The irony is, despite entirely writing off the female market, the series has a robust female fandom and really offers a lot to female fans as far as fanservice goes, especially with the increasing focus on Majima.

I can’t understand why they’re not translating Ishin. I’d think the market for what will basically read as a samurai game in the Weat would be obvious. So most people will miss all the Shinsengumi stuff, so what.

A major part of the movie was Wakanda confronting the damage their isolationism had done and resolving to change as a result.

It’s a Japanese otome game for people with an ojisan thing. A lot of ojisan characters are in their 30s; probably the most well known is Kotetsu from Tiger & Bunny.

Agreed, although the allusiveness was frequently clearly deliberate it was too overt and obtrusive. (I do still love, though, that Zero Two is Lum — alien oni girl who fixates on a human boy and calls him “darling” all the time. But that was a lot less one to one than many of the Evangelion allusions in particular,…

Shades of the old move in 2010 from WoWWiki to Wowpedia when then-Wikia imposed a uniform look on wikis they hosted. That shift was actually pretty successful, because it was well publicized by the major sites covering the playerbase and Blizzard continued to endorse Wowpedia.

Because it’s not a beer and burger joint. It’s the oldest beer hall in NYC and really specializes in Eastern European food. It’s the sort of place you have sausages, not burgers.

One of the regulars at the Union Square Greenmarket carries scrapple frozen in one pound blocks, and I buy it occasionally. It’s delicious. (Their usual spot is up along 16th St and they have a big chest freezer advertizing Pennsylvania Dutch mean, but I can’t remember the name of the place for more specificity.)

I’m serious. Chestbinding that well, with an open jacket and no shirt, is a skill and it’s not particularly common.

Yep. The post is wrong about her gender. She does some Next level chestbinding, so it’s not surprising.

The grin is clear in other photos of her doing Majima cosplay. Her whole instagram is full of really cool shots. She does a huge variety of characters.

“Some people” is a plural noun, so it should be “themselves.” That’s why your verbs are “use” not “uses” and “are” not “is.”

Mulder/Krycek was a substantial 90s slash fandom, to the point where I know about it despite never having seen an X-Files episode with Krycek in it. So, yes, yes other people did.

I was going to say! It’s made very clear what he’s into in the show as well.

Soft serve specifically, actually, because of concerns about improperly cleaned machines harboring lysteria. But that’s still extremely rare.

It’s also about a cult mentality about controlling risk and “proper mothering.” There’s a one in 8,000 chance of getting lysteria while pregnant, but they way you’re told to avoid deli meat, you’d think there was a much higher risk. And if you get it, it means you just “didn’t do everything you could to take care of…

There isn’t even any decent evidence that a single drink consumed slowly is dangerous at any point during pregnancy. Most of the actual studies suggest that it’s blood alcohol content that determines the danger, not total amount of alcohol consumed, so as long as you drink slowly and lightly, there’s at worst a very…

Also enough chili/ginger/garlic in the sauce to punch through a stuffed nose if your stomach’s okay.

That’s fair! I have a smaller three cup model and keep it in a cabinet most of the time, which works for me but does presuppose a certain amount of storage space. It’s just been absolutely worth it despite that (except for Thai sticky rice, since that has to be steamed and so needs a jerry rig with the wok, a splatter…

I was going to say. I guess I’m in the weirdo minority, because I’ll eat the trimmings from a pie crust, too, even. I think the only one of the things he mentions that I haven’t tasted is raw doughnut dough, but only because I never make them.