Majkiboy

Well, let me lend you a different perspective from across the seas. We have plenty of malls in Sweden and all of them are regularly visited. None of them are really in any danger. I think it might be due to the way they have been planned out and thought out from the start (many of them were built in the 2000s). I rarely hear anyone complaining about them. They are rarely enormously big ones in the outskirts. They are often located somewhat in a urban center so it automatically becomes the place to go to for shopping. What is a bit less visited are those big shopping districts way in the outskirts. But those have their niche with more furniture stores, IKEAs and whatnots. Last time I went to a mall though was actually playing Pokemon GO last year when they had a bunch of sponsored events. The sponsored malls got so packed! Nevertheless, online shopping has indeed put a dent in the margins of malls, but I don't think they are in any danger here... yet

Neat! I have been thinking about something in the lines of this for some time. Maybe now is the time! I don't have many good tools and not that much space but I do have a bunch of old pallets, a hand saw, a hammer and my willpower! If I manage to construct anything out of them I'll post it here!

@confideration: Expect that they really did. The XP earned shown to you was false. They litterally was lying with what xp you got. Say that 10000xp was the reward shown to you, what you actually got was as little as 5% of that.

I see some people here are still not getting it.

The problem wasnt that they were scaling it. The problem was that they were intentionally hiding it! Scaling has been widely used in other games before but not hidden like this. Scaling is not the problem, the lying is!

For me, sadly this isn't really news. This is not very uncommon practice in many Japanese offices. But it is very good to bring up the subject, how else could things change for the better?

I have a friend who worked three years at a game development company that was veeery much like this. Not to mention the extreme long work days. When I was visiting him, he at best could leave the office at around 10PM. That was on a good day. The company then made sure he felt guilty for leaving early and threatened to cut his sallary. Yup that is Japan for you. It sucks to work there (at least at these old fashioned ones)

This was genuinely interesting, love to get some insight in their thought process. I specifically like the comment about not having big hopes for Splatoon because it was a new IP!

I just remembered that I own a WiiU. That is a weird feeling.

Even if it is terrible, people will see it and it will be profitable. Good move Nintendo!

Just heard about it as well. It feels weird, no one on the GB crew can be replaced, they all just leave empty holes. I hope Patrick will end up somewhere he is comfortable and doing what he loves.

Kudos on the post, it shows that there are parts of the community that really cares.

Walking around Tokyo I see this and immediately think of @Jeff.

Domino's represent.

@sweep:

Thank you for the input mister! I definitely appreciate it. I'm not the aggro type so I hope I won't end up in fights. Also I can run really fucking fast :D

The status: My bag was lost and is now being transported to my residence. I am super duper jetlagged and tired. I've been walking around Shinjuku and areas around there quite a lot and it has all been fantastic. Today though I've mostly been chilling and catching up with the world. Walking around in the suburbs just a bit and buying cup noodles.

Here, take a picture (not from the suburbs)

And one from the suburbs (haah that orientation though, well it has to do for now):