TIL Doctors cannot write legibly nor manage a basic queueing process.

Are you talking about platform exclusive content?

I didn’t play very many old school fighting games.

As best I can tell, Vega was a boss in SF2, but a playable character in later iterations of the series.

If your complaint is that… games in popular IP /series will do fairly regular releases with not really too much substantially different between each one…

This is a thing that went on 20 years ago, and still goes on today.

Mario Kart 8… 9? 10?

Are we at Call at Duty 24 now, I think?

Hey, are you intetested in Madden… 31?

Pokemon versions… latest silly pair of opposing concepts?

Yeah this is dumb and stupid, but its not a thing that is different between nowadays, and ye olden days.

How in the fuck has no one yet said:

No Microtransactions.

No Gacha Games (literally 50% of current year gaming).

No Games As A Subscription Service.

No Games With Perpetual DLC (that are each as expensive as other entire games).

Oh I’m not trying to say that the book/movie is trying to say everyone will go through a kind of violent psychosis upon gaining enough self awareness… just that its a potential.

Kinda like stochastic terrorism… stochastic psychopathic terroristic burnout?

Exactly.

The… the norms here are bullshit, both from the PoV of ‘I am a consumer’, and also from the basic professional etiquette of ‘this is a business meeting/exchange’.

Fuck, like… I got a statement from my insurance the other day, saying they didn’t cover 1 of the two sets of glasses I got.

Called em.

Do I owe you money?

No, your optometry provider might bill you later though.

Ah ok, cool, thanks!

… and its been 6 months and the optometrists have yet to send me a bill.

Not my problem! Bank Health Cabal Error In Your Favor!

It is a… comical approximation of:

どういたしまして

Dō-i-ta-shi-ma-shi-te

Roughly:

Dough Ee Tah She Ma She Tay

… but all said rapidly, together.

It means “You’re welcome”, but is maybe slightly more formal than it is casual.

The joke is that it is maybe what a native English speaker would hear, when a native Japanese speaker says “You’re welcome” in Japanese.

… It does not hardly make any sense in text alone, it makes a lot more sense if its actually spoken aloud.

The reverse of this kind of thing… is how a bunch of English terms /phrases have been oddly/poorly translated or transliterated into ‘Engrish’.

Most Japanese people I have met have a very good sense of humor about this kind of thing, they think its funny that, without a lot of practice speaking English, they suck at speaking English, and vice versa, native English speakers with no practice speaking Japanese, suck at speaking Japanese.

Like, uh, ‘Engrish’ itself as a term… is a thing, because in Japanese, they do not have such a distinct difference between ‘L’ and ‘R’.

They use a sound that is roughly in the middle, in between L and R, they usually never learn or use the two as distinct sounds, if they grow up speaking only Japanese.

(Though this could be changing somewhat due to modern internet culture / communications?)

So… they often struggle to learn these two distinct phonemes, sort of how a native English speaker would struggle to learn maybe some of the phonemes in other languages, that either are not present or are very rarely used in English.

You tend to learn phonemes, the building blocks of words, distinct mouth sounds… you learn them best when you are young, its much more difficult to get your brain and mouth to learn new phonemes when you are older.

Oh, your bureacracy is complicated?

Cool, I don’t care.

Tell how much this is gonna cost before I obtain the service.

Can’t even come close to doing that?

Fraud, as far as I’m concerned.

Ah that works!

Yes a… reverse weeaboo, hahah!

I mean the guy I met had different facial hair, was maybe 10 to 20 ish years older than this person, but … maybe?

Maybe there are more ‘Ameriboos’ than we realize.

EDIT:

I should probably clarify that the guy I met in the bar, and the guy I met on the hill were totally different people.

Don’t know much about hill-sama, but bar-kun was… well lets just say most of our conversation was about karate, he claimed he was a fifth dan black belt… i am a first dan black belt, a novice in comparison… and he demonstrated his credentials rather convincingly.

He also said was exiled/former yakuza. Had a busted knuckle, told me that he’d fucked something up, and that his boss, instead of taking the finger, hit him with the blunt side of the… presumably a wakizashi… and then basically exiled him from Japan.

