English words and characters, as a general rule, take up more space and therefore text boxes than their native Japanese translations. So it is usually seconds to even minutes (depending on the amount of text boxes you must advance through) faster to run a game in Japanese than English. Other languages than Japanese…

To clarify, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are not explicitly places within your genome that vary between you and everyone else, though they can be unique.

The 8-4 Play podcast guys (who live and work in the Tokyo area) have said the Maricar people and tourists driving the karts are a public safety menace, and applauded the original court ruling.

I’ve made the pie three times now, and on the third attempt I finally got it to work. I was able to transcribe the recipe during the short time it was posted on Twitter before it was taken down, so I have the actual recipe to go on. There’s a point in the video, after you make the butterscotch and are allowing it to…

Can you try making Stella Parks’ Impossible Pecan Pie recipe?   Less of a problem and more I just want to see someone who is not Serious Eats’ managing editor make it.

I stepped away from the game for the first time since February 2012 (prior to that I played from September 2005 through mid 2007) last June, and let my subscription expire in August. Before I stopped playing I was in an organized raiding guild that routinely got Ahead of the Curve (cleared heroic level difficulty…

Would be interesting to see how this would have fared in the US, especially given that as recently as 2012, the fact that a candidate for public office actively played World of Warcraft was used against her in a mailer by the opposing party.

Not a Pink Lady.  0/5 stars.

Was Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!? supposed to be funny because of how tongue-in-cheek and contrived all the situations were and how over the top all of the censorship was, or was it actually supposed to be “sexy” with no additional subtext other than “high school students in inappropriate sexual situations with…

I suppose my problem with Hop, and the story in general, is that Hop’s dialog is written as though he is the main character and your character is the traditional rival character, similar to the fan theories regarding Hau from Sun and Moon. However, unlike Hau who was always optimistic regardless of the situation, Hop…

The Switch is now the only console of the current generation that I still play (not counting PC). The Xbox One was long since relegated to a media device once I built a gaming-capable PC, and the PS4 existed for the odd Sony exclusive (2017's Persona 5 and Horizon Zero Dawn and 2018's Tetris Effect). Then the Xbox…

Do all Switch games support suspending by default? I leave my Switch perpetually docked, so I never turn the console off, only just hold the Home button and put it to sleep which suspends the game. I mainly only play games at this point on Switch or PC and never really thought about not being able to suspend on PC…

I’ve never understood the desire to play games during beta periods.  I got invites into the WoW MoP and BfA private betas, but never really did anything with them.  I enjoyed reading the datamined content descriptions on places like MMO Champion, but I never particularly desired to sort through the buggy content…

I prepare my levain on Sunday at 3:00 pm using my five year old sourdough starter and let it sit at room temperature for 24 hours. Then I make my dough on Monday at 3:00 pm, ball, and let proof at room temperature for six hours. Then the dough rounds go into the fridge until I use them on Friday, Saturday, and…

I missed them the first time around since I didn’t play the first game, so I’ve been enjoying them as well.  I’d like it best if they had a combination of old targets (for newcomers to the series) and new targets in the new locales.

Ah, that’s right, nice catch. Yeah, the art critic was on Sgàil. That was actually the first I did.

Hitman 2 was one of the best games of last year and is low-key one of the best games of this year.  Combined with all of the Hitman (2016) redone to incorporate the improvements of Hitman 2, there is a huge amount of content that IOI has continued to add to month over month.  My one complaint is that they haven’t…

People who douse themselves in body spray, both men and women. While I certainly don’t want to smell your body odor, I also don’t want to smell whatever fragrance Axe is currently peddling.

This seems like it should qualify as a free gift that you are under no obligation to return, a la unordered merchandise.  Curious why one is considered fair game while the other is considered a felony.

Just got an email from LRG; physical copies ship out in October.