in Japan it's just so perhipheral, it's more or less just the feeling, like even if you go to a shrine and buy a charm they'll say "It's not the charm that makes it happen, the charm is a symbol and reminder for you to make it happen"

Sounds very Catholic

I wouldn't know, not very versed on Catholisism

I had a strange upbringing I guess

We have all sorts of trinkets

I like that kind of religious culture

charms and stuff

I have a 神棚 right behind me, it's a little shrine made of wood that you store charms in

*this is the office I'm in, all the stuff is for good business

I have a wooden cross made in the holy land

aah, we have a ceramic mesuza from Israel... but we have a metal door frame so we can't put it up 😄

dunno if we would though

and we don't have the fillament you put inside either

anyway, gotta run, lunch time

Later bro

you have a nice [inset time of day in your time zone]

Ragnarok are you a half Nam?

No

I'm all white American, my wife is native born Chicom

wwwww

@Ƶero i swear the commotion with that japanese guy getting captured feels like its something coming straight outta a japanese game show

What's the deal with Japanese game shows. They're all weird, and there's a lot of them

that's normal

Actually most game shows here are boring as fuck. The ones everyone seems to refer to are the ones that Beat Takeshi or Tunnels did

and those were basically pranks more or less

the only really fucked up stuff on Japanese TV is the stuff that Terry and his crew did. That guy is twisted. I can see how some people would like his stuff but I just find it mind numbing and weird.

Well but y'all had that one show where they get in a porta potty and it's actually an elevating platform that goes up and the walls collapse

watch Chinese cartoons

Calabash Brothers

Oh, there's Black Cat Detective, pretty bloody for a kids show

I like Teras House since it is like the anti reality tv show

So man in the US are like the ones parodied in God Bless America.

My favorite Asian kids show is Squirrel and Hedgehog

before 2010 chinese cartoons suck

after they 2k10 some of them have improved graphic, repeatitive 3D thingy

and most chinese cartoons were wuxia web novel adaptions

@Deleted User That was one of Beat Takeshi's shows

unless you're thinking of something newer

in which case I haven't seen it

you know what was good was London Hearts

back in the early 2000's they had some absolutely hilarious episodes