Fukuoka's the biggest city on Kyushu. I've never been there, but you'll probably be fine. TBH, yes, Japan does have *some* racist people, but there's plenty of racist people in the US. I feel like I'm treated better in Japan overall than I was in the US, even despite being an obvious gaijin.

Depends on who you are and where you'll be. If you're white and going to be living in Tokyo? No one gives a crap. Source: Me. I'm white and live in Tokyo. It's very rare when people care. And when they do, it's more language related. A guy stopped at my house the other day trying to sell plums. He acted like he…

Put Hola on another browser. Done. I live in Japan but I watch anime via Crunchyroll and Hulu (the US versions of those sites). Most of the good anime airs at o'dark thirty at night when I'm asleep and all that airs on Japanese cable during the day is really idiotic variety shows, so it's not worth paying for cable TV…

I hated the second half of the first season of SAO - the Alfheim Online arc. It was boring, being too focused on trying to save Asuna. I've been feeling unsure about continuing with SAO as a result. But I keep hearing good things about SAOII. I guess I'll have to check it out in the winter, when it's finally over. I…

Stop it. I actually bought the Fuck book for the lulz. Now you make me want to buy this too.

Bashcraft, you've severely underestimated otaku. Otaku are the same people that buy hundreds of copies of AKB48 singles (copies of the SAME CD!) just to try to get their favorite girl as #1.

Jimi Hendrix used Fire Guitar! It was super effective! Fire Guitar fainted!

As someone with really long hair, I've had cicadas fly by me in the past and get stuck in my hair. It's a really gross feeling.

I think I watch too much anime, when my first thought was that maybe she needs to become an anime voice actor and be type cast as a tsundere.

Totoro, shame on you. What are you teaching children? (THIS IS SARCASM)

Something we did at my house for savings/investing is we made a chart showing our financial goals and we update it once a month to see how much closer we're getting to the goal. Then we put the chart on the fridge. If you see how your money is growing all the time, it makes you want to save even more.

As a natural blonde, I can kinda see his point in a way about the people who dye their hair blonde. It's really irritating when people assume my hair is dyed or don't believe me when I say it's not. Just because the probability of seeing a natural blonde on the street is low (most of the ones you see dye it) doesn't…

I think the advantage of a tabletop RPG is you still have the luxury to make the character have whatever personality you want. In a video game, the game developer has to define choices for you.

The nice thing about FFVI is it's a 2D game. Some of the early 3D games have aged extremely poorly, specifically some of the original Playstation and Nintend 64 games. They're too blocky with too many jagged edges. Sprites feel more timeless somehow.

At least Pikachu is cute. Last year at TGS I hear someone behind me say "Miku's coming through!" in Japanese. I turn around and a booth girl is escorting someone wearing a Mikudayo outfit. Mikudayo is like my version of scary clowns. It creeps me out. That thing with the giant head on the right side of the picture is…

It's from Gaki no Tsukai (a comedy show). The guy is having to try to eat piping hot ramen while in a modified washing machine. I watched the episode and I don't get why that part was supposed to be funny. He's just in the washing machine yelling, "Hot! Hot! It's hot!" as the ramen gets tossed around on him while his…

OK, that's just stupid. I personally also moved in with my significant other after only a month or two. It worked out for us. We've been together for over 12 years and married for over 5 of the 12 years. But we were really really lucky that it worked out. Moving in with someone you barely know, even if you have all of…

I don't like Lotteria. The fries are alright, but the burgers are very meh. I'd rather go to MOS Burger or McDonald's if I want a fast food burger in Japan.

The picture next to Ai Masujima is actually Ami Futami. Mami Futami has her hair tied up on the left side and (as of im@s 2) her hair is longer.

Japan's really trying to use these cards everywhere. More and more stores and vending machines are taking them all the time.