“Mystification” seems like a pretty odd choice... although if I’m not mistaken, the anime “Silent Möbius” was pretty big in France, so they might have gotten the idea from the “Attacked Mystification Police” organization that the main characters worked for.

Tim Schafer’s “Full Throttle” was sold as “Vollgas” in Germany, allegedly because the original English title sounded too much like the German “Volltrottel” (“complete idiot”). Now this might just be an amusing anecdote made up by the German gaming press, but it is a fact that other Lucasarts adventure games (like…

Personally, I thought the butt of the joke was the Firedorn guy, who was so insecure and queerphobic that the thought of being regarded as anything “less” than a 100% straight drove him to suicide.

For the record, this is what Namco thinks a 16th century German swordsman looks like (from Soul Calibur 4)

What, no love for Gundam 0083?

Actually, you never adressed it in any way beyond "You obviously don't understand White Privilege".

Out of curiosity, you don't think enjoying all those other BF games where you play a guy from a rich first-world country who goes to the Middle East and guns down hundreds of brown people isn't an even more egregious example of how ridiculously privileged YOU are just by being an American?

Am I the only one who loathes Titus?

Still, it's worth noting just how often Japan gets used as a scapegoat, a get-out-of-jail-free card that can come into play whenever people discuss sexuality and nerdy things. The way some people pose it, anything hailing from or influenced by Japan is immune to criticism, because being critical is the same as being…

Benzos are actually sold as legal highs nowadays.

Actually, "A Serbian Film" very much does have a point - the main character being manipulated into doing these horrible thing is supposed to be a metaphor for how a generation of Serbs was manipulated into committing horrible atrocities in the name of Serbian patriotism.

Holy shit, it's a good thing Gawker doesn't have a gun blog.

I'd just like to point out that Rome 2 actually matured into a very good game after a year's worth of patches. When R2TW came out, it seemed like a huge step back compared to Shogun 2, but going back to Shogun 2 after my latest campaign in R2:Emperor Edition, I did notice how I was actually missing many of the new…

"there is even some evidence that Cleopatra was Caucasian."

"there is even some evidence that Cleopatra was Caucasian."

Yeah, it's absolutely baffling how the girls somehow can't seem to figure that *they* are what makes or breaks a party.