A Nintendo shareholder recently declared videogames a waste of time and reprimanded president Satoru Iwata for not giving Wii Fit to Tohoku earthquake victims.
"I’m concerned about the falling stock price. I own stock, but I don’t own a single Nintendo product," said the shareholder. "I believe games are a waste of time. By the way, the reason I own Nintendo stock is because the name is nice, it’s in Kyoto and it was listed in the year of my birth."
Iwata responded politely: "There are people in this world who don’t feel that games are a waste of time, so Nintendo continues to exist. We’d like to eliminate the thinking that playing games by yourself is negative, or when there’s a crime you immediately tie it into games. We’d like to raise the social importance of games. We’re working to expand the gaming population, yourself included."
The shareholder then retorted with the greatest non sequitur I've read today: "During the Tohoku earthquake disaster, I believe people in the evacuation centers were lacking in exercise. Why didn’t you bring Wii Fit to them? Why didn’t you show off to the media that you’re doing more for the victims?"
Absolutely fantastic.
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4:20 PM on 06.30.2011 | 
I just come here because the name is nice.
I don't know about you, but like this guy, I always make my decisions based off of how nice a name is, it's relation to a location, and how it relates to my birthday.
That's exactly why my lucky lotto number is "Chicago Illinois".
This is seriously the greatest showing of how stupid investors can be that I think I've ever seen.
It makes perfect sense.
Smart man.
Also:
This dude's such a fucking dick.
How can you not love Chicago.
And props to Iwata for refusing to respond in an equally dumb way.
That Hiroshi Yamauchi returned as CEO for just one day, to see what the heck would he have done.
He would probably have disintegrated the guy with his atomic blast laser eyes, then talk about how he loves children, before killing everyone else in the audience and heading for a love hotel.
...or he could have agreed with the guy...
They're just people who put aside some money into you, and then when you blossom, they blossom.
Parasites.
*sarcasm
Of course it's money money money with these people, but it makes him a much less respectable individual in my view.
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