As an amateur tech nerd who stumbled into these posts via Numberphile: It's no surprise that Uma Musume crept in there, it's hugely popular. A bestselling mobile game, though the game itself is afaik only available in Japanese. (Why that particular weird token? No idea, I'm only peripherally familiar with the franchise.) Puzzle & Dragons is also a very longstanding popular game, so there's likely lots of discussion about it. Especially in "gacha" games like P&D and Uma Musume (where you obtain game pieces via essentially a slot machine), you often ... (read more)
As an amateur tech nerd who stumbled into these posts via Numberphile: It's no surprise that Uma Musume crept in there, it's hugely popular. A bestselling mobile game, though the game itself is afaik only available in Japanese. (Why that particular weird token? No idea, I'm only peripherally familiar with the franchise.) Puzzle & Dragons is also a very longstanding popular game, so there's likely lots of discussion about it. Especially in "gacha" games like P&D and Uma Musume (where you obtain game pieces via essentially a slot machine), you often ... (read more)