I consider myself very familiar with the Japanese culture
I consider myself very familiar with the Japanese culture
It's just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners 
Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude
I had once wanted to do a private film streaming within my own private Discord server, but a japanese in the group objected to it, saying that Discord TOS did not allow us to stream films, and if we did that would be piracy.
I encounter plenty of anti-piracy nerds day-to-day. What makes this dude so special it warrants handwaving their whole country? My brother complained about piracy for a time I downloaded a movie to watch in a place without broadband. I finally bought a digital copy on Google Play just to shut him up about it.
These
dweebs are absolutely everywhere.You can't fool me- your brother's clearly also Japanese
a japanese
a Japanese
When people drop the noun meant to follow the adjective they are almost always telling on themselves about something, in this case racism
What? This is the stupidest shit ever lol. How is this racist? If referring to someone as “an American” or “a Kenyan” or “a French” is not racist, why would saying “a Japanese” be any different? Japanese is literally the noun and adjective depending on how you want to use it just like any other demonym
That guy shouldn't have said that but I see plenty of Japanese people who are fairly fluent in English say things like "As a Japanese" or "I am a Japanese and I..." It appears in quite a few youtube comments and other social media comments from what I've seen. They'll also say it out loud in interviews and stuff.
The most anti-piracy people I know are all white
crackers love to argue you with in cyberspace that blocking ads is immoral
using google like a social media website and furiously typing in "emulator illegal" into the search bar to make my voice heard
Anyone who thinks Japanese people always follow rules should take a short drive on the highway system, especially in Tokyo where doing 80 in a 50 zone is extremely common. Afterwards they can drive the surface roads and count the number of illegally parked cars illegally idling with engines on.
Yes. I spent some time living in northern Kanto, which is famous for its car dependancy, and absolutely everyone drove 20-40 KPH above the limit. Sixty KPH (which is generally the highest speed limit outside of highways) is equivalent to around 37 MPH, so I don't blame them.
エミュレーター 違法 is now only the 4th auto-complete suggestion. The first is エミューレーターとは (What is an emulator?) I guess there's been a sudden surge of lawlessness in Japan.
I've never understood this particular kind of "Daddy Nintendo please notice me!" corporate bootlicking. Nintendo is a shitty company that does shitty anti-consumer things all the time, they just also make good games. These people act like if you ever criticise nintendo in any way shape or form the flow of treats will cease so we must never say anything negative about them. With the guy above tossing in a bit of Orientalism as well.
"Sir, do you not understand that STEALING is wrong and unethical no matter who you steal from?"
I'm pretty sure there's some variant of "are emulators illegal" in search engine auto completes no matter what language you search in.
Actually google's autocomplete is a window into the gestalt consciousness of the yamato race
Citing a gigacorporation to prove how not-brainwashed-by-gigacorps I am
I mean, a lot of people probably do search "are emulators illegal" before they become "they're for my backup copies
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As someone who has played a couple Yakuza games, i consider myself very familiar with Japanese culture. Most people's days involve getting in random fist fights while walking between caberet clubs, restaurants, Club SEGA arcades, underground cage fighting arenas, and karaoke joints
Japanese people don't go to a hospital after getting brutally beat up in a street fight, they just eat some yakisoba and feel a lot better.
Yup. Also, the real estate business is super easy. Mostly just about beating people up, and hiring peoole you've met in your adventures. Yeah, getting into adventures randomly as you're walking around is super common over there. Its part of their culture
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but a Japanese in the group
When someone uses $ethnicity without the word person or equivalent following it up, you can just feel the racism oozing from their very soul.
but a Japanese in the group objected
This phrasing kinda has similar vibes to someone insistently calling trans people “the transgenders.” It’s such a weird, petty way to signal bigotry and ignorance.
I thought so too, but then I sort of realised that it's pretty normal "a german, a frenchman and a swede walks into a bar" doesn't sound weird. Nor does "I met an american yesterday, they were very loud".
"A japanese" still looks weird and signals weirdo energy, but it shouldn't. I wonder why?That’s a fair point!
I think it could be the -ese at the end. “A chinese” has the same weird vibe whereas “a korean” sounds better, so I don’t think it’s (necessarily) the history of bigotry against East Asians that makes it sound off.
To me, the -ese ending kinda implies that the speaker is referencing a group. Words ending in -ese seem to lean more plural by default and using them to refer to singular individuals feels off, at least in my opinion. English is a very strange language though and I could very easily be wrong.
well I remember my grandma saying similar things but shortening Japanese to 3 letters... my grandpa was in WW2 and she never let go of that hatred
This is also exactly the way someone who speaks japanese natively would talk in english as it’s a direct translation.
It's less that it's a direct translation and more that a natively Japanese person isn't likely to be aware of the vaguely racist vibes "a Japanese" has to a native English speaker
There is no word that means just "Japanese" in Japanese. 日本人 specifically means Japanese person and is just the words Japan and person smashed together
"A Japanese"
Yes that was a cringe comment so who knows if the story is true.
But regarding the point over piracy it is not entire impossible, you know Japan is one of the places where they will criminaly persecute people for piracy and I totaly understand, specialy if you're not particularly tech savvy, someone become paranoid over being put into some random criminal "investigation" for watching pirated shit on Discord.
