Japanese Game Stores:

I miss when game stores just sold games and didn't have entire walls taken up with ugly as fuck funko pops.

What surprise me a lot about Japan is how many family owned places there are. While there are many corporate chain, there are many privately owned place that thrive just as well.

It's because you live in a souless corporatocracy.

Japan is sort of a salarymanocracy but the difference is you stay with the same company or firm for life, so loyalty is mutual and with that, it is worth your time as it won't usually be snapped away from you.

In the US, you are a commodity as a human and you will be swapped out for something better the moment it comes by, so it's best to give minimum effort so you don't work yourself out of your mcjob.

No you just don't see all the shity Japanese artist

There's a shorter way to sum it up if you're referring to shamestop or eb like in the example.
>store is so full of pop "figures" that it resembles a shitty toy store more than a game store

Why do people always show this video? He was misgendered. I can’t believe those assholes at GameStop. If you shop at GS, this is what you’re supporting!

And he was singing Away, away, in India. Away, away, away awaaay in India.

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nice bait, gb2 resetera

Lemme see them.

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Were the games always sold like this in Japan? No boxart, just the cart?

No, these are retro shops.

Aren't those around 14-20 bucks? If it was a US retro store SMB3 alone would have some stupid price like 75 dollars.

Are there any stores like this in the states? This sounds comfy.

Yeah 74.

And we were singing bye bye miss American pie drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry and good ol boys were drinking whiskey and rye.

Everyone buys their video games on amazon now. Digital copies of game also give people less of a reason to go into GameStop. They have diversified not because they want to, but because they are on the verge of going out of business. The figure and toy infestation is the last gasp before they collapse in on themselves.

And the food too.

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TARTAR SAUCE??

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even if it's touristy super potato is comfy as fuck and that arcade floor is great

Nice pics whoever is dumping them. I'm going to be in Tokyo from Dec 24th to Jan 8th. Any recommendations on places I should check out? Im budgeting myself about 2500-3000 for the whole trip (probably doing hostels to save $$$), any tips?

kill all those funkos. poisoning everything

redhead detected

Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

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pricy. you can get all of those for dirt cheap prices at book off.

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When was this taken? Is that little display for the PS2 game or the 3DS remake?

do modern americans actually like these...handcrafted things? i for one think they have soul, but seems like americans dont like it anymore, and find it old, like they dont have 2d animation studios of their own and abandoned 2d.

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What does a boxed copy of Chrono Trigger go for?

I went to Japan recently and was shocked. The Osaka game stores were so sick.

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Don't go during that time. I went at almost exactly the same time and a large portion of places will be closed because they take the holidays pretty seriously. If you're just staying in Tokyo it won't be so bad and the most obvious places to go would be Akihabara or Shinjuku. New Year's in Shibuya should NOT be missed because that is one fun as fuck countdown, but the number of Aussies was pretty shocking.

>Staff and customers are friendly and are happy to give you discounts
never happened t.nip

fuck me japan gets all the cool shit.

Because they are business savvy living in growing cities. Same with any city. The only family businesses are the ones smart enough to survive. Get out of the cities and things are closing left and right mainly due to no heir to take over when the owners die.

Been to Japan since the early 1990s.
I remember electric town changing into Akihabara.
I miss the times when it was not covered in anime shit.
Present day they sell overpriced shit so don't bother wasting your money on the games there.
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doenst the west have a store like this.

>Japanese Game Stores:
>>cute little drawings made by hand for more-popular games to show they’re worth your time
>>Entire displays and demos with collectible posters and merch just for one game
>>Wide selection of games, from Switch to Famicom, to Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Boy, and even obscure consoles like the Sega SG-1000 and the Vetrecx, even a couple of Western Imports thrown in there.
>>Staff and customers are friendly and are happy to give you discounts and game recommendations, are clearly passionate about video games.

>American “””Game Store””””:
>>Every Game is displayed the same way, no way to tell which ones are worth your time or not
>>Selection of games only goes back to this generation, and if you’re lucky enough, a small portion of the previous generation
>>Staff constantly bombards you with “WOULD YOU LIKE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR REWARDS PROGRAM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRE-ORDER [insert generic sports game #38261 title here], WOULD YOU LIKE TO INTEREST YOURSELF IN A FUNKO POP”
>>Customers are..... Interesting to say the least. youtu.be/jOkdR7on6Ok
>>HALF OF THE FUCKING STORE IS DEDICATED TO “””NERD MERCH”””, WHERE ARE THE VIDEO GAMES FOR GOD SAKES!?!
>What went wrong?

