JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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randomenigma
What annoys me the most (since this has turned into a survey of sorts in the comments):
People talking at high volume on the phone. Thank goodness Japan got that one under control. It sure as hell isn't under control back home.
People talking at high volume between themselves, or worse, across the isle, optionally with one of them facing backwards to see the other. If you want to talk, take up a pair of seats next to each other. I haven't decided whether it's worse if you can understand them or worse if you can't (I experience each situation roughly equally as often.)
People who board a bus and demand a seat, and then get up 1-2 stops later and alight. Walking two stops is not hard. Refusing to walk one stop is just lazy. I could understand old people perhaps needing to do this, but old people are not the only ones doing it.
And last but definitely not least, the fat guy/gal who thinks that he will fit between two people on a 3-seater.
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randomenigma
kurisutofu, no... it's because the policemen are men too.
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randomenigma
Women?
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randomenigma
This is actually a fallacy, this limit is for virtual memory (per application), not for RAM.
There is a 4 GB limit for Windows 7 which is enforced in software to prevent people using it as a server. The server OS (Windows Server 2008) will go to 64 GB even on the 32-bit version.
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randomenigma
No, but then again neither should anyone else under the same circumstances. Celebrities aren't special, but that works both ways.
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randomenigma
Which problem? The problem of people doing it, or the problem of girls falsely accusing guys of doing it?
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randomenigma
Hey, if they want to do it, let them. I (and presumably many others) will just not use those news sources and go for the free ones instead.
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randomenigma
I guess if you didn't do something, you wouldn't remember doing it.
Posted in: Ex-cop arrested over rape in underground passageway
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randomenigma
I don't blame the parents... I blame the government for making the kind of law which makes what she did illegal.
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randomenigma
There are cosplay shops in Shibuya though, gogogo. And the two they mention are very much that kind, not fashion.
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randomenigma
I have been following the news of all this with great interest over the past months and am surprised to see an article appear about it on a mainstream site, as it's very minority news which would normally only appear on similarly sized sites.
First of all, I have two minor concerns with the story itself:
The story might be lumping all visual novels which happen to contain dating themes, into the "dating simulation" umbrella. It should be clarified that dating simulation only really covers games which actually simulate dating, which is largely speaking games where you take day to day actions to try and win the girl. Visual novels which are nearly 100% prose and offer limited choices do not fit into this category. They are great, though, and I am a VN reader, not a dating simulation gamer.
"Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" a dating game? I don't think so. The topic comes up but you definitely can't "get the girl" in the way you are thinking. Its themes are pretty violent but you never get to see any of it (not counting the anime, obviously.) It isn't simulation either, and actually the game isn't even a branching plot. It's more like an extremely involved detective novel.
Then I have two issues with the world itself ... problems with the things which have been happening in the world lately which are mentioned in this article.
This underlying fallacy of "rape games lead to real rape". It's a fallacy for three reasons, (1) it has never actually been proven yet is being spoken of as if it has, (2) the same does not appear to be occurring for murder games to anywhere near the degrees people are suggesting, even though murder games are a MUCH bigger industry and (3) implying that all men are rapists, merely waiting to be tipped over the edge by a single computer game, offends me greatly as a man.
Japanese sites suddenly (and xenophobically!) blocking access just because a few people in another country have issues with their stuff, upsets me a lot. Some of us are not as conservative as that lot and still want to know what games are coming out so that we can plan to buy them in the future. They are even forsaking their Japanese native users who might not happen to live in Japan. Absolutely shameful. It started with Minori but a whole collection of sites have followed suit now.
If you got this far, thanks for reading. If you want more news on this stuff sooner instead of waiting for it to appear on major news sources, you probably already know the best sites for it. But I'll plug Encubed and Sankaku Complex anyway. Use Google to find their respective addresses.
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randomenigma
Now they just need to drop the price on the PSP Go, which is what .. a whole $50 cheaper than the PS3 Slim?
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randomenigma
She needs thigh highs to perfect the look.
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randomenigma
It has a special screen.
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randomenigma
Half joking means you are half serious.
Without computers, we would have to resort to going to real porn stores to get porn! Unthinkable.
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randomenigma
Get people off Skype, more like it... and onto SIP.
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randomenigma
Humans would happily kill a dog just because it looks like the dog is in pain, yet they wouldn't kill a human even if the human in question asks them to. I find this weird, so yes, I would support it.
Murder under the guise of assisted suicide... maybe it would happen, who knows. You would have to assume that to prove it is assisted suicide, some party would need to be there to witness it, otherwise you would just presume it's murder. Of course, the witness could be corrupt too, but I'm sure once it gets to the point where you have corrupted authority figures, you can pretty much get away with murder without jumping through those kind of hoops.
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randomenigma
"Micky-D", LOL. People actually say that?
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randomenigma
What's wrong with school uniforms?
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randomenigma
Drinking yourself stupid isn't really a problem but alcoholism is something different. Even if you only have three drinks, if you have to force yourself not to have the fourth, you are an alcoholic. This applies whether you succeed or fail in forcing yourself, the distinguishing thing about alcoholics is that this is difficult to do.
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