The Fat Plumber Thread

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Why Playing Mario and Sonic Is Better For Your Brain Than Fortnite, Experts Explain

According to two mental health professionals, in a nutshell, video games in the 90s were better for children’s brains than the video games of today.
“You fought through levels, memorised patterns and finally saw the ending,” Veronica Lichtenstein, a licensed mental health counsellor, told Newsweek.
“It felt like you accomplished something. Your brain gave you this solid, lasting dose of satisfaction, like finishing a tough project.”
Lichtenstein added that many free-to-play video games create “a perfect loop of addiction and are designed to make you return to the game.”
“There’s no real end” and provides a “junk food dopamine” effect.
In the 80s, 90s and in some part the 2000s, not everyone had access to the internet, and if we were ...

Article: https://www.gamingbible.com/news/playing-mario-sonic-better-brain-fortnite-378296-20260127

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Why Playing Mario and Sonic Is Better For Your Brain Than Fortnite, Experts Explain



Article: https://www.gamingbible.com/news/playing-mario-sonic-better-brain-fortnite-378296-20260127

Ha! I already knew freemium games were pretty much junkfood for your brains!

It's not celebrating yakuza (that's just western falsely referred them to "Yakuza Festival"), it's celebrating the three founders of the ancient Sensō-ji Temple: Hinokuma Hamanari, Hinokuma Takenari, and Hajino Nakatomo. The police are there so that yakuza didn't do anything other than celebrating it.

Ah I see. But still, if wanted criminal Yakuza members are there, do they just... let them enjoy the festival and not arrest them?

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Ha! I already knew freemium games were pretty much junkfood for your brains!

I don't hate junkfood. I love KFC.
Thankfully here in Indonesia healthy food is cheaper than weterns franchise junkfood so I rarely eat them.

Ah I see. But still, if wanted criminal Yakuza members are there, do they just... let them enjoy the festival and not arrest them?

We can't arrest someone if they are not doing anything eventhough we know that they are ordinary citizen. Tatoos aren't proofs that someone's doing bad things.

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I don't hate junkfood. I love KFC.
Thankfully here in Indonesia healthy food is cheaper than weterns franchise junkfood so I rarely eat them.

Didn't say I hate junk food. I just knew freemium games were bad for you.

We can't arrest someone if they are not doing anything eventhough we know that they are ordinary citizen. Tatoos aren't proofs that someone's doing bad things.

Policeman 1: "That man up there is wanted for the deaths of three families!"
Policeman 2: "But look at him up there, having fun with his friends!"
Policeman 1: "Yeah, I guess you're right. Wouldn't wanna cause a scene."

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Didn't say I hate junk food. I just knew freemium games were bad for you.

Not if we have self control.
I don't think playing freemium games like SEGA Heroes, Idola Phantasy Star Saga, and Marvel Puzzle Quest was bad for me.



But since the article's directed to children, it's kinda problematic since children's still learning about how to control themselves.

Policeman 1: "That man up there is wanted for the deaths of three families!"
Policeman 2: "But look at him up there, having fun with his friends!"
Policeman 1: "Yeah, I guess you're right. Wouldn't wanna cause a scene."

Nah, it'll be like ...

Policeman 1: "That man up there is suspected for the deaths of three families!"
Policeman 2: "Do we have any proof?"
Policeman 1: "Unfortunately not strong enough to issue a warrant or investigation."
Policeman 2: "There's nothing we can do then."

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Not if we have self control.
I don't think playing freemium games like SEGA Heroes, Idola Phantasy Star Saga, and Marvel Puzzle Quest was bad for me.



But since the article's directed to children, it's kinda problematic since children's still learning about how to control themselves.

That's true. Especially given cases of children or teens spending thousands to near millions on freemium games.

Nah, it'll be like ...

Policeman 1: "That man up there is suspected for the deaths of three families!"
Policeman 2: "Do we have any proof?"
Policeman 1: "Unfortunately not strong enough to issue a warrant or investigation."
Policeman 2: "There's nothing we can do then."

Who needs wanted posters, amirite?