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Go find a mandarake store and buy some doujins.

I remember reading an article about a little game shop in Tokyo that was owned and operated by a single woman for little over 30 years. Apparently it became super well known because she would get to know her frequent customers and start giving them recommendations for other games they would like. Over time her recommendations started carrying a lot of weight among gamers, to the point where people from Nintendo and Sqaure actually came to the shop and ask her what makes her recommend a game. She also ran it so long she basically saw a few customers grow up and start bringing their kids to meet her.

She had to close the shop down about a year or so ago, because her health was failing and to her nobody else could run it. But during that 30 year run the only time it was closed was on major holidays, and for a for about a week after she gave birth to her only kid.

I worked at a local game store that was exactly like this. Our location went under because the owner was a retard

If you want good deals on retro games, stick to book off.
Got myself more than 20 SS and sufami games for less than 3000yen

If you want to get jap versions of consoles there's also Hard off, there's one at Miitaka, where the Ghibli museum is

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Soul

Soulless

Japanese would sell out too if they had venture capitalists trying to buy out anything and everything.

>HALF OF THE FUCKING STORE IS DEDICATED TO “””NERD MERCH”””, WHERE ARE THE VIDEO GAMES FOR GOD SAKES!?!
To be fair, they've been on the decline for a while and they need to sell something other then videogames.

we need a third nuke
FUCK buying videogames. torrent exists for a reason.

Local comic book shops are kind of like Jap game stores. The people there give recommendations and have a backlog of older comics.
Really you should blame mega corporations for making small gamestores unsurvivable instead of American culture.

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I wish Amerian had more multi floor stores.

lol third worlders are irrelevant

still paying for healthcare and college, seething mutt?

Niggers would steal this shit though

>Crackers would steal this shit though
fixed

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"fuck buying games" lol

this is nothing but uncivilised autism. cope with your shitty third world mindset

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God at first glance I thuoght this was a comic book store, and we all know how those went... This is completely unrecognizable from the Gamestops and Funcolands of my childhood. Been buying digital as soon as I could.

Had one in my hometown, sadly it closed a year or two back. I have no clue what they must've been paying on rent, for years they boasted they were the physically biggest nerd store in the country. Feels bad but there is no going back.

>unironically paying for 1s and 0s

One of the love hotels that let you order cosplaying escorts to your room. Shit was cash.

Niggers aren't black only, nigger

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>Love Merci
I went into that store.

The only reason we can't have nice things it's because NIGGERS and FAGGOTS.

Doesn't Japan hate white piggu foreigners? The stores might be cool, but they'll only really be nice to Japanese customers.

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>NO!

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Not with the Olympics coming, tourism is booming.

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who buy those dagashis.

Some big tittied girl with crazy eyes does her rounds buying them all up for some reason.

Fun time ya, time for the bus ridah

silly user europe doesn't exist

>tfw you will never truly enjoy traveling to Japan because their autistic language is too hard to learn

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Gajins are not supposed to buy the japanese games and keep em.

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Man that just reminds me how jacked the popcorn prices are in theaters. That's jacked and it still looks way more reasonable. Thanks phoneposter.

>Canadian GameStops

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I'm going to Japan in the next 3 weeks.

First stop is Akihabara. Going to go to love merci and that other place nearby to buy a shit ton of onaholes. Amazing how cheap they are in japan compared to buying them online.

It's amazing how much free hentai there is too. Like every shop just has flyers hanging around of naked loli's and women.

Then I'll hit Mandarake / Potato / whatever other vidya shops there are. Nakona mall or however you pronounce it is also a great place if you're into collecting figurines.

There was a really comfy one here in germany where I live, but sadly it went out of buisiness a few years ago and the only thing I have left now is gamestop and some other generic soulless store.

>gamestop with optional boss battle built-in
based

I want to go to a japanese arcade and play KoF bros..

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That's some good shit right there.

DONT DROP THAT SHIT, pray to go you don't drop that shit.

That drawing of Terra is super cute!

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>Pre-Order ads for fucking Funko Pops

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yes and no
first thing that comes to mind is paris syndrome: where nips keep thinking that paris/western world is filled with beautiful blonde hair blue eyes gaijins then gets a cultural shock when it's filled with pajeets and blacks

Who actually buys these things?

that's just gamestop actually, which is thankfully on it's way to going out of buisness

Can't wait until they're over and the westerners kvetching about Japan being different fuck off and harass someone else.

Who are these even for? At least sameface anime figures aren't literally cubes with the exact same body.

This is (was) a mangaka setup.

