Slyakin said:
Oh yeah, I saw this on Kotaku. I love this! It's sad that the statue got destroyed in the big earthquake/tsunami...
...what? Like, did you even bother looking up where Kobe was or where the earthquake hit, or did you just assume everything in Japan is gone now? There was an earthquake in Kobe, yes, in 1995, and this statue was built afterwards (1999), but this past event didn't affect Kobe in the slightest.
I know that this is probably an innocent mistake, but this is what seriously pisses me off. People aren't even bothering to look up information after they've heard it. You know what I had some guy tell me? "I heard Tokyo is gone now. Like, just gone. It was that bad." And this was five hours after the quake. Five goddamn hours.
Jesus monkey Christ, PLEASE do a little research before assuming the worst.