I picked up The Bioshock Collection.

Ha! Thank you for this.

Agreed about the need to step back and look at your actions and apologize if you made a mistake or if you're being ridiculous. For some reason, many in our society view apologizing as weakness, but I see it as the opposite.

I have to disagree with your use of the word "objectively," but I just want to clarify that I'm not accusing you of anything. I suspect we're approaching this with slightly different definitions of the word. It's hard to talk about "objectively" when it comes to food since it's such an integral part of biology and…

There was an old Toonami commercial for Inuyasha that was basically a supercut of Inuyasha and Kagome just calling each other's names. I loved that spot.

Good to know. I guess I'll see it through to the end of the season, then. 4 more episodes isn't a huge time commitment anyway.

Nope. For someone who accused me of jumping to conclusions, you seem to be pretty guilty of it yourself. My whole point was that people shouldn't make knee-jerk reactions to new foods and rudely call them "weird." Nowhere did I make any mention of forcing people to eat anything they didn't want to eat.

I don't recall telling anyone what they should or shouldn't eat.

I'm starting to agree with the others who have pinpointed NPH as the weak spot of this series. But the thing is, I'm not even sure I can blame him. Playing a villain who is cruel, threatening, funny and incompetent at the same time would be quite a task for even the best actors.

As long as you keep telling other cultures that their foods are weird even though they're pretty similar to foods you probably eat all the time. I'm sure you'd be a dream to travel with.

Still don't buy it. If you find the thought of eating a different kind of bean disgusting without actually tasting it, then you're a picky eater. It's a bean, it's not rotting organs or something.

"Fermented beans are weird, even though I completely accept other commonly eaten fermented foods as completely normal even though there's no objective difference between them, like sourdough, yogurt, pickles, beer, wine, buttermilk, cheese, creme fraiche, ketchup, kombucha, sauerkraut, salami, soy sauce, tabasco…"

Fermented beans are weird? Just because you find it unappetizing or too pungent or whatever doesn't mean it's weird. Would you consider sourdough bread or yogurt weird as well?

Okay, so that is somewhat strange, I'll admit. Still, I'd say for every "strange" dish like a bread roll filled with squid ink, there is still plenty to choose from for less adventurous eaters.

Yeah, I'm having a hard time thinking of what Japanese dish is "weird." Sure, there are a few that a picky eater may not be thrilled to order, but there's nothing that even approaches, for example, balut from the Philippines or cuy from Peru (and even those are only "weird" from an American/western European…

For what it's worth, I'd suspect that if you asked people here complaining about "anime bullshit" about "Western animation bullshit," I'd imagine you'd get a whole earful. I can think of many examples already.

You know, funnily, in spite of the inflammatory headline, this review isn't all that negative. Most of the criticism is aimed at the game's retreading ground that the first game already covered, which is more than fair game.

Ehhh, I get it. It certainly worked on me before. And, you're right, it is ultimately a good message.

For me, I hate the "Everything was saved by the power of love/friendship!" cop-out ending. And I say this as someone who loved Sailor Moon when I was young and still holds a lot of nostalgia and fondness for it (though my fondness is more for the characters rather than the rather tenuous mythology; Sailor Venus/Minako…

I do think the tone is a little harsh, but I interpreted "anime bullshit" as the tired tropes and cliches that anyone who's seen their fair share of anime is familiar with, and not that anime in general is bullshit. As someone who loved anime in their teens, grew tired of it for many years during young adulthood, and…