This Japanese Supermarket Prize Game Is Ironic
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@ruiner9: And who would have thought? It figures...
@ruiner9: And who would have thought? It figures...
They get DSi and American's get bubble gum.
Gam3r
They get DSi and American's get bubble gum.
Gam3r
@Armagetiton: I suffer from the second one.
Anyways, stereotypes are only racist if they involve race. How simple is that?
i.e. Women can't drive = Not racist, but a stereotype.
i.e. Asian women can't drive = Racial stereotype.
To wrap up, race + stereotype = racial stereotype.
Gasp, it's so easy!
@SeraphX2:
you mean the dsi WAS hacked even before earlier this week in the sense with a certain card.
mobetta
@SeraphX2:
you mean the dsi WAS hacked even before earlier this week in the sense with a certain card.
mobetta
@SeraphX2:
you mean the dsi WAS hacked even before earlier this week in the sense with a certain card.
mobetta
@FatFrank:
like sheva would say, "you can't be serious"
anyhow it's ironic in the sense that the "complimentary" prize if you "win" is something you would either pay for @ a store or an item that again you would pay for to play for free on another system. you get it? you see the logic here? Hopefully.
mobetta
@FatFrank:
like sheva would say, "you can't be serious"
anyhow it's ironic in the sense that the "complimentary" prize if you "win" is something you would either pay for @ a store or an item that again you would pay for to play for free on another system. you get it? you see the logic here? Hopefully.
mobetta
@FatFrank:
like sheva would say, "you can't be serious"
anyhow it's ironic in the sense that the "complimentary" prize if you "win" is something you would either pay for @ a store or an item that again you would pay for to play for free on another system. you get it? you see the logic here? Hopefully.
mobetta
@Nawara_Ven:
That's racist!!! *wink
@Nawara_Ven:
That's racist!!! *wink
@Nawara_Ven:
That's racist!!! *wink
@Kotakufan777:
yet korea still gets ahold of everything, so its irrelevant if theyre interested in the korean market
anduin1
whats so ironic? that R4i works
KidKardona
@PAULINK: Probably also a reason why console makers are hardly interested in the Korean market, despite being so close to Japan.
Kotakufan777
@TMFAN: Um, no. He didn't even mention race, but nationality. Anybody with a brain could figure out he was referring to the national culture and not genetics.
You have to think for yourself and not cry racism every time someone finds a correlation between a group of people and a characteristic.
I.E.
Americans are fat: statistical truth
Japanese people are law abiding: Crime rates in Japan are much lower than in other nations.
Kotakufan777
@Neko_Tech: R4... Ridge race 4... RR4....
linkthe2nd
Wow looks like someone faked an R4, cuz the box says DSi on it too....:S
@1Grand_Marquis: ... $3000? If I knew my PS3 was $6000 I would of had second thoughts!
What's really ironic is that it doesn't even matter if the R4 is legal because there's no way anyone is ever going to get it. Those games are a rip-off.
Jesse in Japan
lol its not there even going to give away the prizes anyway.
Fox Hound
@Kotakufan777: I don't even think he was stereotyping either. What he said was "the people that I met seemed to be law abiding citizens". How is that stereotyping at all?
@ruiner9: Who woulda thought? Meh, it figures.
Kyle D Johnson
@Kuro: Wow.... that's it?
And the odds of winning both would be one in how many hundred million?
Kyle D Johnson
@FatFrank: where in god's name have you been?
Sniktbub
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@FatFrank: The R4 is a device used to bootleg DS games, which has recently been outlawed in Japan. And yeah, this one totally works in the DSi. Not that I would...*cough*...KNOW or anything.
saya
Lmfao, So who's up to touch that Let's Try Button?
So it test your morals, good vs evil.
The Japanese are so deep, even in supermarkets!
@roscoe: Yes I do miss Ridge Racer 4. You were talking about Ridge Racer right??? *snicker*
Neko_Tech
@Kuro:
This one works ;)
@FatFrank: Oh yea, and Japan recently outlawed these devices, even though they're still being sold in a few places...
Hahahahaha I want a R4 i =(
SolidSnake.SV
@FatFrank: R4 no worky in DSi :P
Pretty brazen. Is piracy really a big thing in Japan? from my time there I got the impression that the people were too staright and law-abiding to get involved in such nefarious activity.
Maybe I'm blunt. What's so ironic about it? Is it the DS vs. DSi prize?
FatFrank
but of course i'd pick the R4... duh.
Haha good one, is it in Don Qijote in Shin Okubo?
Or maybe that giant sex shop in Akiba ?
Only places such a thing could be possible ^^
Poklement
haha epic
VampSpiro
@undefined: I'm still waiting for someone to go down on me in a theatre.
