Japanese man scraped together cash to buy Nintendo shares just to get a weird complaint in.
I’m not going to lie, a small part of me read that article and wondered if it was completely made up content. Then again, I could absolutely see it happening. O_o
I don’t know Japanese law, but in US law, a shareholder has the right to attend shareholder meetings. This has a few effects:
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You can buy shares, hold them for the required time, and then sell them later. Its not like $3500 in Nintendo shares has changed much value in the past couple of weeks, the money is still there, its not like “spending” money on a fancy restaurant. Its an investment.
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Shareholders have the right to ask questions of the board and otherwise participate. The rules change from company to company, but the shareholders are the owners of the company. The board exists to serve the shareholders. So some degree of public questioning (from the shareholders) is traditional at these events.
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Causing a ruckus at these meetings is annoying and unhelpful to everyone. Shareholders are mostly concerned about how well Nintendo is doing. The most that probably should be wavered off topic with regards to games is maybe Nintendo setting sales expectations (ex: We released Zelda this year, which is one of the bigger releases. We probably won’t have another big release like that until next year… or whatever). Going deep into poses in Splatoon 3 is so far off topic that it definitely makes me uncomfortable.
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You scrap together enough money just to complain victory poses are too feminine?! He must be insecure as hell.
Yeah, this screams “extreme otaku” (in the Japanese meaning of the word).
That actually is probably the only valid part of this complaint, but it’s a bit opaque without context. In Splatoon 1, each gender had a different victory pose for each weapon type; a girl winning with a minigun would have a different pose than a boy winning with a minigun, or a girl winning with a paintroller. In Splatoon 3, instead you choose your own victory pose from a few dozen options. One of options they added earlier this year is to just use the ones from Splatoon 1.
Except… Despite the name (and social media posts, in the runup to its release) implying it’s all the Splatoon 1 ones, it’s actually only the girls’ poses. The boys’ poses are not available at all.
All his other stuff is pretty ridiculous, the games are absolutely inclusive (equality feels like prejudice when you’re used to privilege, and all) but I do get feeling like you’re being given the cold shoulder when you’re told “here’s all the poses from Splatoon 1!” and then your entire gender is left out.
You do have a point, but for splatoon 1, most victory animations are shared between boys and girls. You only miss about 2 animations like the splattershot victory animation. Splatoon 2 on the other hand had gender and species animations for everything, so I’m nervous how they pull that one off.
It has happened several times in the past but the amount of money needed was 30-40k. Last year Nintendo did a 10-1 stock split so now just ~3k is enough. More affordable so I expect this kind of complaints will happen more often.
