coming off the golden week holiday that is why the podcast is technically a day late i’ve got that
holiday vibe going on i’m all relaxed i’m all chill uh i was questioning whether to get one
out but then i thought i have this one last day before i go back to work everyone’s out of the
house that’s when you do a podcast when everyone’s out of the house in the last episode we had a police
officer who was the extra man in a extramarital affair the husband found out that this police
officer was doing things with his wife that they’re not supposed to be doing and threatened to kill him
and it turned out to not be such a good idea well here’s another situation police officer liked a
woman woman has a boyfriend so i guess you just give up and move on with your life i mean there’s
lots of people in the world you can you can find the one for you or you take the only logical course
of action you look up the boyfriend in the police database and then you hunt him down to his house
and threaten him because that’s gonna work first of all if you want to look at this i i do often want
to look at this from different perspectives but the romantic point of view this is a love thing i
find this woman attractive i want to attract her i want to be the man she falls in love with what is
she going to find most appealing about me as a person the fact that i do really creepy things and
threaten people’s lives romantically speaking will this work so is this the kind of woman who’s going
to find you illegally accessing a database to get information about a private citizen so that you can go to
their house and threaten them is she going to find that attractive that’s question number one
and i i’m gonna bet for most like statistically speaking the answer is no a lot of people are not
really going to go for that so he could have tried to be charming so charming in fact that the woman leaves
her boyfriend or he could have gone this circuitous route into circuitous circuitous circuitous he could
have tried to go around this uh problem and then try to take care of the man by himself so he went for
the more in in some ways more direct way to get rid of the competition and if you get rid of the
competition then of course she’s going to fall in love with you which again because you clearly have
creepy weird and violent and scary instincts might not be the case he called the boyfriend multiple
times to threaten him he said check your car i think it’s broken now this is a problem with
translating things from one language to another and in japanese i didn’t of course get to hear the
actual japanese or how it was said or anything that might be threatening like in japanese they don’t
have a lot of bad words uh it’s the way you talk to people you talk down to people and stuff that
implies that you look down on them and there’s a violent threat there maybe so how you talk to
someone is actually more important than what you say to them sometimes check your car i think it’s
broken isn’t a very good threat in english so you got to take that there’s an element there that
we’re missing in the translation he also said what do you think will happen if you don’t break up with
her by today so i think there’s more of an implicit threat there there’s more of like i will murder you
if you don’t break up with her kind of feeling that goes with that statement at least so the second
one felt like more of a threat to me in english so i would like someone a more nuanced someone someone
who has a more nuanced understanding of japanese to explain how the first threat is a threat
i mean did he is he saying i messed with your car and it’s gonna like explode did he say like you
know you can’t trust your car anymore i i don’t get what that threat was the victim the boyfriend did a
very logical thing he filed a complaint a damage report with the police uh and of course the cop was
immediately found out because they just have to go check who accessed the database to get the
information about this guy who’s claiming that some cop is calling him guy’s login credentials are
there he’s caught immediately he said i’m very sorry to the victim which i don’t actually believe
this is one of those ones where if he hadn’t been caught would he have been sorry so this is now a new
sort of like psychological philosophical experiment this is more philosophical experiment or question to
ask like if someone halfway through their bad act actually stops their bad act and is sorry for what
they did to another person that’s real but if you get caught it’s clearly going to take away
any sense that you’re actually sorry for what you did so i don’t think he’s sorry just like every
other person we talk about in japan he’s not sorry for the victim or what happened he’s sorry that he got
caught and he didn’t get his way and he didn’t get what he wanted which is part of the entertainment i guess
burger king in japan is the little guy i’ve been out of the west for long enough that i don’t know
who the major players are in fast food i’m assuming mcdonald’s is still basically number one
when i listen to other podcasts they talk about taco bell a lot i was never a fan of taco bell
