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"And this, except we don't ripoff the Indiana Jones theme."
I don't see how Hydelide disproves my angle.
The game was originally a dungeon-builder. It turned into a better version of Hydelide later on. Making it sound like he just got this idea from walking around a forest and then he made it isn't quite an accurate portrayal.
There are countless examples of japans collectivism backfiring on them
Especially in the games industry
Find someone whos played Metal Gear Solid Five and ask them what they think of it
Hideo kojima, brilliant creator got literally fired by his company halfway through writing it
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Japanese culture isn't beautiful. I really do like a hefty portion of it.
But given how good it is, it's really easy to cross into excessive praise of it where it's undue.
I've been there before, myself. I was once... A weeb.
Like, one of the interesting differences that I learned in Japanese class is one of the initial Japanese greetings. Their equivalent to 'Nice to meet you', our Japanese teacher (who was native and ESL, mind) translated it roughly to 'Please take care of me'.
The dungeon builder bit was probably AROUND the whole "No map" thing
And then they decided that was a little much.
(probably a better refutation)
It was impractical.
anyway a lot of people actually laughed at this translation, but when you really inspect it, there's an important cultural mistranslation. It's really more an equivalent of 'Please treat me well'.
The truth is, it's valid to say that Japanese is actually a rather polite culture, but it's also worth considering it's a culture from which massive amounts of violence have come as well. It highlights exceptionalism in it's modern incarnation, but that exceptionalism comes largely from a culture that doesn't tolerate failure.
There's a reason such a polite-seeming and considerate culture has such a high suicide rate.
Earlier I mentioned Window Seats.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with that expression.
Instead, if someone has failed them, they move their desks to the outskirts of the office, and basically pay them to look out the window.
It's the dirty side of the asset of 'getting out of the way'.
Day in, day out, no work is crossing your desk. You want to work, but all you've got is an empty desk. They don't trust you to work.
American culture might consider that to be a great job. Well paid to look out a window.
But to a culture that values exceptionalism, and performance, to be not given a chance is insulting.
on a fundamental level.
Sounds kinda cruel even to an American
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The reason the window seat thing might not seem cruel to a lot of americans
Things happening in Portland yet?
Just yelling and chanting
Could be, I suspect, because many americans are used to working their hardest and never getting recognized for it.
And therefore coming to Peter's conclusion in Office Space.
Why bother, if they're not gonna give a shit either way.
For no work with pay to sound like torture, has to come from *something.*
It pretty heavily stems from Samurai culture.