One of my relatives, who hails from @siggy47's cultural region, was trying to relay a news event to me and used the phrase "one of those Japanese countries" to describe the location that he couldn't recall.
The bounty goes to the first stacker who correctly guesses which country he was referring to.
Only one guess per stacker per hour
1,000 sats paid
Iceland
!!!!!!!!
Where's the option to pay the bounty?
@sox, the "pay bounty" button wasn't there when I clicked on this comment from my notifications.
Wooooo
I have no idea how Japan is related
What in the fuck
This post’s got a 'bug' when sorting items by ‘recent’. It doesn’t sort here, only works after you click ‘recent’ and hit refresh (F5). After the items are sorted, new comments don’t show up at the top. cc/ @k00b @ek @sox
I can reproduce here, but not in dev. Let's see what's causing this.
For now one clue is that this only happens in client-side navigation: click on a comment -> from the top SN bar go back -> sorts stop working
edit: only here
Weird, the 'recent' filter is already working.
How have we not figured this out yet. There are only 195 countries.
Tonga
Tonga is the new civilization available in Civ 7, it became available on the 4th of this month! ahah
That's interesting. I'm pretty sure they've never had Tonga before.
maybe it's not a country
Even if not, no one has guessed the country it's in or that has an internationally recognized claim over it.
@siggy47 grandparents are from Lombardi?
No. Calabria, Bari, and Abruzzo. I'm from the lazy south, not the industrious north.
You do realize this will affect our relationship moving forward?
(The guy was talking about Kentucky all along)
I know that wasn't a real guess, but for the sake of completeness, no
This is a psyop. PhD economists are known to run cruel human experiments.
Experimental econ does not make use of deception. The experiment is what it seems to be.
That's exactly what an experimental economist would say.
It's hilarious that this is still going
New Zealand
They do look kinda similar, but no
worth a shot
Tonga
Sounds like Honda
Pretty good, but no and I'm not sure if that's warmer or colder
Did this even happen? Is there a right answer?
This did happen and there is one correct answer
Is the answer a country?
The Philippines
Someone beat you to that guess. Try again
Must be Russia
ARUBA!
It totally lines up with the tips we've had so far. I just don't get what it has to do with Japan, though!
Say it with a Japanese accent
No
Bueno supongo que Japón es un sólo país así que tal ves como como solemos generalizar, cada ves que vemos a un asiático solo lo definimos por chino. Tú amigo quiso decir lo mismo no se definió por un país más bien por cualquier asiático, da la respuesta igual para salir de dudas 👍
This is about getting inside the mind of a certain type of American
Parece que está hora nadie la gana, un weeaboo , Otaku y sino mi anime favorito one piece, desconozco la cultura o prototipo estadunidense soy de otro país planeta galaxia sistema estelar 😂.
Myanmar?
We're working our way around the coast...nope
I’m also just trying to think of what would have been in the news.
Jeju island ?
Where’s that?
it's in south korea
India ?
China
That would have made some sense, but nope
It's clearly gotta be absurd enough for you to make note of it
Samoa
Nope. That's sort of the direction I was going with my guesses too.
I figured since there is a lot of Japenese heritage in the Pacific Island nations it might be one of those and then I thought maybe he was confusing Samoa with Sumo. Haha
Taiwan
Reasonable guess, but no
Hmmm it's got to be something absurd then.
Azerbaijan
I think that was already guessed, but it's getting hard to remember or check
Haha I don’t know why I picked that. Ends in AN like Japan. Grasping at straws
i said that one
It's Hong Kong isn't it
Asked and answered
South Korea
I think that was my first guess, too
Mine too
Fiji
Islands, sounds like "Fuji", kinda "over there"...good guess
Sri Lanka
I think that's been said?
It seems like there's an upper bound on the progress because as the thread becomes unsearchable people can't avoid repeating guesses.
I did not anticipate breaking the pagination limit
nope
Maldives
I still want to say Suriname. It's the most japanese-sounding latin-american country I know.
Contest is over. @SimpleStacker got it with Iceland
I know, but Suriname is the most japanese-sounding latin-american country I know.
So, I DEMAND the result of the contest to be changed.
Fiji
Already taken
Good thought, since it looks like Fuji
Vietnam
nope
I would say Brazil because is the second country with more Japanese after Japan, but it doesn’t fits your narrative.
Thailand
I can see why you might expect that
Not many shots left, but since we only get one shot an hour, I gotta chill and stay quiet! I'll hit this up again tomorrow! Haha
Samoa
Already picked, try again
It's beyond me how is that so many are so unwilling to take a second to hit Ctrl+F before posting.
Peru
What's Japanese about Peru?
No
They got eyes like the Japanese over there. Haha
Last try: Alaska
Sri Lanka
Good try
@remindme in 1 hour
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Nope. Did someone already guess all the other Timors?
Are there any other Timors?
It's definitely Japan.
It's definitely not
hahaha well I tried.
Turkey~~ (technically, also in Asia).
But many people usually think of East Asian countries when they think of Asia...
Turkey still has a bit of land in Europe, actually, Istanbul’s the only capital in the world that sits on two continents!
Who said anything about Asia?
Funny. I internalized "Asian country", not "Japanese country" when I read your post.
Probably says something about me.
Hmm, my next absurd guess then would be "Italy" in relation to the Tripartite Pact during WWII. In case your relative is somehow mentally stuck in old history...
Djibouti ????
nope
north korea
I want to say that you're getting colder, but I'm not sure exactly what that means.
getting colder coz i'm going further north?
Indonesia.
I'm surprised that was still available, but it's not correct
I was surprised too, checked twice
Kosovo
nope
Panama
no
Good ol' U S of A
Nope
Chinatown, San Francisco
lol
Tajwan 🇹🇼 ?
already taken
Jamaica
Island, starts with a J, might be in Asia for all he knows...good guess, but no
Philippines
Solid guess
Dokdo/Takeshima Islands?
Tibet?
Nope
Nope
India and Pakistan are constantly fighting for Kashmir.
I already said no to both India and Pakistan, though
Can't keep up with all these replies, man. This is my last one, I'm out!
Guyana
Uruguay !!
I hope that displays
I'm out as only one guess is allowed. But is it Palau?
Oh thanks. Btw it kinda rhymed, right?
Already taken
Jamaica
Already tried, doesn't count as your guess
Nepal
Bald mountain monks, martial arts probably...good guess but no