This isn’t super related, but I have to mention... because it’s a bit of trivia and non-brazilians will probably never have heard of this.

Yep, I kinda thought about japanese arcades with this whole pandemic thing... as well as pachislot places.

Afaik, from some previous personal research, the numbers are still worrying, but have plumeted in the past decade or so.

This lacks context for anyone who is not a figure collector...

It could just as well have been 2 double layer blu ray discs, or one pendrive... but the point there is probably being a collectible, so cheapest media available.

“SNK was acquired by a group of Chinese companies in 2015"

In a way, it kinda sounds like the best thing that could happen given the elements involved and the situation itself.

“We got the logo with a quick Google image search, thought it was the latest game in the series, but we’d rather blame ‘the media’ instead”.

I’m gonna guess these are some standard pre-made talking points used for any and every fake toy apprehended...

Sounds like a waste of suicide bombers... xD

You didn’t talk about the one thing I was curious about Zack: what is the joke in japanese?

Yeesh, the final biggest reason why I’m still following Kotaku is over now then...

Indefinitely postponed, because it’s currently being transposed to real life. :P

I find it incredibly sad and baffling how badly the japanese government has been handling the whole thing, and how completely misinformed the japanese population is about this virus.

Imagine how awesome this could've been if it happened during the golden years of Takeshi Kitano... xD

VR would simplify that setup a bit I guess...

Well, I kinda expected that Squeenix would milk this cow hard if they ever decided to do it, just didn’t imagine they’d do it quite like this...

Memories of Mok-Kos and Sader... xD

It never actually gets down, just goes slightly crooked:

If you ask them properly they’ll also add it’s organic, all natural, homegrown, locally sourced and adequate for all diets. :P