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5896087 No.5896087 [Reply] [Original]

>ywn be a salaryman at the height of Japan’s bubble economy with thousands of dollars to spend on the latest games and electronics

>> No.5896098

>>5896087
and no time to play them? these niggas were basically working 60h a week and they had to hang out with coworkers on after work too

>> No.5896106

feels bad man

>> No.5896110
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5896110

I would commit 8 bit sudoku, because I would have no time to spend on that shit and bring dishonoru

>> No.5896115

Salarymen are the Japanese wagechads.

>> No.5896123

>>5896098
>>5896110
This, salarymen were cucks. Real chads were bosozoku then joined a yakuza family and escalated from there.

>> No.5896131
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When the salaryman has to step aside and let the boss buy the super famicom at launch first.

>> No.5896140

>>5896110
Sudoku? I think you mean Sakura.

>> No.5896189 [SPOILER] 
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5896189

>>5896087
>having that much money
>spending it on games not pussy
>not pirating games anyways

>> No.5896194

Japanese salarymen spent hours after work smoking and drinking in their local pubs to escape from their wives.

>> No.5896203
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>>5896087
If you were a Salaryman in in Japan in the late 90s or otherwise you wouldn't have time for video games since you're probably working between 80-120 hours a week for your company. Japanese professional have no souls by the time they are 25. Most people playing video games back then and to this day are kids, middle school kids, and neets; high school kids barely play games because of how impossibly high the standards are in that country. no wonder they have one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

>> No.5896205

>>5896189
>spending money on women
cuckadoodledee

>> No.5896213

>no yakuza at the height of the bubble economy so I could beat up people every time I go over the SEGA arcade

>> No.5896229

>>5896123
>ywn be in a japanese biker gang
>ywn have a japanese biker bf
why live

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>>5896087
Never was, never will be. At the time I was a freelance programmer with tens of thousands of dollars to spend on toys and lots of time to spend playing with them.

>> No.5897295
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>>5896087
Being the reason the X68000 exists.

>> No.5897362

>>5896110
is this Dark Souls II?

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>>5896087
Being a wageslave in the 80s was Aesthetic af.

>> No.5897398

>>5897389
>Salarymen
>Wageslave
I don't think you understand what either of those words means.

>> No.5897514

>>5896087
With their wives having a complete handle on their finances, I doubt they spent much on anything but the mortgage and the kids' college funds.

>> No.5897518

>>5896189
Holy fuck it's that Danny DeVito Lite from Total Recall.

>> No.5897558

>>5896087
>salaryman
>comfy
I wonder if the suicide rate would be the most highest under them in Japan.

>> No.5897581

>>5897295
That’s exactly what I thought of when I made this thread.

>You pride yourself on being an educated consumer, so naturally you subscribe to the latest computer magazines. You don’t have a lot of free time, but when you do, you want to play only the best software. You flip through the catalog of new and see the X68000 and its titles. Gradius, Final Fight, R-Type—all arcade perfect ports. Even a new Castlevania releasing soon. The price tag? A cool 170000 yen all totaled. No sweat. You’re already on your way to the electronics shop.

>> No.5897639

>>5896123
>ywn be a former bosozuku who went straight and got a respectable gig but keep getting drawn back in and your manager doesn't fuck with you because he knows you're keeping the riff raff away from the office when everyone else has to pay protection money
Make that an anime, japan. I'd watch that.

>> No.5898241

>>5896087
>thousands of dollars to spend on the latest games and electronics
Would have just spent money on real estate before the bubble burst. Sell out and move to cayman isles or whatever.

Too bad I got out of school in post 9/11 recession.

>> No.5898310

>>5897639
Make Great Teacher Onizuka?

>> No.5898335

>>5898310
Nah, he's a teacher. I mean regular salarydude

>> No.5899682

>>5896123
>c*cks
>>>/tv/
>>>/pol/
>>>/v/
>>>/ck/
>>>/b/

>> No.5899685

>>5897389
it really wasn't, a home PC cost $2000-3000 and that was more like $4000+ in today's money with inflation

>> No.5899746
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>>5896087
Virginposter OP
Salarymen didn't play games. They played golf or yakyū with business partners or got drunk with colleagues after work. They spent a fortune on a nice house in a suburb, a mid-sized car and the education of their children. Then they killed themselves in their 50s.

>> No.5899773

>>5899746
giwtwm

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>>5899682

>> No.5899827

>>5897362
Yes, scholars of the first sin.

>> No.5899830

>>5897295
i like the black version of these.

>> No.5899840 [DELETED] 

>>5899685
>>5899746
>>5899773
>>5899785
>>5899827
>>5899830
Stop replying. I saged this thread, let it die newfags.

>> No.5899849

>>5899840
mass reply is a bannable offense

>> No.5899943

>>5897581
And just like modern PC gaming, those ports came out YEARS after the games stopped being relevant. Between their own computers and Windows, the Japanese never took computer gaming seriously.

>> No.5899961

>>5896087
Wtf is a "salaryman"? Anyone with a job?

>> No.5900008

>>5899961
A salaryman is a dude that lives to work. Works ot out of social or real pressure from bosses, but doesnt get paid anymore because hes a salaryman.

A wageslave is a dystopian cyberpunk / shadowrun term that has real application too. You're doing a no skill/low skill job. You're never going to fundamentally improve your condition. You're working to live. You always make just enough to get by and a tragedy could destroy you or put you into nearly real slavery to pay off debt.

In shadowrun it might be so bad that you plug in a skill soft/remote control chip when you get to work, and wake up 10 hours later exhausted and exposed to the daily limit of radiation you agreed to when you signed your employment contract. At least that's what the radiation tracker you bought at the company store tells you.

Theres also sex/rape sim chips but they're not as in demand as you might think because someone looking for depravity can just get their own chip for that.

>> No.5900375

>>5899961
>>5900008
You must be 25 yo to post on this board. Leave now

>> No.5900398
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>>5900375
YeH all those fucking 18 year olds that played shadowrun 3rd ed.