KsprayDad (Not playing with his Wii much either)
Flash carts, modded firmware, its so rampant over here in Korea it's become the way of the gamer life. I see random people with, kids, and even some of my colleagues have one. I work at a daycare and I would say a majority of the kids own one. I guess parents see it as a money saving device because they don't have to buy more games, but the one thing that irks me is that kids don't think flashcarts are wrong. When I talk to the kids about how developers who made the game don't get any profit, they just laugh and go, "they don't need any more money" or they just don't care.
It's sad how people think they are entitled to things they never bought. It's also illegal.
It's the good advice, that you just didn't take.
ruiner9
@duckmouth: Lols no, they are people afterall.
fyi your statement amounts to racism
Xiandel
I don't see the irony, maybe the sadness that someone who's looking at buying a DS for the first time will never actually buy a game though.
BTW, Its an R4i Cart, it'll work on the DSi.
DiGiC
@FatFrank: It's like a free ride, when you've already paid.
tetris2
@AngryEddy: Unfortunate :)
furiku
@AngryEddy: Unfortunate :)
furiku
@ruiner9: There's 10,000 spoons here and all I need is a knife!
@ruiner9: There's 10,000 spoons here and all I need is a knife!
@KsprayDad (Not playing with his Wii much either): Ironic really, that none of the lines in that song are ironical.
furiku
@KsprayDad (Not playing with his Wii much either): Ironic really, that none of the lines in that song are ironical.
furiku
@Violent St. Cannon: So* >_>
Violent St. Cannon
@furiku: Xiandel is confusing the concept of stereotyping with the concept of racism. Obviously a positive stereotype is not racist, even if stereotypes aren't exactly good things.
Zunnoab
@Violent St. Cannon: So* >_>
Violent St. Cannon
@DiGiC: Damn. Sp much for anti-piracy on the DSi.
Then again, PSP Slim was cracked within a few days . Correct me if I'm wrong :P
Violent St. Cannon
@Xiandel: REVERSE-RACISM!
Nimsim
@Xiandel: REVERSE-RACISM!
Nimsim
@Xiandel: Don't be ridiculous. At a push you could say I am stereotyping, but in my opinion it is a compliment.
@Xiandel: Don't be ridiculous. At a push you could say I am stereotyping, but in my opinion it is a compliment.
@Xiandel: How is that racist? He is merely stating that, during his time in Japan, he felt that the people he met were good, law abiding people.
I never met anyone in Japan during my time there that came across like they would use any illegal items or resort to illegal activities.
furiku
@Xiandel: How is that racist? He is merely stating that, during his time in Japan, he felt that the people he met were good, law abiding people.
I never met anyone in Japan during my time there that came across like they would use any illegal items or resort to illegal activities.
furiku
@Kuro: Actually, that's an R4i, which does work.
I see nothing out of the ordinary or ironic about this.
It looks like a DS and its typical accessory sitting inside a UFO catcher to me.
dirtface
@Kuro: Actually, that's an R4i, which does work.
@Xiandel: Your display picture is racist. Oh... your name is too.
lolgreg
@Xiandel: Your display picture is racist. Oh... your name is too.
lolgreg
@Xiandel: Your display picture is racist. Oh... your name is too.
lolgreg
@furiku: Ed Byrne ftw! Look it up, its hilarious! What do you need a knife for? To stab the basterd who keeps leaving spoons all over the place.
@furiku: Ed Byrne ftw! Look it up, its hilarious! What do you need a knife for? To stab the basterd who keeps leaving spoons all over the place.
@furiku: Ed Byrne ftw! Look it up, its hilarious! What do you need a knife for? To stab the basterd who keeps leaving spoons all over the place.
@AngryEddy: It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife!
I love Alanis....
Ranged360
@AngryEddy: It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife!
I love Alanis....
Ranged360
@AngryEddy: It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife!
I love Alanis....
Ranged360
ITS A TRAP!!!! Clearly as soon as you choose the R4i a tiny door opens and the police pop out to arrest you. I don't trust any machine that lets me choose my prize haha
AsherCadosneep
ITS A TRAP!!!! Clearly as soon as you choose the R4i a tiny door opens and the police pop out to arrest you. I don't trust any machine that lets me choose my prize haha
AsherCadosneep
ITS A TRAP!!!! Clearly as soon as you choose the R4i a tiny door opens and the police pop out to arrest you. I don't trust any machine that lets me choose my prize haha
AsherCadosneep
@Xiandel: Somebody needs to look up the definition of "racism".
@Xiandel: Somebody needs to look up the definition of "racism".
@AsherCadosneep: Are you saying the police are tiny?
@AsherCadosneep: Are you saying the police are tiny?
This is about as ironic as rain on your fucking wedding day. Sorry.
