I'm not going to go all fanboy ragey on you because (one, I think that's stupid and two,) I know how much personal bias is involved in me loving this game. I'd wanted a big budget open-world cyberpunk sandbox basically since I played GTA3 and started thinking about what could be done with the format.

And I personally…

And yet…there are always a couple of games, you know? The open-world game that still hitches every time you drive a car, even when you lower the graphics settings to medium. The city-building game that would be so lovely at 2650x1600 resolution, but which can't seem to hit 60fps even at 1080p. The post-apocalyptic…

It was just an honest yes or no question. Wondering what Jalopnik's standard is for this shit, since I've seen other willful violation of non-public persons' privacy on this site before. You find the question ridiculous?

It actually didn't. This law dates back to Meiji or earlier.

Actually, it's 100% of the population, because it's not just vaginas that violate this law, it's all genitals. So there's that.

That's on paper, though. In practice, I've never heard of anyone here (here being Japan) being arrested for distributing realistic dildos or other penis-shaped objects (and in fact there are…

Did you get permission to run this person's license plate uncensored?

Israel arrested and is prosecuting the Israeli criminals — criminals, not "hardliners" — who burned the kid. That seems like an important detail that shouldn't be glossed over in a discussion about collective responsibility.

All right, except the last sentence. The only people who are free to trade with and visit the USSR are people with time machines.

Tim, I want to love the statements — and I love what they're saying — but are you really serious that the lawyer "evinces a pleasantly ferocious prose style"? This is clumsy awkward garbage. It reads exactly like a lawyer trying to communicate like a human being but being unable to remember exactly what that was like.

The way I understand it, black holes don't actually appear to black because the debris falling into their event horizons produces light and radiation as it heats up. If there were no dust or debris at all, then the harmful radiation described in this article probably wouldn't be an issue either.

it's worth noting that there are several men's issues that are valid and worthy of attention. ... but, as the Washington Post's Monica Hesse puts it, "the [kernels of truth get] rhetorically buried in paranoia and anger, which, at this conference, created a wounded echo chamber of nebulous statistics."

Whoa there, Alvin C. York. Maybe don't come back to Japan then, if this is what you took from your visit.

"Represents areas like Kobe"? You mean "represents Kobe and its surrounding administrative region"?

As soon as I saw your comments up above, I knew the completely non-sequitur anti-Japanese rhetoric was coming.

It worries you? In what sense? What does it make you worry will happen?

Impressive, right? But when it comes to character creators, is it possible to go too far?

Thank you for the honest response. I'm going to be absorbing this for a bit before I have anything to say about it. I'd like to continue talking privately, but I'm on a self-imposed Facebook lockout right now, so it'll have to be sometime in the future.

I don't know if I really buy that "rosebudding" is or ever will be truly mainstreamed — just because some media person wrote a shock and scare piece similar to all those "the new dangerous trend that teenagers all over American are doing" news stories does not make it so — and I think you're ignoring that violence…

Is this sincere? I mean deep down is this really your worldview? I'm not saying that as an attack on it, and I'm not going to respond to whatever you say with a challenge or rebuttal to it. It's just really unlike any philosophy I've encountered before and I'm trying to process it. Really?

Not even close to what I was talking about at all. That section was just a really clumsy tautology, seemingly to make one simple and painfully obvious concept sound like it's three separate and nuanced societal observations.