Cool story - I once met a teenager in a friend’s English conversation juku in Inagi outside of Tokyo who was learning English specifically because he raced Formula One and it was an eventual expectation to speak English at international events. I wonder if they ever raced against each other?

This is exactly why I want to get Overwatch - it might be just the online game an old timer like me could get into.

Huh. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t pay attention to video games for a while. What system is Future Perfect on?

That’s cool. I’ll look forward to checking that out when it comes out!

I STILL play Timesplitters 2 - it’s my favorite game for when I just want to run around and shoot stuff. A sequel would be fantastic.

Some excellent reporting here. It’s a fascinating story of yet another cult leader luring in those looking for some camaraderie and direction. It’s an interesting phenomena that keeps popping up. It does amaze me that a guy could successfully start a cult selling female empowerment.

Am I the only one who thinks that could go horribly, horrible wrong?

Totally - I had a similar experience about 15 years ago. Driving back from Minnesota to Wisconsin in a snowstorm, curvy road with three deer staggered in the road, hit the brakes, somehow skidded between them. Mostly blind luck but I at least learned to steer into the skid from Need for Speed II (yes, I’m old). It…

I’ve participated in post-game press conferences at the NCAA level. They’re mostly a pain in the butt. Even seasoned journalists get a little jittery asking questions in front of 20 of their colleagues, unless that’s their standard mode of interviewing. For some kid for whom English isn’t a first language, people…

I think the key is to keep trying different things until they click. Body weight work seemed to work for me in a way that weightlifting doesn’t, and in much less time. I still go about once a week to a gym but do a short bodyweight routine at home in the mornings. Different things work for different people! Good luck!

Rescuing anyone in Thailand without any kind of follow up is useless at best, and dangerous at worse. Most of the people in the sex trade are not full Thai citizens, and thus have limited access to the basics of life, such as getting a regular job. They either go back to their oppressive home country or back to the…

I think it only seems depressing to some because our cultural expectation is that typically you would play a board game with other people, as a social activity. We often have the same view of going to movies, oddly enough; in Japan most of the people in attendance were there by themselves.

Breaking up a play is one thing, but actually grabbing a fielder’s ankle? I can’t imagine a ruleset where that would be allowed.

I hear it - almost an identical rhythm in that one spot.

I’m always sad about hearing the shit my female colleagues have to go through to do their jobs. Nearly every female journalist I know has endured some sexist bullshit. This guy is a creep who tried to use his minimal position of power to gain some sex for himself.

I still don’t get where all this controversy is coming from. I even rewatched the super bowl performance and I seriously don’t see anything amiss. I don’t get it. I mean, I think someone must be really have to be trying to manufacture something to be offended at.

I liked how they waved a non-disclosure agreement around like it would mean anything - no one at Jalopnik signed any such thing. Clearly a legal scare tactic with no substance. As far as IDing the commenter, even if it were possible — get a subpoena Honda. I think lawyers like these rely on lack of knowledge of the…

I mean, I get we are talking about larger issues, but in practice, the lament is that we can’t get a boob size adjuster and a half-naked 13-year-old girl. As someone else said, what a stand to take. Generally when we talk about censorship, we’re talking about banning a book from a library or someone else’s speech.…

Greener grass sums up the first letter perfectly. We choose one path, and it’s human nature to wonder about the other paths. We get married, and we wonder what if we just stayed single. Natural feelings but not good ones to act on.

Sounds like a restaurant I will have to add to my to-do list - looks like it’s in Sugamo, near Ikebukuro and accessible from the JR line (or at least, Sugamo is). My favorite ramen-ya was in Akihabara, of all places, but I liked most of the ramen I tried at the Ramen Museum in Shin-Yokohama.