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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • Shaun's original comment in Japanese

    「リストラ(Restructure)」という言葉には、再構築や効率化といった前向きな意味合いが込められることが多く海外では比較的曖昧に使われがちです。しかし日本においては「リストラ=解雇」として非常にストレートに受け止められその影響の大きさがより強く意識されます。

    とくに近年の外資系企業では大規模な投資に対して短期間での成果を求める傾向が強まり、十分な時間をかける前に株主の期待に応えるための方向転換が行われる場面も少なくありません。今回の報道もそうした構造の中で起きた出来事だと受け止めています。

    ゲーム業界を支えているのは現場で真摯に開発に取り組んできた一人ひとりのクリエイターやスタッフの皆さんです。今回の決定には同じ業界にいる立場として強い痛みを感じます。

    長い時間をかけて築いてきたものが世に出ない悔しさとそれを楽しみにしていたゲーマーが触れることすらできない現実。どちらも非常に残念です。

    影響を受けた皆さまが次のフィールドで再び力を発揮できることを心より願っております。

    Restructure is essentially synonymous to being fired/laid-off in Japanese. Shaun points out its used with relatively mixed meanings elsewhere.

    Just speaking from my own knowledge of Japanese work culture, each employee and employer are a lot more mutually valued with each other than a relationship with shareholders. The need to frequently turnover staff reflects worse on both. Japanese shareholder relationships with companies, in turn, traditionally (post-bubble era) are less focused on solely “fiduciary duty”. They were more on stability, sharing success with good product releases, customer relations and feeling that you are part of the company itself as a shareholder. Many offer(ed) annual gifts and product samples to their domestic shareholders.

    So the idea to pursue short-term growth at the expense of long-term success or popularity, is not as well-received by Japanese executives, employees and the public as it may in North America.














  • The fourth element is especially important now. Don’t engage on the playing field Trump set up on what is plain to see is a setup to authorize martial law powers for himself.

    But it also means don’t let government drive the conversation in media either. Keep standing up and keep the message clear that this is a stand against tyranny and let Trump and his admin flail, grasp at straws and reach for the Project2025 book of excuses. They look weak and unconvincing against the resolve of the peaceful resistance movement.

    Based on the cases you have studied, what are the key elements necessary for a successful nonviolent campaign?

    CHENOWETH: I think it really boils down to four different things. The first is a large and diverse participation that’s sustained.

    The second thing is that [the movement] needs to elicit loyalty shifts among security forces in particular, but also other elites. Security forces are important because they ultimately are the agents of repression, and their actions largely decide how violent the confrontation with — and reaction to — the nonviolent campaign is going to be in the end. But there are other security elites, economic and business elites, state media. There are lots of different pillars that support the status quo, and if they can be disrupted or coerced into noncooperation, then that’s a decisive factor.

    The third thing is that the campaigns need to be able to have more than just protests; there needs to be a lot of variation in the methods they use.

    The fourth thing is that when campaigns are repressed — which is basically inevitable for those calling for major changes — they don’t either descend into chaos or opt for using violence themselves. If campaigns allow their repression to throw the movement into total disarray or they use it as a pretext to militarize their campaign, then they’re essentially co-signing what the regime wants — for the resisters to play on its own playing field. And they’re probably going to get totally crushed.






  • I don’t mind if people give their opinion no matter whether they have played 5 minutes before shutting it off, 1000 hours or not played it all.

    But I do take issue with anyone acting like an expert, while making claims that shows their inexperience with a game or genre. One of the most egregious example is with people like Elon Musk, but you’ll see it with IGN reviewers sometimes, or people on forums acting like hotshots. It’s like a student who just passed Electronics 101 or Economics 101 acting like they know it all because of the four new formulas they learned. Anyone with more knowledge can see through it transparently, so just be honest with your experience in a preface before stating your opinion, then there is no problem.