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I'd imagine most avoid it because of potential ADA issues

frys is really comfy now that most of the shelves are empty and no one's there.

I forget is that the author of Tsugumomo

yes it's called pink gorilla

>Japan
Buys physical games, like some kind of serf
>America
Pirates games digitally because they are a worthless expense

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If only Americans ate better.

this is porn, isnt it

yes

This reads like a troll post for /trv/

It's not a troll post though. All those places are legit.

Gee Bill! How come your mom lets you have two air conditioners?

I think Fry's is almost done too, which is sad because that store was actually pretty quality

They do, but not the companies that own the stores. Can't have someone spending time brining in customers by drawing or having a store look different. Got to conform and change the rules to keep busy so people can keep their comfy jobs.

I am a store manager for frys

We are not "almost done"

We're doing great because our video game section doesn't even make up even 10% of our store sales. Video games can die, we'll still be around.

Akiba is a tourist trap these days and places like Love Merci aren't the cheapest for onaholes.

Where would you consider the cheapest then?

Love Merci and M Pop are pretty damn cheap compared to anywhere else.

Go to KFC on Christmas, it's a blast.

If serious, what is up with your DVD selection? Are those going away? The Frys I went to recently had overpriced, weird DVDs in a barren aisle. Nothing even remotely recognizable, mostly workout and generic B-movies (like those 50 Horror Movies bundles you see at Walmart). No other DVDs besides that one aisle.

So then why does every Fry's in California have zero fucking stock and 4-5 employees in the entire store

>going to KFC without a 2 month reservation
good fucking luck

HAI

Local game shops are alright. Shout out to J&L Game in New York. Gamestop is going out of business because they marketed their store as just being the latest and coolest stuff. Their marketing was so focused on "YOU GOTTA PREORDER YOU GOTTA GET IN NOW." It was meant to target people that fear missing out on the current thing. But they were always destined to die this way. Smaller game stores are out lasting them because they sell products that are more difficult to come by and merch that people actually want (high quality figures and cute plushies rather than funkos). Gamestop ran themselves into the ground. All the games they sell now could just be bought digitally and hold no value because of that. But people continue to buy games from the PS2 era and earlier at smaller stores because those are not as readily available on digital store fronts. Sure they can be emulated. But the actual physical product holds value to people because it isn't just something you can come across so easily. Support your local businesses. You get a much better experience as the customer.

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Nice to see Kat in promotional material. Best of all the Senran.

Depend on the Mulan, they can be 20% cheaper there. Love Merci and M pop carry them at retail value. Yes, it's better than online or normal retailers like don quixote. But if you're looking to get the most for your money.

You.
Here.
NOW.

>J&L Game in New York

Great for when you want to play games *ahem* a couple days before street date

Why do Americans love Funko trash so much. This garbage hurts my eyes. Is it popular in Euro countries?

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now tell me if Edgar is wagging his finger or wagging his hand

what characters would they cosplay? if a customer didn't like any of the cosplays, would they dress in anything that you'd give them?
how the hell does this whole thing work?

>HALF OF THE FUCKING STORE IS DEDICATED TO “””NERD MERCH”””, WHERE ARE THE VIDEO GAMES FOR GOD SAKES!?!
This would be a good thing if it wasn't for the fact that all western merch is objectively shit and inferior to even counterfeit Japanese merch

I'd argue that between any place stocking them having literal walls full of stock and Gamestop going belly-up are both indicators that nobody actually loves them.

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european game stores don’t exist we buy shit on the internet because we are first worlders

>Robin williams gets shit like this for free and he *still* killed himself
What a fag

Mexican here. A girl at my previous job had a least 8 on her desk because they were "cute".

I went to Tokyo from Dec17 2016 to Jan3 2017 with that same budget.

Winter Jackets are on sale in GU stores. Uniclo has REAL thermal shirts (black). Family restaurants like Jonathan's are very cheap. Spend as much time as possible in Akihabara, it's liteeally heaven.
Super Potato im Ikebukuro is cheaper.
Pokemon Centers have christmas products during that time of year

you wouldn't really show the same courtesy to someone if you couldn't even talk with them

I will say jb-hifi does similar stuff sometimes here in australia. The (I assume) employees get to write little reviews for games they like and stick them next to the game itself. They also draw up a display in marker for big releases kinda like the OP pic

I hear these places are mostly run by Yakuza and they don't want to have to deal with foreigners since they complicate matters

Jb-Hifi is shit though
They mark all electronics up like 200%
Stuff you can get on Aliexpress for $10 they'll sell for > $30

What was it called?

