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Well, I'm pretty sure that internal bleeding is pretty rare, but I can sympathize with trying to eat off a gluten free menu and getting burned. It happens pretty often, both at restaurants and with "gluten free" food in stores, which is why I'm *stoked* that the FDA jumped on this.

I mentioned on a thread a few months…

I'm not sure if this is better or worse than Nick Cage's face on everything . . .

I kind of would have loved him in an Italian flag.

But probably because the US is such a large consumer of Japanese games . . .

The weirdest thing for me is actually the updated score. The tone is so spot on that I'm expecting the music from the old anime to pop up.

Not loving the art, particularly how they're doing the girls' lips and the transformation sequence, but liked it overall.

So . . . I kind of want Bioware to make the new installment the modern equivalent of this game, minus the galaxy-destroying aliens and transferring the ship combat to ground combat.

I'm interested to see if this will play out Homeworld style, with you commanding a fleet which you keep with you from mission to mission. 'Cause that was one of the coolest features of that game.

So are you . . . I completely forgot about that.

I don't think anyone actually shoots at Boba Fett in the films . . . maybe Chewie? So I guess Boba shot first by default.

I met Jeremy Bulloch at a convention in Salt Lake City earlier this year. Nice, sweet guy, very happy to spend five minutes and just talk with my wife and me.

And his 'stache.

No, you're not the only one. I wish there had been more variety in encounters, more objects to populate the pre-fabbed structures (though I actually really liked the idea that most of what you found was pre-fabricated), and that the Mako had handled better, but the planet exploration was one of the things which made…

Oh, I gotcha. Then yes, I think you're right.

Indeed. Just voicing my agreement :)

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it seems to be that the "global audience" you're referring to is actually the West, not the international community. If we really were taking into account the tastes and values of each cultural group on the planet, or even the largest groups, we'd have to make severe…

There's a difference between being hurt by racism and not liking a piece of media. And, in my opinion, getting up in arms in behalf of a population which we think *should* be offended, but isn't, falls deep into the second category.

As another Asian person in America, I personally find it odd that you think you have clout to say that a Japanese production is racist against the Japanese. As you said, you *don't* understand how this video is seen by your average Japanese person, and as I'm sure you know things like tastes, aesthetics, cultural…

Like you said, Japanese media was only allowed in the country two decades ago, and cultural shifts toward acceptance can be slow. I mean, there was a bit of a lag here in the Western world between banning slavery and equal rights for blacks.

I chuckled at that as well.

. . . I don't recall saying anything about white or non-white people in Europe.

You are right, though: there were people of color in Europe for most of its history. I've never read up on how they were treated during any time period (except for Moorish and medieval Spanish history), so I have no idea of how they…