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Hideki Kamiya shits all over Kotaku

Catatonic said:
I think the issue here (specifically with this event) - is that Luke took something he said out of context, and blew it up as being an example of how an entire country views something.

Imagine if someone did that to you. Took one little thing you said (and got it wrong) and was like - well this is a perfect example of how your country/culture is, and how they view things. Maybe it's just me, but I think that's really annoying and disrespectful.
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Of course, but is expected from you to control yourself...
 
Shinta said:
People freaking out about "foreigners" is just the ultimate irony. Japanese gaming, and all of Japanese culture has been smeared on these blogs basically every day for the last several years. Even just yesterday in the thread showing off Platinum's 2013 lineup I remember one commenter saying "Just when you thought it was safe to ignore Japanese games ...." and no one called him out for it. Kotaku runs shit culture articles every day to try and make Japan seem as fucked up as possible, only picking the weirdest shit.

Kamiya lashes back once after their article basically uses him to call all of Japan "clueless," and you guys act like you give a damn about xenophobia now? Give me a break. It's getting to the point of reverse racism because if anyone's been the victim of constant bashing and race-based generalizations in gaming this gen, it's the Japanese.

Just look at the comments on that initial Kotaku article on Kamiya's comments, merely saying he's not interested in PC gaming. "Just when I thought Japan couldn't be any more behind than they already are ..." and on and on.

Cry me a river. Oh no, he said "foreigners."
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Can we have children? I may be a man but I can try to bear a child for you. ;_;
 
Kotaku updated the article and reworded the headline, also stating they where in the wrong for writing the original headline...at least they owned up to that
 
Kamiya is acting like a child. A playful one. Could be the reason why his games are so damn fun to play.

Still, I'm kind of surprised at the shit he says sometimes. Is he drunk all the time or something?
 
Despera said:
Kamiya is acting like a child. A playful one. Could be the reason why his games are so damn fun to play.

Still, I'm kind of surprised at the shit he says sometimes. Is he drunk all the time or something?
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More like his english is limited to a few select words and phrases :)
 
gfdoom said:
Kotaku updated the article and reworded the headline, also stating they where in the wrong for writing the original headline...atleast the owned up to that
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I can bet if it weren't for Kamiya putting them in their place, that would have never happened.
 
Despera said:
Kamiya is acting like a child. A playful one. Could be the reason why his games are so damn fun to play.

Still, I'm kind of surprised at the shit he says sometimes. Is he drunk all the time or something?
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That sounds like Itagaki. It's great that we had Kamiya substituting for him this gen.
 
Kotaku sucks. We know that. I'm not going to endorse Kamiya's idiocy by praising his infantile responses. He could have taken the high road and presented some intelligent, insightful responses. Instead he did this. Hurray for him.
 
gfdoom said:
Kotaku updated the article and reworded the headline, also stating they where in the wrong for writing the original headline...atleast the owned up to that
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Yeah but the new headline isn't really much better.

The article is conceptually flawed. I'm not sure they understand that...
 
Baconsammy said:
Kotaku sucks. We know that. I'm not going to endorse Kamiya's idiocy by praising his infantile responses. He could have taken the high road and presented some intelligent, insightful responses. Instead he did this. Hurray for him.
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Nah. Why should he waste his time over an article that was based off extremely flawed analogies to begin with? I do agree he could have toned down the vulgarity.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
It's banned on most Japanese TV stations. It may not have been when he was prominent, but it's the equivalent of "negro" over there now.

But yes, context is important.
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You don't know what you're talking about. It is not even in the same league as "negro" or any worse variant.

You also hear it all the time on Japanese TV. Sure, you won't see a newscaster say it, and you probably won't heart it much on NHK, but that doesn't mean much.
 
Baconsammy said:
Kotaku sucks. We know that. I'm not going to endorse Kamiya's idiocy by praising his infantile responses. He could have taken the high road and presented some intelligent, insightful responses. Instead he did this. Hurray for him.
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Because sometimes people just need to be told to go fuck themselves.
 
MCD said:
Kamiya is one big unprofessional baby.
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its fucking twitter (a personal account no less)


If you want professionalism, go to a company's web page

If you want to know what's on someone's mind and other useless information, go to twitter, Facebook, etc...
 
Valnen said:
You totally agree? So there are lots of big budget japanese games on steam then? Because last I checked they're still console exclusive for the most part.
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Capcom has been pretty good about porting their biggest releases this gen. Good ports too.(People shit on Capcom alot but they have been leading the charge in Japanese game PC support)

Seems like Konami is entertaining the idea for Metal Gear and Bandai Namco has announced the Dark Souls 2 PC version with the console ones.

