Yeah I really appreciate that this whole experience started with me being totally depersonalized and playing the Yakuza games and internalizing Kazuma Kiryu as my model of assertive masculinity, that’s possibly the healthiest option I can think of.
Something American urbanist praise of Japanese real estate development forms needs to grapple with is that the call for frequent construction and demolition is leveraged to sustain a small construction work sector as a sink for the would-be underclass, almost in place of a welfare system “floor”. (This interestingly means construction labor is often articulated with organized crime, but in a manner completely different from how it is in the US)
Considering how much better you get treated if bartenders think you’re a big spender, have started ordering Hibiki shots first thing at unfamiliar places
This has the side effect of making my life that much more like a Yakuza game
