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That's exactly WHY I mention it to people. If people react badly to it, I know I have zero interest in having any sort of relationship with that person (friendship or anything else). If it's a person at work, then I'll be polite and professional, but I won't talk to them about anything not work related.

Otaku-related goods

If this is going to be anything like Recettear, I want to play it. Come on, who doesn't want a Recettear-like game where you can benefit from capitalism while you sell bentos and onigiri?

You might be able to. I chose the shelling out for Windows option. Windows is expensive, but the upside is that Windows is better than a super cheap laptop. Super cheap laptops generally aren't great performance wise and are just made for browsing the internet.

I don't think so. Japan has some strict privacy laws and you have to blank out the faces of people who didn't give express permission to be filmed. As a gaijin living in Japan, TV crews seem to assume I'm a tourist and like to stop me whenever I'm out. Whenever they want to interview me, they always make me sign this

Agreed. And unless you want to play Xenoblade or use the Amiibo figures with Smash Bros, even that argument doesn't hold water right now. We don't know exactly how much support there will be for New 3DS. I imagine some developers will shy away from making New 3DS-only games because that's more limiting their audience.

In Japan, it's not really for pollution. It's either the person is sick and is trying to be courteous and keep their sickness to themselves, they are NOT sick and don't want to get others' germs, or they want it for privacy reasons.

I don't like Lotteria as much as MOS Burger, but this makes me want to go there. That sounds really good for some reason.

"My middle son, who is five, used to eat his rice with Pokémon furikake. Now, he's trying to finish all the packets of Pokémon furikake, so he can eat the Yokai Watch furikake and get the sticker that comes with it."

Have you thought about dual booting your Mac? I run OSX and Windows 7 on mine. I use OSX as my main OS, but I boot into Windows for those Windows-only required times.

I do like D&D a lot. I used to have a bunch of 3.0/3.5 books. I did play games both as a player and as a DM. The problem is, as a very introverted person, the weekly gaming sessions drained me a huge amount. I like what I've read about the new version of D&D, but unfortunately, I'll never play it. I simply don't have

Nintendo is the company that started me down the path of otakudom in the late '80s. Without Nintendo, I probably would be a completely different person right now. So... thanks?

No, I hate the fact that it's a pain in the butt to get them. Usually requires me getting up at insanely early hours and being in line in the hot sun or cold for many hours. Sometimes you can't even get there early enough with the first train. You have to get a hotel close to where the limited thing is going to be

3 hours. To make a pre-order. Not to pick up anything. Not to buy anything. Not even for limited products. Japan, why?

I'm just still glad this is getting an English release. I have almost bought the PSP game many times, but my Japanese reading is still not that great. I was going to buy it and use the translation, but since the HD game was announced shortly thereafter, not much point.

I'll give this game a chance. I still find a good chunk (though not all, certainly) of FF games fun. So far from this trailer it looks like a fujoshi's paradise, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be bad. And for those people who say it looks "too real", this has been going on for a long time. I distinctly

It's actually been dying. Harmonix is slowly losing the licenses for DLC and it's disappearing off of the marketplaces. You can still play those songs if you'd already bought and downloaded them, but if you didn't, you can't get them now.

Stop it, Japan.

Ha! That's the first thing I thought when I read this.