My god, Office Space came out in 1999 and is 23 years old now? Office Space is now an older movie than Star Wars was in 1999...

The evil in KOTOR was much more “Darth Vader” and much less “Ayn Rand.” I find Vader far more palatable than the latter when presented under hte guise of moral ambiguity.

I hopped around quite a bit before I landed here. This is actually my 6th job out of college, and the 2nd job I really liked (the former one I liked had to lay me off during the ‘08 recession, and I couldn’t blame them).

11th year with my company.

I think they’re very different.

Since cars can outrun any human, why continue competing in track.

This is actually common practice in manga for years, since the early 80s or so. Most manga are written with teams of assistants—for example, the popular manga Kaguya-sama is written with the help of 6 assistants, who do most of the artwork.

I lived in Japan for 3 years, and my wife had a baby in Tokyo, so I’m reasonably familiar with the health insurance there.

The currently ongoing manga is pretty good.  I actually prefer it to the 80s manga adaptation.

I didn’t know Dan Butler was gay.  He was really great as Bulldog playing off Kelsey Grammer.

True, but as far i know, they don’t require trans people to get sterilized—nor did they have a law that was repealed in frigging 1996 that forced people with serious physical or mental disabilities to get sterlized.

Every other wealthy country has gay marriage.  That makes America and Japan weird, in different ways.  Which, kind of is my point.

Frasier has aged surprisingly well.  Except for the fact the cast is lily white, and the one episode where Frasier’s status as the star at his radio station is threatened by a black woman is like REALLY cringey, despite the show’s best efforts to present itself as racially conscious (which it was,,, for like 1999)

If you go back and watch 90s TV like say, Friends, the homophobia is pretty shocking. Even for a guy that literally GREW UP during the 90s.  I forgot that calling someone “gay” was a socially acceptable insult when I was 12.

Speaking as an American attorney, some of criticism of Japan’s legal system is overblown.

Yeah, traditionally people with any form of disability were viewed with quite a lot of discrimination in Japan. There’s still some of that, but it’s much less than like 20 years ago.

Japan’s not quite that bad, but more a beffudlement of “why can’t you just be normal” paired with social ostrization and passive aggressive discrimination.

I beg to differ.

As a Japanaese American guy that mostly grew up in America, my native countries’ politics are just... weird from an American’s perspective.

Kudos to the organizers to have the balls to let their creators describe their thoughts without muzzeling them on behalf of their sponsors.