It’s more of a sight gag, methinks, and what you’re thinking doesn’t really fall on the right side of Occam’s Razor-- It’s the more specific joke, it’s not the easy joke, and the tone of the show doesn’t support it.

I mean, there are people who don’t understand why Japanese nationals buy rice cookers.

The musical Les Miserables ain’t all that jolly, unless you’re the kind of person who thinks I Dreamed A Dream is a happy song. Most of the major bad things that happened still happened.

It’s truly unfair to the other starters that the grass type is also an owl. A fancy and extremely expressive owl.

All you’ve done is make me realize I would love to force a five year-old to play through any voice-acted FF. Good thing I don’t know any!

I don’t find anyone saying that where I am. It’s been casually below freezing for half the day starting this week, with frost.

Lapsang souchong, not that we’re trying to be precise or anything.

Brian’s a little bit different than he was prior to the move, he’s more animated and kind of hilarious sometimes. Still leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but he gets to trot out some sick burns and well-placed Newsguy Deadpans.

There’s eyeballs and wallets aimed at horror games again, is the thing. FNAF brought people in, and it keeps bringing people in, and it provides some encouragement and inspiration to approach horror from angles other than zambies zambies zambies literal adaptions of lovecraft zambies.

It should be noticed that even when lacking direct antagonism (in this cycle, aside from this, there haven’t been major shots fired in the direction of East/South/SE Asians and/or their immigration even though it’s kind of a big deal), you’re looking at a demographic that largely isn’t playing the “it couldn’t happen…

If EA wanted to protect themselves, and they should, because that’s what you have legal departments for? They’d have somebody sit down and make however many Twitter accounts under the names they’d chosen before finalizing that part of the game, so EA would own all the handles and it would be impossible to match up 1:1…

It’s kind of telling that whenever Welt shows up alongside Johnson, he’s so frequently the more polished of the two, more clear, succinct, and able to apply proper nouns.

If a woman (as the bureaucrat) were already traveling with the army and everyone was okay with it, and she were in a position of power not afforded to women at the time, that is not useful to the plot.

Lashina. Because she lashes people with a whip. If she had a sword, she’d be Cutlina.

Uh, the particular shape of her eyes is probably genetic. It’s not a sign of illness to have naturally protruding eyes and prominent lower lids.

Unrelated, but fun reading on the first Japanese ambassador to Europe (in 1613). There are documented national-policy reasons why from the 1600s to the 1850s, you don’t see Japanese abroad, but they’re basically the only prominent pan-Asian culture on that big of a lockdown during that time period.

Man, if you want terrible behavior, just look to history. The conquest of the Huns, the Salem Witch Trials, or 50, 60 years back. Just to cherrypick.

Considering irreligion is well-represented (and multi-generational, often) in East Asian families? Yeah, I don’t like that association either.

Part 4 is the most popular in Japan, and the easiest to straight up cut content and/or characters out of to get to the main plot. Which Japan is probably fine with, since everybody already knows diamond is not crash.

Caesar’s most famous pose is so impossible, they had to break his CG model’s virtual bones to make it work in Part 2's OP.