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I didn't know you could do that. I'm in Taiwan and I know Steam doesn't let you make a purchase without a local credit card. So I imagine that's the case for Japan.

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Basically what Gabe said.

This was before emulators were a thing. It was super early days of modding.

So a few years ago I wanted to play a Japanese version of a rhythm game that isn't available to purchase in the USA and decided to try my hand at modding my switch for this one game.

After(poorly) doing it, I wasn't able to play that game AND Nintendo bricked me. All my games on my switch that I purchased were unable to download or play anymore.

So I went and set out to mod my switch correctly.

Now if I actually wanted to give Nintendo money, they won't allow me to. So my only option from then on is to pirate.

They basically turned a potentially paying customer to a non paying customer.

Ya, they give names for the robbers. Lol. I remembered they had a guy named The Valentine bandit. Because he first robbed his first branch on Valentine's Day. Some of them get silly names like Fake Limp man.

Most robberies are very discreet. Mine was just a note and flashed a gun.

Also note to any would be robbers. You don't need a weapon. We always comply. A few bucks is not worth our lives. Also if you even show a weapon or implied you have one, you literally increase your charge from robbery to robbery with a deadly weapon which just increased your jail sentence 5 times.

Obviously I don't know for sure. But there are plenty of videos of the shooter and plenty of videos of Luigi hitting on a girl, but no videos of evidence combining these videos together. Where is the video of Luigi leaving the hostel and prepping his get away and then shooting the CEO?

But there is nothing tying Luigi to the shooter directly.

Sometimes they have the plate numbers. But we sorta know when someone is coming in to do bad things by the way they are driving into the parking lot.

Most drivers slowly pull into a parking lot. Find a spot near the branch door. Gather their stuff. Slowly walk to the branch doors.

A bank robber drives into the lot very fast. Doesn't bother finding a spot. Rushes out the door and is constantly looking around.

I only been robbed once and prevented a handful of times. We caught the girl who robbed me because we recognized her.

I remember being a teller and we would play games guessing what people were coming into do. Talk to a banker or deposit or cashing a check.

I used to work at the bank and bank robbers are almost always caught. Not because they didn't get away from robbing the bank. It's because once they do it once they continue robbing banks and one day they will get caught.

We regularly get reports for bank robbers that hit a branch. They typically hit another close branch, but we lock our doors the second they pull up.

I have been jaded enough that I'm sort of numb to it now. I'm only working towards my retirement. Office gossip, dynamics, culture means nothing to me. 90% of my job is optics. The rest is real work. My only job is to try and keep my job as long as possible and nothing more.

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