i don’t hear a lot about wendy’s but i mean there was a wendy’s near my high school so i was kind of
indoctrinated into wendy’s very early in life so i’m kind of a wendy stan but burger king was always
kind of like for me a secondary one and i would go to burger king if it was available i would never
choose burger king i don’t have anything against burger king i don’t have any problem with burger
king but burger king in japan is looking to expand it seems like they’re looking to expand all over
like they’re aggressively trying to expand their presence in the fast food wars in the last few years
they’ve gone from 77 restaurants in japan to 352 so that is like three to four times more
increase in volume of restaurants so that’s pretty significant so they’ve actually been
successful in their effort to try to expand their presence in japan they want 600 restaurants in japan
by 2028 so in 2026 they want two more years they want to double essentially the amount of restaurants
they have in japan the way they want to do this is they are offering 40 million yen to any franchise
owner of a rival chain to convert their restaurant into a burger king that is a lot of money and i mean
let’s face it if you work if you run a franchise for mcdonald’s or a franchise for some other company
for moss burger or something one of the japanese hamburger chains the real question is how much
loyalty do you actually have like do you care that you’re serving mcdonald’s food or burger king food
uh i think at the end of the day all you’re really going to care about is the money you bring in
so yeah this is it i don’t see any loyalty if you’re a franchise owner if someone comes and offers
you a better deal you take the better deal that just makes sense the stipulation is that you have
to have been in business for three or more years so they want to know like you don’t just open a
restaurant and then immediately say i’ll take your 40 million yen and then open and then switch it over
to a burger king because maybe you’ve chosen a really bad location maybe you’re not making any money
but if you’ve been open for more than three years you’re at least surviving that’s maybe important
in my little town there’s essentially a mcdonald’s there’s a zoteria they’ve just changed their name
recently because of some some holdings companies did some finagling zoteria used to be loteria and
then there was some other company a holding company that bought them and they changed the name to zoteria
and it’s just getting worse like the naming conventions are just getting out of hand i don’t
the fact that you’re naming it after the the holdings companies that own the restaurant and
not making a name that sounds good is a little weird to me completely side note if you’ve been
running your zoteria for three or more years you can take burger king up on this offer to convert
your zoteria into a burger king burger king will also cover half the initial investment to switch
and you have to do it before 2028 so this is on the table for now and this is part of their plan to
expand to 600 restaurants by 2028 you can take part in that if you are a listener of ninja news japan
and you own a fast food chain franchise i’m hungry there’s nothing i can do for you
i’m not part of this i just report the news but uh i’ll look for sponsorships you want to sponsor me
i’ll take a sponsor japan is putting a lot of effort not japan i mean it’s the companies within
japan but japan has a big problem with scalpers as it seems like every country in the world has
a problem with scalpers uh i don’t buy a lot of stuff that has any sort of pop value like they’re
not popular things uh probably the most recent one that i actually would have had to deal with
something similar to this was the playstation 5 when i bought the playstation 5 i of course wanted it
basically right away couldn’t get it right away had to join lottery systems with different stores
and different companies and then when your name came up then you could buy a playstation and that
was to stop scalpers from buying 500 playstations and then selling them at 10 000 times the cost
on the internet scalping is a big problem uh we’ve done a couple stories of scalping with pokemon cards
and pokemon goods pokemon store has a lot of issues with people just coming in and try to buy everything
big camera in ikebukuro has set up a system where if you want to buy pokemon cards you have to pass
a quiz the quiz is 15 questions now they didn’t give what the pass fail rate is so like what is the
do you have to get all 15 or do you have to get like 7 out of 15 like there’s no they didn’t say
what the passing score is i’m assuming i’m assuming you have to prove you’re a true pokemon fan so i’m
betting it’s actually pretty high like you have to get 11 12 13 out of 15 correct to actually pass
the quiz the 15 questions are taken from a larger random pool so if i take the quiz and then i go and
tell you all the answers to my quiz or all the questions so you can look up all the answers you’re
going to do a quiz it’s actually going to be a slightly different quiz they might have some of the
