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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > The Cycle of Duck and Rebirth - Let's Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon
 
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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
 Oh hell yes!

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

ally_1986 posted:

I picked up Judgement based on your LP and loved it. Was hoping you would get around to this.

Still on the fence about getting this due to the change in the combat. Would like to hear if people like it or no?

Can anyone explain the whole deal (or link any good articles) about these drinking clubs(what is the proper term)? Is it more about companionship? I find it really odd and fascinating. I have many questions!

They are called "Host(ess) clubs" and are featured quite extensively during the series, especially in Yakuza 0. Basically, Japan has quite prude laws against pornography and prostitution. The free market tried to move around it and to fill the demand with the given supply. That's why there are countless businesses, which aren't real prostitution but as close to it as the law allows.
The clubs themselves are (baring backroom dealings) just that. You go in there, and a bunch of pretty girls party with you and goad you into spending excessive amounts on food and alcohol for the table and give huge tips. It's a prude strip club.

I don't want to demean women in that industry. I guess you need more than just looks to manipulate patrons, which is a skill.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Aug 8, 2021

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Looked it up and its coaster brakes not fixed gear. But ichi's definitely riding a fixie. I dont think coaster brakes let you pedal back to reverse.
I have literally never seen a bike with one irl, its all hand brakes where ive been.

The can-guy modified it.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

NGDBSS posted:

Apparently the grift that's happening here isn't unique to just a mobbed-up retirement home. There are a lot of old people in Japan (relatively speaking), and a lot of them have ongoing pensions. So if a geriatric family member dies from natural causes their family might decide to just...not report it so they can keep collecting payments. (I can't recall where I read this unfortunately.)
That's happening in the US too.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

:stare: drat.

...why do I feel like the likeliest culprit is Bleach Japan? gently caress those guys if they drove him to suicide over having to tell his workers the biz is stone dead somehow and they're all unemployed.

Do you assume that the demand for sex work in Japan just fell to zero, after a bunch of narcs complained?

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

achtungnight posted:

Unless of course Bleach Japan has solid alibi and good lawyers. And cutout hit men. Probably they have at least two out of three.

Can a loosely connected organization with many cells really have a solid alibi?

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
 Saeko is great. She's like one of maybe 3 women in the Yakuza series which actually get to do something. I like this series, but their portrayal of women is very Japanese.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
 Couldn't help but notice that you cut out the karaoke score there.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
 Saeko's song is probably my favorite of the bunch. I actually went back and played that one after it wouldn't give any further rewards, just because it's so fun.
But that wink at the end always felt weird to me. Don't you usually wink with the eye which is closer to the reciever?

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
 Thanks for the fun LP.

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