I’m not a fan of Chinese opera, and the shrill voice has a lot to do with it. However that Yun Jin bit is totally great. Obviously modern production techniques and style go a long way to making it accessible.

Definitely not. Anyone with a brain could see prices would drop at some point. We chose to buy stuff.  Our reward is the item we purchased.

You could have played it on your phone’s browser you giant ass.

I know of it but I’ve never played it.

...let me tell you about a game called Final Fantasy XIII.

I dunno, “managers not understanding or caring how much effort things actually take” is par for the course in every industry

“Exchange of goods of services? That’s crazy talk. We extract rent.”

Biden and first lady Jill Biden routed more than $13 million through S corporations and counted less than $800,000 of it as salary eligible for the Medicare tax — exempting the rest from what would have been a 3.8 percent rate, the Wall Street Journal reported.

What I’m saying is that if you’re going to claim the high ground by railing against rich people who don’t “Pay their fair share” of taxes in a creepy whisper, you should pay your fair share of fucking taxes, or you’re a sanctimonious fucking hypocrite.

And Joe “Pay Your Fair Share” Biden saved $500K in taxes by socking his book earnings, which most people would consider income, into an S corporation, and viola, only a small fraction is income.

the Ubisoft co-founder said the backlash to the Quartz announcement was expected, and likened it to initial public outcry over previous new developments in the games industry like DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes.

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“I use anime titty mouse pads for the comfort” is the new “I read Playboy for the articles.”

I think the Kotaku fish is older than the author.

“known for”

Man, if I made a parody of myself killing a coworker and a supervisor there’d be serious consequences. It’s kinda crazy that I’d be held to a higher standard than someone in one of the highest government offices in the country.

I’ll forever keep hope we’ll see another Chromehounds... maybe... before hell freezes over...

I worked in broadcast for nearly a decade, and professional video cameras of the 90's (specifically those used by local and national television networks, i.e. the same ones used to shoot this very clip), were massive, heavy, unwieldy beasts.

The Sony BVW-200, which was what the first station I ever worked for was still…