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by gryson 6y ago
This is an excellent piece of research on game history by Phil Salvador. Well worth reading.
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by gryson 6y ago
Trying to assign strict genre labels to games is probably not the right approach here. Many games contain aspects of 'iyashikei' games. Persona 5 is a good example. Half of the game is spent doing 'ordinary life simulation&#x
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by gryson 6y ago
Oops - made a mistake here. The American side wanted the PlayStation to be WHITE, not black. I went back and checked the book. Quote: >First he [Michael Schulhof - CEO of Sony Corp of America] objected to the color of the console. [He] i
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by gryson 6y ago
I wouldn't say that the Japanese side of Sega wasn't aware of the issue of pricing the console too high. In fact, Hayao Nakayama often spoke of this in 1994 - he was very sensitive that a high-priced console would not sell in Amer
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by gryson 6y ago
>I don't have any real evidence of this but my intuition is that Sony allowed their American arm more latitude and gave them more credibility with regard to designing the market strategy. In reality, the exact opposite happened. Ken
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by gryson 6y ago
This narrative has been pushed quite heavily by former Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske, but it leaves a lot out. Kalinske claims the Japanese president of Sega, Hayao Nakayama, forced him to launch the Saturn in NA before Kalinske was read
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by gryson 6y ago
One thing not directly touched on in the article concerning Sega: Tetris initially reached widespread popularity in Japan through the arcade version made by Sega, which was released at the end of 1988. It was awarded "best arcade game
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by gryson 6y ago
In regards to the issue of selection bias, this is what the ad looked like: https://twitter.com/foxjust/status/1251270848075440133 Quote from ad: "We are looking for participants to get tested for antibodies
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by gryson 6y ago
On the contrary - detecting selection bias of this sort can be very difficult. Do you measure it using a questionnaire? You might ask your subjects "Do you think you previously had COVID-19?" But what do you do with that response
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by gryson 6y ago
What adjustments were made to account for selection bias of the sort described? It's not covered in the paper, and "well-established science" certainly doesn't answer the question.
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by gryson 6y ago
"We recruited participants by placing targeted advertisements on Facebook aimed at residents of Santa Clara County..." I wonder if these ads mentioned the purpose of the study, or if that information was only given out after initi
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by gryson 6y ago
Is there research supporting that (specifically in reference to native literacy rates)? Would be curious to see it.
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by gryson 6y ago
Why is it ridiculous? Why does it need to be cleaned up? I'm not sure what the problem is (I don't think I would classify you not finding it visually elegant as a problem). If anything, the Japanese writing system is very elegant
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by gryson 7y ago
>Nintendo had dial up modems and their own intranet in 37% of Japanese households in the mid 80s? That Wikipedia link says that the Famicom (NES) was in 37% of households. Nintendo only shipped 130,000 modems, a tiny percentage of the to
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by gryson 7y ago
> Can anyone explain why did they do this? Was it just to prove their hypothesis? I bet this guy had really high numeracy scores as well. It's likely a predetermined exclusion criterion (although they should explicitly state that).
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by gryson 7y ago
Heritage Auctions is having floor bidding on March 6, which is where the value will really be decided. But a copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $100,000 last year. This thing is going to go for a lot more. Just browse Twitter if you need so
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by gryson 7y ago
The high bid is now at $200,000, 8 hours after your comment was made and 12 hours after the link was posted to HN (when the highest bid was ~$30,000). This is expected by many to be the highest valued item ever sold at auction in the game c
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by gryson 7y ago
Yes. The same is said about the Sega-Sony deal, which Sega is often criticized for not following up on. The accounts of former executives make it clear, however, that it was too risky to work with Sony due to their ultimate motives. Sony wa
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by gryson 7y ago
For more recently uncovered information about a possible deal between Sony and Sega, read: https://mdshock.com/2019/03/18/sega-and-sony-new-insight-int... That article also gives insight into why Kutaragi&#x2
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by gryson 7y ago
I think that it's an acceptable use of the term. Even if people consumed it before that, if they weren't aware of it then its existence could still be discovered. It's along the same line as "Isaac Newton discovered grav
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by gryson 7y ago
I think much of the fear surrounding monosodium glutamate (MSG) simply comes down to its common name being a chemical. Imagine saying "pass the sodium chloride" at the dinner table. Meanwhile, in Japan, MSG is commonly referred to
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by gryson 7y ago
I imagine for something like a diploma mill (or not too far removed), where a dissertation may be required to get the degree but there is little genuine advising or research taking place. I heard a story from an outraged faculty member at a
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by gryson 7y ago
You're saying that running an emulator on a PC violates UK copyright law? Even if the game is loaded into the emulator from the original media? I'd be interested in a source for that.
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by gryson 7y ago
That makes sense. Hopefully it can be fixed, since geminates are one of the most difficult features of Japanese pronunciation for native English speakers to master. Erasing it from the orthography intended to aid beginners certainly doesn&#
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by gryson 7y ago
Most Japanese electronics stores including Yodobashi Camera have point-based discount systems. If you have a membership card, you get 10% of your purchase back in points, which can be used on the next purchase. Of course, prices can still b
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by gryson 7y ago
In Japan, confessions are intended to work as you suggest: >Article 38 of Japan's Constitution categorically requires that "no person shall be convicted or punished in cases where the only proof against a suspect is his/he
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by gryson 7y ago
Taken from Wikipedia [1], citing the paper "Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?" by Ramseyer and Rasmusen. >In the U.S., the federal government employs 27,985 lawyers and the states employ another 38,242 (of which 24,7
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by gryson 7y ago
Technically, the police have 23 days to charge someone before they must be released. In serious crimes, police can (and likely will) re-arrest the person on a different charge. I very much doubt that the police have held someone for months
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by gryson 7y ago
Why is it a requirement in nations with strong rule of law that prosecutors make mistakes? This logic is baffling. Could it not simply be that prosecutors in Japan are very, very careful? Of course, as others have said, the reality is that
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by gryson 7y ago
Yet in most states in the USA, recordings are not made.

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