Baby steps, but progress is definitely being made
 
Baconsammy said:
Kotaku sucks. We know that. I'm not going to endorse Kamiya's idiocy by praising his infantile responses. He could have taken the high road and presented some intelligent, insightful responses. Instead he did this. Hurray for him.
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That sounds like something that could be in an article.

edit: You know, like if they had actually contacted him.
 
TheBaronOfNA said:
But he is cool because he made some video games that I like...



YEAH!!

He can be as obnoxious as he wants and not be called from it. He is above criticism.
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He can be as obnoxious as he wants because he is on fucking twitter, not speaking at GDC or something. On top of that he is constantly being harassed by both fans and random dicks who thinks that he makes every game at Platinum.

On top of that that article is from Kotaku, and it is even low for Kotaku standards. Oh no, he said "and some stupid fucking foreigners". Going by the responses he got, I'd say that he is being fairly accurate in his descriptors.
 
FlashbladeGAF said:
its fucking twitter (a personal account no less)


If you want professionalism, go to a company's web page

If you want to know what's on someone's mind and other useless information, go to twitter, Facebook, etc...
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Taking Twitter too seriously can be seriously detrimental to public discourse.
 
TheBaronOfNA said:
I really thing nobody right know is defending Kotaku or having that discussion...
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Well, Tabloids are being brought up, and the comment you responded to initially (duckroll's) has to do with Kotaku's misreporting, its two separate issues that for some reason are being discussed in a single thread.
 
FlashbladeGAF said:
its fucking twitter (a personal account no less)


If you want professionalism, go to a company's web page

If you want to know what's on someone's mind and other useless information, go to twitter, Facebook, etc...
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What a lame excuse for poor behavior

ITS THE FUCKING INTERNET WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!!
 
Baconsammy said:
Kotaku sucks. We know that. I'm not going to endorse Kamiya's idiocy by praising his infantile responses. He could have taken the high road and presented some intelligent, insightful responses. Instead he did this. Hurray for him.
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What? Baconsamson you be saying some bullshit all the time let kamiya win this.
 
traveler said:
Are you serious? "Stupid fucking black idiot!" is obviously racist, regardless of whether the label used is pc/non-PC. Context is everything; it's not liking he's identifying which of the stupid fucking idiots before him is truly stupid, where a label might actually serve some purpose- he's specifically making it about the foreigner nature of the people in question when stupid fucking idiots would serve just as well. Kamiya is one of my favorite developers and I like seeing Kotaku get put in their place as much as anyone, but how are his latter comments in any way defensible?
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What do you mean am I serious? That guy compared what Kamiya said to someone saying, "fucking foreigners can't drive for shit." That would only be a fair comparison in a situation where all of the people driving like shit were foreign, in which case, it may be a fair statement (albeit offensive).

You say context is everything, so you shouldn't ignore that pretty much all of the people fucking with Kamiya on Twitter are "foreign" from his perspective. He doesn't typically get retarded spam in Japanese (unless it was created by Google translate).
 
Baconsammy said:
Kotaku sucks. We know that. I'm not going to endorse Kamiya's idiocy by praising his infantile responses. He could have taken the high road and presented some intelligent, insightful responses. Instead he did this. Hurray for him.
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it's Kotaku, they don't deserve an intelligent, insightful response. I support Kamiya's childish response.
 
Trike said:
He can be as obnoxious as he wants because he is on fucking twitter, not speaking at GDC or something. On top of that he is constantly being harassed by both fans and random dicks who thinks that he makes every game at Platinum.
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He can, you know, no answer them at all...

On top of that that article is from Kotaku, and it is even low for Kotaku standards. Oh no, he said "and some stupid fucking foreigners". Going by the responses he got, I'd say that he is being fairly accurate in his descriptors.
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Sigh... I;m not defending Kotaku at all...
 
Mihael Mello Keehl said:
What? Baconsamson you be saying some bullshit all the time let kamiya win this.
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I'm not representing a company. When I tell you to cradle my saq, I'm just embarrassing myself.

BotoxAgent said:
it's Kotaku, they don't deserve an intelligent, insightful response. I support Kamiya's childish response.
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No, they don't, but in doing so all of us spectators would have gotten one, and then Kotaku would have looked even worse. Now it's just a slap fight.
 
params7 said:
I can bet if it weren't for Kamiya putting them in their place, that would have never happened.
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I def' agree with you on that one! And he had every right to be angry at what was written about him. Hell I know i would, especially from a site that has so many readers.
 
I find Kamiya refreshing. Dude is human, he has a good job and he is cofident in his ablilities to make good games so I'm cool with hearing exactly what he has to say. If someone pisses him off then I'm cool with him telling them to eat shit, just as I am when he has good/nice things to say to people outside of Japan which he has done many, many times.
 
blame space said:
b-but my butthole.. is more fertile.. please, choose me..
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