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

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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!

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.

> hikkikomori

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

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