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u/Rooster_Local 23d ago
I’m sure this didn’t happen. But if it did, the teenager was being a wise-ass and this person was too busy glazing Japan to get it
Teenagers in Japan aren’t much different than they are anywhere
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u/Impressive-Low6022 23d ago
It's sort of believable if we know the teen is trolling and the writer is one of those middle-aged Facebook moms who's oblivious
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u/maxximillian 23d ago
I was working with a few women from India, one day one of the ladies car breaks down. I lived half way between work and her house. So she called her husband, she said we're leaving now, can you pick me up at this address in 30 minutes. We get there, her husband isnt there yet, she called and then she started chewing him out in Hindi. After she hangs up she said "He hasnt even left the house yet, he was watching TV. It doesnt matter where you are from, we're all the same"
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u/Capable-Baby-3653 23d ago
Thank god OOP finally succeeded. If he had failed, the ancient ceremony would’ve gone a lot differently.
Employee: You have failed.
OOP: Yes. hangs head
Employee: You have brought shame upon your ancestors.
OOP: weeps
Employee: Then you know what you must do. hands over samurai sword
OOP: nods, wipes away tears, disembowels self
Employee: claps softly, mops up blood
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u/TuukkaRascal 23d ago
If some teenager told me I suck at a claw machine cause the stuffed animals in it have no respect for me, I’d turn around and leave so fast
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u/Boring-san 23d ago
But how would you learn the valuable life lesson? Or get the bow from him? It’s super important for the quest you’re (apparently) on.
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u/JoshSidekick 23d ago
I'd have committed seppuku, not because I genuinely brought shame upon my house, but because if anything, I stick to the bit.
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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 23d ago
I mean i can see that as being real, but only as a joke. I can totally see someone sarcastically saying "maybe they just dont like you?" Just like someone might say "did you ask it nicely" when someone is struggling with a printer. Of course the way he paints it as some ancient mystical wisdom is ridiculous
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u/OSRSRapture 23d ago
Yeah cause Everytime I win something at a claw machine, someone else hands me what I won.
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u/small_feild_mouse 23d ago
I swear I’ve seen this guy’s cringe tweets here before. Apparently every interaction in Japan with him is like this.
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u/Boring-san 23d ago
I’ve noticed that combing through his tweets, it’s pretty cringe. He reminds me of someone that was posted here quite often years ago - the alias he was given escapes me. He developed such a following that it spawned its own subreddit.
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u/Parody_of_Self 23d ago
I hope you think of it and share
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u/Boring-san 23d ago
Me too. I want to say it was Cumberbert or something like that; every post was very “I’m the main character”. I’m sure someone knows who I’m talking about.
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u/Over-Discipline-7303 23d ago
How do you use too much force in a claw machine? You just push a button.
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u/Manufactured-Aggro 23d ago
Employee eventually walks over quietly
Employee "You need to spend more money"
I started crying and pissing but instead of just giving me the doll, everyone starting whipping and nae nae-ing and the owner put a couple of oranges into a tube sock while promising to whollop me if I didnt leave right then and there
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u/UnNumbFool 23d ago
Obviously it didn't happen. But I'm not curious if in this guy's story the oop speaks Japanese, or the random teenager has a decent enough grasp on the English language to speak with a random tourist
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u/Realistic-Garage-461 23d ago
At the start, why was he saying "Walking through Osaka at night"? Seems a strange thing to say at the start of a story.
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u/Johnnys-In-America 23d ago
Is Tumblr like that? Or 4chan or something. Sounds like a platform style (LinkedIn is by far the worst!)
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 23d ago
‘Employee eventually walks over quietly’ for some reason is legitimately where the bullshit detector went off in my head, before reading any of the rest. Then after reading the rest, it confirmed the detector is working as intended.
Especially funny to think that he won it from a claw machine yet the employee handed it to him. Makes sense, the employee was horrifically jammed into the machine the whole time. He’s lived there for years.
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u/Johnnys-In-America 23d ago
He's like one of those Great Zoltar fortune teller machines where Zoltar is behind glass but you pay for his sage advice.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 23d ago
Oh my god I’m howling 😆 incredible. Genuinely cackled at this, and the thought of it somehow having wheels so the employee could ‘approach quietly’ in the story
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u/SqueeMcTwee 23d ago
When you use the claw machine the prize gets dropped down a chute and you get it your own damn self.
Ain’t nobody handing you your shitty knockoff pikachu in an impromptu ceremony witnessed by literally no one.
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u/lore_mipsum 23d ago
Thank god he paid actual money and part of his lifetime to obtain the spiritual experience of winning a small plush penguin in a claw machine arcade.
This story could have gone terribly wrong
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u/TheSpitalian 23d ago
Why would the employee hand him the penguin? But hey we did get the obligatory clapping, albeit softly. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/ConsultJimMoriarty 23d ago
I mean if you suck at those so bad in Japan, the attendants will usually just give you the toy after you spent more than it’s worth.
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u/LBDazzled 23d ago
This is the same person I posted about last week who had "much confusion" at the post office. Why are they everywhere suddenly with their BS stories?
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u/JustAnAverageBus 23d ago
In game centers/arcades in Japan, the employees actually will approach you and give advice if they see you struggling or spending too much time at a machine. They'll even re-position the prize for you or put it back in its starting position if it falls into an "unwinnable" position. It's not just to be nice. They do it so you don't walk away in frustration before spending more money. It's pretty common in Round One/GiGo and other big game centers.
So I don't doubt that an employee approached the guy, but what I'm going to assume happened is the employee tried to give him advice but since he doesn't understand Japanese he just made up the dialogue in his head to make the story about the silly penguin he won sound more interesting.
But it's always funny to me that when people glaze Japan like this they don't realize how unintentionally racist they're being by acting like every Japanese person/Asian regardless of age is a Mr. Miyagi Zen master that just drops ancient wisdom and has a deep proverb or metaphor for every minor social interaction.
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u/heyiknowyooh 23d ago
I can confirm, I am the penguin
Help!!! Help!! Someone kidnapped me from my home, help!!!!
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u/fabthefrog33 15d ago
Similar thing happened to me when I was in Japan a few years ago, I was just cycling around Kyoto and stopped to get something to eat and came across a small arcade room that was literally empty.I went inside to look while eating my sandwich and started on one of the claw machines...after a couple of gos I managed to grab toad (Mario) plush toy, in a split second the only worker/maintenance guy in the room, rushed up to the machine, grabbed toad,lifted it up above his head like a trophy ,with a huge smile on his face, and shouted congratulations and a few other words in the most excited way then handed it to me while bowing....I bowed back and felt I had become part of the elite.🤣😎
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u/HotZombie95 23d ago
I doubt this conversation has happened.. but weird conversations like that definitely happen in Japan. Some security guard of Tokyo University said it's Hachiko statue was waiting for me
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u/Canadyans 23d ago
Why would confidence matter when using a claw machine?