Japan is extremely nationalistic when it comes to everything. If you and your product are not Japanese you are considered less than dirt in the mind of your average Japanese citizen.

Tom Everett Scott is the best Hanks son.

exactly! “he’s not really racist. but he uses racist language and plays up racist imagery to solidify his power and prestige! it’s not racism! it’s just cynicism” is not a good argument if they really stop to think about it.

Yes, Blofeld tried to blow up the earth with his space laser, but he was employing blue collar workers and engineers to clean and maintain his lair.

actually, as a guy who has driven all over japan, it doesn’t matter. YOU (the driver) have a personal responsibility to know the laws of the place in which you operate.

Most of them suffer from various degrees of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in that they believe themselves to be brilliant legal scholars, never quite realizing that their view of how the legal system works bears no resemblance to reality.

My conveyance gets 50 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!

The problem with that argument is that the onus comes down to the individual Youtuber. Just how many people are expected to know the ins and outs of copyright law and fair use in every single country that has them? It’s nice to have the tools available, but it’s not feasible to expect everyone who picks up a hammer…

or record companies? pretty much all rights-holders act the same. It’s not a Disney thing.

I automatically avoid all YT videos whose thumbnails have grown-ass adults making stupid faces that fill up a large chunk of screen. Just imagine this guy practiced his “Judge Harry from Night Court face” for about 25 minutes to get that perfect balance of utter punchability and trying-to-look-young creepyness.

GIVE IT TO ME!

gen-x’ers (i’m one) who complain about “brand crossover” and “specialty pieces” ruining the creativity of Lego really get my goat. Specialty pieces (not blocks) have been around since the late 70s and gen-x’ers really would never have known a lego set without them. And as i said, brand crossover saved the company from…

Then I suppose you remember that Lego was on extremely rocky financial footing until they started partnering with famous IP. There wouldn’t be any “build what you like” if there weren’t these tie-ins.

Show us on the Joss Whedon doll where the Gawker writer touched your Joss Whedon doll.

why are you a limp, lazy prick?

agreed. i want to punt this guy’s nuts up out his throat, but i also believe in restorative justice. But some kind of sanction is necessary, and this reversal is effectively no sanction.

please go get fleeced buying a jpeg of an ugly Gorillaz rip-off.

its nothing like the lottery and this scam proves it.

Dear people who want to buy NFTs,

i had a class B with air brakes CDL for years. “get-out-and-look checks” are largely useless. but if they are acting up, and you feel the truck not stopping, there’s no way i’d go down a long incline with all that weight.