All it takes is one uppity cunt with a pacemaker from years of fad diets and pill popping to sue you since every lawyer is looking for a quick payday.

As an Auscunt, any decent alternatives that offer better prices? I don't want to go to Bing Lee, JB-Hi Fi and the godforsaken Harvey Norman.

Not that I know of.
Although if you want anything computers I can definitely recommend MSY. They're pretty good

Yeah I know the prices are fucked. Was just saying they at least put a little bit of effort into the displays sometimes

+1 for MSY. Umart can also be decent sometimes

Also, Book-offs are cheaper than super potatos, specially those outside of akihabara. I got some cool games in the Nakano book-off.

Aaaalso, during new year's eve, go to a temple. Those are big, have food stands and at 12 midnight, they open the inside gates to let the people go in and pray. It's one of the japanesest things you can do there. One user told you to go to Shibuya for the countdown but I personally find that very foreigner-like, i wanted the full nippon experience and chose to go to the temple and had a great time there

>MSY
Neat. Have you tried PC Case Gear? Their catalogue is pretty decent.

I got mine at a nakano book-off for 8 dollars.

is this guy an actor or something

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But what exactly makes the real difference? Is it the taxes? Property costs? Wage costs? How is it that japanese stores can have employees that are dedicated to such menial work and passionate about the hobby at the same time while retaining some of the oldest and newest stock in their store and not shut down due to lack of profit to maintain ownership?

Or is it that american gamestores sell all this frivolous nerdshit because they want to make more money that they already do and have never been in danger of shutting down in the first place?

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>>Customers are..... Interesting to say the least. youtu.be/jOkdR7on6Ok [Remove]

this always makes me laugh

In Japan they even have stores dedicated to retro stuff like Super Potato

A lot of Japanese stores are aware of white piggu gaijins because white piggu gaijins like to buy obscure games for dirt cheap in Japanese and then sell them online in the West for hundreds.

To counter this, a lot of Japanese game stores that are tourist magnets will have two prices. Prices in English that are more expensive, and then prices in Japanese that you can't read unless you know Japanese. Dumb English only plebs will end up paying the equivalent of a hundred dollars for a game while Japanese people and foreigners autistic enough to learn Japanese will pay normal prices (dirt cheap)

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I like how someone badly shopped mgs3 in there

I just want some chicken karaage on my rice bowl.

I saw one in 2011 for about 4k in Nipponbashi(Osaka's Akiba)

Why is the West so soulless

We congregate at cons and college commons, not game stores.

Hold the tartar sauce I just want my died chicken plain with green onions.

Conservatism has ruined America.
Japan has it right; do what's best for society, keep your head down, but help others if they're in trouble.
Meanwhile in America it's just screw everyone else, 'I got mine, fuck you'.

>I got mine, fuck you
This is literally the "American Dream". Emigrate from your shithole to the YOO ESS AYY and trample on whoever you can to build your future.

>That's the modern conservative American dream
Fixed
In the 1950s, you could afford to live comfortably and achieve the dream, now it's 'You must be a millionaire or you're failure' Combine that with the zero sum economy we live in and it's a recipe for disaster.

I can't believe it took this long for the answer so here it is:

American culture is diametrically opposite to Japanese culture. You have no manners at all and people touching fucking everything on top of starting shit. I have never seen a jap be rude or do anything wrong unless they were raised outside of Japan or have a foreign parent. Imagine doing all this shit for your store in say, California or Paris or Dubai and every little shit will manage to Fuck you up. Switzerland is the only place where this sort of thing is possible since they still have some manners.

Do you really think anyone going to Japan can't at least look up the conversion rates and recognize the Yen symbol? Retard.

You grossly overestimate the intellect of the average person.

People have always enjoyed collecting things. The baseball cards bubble has already kinda burst and isn't cool anymore. Are people really surprised that something like Funko came along and cornered the modern market on collectibles?

The answer to this and everything else is we have niggers.

>zero sum economy
>When there's literally infinite potential money

That is the most cringeworthy boomer thing I've seen. who ever made it should be executed.

>Really you should blame mega corporations for making small gamestores unsurvivable instead of American culture.

No I think American culture is part of it, what else, but their culture (and genetics) makes them push such fucking awful western games? Mainstream or indie!

Do nip really do this? That's kinda mean.

>Implying movement of money is free and inflation doesn't exist.
People are working more hours and getting poorer because the rich are hoarding everything.
Welcome to the Gig economy.