same questions but overall there are a bunch of questions and you’re going to have to you’re going to
take the quiz legitimately every time you’re not allowed to use your phone if you try to use i mean
of course not it’s not really a quiz you’re not really a true fan if you have to look it up on your
phone uh the questions are all in japanese so this is already uh there’s multiple problems here
i’m not a scalper and if i wanted to buy pokemon cards for my kids let’s say i would not know any of
the answers to the quiz questions and i wouldn’t be able to read the japanese questions anyways so i
would fail on this is a whole separate issue so one is a legitimate issue whereas i am not allowed to
buy a product because i don’t know enough about the product background history fandom i don’t know what
you want to say about that the issue for me is that’s not really fair to me but at the same time
this is how scalpers get multitudes of these tickets so they basically they get a whole bunch
of random people all going to buy and they give them like a dollar each or whatever and then they
collect it all and they that’s how they get all the stuff they scalp it on the internet i’m against
scalping so i’m willing to sacrifice my inability to buy pokemon cards which i don’t actually want
so that other people don’t get scalped so i actually am pro this as a thing the japanese quiz
though that means foreign people can’t buy these either and that could bring up a bit of again a
ethical question is this okay but you’re in japan and if you want to buy stuff from a japanese store
with japanese fandom i guess a certain amount of japanese is expected i came to japan with a black belt
and then i wanted to get my second degree black belt and i wanted to get my third degree black belt etc
etc etc in japan i thought that’d be really cool i did two of the tests they have a fighting
part so you cha cha cha cha and you fight and you get points and then they have kata which is like a
formal presentation of some very set moves and then they have a written exam and a written exam for a
sport to me always seemed really weird uh i could not read the kanji the chinese characters on the
written exam so the first two that i did they were very nice they got this uh japanese high school
english teacher uh who also did judo he ran his judo club come to the test with me and again this
was all voluntary uh he would translate the question and then i would answer in english and then he would
write down the answer for me so the questions weren’t necessarily difficult it was like the history
of judo and some other stuff like that but because of the exam and the amount of trouble it would go
through to actually pass the exam i actually stopped doing the exam so i don’t know what level i should
be in the in the belt system anymore i know i’m way below what i probably should be but also in my head
i’m like it’s not worth it and it’s one of the things once you get the once the belt is black i mean
if you have third dan fourth dan whatever who cares who no one can tell the difference it’s still black belt
an investment company representative did what a lot of investment company representatives do
he went to a very high -end hostess club hostess clubs are clubs they don’t really exist in the west
i’ve never been to one uh a i couldn’t afford one uh b i don’t think i would enjoy the experience
because you basically go and drink and then they have these girls come over and sit at your table and
drink with you and they’re encouraging you to drink and then they talk and they’re very charming
supposedly uh it because i know it’s fake i don’t think i would enjoy it so i went to the japanese
hooters and they have it’s not the exact same thing because you’re not paying those prices but the girls
are pretending to be nice to you and they’re pretending to like you and i immediately go she
doesn’t like me this is fake uh so i’m going to sort of not be a jerk but i’ll at least try to play
with the format a little bit so i kind of reverse hit on her by just insulting myself the whole time
but i didn’t want to be there i didn’t enjoy the experience of going to hooters hooters is not the
kind of place i want to go a hostess club to me is even a worse version of that because it’s a
way more expensive they’re trying to get you super drunk they’re trying to get you to think you like
them and they like you or they’re trying to get you to think that they like you for realsies and that
to me is the problem this is sort of this this underhanded dishonest element to it because if i went and i
actually thought the girl liked me and i liked her and it turned out to not be true i’d be sad but not
as sad as the man who we are talking about because he had a really good time and he believed that they
had a real connection so they started messaging back and forth online line is the instant messaging
service that is most popular in japan with older people it seems young people are now have all moved
to instagram whatever uh it actually gives you a sense of how old the people are now if like if they
