I lived in Osaka for a good while, and I loved drinking outside. However, it’s complicated. Hanami or a sunny spring weekend? It’s all good as long as you aren’t partying. If you are just having a beer, that’s no problem.

Eh, I often shower with my wife and it’s very rarely sexual. Busy preserving water and time!

Glad that Koyasan is on the list. I’m always telling people to go there. It’s freaking magical!

I hate the lightning most of all. Especially if you are in first! Because what always happens is I find the magical speakerbox that can destroy a Blue Shell, and start thinking that my victory is secured when... blam! Dropped everything. So annoying.

I could never eat that much, really. But when I was 19 we were eating all the food left after a week at a beach house. I spent the entire day stoned, just eating everything available. At one point, this included one of those giant bags of generic froot loops, entirely dry, while watching TV.

Agree. Similar with Japan - your options are ludicrously expensive, or McDonalds/7-11/other convenience store coffee. It’s not terrible, and a LOT of people do it.

*Can* be. Seattle is a fucking mess, and I hate every minute of commuting in that city. 2-3 hours a day of my life that I will never get back, no matter how many podcasts I listen to. After moving to a country with amazing infrastructure, I’m so much happier.

However, when I was a kid I lived in the country, with a…

Cool video, but not their best song - sounds kind of like a generic go! go! Vanillas song. Great band to see live, if you get the chance.

Easily one of my favorite moments as a Blazer fan was that game 4. It was just such the perfect swan song for Roy. As much as Portland loves him, it feels kind of like our fault that he degraded. Of *course* he did. He was playing for the Blazers. Any other team and he would have been fit as a fiddle for years to…

I have done this exact thing. “Yeah we lost, but we lost to the Champs! And honestly, we played them the hardest.”

I don’t have any of the multiplayer games, incredibly rarely. On a flight, once, and only for a bit. It’s easier to just hold it.

I had damn near the same mixed response. At first, cringe. Then, after thinking about it, I was like “OK, you go Bolson. You do you.” I also like how he gets sassy with you if you try to talk to him before he sits down. He’s not having any of Link’s shit.

Hey there champ! I have bad news for you: this is acceptable as a gag in Japan. Is it cringy? Oh hells yes. But it’s common. I think most young people just shrug and go “eh... whatever,” like you would if your beloved grandma said something racist. I know this because I live here. Openness is just not a real factor in…

Exactly. As a child, it taught me the futility of hope, which was a good lesson to learn early.

Damn man... It’s time to move on. It’s been 17 years. It hurt me too. Though not as much as the Shrug Game did. We were good in 2000, but it was a roster built out of scotch tape and string - we were DAMN good in 92.

“Wait... are they swerving to hit things? It just seems so unnecessary.”

Terrible take. The only correct answers are Addams Family Values and 22 Jump Street. Both movies only improved from their already great predecessors. As far as I’m concerned, those are the only correct answers.

Well, that was just great timing following the lawsuit. Still, having seen these guys, you knew it was just a matter of time until it got banned. Besides the copyright issue, it is by no means as safe as I expect from Japan.

I’d be really interested to go to a game like this, just to compare. It could be fun! Old-school feeling.

As much as I hate Green, I can see how the noise actually gives you a bit of a shield - turns the crowd in to one large white noise that gives creates a bubble. Being unexpectedly yanked out of that bubble would…

I stand by my comment, even with the Aussies laughing!