Stupid slow tortoise refused to walk any faster. How was I to know it would make the pyramid really huge?

I actually wanted to write my thesis on differences between Western individualistic cultures (US, specifically) and Eastern collectivistic cultures (Japan) for the longest time, although it would have been on differences in regions of the brain responsible for self-related memory storage, and in what qualified as…

Funny, same situation here - I reluctantly left Kotaku behind a few months ago, even despite Fahey’s presence, as I finally admitted to myself that the movement from a Japan-centered gaming and culture site, to a multiplayer-gaming and gender/sexuality-politics focused site was permanent. Things do not seem to have…

“A good test, they say, uses declarative statements and a range of answers from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”

It’s the Google part that annoys me, I can live with prefacing commands with “OK”. I’m telling my house what to do, or maybe the crazy robot running my house, but definitely not a billion-dollar company. Shodan, HAL, Jarvis, House-bot, Operator, Computer, or even Assistant, any or all of these would be fine, even…

Uhm, Goblin Slayer is about a guy with major PTSD-issues that have caused him to devote his entire existence to a genocidal crusade against goblins, in a world where the threat they pose has otherwise largely been dismissed, because their low bounty has relegated hunts for them to rookie adventurers, who either get…

Thank you! I really hate it when people make overly-broad, often entirely incorrect judgements about a series based on either minimal or no actual exposure to it.

Knights are definitely not mercenaries, given that (with very, very few exceptions), you could not be both at once: Knighthood is a title, generally requiring an oath of service or loyalty, whereas mercenaries are purely contract-bound, and are only loyal to their pay. Except for fairly unique exceptions, a Knight’s…

I’m just not entirely sure about anyone placing Royalty above Divinity, what with most Royalty officially ruling by Divine Providence or Mandate... and the fact that Divine beings are, you know, Divine. As in, that’s the category whatever God or Gods you believe in go, as well as the ones that created all existence,…

I tried indexing all my games last year, starting with the physical ones - because I’m a hoarder, their number is rapidly approaching 4 digits, so I figured I’d be really smart, and bought a barcode scanner (the cell-phone ones take way too long), and scanned every last UPC into a spreadsheet over several evenings.

Half-right. It certainly doesn’t serve to show any sort of causative relationship, but it definitely shows that they are correlated; in fact, that’s the only thing it shows.

Sorry if I was being to indirect for you: your comments came across as ignorant, culturally colorblind, and, while not overtly racist, highly dismissive and insulting of two very different foreign cultures that happen to have a long, bloody history with each other and don’t necessarily like being mistaken for each…

Just like the definition of white trash is a skin-headed trailer-park junkie wearing a wife-beater; it’s a term created to insult Japanese media fans, branding them as mindless Japan-fanatics that can’t even be bothered to learn the language, yet still worship moonrunes at their secret otaku altar every night.

It’s kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario, though:

According to the article, people *are* having issues with it, hence why the developer is giving the option to toggle between art styles. The only reason for your criticism seems to be a love of denigrating a certain fan base. Grow up.

Unlucky immortal grump simulator?

Japanese idol choreography is vastly different from Kpop choreography. Just because you can’t tell the difference between the creations from two significantly different cultures don’t make them the same. Or are you one of those “all Asians look alike” people? And which is more influential to the dance world really has…

800GB? Was there a special 32k texture-pack I wasn’t aware of?

So well Bethesda has them on their list of extra-special friends.