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Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by hnlmorg »

astrange wrote: post #108
hnlmorg wrote: post #63

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Nintendo of America are just as aggressive and, as I've mentioned before, other Japanese games studios aren't nearly as proactive in shutting down fan content. Sega, for example, practically endorse it. As someone who's actively involved in the retro gaming community on Twitch, there is a very stark difference between Nintendo and almost every other studio.

The studios' US branches are usually nicer than the Japan ones; Nintendo is the rare US branch that's just as mean. Sega and Capcom will try to get you permabanned if you're Japanese and do a monetized stream of their games without permission: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-08-06/hololiv... And Atlus Japan won't give out streaming permissions even though Atlus US doesn't care at all.

Granted I'm talking from a western perspective but what you've described is precisely my point.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by bobthechef »

chrisco255 wrote: post #30

Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

Sounds like your typical reheated, cluster-of-blandly-positive and vague feel-good marketing. Not sure what exactly you're so enamored with, or what you're projecting here.

(Also the phrase "giving back" implies you've been doing something unjust. You only give back after you've taken. But all just business practice is about fair exchange, so there's nothing to "give back".)

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by bobthechef »

chrisco255 wrote: post #95
Clewza313 wrote: post #57

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> We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. Unfortunately this is standard marketing pablum for Japanese companies, with "future" ( mirai ) and "dream" ( yume ) both being particularly common tropes. Alan Booth talks about this back in 1995 in Looking for the Lost : > I passed through the pavilion's Dream Tunnel into the World of Dream and from there…

It might be a trope but coming from Nintendo it means a lot more. Can't say how many wonderful memories I've had exploring the worlds that Nintendo has dreamed up.

Those were...games...

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by _rkz1 »

bobthechef wrote: post #113
chrisco255 wrote: post #95

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It might be a trope but coming from Nintendo it means a lot more. Can't say how many wonderful memories I've had exploring the worlds that Nintendo has dreamed up.

Those were...games...

In childhood especially, the line between the virtual and the real is flimsier than you think.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by throwaway2037 »

"The Web is dead. Long live the Web!"

This website is so magical. It gives me a child-like feeling of true discovery.

The first website I ever visited was SGI.com. I saw it advertised in a computer magazine, but I didn't have access to the Internet. By chance, a few months later, I learned the central branch of my city library had one PC with dial-up. You had to reserve it. The waiting list was long. I still remember staring at the blank grey browser window, carefully pecking "www.sgi.com" into the location bar. Then... waiting, and waiting, and waiting(!) for all the graphics to load. SGI's homepage was full of these beautiful pre-rendered three-dimensional graphics. It was worth the wait!

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by ComodoHacker »

ksec wrote: post #5

Attention: It nearly flipping fried my CPU. But awesome site. Tested On both Safari and Chrome on macOS. 100% CPU usage when scrolling. Edit: On WOW, from the comments I decide to try it on my iPhone 11. Ultra Smooth Rendering with Music ( which wasn't even playing on my Mac ). And my phone isn't even warm after a minutes of playing around. Amazing Which makes me wonder. Why?

It hogs my latest Firefox into being almost totally unresponsive. It takes minutes after closing a tab to recover.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by graderjs »

presentation wrote: post #109
graderjs wrote: post #104

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Korea has many startups. There's rumors of a startup scene in China. /S Greater China has lots: HK (tho not a country in itself, but a special region of China) has some. Republic of China Taiwan has lots. Singapore has a huge amount. There's also a lot of people doing more "craft based" or "small business" startups in all those areas, such as cafes, organic or urban farms, manufacturing of various kinds. Tho that is…

My impression in Japan is that startups have traditionally considered incredibly risky and is a liability in getting loans and future job prospects with established companies - but that’s also changing as the generations shift.

I actually don't know that much about Japan. It's the one place I didn't talk about in East Asia as you can see.

That's not entirely true, I guess there's other countries in East Asia: let's not forget Mongolia, and Tibet and Northern Korea.

I bet there'd be lots of startups in Mongolia tho I have no idea. Tibet have no idea, tho would love to go. NK I guess there would not be so much because I assume the government would control them, but honestly, I have zero idea right now about startups there.

Interesting to know more about startups in Japan. Apart from LINE/Naver (which I guess is in fact Korean), that Japanese clothing startup (the guy is Elon's friend and will go to space), the older one like Softbank, and many cafes and small (for lack of better word, not sure it applies in Japan), but, "hipster" businesses (things like fashion boutiques, designer household goods and design agencies) I have no idea about startups in Japan, as you can probably tell. Would love to know more.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by foxhop »

hnlmorg wrote: post #97
chrisco255 wrote: post #92

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I don't think so. Pepe is still quite hilarious for meme material. I can ignore bad actors with an open IP and still enjoy the good stuff. And meanwhile, I think stuff like fan art, fan fiction, spin offs, etc could maybe create an even more vibrant ecosystem than a Disney or Nintendo ever could. I mean, look at the ancient Greek and Roman mythology. That was an open source ecosystem of stories and legends that diffe…

The interesting thing there is that Disney made their money by reselling public domain content: - The Little Mermaid - The Jungle Book - Tarzan - Cinderella - A Christmas Carol - Fantasia - Pinocchio - Alice in Wonderland - Beauty and the Beast - Aladin - Heracles etc All folk tails or public domain stories. Even Tangled and Frozen have taken heavily from other stories. And I'm certain there's more I've forgotten. Li…

Did you know Superhero is a trademaked term held by the duo Marvel (now Disney) and DC.

That said they have never tried to test that trademark in the courts.

I thought about putting another term into the public domain, something like uberheros/ultraheros and then allowing artists, writers, and other creatives to define their characters as such, and while also in the public domain, allow remixing and reinterpretation of the archetypes and stories.

I think the easiest way to start this would be to setup a git repo to describe how it works and what it means to place one of your characters or stories into the public domain. Then build a community and tools to help people and teams do so.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by kspacewalk2 »

chrisco255 wrote: post #30

Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

>This sounds like the Yamauchi family's attempt to bootstrap and create an ecosystem of ventures to reinvigorate entrepreneurship in Japan and their way of giving back.

And it also sounds like their attempt to make more money. Let's just not lose sight of reality amidst all the fluff.

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