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That's true. Especially given cases of children or teens spending thousands to near millions on freemium games.

That's also their parents' fault for not unlinking their credit card payment from App Store / Google Play Store.

Who needs wanted posters, amirite?

Wanted posters are so Cowboy-like era.

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That's also their parents' fault for not unlinking their credit card payment from App Store / Google Play Store.

That's true.

Wanted posters are so Cowboy-like era.

True, but police are usually given headshots and information on wanted criminals. If they see Barry the Boy-Butcher taking part in a festival where mafia take centre stage, would they let them?

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True, but police are usually given headshots and information on wanted criminals. If they see Barry the Boy-Butcher taking part in a festival where mafia take centre stage, would they let them?

Yakuza member isn't like any typical criminal who worked alone, they have organization.
If police wanted someone who's done serious issue like murder of civilians (not murder between yakuza gangs, that's a different case), they'll just contact the boss of the organization and the boss will hand him for them if it's proven.
If it's just a street-level crime, the police could just inform the names and let the boss decide whether to punish their subordinates themselves  or hand them to police.
Historically, Japanese police and Yakuza maintained a symbiotic, often cooperative, relationship based on maintaining public order, where police overlooked, or even utilized, organized crime groups to manage street-level crime, and in exchange, Yakuza restricted violence against civilians.

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Yakuza member isn't like any typical criminal who worked alone, they have organization.
If police wanted someone who's done serious issue like murder of civilians (not murder between yakuza gangs, that's a different case), they'll just contact the boss of the organization and the boss will hand him for them if it's proven.
If it's just a street-level crime, the police could just inform the names and let the boss decide whether to punish their subordinates themselves  or hand them to police.
Historically, Japanese police and Yakuza maintained a symbiotic, often cooperative, relationship based on maintaining public order, where police overlooked, or even utilized, organized crime groups to manage street-level crime, and in exchange, Yakuza restricted violence against civilians.

That's pretty interesting. It doesn't sound like a "corrupt police" system. The police officers still don't want harm or extortion to come to civilians, but they're working with the criminal element to control crime over law vs mafia situation.

I wonder if someone as stigil as Batman would approove?

Yes, the Yakuza/Mafia would be doing underground crimes, but as long as it's crimes that does more good than harm to the citizens, perhaps acceptible?

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That's pretty interesting. It doesn't sound like a "corrupt police" system. The police officers still don't want harm or extortion to come to civilians, but they're working with the criminal element to control crime over law vs mafia situation.

I wonder if someone as stigil as Batman would approove?

Yes, the Yakuza/Mafia would be doing underground crimes, but as long as it's crimes that does more good than harm to the citizens, perhaps acceptible?

Still there are many groups of Yakuza. Some groups are okay and cooperative with the police but some are problematic.

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Still there are many groups of Yakuza. Some groups are okay and cooperative with the police but some are problematic.

I guess even I forgot crime and law isn't black and white. But Yakuza 9and to the extension, the Mafia) still do illegal stuff. Or else they wouldn't be called Mafia or Yakuza. What kind of crime syndicates would law officials be supportive of without corruptive means?

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I guess even I forgot crime and law isn't black and white. But Yakuza 9and to the extension, the Mafia) still do illegal stuff. Or else they wouldn't be called Mafia or Yakuza. What kind of crime syndicates would law officials be supportive of without corruptive means?

They definitely did illegal stuffs. Other than gambling, property protection, and prostitution ... scam activities are usually backed up by those gangs. This one is the most common thing with tourists :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febMPerQYT8

Even Kiryu got scammed by Majima's gang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QivGf-4W4RA

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They definitely did illegal stuffs. Other than gambling, property protection, and prostitution ... scam activities are usually backed up by those gangs. This one is the most common thing with tourists :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febMPerQYT8

Even Kiryu got scammed by Majima's gang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QivGf-4W4RA

Scam's aren't exactly... "illegal" though, well they kind of are, but it's only stealing if the money is taken without consent.

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Scam's aren't exactly... "illegal" though, well they kind of are, but it's only stealing if the money is taken without consent.

Yeah, that's why it's hard to catch them.