Fucking insane to work super hard to get Permanent Residency and then getting it revoked just because you forgot to take your card with you on a 5 min konbini run.
Roosa Jokiaho
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Cutscene Artist at Square Enix on FF7 Revelation & Rebirth, Lead on Forspoken & DLC 🎬 prev. Luminous Productions, Remedy・WIGJ Ambassador・Diverse in Games Japan (DIGJ)・🌈・ INFJ・🇫🇮人の奇妙な🇯🇵冒険。よろしくね！ ◆ https://linktr.ee/rjokami
Once again, I repeat that Japanese labor laws make it extremely difficult to fire permanent employees making layoffs nigh impossible within Japanese companies. Execs are not taking less pay out of kindness but necessity when times are rough.
Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert
"They didn't get swept up in the live-service trend, or into these mega-blockbusters with 500-person teams"
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The Shimomura Yoko 39th Anniversary Orchestra Concert was absolutely fantastic - what a fabulous career! 💜 Hearing some epic Final Fantasy XV songs live made my heart ache for the team that would go on to form the majority of my lovely colleagues at Luminous Productions.
A night of simply magical orchestral Nana songs was exactly what I needed as a pick me up after so many exhausting months. Thank you for delivering, as always, NANA MIZUKI LIVE GRACE! 💜
Accurate representation of the transformation everyone goes through when leaving their 20s (right) and entering their 30s (left) era.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 celebrated the past, and an uncertain AI future | Opinion The event's 30th instalment was dominated by remakes and legacy IP, and suggested a future shaped by AI and transmedia www.gamesindustry.biz/tokyo-game-s...
So many feels visiting the Final Fantasy X Museum. This game was formative to me in many ways, from introducing me to the RPG genre to igniting my passion and awe for game cinematics. Who knows what I’d be doing now if I had never stumbled upon the Final Fantasy series.
Celebrating all the amazing people in my village during Tokyo Game Show! (Though, I forgot to take a pic with every one of my lovely friends and also ran out of time to cross paths with some of them. Know you are all appreciated just as much 🥺💕)
Second time headlining at Tokyo Game Show, and second time brandishing the Buster Sword there as well. It’s been a wild ride during the 8 years I’ve spent developing games in Japan so far. So many challenges. So many wonderful encounters. 💜
When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.
OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying
The Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 is very pretty and I would much prefer it to the look of the basic Switch 2, but of course it’s only available as a Japanese language only model and not as a multi language model in Japan… and that REALLY bums me out.
Rohan headbutted me so hard on the chin that my lower lip started bleeding but somehow he himself came out of it totally unscathed (thank goodness).
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you may ask why there are so many games about sad dads and well, thats cause if you rearrange the letters "dads" it spells "lots of video game designers spent their youths crunching and not being with their families and they feel bad about it"
Today's PlayStation State of Play featured an extended gameplay look at Final Fantasy VII Revelation (which we now know launches in April), showcasing Wutai, Highwind exploration, Queen's Blood, side quests, and more. gameinformer.com/state-of-pla...
a look at Final Fantasy VII Revelation gameplay shots (game releasing on April 8, 2027) - more pics in the thread Deep Dive trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BT...
More Final Fantasy VII Revelation coming your way in the State of Play starting in a bit over an hour! Tune in for some, well, revelations…. 👀
Finally had this crucial conversation with Rohan. I don’t think he took it very well though…
Just realized I’ve worked in games in Japan twice as long as I ever did in Finland. Life do be crazy sometimes. Here’s to many more years!
Getting depressed by the headlines and thinking about the Ukrainian devs who somehow finished their game in the middle of a war. Sure, it's "just a video game," but sometimes being creative is an act of defiance and determination. Sometimes being creative is what keeps you going in a cruel world
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.