Based granny

>People are working more hours and getting poorer because the rich are hoarding everything.
You realise that rich people don't just put their billions under their matress, right?
They invest it... in businesses... which create more wealth and jobs

Fuck kids these days are dumb
Only retards don't have their money work for them

dumb mutt

Comparing a Japanese game store to shit like Gamestop is retarded. Literally any retro games store is exactly like this. My local one has paintings all over the walls done by the owner's wife.

They're tired of american tourists punching them in the arm and asking "Okotte?"

Had an inoperable brain tumor. Probably was puking and going blind all day.

>They invest it... in businesses... which create more wealth and jobs
>Being this retarded and naive
Did the Trump tax cuts teach you nothing? They just took all the money they were given and either did stock buy back (Which helps no one.) Or stashed it in off shore bank account (Which really helps nothing)
The trickle down theory you're trying to claim here in a runabout way is a failed meme. And for good reason.

>Blaming the poor for their poverty by saying they just don't slave away hard enough.
And this is why you're a cancer.

>either did stock buy back (Which helps no one.)
You are literally retarded.
Stocks are investing in business.
And people wouldn't stash their money off shore if it wasn't for retards like you who are obsessed with punishing the wealthy with overtaxing

>Stocks are investing in a business
And stock buy backs are a divestment that doesn't do anything you said when you claimed 'They invest it... in businesses'
>Having the rich pay their fair share to keep the country running is punishing them.
What's it like being a corporate puppet and working against your classes' best interest? Is it just stupidity and delusion that you fed into the lie you'll have a seat at the table one day, which will never, ever happen. Or was being a traitor just part of your family's blood?

People like you are why America has gone to shit. Hope you enjoy being a meat shield for your corporate masters when shit hits the fan with the Trump Depression.

based, resellers deserve it

>Yea Forums proves again that poor people are poor because of stupidity rather than economics

>Can't refutes the facts
>Just regurgitates what he said before like a good puppet.

You've obviously a really intelligent guy, and according to people like you CEOs don't ever actually work, they just count their money.
So why don't you start a business?
Countless guys like Bill Gates did it and are rolling in cash, and according to you it's super easy and requires no work

You didn't say anything worth refuting
You just whined about class, which is how I know you're poor because of your own stupidity
People who whine about class are just lazy and dumb, they never consider improving themselves or their circumstances and instead wallow in the failure that is their life

CEO's are greatly overvalued in the current American system. Also the meme that you can start a business and get rich is a secondary lottery where you have to be lucky. Nothing more, nothing less.
The fact you can only personally attack proves you can't refute it.
Enjoy being a puppet.

Bootlicker

projection

You're literally a puppet of the government who wants to feed the worthless bureaucracy by paying more tax.

Strawman and assuming assumptions.

>Shitting on corporations makes you a bootlicker.
Please kill yourself.

It's the truth though
All left wingers are bootlickers

You're the equivalent of a right winger who demands products be more expensive so companies will have more money
Lmao

but they have it wrapped in that special CIA packaging

>that steak

>tower hamburger with eggs on top

HNGNGNGNGNNGNGNGNGNGN?!?!!?!?

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He just posted a new setup today.
twitter.com/yoshikadu2010/status/1170560385042108422

Actually no, but you're a corporate pawn who just regurgitates the propaganda you're fed.
Enjoy being a class traitor.

>The latest iPhone was ok, but if they charged us 3x the price the next iPhone that comes out will be even better!!!!!

E R G O N O M I C

>Enjoy being a class traitor.
The reason you're poor is because you identify as a poor loser and don't try to improve yourself or your situation.
When was the last time you read a textbook that wasn't explicitly required of you to read by a teacher/course?
Probably never in your life, which is why nobody wants to hire you for decent jobs.

>Go to video game store in Edmonton
>Its a front for the mob.

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The only few good things from LA

>It's your fault you can't succeed in a system where everything is stacked against you.
epi.org/blog/dont-blame-the-poor-for-the-faults-of-our-economy/
Like I said, corporate pawn and class traitor.

>western mom & pop shops
>period appropriate music playing
>always get greeted when coming in
>employees remember your names
>usually come in to some fat dude that works there fixing something on the counter
>seems to know a lot about almost every game, will let you try out anything you're interested in
>tons of people hanging out and having fun
>always new games to try
>frequent sales which let you get hard to come by games for cheap
>never any cringe ads for modern shit blaring in the background

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nin-whites/asians

What is the deal with this funko shit?
Why people like so much that soulless piece of plastic?
Is it a CIA or mossad experiment ?

