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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by lmm on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:59PM (#37746145)
> By what metric? Top 3 games by units sold are american.

The top 3 games by units sold were made respectively in Stockholm, Edinburgh and Moscow. How exactly do you figure that makes them "american"?

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by MikusR on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:19PM (#37770225)
The particular mobile version of EA published Tetris was made in Moscow?

Also none of those are Japan.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by lmm on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:35PM (#37773533)
> The particular mobile version of EA published Tetris was made in Moscow?

No, but if someone e.g. dubs (and perhaps even recuts) a film for the local market, we would generally still consider it to be "from" the place it was originally made.

> Also none of those are Japan.

Sure, just trying to puncture the americocentrism a little.

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