Headsets. I have no desire to talk to other people online while I’m playing games, and I most definitely don’t want to listen to other people I don’t know talk continuously while I game.

Seems like most of these come from people who are nervous about “different”. For the most part, I never had an issue ordering from a restaurant unless the menu was totally kanji with zero pics, and if that happened (like I was out of Tokyo), it’s pretty easy to say chashu ramen or some other general staple of Japanese…

I typically don’t, unless I’ve encountered something way above my paygrade, or those games that still random attack you with monsters that give you two experience points when you are level 65. Or sometimes I run from monsters that have cheap instakill attacks or can petrify or kill your entire party with one…

I was an adult when most of the games mentioned here were out. My first home game that I played a lot was Pitfall for the 2600. I played enough to get some certain score, and had my parents take a photo of me and the screen to send in so I could get a patch. After that I’d say probably Miner 2049er. That was the first…

In the Catacombs of Carthus, I hate the two cloaked skeleton bastards down by the rats (after the second skeleton ball). They are so freaking fast and one hit takes your stamina down to zero so you can’t hit back. I just lost 12,000 souls to them. Every area has some sort of mob that you can delete one monster at a…

I appear to have embarrassed captionbot!

Blobby Ditto Pikachu here as well. Must be a thing!

Surprising considering the Japanese tend to go batshit crazy over anyone remotely famous or of stature.

I press down and spam A. I was doing it before I read it was a thing to do stuff like that in Pokemon so I think it’s just an engrained video game player response to an action, liked timed button stuff, or pressing a button as much as possible to make an action better or faster, track and field style.

First thing I thought of...

It was mentioned elsewhere that the Japanese audio was outsourced, so Nintendo doesn’t have the rights to distribute it overseas.

Same here, and a few weeks ago they had added a keychain to my order, so I figure I’m good to go for the SE. I’ll probably start with Birthright.

I thought it was Samus at first...

I’m guessing that’s the Millenium Falcon below the figurines as well....

I think Elmo is part of the TV trend for young children’s shows to be pacifiers. Stuff like Teletubbies (or “face” on nick) where it’s all to keep the young ones mesmerized by the tube and out of parents hair. Babies like watching babies and Elmo is a baby. Elmo is not a teaching moment, he is pure entertainment for 5…

Yeah I paid at least $80 for FF VI, Chrono Trigger and Earthbound. I bought the import for Front Mission for $100. I had a Neo Geo as well, the system I think cost me $150 used, the game were $300 each...

I don’t mind commercial style ads because i’m able to tune them out, pay attention to something else for the 25 seconds that they exist if it is something that doesn’t interest me. I use an adblocker because most sites don’t have 25 second commercials, they have popups and talking things and music things and floatover…

I’m surprised it doesn’t play a short tune every time it dispenses paper...

In 1985, in an arcade, which is where my 15 year old self spent his life savings every day after school.

Korean teabagging trend...