It's a bare minimum effort way to collect nerdy shit but without seeming like a weirdo about it. A step even below the casual fan that picks up a nendo here or there or thinks all Jap figures are called figmas.

in japan, having ANY job means contributing to society. there are a lot of workers at regular old shops like these who are actually passionate about what their job consists of so they will go the extra mile. at game shops, they sometimes have written employee recommendations on the displays; music/record stores do this as well

>in japan, having ANY job means contributing to society.
This is a mindset Americans could benefit from. Given how you're looked down upon if you work in the service industry or anything miniume wage.

americans suck at crafting and drawing and are lazy. not really like games. simple as that

my favourite mangaka

That's unfortunately not going to happen in America.

>Mom and pop store.
>Get treated nicely.
>Big dick store.
>Employees act like they want to fist fight me.

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Because theyre cheap as fuck and funko makes them for every fandom imaginable

Why buy a Sailor Moon Figure for $60 + import fees when you can buy one for $10 at a gas station?

Its cheap and most burgerlards cant tell the difference between a funko and a nendoroid to save their life. And even if they could Nendoroids aren't worth the extra $50 to them

also, in the west, it is made to put employees and managers against each other. it's wild

Thanks conservatives.

No problem, look forward to the impending collapse based on racial division in the next 50 years. At least then there's a chance to build a society that's not hinged upon taking peoples money and funding people that want you dead.

I fucking knew it
You've never done anything but the bare minimum to get by in life and you blame all your problems on your betters

THIS

I've seen it firsthand just the other day

>Can't refute the data
>Goes back to his refuted talking point
As expected.

HAHA get used to seeing more

Service industry workers are leeches
Blame tipping culture

Sweet which one ill go there.

>but help others if they're in trouble.
good thing america has plenty of churches

I'm not going to read some unrelated article red herring because you want to move goal posts.
You answered my question.
That's why you're a loser.

If only we had laws like other first world countries that outlaws tipping and give servers a living wage!

Or service workers who refuse to work for peanuts on the promise that they might get tips.

>I'm not going to read information that refutes my views.
Stay mad corporate puppet and class traitor.

I have no idea. The only ones that even look anywhere remotely good are non-human figures. But they still look like trash.

Holy shit dude not vidya related to please do pay a visit to Planets.

>class traitor.
I'll have you know that I'm not a loser like you
I actually tried a little, so I'm not lower class scum

this

Amazing what you can have an a homogeneous society with a strong culture, too bad those darn conservatives ruined everything. Maybe if we import more foreigners and try to push ethnic divisions as hard as possible it'll all work out.

>He actually believes he's not scum on the foot of the oligarchs.
LOL

Take some of this month's drug money and buy a non-fiction book
Improve yourself
Use your brain for the first time in your life and maybe you can be something other than a walmart greeter

>Blaming race
>When the problem is clearly economic based
Hope you choose the right side when the class war happens.

Pig Disgusting foreigner here, visited Japan this year and spent 2 weeks there. Once a bitchy 40yo woman turned her face away from me with disgust. Other than that people have seemed really friendly and mostly indiferent to my presence. People at hotels were often super chatty and were legitimately interested in my reasons to visit Japan and felt good knowing I had an interest in the culture itself, not just weeb garbage.

we need to get soul back

You should follow your own advice and read the facts I gave you, but no, better keep chasing that impossible to get brass ring thinking you'll 'make it'.

I know from experience that if you try you can succeed
No need to read lies unrelated to my profession that teach my to wallow in depression and failure instead of giving back to society

>Having to rely on cults who bend the court systems to allow them to discriminate against others.
No.

Race is the key issue desu

most places usual tourists will go to will be places where a lot of other tourists are. these more-local shops and restaurants can have these signs

Keep denying the facts and believing the lies user.
You're only hurting yourself.

They are too busy fucking japanese housewifes!

Economics trumps race.
Only retarded puppets focus on race when it's the corporations that are you fucking you over.

Actually, as someone who rips Gamestop off to earn money at Gamestop and is sitting at around 1500 TIC and another 2000 at Amazon, there are some variances between them depending on their DL. Most are anal stick in the mud, but occasionally you get the cool ones who let custom artwork, fighting game tournaments, etc. happen. It really just depends on the individual District Leader or Regional Leader.

These two orders are $700-ish dollars and will net me around 1000 to 1100. More if I return the 2DSs.

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>Get tips
>Have the corperate drones installed in government take them away from you and hand them to management.
fortune.com/2018/02/05/labor-department-tip-rule/

What is this strategy for ripping off Gamestop, based user?