choose line or instagram for their way of communicating after a few months of course he
went back to the hostess club many times he showers her with gifts and he spends a lot of money he’s an
investment banker guy so he’s got a lot of money uh via line he said please absolutely become my bride
and then she replied i love you i will i will become your bride so then she further wrote make me your
bride i love you and then he gave her more and more money and presents so i could see how someone
saying i love you make me your bride would convince you in some ways that she might actually like you
i think that’s a pretty fair assumption to make if you’re saying i love you and someone says i love you
back you might protect be able to convince yourself that that’s real so this is i have a lot of sympathy
for this guy even though i hate investment bankers i’m very torn on my feelings on this man let’s put it
that way i have i have a hatred towards what he does because i know he exploits people for money
but then also does he necessarily deserve to be cheated in love maybe if he fell in love for real
he would actually no he wouldn’t he would just spend more money on his girl and nothing else
christmas eve 2021 he gave her a 35 million yen ring and he claims to have given her over 2 billion yen
in presence in money he spent at the club 2 billion yen is the lottery so the fact that he has
2 billion yen if i had 35 million yen if i had the money he spent on her ring i would not have to work
to my retirement age like that would be enough money for me to live from now to retirement and still be
okay for a very long time 2 billion yen i would never have to work again i could not only live
my lifestyle i could increase the quality of my life and the life of my family for 2 billion yen
yeah that’s lottery money in january 2023 she cuts him off i assume i assume unceremoniously she just
stops responding to his messages he gets angry because he says like you’ve told me you love me you’ve
taken 2 billion yen of mine and i’m really upset about it he files a civil lawsuit claiming he was
deceived which i actually agree i think he was deceived he’s seeking 38 .5 million yen in damages
so the ring the ring alone he gave her one ring that was worth 35 million yen so 38 .5 million yen
in damages is a very low number he’s not really trying to get back that money he spent at the club
and the drinks other presents other things because if he spent 35 million yen on one present for one time
you know other presents were worth millions and millions and millions of yen so he’s not even like
going after the big sum of money he’s just trying to get like a little bit this is almost like a moral
victory like at least if you give me this money back you at least will not have gotten the really
expensive ring that i gave you uh he claims she maliciously manipulated him and his romantic feelings
which again i actually agree with now you don’t go is exploiting a customer’s feeling for gain so this
is usually hosts hosts get girls to come to clubs and then they get them into debt and then they try
to get them into compensated dating or porn or something like that now the laws have been updated
so this is primarily about host clubs but it applies also to host s clubs in this case
uh the court has decided that the woman’s actions do not meet the legal threshold for marriage fraud
so he was at the court class the the case was dismissed the guy gets nothing and the girl gets her
two billion yen and she gets to walk away i would this is a case where i would actually like to know
how other people feel about this this feels like fraud to me because she said i love you because she
said let’s get married because she took the money because she took the 35 million yen diamond ring
i know it’s not an engagement ring but it certainly is going that way and never sort of put this guy
and said like look this is a professional relationship or anything like that she was exploiting him
but then i go back to the very beginning of when i started talking you should know that going in there
like i go into hooters and the waitress is nice to me i know she’s not really nice to me she just needs
to do that to get paid uh they don’t really work for tips in japan but i’m sure you get paid really
well if you’re a very popular person if you go to a hostess club they’re getting paid
to make you think they like you they’re pretending to like you so it’s not really manipulation anymore
because you should know that going in so when a hostess says i love you you should know 99 of the
time that’s probably not true so how do you do you think do you think this guy should get his money
back after spending this much money in this situation should this guy get his money back you
can leave a message at speakpipe .com slash chunk of beef chest or send an email to chunk of beef chest
at gmail .com and i would like to hear your opinion of the situation a man was leaving a business deal
uh he was walking he’d been walking for about 10 minutes and then suddenly a stranger splashes
orange liquid in his face this is this is assault this could be terrorism we don’t know what’s going
