Tokyo's Geek Ghetto 488
anaesthetica writes "The Washington Post is running a story on Tokyo's "Geek Ghetto" which has arisen in the city's electronics retail district, "Electric Town." From the article: "We have been discriminated against for being different, but now we have come together and turned this neighborhood into a place of our own.... In Akihabara, we don't need to be ashamed of who we are and what we like.... We can feel comfortable because here, we outnumber everyone else." There are concerns, however, that the total immersion in escapist culture may be causing social problems, including a growing number of shut-ins." I've gone to Tokyo 3x and visited Akihabara all three times. Highly recommended for anime fans and techies.
Lucky bastards (Score:5, Funny)
Tokyo (Score:3, Funny)
Will not be a problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lucky bastards (Score:2, Funny)
I just live in the lab!
shut-ins (Score:5, Funny)
I'd visit but (Score:3, Funny)
In the Geek Ghetto Part I (Score:0, Funny)
Two floors above, an alarm went off. Taco opened his eyes. Then, realising what was going on, he jumped out of the bed, yelling: "Hey, Roland, wake up and go get the gun! We're being robbed!"
Thirty seconds later, they tumbled down the stairs. A door went open and a light was turned on. Then Roland clicked the safety back on and stuffed the gun into the pocket of his silk night gown.
"What ze fuck," he said. "Zere's noone here."
But Taco was already unwrapping the large sheet of paper around the brick lying on the floor. He almost tore it open, then froze and dropped the brick on his foot.
Roland rushed to him and grabbed the paper, while Taco was screaming with pain and anger. His face slowly turned red and then blue as he read: "These were not noodles."
Re:Geek persecution (Score:2, Funny)
"....Now the time has come for geek persecution to end...."
"Nerd!"
"Nerd!"
"Nerd!"
Ahh Revenge of the Nerds. Can a quote be anymore pathetic? =)
Re:Will not be a problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Alert! Alert!! (Score:5, Funny)
Fake geek sighted.
He exercises, reproduces, touches non-processed plant material, shows signs of growing up.
He even LEAVES HIS COMPUTER ALONE! (Poor thing. Probably crashes in lonliness.)
Quick, somone hijack the space laser and fill his house with popcorn before he infects us.
Real estate opportunity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why not in the US (Score:2, Funny)
Geek Ghetto Gangs (Score:3, Funny)
The Price of Freedom (Score:5, Funny)
1-way ticket to tokyo(expedia.com) - $700
new laptop - $2500
Finding home at last.. - Priceless
Re:Will not be a problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Funny, I was under the impression that most geek guys were interested in anything with a hole and a pulse.
Re:Will not be a problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Based solely on my limited knowledge of Bukkake, I will say, Yes. Yes, they are sluts. Praise be to the Otaku Bukkake and long-live the geek ghettos of Tokyo.
Serious Disconnect (Score:5, Funny)
Tetsu Ishihara, 34, a computer programmer whose three-room apartment in west Tokyo is filled from floor to ceiling with comic books, does not want to be associated with such charges. Ishihara maintains a growing collection of 130 life-size pillows of female anime characters -- both purchased and self-designed. His favorite is Mio-chan, a female character from a love-simulation computer game in which a high school boy builds up the courage to ask a girl for a first date.
"There are some people who do lose their grip on reality, but that is not me -- or most of us," said Ishihara, a chubby man with glasses who this year started dating a woman steadily for the first time.
What exactly constitutes loosing grip on reality, brother?
Re:are you kidding me? (Score:3, Funny)
The purpose of a vacation is to ESCAPE - the last thing they want to see is technology and be surrounded by GEEKS.
My favorite T-shirt (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Alert! Alert!! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Will not be a problem... (Score:5, Funny)
I think you misspelled "or".
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Re:more details... (Score:2, Funny)
Gotta draw the line somewhere (Score:2, Funny)
WoW 1, Woman 0 (Score:4, Funny)
The woman to my right never spoke to me again for the rest of the flight.
So I didn't get laid, but I did get tips on completing my last 2 quests in Zul'Farrak, in particular, that one where about 100 NPC's storm the stairs and you have to defend the high ground. Fun stuff for a party with people who don't bail early...
It is for this reason that I feel I have to maintain "secret likes", which often includes anything IT or game-related, to the point where I find it difficult to even describe my job as it's pretty geeky and I'd rather just say I'm a "consultant". Unfortunately, to my horror I recently discovered that if I google my full name (which is uncommon), it becomes far too obvious what my really geeky likes are, despite my efforts to remove all traces of my full name from Internet sites. See, the gals I date are usually cute and best described as "geek-compatible", not "geeky"...
Re:Let's get friggin' real here .... (Score:2, Funny)
do
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write
like
that?
Re:more details... (Score:3, Funny)
And since that's the farthest they're ever gonna go, I suppose that's totally valid.
Re:Geek persecution for a reason maybe? (Score:2, Funny)
Okay, everybody pitch in $10 to fund my new restauraunt: "Otaku Here". It'll be a men's lounge where all the female servers are dressed in the most skimpy of Anime costumes. Send checks to...
Ya know, this would really work!
Re:Will not be a problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Geek persecution (Score:2, Funny)
"I am such a super-otaku!"
"What, your a super-house?"
Not drop dead hillarious, but it causes them to stop and think, which is an improvement from waiving "Will hug for Pocky" signs.