Are you kidding me?! They changed the opening music? BASTARDS.

Not at all. I just posted about how there used to be a Starbucks INSIDE the Forbidden City. It's no longer there, but still.

When I lived in Beijing in 2003, I remember going to the Forbidden City and seeing a Starbucks inside, right next to a memento shop. It was really shocking to me that a corporation would be allowed to set up shop there. I went back in 2010 and it was no longer there, which was good. But of course, an entire…

I've never really found cartoon/anime characters attractive, by Dōjima was such a stud.

I started with P4G and am now playing P3P. I'm glad I did it that way because P4G is just such a great game and the visuals are amazing. I remember when I first loaded the game and the title screen animation started, I was just blown away. It's definitely the color scheme, but there was just something very refreshing…

I always wondered what happened with Chinese names in Japanese media. I secretly hoped that they kept the characters so that when I finally learn Japanese, I could be like, "Use my Chinese name" instead of katakana.

I recently watched a great documentary about migrant workers in China. It's called "Last Train Home" and it follows a family that's been separated by the parents' choice to go to the city to work in a factory, leaving their children to be raised by the grandparents in the countryside. It's pretty candid and fairly…

Are you available every Sunday for explanations? I'm not a huge gamer so I rarely get all the references, but you really made it all make much more sense :)

I'm with you. I think Soul Calibur is a better name.

Damnit. I would have LOVED this in high school. My AOL screen name was pikafumanchu. I think I need to reclaim that shit. It was one of my best screen names.

That's exactly it: "it just isn't worth it".

I absolutely loved playing Blitzball in FFX. At first it was frustrating, but once I got the mechanics down, it became an enjoyable break from the game. It more than made up for that terrible "evade 200 zaps in a lightning field" shit that I was never able to do.

That first picture with the jumbled letters is insane. I'm sure they're all related to words in the lesson, but still, a few of them have multiple answers: saw/was, said/dais, hoots/shoot, wrap/warp, etc.

Did you bring a flashlight? How can you see inside the store?

It's really insane what Abercrombie has become. I remember 15-20 years ago before it became such a juggernaut, there were two Abercrombie & Fitch stores within 45 minutes from my house. Their clothes were well made, nice, and reasonably priced (not cheap, but worth it).

I've beaten it twice, once as a wee lad, and again when I was in high school and discovered that my gameboy was still in working order. Oddly enough, I never got the second-level Master Sword in either playthrough. I may just have to get it on my 3DS to play again (this time in color!). But I need to finish P3P first.

It's great that you find it hard to believe, but if you read the link that Patricia gave, you'll see that this is normal practice. Who knows why this is, but maybe it has something to do with various licensing agreements. Or maybe it's just as simple as the company wants to keep a tight hold on anything related to its…

I embrace the tears.

I've never played a Pokémon game, but am interested in trying it out. I have one question, though: why do they release two or three versions of the game? Is the gameplay that different, or is it all about catching one unique pokémon per title? (If that makes sense…)

I don't like how they seem to want you to use the 3D feature of the 3DS. I've tried using it and it really just messes with my head.