Sounds like avocado toast-ian blame-shifting to me. Just like the rest of these pieces, they ignore the obvious, horrible conditions of life, and choose to tut-tut at the abused for 'improperly' using their free time.

just like the avocado toast shit, the translation of these pieces is broadly:

Look away, reader, from the terrible low wages, high cost of living, and soul-crushing work hours japanese people are forced to endure. Focus your attention on these 19% of young people, who don't know any better, who you are better than. Laugh at these losers who admit that one time they almost couldn't cover their expenses!!

Let's look at the article.

Interestingly enough, while these results indicate that the popularity of in-game transactions may be increasing, the average amount of money spent on them is actually decreasing.

Hmm, could it be the actual problem is the immense increases to CoL young (and all) people have been under? I wonder why the article doesn't even bring it up? So curious 🤔

Oh well. So like, how much money are we talking about on gacha? How much are these 19% of young folks spending? Must be a ton eh?

Article doesn't say, but we do get these numbers

In 2024, young people spent an average of around 5,138 yen ($35.85 USD) on microtransactions per month while this year’s survey results state that the average amount of money spent on microtransactions is 4,247 yen ($29.63 USD) per month.

So it's not a lot, not really. I say again, this article is slop created to take your eyes away from the real problems of the world and victim blame the ones suffering under them.

What. THE.

FUCK.

What's with "As discussed"?

turn off your adblocker and it finds you

Man i was just told pc gaming would be dead in 5 years

Oh fuck how could i forget the legend Ken M? Thanks haha imma go look him up again

Some dorks in this thread are the perfect example of who potential protesters need to ignore.

I brought up "truckers blocking highways and important intersections" to my very good (but desperately clueless) friend. Violence free, requires few bodies, historically effective.

He said "but what about the people they inconvenience?"

I'm like dude. Inconvenience to power is. the. point.

I love him but he's a fool, guy thinks protests are people smiling and holding clever signs.

Sad thing is he's representative of a lot of people.

They'll be happy when things are better but idgaf about asking their advice. They don't read history, the closest theyll get to a protest is the news coverage, and they'll never be satisfied with less than some impossible dream of a "immaculate conception protestation"

So like, fuck em

I was shocked at first but then i was like "yeah, sounds right" and then i looked up the word count of this collection of stories and...620,000 words across over 2000 pages.

War and Peace only has 587,000.

amazed. I'm amazed. Thanks for showing me this.

I'd venture the problem's more the rich "landowners" took over both the voting apparatus (so voters only get to vote between reps the landowners approve of) and that the landowners also own the news, the best means to disseminate that information (keeping voters from ever understanding the level of power those landowners wield)

"How do progressives win? By being less progressive!"

Am i really reading this? Is it onion-adjacent? Is there a hidden camera somewhere?

My wife and i do a lot of game-cussin-at but if we start yelling at each other instead of the game we gotta do a kissin break

Can we please put a pause on the focus on social inclusion, and focus on defeating the fascists trying to own the world?

One does not preclude the other. There is energy for both inclusion and revolution.

In fact, revolution is inclusion, is mutual-aid, etc. It's a requirement. For every person "fighting" there are 10 more people supporting the people and the community that fascism and its shrinking safety nets leave behind

I just learned about this myself thanks to OP!

Made me look for more, found this site Click on those faces! Birber was terrifying. Elon looked gross. Ye looked the same!

So you are saying the studio is in some-kinna-in-between state? I can't think of the term rn

Maybe give him a peanut m&m

Women actually like vg yo. I would know, i got my wife into them when we met (she hadn't played games since she was a kid) and now, while i still take the crown in side-scrollin platformers and fighters? she whips my ass in shooters and it's not actually close.

years ago my sister and i had a game takin turns finding the most annoying song to force the other to listen to. i discovered this song and won, by her admission, forever

Haha, nice job helping your fellows cut thru the crap and protect themselves.

Unrelated but i remember being called into my managers office for not completing an "anonymous" survey (one of those where all the questions are how much your love your job) and when i asked "how do you know that?" She didn't have an answer. Eventually i filled it out larping as a bootlicker.

Corporate surveys are nakedly searching for exploitation avenues... Luckily corporate is also dumb as shit

Well, no you're not really an ally yet, far as i can tell. Fix your head. "Trannies" sheesh son

Edit for the thread: probably best to just block this cat, they're clearly enjoying themselves

Nah, i feel ya. I actually get empathetic physical reactions to seeing on-screen awkwardness