I was drinking Dr. Pepper when I read this after which most of it ended up all over my screen. I don’t know why it was so funny but I just couldn’t stop laughing.
Ummm, so you lurked for 4 years? 
A better way to put it would be that Daigo prolly lives within easy bus/train distance of an arcade that solid players of every single character can also access easily by bus or train or walking or bicycle or whatever.
japan usually wins the first tournaments cause they got the game first
so yeah
next year they’ll see :lovin:
yeah, I lurked for four years, I guess that makes me an idiot or something? haha.
Anyway, obviously the issue is far more complex than my post, I never said that my post was the complete picture.
For those that believe I’m making assumptions, that’s cute. Not that my argument isn’t based in any sort of research or anything.
Watching television documentaries and reading tourist guides can only get you so far, as far as research goes. Have you ever been to, or lived, in Japan?
There’s nothing wrong about making assumptions when you first start forming an opinion about something; why get defensive?
Cliffs?
Then what is it based on…if you feel that you aren’t making assumptions?
It’s just that what you said is basically the first stereotype that people learn about Japanese culture, and that’s pretty much all you said and just talked about it for a while. While the “group culture” thing might account for the first page or maybe even first chapter of a book on Japanese society, it doesn’t really mean anything on its own unless you clarify what you mean more.
It’s easy to cherry pick little bits and pieces from interviews, but like I said, by and large, these things don’t match up quite right. Like I said, there are people who skip out on family obligations to play games, which doesn’t fit. There are also people who lock themselves in their rooms to play video games and shit, which doesn’t fit. Sometimes to some Americans, Japanese peoples’ behavior seems downright antisocial in Arcades, because they won’t talk to each other or even look at each other when playing a lot of the time, which is why they’ll only face someone on a back to back cabinet rather than a side by side setup.
Like I said before, imo, the fact that they’re supposedly a “group oriented” society probably has less to do with the fact that they spend more time in arcades than the fact that they have small shitty apartments that they live in.
You kinda invalidated everything you said by mentioning the name of Melty Blood.
Did OP ever go to Japan? Just curious.
This is actually a good question…
because:
I’ve been living in tokyo for 6years now, and this is actually EXACTLY the opposite on EVERY point you are randomly trying to make!
Japan is a collectivist country, this is correct, but it’s in fact pretty socialist.
Japan would be in the top 3 of the countries with the highest percentage of lonely people (= no friends, no wife/girlfriend, no kids, family lives miles away and almost no contact).
And most of the poeple there would betray all their friends, kill their parents and eat their children just to be congratulated by their fucking boss!
besides, they suck at every team-based sport! (except baseball… but even there, they are no match for USA).
They have the hardest time in the world communicating with each other, pretty much everything they say is coded and doesn’t express their true feelings.
Nope!
opposite again! …it’s a competition based darwinist society where you need to be the best, even it means fuck your mates over!
Yep, that makes more sense already! ^^
I lurked at the pvponline forums for 3 years before I posted!
First time I heard of srk was on gamepro back in like what 99/2000? but the site originaly was very simple and didnt interest me in the least. I thought there would be combo tutorials and what not, and the forums didn’t interest me much either. Now that people like gootecks and others are posting videos, interviews with top players, videos of top players in action, the community can’t help but grow…but I could careless of join date, what matters is your gameplay.
the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic champions would like to have a word with you.
Assumption- an assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts.
Dictionaries are your friend
Yeah… they were lucky a couple of times. :rolleyes:
I think he was referring more to the perception of MLB being recognized (even in Japan) as the premier league for professional baseball in the world.
But I see your point about the World Baseball Classic (and I think atryu knew about it anyway, seeing as he lives in Tokyo.)
But they’re not cool like SRK.
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