Ivan Orkin has a couple of joints in New York, and he makes rye noodles with some of his combos and eh. His broths are good though, and I don't think he did the noodle thing in Tokyo actually, where he first made his name.

I was gonna guess Indian Chinese dishes maybe—everywhere the British Empire went, Indians and Chinese went too—but it looks like it's an Anglo-Indian combination, which makes sense too. Come to think of it, it makes more sense, since there's not a lot of sausage making in Chinese cuisine.

I get you, but he means the dish, not the ingredient. Take out the "cold" and it's the way you read it.

What Shinigami Apple Merchant describes is really thrilling since so much entertainment narrative so often have a "point," but it's rarely complexity or ambivalence. (I say this cognizant of what I want from games is often to "win" in the best way.)

It is kind of fascinating that it is burly gay men that translate best from Japan's gay comic scene. Admittedly, I have no idea how big the gay comics readers scene really is in Japan. I remember Jiraiya's visiting the US a couple of years ago, and I imagine it's that it strikes an approachable connection with Tom of…

"clearly hadn’t gotten the Western entirely out of his system." Or, you know, similar themes can be held in different genres, what with CTHD being based on a book from the 1930s, and other earlier stories. Maybe Ang Lee was drawn to Westerns because of that? I mean, an actual argument to make is that Wuxia genre may…

I have a soft spot for the other movies—Chronicles is basically a thirteen year old's best DnD campaign with Wolverine in it, transcribed directly to you. Riddick I think is actually pretty good. It's basically a Western.

I don't know if I'd go as far as to say it's directed for Western audiences, but there's definitely something to Ang Lee's style being somewhere in between. Taiwan is much more Western looking than mainland China, and it's cinema similarly so. Kind punches above it's weight, I think, with an inflection to art house:…

Eh, I admit I'm not familiar with the use of him in Shang-Chi, but my preference is to leave the racist characters where they ended—not everything needs to be reformed. Even their use in satire is limited (the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 or can go disastrously wrong (the goliwog in League: Black Dossier).

I think it was originally Dutch, and the ratings would actually go down when they weren't harmonious…

There was a talent shift now that Hollywood was more willing to go to Asia—and really, why do eight movies a year when you can do one Hollywood one and get paid just as much. Isn't this also when the pirating and corruption really started to hit high gear? The HK film industry just straight up stopped making money for…

Oh man, I don't think they do at all. I don't think they regard it much themselves, and they expected the audience to follow them into regarding the characters existence as existential crisis, and that taking precedence above all considerations. Deeply silly as it played with me and the audience I was watching it, I…

I wanted Neo to become the next cycle's Agent Smith figure, or the Oracle in a pinch, to actually push the "revolution" idea, but I eventually realized that while it's got more legs than most movie-inspired philosophizing—someone explain what the balance actually means in anything Star Wars—there's still a quick turn…

Never enough about Johnny To! Though it's true, THE MISSION is only the beginning.

Yeah, I think Mark Millar's stamp—via the Ultimates and Civil War—is the strongest influence in his character in the past stretch. Both in being a dick and in every attempt to reform him.

We probably had access to better pizza—and more important, easy access too—where I grew up suburban jersey, but thanks to Book It—read 5 books and write a page(?) long book report and get a free personal pizza—why, that's like one of my top ten happiest childhood memories.

The Deadenders! It was collected, but must be out of print. It was more fun than I expected, but all the part never quite clicked for me.

I love everything about Yakuza 0 expect when it gets really sexist—which is something, because that game already has my tolerances set on pretty high. FYI, I found the next storyline shift really jarring because I maybe made a bit too much monies being a real estate mogul got used to that and then got switched to…

Duwease, I thought our pink lady would have more supporters! I'm surprisingly influenced by who I managed to summon whenever, and I have a gold Hinoka. For round two I joined the bandwagon, but I proudly managed to be that harder Navarre challenge. All those lunatic missions cross over into the not fun territory for…

I get mad at all the games I like to play where the maps are so big that it feels like commuting is part of the gameplay, but I'm super looking forward to commuting in this game.