Another argument for why decisive, discrete input mechanisms are superior to fluid ones in the right situations. Kind of insane to lose so much to something as mercurial as a mouse.

Anecdotes like this point to something clearly broken with wealth distribution in this country. There are families working nonstop and still failing to provide and winding up homeless but meanwhile boohoo some rich Hollywood people don’t know what to with all their hundreds of millions and have to break up as a…

Loot shooter? More like a loot cooter, amirite?

This is a strange take. I’m not about to go raising money for the people who were scammed here, but to focus on how much someone “deserves” something just as much or more than focusing on the fraudulent entities and their actions is the kind of slippery slope that allows for all kinds of “rules for thee not for me”…

Sigh, I’m going to miss Lance Reddick. Why is that these sudden headlines always feature a tragically early death of someone who seems to be a genuinely good, involved person in the world instead of some hideous leech feasting on others’ goodwill and humanity?

Agreed. When I think about this waste problem, I don’t think about niche board games featuring cheese enthusiasts growing their dairy farms or whatever, I think about capitalist cash-grabs where decades-old games like Monopoly or Boggle are rebranded with every IP under the sun and shoved on retail shelves all year…

Props to the devs and to the showrunners (and all those involved with the making of both), but articles like this remind why TLOU is such an exhausting franchise that seems hell-bent on irritation and light on a direction forward. 10 years ago that seemed to me acceptable—when all our cups were overrunneth with zombie…

I really enjoy Japan but they can be real sticklers about certain kinds of rules. Picture taking is a big one. If you’re a foreigner you can kind of get away playing dumb for a few quick pics, but expect that to be that and maybe even expect them to ask you to delete the photos (or even kick you out of an event). I’m…

It’s a hilariously outdated term, right up there with the Information Superhighway and the Bartman.

It was just a portmanteau word used to market to a wider audience that thought “Anna May” was some woman from the south, not “Jap” + “Animation” (which would indeed be offensive). Supposedly “Japanimation” is used in Japan to distinguish between overall animation (anime) and Japanese animation, though I’d really need…

Oh I agree. As with most issues, actually understanding why there is a bunch of culture labeled as “J<thing>“—JRPGs, J-Pop, “Japanimation” (though I hate that term)—really requires stepping back and realizing Japan did a ton of cultural export in the 70s, 80s, and 90s to the US and Europe, which resulted in…

Isn’t “Kotaku” a Japanese portmanteau of “ko” (small) and “otaku” (nerd), like how puppy (“koinu”) is “ko” (small) + “inu” (dog)? It may not be a word used in Japanese but it actually follows the language rules and isn’t just some made-up gibberish.

Not to kick a wasp’s nest here but I think your definition needs to be a bit more detailed. Otherwise anyone can decide to be offended by anything and claim exclusive right with whether or not that thing should exist. In some cases, it’s painfully obvious when that should be true, but it’s also a pretty easy “rule” to…

Wow. This is definitely one of those classic 80s/90s video games that seemed wildly simple on the surface but actually had a ton of depth to it and made you think much more than you were expecting. I’m not surprised they were pleased with such a simple concept that has as much fun as this.

VR: We have this amazing technology that can change what you see based on your eye movements and let you feel things in your hands and along with your head! Imagine how magical it would be to undergo a soothing virtual spa treatment or a relaxing walk through a Japanese bamboo grove!

Lol is “Now let me just take a sip of this beverage as I read this note I’ve just been handed” a reference to a specific gag? I get the joke it just sounds so familiar that it feels like it’s from Futurama or something

Enjoy defending neonazi’s freedom of speech, I guess.

Alright, this is where I get off the convo train. Intentionally or otherwise, you sound like you’re working very hard to justify bigoted speech.

I’m sure they are but let’s look at your comment: “Yeah and we can’t be taking “risks” with comedy. Anything that might be insensitive to any group must be removed completely and the people behind it reeducated”

TOS in general tend to be gross oversimplifications of very nuanced situations because (a) they are meant to apply to many people and situations, near instantly and (b) they’re *really* there to protect the company, which makes it better go to broad/play safe than wind up creating controversy.