on here of course you freak out someone throws orange anything in your face you freak out that’s just
how i respond really negatively to orange let’s be really clear about that the police arrive and
start asking questions it turns out they ask questions about the business meeting that the
man just had and it seems like he’s just collected 13 million yen from someone and they’re like wow
that’s a lot of money to be collecting in cash from someone let’s look into that a little closer
these are actually good police officers so they’ve moved past the initial assault and said like hey
it’s actually suspicious that you have this giant bag of money with you uh let’s look into that turns out
the guy who was the victim of the orange liquid throwing was a scam artist who had just defrauded
a woman with an investment scam he was probably arrested uh if you’re a criminal so this is it if
you’re a criminal we again in japan is very big on criminal advice and trying to advise people how to
be the best criminal they can be only because i think if you can take these these tenants these ideas
these facets of being a good criminal and apply them to your legal life you can also improve your
work your job your home life there’s a saying amongst criminals if you’re going to commit a crime
only commit one crime at a time so this poor man he had committed a crime and then he got he was the
victim of a crime now he had to make a decision he i don’t know if he called the police but someone
called the police and he hung around he should have left he should have let that other criminal get away
with it and just left the scene and he would have walked away with his 13 million yen scam that he
was successful in but because he decided to stay because he decided to try and get his money and get
that other guy in trouble and this is again the sort of icarus flying too close to the sun kind of thing
because he did all that he ended up getting caught for his scam and the other guy probably still got away
because now the cops are going to be focused on what some guy who threw fanta in someone else’s face
versus a guy who just scammed an old lady out of 50 13 million yen the cops are always going to go
for the big one i mean when you get your bag you got to cut and run this is something i’ve had to say
to uh friends when we played video games there’s a scene in in many many movies where the greedy person
is holding on to something like they’re hanging off a volcano and holding on to a bag of gold or
there’s a bag of gold in a treasure chest and they’re holding and it’s sinking and it’s pulling them
down with it and all you have to do is let go this guy didn’t even have to let go of the bag of gold
he had to hold on to the bag of gold and not attack another person but he couldn’t even let go of that
if he had let go of that he would have been fine and i actually got to keep the gold so my original
metaphor doesn’t even work we’ve all been in a situation where we’ve been away from home and we
don’t have enough money to get the train or a taxi or something back home so we’re kind of stuck
or you run out of gas or something like that this man was in a similar situation he didn’t have the
money for the train it’s 4 30 in the morning but you’re a creative person you have a creative mind
you know how to use your brain so he has a big brain thought he goes into the women’s bathroom
and he sets fire to a wall in the women’s bathroom now what happens here what happens now is that the fire
department arrives with one of those big trucks and all the firemen get out of the truck and they run in
to check the fire to see if it’s under control now what they do is they leave the truck running with the
keys in because if they have to hook a hose up to the truck to start pumping water in to put out the fire
they don’t need to turn off and turn on the truck and stuff so what do you do you get in the fire truck
free fire truck and you get to drive home he got nine kilometers away from the train station
before the police caught up to him the fire engine was returned but it had some front end damage where
it had ran into something now the thing is fire engines in japan they’re really small compared to
like western fire engines but they are stout machines they are still trucks so a truck that
hit something has not only if it’s taken damage it has certainly done damage to that other thing it hit
i would really like to know what it hit so between the nine kilometers from the station to where he was
caught by the police there is something that is extremely damaged and i would like to know what
that is but i’ll tell you right now this was not a really good idea a doctor climbed into the ceiling
above a hospital’s duty room around 11 30 p .m the the sad part is as soon as i read this story it’s so
interesting in the circumstances i knew i was not going to get a why and which leaves my brain going but
having enough experience with nindiju japan i know it was a creepy weird reason i mean that’s all we
really have to say i mean probably our imaginations are more exciting than the actual reality of the
