...a culture that infuriates me? You mean that same culture I have spent years learning about, immersed in, adapting to, and being molded by? That culture? The one that is so much a part of my identity and sociocultural context that I’ve chosen to take on Japanese nationality and live here for the rest of my life.

“Because it doesn’t look fun.”- today’s college students were born right at the point Final Fantasy stopped being fun, and Square started thinking “we’re now way too expensive and important of a franchise to add frivolous things in our games like ‘fun’! Just make the graphics shinier! Pour in more money! And belts!”

So do you see different content in the movie depending upon which theater conglomerate you purchase your ticket from? Is there a seven dollar surcharge on top of the ticket price for more attractive pants in the movie? Will the actors randomly plummet through solid matter into some indeterminate location inside the…