Haha.  It was described to me as “the best Douglas Adams ripoff ever written.”  Since then, many people have disputed whether (a) it’s a Douglas Adams ripoff or (b) the best Douglas Adams ripoff.

An equivalent would be an alternate universe where an annual new year tradition German was to go to church and the church you choose to go to is the church where Hitler and a bunch of other war criminals are enshrined.

American Gods is doomed. On top of everything else Starz severely slashed the budget of the show. Tells you all you need to know.

This is a terrible way to look at it, the context was provided because there is such contentious history behind that shrine, and basically an explanation as to why the visit would court such controversy.

lol what? no one would be cool with game developers visiting a confederate statue on july 4th. i’m sure korean and chinese fans have “understand the situation” better than someone who got all their context from a kotaku article.

You know there are still living comfort women right? There was no apology and the current PM of Japan didn’t provide any compensation or support for them without a current gag order that prevents Korea from even criticizing them about it. 

The US does not try to downplay the size, scope or horror of what happened. They don’t try to manipulate opinion with regard facts about the bomb. Korea and China do not believe this is true about the current leaders of Japan and how they deal with facts about the war.

Furthermore, I think government-sponsored sexual sl…

One aspect of forgiving is the erring party indicating condemnation of such actions so that they are never repeated.

Honestly, the way that Japan politically presents itself [not saying that it necessarily reflects on the populous], I do not have faith that Japan will never repeat it’s past crimes. Apologies, when…

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. I’m from a country that suffered a horrible dictatorship that ended almost 30 years ago, since then the responsible party always calls to forgive and forget in the name of union, screw them forever, we all know what they did, we all remember them chanting in the…

Japan has never been big on coming to terms with what they did on WW2, the way they treat nazi imagery in their media is pretty worrying, like they where in conplete denial "oh look how cool the uniform is, lets put this cute girls on it".

Are you serious, right now?

If a company decides to make the point of tweeting out that they decided to have lunch in front of Jefferson Davis’ Statue, that’s not for us to try to understand the situation, that’s on the company to provide the context.

It just as well could be a one off-arbitrary luncheon, but, unless…

The problem with acts like these is that unintentional ignorance is still ignorance; a sensible solution being an increase in awareness/education of other cultures. And from what I understand... not exactly a priority in Japan. Unless things have changed??

I don’t think this is so odd. The thread behind these tweets is that, as an international company, their actions speak loudly, for the company and games, of specific held beliefs. This is not an unknown shrine, it is always in the news. And the reason for resentment for those who visit is also very clear. You can read…

I remember reading Good Omens on a work trip overseas. The guy I was traveling with asked what it was about and I said “A demon and an angel try to stop the end of the world. It’s a comedy”. The guy looked at me straight faces and said “The coming Apoclypse is nothing to laugh at”. He then used the rest of the…

It’s the equivalent of going to Christmas mass at a church where Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels are buried in the graveyard and a headstone that says “died defending Germany”. Worse since their spirits are also deified when enshrined.

It doesn’t suck. If they went on their own accord sure, but when representing a world wide product such as Pokémon, going to a shrine that advocates war criminals against your neighboring countries that buy your product isn’t the smartest thing to do. 

‘I went to Pearl Harbor to see the little fishies swim in the sparkling blue water and took great pleasure in fishing for saltwater varieties and windsurfing. Hmm? WWII? Attack on Pearl Harbor? I don’t know anything about that. The place was just perfect for my holiday trip. Why the fuck should I have to care about…

So serious answer. I hope we see Pavitr Prabhakar(aka Spider-man India) show up.

The scene where Don Cheadle is making fun of Mexicans to his non-Mexican Latina girlfriend has to be the most cringeworthy moment of his career.  Thanks Crash, we get it - anyone can be racist.  Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing racial meltdowns were more subtle.

Didn’t think about it much back then but that just may be the very first abortion ever depicted in mainstream comics.

But anyways, I hope the movie’s sequel will give us baby May Parker, or even grown up Spider-Girl.