Re: TGM4 Announced!! not to mention the corn industry is subsidized with our tax dollars so they can sell corn for cheaper then the cost of production. this causes corn to be used for food for animals that should not be eating corn in the first place. the end result is more e.coli in the meat as cows can't digest corn properly.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! Also, Mihara may be a dick to his Western fans, but he still makes really cool games.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! Well, I feel that considering the way he's been treated by TTC and a fair amount of TTCs target audience, Mihara is understandably bitter. I'm not very happy about being unable to read his blog at all, but when iv'e been able to get an answer out of him, he hasn't been a dick. All this Club TGM bit i think was his attempt to prove that there is demand for TGM 4. The more people who join Club TGM, the more justification he can give TTC for it's existence. It appears to have worked. I think he's well aware of who his true fans outside Japan are, but that many of them still play clones, and TTC denying him worldwide TGM rights because of the clones isn't helping. And with not only the mistreatment from TTC, but all the people talking about how stupid and insane and too hard TGM is, and the others complaining abut TGM4 before it's even released, well i think you can see where he's coming from.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! I think he's blocked western users from his blog to stop people like Zaphod attempting to contact him
Re: TGM4 Announced!! Mihara may be racist, but he's a genius. I have no problems supporting the products he creates. You have to separate the art from the person behind it. And please, supporting a clone like Texmaster doesn't prove anything. By supporting them, you're supporting a person that stole the idea from a racist. If you really want to prove you're serious about this, then you shouldn't play TGM style games at all. Are you capable of that? Just enjoy things you like, and support them financially if you can so that more things like it can exist in the future! It's a simple philosophy, and it makes sense.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! Whoa whoa whoa what? Back up there for a second. Never was this implied in any way, I merely compared social acceptance of 21st century Japanese xenophobia with the social acceptance of 19th century Western casual racism. As in, in Japan it's okay to treat gaijin differently. It has nothing to do with racism. Please understand that.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! I confused the word xenophobe with the word racist. Sorry about that. But it doesn't really matter, my point still stands. They are both negative terms regardless....treating somebody different because they're a foreigner is no morally different than treating somebody different because of their race.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! I always thought a far larger sign of the Japanese xenophobia was the fact they still use(d) LZH as a real compression method (though I haven't run across one in a few years)>
Re: TGM4 Announced!! I just hope I ever get to play an original TGM game. This whole thing is fucking pathetic. I'm a grown man working fulltime, yet I can't get my hands on my favorite videogame, which happens to be something as simple as Tetris. I've spent alot of money on videogames in my days, but these people won't even let me buy their games? That makes me want them even more.... But NO, I won't spend thousands of euros on Tetris. No freaking way. When TI finally get's cracked and playable on a regular PC, I'll send Arika 50 euros. Or maybe 25 to them and 25 to the cracker?
Re: TGM4 Announced!! Agree 100%! I would be happy about any of the 3 games from the series, for that matter.
Re: TGM4 Announced!! We don't really know anything that isn't in the videos. But certainly nothing so far has suggested network features.
