This is a prime opportunity for me to share that back in probably 2005 while I was in Kyoto, I left a fairly expensive (for the time) digital camera in a taxi and did not notice for three hours. My American sensibilities told me that the camera was gone for good, but my Japanese experience told me to go to the nearest…

You know what’s not actually as cool as people seem to think? Telling random people that somebody you know has a big dick. If you’re thinking of talking about your friend’s big dick, probably don’t.

Any excuse to share my favorite SOULCALIBUR VI character creation!

I feel like it would have been impossible to grow up in a working class Jewish family in Berkeley in the 80s without becoming pretty familiar with the Black Panthers and what happened to them.

As popular Japanese game site My Game News Flash notes, staff from Creatures Inc., the studio behind Pokémon games, toys, and cards came under fire for visiting their local shrine, the Yasukuni Shrine. It’s about a ten-minute walk from their office.

For most people, hatsumode is just a ritual they engage in as a tradition and cultural experience, not a religious experience.

I think it really depends on the setting and plot but if you have a lot of different, diverse characters, that suggests it’s a setting that would not be exclusionary of LGBTQ people. For that reason, if you really don’t think even one of the characters is LGBTQ, that’s going to stick out as strange to people who…

I think your point is true, but worth pointing out that both Reaper and Sombra are Latinx and neither of them is an “East LA” stereotype, though they are both technically “bad” I guess.

Keanu Reeves?

I put it that way because cheating is so immensely common. Far more common than people think. But it’s never harmless and it’s always a sign of problems in the relationship. But yes, it’s hard to overstate how strong a sign cheating is.

I grew up in New Hampshire and have gone skiing in jeans and a t-shirt. It completely depends on the air temperature and wind-chill.

I believe you, I’ve never been on one of those sites or engaged in that kind of relationship so I admit to not really knowing how it works. Doesn’t it seem odd how naive this person seems given the context, though? Maybe that’s just me, but like you and Dr. Nerdlove, there’s something off about it to me.

Yeah, Ben Pack at Giant Bomb has sung the praises of CrossCode repeatedly on the Bombcast and it was in his top 10 for 2018 IIRC

I love your articles, Dr. Nerdlove.

I appreciated that a JRPG had an obviously queer character who wasn’t used as the butt of a joke, who didn’t turn out to be a villain, and who was just strong and bold and good without any need to “punish” him for his queerness.

Sure, but it has Sylvando in it which makes up for just about any flaw.

I live in a Bay Area city in a residential area adjacent to the highway, the train tracks, and the industrial zone that I live in. There’s a small commercial plot here that includes three liquor stores, a check cashing joint, a head shop, two bars, and a decrepit graffiti-covered run-down abandoned stand-alone…

I’m a bitter supertaster so it all uniformly tastes like absolute death to me.

They sell it by the case at Target, how trendy could it be?

Fuckin’ A. All my white friends have been flipping the hell out about La Croix for like a year and I’m just like... this shit is gross, y’all.