It’s from the theme song.

In some countries, the “bonding ritual” aspect is a little darker than you think. If you’re in a business where corruption is routine, people won’t trust you if you’re too clean. Either they want you to be on the take like them (think “Training Day”) or they want to know some embarrassing secrets about you (like that…

Is that like literally supposed to be her family, or is that some “the Howard University family” bullshit?

Give an example of something that isn’t “virtue signalling.”

The way that the world is organized, there is no way to get at the people at the top of an organization without harming the people below them.

Yeah, that explains things like My Neighbor Totoro. It doesn’t explain the last 20 years of fan service.

Uh, the Qing dynasty was gone for decades by the time Communism gained any real ground in China.

The tyrant they like to claim credit for overthrowing was Imperial Japan. The tyrant (and he totally was) they actually overthrew was Jiang Jieshi. The only problem was it was a tyrant who did the overthrowing.

You’re only…

A total ban on children in 2D media would be a net positive for anime.

JFC. Japan, what the hell is wrong with you?

I went to Akihabara in 2005. The electronics aspect of it was still not drowned out with the otaku culture there, and the otaku stuff that was there was still mostly not stuff you’d be embarrassed to…

American internet service is going to more closely resemble China’s.

Each user having their own IP means it’s easier to track a single user’s browsing. But each many users having the same IP means it’s easier to identify an IP as being a possible VPN. I’m thinking particularly of cases where one is using a VPN in China, but doesn’t turn it off before connecting to a Chinese site. If…

Well, it doesn’t work in China, at all AFAIK; that’s a big minus.

You could get the same effect with a can of black spraypaint and a drill.

I couldn’t get through the intro to the first game without cringing.

I’d say it’s more than an extremely tiny minority that hate him.

Do unto you now what has been done to me.

If you’re playing the old version for free, you’ve got less time and motivation to spend 400 dollars on the new one.

Spend zero dollars on games like that.

I was pumped for Diablo 3. I specced my current PC with Diablo 3 in mind, before it was revealed it would be online only, even for single player. At the time, I’d often play Diablo 1 or 2 when for whatever reason I had shitty or no internet. I have never played Diablo 3.

1 second glance, “yes.”

Back to shitposting.

They’re going to call it the Tesla Suckitclarkson.