My nickname for him was ‘yokai’, which he found very amusing.

Seattle is wild place if you just walk around everywhere.

Oh my god, ‘Eat a duck I must’, I’m using mouthwash atm and that almost made me do a spit take, that’s amazing lol!

Unfortunately I cannot see the image, ita not loading/displaying right for me, and I’ve also not heard of Rawhide Kobayashi.

I don’t disagree, that is the more direct way to understand the scene from uh… like a perspective of ‘what is happening, why is it happening’, in relation to how the plot functions and progresses.

But if you go a bit deeper, into ‘why is the author having the plot work like this, why has the author used/created this kind of a character, what, if anything, is the message or lesson or moral they are trying to convey’… I guess my first comment is how I answer those kinds of questions.

Writing a plot that makes sense and is at least logically consistent, possible/plausible, that’s one thing.

Another thing is to do that, but in such a way that the specific plot beats, character decisions, they’re all designed to ultimately convey a more complex idea by illustrating an engaging scenario that demonstrates it, as opposed to just directly stating that moral or lesson.

Of course, media analysis/critique is always subjective.

I just didn’t preface my entire first comment with ‘Well, I think that…’ or ‘In my opinion…’, partially because I am autistic and tend to be blunt, but also partially because it comes across as more certain and confident, and is thus slightly more convincing, rhetorically.

So that right there is me trying to demonstrate my kind of analysis of author intent… on myself.

What is this, some kind of … office-space?

Same. =(

… The entire fucking planet basically is.

https://economictimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/chem-/-fertilisers/indian-urea-producers-shut-plants-as-iran-war-cuts-lng-flows/articleshow/129439647.cms

This is the entire fucking doomsday scenario that has been predicted by the ‘Limits to Growth’ type models, its just that they predicted it being caused basically by the dynamics of ‘more mouths to feed’ + ‘all the easy to get oil and lng has already been got’ = food prices raise dramatically -> mass famine.

So… this just accelerated that, by taking something like 20% of the world’s inputs required for growing food, and taking them offline… likely for at least half a decade, even if the war ended right now, simply from the damage done to extraction/refinement facilities.

You can’t sustain the human population of this planet, in its current economic configuration, without mass use of chemical fertilizers in industrialized agriculture.

This is basically why Mike Rupert killed himself, he figured this out in his own way around 2 decades ago, and then basically became immensely depressed.

You knock a bunch of fetilizer plants offline?

Well, now, you’re looking at famine for tens to hundreds of millions of people, unless extremely competent emergency response plans are enacted.

… Is there any kind of way to translate the uh, intent, of the phrase ‘brother from another mother’ into Japanese, without it being extremely literal, lol?

I doubt that the sing-songiness of the phrase can be kept in translation… but maybe that is possible?

So I don’t know if this is coming through, but it is also causing a line break, for me at least.

Do you see the same thing, or, does it not cause a line break for you?

A different kind of hug of death.

I am genuienly curious as to the composition of your ‘De Minimis Internet Fuckups’ category.

‘CoPilot’.

Dear fucking Christ I hope not.

I mean, this is exactly what that scene is trying to convey.

That… this dude is weirdly interested in ‘co-worker music’, he’s like, aggressively bland… and then he fucking snaps.

Hell, Bateman even literally says that one of their albums was too mainstream, too generic.

Bateman is totally vapid and hollow inside, and is desperately trying to find meaning, evoke an actually interesting response, but all he knows how to do is pantomime a cariacature of the perfect wall street socialite type.

So, you carry that forward, and the analogy works out to roughly: everyone whose entire life is wholly about fitting in to corpo culture, keeping up with the jones’s, everyone who is a ‘coworker music’ type of NPC automaton, ‘my personality is a couple Tiktok trends’ type person…

… they all have the potential to have this same Bateman style psychotic break, if they ever become… self-aware enough of their own lack of actual, genuine identity.

Probably not, no, Wendy’s has been shutting down a fairly wide swath of locations.