Some of the Borderlands 1/2 DLC campaigns have come close to expansion territory.

I dislike this piece of art. I wouldn't want to hang a print of it in my room. It's a Picasso. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it amateur or a ripoff. People have different tastes.

So if it turned out they were really in a book it would be okay, as long as the story wasn't in book form? They also weren't video game characters in their world, they were computer characters fleshing out a VR world.

Getting a tan is considered to be low class. I know a girl who kept her hair over the front of her face when outside to keep her skin white. Some girls will bring umbrellas with them to ward off the sun.

I never really got why they put down an animal as soon as it has harmed someone.

Don't they usually use "if you were offended" anyway in those circumstances, which makes it sound like the person offended is at fault? "If I offended" seems to imply personal ownership of the offence to me.

"If I offended" isn't as bad as "if you were offended" and depending on context isn't necessarily improper to say.

I find for most JRPGs, dungeon crawlers not withstanding, that you can get through the game perfectly fine without ever grinding if you get the battle system down and use it efficiently. At least assuming you don't abuse running/fleeing from fights. Grinding just makes it easier to use weaker characters or less…

Holy, it's being created and directed by a God-tier animator.

Don't mind him, hes probably just a troll. Anyone that has experience in the EN-VN world knows how much text there can be. Fan translations of F/SN took about a year per route, and translating is a lot faster than writing new material. Also, anyone that has ever had to pay their own bills knows that 2.5k(20k/8) isn't…

Over the last 40ish years productivity is up nearly 100% and wages, adjusting for inflation, are only up 4%. Since people keep saying we need to go back to our 60s/70s economy, we could cut people's work days in half for the same yearly pay and have the same amount of productivity as we had in the "good ol' days".…

I'd back Monster and Yotsubato! as well.

Heh, I learned how to make out the difference between Copper, Iron, Gold and Silver from videogames. I couldn't write them to save my life, but if I see them I'd know the difference. Bronze was buronzu and steel was suti-ru though, so I have no clue on the Kanji there.

I'm guessing it was something like ebentoritorai. As a native english speaker I've always found those transliterations to be rather simple to understand. On the other hand, kata/hira/kanji written in a fancy calligraphy style or just poor handwriting is the devil.

I always felt that learning a character at a time was the wrong way to go about it. Make up a list of english -> romanji -> kata word lists for initial learning. Once you're familiar with romanji, you can do romanji -> hira word lists. Human brains are built to notice patterns.

Katakana and Hiragana are pretty simple to get down through repetition. I learned them (not the stroke order though) through trying to figure out how to play FFXIOnline pre-NA launch and experimenting with the built-in IME. Katakana was actually pretty simple as orc->oku, yagudo->yagudo, mithra->misura, etc gave easy…

I'd argue that they're only displaying humanity all too well. People have within them the capacity for both great deeds and horrible misdeeds, as well as all sorts of shades in between. I believe the train of thought that certain people are 'heroes' and others 'monsters' only helps to perpetuate the problems. No one…

I go in the door first, then hold it open from the inside. Works for all purposes; if you're at that concert, you can say fuck it and let go because you're already inside.

My Dad has an iron stomach and eats tons of fat. He'll take the fat his wife cuts off meat and eat it straight. Double bacon special order breakfast burritos too. Been eating like that since he had his first job on his own and could afford food. When he hit 60 his doctor did a test for building and clogging in the…

I played some free to play online game at a friends request for a couple weeks. I met some kids (or at least their writing patterns led me to believe they were kids) who had never heard the terms "noodles" or "pasta" before. It blew my mind.