We present todays moment of Geek Zen

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Halloween isn’t a big holiday in most of Japan. But at the university where I’m studying this semester, a Halloween costume contest was held to remind us foreign students of home.

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In your rush to join the daily grind, you run out of the house after throwing on a t-shirt, jeans and a baseball cap to cover your bed-head and dark-circled eyes.

As you unlock your car with your keys clinging to a Nintendo lanyard, you realize you are wearing a Street Fighter shirt, a Mario baseball cap, and are toting a backpack blanketed in various buttons from your favorite videogame franchises. Adding icing to the cake, before you can decide if it’s worth changing clothes, your thoughts are interrupted by Final Fantasy VII’s victory fanfare coming from your phone.

OK, it might not have happened that exact way to you, but have you ever had a day when you realized that it might be impossible to escape your inner nerd?

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