In my experience, online games are either deathly silent (making it feel like I'm playing an AI), or filled with people saying horrible things.

Because the virtual communications via the internet and organic communications via a physical space are not the same thing. And forcing people to repress their bigotry does not make anyone less bigoted.

I share this theory

...and I'm saying that it's actually more common for Jews to have Germanic/Slavic surnames than traditional Jewish/Israeli surnames...

Fun fact: Most Jews these days don't have Jewish surnames, as they were assigned Germanic/Slavic surnames by the governments of Central and Eastern Europe.

Real talk? As a blue-eyed person of Jewish descent with a relatively short nose, I would actually be more interested in this game if the main character looked less like a typical middle-American Scandinavi-WASP.

So their big 'blue ocean' would be to just completely ape what two competitors are already doing — an expensive venture, subsidized by more profitable business arms, that may not even turn out to be profitable in the long run.

IIRC, most of the same team works on Zelda for consoles and handhelds, ever since Nintendo took handheld Zelda in house with Phantom Hourglass.

The "Nintendo is screwed without third party support" song has been played out for decades.

For me, it's Smash Bros.

Here here. Most of my gaming, these days, happens on the subway to and from work. I've got a massive stack of DS/3DS JRPGs to make my way through, and I get to savor them an hour or so at a time while I commute, or whenever else I have downtime.

Gawker Media: Morally critiquing foreign nations' TV advertisements, because white people

This is not games or east-asian multi-media culture.

While I agree, the current internet political climate would probably forecast much rage if I implied blah dee blah blah.

All I want to do is promote a culture where any tiny little woman feels safe telling a creepy fedorabeard to back the fuck off.

I was ready to post some snarky thing about this not being video games, but then I got to the end.

You sure weren't kidding about a Space Dandy post on Friday :P

Watch Kill la Kill, you'll love it.

I don't see Yato as actually being aggravating. Quirky, sure — but it seems like every time he has a dispute with Hiyori or Yukine, he's always right. Yet they never learn a lesson or think to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I'm enjoying Noragami quite a lot, but what you said rings so true with me. I particularly found it grating in the episode where Yukine starts living in Hiyori's house.