I was trying to organize getting a tattoo the last time I went to Japan but the artist suddenly cut off contact. It was a shame because his work looked great.

Cherry blossom flavor is the best. Have you had the kitkats or cherry-blossom mochi?

Just a few more years before 22.3 years when it becomes funny.

No storage medium is safe.

FF7’s story isn’t that great but the combat and materia system are, in my opinion, the among most honed turn based battle systems. I’ll probably pass on this now.

I think it’s wasteful to throw things away (or in this case, send to the ether) that aren’t broken. I would much rather give something away or donate or sell something. In this case, it’s not taking up space and you can already hide it from your library. If you do this, you’re just nuking your rights to a product for…

It’s similar to the whole piracy/theft thing. When you throw a game away (which is something I would never do. If I wanted to get rid of a game, I’d sell it or give it to someone), you are getting rid of a physical object that is taking up real space. When you delete a license, you are eliminating a possession that…

How nuts is the PC game market that the option to permanently delete a license for a purchased product is something that someone desires?

I saw an ad for a server position at a restaurant in Harajuku that paid 1000 yen/hr (about $9). I can’t imagine Hooters would pay much higher than that and in Japan there’s no tipping to supplement those wages. Why would an attractive Japanese woman accept a job where they have to talk to several men who are leering…

With hostess clubs being so big in Japan, I don’t understand why any attractive Japanese woman would accept a job that involved talking to men while they drink for the low wages that this place is guaranteed to pay.

Scene from a recent Konami press briefing.

I don’t see the big deal. The game still works on the old system and this is nothing like the cell phone industry where revisions happen annually or even more often like with the Xperia.

You should really play the second game anyway. It’s fantastic.

Don’t believe their lies.

Everybody who was somebody back then was virgin birth.

They have guns because this is Murca. No commie’s going to take our guns.

Well, it’s only really a problem for a few minutes as you get used to the layout. After that, it’s no longer a matter of “which one is B”, instead it’s muscle memory. There’s no QTEs in SNES games thankfully. As an aside, I play Saturn more than anything but when I play Dreamcast I get confused for a few minutes…

At this point, everyone who would buy this should know what the buttons are. Also, there’s ways to get rid of the yellowing.

VC2 deals with the aftermath of the war. It takes place afterwards but the conflict is directly linked to the war, the Federation and the revelation about Cordelia. It’s easy to link both the racist revolt against the Darcsen and the manipulation by the Federation to the events of the first game which only takes place…