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The guy looks happier than some of my extroverted friends, prefer to stay at home is not illness, being sad and depressed might be! And this games looks like it'll definitely bring more laughter than depression
Japanese game developer hasn't left the house in 10 years
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Re: Japanese game developer hasn't left the house in 10 years
#52I can feel for this guy. I just spent 8 years without seeing the sun or breathing fresh air. (Jail) I hope he's taking some vitamins. I'm assuming he's doing no exercise?
Welcome back! Weird question- anything you found enjoyable in jail? I sometimes think I’ll thrive in isolationism of sort. Obviously jail is not voluntary but curious how you manage to stay sane.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Maybe he should have skipped learning English. There are probably many resources available in Japanese to learn programming/game development. But, English is the foundation of almost everything in the information age.
Yup. No matter how much information you think is available in your native language, you will have more and higher quality in English, the vast majority of the time. I've worked at a Japanese company and seen people who were ostensibly good at English gloss over the right result in a Google search because they didn't quite have the fluency to pick up on it immediately. People who aren't comfortable with English at all…
As a poor reader in several languages this is a very apt description of what it's like to use the web in non-native languages
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#54It is a shame that the hikkomori is a trend and becoming popular with COVID.
Eh, I doubt many people become hikikomoris because it's trendy. In Japan, it's usually understood to be a reaction to social pressures, basically dropping out of all the various societal rat races (work, dating, "adulting") simultaneously.
> adulting
Is there a word for the opposite? A desire to escape the pressure of being a child/younh adult? The pressure to be a child and do childlike things always annoyed me so...
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Maybe he should have skipped learning English. There are probably many resources available in Japanese to learn programming/game development. But, English is the foundation of almost everything in the information age.
Yup. No matter how much information you think is available in your native language, you will have more and higher quality in English, the vast majority of the time. I've worked at a Japanese company and seen people who were ostensibly good at English gloss over the right result in a Google search because they didn't quite have the fluency to pick up on it immediately. People who aren't comfortable with English at all…
One thing I noticed back when I worked in Japan 15 years ago is that, because a lot of software engineers there don't speak English (or at least not well enough), there was a big market for translations of English technical books. It was rather striking compared to what I had seen in France.
So, while I agree with your point, at least 15 years ago, there were a lot of resources for Japanese programers to read in their native language. Of course, another problem was the terrible, terrible state of education in Japan and the fact that good students would study Electonic engineering and that Software engineering was seen as being an unattractive choice.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. No matter how much information you think is available in your native language, you will have more and higher quality in English, the vast majority of the time. I've worked at a Japanese company and seen people who were ostensibly good at English gloss over the right result in a Google search because they didn't quite have the fluency to pick up on it immediately. People who aren't comfortable with English at all…
One thing I noticed back when I worked in Japan 15 years ago is that, because a lot of software engineers there don't speak English (or at least not well enough), there was a big market for translations of English technical books. It was rather striking compared to what I had seen in France. So, while I agree with your point, at least 15 years ago, there were a lot of resources for Japanese programers to read in thei…
The problem with books is that they're invariably obsolete, and almost always third party information (and thus usually at least a little bit wrong). I've never found the need to get my software engineering knowledge from books; online documentation is always more up to date and usually written by the authors of the project directly. In addition, only a tiny fraction of the knowledge you can find online in English will be collected in books, and it is much, much harder to search for.
Books are good for abstract knowledge (if you're that kind of learner) and to get an introduction to a particular technology, but not having access to the latest up to date information and a search engine over all the accumulated knowledge in the Internet is a major handicap.
This is one of the causes of a common pattern in SWE in Japan: always being behind the curve on tech, best practices, etc. There's just an inherent delay added by having to wait for information to be available in your native language. Add to that Japanese bureaucracy that discourages change (especially in big companies, but by no means exclusively), and it's even worse.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn’t “NEET” mean “Not in education, employment, or training?”
It does, but, as a colloquialism, it’s reaching a disassociation from its original meaning and is now used to describe “asocial” behavior. You will often see shutins called neets (and I think this colloquial case change further disconnects the word from its original meaning) as well as someone who has a job but lives with their parents. The word police have not been enforcing the law, so unfortunately for any pedants…
I believe that difference is down to anime fans, and the more exaggerated shut in meaning nay have bled over a bit but has not overtaken the original meaning in all contexts.
There are still many contexts where if you say NEET people will just think of the original definition, and others where people consider it the shut-in anime one.
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#58Whenever I hear a bit about the hikikomori phenomenon in western news I'm always left wondering how they support themselves. Are these trust fund kids or something? If they're just living in mom's basement or whatever, that seems pretty selfish and pathetic. I guess this happens in the US also, but it's not something people talk about and we don't have a specific term for it.
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#59> Per ITK, Nito only leaves his apartment to get a haircut and take out the trash, as well as any other activity that absolutely requires him to step outside of the comfort of his room. He gets all of his groceries and whatever else he needs delivered, eliminating the need to go shopping.
Huh, I thought Japan is more developed, in China delivery companies offer taking out the trash service for years, they deliver you groceries and on the way out they take out your trash.
Also what's up with out of home haircuts? That's pretty standard even in poor European countries for hairdresser to come to your own place, it's actually often cheaper than having rented place, because it saves them tons of money plus it's very difficult to tax it.
So as European who lived in China I say meh at taking out the trash and doing haircuts as absolutely required activities to leave the house.
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#60Has anyone told this guy that it's really easy to cut your own hair? Especially if you don't need to impress anyone.
or just schedule hairdresser to cut your hair at home, it should be actually cheaper considering rent, fairly standard service for decades, in China grocery delivery offer even taking out the trash service for years, since on the way out they are empty handed anyway, so it improves productivity