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LngBolt posted:A lot of the best anime is actually political commentary. Akira and Ghost in the Shell are two examples. GitS the OTA has good enough political comment. GitS manga is just completely saturated with political gibberish. Akira the manga too. As for Akira the movie, I can't bring myself to compliment it. Apocalyptic ending is way too typical in anime endings. I feel Japanese popular media have to navigate too many tabooed subjects so while there are many of them there aren't many great ones. The best is probably....Kachō Kōsaku Shima.
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They got the name wrong though. It's 钓鱼岛 or 釣魚臺。 What the gently caress, lets burn Foxconn!
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Kenishi posted:Man that pisses me off in so many ways. And I know that leading reason why they ruled this was probably because the plaintiff was Chinese. Are you being a racist, or just being a Japanese? I can't tell.
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Bloodnose posted:Why isn't the pachinko middleman technique used for any other type of gambling? It sounds like you could run a full Vegas style casino on the principle. Pretty much every country's gambling law is hosed up and make no sense.
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Aug 27, 2014 12:43
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I thought Abe was not going to do it this year because he wants to talk to Xi in a up coming economic summit?
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Aug 27, 2014 16:25
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Koramei posted:How the hell do they justify that? He thinks he will get enough right wing votes to ignore the part of the Japan who want to make peace with China/Korea. Also he thinks restarting the military industry including military export is a viable economic strategy. Badger of Basra posted:Washington and Jefferson maybe, but there is no way a sane person could say that Jackson was not a war criminal. whatever7 fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 18:19
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How come Singapore's debt is so high. Are they buying all their high tech submarines and casinos on credit cards?
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Aug 27, 2014 21:43
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7c Nickel posted:I do not expect Japan to make it to the 2020 Olympics without some serious poo poo going down. Japan keeps dumping money into the economy to keep it going, but it does so in a really lovely inefficient way due to vested interests. This might be tolerable if Japan's economy was still growing, but due to a lovely women/family unfriendly business culture and a xenophobic populace that prevent much immigration, the population is declining and with it any chance of growth. Combine this with the fact that the populace is aging and it gets even worse. In 20 years, the main export of Japan might be horrifying news stories about the impoverished elderly being eaten by wild dogs while scavenging for food. With a robot caretaker though, that I can count on.
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Aug 28, 2014 00:00
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Rexroom posted:Still, when it comes to attitudes, we still think of robots more in the likes of Terminator rather than Wall-E. And that isn't probably going to chance for some time with the advent of military drones. (btw, aren't most robotics projects done in the US funded by the US military?) In that sense the openness the Japanese have for robotics is still pretty unique. They were but then google brought them all up. Of course you can argue google will change its name to 'Skynet' in any moment.
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Oct 10, 2014 13:51
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Rexroom posted:Depends if you still believe in their mantra of not doing evil. I have ported my phone numbers to google, I can't afford to think otherwise. 
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Oct 10, 2014 16:07
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Bad software is a cultural thing. Japanese companies are bad at work for a open platform and open protocal. For something that's closed, propritery from 1 company, its competitive. For example, some of Japanese game studios can still make top tier games, although its getting rarer.
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Oct 12, 2014 08:04
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Games aren't really comparable to other software development though. The vast majority of game studios are using one of 4 or 5 middleware packages and basically creating art and string assets plus doing a bit of scripting. Developing enterprise software is a whole different ballgame. The inability to use middleware or write reusable middleware is precisely the reason every Squareenix Japan developed game is 2-4 years late. Pretty much only Capcom has competent modern game coding practice.
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Oct 14, 2014 05:05
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If you simply compare android firmware/skin/user apps, China > South Korea > Japan. Even lovely China OEM like Lenovo or ZTE have better software than Sony.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:16
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If Konami's coders was so good they wouldn't have nuked the original Raiden game and hired Platium studio to make another one from scratch. Kojima is also the Japanese business example of old guys hoarding their positions and resources forever and the young guys will never have a chance to have their own creative output in an extremely dynamic business. Al least kojima can get away with it for being an auteur.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:20
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icantfindaname posted:... Panasonic and Kyocera keep making Andrpid phones, the phones are just too terrible to be released in oversea markets. Oh, Nikon made a terrible Android camera too. If Japan mega CE companies didn't merge out all the competitions, I bet Japan would have been more competitive in the current software-oriented CE business. I bet Aiwa would have made a better smartphone than Sony. whatever7 fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 17:13
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Robot nurse, hurry the gently caress up Japan.
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Oct 23, 2014 02:02
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icantfindaname posted:Japan hasn't actually literally been stagnant since 1990, they hosed up the response to the early 90s recession pretty bad but they did return to mild growth for a while in the late 90s and 2000s up to '08. Plus that's just GDP, incomes also continued rising faster than GDP growth for a while. 1990 is just when the US realized that they weren't magic Oriental supermen who were going to take over the world and the country dropped from the US consciousness to be replaced by bombing Arabs full-time Nah early 90s was when the whole East Asia figure out it was pretty easy to copy what Japan was doing. There is no reason why Japan has so much production trade revenue, being in the further part of the trade route.
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The Japanese emperor has always been a national mascot sort of thing. lovely rear end Bahrain royalty in a tiny city state has more power.
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