This is actually EXACTLY what I thought when I read the headline. “Yuji Naka? Doesn’t surprise me.”  And then it was about insider trading, and I was like, “Huh. LAST thing I would have expected.”

Didn’t they take out Martha Stewart for a pretty small profit? Like 50K or something. Always felt that she pissed off the wrong person in that case.

A lot of people don’t understand exactly what insider trading is. They often think that it only applies if someone is an employee of the company being traded when any sort of prior knowledge can be considered insider trading.

Thats why you always buy through a third party (no one who shares your surname). God people keep making the same fucking mistakes. 

When you mentioned the dude behind Balan Wonderworld was arrested I kinda assumed it was for child porn. Still wouldn't be surprised.

There were some comic book villains who had origin stories similar to this article;

Was coming here to say this. Him admitting fault while 11,000 others suffer and he will take no hit to his life at all losing that much money is honestly tactless. When one makes 20 million in other endeavors but 11,000 people lose, what keeps that one from swallowing a shotgun. (Thanks NoFX)

““I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.””

No, Mark, you are making 11,000 other people take responsibility for that. You are taking no responsibility.

In most games NPCs speak to you using your name not gender,

Good on them. More of this please.

Can’t be missing if it was never there to begin with.

This scene from Haruhi has stuck with me all these years, because I went through the same thing.

Yeah, reading this article reminded me of kids I went to high school with. This isn’t anything new; it’s just teen douches being teen douches. There’s no need for moral panic, although it’s gonna happen anyway. It's as dictated by the cycle.

It’s easier to believe a problem is new and has easy answers, rather than old and long-unsolved.

Yeah. It’s easy to feel in your early twenties like your generation’s uniquely flawed, but none of this is new or special.

It’s just dehumanizing “sheeple” or Holden Caulfield’s “phonies” repackaged for the 21st century. The NPC term is very online but the narcissism isn’t.

Part of the problem, I think, is that a lot of these people are big on individuality. So when they see someone doing something that they consider boring or blending into the background or commonplace, they think “everyone expresses their individuality... except people like this”. NPCs, to them, are people without…

Of all the dumbass TikTok trends I’ve heard of, this is one of the dumbest.