That is not typically how Japanese phonetics works, though. As far as I know, the English “r” is always transcribed as a long vowel when it precedes another consonant.

He’s running right in broad daylight in the middle of winter. I wonder if his mother cookin’ chicken for dinner!

The notion of “Diversity for diversity’s sake” is code for “Characters should only be straight white males unless not being a straight white male is their defining trait, and even then we only need one or two”

My two biggest disappointments as a JRPG fan:

To be fair, the other big icon of Chinese pop culture, Mao Zedong, has been considered, but his skills were pretty terrible.

My big complaint with FFXIII was how it tried to force-feed me melodrama from the word go.

You could say those products are...

Agreed. Humans are [not rational]. Which, ironically, is why we need guns.

Some people like being called cute.

I wish FFXV didn’t come out for another two years. If Hollywood told me anything, it is that products with 12 year development cycles are Academy gold.

Oh, hey! It’s right there in California’s own news sources.

Whoa, Suica interacts with the Wii U?

But we must ask of what GITS fans are actually fans?

I almost thought this was an Onion article.

Looks like the next innovation in miniaturized lodging to me.

Balderdash. Speed runs are great when you need a walkthrough but are short on time. They say time is gold. If we interpret one second of time as one ounce of gold, then at the current price of gold (1315 USD/oz) this speed run saves you 22 USD. You can buy a decent meal with that money.

How expensive are tickets in your country? Here in Japan a ticket costs 1800 JPY (18 USD), and I do not believe there are matinee discounts.

A community as wonderful as football’s.

Mr. Ashcraft, concerning English education in Japan, I always wanted to ask whether you speak English with your children at home. If I am not mistaken, English education in Japan does not begin until junior high, and even then instruction is in Japanese. Therefore, unless children are enrolled in an international…

No, no. The translation is spot on, but the context is missing. The memory issues Miyamoto refers to is Nintendo’s own, i.e., Nintendo has trouble remembering Luigi.