I sincerely hope that Aoi, Misa, Midori, Shizuka, Ema, Ogasawara, and Yano aren’t based on real people. That would make the official sexy hug pillows featuring those characters more than a little awkward and skeevy (as if sexy hug pillows don’t tend to be awkward enough as it is)...

God, the people who don’t stop at the line and decide to stop in the middle of the crosswalk are some of the worst. It’s like, it’s an intersection with lights and nothing obstructing your view of the traffic, why must you move 6 feet up and block the crosswalk and force pedestrians to walk between car bumpers? Or…

I really miss manuals. I can’t remember what game it was, but the first time I got one where it didn’t have a manual it felt like a gut punch, and I felt somewhat empty toward that game. I was that kid who would pour over manuals not to learn the buttons or menu system, but because so many companies fleshed out their…

That poor kid! Wild African dogs look cute but they’re so vicious and cruel (they even kill members of their own pack sometimes). Dying to them would be a prolonged, painful experience that I wouldn’t wish on anybody, particularly an innocent kid who really didn’t have a say in the matter.

Some tribes in Africa used to (I’m not sure if they still do) actually use cheetahs to hunt with. They’d essentially raise cheetahs in the same way elsewhere people would raise hunting dogs. The people benefited because it made hunting easier and more successful, and the cheetahs benefited because they wouldn’t be…

Another thing is how many times when someone “reaches for the weapon” is it just a hand brushing the belt? The officers are escalating the situation and getting physical, so some people will react by trying to push the cop away. Or their arm/hand will be put in such a way that it comes into contact with the belt. With…

The budget is my bet as well, with A-1 taking on so many projects possibly exacerbating things a bit. I mean, just look what they did with Your Lie in April: Fantastic animation, fantastic colour, and a huge focus on detail. A-1 is clearly capable of putting out fantastic anime, so that this one isn’t is more…

It’s always Tarou’s fault!

Uh, you do know that trans women are often upfront about it, right? The “I went home with a woman and she had a penis” story is actually pretty uncommon because when you could be murdered while walking on a street with witnesses around, you’re not going to go to a private, secluded area.

All these comments are certainly depressing.

Yup. If it means getting reduced XP for surrendering early, I’ll still take that if it means not dealing with a dick (or dicks) and jumping in another game that will probably be more enjoyable.

Sometimes it’s painfully obvious when you’re going to lose, so what’s wrong with saving everyone the time and saving the losing side the stress that comes from being forced to play when they know it’s not even going to be a fun fight?

There definitely needs to be a surrender option. Will some people abuse it and try to quit in the first 5 minutes? Sure, but the people who do that already give up and stop contributing and it would still take another two people (if it were to go with 3+ votes needed to surrender) to actually take effect.

Yup. If a woman prefers being referred to as a girl, fine, but referring to all women as girls is just infantizing.

It really goes to show how long-lasting a well-designed stylized art-style can last.

A certain subset of gamers really seem to love to act as gatekeepers as to determine what is and isn’t allowed to be called a game, according to their personal definitions. You see it with mobile games, as well — Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Flappy Bird and the like aren’t “real” games even though if they were on any…

Gotta love how Dot having two boobs was too extreme and sexual for the censors at the time. Apparently she also was not allowed to kiss Enzo on his birthday, because the censors said that promoted incest.

Completely off topic, but thank you for mentioning SPD. I had never heard of it before but after your description of it and jumping down the Google wormhole, I think I might know why I have a god-awful time with conversations and pretty much can't talk to people in noisy places or over the phone now. I always likened…

Pretty much. He doesn't know my real name so there's that, but yeah, he combined our usernames.

So I'm feeling rather weird right now. Recently I got a reply on Kinja with an account name that was a combination of my (non-Kinja) username and the username of a guy I play videogames with. I'm fairly certain it's the same guy, too, though I don't think he realized it was me. I hope not, anyway.