This is about as ironic as rain on your fucking wedding day. Sorry.
@Xiandel: If I told you you were a law abiding citizen, would you think that was an insult?
Shit, if someone said that to me about the French, I'd laugh cause it was so preposterous, but I wouldn't find it racist for a second. Freedom Fries isn't even racist (although a little offensive after a while).
Thriceborn
@Xiandel: If I told you you were a law abiding citizen, would you think that was an insult?
Shit, if someone said that to me about the French, I'd laugh cause it was so preposterous, but I wouldn't find it racist for a second. Freedom Fries isn't even racist (although a little offensive after a while).
Thriceborn
@Xiandel: If I told you you were a law abiding citizen, would you think that was an insult?
Shit, if someone said that to me about the French, I'd laugh cause it was so preposterous, but I wouldn't find it racist for a second. Freedom Fries isn't even racist (although a little offensive after a while).
Thriceborn
@fnool:
This is Van Heusen non-ironic.
@fnool:
This is Van Heusen non-ironic.
@fnool:
This is Van Heusen non-ironic.
@Violent St. Cannon: The PSP-3000's and late model 2000's with the same motherboard have yet to be cracked. They're getting closer to being able to run homebrew, which is the first step in a full cracking, but its still a work in progress.
unruly
@phinehas: Ah, didn't see the little "i" on the box art. Hell, didn't even know such existed! Thx :)
Took me a second to get it.
Then I lol'd.
@tetris2: I see what you did there.
@tetris2: I see what you did there.
@tetris2: I see what you did there.
Attention people. This is not a picture of a DSi and a R4. That's a R4i. Guess the difference?
Bugger me if I know if the difference is firmware or new components, or if it works..
Wahrheit
Attention people. This is not a picture of a DSi and a R4. That's a R4i. Guess the difference?
Bugger me if I know if the difference is firmware or new components, or if it works..
Wahrheit
Attention people. This is not a picture of a DSi and a R4. That's a R4i. Guess the difference?
Bugger me if I know if the difference is firmware or new components, or if it works..
Wahrheit
About a year ago I walked into an arcade called Frankies. They had the same game except it cost $5 and you could win a PS3. I put my money in, pressed the button at the wrong time, walked away feeling ashamed of myself and told no one...until now.
onguard7
@AngryEddy: This line was surely the one that proves Alanis isn't good at thinking outside of the box.
Either:
- Pound a spoon into a flat shape to help it cut on its edge or
- Sell a number of the spoons (up to nearly 5000 of them) to get 1 knife (keeping the other 5000 for a fork, which you'll eventually find you also need).
rentahero1
in argentina, theres an R4 next to ANY DS/DSlite you can find on any store.
Ferna182
@tetris2: I think its good advice that you just can't take personally.
@tetris2: I think its good advice that you just can't take personally.
@furiku: It drives me crazy that people insist on making this claim any time the song comes up. Depending on how you look at it some of those lines can be interpreted as situational irony and all of them can be interpreted as cosmic irony. And in the end, the definition of a word is determined by the way society uses it. The lyrics aren't ironic according to more traditional definitions of irony, but certainly aren't as absurd as people enjoy acting like they are.
@duckmouth: I've seen various PC OSs pirated in Japan. No matter where you go, people are people...
Phester
There's a copy/fax/binding shop close to where I live (Namur has a pretty big university, students need services like that), that also sells memory cards and usb keys. They have an R4 box in their main window. I make it a regular exercise to laugh at the price they're asking for it
Inzoum
@Methusalah: That post is like rain on my wedding day. :(
But yeah, agreed. Irony is a bit more broad than people insist.
And people complain that psp piracy is too easy. I had to cut a tiny little pin on a 30$ battery. NDS you just need a apparently easy to obtain flash card.
sereal
@duckmouth: Stereotyping is not always negative. Asians are smart? that's a stereotype which is a compliment, but still a stereotype.
sereal
Also, English language PROTIP:
This machine would be ironic if it operated only when you inserted as a token the authentic release of the game you intended to pirate with the R4i prize.
Also, English language PROTIP:
This machine would be ironic if it operated only when you inserted as a token the authentic release of the game you intended to pirate with the R4i prize.
@furiku: I think that was the point.
@furiku: I think that was the point.
@Methusalah: It's a valid claim, Morissette herself has stated that the content of the song is not ironical, and the irony lies with the name. Also, it's the bastardisation of a word and language that I'm more upset at.
@Conrad: Yeah, I agree, see above and my previous statement "Ironic really, that none of the lines in that song are ironical."
furiku
@Methusalah: It's a valid claim, Morissette herself has stated that the content of the song is not ironical, and the irony lies with the name. Also, it's the bastardisation of a word and language that I'm more upset at.
