Also the sales are down during a rather substantial global economic downturn. Frankly, the numbers look ridiculously good when you consider that context.

Oh noes. Sales gradually fall during a global recession following what looks like an artificial peak (likely created by "that's when my data starts").

For the same reason he's dressed the way he is. It's a common school uniform in Japan.

*struggle*

There were a ton of great costumes at this Dragon*Con, but the thing that stood out to me the most was how many reboot Lara Crofts there were. And every single one just as good as the one in the video.

But the utility and relevance of his post makes it wonderful even if it's not building on the humor of yours, so I think you should give it a pass. :P

I just had the exact same moment. I didn't even make the baka connection. *hangs head in shame*

Is Anpanman still popular? He's been popular for like 40 years, right? They loved that shit to death last time I was there.

I, on the other hand, wanted the PS3 so I could play The Last Guardian, Demon's Souls, and Ni no Kuni.

No, you don't. But telling people who already know about those problems and do their best to not contribute to them doesn't fix those problems either. I'm not ignoring the fact that being a geek has, in the past, been a source of strife for people. I'm celebrating the fact that it is less so now, and we have better…

And I'm happy to continue dismissing it. You don't change society by accepting the things it gets wrong.

It's only a shame that history and human nature suggests we won't really learn to extend that to other pastimes now that it's OK for us to be geeks. But some of us will try!

I'm not missing that. But thank you for the explication. While it is important that "geeky" pastimes have largely lost their negative connotation, it doesn't change the fact that there is no real difference between an individual's exacting pursuit of an interest in football or cars or boardgames. And there's no…

It sure looks interesting. How could anything borrowing so clearly from some of the most wonderful games of the last few generations not look interesting?

It's astonishing that no one seems to appreciate the (surely intentional) irony of someone with your handle making a comment about correct capitalization.

As an aside, a surprising number of the jocks in my high school were actually pretty geeky guys in advanced classes (at one of the biggest football high schools in the nation). And in any case, even the meatiest meathead is a geek for his sport.

I think they DID have those people playing— there's a brief clip of a couple in red shirts running around on a bridge. Probably the producers told those people their gameplay was going to be the core of the feature. And then the producers apparently decided the video they shot wasn't interesting enough so they…

To be fair— and I'm not saying these aren't horribly uncanny— ANY time you film someone changing expressions very slowly (either by speeding up the capture or having them make the expressions slowly) the result is pretty creeptastic.

That's the... point of the article? He was saying these are genuinely odd moments in Japanese TV, as opposed to the lion's share. Most of Japanese live television seems to be variety shows, though. That's bound to make any foreign visitor crinkle a brow.

It's a shame that Bojangles doesn't know thing one about dirty rice, though.