Yeah I use fMRI in some of my research and many of the regions of interest we map out are actually derived from primate studies.

UamChetoBeardXD posted...

Doesn't the knowledge of what different parts of the brain do come from brain damage victims? Seems there's a fair amount of things that can be studied involving no animals. The human brain is only slightly analogous to animals' brains anyway

The human brain is very analogous to other mammalian brains and that's why they're used for testing. Especially primate brains have massive similarities.

TMOG posted...

If you're doing the kind of research that requires you to kill the animals at the end, be it because you've ruined their lives to the point that it's the more humane decision or because "it's just what you do", then you don't give a single fucking shit about animal care ethics and you don't get to pretend otherwise.

I only work with humans but like I said I have a lot of colleagues former and current that use animals and you just can't throw this kind of stuff out there. Like I don't even eat animals, I really don't like the concept of animal suffering, but there really are not any alternatives for a lot of this research. You will pretty much have to go super vegan like McCartney's wife that died of cancer because she refused animal tested medicine to avoid the ethical dilemma involved with this. Animal testing is not something we can throw out without greatly diminishing our ability to do research, and yes you often have to sacrifice the animals.

I worked with human subjects when I did research at the University of Washington but I worked with many people who used animals and you go through a ton of animals in many of these studies. I never felt good about it but sadly I don't find 1500 animals to be very noteworthy. They breed a lot of animals onsite just for experiments. I only remember significant barriers for primates.

-BrokenSpiral- posted...

Thank you for doing a service to the world and serving as an example for why countries like my own (Japan) stomp out woke left-like mindsets as soon as they appear.

You sure you actually live in Japan, because a lot of media is incredibly "woke" here. I would say you see more LGBT, disability, etc. representation on TV in Japan on average than most countries. Shit I can't stop watching that lesbian drama about making food . That's the best thing on TV right now.