@Conrad: Yeah, I agree, see above and my previous statement "Ironic really, that none of the lines in that song are ironical."
furiku
notice on the R4 box it says it works with DSI, NDSL, and NDS. i wonder if the DSI will have system updates like every other system? the ps2 doesn't count since the ps3 should have smothered it with a pillow a long time ago; metaphorically speaking of course.
@Methusalah: It's a valid claim, Morissette herself has stated that the content of the song is not ironical, and the irony lies with the name. Also, it's the bastardisation of a word and language that I'm more upset at.
@Conrad: Yeah, I agree, see above and my previous statement "Ironic really, that none of the lines in that song are ironical."
furiku
hehe as soon as you take the R4i the machine calls the police on you and you get charged with piracy....
pirate prize FTW!
notice on the R4 box it says it works with DSI, NDSL, and NDS. i wonder if the DSI will have system updates like every other system? the ps2 doesn't count since the ps3 should have smothered it with a pillow a long time ago; metaphorically speaking of course.
@Zunnoab: Really now? Sterotyping is not racist?
So saying things like
asians are horrible drivers
all black people like watermelon and chicken
all arab people are terrorists
is not racist?
News to me..
pmur
@furiku: That's because Alanis is a dumb broad.
Jimbotron
@furiku: That's because Alanis is a dumb broad.
Jimbotron
Damn them pirates are quick to upgrade ain't they?
Damn them pirates are quick to upgrade ain't they?
@undefined: It's when Sheva uses a R+G herb when your health is still 2/3rds full
It's like defeating Liquid Ocelot, not realizing you're a tool of The Patriots.
normalmode
@undefined: It's when Sheva uses a R+G herb when your health is still 2/3rds full
It's like defeating Liquid Ocelot, not realizing you're a tool of The Patriots.
normalmode
@FatFrank:
Cross-selling or Irony? You decide.
Fabrice
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TraMaI
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TraMaI
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TraMaI
@ruiner9: lol van halen references make me feel too old for kotaku
TraMaI
@ruiner9: lol van halen references make me feel too old for kotaku
TraMaI
@ruiner9: lol van halen references make me feel too old for kotaku
TraMaI
@pmur:
C'mon now. Use your brain.
Stereotyping and Racism are NOT the same thing.
They CAN be if you use negative examples which I couldn't help but notice you chose to do.
However, if you read the initial comment, you would realize it is barely even a stereotype. Let alone a negative stereotype that can be anywhere considered in the same ballpark as racism.
@pmur:
C'mon now. Use your brain.
Stereotyping and Racism are NOT the same thing.
They CAN be if you use negative examples which I couldn't help but notice you chose to do.
However, if you read the initial comment, you would realize it is barely even a stereotype. Let alone a negative stereotype that can be anywhere considered in the same ballpark as racism.
@pmur:
C'mon now. Use your brain.
Stereotyping and Racism are NOT the same thing.
They CAN be if you use negative examples which I couldn't help but notice you chose to do.
However, if you read the initial comment, you would realize it is barely even a stereotype. Let alone a negative stereotype that can be anywhere considered in the same ballpark as racism.
Yea The prize is get the R4 and get arrested! LOL
@THEJOHNNYOHM: Though "positive" stereotypes could be offensive as well.
Such as assuming all asians are good at math.
Or all koreans are awesome at RTS games.
Armagetiton
@rentahero1: Except then it's like one knife and fork when all you need is a spoon, but you've sold all your spoons to buy the knife and fork. Which, interestingly enough, would be ironic.
@Kuro: Actually, I think there are two ironic things being shown here; one obvious, and one not so obvious.
Earlier this week it was discussed if the DSi had truly been hacked; it looks like it has.
Secondly, a legit DSi is being given out right next to an illegal R4 cartridge.
@Armagetiton: Or everyone on the internet is an overly-sensitive reactionary
1Grand_Marquis
@SeraphX2: That's not ironic, that's convenient!
1Grand_Marquis
@onguard7: You realize that if you had played that game SIX HUNDRED TIMES, you'd still be getting a PS3 for half its retail price?
1Grand_Marquis
@conditionals: Irony is when you press your shirt and it's too stiff. Jeeeeeeeez.
madog
@Armagetiton: But not all positive stereotypes are offensive either. For example, I am black from the waist down...
madog
@fnool: actually, without context there's no way to be sure "Rain on Your Wedding Day" is ironic or not. If either the bride or groom is a control freak who arranged the date specifically so that the wedding would fall on a sunny day based on the forecast, then it IS ironic. On the other hand, if they're fans of rain, the it's a coincidence.
Now, a black fly in Chardonnay, THAT...I don't know what the fuck that is.
1Grand_Marquis
wasnt the R4 banned? o.o
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