Hunh. You don’t say.

What’s tongue-in-cheek about it? Just because one country experienced ridiculous shenanigans over a brand’s worthless consumer goods doesn’t mean another country can’t also experience it.

Yeah, whole reason I opened the article.

And make sure to bring plenty of candle wax for your mouth

No-Shit Quarterly sounds like an astroturf publication by Metamucil.

On pizza diced green chiles > any other spicy topping/condiment.

Ooooh, it’s only a two alarm. Two and a half tops. I just want to be a big man in front of my kids.

Because in any chili cookoff festival, there are a lot of people who only come to try the ultra hot chilis. He shouldn’t try tricking people, but making an ultrahot is part of the whole thing. Just stop them before they break out the Guatemalan Quetzalacatenang peppers.

You forgot: never lie about how many alarms your Chili is. 

I thought the main lesson to any Chili Cookoff was laying off the Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango aka Guatemalan Insanity Peppers and talking to Space Coyotes.

The art is distracting, especially because it seems like they’re going to go with the “guy makes suggestion that gets him thrown out of a window” meme for the first two panels.

Also, there were (and still are, but super expensive now), CRT HDTVs. I had one from Samsung.

Not exactly free , but gog have a service where they have an everchanging list of games , and any of them you own on steam , are given to you on Gog

OR - alternatively - set up an account on isthereanydeal.com, and set up your notifications so you get an email whenever a free game appears anywhere. Also, an email whenever any game from your wishlist is as discounted as you want it to be, either on any of the 50 covered PC game stores, or with certain conditions…

The only place I look, and the only subreddit I think actually posts anything good is https://www.reddit.com/r/Freegamestuff/

Oh man if you haven't played Yakuza 4, I highly recommend it. Homelessness is an even bigger theme in that one and is handled masterfully. I don't have a PS3 but it's available to stream on PS Now

Society in Japan treats people who dont confirm very harshly in general and Yakuza like many Japanese games reflects that. However, it is good to praise things where it does things right and critique it where it can improve. That being said condemning the whole thing because it does something wrong is foolish as it…

I presume you realize that the two concepts are not mutually exclusive, right? If the person who cured cancer was racist, it wouldn’t make praising the cure for cancer wrong.

A minor nit pick, but Kiryu is only a member of a criminal organization for the prologue and epilogue of Yakuza 0, and the prologue of Yakuza 1. For the vast majority of the series, he’s just a very yakuza-like private citizen.