i haven’t ever been to japan, but if i go, i will be worried that people might think i might be one of those mario kart dickheads
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I think the tourist’s experience is about the same, though there are a lot more of you. Service might be worse just because the service industry is severily understaffed (they could just pay people more…)
Like Akiba of 13 years ago is definitely gone. But you can still find records and animes and games and the few arcades left are hearty and strong (I think…) but the pop culture presence of VIDEO GAMES has lessened a lot.
Like the food is still great, public transportation works, it’s still safe as anywhere on Earth. I definitely like Yokohama more and more, and any trip to Tokyo comes with a sigh and a resilence because well the tourists are gosh dang everywhere and they really are sitting on people’s doorsteps throwing cigarettes and iced coffees down the sewer drain!
The city has gotten more crowded so taking your suitcase on public transporation has upgraded from inconvience to absolute hassle and stress for everyone involved.
I’m going to keep being here certainly, watching the last strips of Retro Gaming and Heisei/Post-War Life fade away, documenting them when I can.
Also eatting every Taco and Burger I come across because I am me yum yum.
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Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1) and Ridge Racer[s] 2 (PSP), also known as the best ridge racer games OF ALL TIME, are now available independently from the PS+ Premium subscription for PS4 and PS5
paging @Rudie
edit: Tekken 2 & Mr. Driller also released from PS+ Premium prison
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Jeez finally
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apparently you might get R4 / Tekken 2 free if you bought the old PS3/PSP versions on PSN? reports seem to vary by region, though, so YMMV
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fucked up that these are apparently the only ridge racer games on ps4
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Small Saga out November 16, 2023.
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Hooo boy, that sign was not there when I went in april though the tourists sure as hell were
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I was there in May and everyone and everything seemed very nice
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Ridge Racer Type 4 was free for me to add to my PS5 library. The next question is does it emulate system link to play with my PS4.
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Having played a ton of the first psp RR, RR2 is like an expansion pack (in a good way) and I am loving it. PSP he’s looking a little weird blown up like this, but that’s OK (mostly around the 2d UI resolution) because this game feels so good. I’m already almost done with Basic Tour.
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they put a horrific bilinear filter on every 2D element. it is appalling
sometimes during a replay it toggles off for a second so you can see what it would have looked like if sony hadn’t shit the bed
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sony
we shit the bed.
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exactly, word by word, what i was yelling before scrolling to this very post
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i know talking about Kotaku on here (or anywhere else on the internet) at all is a dangerous proposition, and i don’t really want to discourse about this further tbh but just dropping this here since i didn’t see much of a reaction:
tbh it just seems like a terrible job in a lot of ways. bad clueless management, the internet is completely negatively obsessed with you for having anything to do with the site, etc. i know a lot of people who worked for these media companies being sad about the decline on social media but so many of them seemed like unpleasant places to begin with.
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Depends on what time you begin with, right? Pre-Hulkomania, the Gawker sites seemed like the shining promise of Internet journalism: “lifestyle” beats (games, sports, women, etc.) taken seriously, substantive national entry level jobs for people whose parents aren’t on Wikipedia, freedom - encouragement! - to shit on the rich and powerful where they’ll actually read it. I’m not going to say they were all that, but I get why people who worked there would feel like it.
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The daily neverending vitriol for working for Kotaku seems like it would outtake any benefit outside of “I can pay rent and eat food this month.”
Also that they have started having AI written articles on there.
It is the game news website I check every day but now it is very low on my bored check rotation. But how will I know 10 things never to say to a Mass Effect player…
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yeah - like there’s a part of me that’s still very upset that this whole landscape of publications like Kotaku helped throw a lot of blogs and legitimately alternative media under the bus. but at least i don’t have anywhere near the scale of amount of weird people utterly obsessed with me that virtually anyone who regularly wrote for the site (esp any woman) has.
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I’m really surprised patricia lasted as long as she did. she’s been getting shit on for like a decade now it feels like. back to freelance! I hope she finds her footing
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it’s pretty depressing to think about how bad the internet is
I mean, kotaku was always bad, so this really has nothing to do with it, but there are layers to bad here
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