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This is Tim Rogers. He's a pretty notorious douchebag. Up until recently, his writing was pretty much the opposite. He'd overanalyze the shit out of things like Final Fantasy games and talk about how cool he was for his hip urbane lifestyle in Tokyo.

He makes a living as a blogger, so he has to ratchet up the drama to get more pageviews. You'll notice he's working in an extremely nerdy industry - video games. Based on this and his past blog entries, his sense of social perspective is stunted, like a lot of nerdy people. He doesn't really analyze these problems he has as sociological issues but turns them into a list of grievances against his own fragile person.

I've been to Japan several times with several groups of people, and for most of them it was their first time in the country. There are several different reactions people have, but what's most common about people who have bad reactions is that they're unwilling to adapt. They can't conceive of a lifestyle that's different from what they're comfortable with. You have to adapt to the host culture, there's no way around it.

Some of these problems are legitimate, like being a vegetarian tee-totaler in Japan is probably impossible unless you live in a Buddhist monastery. But the tone of his article is that the country is his own little private wonderland that's gone to shit. If he had any maturity he'd consider the wider perspective and realize that social problems are best approached with empathy and not anger, and that a lot of these issues are common to other parts of the industrialized world. I could write up something even longer about how awful American suburban life is, but I'd just get laughed at for being a whiny baby. The only thing that's unique about this article is that it's in a news source frequented by people who have a favorable impression of the country.

Ahhhh! so what you're saying is they are 'technically' not yet all gone, so I could still 'theoretically' purchase one off you...

Where should I mail my horde of moneys?

Every time i go on IB that annoying song "Shut up and Explode" comes on! The little tab at the top of the page says "RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY."

Is it just my computer?

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LOL, where is 1% ??

I didn't mean custom as in custom to myself. I guess I worded my sentence wrong. I meant that it was shipped all the way from Japan...not just something I bought around here. That is what the custom in that sentence meant.