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That guy needs a copy editor. I couldn't make it through.

joshu 17y ago
I accidentally the whole article! You are in luck. a) The folks that produce Pokemon do some sort of game where you have to go to 95 train stations and get a book stamped with a symbolic Pokemon representing that train station. All 95 stamps get you a small chance at a plush Pokemon, or the opportunity to buy a commemorative plastic Pokemon cup. b) [He claims that] Japanese companies do not isolate successful and unsuccessful aspects of a successful enterprise, and instead think that "everything" was part of the success. So they can't cancel the stamp hunt. c) There's nothing about the games. Aside from the utility of having the number of collected pokemon be a point of competition between children. d) I can't believe I wasted those minutes and now I want them back. e) I want a firefox extension that lets me suggest alternate or additional meanings to chunks of text. In this particular case, entire paragraphs could have been condensed to a zero-byte string. Someone get cracking.
- nfriedly 17y ago
  > e) I want a firefox extension that lets me suggest alternate or additional meanings to chunks of text. In this particular case, entire paragraphs could have been condensed to a zero-byte string. Someone get cracking. Nuke Anything would do the trick for this particular case. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951 For the general case, firebug will let you modify content on the fly: http://getfirebug.com http://getfirebug.com
  - nfriedly 17y ago
    I'm curious, why was this voted down?
    - joshu 17y ago
      Because it didn't really answer what I was asking for?
- patio11 17y ago
  a) This is called a stamp rally, and they're fairly common in Japan, not just for Pokemon. They're extraordinarily popular because they combine tourism, the ability to demonstrate that you've been somewhere (if you go somewhere you have to bring photos and gifts back to the people who didn't get to go -- that is just how it is done), and completionism. You can also get a stamp for visiting every town in Mie Prefecture. (Think Kansas, with rather less tornadoes and white people.) And people do. b) Based on how many people were lined up at the Pokemon stamp rally stations during my last business trip to Tokyo 2 weeks ago, I don't think any rational marketing manager would cancel them.
  - joshu 17y ago
    Sure. I was just summarizing the article. And complaining about it.

joshu 17y ago

I accidentally the whole article! You are in luck. a) The folks that produce Pokemon do some sort of game where you have to go to 95 train stations and get a book stamped with a symbolic Pokemon representing that train station. All 95 stamps get you a small chance at a plush Pokemon, or the opportunity to buy a commemorative plastic Pokemon cup. b) [He claims that] Japanese companies do not isolate successful and unsuccessful aspects of a successful enterprise, and instead think that "everything" was part of the success. So they can't cancel the stamp hunt. c) There's nothing about the games. Aside from the utility of having the number of collected pokemon be a point of competition between children. d) I can't believe I wasted those minutes and now I want them back. e) I want a firefox extension that lets me suggest alternate or additional meanings to chunks of text. In this particular case, entire paragraphs could have been condensed to a zero-byte string. Someone get cracking.

nfriedly 17y ago
> e) I want a firefox extension that lets me suggest alternate or additional meanings to chunks of text. In this particular case, entire paragraphs could have been condensed to a zero-byte string. Someone get cracking. Nuke Anything would do the trick for this particular case. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951 For the general case, firebug will let you modify content on the fly: http://getfirebug.com http://getfirebug.com
- nfriedly 17y ago
  I'm curious, why was this voted down?
  - joshu 17y ago
    Because it didn't really answer what I was asking for?
patio11 17y ago
a) This is called a stamp rally, and they're fairly common in Japan, not just for Pokemon. They're extraordinarily popular because they combine tourism, the ability to demonstrate that you've been somewhere (if you go somewhere you have to bring photos and gifts back to the people who didn't get to go -- that is just how it is done), and completionism. You can also get a stamp for visiting every town in Mie Prefecture. (Think Kansas, with rather less tornadoes and white people.) And people do. b) Based on how many people were lined up at the Pokemon stamp rally stations during my last business trip to Tokyo 2 weeks ago, I don't think any rational marketing manager would cancel them.
- joshu 17y ago
  Sure. I was just summarizing the article. And complaining about it.