woah never considered that virtual spaces could be used to model memory palaces, that's very cool
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Love your comment but I'm not entirely convinced that it is necessarily a phenomena unique to Japan culture.
I mean, isn't it the same as the old saying "if it ain't broke..."?
Using your example and this is just a guess, at the time Japan implemented those automated machines there was probably a big push to make the switch as manual handling of change had become a source of stress.
The rest of the world didn't make that jump until cards were a thing, product of a similar experience.
But by that time in Japan, where the problem was already "solved", switching to cards was no longer that big of a jump and so there was no incentive (or at least not enough) to worth the effort in changing technologies.
native Spanish speaker here, I'm not a translator but let's see if I can do a bit better:
heeey! where have you seen a revolver fire so many bullets without a reload? a bit more realism, c'mon!
well, in that case this isn't time to be shooting each other in a supposed "Arizona gorge" either, but to have tea[1] instead
realism, I said, not reality...
[1] "time to drink milk" to kids means it's time for an afternoon snack
I used bitwarden to generate a username for me and got the good ending on the first try, phew!
This, I remember my grandfather learned to repair watches this way
Really cool!
He also made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwqNreocpg