Of course I'd recognize a pager. I saw the Wire.

It's the difference between mentioning that someone farted or tripped and not mentioning it. It's often unnecessary, and the focus on it is petty and shows a bias, even if it is true. Is Trump an awful person? Absolutely. And there are plenty of real things we can point to to show that. But this is not one of them.…

O…k? What does that mean.

Nixon was an anti-semite, not a Nazi.

I don't think it's the National Park Service's place to inform us of this. That's what news organizations and sharp-eyed citizens are for. The number of people at the inaugurations is also kind of not particularly important, so it seems strange to me that the NPS would antagonize Trump over something that doesn't…

Akira I get because of that ending, but including Howl's Moving Castle feels like they're just saying "Japan/anime is weird". There's nothing all that crazy about Howl. It's fantastical, but in a way that kids' fantasy stories often are.

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I would compare eating by yourself to masturbating. I don't have particularly strong feelings about masturbation. It's something I do. Sex with another person has a myriad of feelings in the same way eating with other people does.

Well there are two possible things I could say. If I were being cynical, I might say that to suggest eating is boring would be take a very American view of it. Americans, on average, don't really eat for more than fuel consumption. But if I were being charitable, then I would point out that eating is not just the…

I mostly agree, except to say that sex and eating can be interesting or can be boring depending on their context. A lot of film sex is boring, but it doesn't have to be. Sex can be psychologically and aesthetically interesting, in the same way that eating can.

Why is moe anime reprehensible?

I disagree. If a guy can make his hair stand in an impossible way, then he must be pretty powerful. DBZ taught me that.

Donald Trump isn't a skinny J-pop boyband reject.

That's a fair point, although I would question whether the main characters in this game are under age or just young looking. From the header picture they could pass for college age, or 20-somethings. It's animated and a video game, so telling ages seems nearly impossible.

Like Tomb Raider? Seriously, this is not a Japan only thing.

Plenty of JRPGs aren't about being otakus, though. The entire Final Fantasy series for example. Or Disgaea. Secret of Mana. Kingdom Hearts.

I don't understand the question. Are you trying to say that sexy costumes are any worse than the prostitutes and strippers of games like GTA and Duke Nukem? Let's not try to argue about what is harmful for under aged players. We could spend all day discussing the violence in western games versus the overt sexuality in…

When did hot become a synonym for wrong?

I think I agree with @disqus_GjjTaaJmC4:disqus that a lot of "anime bullshit" is also just video game bullshit. At the very least, western video games have taken so much inspiration from Japan and vice versa, that it's basically baked into the DNA of the medium. Sexualized strong female protagonist? As much anime as…

The pirate story is great. As for the rest, certainly Caesar slaughtered a lot of Gauls, but it's one of those things where the more you focus on the details in this case, the worse he seems, and you actually get a less accurate picture of the times. Slaughter and genocide was so common back then, that it was largely…