Yeah, this really struck me too.

Mapmakers are actually pretty key for society, particularly ones in similar states to Hyrule (i.e. lacking electricity). For example, Link wouldn't have stood a chance at saving the world without Tingle's maps. It's better to say that Tingle is meek and lacks physical ability while Link is in a constant battle to…

He's not wrong, though I wish I could know more about the line of thought here. Whether or not he feels someone should have stopped them, or that they somehow invited the disaster. Leaving it as it is leaves him open to criticism, which would be ok, if the criticism were verifiable.

Curious, where in America are we currently doing this? I'm actually pretty sure there's an example out there, I just can't think of it, save maybe DC's "Samurai" character, but he's made about as many appearances as an actual "Minstrel Show" in the states over the past 20 years.

Whether they intended no harm with this particular incident, they, or at least someone involved, surely knew that, whether or not harm would be done, it was a practice that was found to be quite offensive. That's willful ignorance, which some might argue is worse than actually trying to be insulting.

I'm willing to buy a new system to get better 3D function tbh. I've had enough problems with it to just play with it off and I'd actually to make use of it.

To be fair, even back in the '80's/'90's in America, a lot of the stuff was still about teenagers, young girls and High School, it just wasn't always so obvious or central to the plot.

It depends on who you ask. An average Japanese would probably say -any- animation is anime, be it Akira or Cinderella. People who've grown up with more traditionally western animation use the term more exclusively for Japanese/Asian animation. Often focusing on Japan, but confusing Korean and other Asian countries…

How about the fact that adult anime otaku are still pretty much nerds in Japan, unlike the misconception that everyone likes animation there? Or that "anime" isn't somehow different from cartoons, like how Japan considers Disney to be anime?

Violence and sex weren't always a subject anime felt comfortable depicting. That changed with the advent of video, which could bring programs to specific audiences that wanted the content, without having to worry about conforming the content to television standards. Hilariously, some early erotic anime was imported by…

Anime did not always sell itself on its Japanese identity, because that makes it less marketable. Early anime was sold to audiences outside of Japan, but only if anything overtly tying the anime to Japan could be scrubbed out. So: references were changed, names were changed, locations were changed. Even if it meant…

And given that infinite energy has the capability to resuscitate Pokémon, it opens up some crazy scenarios for humans, too. Can humans in the Pokémon world live forever, or be revived? It must be possible. AZ, the villain of X & Y, is apparently thousands of years old. Consider: he is also one of the people who has…

I mean they were wild Pokemon before we caught them and as soon as they are captured they are tamed? It really doesn't make sense, but what if once in the ball their mentality gets rewritten and gets matched to you, is this why we have trainer's IDs and why another poke ball would not capture my Pokemon because the ID…

It's not that the eyes are big, the eyes are only a small part of the problem, but not because they're big. The mouths are too large, but more specifically frown way too prominently. The eyes are really flat and lifeless, in a worse way than uncanny valley, they simply look like flat, 2-D eyes laid on top of the face.…

You're focusing on the wrong issue here.

It's just that not every Japanese game needs to come over here. If a game is too racy to be released as is in the West, maybe just mention that somewhere on the company message boards instead. Import sales will boom, pervy gamers will rediscover the joy of adult game imports, and the publishers can focus on releasing…

Epic Chaos Marine

this made my day.

It's entirely possible it was intentionally so. Also, this is all just side-show theatrics to change the discussion to something pointless. Pick your battles, it does you no good if you come off as combative.

And that's where we get into murky territory. Because really: how do you compare the 30-50 hours it takes to play Shadow of Mordor with the 400-plus some have spent with Destiny? Or the 30-40 hours for Grand Theft Auto 5? The 50-80 hours of Dragon Age: Inquisition? That's not even considering other great games that…