creepy reason but it was creepy a female doctor was working in the room and she spotted a hand
emerging from the air conditioning vent so in what world are you sitting in your okay japanese hospitals
are creepy i mean there’s a reason a lot of horror movies in japan happen in hospitals because they are
just inherently creepy places uh they’re all pretty blank and that actually is sort of a weird
aesthetic to go for and i understand it’s sort of industrial and functional but it does make it
very very creepy so if you’re sitting in a place like that and then a hand starts emerging from a vent
that is going to freak you out like there’s no way that works out well she called the cops uh
the man was promptly arrested and they said there was no doubt i entered the ceiling and they gave no
motive now the thing is okay so he’s in the ceiling there’s a woman sitting let’s say at a desk
he reached out of the vent his arm’s not going to be long enough to reach the woman i don’t think
in any real way and she was able to see it because he’s not visible
what did he think was going to happen that’s this is this is the psychological question i need
asked by every police officer uh so that they can put it into the report or at least the reporter
to ask so they can find out what did you think was going to happen when you climbed up in the ceiling
this is a doctor we have this false idea that doctors are smart now doctors are just people now
they’ve maybe done a really good in medical school or they’re maybe really smart in one way
i am a full believer in the there’s a variety of kinds of intelligence i think there’s social
intelligence i think there’s like book smart intelligence i think there’s like the all our good
con artist intelligence i think there’s like physical intelligence like just knowing how bodies
move and stuff and all these other sort of like minuscule applications of the different kinds of
intelligence so he may have been a very good doctor i’m not even going to argue that but he was
lacking a very specific kind of sort of common sense intelligence of should i climb up into the
ceiling and reach my hand out towards a colleague who’s working at a desk at a hospital 11 30 at night
no no you shouldn’t but this is also the same guy who might be giving you very good advice about your
health or what medicine you should take or maybe he’s a surgeon or something and he’s really good at it
i don’t know what i do know is that make being a doctor doesn’t automatically make you a smart person
the idle world is a whole different world so i think if you live outside of japan you have this
image of japan as being sort of like all this underground culture stuff but underground culture
subculture is still sub even within japan so i live in japan and i don’t experience any idle stuff
unless i went out of my way to look for it because it’s a different world i don’t really like the
music so there’s really nothing for me there to really enjoy people who do like it i’m not putting
them down if that’s what you like that’s fine i think it might be a little weird and creepy for adult
men to be you know watching 15 year old girls dance and stuff i think it’s exploitative i think it’s
wrong i think a lot of the stuff they do shouldn’t be done but also i’m not in charge
even though clearly i should be so idols live in a whole different world than the rest of us
and a lot of it is exploiting the weird parasocial relationship between the fans and the idols again
this is like the earlier story you should know what you’re going in for the idol doesn’t really like
you she just wants you to spend money on her goods on her product and then coming to her show
and stuff like that and she wants to keep that relationship going the thing is if you’re an
underground so there’s idols the the ones you probably know of and heard of they have like
advertising agencies and big agencies behind them and they have a bunch of rules and stuff these
underground idols are just basically little freelance gigs they make their own products they
put on their own shows they’re all really small and so the amount of income they get is wholly
dependent on how successful they can be with these parasocial relationships so they need people to come
and one of them is blown up recently harida matsumoto has started to let fans smell her armpits
after shows and of course it went viral it went viral for all the reasons it should go viral you have
creepy old dudes in the the video that is most commonly seen on the internet right now is he’s acting
like a puppy dog and then he like smells her armpit and he’s like and he’s doing like that kind of
stuff very very off -putting uh he’s in that age range where he would be ripe for a story on ninja
news japan she is also at the alternate end of the spectrum where she is also right at the ripe age to
be at a story on ninja news japan uh in the worst way possible so there’s a lot of criticism of this
and again i end up exactly where i was with the the hostess club story like if you know this going in
and you’re willing to spend the money and you understand the reality of it it’s fine if the
