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.
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
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.
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
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
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
It's hilarious that this is still going
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.
nope
Maldives
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
Kosovo
nope
Djibouti ????
nope
It's Hong Kong isn't it
Asked and answered
Panama
no
Did this even happen? Is there a right answer?
This did happen and there is one correct answer
Fiji
Already taken
Good thought, since it looks like Fuji
Good ol' U S of A
Nope
Uruguay !!
I hope that displays
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Nope. Did someone already guess all the other Timors?
Are there any other Timors?
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
Peru
What's Japanese about Peru?
No
They got eyes like the Japanese over there. Haha
Last try: Alaska
Chinatown, San Francisco
lol
@siggy47 grandparents are from Lombardi?
No. Calabria, Bari, and Abruzzo. I'm from the lazy south, not the industrious north.
Jamaica
Already tried, doesn't count as your guess
(The guy was talking about Kentucky all along)
I know that wasn't a real guess, but for the sake of completeness, no
Finland.
someone already tried that
I put a map of the guesses so far in the saloon and there have only been a few more since
I'm out as only one guess is allowed. But is it Palau?
Oh thanks. Btw it kinda rhymed, right?
Already taken
Tonga
Sounds like Honda
Pretty good, but no and I'm not sure if that's warmer or colder
Mauritius
already guessed
still no one has this? sheesh
Norway
Still, no one has it
Micronesia
I guessed this one
Afghanistan
People from the NYC area are hyper aware of Afghanistan's existence
New Zealand
They do look kinda similar, but no
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 😂.
iran
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
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.
Kuwait
nope
The Philippines
Someone beat you to that guess. Try again
el salvador
no
Mexico
nope
Kyrgyzstan
No
Guadacanal
Bali
nope
I'm back! hahaha. It'd be handy if you pinned a comment with the real hints, though.
Madagascar?
nope
Real hints will go in the saloon
Jeju island ?
Where’s that?
Argentina
no
Fiji
Islands, sounds like "Fuji", kinda "over there"...good guess
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.
Tajwan 🇹🇼 ?
already taken