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literally the only people he knew in his life were yakuza-men. i dont even think he went to school
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Expect My Mom posted:literally the only people he knew in his life were yakuza-men. You'd think Akiyama had at least heard of usury. "Oh yeah, I give interest-free loans." "Wait, how do you make money, then?" "......I'm sorry, what do you mean?" univbee fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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Apr 3, 2018 17:43
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Yakuza are bad people, I don’t like them.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:54
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Jay Rust posted:Yakuza are bad people, I don’t like them. Neither does the entire nation of Japan. You are persona non grata basically anywhere if you have tattoos, or happen to be missing the pinky finger on your left hand.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:56
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tbf Kiryu isn't ever "actually" a yakuza for more than a tiny part of any of the games. Both 0 and 1 start with him getting outed through conspiracy or circumstance. e: which is probably why in Japan the games are named after him ("Like a Dragon") rather than the yakuza.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:57
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Motto posted:tbf Kiryu isn't ever "actually" a yakuza for more than a tiny part of any of the games. Both 0 and 1 start with him getting outed through conspiracy or circumstance. And most of at least the later games have him vehemently denying being in the Yakuza for various reasons.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:00
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who's the yakuza who looks like kazuya from tekken. he might have an eyepatch too i don't remember
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Apr 3, 2018 18:02
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univbee posted:Neither does the entire nation of Japan. You are persona non grata basically anywhere if you have tattoos, or happen to be missing the pinky finger on your left hand. I didn’t know about that pinky thing. There’s probably a decent comedy to be made about some hapless chef or something who cuts off his finger by accident, then gets swept away into the wacky world of the Yakuza politics and intrigue
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Apr 3, 2018 18:03
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Nina posted:Somehow I had no idea the lead designer on Telltale's Batman is Michael Kirkbride of all people. Does that game at least have good writing? The actual parts where you're Batmanning around are kind of dull though and I felt like the last two episodes of the first season focused more on that than the more interesting Bruce Wayne parts, on top of the writing just seeming a little shakier in these two episodes in general.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:05
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oddium posted:who's the yakuza who looks like kazuya from tekken. he might have an eyepatch too i don't remember Kiryu has the slicked back hair, Majima has the eyepatch.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:06
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Jay Rust posted:I didn’t know about that pinky thing. There’s probably a decent comedy to be made about some hapless chef or something who cuts off his finger by accident, then gets swept away into the wacky world of the Yakuza politics and intrigue I would imagine even if you royally hosed up as a chef you'd probably only lose the tip of the finger and not the whole thing down to the knuckle, or would be more likely to mess up with your other, longer fingers. I think it's when you're missing fingers from the left pinky "upwards" that it arouses scrutiny. Jonathan Ross' Japanorama BBC series had them interviewing an ex-Yakuza who was missing two fingers and who paid several thousand US for functionally useless prosthetic fingers that looked extremely realistic, specifically because people kept giving him a hard time about being in the Yakuza (even though the only reason he had cut off those fingers was specifically to be able to leave the Yakuza). He even had multiples that were different shades to match how tanned he was at different times of the year.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:08
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Something Awful can't last forever, maybe we could all join the Yakuza to stay in touch
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Apr 3, 2018 18:13
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I made a really bad post and now I gotta cut my pinky off 
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Apr 3, 2018 18:15
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Dr Cheeto posted:I made a really bad post and now I gotta cut my pinky off
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Apr 3, 2018 18:16
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Dr Cheeto posted:I made a really bad post and now I gotta cut my pinky off Lost fingat ritual. Raxivace posted:With your medical expertise you should be able to reattach it though? It will be perpetually covered in orange cheese dust, though, a fate worse than losing it outright.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:17
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Help Im Alive posted:Something Awful can't last forever, maybe we could all join the Yakuza to stay in touch The SAkuza.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:21
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Is ELEX a good game? It is $25 right now on Steam. Was wondering if anyone here has it and how they enjoyed it? http://store.steampowered.com/app/411300/ELEX/
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Apr 3, 2018 18:26
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goferchan posted:Lol where the hell would you get the idea that they aren't taxed on their stream revenue? They are, and probably at a way higher rate than anybody with a normal old W-2 job I didn't know Twitch tracked revenue internally, I thought they did it based on PayPal who file a 1099 automatically if you make over $20,000. But it's not a question of not paying, it's a question of what's actual "taxable income" and that's why I said the average full time streamer has to be really tax savvy. As a self employed person you can write off the equipment you use, travel expenses, the space you work in, and continuing education. Streamers do a lot of giveaways and promotions, those are deductible. And the smart ones incorporate for further protections.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:26
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I said come in! posted:Is ELEX a good game? It is $25 right now on Steam. Was wondering if anyone here has it and how they enjoyed it? http://store.steampowered.com/app/411300/ELEX/ Do you like jank rear end open world Euro RPGs Gothic and Risen? If so you'll love ELEX.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:29
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Nina posted:Somehow I had no idea the lead designer on Telltale's Batman is Michael Kirkbride of all people. Does that game at least have good writing? the first season is ok, the second is some of telltale's best material
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Apr 3, 2018 18:30
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al-azad posted:Do you like jank rear end open world Euro RPGs Gothic and Risen? If so you'll love ELEX. I really didn't. :/ I do like the setting of ELEX though, but as far as post apocalypse settings go, I might want to just stick to playing Horizon Zero Dawn.
