I particularly enjoy the three Red Army men who (presumably in Manchuria) decided to pose with a captured or salvaged Type 95. “Hey, Dmitry! Get inside and look like you’re driving! Big smile!” 

Assuming this is not sarcasm, thank you. If it is sarcasm, that’s not very nice, but you have demonstrated I can’t really detect sarcasm well online. 

I’m very bad at detecting sarcasm on the internet, so I’ll try and answer in sincerity: I think he was very dumb and naive, and that he’s probably screwed.

I don’t know which way this reply was intended, but my long-suppressed headstrong-teenage Orwell-worshiping self really likes it.

In my perturbed state from this whole incident, I realize my original post has some wording issues that I neglected to correct:

*reads the headline*

Oh boy. I really hope it doesn’t turn out to be some goddamn-stupid-goddamn fear mongering and the guy is just some employee for a Russian software developer, seeing how Russian dev basically makes +80% of the word’s commercially-available military flight simulators.

Haha, now I’m wondering if Detective Conan knocks out Endgame in Taiwan—the Conan films are always heavily promoted over there, it’s still a really popular show I think. Unfortunately, the only statistic I can find is for 27 April, where Endgame is indeed on top. 

Cloud: Why are you wearing sunglasses in Midgar, the city of perpetual night?
Barret: BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK COOL, SON.

Loud slurping is definitely also a thing with eating noodles in Taiwan (Beef noodles—probably better called “Noodles with Beef” is basically a national dish). Especially among the older generation. Then again, we’re not a recognized state, so it matters even less, heh. 

I think they look tremendously smart (those tunics!), and am pretty envious. I’ve been wearing historical uniform dress for cosplay at conventions for years (if you’ve been to a fan convention in the U.S. Southeast, and see a short guy in a Soviet military daily uniform circa-1989...that was probably me), but I’ve…

Sure, that’s your prerogative, but they deal with silly requests all the time, so I wouldn’t feel too bad.

Well, that’s not that uncommon in airsoft as a hobby. At least at the high GBB or blank-firing end (which I guess isn’t actually airsoft at that point). A GBB MP40 can cost a fortune, though admittedly, actual MP40 submachine guns are rare today I think. I really don’t know much about actual guns. But I do know the…

That sounds correct to me. the Type 54/WQ-213/whatever the distributor wants to call them is a Chinese licensed (?) copy. The five-pointed star is common between the USSR and the PRC (and in fact many other countries). ‘CCCP’ is not, and would not make sense (maybe ‘PRC’ or ‘ZRG’ depending on the choice of…

I haven’t played Persona 5 despite frequent encouragement from that friend that we all have that I totally should. So my reaction was, “Huh, I wonder why Kotaku’s posted about a Soviet Tokarev pistol (or a Norinco Type 54).” Which you would expect, considering how common Type 54s are in Chinese gangster cinema, and…

That sounds like a pretty easy mistake to make in the pre-1990 Legend of Zelda franchise. Didn’t the original creator of Guilty Gear make Baiken a woman due to an incorrect assumption that the titular character of Ruroni Kenshin, who was a big inspiration for Baiken, was a woman?

Oh, being the government and all, they get a lot of those. Most of them are about the same level of right-ness, even.

Cost. A 2 TB SSD still runs in the area of $250 on Amazon.com....which is not nearly as much as they used to (reliability for large drives has also shot up, so a +1 TB SSD is no longer basically flipping a coin as to whether or not you just set a lot of money on fire). It might not sound so much, but for the same…

Cost. A 2 TB SSD still runs in the area of $250 on Amazon.com....which is not nearly as much as they used to…

Please direct your requests to the Executive Yuan:

Most people use the CE calendar in daily life. But the government and official documents use both, or the Republican calendar.

Little known fact: in Taiwan, we still formally use the Minguo (or Republican) calendar, which starts at Year 1 on 1912 founding of the Republic of China (though the year begins on 1 January, as in the Gregorian calendar). So, the year 2000 is Republican Year 89. Prior to the republic’s declaration, eras were…