Waddle Dee
Member
Pretty much this. Doesn't sound like he deserves all the shit that's being thrown at him.
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Japanese man caught lying about being a Guilty Gear champion, is publicly shamed
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Pretty much this. Doesn't sound like he deserves all the shit that's being thrown at him.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Is Ito Japanese for George Costanza?
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Firing this guy for a lie about a gaming tournament that is completely unrelated to his job seems WAY too extreme.
seriously! should've said he was made Pope! am i rite?
Probably it would have been less embarassing
Salty Rice
Member
Im a Guilty Gear champion too.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
yongeandcollege
Member
Why would his employer care though?
Stole my joke like 5 seconds before i was going to post it
But yeah, it does sound like either a saturday morning cartoon or an old sitcom where they would would all sit around the house and the sad full house music would play and the kid would just admit that he tricked the school into thinking he was a big time artist or whatever just because he wanted people to like him and then the parent would give a speech and the fake audience would be like "awww"Stole my joke like 5 seconds before i was going to post it
You must repent
Cause it propped up their work place and made everyone talk about them, if he lied to that point, it probably embarrassed a lot of people if it made it to national headlines, and may somehow refrlect badly on his place of business
newtypepilot
Member
The Ryan Lochte of the fighting gaming community.
Pfft, of course he's lying about being the champion of that tournament. I should know.....because I am the champion of that tournament......
Seriously though, as funny as the story is, sucks that he's losing his job over this.
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Made me laugh to tears, 10/10.
Seriously though, as funny as the story is, sucks that he's losing his job over this.
EDIT:
Made me laugh to tears, 10/10.
That'll only apply if his lie was that he should have won the tournament, and he got robbed.
Reading GAF at work was my mistake of the day
Booya_base
Member
Honour and shame are huge parts of it......
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Repeat after me folks:
"Regular Journalism + Video Games = Regular Journalism - Journalistic Integrity"
Valkerionseven
Member
Why lie about something so easy to look up.
Reminds me of the Archer arguement where he was trying to make his cover the #2 Kite surfer in the world and Lana kept telling how stupid it was since a simple internet search would say hes lying.
Take their relationships with their companies more serious than their own damn families when shit happens sadly.
Heck one of my friends drank to much and had to be taken to the hospital last month. Literally one of the first questions the cops ask "where do you work?" Like it fucking matters at 4am and hes puking past out all over the street. Once he woke up he refused to tell them lol (he was weirdly smart about that) but instead of asking where do you live, is there someone we can call, they asked where he worked. The office/employer is one of the first people called when stuff goes down weirdly.
In this case as well though it was an embarrassment for the office and the news reporting it. Still, not a big deal imo.
Reminds me of the Archer arguement where he was trying to make his cover the #2 Kite surfer in the world and Lana kept telling how stupid it was since a simple internet search would say hes lying.
Because Japan.
Take their relationships with their companies more serious than their own damn families when shit happens sadly.
Heck one of my friends drank to much and had to be taken to the hospital last month. Literally one of the first questions the cops ask "where do you work?" Like it fucking matters at 4am and hes puking past out all over the street. Once he woke up he refused to tell them lol (he was weirdly smart about that) but instead of asking where do you live, is there someone we can call, they asked where he worked. The office/employer is one of the first people called when stuff goes down weirdly.
In this case as well though it was an embarrassment for the office and the news reporting it. Still, not a big deal imo.
Yeah he should totally have to deal with number puzzles.
damn poor guy. a bit extreme response imo but it seems like this is typical of the work culture.
zerokoolpsx
Member
Fraud? lol. He'll have a lot of time on his hands.
MomoPufflet
Member
Yeah, I feel bad for him. It was a dumb lie but a harmless one. He didn't lie about being a war hero or earthquake rescue worker. He didn't steal anyone's valor. He's essentially getting disciplined because of terrible journalists not doing even minimal fact checking. What they did is far worse than what he did.
All that being said, this really does sound like something out of a zany anime.
All that being said, this really does sound like something out of a zany anime.
Sounds like the perfect start for a Shonen Manga. He then proceeds to win the Stunfest and go to Evo to fight against the next tier of pro gamers.
CertifiedFP
Member
TIL that Japan doesn't just have a 3rd World Foxconn-ite work culture, it also has 3rd World journalistic standards that get people At-Will'd at a moments notice.
Abe and the conservatives sure made Japan great again. Karoshi arigato.
no.
Abe and the conservatives sure made Japan great again. Karoshi arigato.
fucking dead
no.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
That's why I feel bad about this. Japan already has a rather unbalanced work culture going for it, being exposed for a lie like this on such a big scale could actually have extreme effects on his ability to provide for himself and others.
And this isn't me talking as the "I'm an expert" meme, just from what I know from a few friends I talk to who live/lived in Japan. That's not to say it will go down like this, but from my understanding it could make things very difficult for him over a white lie. It is his fault but the repercussions I worry might be a bit extreme if this does play out like a scandal in the eyes of business hires.
Basically this.
Does someone deserve that much for a lie like that? I don't think so.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Come on, dude. Come on.
CertifiedFP
Member
Fucking incredible. This is one for the books.
I think you're taking this a bit too seriously now.
at least it worked out for him, unlike for poor ito lol
i do feel pretty bad he lost his job over this
Haven't you heard? I'm always serious. Serious is middle name.
Agent_ShortBus
Member
I didn't know we had multiple experts on Japanese culture. Thought there was only one.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
This made me chuckle.
joecanada
Member
Good god lol if you just thought that up damn you maybe should be a comedic writer. Cause that's bizarrely random and hilarious in a good way.
Took long enough for this to pop up.
To be honest I might have felt a bit bad for the guy, but he definitely deserved some comeuppance at least. Creating some underdog story where he claws his way back from loser's bracket to the win in the grand finals, only to humbly turn down a $30,000 prize goes wayyyy beyond simply telling a small lie that unfortunately spun out of control.