Is your copy of [SS] Radiant Silvergun complete?

[Korly]

Cripes.

[UndeadKing]

bbobb,
What the fuck does actually caring about the quality of your game have to do with a "Japanophile?" And for that matter, since when did "Japanophile" become the cool "insult?" Caring about the spine card is no more stupid than caring about the back insert. God forbid someone would prefer to have their game in good shape. They must be a "Japanophile" if they don't treat their games like shit and throw things away.

That being said, I would never pay that damn much for a spine card. That is insane. If assholes didn't throw them out, no one would ever be selling them. Hence, you want to blame someone, blame the stupid motherfuckers that throw them out rather than spend the 5 seconds to place them in the manual. I don't care if you think it is a "stupid slip of paper," common business sense dictates that people pay more for a complete copy of the game. Thus, if you plan to sell a game later, you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to throw the spine card away rather than exploit the so-called "Japanophiles."

[Jeremy]

Anyone who pays that much for spine card should be shot right in the head.

[padman]

Wanting the spine card is absolutly no different to wanting the intructions or back insert. They all add resale value to a game and they are all pretty much useless (apart from shelf aesthetics) things to have unless you can read Japanese.

Personally I'm so above all this I only buy a game if its got at least 3 fag burns and has 'you're a twat' written on it in felt tip pen (permanent) along with a crude picture of a dick.

[epmode]

And for that matter, since when did "Japanophile" become the cool "insult?"

[UndeadKing]

Seriously, I'm sick of people calling everyone a "Japanophile." Not everyone who plays Japanese games worships Japan. It doesn't make you any better to call someone a "Japanophile." That's as ignorant as calling someone who prefers American games a racist.

"Oh no, you watch anime, you JAPANOPHILE!"

It seems even more ironic coming from someone who works at a shop specializing in Japanese goods....

[bbobb]

Japanophile isn't someone who plays Japanese videogames or watches Anime... I do both of those myself... it's people who obsess over such things and have this unrealistic image of and disgusting worship of all things Japanese (see JAPJAC or Recap).

And I stand by the idiocy of spine cards... they're the equivalent of that small strip of sticky shit on the top of US games... they're there so the barcode isn't on the case itself... it shouldn't matter one way or another if a game has it or not.

[Yoshi]

Seriously, I'm sick of people calling everyone a "Japanophile." Not everyone who plays Japanese games worships Japan. It doesn't make you any better to call someone a "Japanophile." That's as ignorant as calling someone who prefers American games a racist.

God damn it. Now I'm a racist Japanophile. What do I get to be for importing European games too? Am I a limey racist Japanophile?

[burgundy]

And for that matter, since when did "Japanophile" become the cool "insult?"

We're still waiting.

And I don't see what obsessing over spine cards has to do with Japanophilia - except for the incidental circumstance that Japanese games come with spine cards. You don't need to say "kawaii" or "desu ne?" to collect expensive little slips of paper.

[bbobb]

Yeah... I was wrong to say it... I posted it after 3 hours of Ninja Gaiden fried my brain.