I feel... joy? Is that what this feeling is? For the first time in a while: joy.

Like I said...

I’ve lived there. Your experience is neither special nor unique (particularly since it’s SE Asia), and you are an outsider who can’t be arsed to do basic research on the person you claim to feel for.

Sorry, I just don’t see how an article about a longtime male resident of Japan (who’d written a book concerning the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras) can’t be fully comprehensive about a Heisei experience in Tokyo.

That would be a problem only if she was an immigrant and wasn’t so Japanese that it’s reflected in her name.

*nod nod* The ‘your Japanese is excellent’ thing is also a feature, not a bug, of Japanese culture; it happens no matter what skill level the obviously foreigner’s Japanese is actually at. It’ll always be genuine, but it stops feeling like a compliment and starts feeling like small talk after enough people say it.

I’ve noticed that Splinter focuses on the end result more than the events that led to it. It’s what Voltaire would come up with while satirizing FiveThreeEight.

If Ted Cruz offered to take a punch from anyone in the Senate, he’d get punched 99 times...

This was always where this story was headed.

That’s how being biracial works. And in my experience, it even goes both ways - that reaction moreso from people who lack cultural understanding or empathy.

Does ‘Run with the wind’ take the time to explain why Musa’s sitting seiza in the ‘hidden talent’ screencap, or does it take it for granted? I’ve never seen it, and presently assume it’s the latter.

...there’s a whole lot more at play here than just the (painfully!) American take on it. Basically, it’s not bad so much as really weird to assume Japanese and American racism work similarly enough to comment on them in the same way, when even just the concept of whitewashing plays out completely differently (the…

The desire for white nationalism fills a void that’s created by the problems of being a young country. It’s why it gets combined with PATRIOTISM!! so often.

...He staffed a hotel with karakuri puppets and expected a Doraemon movie.

The weird thing is, it’s a setup that still requires the user to use their limbs and digits. It’s aggressively unergonomic; no thought is put into the user’s comfort. It’s the step we’re at now - hell, that’s basically a Zeta Gundam-era Linear Seat she’s sitting in -and AR is in the process of surpassing it.

That sounds prohibitively expensive (sealed chambers), would require massive changes to existing or completely new infrastructure (heat), its own power source (pumps), semi-permanent sealed storage (crystallized brine), physical labor (the scraping), and a truly massive physical footprint (all of the above, at scale).…

No one wants to get blood on their hands. That’s what he’s taking advantage of.

It’s an indication of the times we live in that we’re all more shocked by the GOP actually doing something about this sort of thing (hatred, bigotry, racism, etc...) than by what King did this time.

That’s about as fine a tribute as a stranger can get. I like it.

It won’t end with more diversity. The faces sneering as they apply their boot to a face change, but the boot doesn’t. There’s something inherently twisted in the American experience - I think it stems from a base need to believe in an ‘origin story’ type of myth, in a country that’s less than 300 years old.