I honestly don't think that thread is as bad as it can/usually does get, but it's certainly a large scale propagation of a BS stereotype. Whatever, I'm actually not that upset. Just more reasons to avoid the general areas of GamingGaf.
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I honestly don't think that thread is as bad as it can/usually does get, but it's certainly a large scale propagation of a BS stereotype. Whatever, I'm actually not that upset. Just more reasons to avoid the general areas of GamingGaf.
KirbYuuYuu
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Yes, watch anime.
Anyway, as much as I don't like the whole 10/10 post, YOU KAWAII ASS MOTHERFUCKER ALMOST FIRST POST thing, it's hard for me to make an approach since it's still mostly on topic. I just wish that they contributed beyond someone making a snarky post. It's worthless frankly.
Anyway, as much as I don't like the whole 10/10 post, YOU KAWAII ASS MOTHERFUCKER ALMOST FIRST POST thing, it's hard for me to make an approach since it's still mostly on topic. I just wish that they contributed beyond someone making a snarky post. It's worthless frankly.
KirbYuuYuu
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Rephrase that please.
I kind of wish just quoting posts with "lol" "first post wins" or other worthless comments was a moderatable offense, but it's not something you can work with on as large a scale community as gaf. Just have to live with it.
Like most of you have said, the original post wasn't what bothered me so much as the endless circle-jerk of "OMG" "Should have been first reply!" and other such posts in reaction to it.
It wasn't even a clever joke. There were probably numerous people lined up to say the exact same thing.
It wasn't even a clever joke. There were probably numerous people lined up to say the exact same thing.
Basileus777
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The beauty of megathreads is that there are no first posts, /threads, or any such nonsense.
We have better ways of threadshitting.
Chet Rippo
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But he was first.
I think that it would be less offensive if the thread were about a game that was disproportionately popular in Japan relative to other territories because, yes, there are certain games that resonate with the otaku market there and nowhere else. However, the fact is that The Last of Us is universally popular over all territories, and yet no one would ever imply that it is popular in America, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, or Australia for any reason other than the fact that it is a good/well-marketed game. The fact that Japan is singled out in the belief that those who are purchasing the game have an ulterior motive for doing so seems to me to be racially-motivated for this reason, albeit casually.
e: I know that TLoU's success in Japan is a surprise partially because even non-otaku gamers typically purchase few Western games, but I still don't think that that fact alone is enough to justify implied accusations of pedophilia.
But he wasn't first.
gashikunFLCL
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Ojamajo Doremi - 10
Dela is going to be rich very soon with all her business with MAHOdou.
Eventually word would get out
I wonder when MAHOdou
Dela is going to be rich very soon with all her business with MAHOdou.
Eventually word would get out
of their part-time job, since all their clients were from the school.
will get a client who isn't related to the three ojamajos.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
This is it folks! The end stretch! Summertime is coming!
KirbYuuYuu
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Kingdom challenge awaits!!
It really depends on how they say it and in what context. I mean, the fact is that Japan does have a disproportionately large market for creepy goods- I can't personally think of another 1st-world country where porn depicting underaged fictional children is openly sold. That's certainly not a justification for racism or painting everyone in Japan, or everyone who watches anime, as a creep, but the unfortunate fact is that Japan's reputation as haven for creepy consumerism is not unearned.
firehawk12
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Stop sexualising Ellen Page.
Didn't they make a movie about that?
Chet Rippo
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First to make the joke.
Man, the Ellie looks exactly like Ellen Page/She looks nothing like her argument in the Reddit Ellen Page TLoU thread had some pretty choice moments.
KirbYuuYuu
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Valverave and Gargantia.
Basileus777
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The best shows this season are:
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
The Devil is a Part-Timer!
Valvrave the Liberator
Railgun S
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
I can accept this as a valid counterpoint. Can we at least agree that even if it's not racist, it's at least very cynical to automatically assume that pedophiles are behind TLoU's success?
Aren't the Uncharted games typically fair sellers for their genre in Japan? I think it's infinitely more reasonable to assume that Japan has its own small and dedicated contingent of Naughty Dog fans at this point.
Without reservations: Hunter x Hunter if you aren't watching it already and Valvrave
With reservations:Attack on Titan if you can deal with shit pacing and Aku no Hana if you can deal with the strange rotoscoping. Story in Aku no Hana is pretty fantastic.
I've only really watched Hataraku Maou-Sama, but I've enjoyed it.
KirbYuuYuu
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I've never been one to pay attention to the sales in Japan for Uncharted, considering I'm not a fan of what was produced under that label
hosannainexcelsis
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It's becoming increasingly untrue that no Western games sell in Japan anyway. There's a relatively substantial Call of Duty fanbase there.
It would definitely be unfair to say that pedophiles are behind its success. I don't think that post went that far, it was just a dumb joke.
Aku no Hana and Gargantia.
I think people underestimate how well Japan likes Western action adventure games. They don't do amazing, but they do fairly well for a western product over there. Really, the only Western product that Japanese gamers seem to reject out of hand are our first person titles.
hosannainexcelsis
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Flowers of Evil/Aku no Hana is top-notch character drama/psychological horror.
Basileus777
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The joke wasn't that bad, it was the 2 pages of backslapping and "OMG" , "Should have been first post!!111" that shit up the thread.
I don't trust Gaming Side to see the distinction, honestly.
I've definitely noticed that. Doesn't Japan even have reverse-XSEED equivalent companies now like Spike that localize Western games for a niche audience?
KirbYuuYuu
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As noted earlier in this thread.
There's a substantial Call of Duty fanbase there? Changes even my perception. Interesting. Learn something new every day. Yeah, the "Japanese gamers only play Japanese games" generalization has been outdated for a while.
Well, that's more of a general GAF problem.
Chet Rippo
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It's not like it doesn't happen in here either.
They don't publish the games themselves, but 8-4 just started doing english to japanese localizations fairly recently and it seems that that side of the company has been growing at a fairly rapid pace.
KnightBuster
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The only airing anime I've consistently been watching this season was Haiyore! Nyarko-san W (and that's a sequel series). Still, it's super fun and filled to the brim with anime and toku references, so it made me giddy. Kind of sad to see it end. T_T
KirbYuuYuu
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Westenese?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Aku no Hana and Gargantia. Rest was meh.
Certainly, but it definitely has less of an effect here due to the thread speed. In threads on the gaming side, those posts sometimes take up to like a 1/3 of the thread space or more. It's far more detrimental in smaller threads.
Awful Falafel
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The dumbest part is how Ico, the universally praised game from japan about protecting a girl, will inevitably get yet another lttp thread with all the praise and none of the snark.
Whoa, that's actually really awesome. All gamers deserve the opportunity to play international games without having to master a second language.
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