Here's how I can tell you're a stupid nigger/spic, the oligarchs don't give a shit about me, and I don't give a shit about them. Jews obviously run things for they're the true oligarchs, but that's another story, you as a nigger/spic are chasing some boogeyman i don't think you quite understand. Quit the HRT, quit sucking off random guys at whatever local mall you hang out, lay off the drugs and seek help.

Stop getting mad and blaming your problems on minorities when the boot on your neck is corporations who want you to continue to be a useful idiot for them.

>clearly economic based
Nah. I've seen small towns where people don't even bother to lock their doors and have comfy family owned businesses with barely any crime. They were ultimately pretty poor but happy.
There are also plenty of rich as fuck cities which are atomized as fuck with no social trust and lots of crime.

How are they a minority when they're the majority? Fucking retard you don't know my ethnicity let alone ethnic group so don't go around acting like you know better. There is no boot on my fucking neck cause I'm not the slave to a jewish ideology birthed by their own horrendous religion. Communism is the by product of Judaism. You're the slave. The only useful Idiot is you cause you truly think the powers that be will spare you because you were retarded enough to buy into their bullshit and then become nothing more than a fucking brain slave spewing their rhetoric for free. Faggot alert.

>Anecdotal evidence
>Being a good puppet going after the wrong people
As expected

>tfw would absolutely love going to japan
>have plenty of time off of work to do so
>have money to do so
>but the only thing preventing me from actually going is the fucking flight time because i cannot imagine being in a metal tube with awful recyled air for 16 hours straight

honestly I feel like I would have a panic attack.

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Nope, pretty sure it's race. There's some pretty big incompatibilities there.

Pay out the ass for a good airline like ANA.
It cost several hundred more dollars, but the flight itself is as good as flying gets.

>can't refute what I said
RETARD, as expected.

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cope. it will actually scare you out tho while in turbulence.

>Still can't refute the facts
Stay mad puppet.

>buy used controller from gamestop
>left analog stick doesn't work
>bring it in next day
>lol no refunds, we have a policy to test them thoroughly, you must have broken it sir

I was mad enough that I swore at the manager for a few minutes then threatened to take them to small claims court. They replaced it with a slightly shittier one after I disrupted their business long enough and being asked to leave multiple times.
The fact that I needed to have an autistic meltdown to get them to make it right is still sort of astounding.
fucking gamestop

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Servers are straight up manipulating you when they complain about not being paid minimum wage and having to rely on tips to live. If you bring up the idea of them being paid a set wage and not having to take tips, they will never, ever want it. They make more with tips than they would ever make without them and being able to paint the picture of a poor little worker who's not getting paid means they can guilt even more money into their pockets. The're all two faced fucks.

Your facts are jewish lies, checkmate goy. Now stop shitting up this comfy thread you fucking retarded faggot tranny.

just like take 30 mg of melatonin and check out

>Damage control
Cut and run puppet.

Sell high, buy low. Its like anything else in life. Having a script that can find their shit helps too. I'll spoonfeed you one: Smash Ultimate+Elite+preorder bonus is $54. How much can you buy Smash Ultimate for?

Radical ideas like these are why a lot of you people can't seem to make any friends

>you people
>everyone I don't like is part of the same group
consider kys tranny

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>implying Euros can afford games

Not him but you're really not welcome here. Quit acting like you're the POC savoir and leave.

>Not him
Stop lying
Also go back to your containment board.

You don't belong here

Go back to your containment board.

You don't belong here, you need to leave.

Hey maybe this is a good time to ask.

My group of friends want to travel together to Japan in the future (probably in a few years when everyone has enough money to splurge), for language i'll be starting next year classes because i really want to play Japanese games that never got translated.

What's a good amount of money to have if we want to mostly eat a shitload of japanese food? I've read meat tends to be expensive.

Im also not american but we also would like to go there and eat disgusting greasy junk food in Vegas.

Also what about prostitutes? Is it legal in Japan or do i need to contact some shady people?

Projection

Switzerland is a racially homogeneous, conservative, white society. We used to all be like this before the west got kiked.

It's because the rich have pit people against each other while they run off with all the money.
Japan are assholes too when it comes to money, but they at least realize they need workers to survive, while the rich in America view workers as expendable peons.
Then they're able to get the workers to fight against each other off of false narratives like what is shitting out.

You'll need to completely wipe out corporate and conservative culture and bring back a sense of communal loyalty to everything. (Including the job) if you want to fix the US.

>J&L Game in New York
I just moved to Manhattan and hadn't heard about this place. Thanks for the rec user, I'll check it out this week.