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I said come in! posted:Is ELEX a good game? It is $25 right now on Steam. Was wondering if anyone here has it and how they enjoyed it? http://store.steampowered.com/app/411300/ELEX/ No it sucks and I like jank. They don’t do anything cool with the setting or the factions either.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:33
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Taintrunner posted:No it sucks and I like jank. They don’t do anything cool with the setting or the factions either. That's a bummer. I'll wait until it's free on PS+ or included in Humble Bundle Monthly.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:36
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Jay Rust posted:I didn’t know about that pinky thing. There’s probably a decent comedy to be made about some hapless chef or something who cuts off his finger by accident, then gets swept away into the wacky world of the Yakuza politics and intrigue A japanese director in the 80s famously made a comedy of manners about yakuza blackmailing folks via excessive "politeness". It was a modest success and various yakuza leaders were pissed about their representation as buffoons so the director was assassinated. Pretty hosed up
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https://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.htmlquote:DEPICTION OF THE YAKUZA
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Jay Rust posted:I didn’t know about that pinky thing. There’s probably a decent comedy to be made about some hapless chef or something who cuts off his finger by accident, then gets swept away into the wacky world of the Yakuza politics and intrigue You never heard of western cartoons asked to be edited to add an extra finger so their characters don't look like Ex-Yakuza?
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Apr 3, 2018 18:46
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Samuringa posted:You never heard of western cartoons asked to be edited to add an extra finger so their characters don't look like Ex-Yakuza? They did this for Crash Bandicoot, even.
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Apr 3, 2018 18:48
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I like the word slam for objectives/enemies in this Yakuza game Had a good laugh when GOONS just slams onto the screen given the current conversation
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Apr 3, 2018 19:02
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Samuringa posted:You never heard of western cartoons asked to be edited to add an extra finger so their characters don't look like Ex-Yakuza? Huh. I knew about Yakuza cutting off fingers but this is the first I've heard of this. Neat.
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Apr 3, 2018 19:14
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i remember a news story a couple years back about two yakuza families regretfully canceling their annual kids' halloween outing because they (the yakuza, not the kids) were in a turf war at the time it's an odd business
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Apr 3, 2018 19:17
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What kind of crime does the real yakuza do? I know the (American) mafia does extremely boring crime like laundering money through online poker, because boring crime is where the money is. I think the Sicilian mafia still does protection rackets, but then they actually protect the people who pay, making them basically the police
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Apr 3, 2018 19:19
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cheetah7071 posted:What kind of crime does the real yakuza do? I know the (American) mafia does extremely boring crime like laundering money through online poker, because boring crime is where the money is. I think the Sicilian mafia still does protection rackets, but then they actually protect they people who pay, making them basically the police google brings up extortion, protection rackets, sex trafficking, gambling, real estate, and construction as someone who lives near NYC i can confidently say those last two are by far the most heinous
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Apr 3, 2018 19:22
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According to Wikipedia they do wacky stuff like intimidating stockholders, but then they sometimes deal with drugs and human trafficking, not so fun
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Apr 3, 2018 19:22
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A lot of the talent agencies/entertainment biz are yakuza as far as I'm aware.
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cheetah7071 posted:What kind of crime does the real yakuza do? I know the (American) mafia does extremely boring crime like laundering money through online poker, because boring crime is where the money is. I think the Sicilian mafia still does protection rackets, but then they actually protect they people who pay, making them basically the police Really the same stuff as most mafias. Money laundering and loving around with legitimate/semi-legit businesses is there, as are protection rackets. I think they're really heavily involved in Japan's sex industry, from porn to really illicit human trafficking poo poo. Like most organized crime rackets, they have a weird relationship with (mostly right-wing) politics and a half-shade of legitimacy that street gangs and lone criminals don't.
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Apr 3, 2018 19:25
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there used to be a long screed on the oddworld site about pissed off Lorne Lanning was about having to change the number of fingers on Abe's hand, and calling the Japanese a bunch of extortionists. abe also has the whole burakumin thing going on though
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Apr 3, 2018 19:25
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in the end abe becomes prime minister so there's that
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Apr 3, 2018 19:26
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oddium posted:in the end abe becomes prime minister so there's that 
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cheetah7071 posted:What kind of crime does the real yakuza do? I know the (American) mafia does extremely boring crime like laundering money through online poker, because boring crime is where the money is. I think the Sicilian mafia still does protection rackets, but then they actually protect they people who pay, making them basically the police Not totally dissimilar. They are implicated in construction projects a lot, to the point where despite roads in Japan being phenomenally expensive due to the cost of the land they have to be built on (apparently 80% of the cost of building a road in Japan are just for obtaining the land), a lot of superfluous roads exist in areas specifically because the Yakuza strong-armed the project into happening, creating jobs  They can be involved to varying degrees in the seedier adult entertainment side of things, like hostess and soap bars. On the more tragic and skeezier side, it's also apparently not uncommon for young pop idols to be horribly indebted to them due to decisions their parents made without their knowledge, and wind up having to effectively become prostitutes for private clients. I think drugs and similar illicit goods are a bit more limited in availability since Japan is an island nation so it's much harder to smuggle things in and they legally don't gently caress around with even simple pot possession. Firearms I think are similarly very very difficult to get your hands on and I don't think you'd have a good avenue for getting one without being in the Yakuza proper. There is at least one Japanese movie (by Kurosawa, in fact) and one Chinese movie, about police officers losing their firearm and the bullets within, and everyone making GBS threads a giant brick because a single small handgun with three bullets in it are unaccounted for  As I said before, the general public is extremely against them. Basically every onsen has a sign indicating you can't go to them if you have tattoos (how they'll interpret this in circumstances where the person is obviously not Yakuza, due to not having a full back tattoo and being obviously not Japanese) varies. The rental agreements I signed when I lived there always had a "we reserve the right to unceremoniously throw your rear end out if we discover you're a gangster" clause. univbee fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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oddium posted:in the end abe becomes prime minister so there's that
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