Hmm, I don’t think it’s very cold—I seem to only recall it showing in January at the latest (though somewhat consistently), and it’s only gotten warmer since the 1990s. I’m a bad person to ask though...really, I never thought any winters in Japan were cold, even with the preference towards not running central heating…

I didn’t do that when I lived in Yokohama (which, to be fairly, is hardly the hottest part of Japan, even if it is rather humid). I don’t do that now that I live in Georgia (which, in retrospect, is not the hottest part of the United States either, not by a long shot). Actually, I don’t really run the AC when I get…

It’s impossible for me to see Mayumi Tanaka and not think of beloved Kanna Kirishima from Sakura Taisen, but this is pretty great too.

I’m sad we’re not getting another Quantum Break—I thought the game was fantastic (and the additional miniseries a weird but entertaining addition—in other words, classic Remedy), and it’s still sequel to Max Payne 2 I wanted but never got. 

Everyone who voted in favor of the Iraq War (via the 2002 Iraq Resolution) gets a pass, as they say, it is known. Especially if you went on television and smiled about how the war was going, then you get an letter of forgiveness. And if a few years later, you went on television and explained how it was a tough…

Sure, sure! But I don’t think ding dong is much of a obscenity either. More of a funny nickname/sound a doorbell makes. 

Not really. We have our own words, and let me tell you, they’re pretty good. Way better their yours. :) 

Yeah, “Ding-Dong”--as in the sound a doorbell makes, most closely--has no anatomical connotations in Chinese, heh. 

I’m a little disappointed this isn’t a house in Taiwan. Doraemon (earlier called “Little Ding-Dong”, alluding to his bell) has been beloved there since the 1970s. 

Ouch. They’re so cute it hurts!

SchuTangClan, you win the award for the week’s funnest aviation pun presented in a visual medium.

And to think—all this, and more, for helping Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin graft his way into reelection after he un-popularly avoided impeachment, at the hands of a Communist-held parliament, by means of tanks.

Eh, I don’t think that many people would read it. But if Kotaku ever decides they want a 20th century history affiliate, and need people to write for it, they know where to find me.

I actually liked Vincent May Cry. It wasn’t a great game by any means, but by the Playstation 2 standards of the time, it was a perfectly serviceable third-person shooter/RPG hybrid. 

The choice of Byelorussian (Belarusian) Jew is particularly interesting from a 20th century Eurasian historical context. I’ll admit I didn’t really follow the Bioshock mythos that closely—I’ve only beaten the first and third game, and while I was a huge System Shock 2 fan, Bioshock never really spoke to me in such a…

They gave Sam Neill a huge chin. “Stan Smith” huge. Maybe it’s like that. 

Considering how many PC games actually function consistently at anywhere near 144 FPS--or 120 FPs or 90 FPS, I’m inclined to agree. Assuming you have a video card that can do it at even 1080p. 

Considering how many PC games actually function consistently at anywhere near 144 FPS--or 120 FPs or 90 FPS, I’m…

Even before reading the article, the distinctive militsiya caps were a dead giveaway for it being somewhere from the CIS countries. Nice portfolio!

Haha, thank you for your informing and entertaining corroboration. I don’t know why specifically Ghost Sweeper Mikami—it was a long-running, moderately-successful supernatural slapstick shounen manga that translated into one high-budget film and a low-budget television series that followed it (and wisely cut off…

The people who start the wars do not have bombs dropped on their houses.