Rich people and corporations can pit the proles against each other because they are forcing ethnic groups that cant get along to exist alongside each other while integration is made impossible (more impossible than normal, anyway). Dont be naive. Also conservatism is dead.

I've been here longer than you, Go away.

Wrong, they're using race as a reason to get you to fight against other people in your real class, and like a useful peon, you doing their bidding.

I've been told tall people will have a bad time in japan because most things are for their height, im 6'5 anything i should be aware of?

No you haven't, admit defeat and leave gracefully.

I worked at Gamestop last year and this is totally false, autists would preorder these things in droves. Funko collectors were consistently the worst customers I had to deal with.

Large numbers of different people, groups, religions, etc dont get along whether or not it's being egged on by thre powers that be, have you ever opened a history book? Not without one culture being dominant over all others to the point of extinguishing them, Rome style.

Literally all of the Game Cities are fronts.

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They can learn to co-exist given enough time, the problem is the corporate elites look to make the divisions worse so the groups fight among themselves while they plunder the country.
You're being played like a fiddle.

06 now fuck off retard, you lefty pol retards need to leave

Thieves. Japanese stores don’t have to worry about crack addicts stealing shit for drug money and can openly display things and make stores really pop out to customers. America can’t do that because el nigre.

>given enough time
Lmao, yes in a totalitarian imperial state with the conditions I mentioned, maybe. And even then, the citizenship extension to peregrini in Rome muddies even that argument considering it's long term effects. You're talking about a dream, multiculturalism lends itself to chaos and manipulation by elites because of human nature, that's why they introduced it to the west. Large numbers of different people can get along, but almost certainly not long term when they are forced to live with each.

>Thinking I'm from there
Nice job exposing yourself

All you're doing is creating a self fulfilling prophecy with your bigotry as you're a useful idiots for the oligarchs.
You're just ensuring your own failure and defeat. Either by waging a war that you cannot win or being a willing slave.

t. trailer park burger

>if we want to mostly eat a shitload of japanese food?
depends. you can buy a cup ramen for 100 yen at a supermarket but if you want to eat a real ramen you need at least 800yen. you can eat every kind of tasty food if you can pay 1300 yen every time you go to a restaurant.

Ok, so you dont have an argument. You know your egalitarian pipe dream is a destructive tool being used to divide the west? Funnily enough, you're the stooge of the elite, my teenage bolshevik friend.

My argument has been made, if you want to get a refutation of the Roman Empire, it's because they overextended and let shitty rulers ruin everything (Like Trump is doing).
That doesn't change the fact that you have a self fulfilling prophesy and refuse to see that things can work, but you'd rather be a pawn in a pointless war that is perpetuated by corporations.

Your juvenile takes on the Roman empire with a trump comparison thrown in show that I am clearly wasting my time. You'll stop being an embarrassing red when you get more perspective I hope.

Nah, you're just upset that you've bee refuted and know you're fighting on the wrong side, but are to deep in the cancer to stop.
The Chemo is coming for your kind.

What is saying.
Nothing weird going on here. Having to deal with nonspeaking tourists is a hassle and there are plenty of other people that are willing to help you out so its perfectly fine if somebody doesn't want to be burdened by a foreigner.

too bad they overprice most things and never sell current gen stuff.

is that what's stopping you? For me I find it disrespectful to not speak some of the language of the country your visiting. If I get mad at chinese tourists not being able to speak a lick of english it's only fair for members of the foreign country in visiting to do the same. I want to learn enough japanese to order stuff, and make light conversation before I even start looking at ticket prices.

im guessing you guys havent been to japan alot of their stores are like this "soul", lots of small business as well. the only lame part is they all close at around 6pm

I wish I had something like this. We've got a mom and pop store but it's ran like a corporate thing since there's three or four other locations in the tri-state area and the vidya's only like a fourth of the store at best. Rest is a mix of old dimestore novels, DVDs, CDs and random dollar store runoff someone thought they could turn a profit on (that's been there for years so you know.)

Really doesn't help that the selection is pretty lacking. There's stuff for all Playstation and Xbox systems, and Nintendo to a far lesser extent, but it's mostly just random junk and gallons of sports titles. Maybe a few solid games that literally everybody owned at the time.

Also they just use ebay prices because of course they do. There's a reason I usually just order online instead of trying to deal with the hassle of going there only for it to be five bucks more expensive on the off chance they have one shit quality copy of it.

I think the worst part is while they were never amazing, they were decent back when I was a kid. I could get some cool obscure PS2 games while they were still new-ish for like ten bucks. It'd be a miracle to get, say, Gitaroo Man for under $50 there now.