Eikaiwa veteran,former co-host of Tokyo Game Chat on YouTube and #Nerd#Geek#Otaku#Japanophile ⛩️🗾 My experiences are not definitive. Your mileage may vary.
.I appreciate everyone who follows me on this platform. Thank you. I don't think I'm anyone special but I like that I can spout off about games (positively & negatively) and interact with a peer group who are equally passionate 🎮👍😊
#VideoGamesAreGreat
.Watching a live stream of Torigoe Matsuri ⛩️ 😁
Japan is fighting hard to keep its traditions alive...while my country can't seem to destroy its traditions fast enough. 😔
.State of Play:
Onimusha 👍
Kemuri...maybe 🤔
Wolverine: Ugly character designs. Creative director should be ashamed.
Who at Insomniac thought these are commensurate?
.When I see someone's video or hear them talk about their first experience in Japan 🗾, it hits hard.
There are restless pieces of my soul still floating around Tokyo 🗼. If you feel them looking 👀 over your shoulder, I apologize.
Jason's wrong, wow.
Spoiler-
It's the consultancy firms. Localizers. Activist speakers. Sensitivity consultants.
Mo-Cap actors. Face models. Body models. Dub actors for 8 languages.
The game awards. Hollywood actors. CGI trailers.
Youtuber cameos. Corpo-press goody-bribes.
It's the hiring of multiple social media interns.
It's the presence on social media at all.
It's the purchasing of rights to popular I.P.
It's the purchasing of rights to licensed music.
It's the purchasing of rights to celebrity likenesses.
It's the constant need to produce five-hundred cosmetics for live-service games.
The constant need to maintain servers and infrastructure for live-service games.
The constant need to work on new future content for live-service games.
The constant need to moderate and police communities for live-service games.
The constant need to push out marketing and trailers for live-service games.
The constant need to maintain new content for live-service games.
I could go on forever, but this more than covers it. "Labor costs" my ass. Stop wasting your labor costs on irrelevant nonsense and get back to making great, solid video games that real people want to buy and play, and suddenly your "labor costs" aren't an issue anymore.
.My 50+ hours Oblivion save contains a game breaking bug that cannot be reversed and the only solution is to start over.
I uninstalled NTE after seeing at least 6 different systems to progress through, just to play the game.
I think I'm done with these massive time sinks.
I finally made it to WAFFLE HOUSE.
The staff are always friendly, and when I asked if they would sell me a menu, they sold me one for $5.
Next time, I’ll be back at 3 a.m. for fight time.
#WAFFLEHOUSE