girl understands the reality of it and she’s comfortable with it and she knows what she’s doing
and it’s all sort of above board it’s also fine it’s when one group starts to exploit the other group
it goes too far and it’s wrong but am i in a position to judge that i’ve never done it i’ve never
seen it it does seem like too much because they have handshaking events and then they have hugging
events and we had the the korean idol who hugged and then the girl kissed his neck and ran away and
she got in trouble like this is all priming the fans to feel more than they should but that’s to
get them to spend more money later at what point is it exploitation is that at what point is it
exploitation is the actual question i think i want to ask that i don’t have an answer to
smelling the armpits brought up a lot of criticism online and i think that’s fair because is this okay
is it not okay because this is an old creepy dude and a young woman is it okay i don’t think it is it
feels wrong to me certainly if that was my daughter i would not want her doing it i would lose my mind if
i saw something like that happen but that’s my morality and am i imposing that on someone else i
don’t know if that’s okay for me i think it just comes down to if everyone is on board from the
beginning and knows the reality and doesn’t slip into the parasocial relationship where they’re now
experienced feelings that are not real or are not reciprocated that’s a problem and that’s such a fuzzy
zone to exist in but that’s exactly where they have to exist to be successful she is making her
money and that’s what a lot of people are saying like she’s doing what she needs to do to make her
money so how are you going to complain about that the ground self -defense force first infantry
revealed a new patch and logo it’s an elephant holding a machine gun with a human skull sort of on
its chest and a blue flame coming out of the left eye and it was created by ai and i don’t know
which part i’m most offended by the patch itself looks pretty badass but it’s incredibly aggressive
it’s it’s sort of i why they chose an elephant maybe is the first one like that’s not a japanese
animal you think if you’re going to make a logo for your japanese military unit you would use a japanese
thing doesn’t necessarily have to be an animal but if you’re going to use an animal use a japanese animal
there are lots of cool animals in japan they have lots of cool symbols in japan like the family
houses and stuff so you could use one of those there’s lots of old samurai stuff so use some old
samurai stuff but online they were actually saying this is way too aggressive the ground self -defense
force because it’s not the military because it’s not an army because of the rules surrounding the
military in japan they are not allowed to be the aggressor they are not allowed to invade other
countries they are not allowed to put boots on the ground in other places they can only offer support
they can only offer to help people this is be her part of the constitution of japan which takai chi
is trying to change at the moment she’s actually just changed it so she can sell offensive weapons
to other countries france india are super happy about this because they want to buy some japanese
gundam because they’re going to start selling those parts and then build up their different
gundams from different countries we’re seeing that coming very soon i’m sure the aggressive nature
of the patch actually drew criticism from people who saw it online it took one week for the gsdf group
to say we have received a variety of opinions the unit’s logo was created with the purpose of
boosting morale and enhancing a sense of belonging among our members however we must also emphasize
the importance of gaining proper understanding and approachability from the public so that’s it if you
see someone with like really aggressive patches like the punisher skull on their chest and this like
violent elephant on their shoulder that might not be someone you trust and want to walk up to whereas
peacekeeping missions are primarily what the gsdf is supposed to be doing so they should be
approachable that’s actually the point we have decided to discontinue the use of this logo
my weirdly the thing i was most offended by is that it was done by ai like why are you using ai you got
hundreds of people in the military they work for you they get paid by you get one of them to design
one get one of them to draw it like tell them to write to draw the violent elephant it’s it’s the ai
bit that i actually got more offended by personally it was the ai bit that i actually didn’t like because
you know you have people in the military who can draw and who would love to design a patch
first off yeah i get that the theme is supposed to be friendly because it’s the gsdf and they’re supposed
to be approachable i actually kind of agree with that but they’re also supposed to be tough strong
people in the military so you know let them be tough and strong and do some cool uh scary elephant
stuff but don’t use ai to do it that just sucks