Brother Make posted:

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Brother Make posted:

NEET doesn't enter anything into a computer. He writes it down and puts in a box for someone else to later enter into the system.

https://www.meanwhile-in-japan.com/useless-people-japan/

Devils Affricate posted:

Maybe I'm just a bad person or something but I legitimately do not understand why he got banned for this. I read the whole thing and thought it was pretty funny, kinda reminiscent of oldschool SA front page content.

StealthArcher posted:

You don't know what convinced you that a porn CYOA about tweens at a summer camp was your magnum opus, but I guess now nobody ever will.

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McGavin posted:

You got a typo in "balloon".

Brother Make posted:

Haifisch posted:

lol, but also OP had stopped translating comics like a year before that perma. Other goons picked up the NEET slack.

Mackerel Cornflake posted:

Unless you're a huge Godzilla fan or have studied Japanese, her last line requires some cultural context in the original language.

She says 「これだから昭和は。」, "Kore dakara Shouwa wa.", "That's why the Shōwa era..." or "That's why [people from] the Shōwa era..."

(It's one of those ambiguous Japanese sentences that ends with a subject particle. In English it kinda comes across as finishing a sentence half-way through your thought, but it's perfectly acceptable in Japanese, which is so context-sensitive that often you can just omit verbs and be perfectly understood. So I'm kinda making a logical leap here to infer what she means, but I'm pretty confident I know what she's getting at.)

Shōwa refers to the years of reign of Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989), whose imperial name was Shōwa. In ye olden tymes, Japan used an imperial calendar system, so instead of having "the year 1600 A.D.", they had "the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Keichō". The imperial calendar system was largely abandoned as Japan entered modernity, but the imperial names themselves persist today as a useful way to divide up historical epochs and criticize the young'uns for "not being as industrious as the Shōwa generation." Or criticize giant monster movies: "The original Shōwa Godzilla films have an energy and sense of fun that the Heisei and Millennium films simply can't replicate."

The Shōwa era covers some of the most turbulent events of Japanese history: Ultra-nationalism, the American Occupation, the Great Economic Miracle, all the way up to the eve of the Bubble Economy Collapse.

So this assistant, in an indirect way, is calling the producer a relic, an old-timer, a dinosaur. In her mind, she's characterizing him as a barking general of the 40s or a heartless industrialist of the 60s. She sees his behavior as unreasonable and out of touch with contemporary Japanese mores, a kind of embarrassing relic of a by-gone era.

So she's kinda saying "Okay Boomer."

Or maybe I'm just projecting too much.

Brother Make posted:

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Haifisch posted:

This is why instead of ramen, we're just going to start calling it Japanese noodle soup.

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R.L. Stine posted:

it's the same clock from the very first page lol the master of continuity has done it again