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tokyopia redesign

Prior to Tribe.net, I was enjoying Tokyopia a lot. Many expats working in games in Japan shooting the keerap, and such. Unfortunately, the main page's articles were rarely changed, and the forums seemed stagnant from lack of participatory traffic.

Tokyopia's just gone through a full redesign. Now any member can start a front-page article on their own, through functionality as simple as sending a phonecam pic to the blog, which then links the Comments field automatically to a robust message board system.

Bliss!

Update: From their picture selection, check out these Famicom cusions in a cramped game shop, and the lineup of GBA's that serves as my current desktop.

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