The part about "Japanese culture" aside, the discord story is plausible to me as pathetic as it sounds.
Yeah, Japan's copyright laws fucking suck ass and I can't blame anyone living there for sweating about getting caught in their sham of a criminal justice system
I’ve had so many weebs try to tell me that Japan doesn’t give a shit about copyright laws based solely on the way the names of certain stands from JoJo’s bizarre adventure had to be localized in the west lol.
I think it stems more from how a lot of companies turn a bit of a blind eye towards fan creations when in reality it'd just be far more damage to their public image going after stuff for close to no actual gain. Though from rumors I've heard the Yakuza connected with horse racing were making threats towards people that drew the girls from Uma Musume naked which is kinda funny TBH.
Dude 100% watched youtube history videos and anime and concluded he knew everything
weebs genuenly treat japanese like they are a different species, it's wild.
Is this Sean Connery, noted expert on Japan from the 1993 action thriller film Rising Sun?
discord guy sounds like a massive fucking nerd ngl
just tell them you bought a license
... but a Japanese...
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Ok so this may not be the majority, but I have seen this kind of behavior from Japanese people personally. An example I can think of when someone I know wanted a Japanese person to help them reading a novel. They basically wanted a native to help with any grammar/vocab points, etc. The Japanese person really wanted to make sure that the book was purchased legally (the person I knew obv pirated the book and just lied about it). Another example I can think of is Japanese game streamers will always mute the stream if they are playing a game section where a copyrighted song is played because they fear Japanese copyright laws (e.g. playing Kingdom Hearts but muting during the opening theme). I've also been to a small Japanese library/bookstore where I was maybe 15 minutes past the closing time but they were having some sort of group activity in there, so all the staff were still there. I bought some books, so they had no problem with that, but when I wanted to check out some books, the lady told me "come back during the hours we're open." In my mind I was like "yeah but you're all still here and it's not like you've closed anything down."
To be fair I've also seen this sort of rule-following in a few Chinese ppl I've interacted with (Chinese ppl in China not in the west).
But then again I've also seen Japanese ppl that don't really give a fuck and will stream whatever on Discord, and plenty of Chinese people pirate the shit out of things so I don't know the numbers here.
And it goes without saying that the most annoying rule-followers are the LIBS that inhabit the top tiers of western society.
Another example I can think of is Japanese game streamers will always mute the stream if they are playing a game section where a copyrighted song is played because they fear Japanese copyright laws (e.g. playing Kingdom Hearts but muting during the opening theme).
Not trying to dunk on you but have you just started watching twitch or youtube? This is something everyone on these platforms has to do because the automatic copyright systems these platforms use are so ridiculous that a 5 second clip of copyrighted material can allow permament theft of the revenue of hours of content. Youtube lets the copyright law of all states effect everyone easily.
Yeah non-official streams of the Game Awards are like 75% the streamer muting the audio do avoid copyright strike.
i live in america. people are like this here.
I don’t get this thread. Did everyone forget japan’s notorious corporate and conservative culture? They absolutely do adhere to the rules. Whether it’s voluntary or because of pressure or fear is another story. I would never want to be an employee over there, especially with the way they treat non white migrants.
Have you ever independently confirmed this by talking to Japanese people and people working in Japan or have you only been exposed to whitey writing about Japan?
I worked in Japan for a Japanese company for a few years. The working environment was pleasant, people left at 5:30 and nobody was ever yelled at or abused that I saw. None of these things I can say about working for Westoid companies in countries that ostensibly have better work culture.
Like yeah, "Black companies" do exist and some people do work horrendous hours under poor conditions. That's hardly a Japanese thing is it?
It's still iffy to imply they as a people are bunch of corpo loving drones
i worked for a season in southern japan. aside from a nepali guy and i, everyone i saw and interacted with was a native-born japanese national. in japan i am illiterate and my spoken japanese is functional for very basic needs, but terrible. i lived in a dormitory and worked with a team of like 7 other dudes every day, 6 days a week. they were also the guys i ate meals and generally socialized with. it was outdoor manual labor work, so poor language skills matter less than being able to crack dumb jokes, understand basic directions, and promote safety on the jobsite.
when i was getting ready to leave for this trip, i was talking to a friend of mine who lived for two years in japan. he was super excited for me to go [described japan as "fucking crazy" with total affection] and eager for me to report back on experiences in a rural community. he told me before i left that nothing would irritate me more when i got back than the honkey weebs who "learned japanese to watch anime" and think that the weird anime they obsessively watch is accurate in its portrayal of people and that their consumption of these specific entertainment products has gifted them a comprehensive familiarity with an old, complex and varied culture. i remember thinking this was a weirdly specific thing to be annoyed by.
i have been back for 10 years and ill be goddamned if he wasn't 100% correct. a friend of a friend is a total weeb freak and they drive me nuts. they post hiragana in text chat conversation where no one else can read it (cool brag i guess?) and describe all their idiosyncrasies and preferences as "japanese". they have supposedly taught themselves japanese, but when asked if they are ever going to visit (they are crazy well-off), they are confused why someone asked because they have no plans to do so. they did it to watch more anime. their fetishized and narrow understanding of a place is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
