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> Per ITK, Nito only leaves his apartment to get a haircut and take out the trash, as well as any other activity that absolutely requires him to step outside of the comfort of his room.

So actually: "Japanese Game Developer rarely leaves his house."

I can see why they went with their own headline, though.

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Also, it's an apartment, not a house.

Also, not his apartment, his aunt's apartment.

"Japanese Game Developer rarely leaves his aunt's apartment."

This thread is a brilliant example of CTR-centric articles, because you're right, why would I click that?

I like your sense of humor. Very funny. I chuckled hard!

OK, well now we can relate.

Id click that link in a heartbeat. It reads like a classic headline from the onion, mundane + surreal

For those unaware, this is in the form of the old Radio Yerevan joke:

Question to Radio Yerevan: Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?

Answer: In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev, but Vassili Vassilievich Vassiliev; second, it was not at the All-Union Championship in Moscow, but at a Collective Farm Sports Festival in Smolensk; third, it was not a car, but a bicycle; and fourth he didn't win it, but rather it was stolen from him.[1]

[1]http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000810.h...

usually abbreviated to just ".. and haven't won but rather lost"

This was hilarious, thanks for sharing.

>"Japanese Game Developer rarely leaves his aunt's apartment."

sounds like the title of an onion article

I’d say it still fits the NEET/hikkikomori definition.

Doesn’t “NEET” mean “Not in education, employment, or training?”

It does, he'd still borderline fit that definition. He raised an average one year's salary for a game after ten years of self training.

So he was in training for 10 years and now he's self employed.

I don't think that self-study really fits the definition of "training".

Selling your own stuff is definitely self-employment though.

Run-of-the-mill unemployed people that are outgoing fit the "NEET" definition better than him.

Also in Japan it seems the definition is a bit more broad than the acronym (otherwise even housewives would be NEETs): "In Japan, the classification comprises people aged between 15 and 34 who are not employed, not engaged in housework, not enrolled in school or work-related training, and not seeking work."

Self-training is definitely "work-related training". And he was doing housework.

It does, but, as a colloquialism, it’s reaching a disassociation from its original meaning and is now used to describe “asocial” behavior. You will often see shutins called neets (and I think this colloquial case change further disconnects the word from its original meaning) as well as someone who has a job but lives with their parents.

The word police have not been enforcing the law, so unfortunately for any pedants this change in meaning is likely to stay.

I believe that difference is down to anime fans, and the more exaggerated shut in meaning nay have bled over a bit but has not overtaken the original meaning in all contexts.

There are still many contexts where if you say NEET people will just think of the original definition, and others where people consider it the shut-in anime one.

Depends on how well the game sells, if it sells a million copies he's a strange millionaire who values his privacy.

If it sells poorly, he's just a strange guy with an odd way of living.

Edit : This game looks fucking hilarious , I might buy a copy.

I can't really hate on someone at least trying to be productive

Edit 2: Played the demo on Steam, what a masterpiece. It's a game about wanting to be left the fuck alone. If you like silly stuff like Goat Simulator, you'll enjoy this. I hope he sells millions, and then makes an American spin off.

Everything about this screams I'm trying my best. Even the kickstarter itself is amazing. English is VERY VERY hard to learn, but he still made the video without hiring a professional voice actor or relying on an AI voice.

I'm buying this day one !

I wasn’t making a value statement about whether it’s good or bad to be hikkikomori, just making an observation that he seems to meet the definition of one. Your presuppositions seem to me like hidden state variables which are projected into the future, and thus don’t really have any bearing on my characterization of him in the present.

Got bit annoyed strucken by the realization it's mostly just an ad for a game. But it does look like a decent time waster goof ball. Stay strong, Japanese weirdos!

> hikkikomori

hikkikomori are afraid of seeing other people, so they would not go to a barber.

It's also possible that there is no Nito and the whole article is The Submarine at work. Successfully.

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