My shame: I bought a whole new PC in order to play Monkey Island 3. Turns out I just had no clue how to install DirectX properly.

Thank god there's a PDF to go with this phenomenally amazing information! I tip my cup noodle at LifeHacker...within the regulated 21.2 degree tilt.

They, um...they still do that.

I wish I got paid for every time I read something on Lifehacker, think "hmm, that sounds worthy of investing in" followed by "This is only available in the USA".

I moved from England to Japan and I STILL don't know half of what's going on here!

I've seen it a few times with musicians. They think playing one instrument that's sorta kinda like the one they're playing now will be super easy. I see it like this - I've been writing with my right hand for my whole life; writing with my left should be a snap!

Derg nabbit, why the hell is everything starting to look like a bloody iPad now? What happened to the days I had to STUDY to use a Linux desktop? What happened when I had to "sudo apt-get install" nearly everything I wanted? I had grown to love the terminal not out of choice but out of necessity! You kids never had it…

It's stuff like this makes me wonder why they call it an "achievement". It's not an achievement, it's hoop jumping.

I think I wear that T shirt somehow in Japan too. I once talked to a shop clerk in Japanese and he replied with "すみません...英語を分からないけど..." and got some girl to speak broken English to me. I found it hilarious.

These are mostly embarrassing things for Japanese people, like "I can't ride a bicycle" or "The world needs more smart people like me" (boasting about yourself is a big no-no here). Some are pretty funny though; "I'm wearing a sailor suit right now" and "What? 30cm isn't normal?".

The X and O reversed is seriously messing with my head. It's like when you get those Japanese made games where O is confirm and X is cancel.

Is it really that much hassle to have two separate systems? If you're up to your bumhole in money and don't mind risking warranties, sure why not but...

Oh God, that was so good when I collected Pokemon cards when I was a kid.

Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki already has a restaurant and a to-scale boat you can actually ride on!

Call me crazy, nothing beats that "new game" smell when you first open a sealed game. If I was in that room I would come out a very happy person.

Yup, I live in Kyuushuu. It's like a bloody oven at the moment. Thank God for AC.

We have an Animate where I live. It also sells quite a lot of foreign stuff, I bought a Union Jack hankie for the summer months!

"If someone needs a deck I heard you confiscated a lot."

Showing a company they have a crappy security system is one thing.