The Katsu-sandwich from Japan deserves consideration.  The Katsu-sandwich at Isen in Ueno (northeastern tokyo) is something else.

If you read the original Tezuka manga and compare to Urasawa’s remake, it’s pretty fascinating how Urasawa took a solid adventure tale and turned it into a masterful detective story.

I totally get that, but being a POC living south of the Mason Dixon line, I’d be very wary about dining in a restaurant with this policy. If I feel a restaurant is unfairly treating my kids differently from other kids and they ask me to leave, fine—i never come back and that’s that.

Idk, maybe it’s because I’m Japanese American but the idea of buying used bathwater vs buying used panties from a vending machine, none of this seems particularly novel.
Some dudes have atypical kinks and are willing to pay a chunk of change for jack off material that fits their kink.

Im not sure having a kink and being lonely qualifies as “deep mental health problems.”

I mean, this is not how i get my rocks off, but I feel like if drinking beer brewed from a woman’s vagina give you a boner, that seems no more exploitative than hosting a porn website.

There’s almost none of that in modern turn based JRPGs. Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, Fire Emblem, Valkyria Chronicles, Legends of the Sky series, etc.

I’d struggle to name a JRPG that came out in the last 5 years that’s turn based where that’s an actual problem.

Fwiw, I could not pick out the state flag of Virginia out of a lineup and I’ve lived in VA for nearly a decade.

It might be simple misclick. There may be a folder with a bunch of graphic assets that are stored for flags, and rather than searching, the person popped into the folder and grabbed the wrong asset.

I mean, another solution is to be less technologically ambitious. You can make a great, well designed game with excellent mechanics and fun game play, that has deliberately extremely limited or minimal graphical requirements.

Persona 4 alone guaranteed I would never regret buying a Vita.

Way before blitzball, there was a bunch of soccer anime based RPG mechanic soccer games back in the SNES days, like mid 90s.　dunno if any of these made it to the US (kinda doubt it) but they were quite popular in Japan.

You seem to be confusing income adjhusted for inflation stats and those NOT adjusted for inflation. Median household income in 1990 was just $35k. Today it’s 76k.

“Here kid! Eat my arm so you get the strength you need to escape!”

I’m an attorney, been in pracctive for about 15 years (also have been a gamer for many more years).

I’m not saying real time combat is mindless. I’m more taking a swipe at Dragon Quest’s rather boring “traditional” turn based combat where non-boss fights are just pressing “attack’ over and over to the point where you can literally automate combat to a large extent as a preset (to which I’m like, if regular combat is…

Care to be more specific? For reference, real income looks at cost sof common household goods over time (CPI index) and adjusts changes in income relative to those baskets of goods.

The basic basket of goods used to calculate CPi is adjusted over time, for example to include hte cost of internet or services. It would…

What I think In N Out nails is the meat-cheese-bun ratio. Five Guys cheeseburgers do not have nearly enough cheese on them imo, and there’s actually too much meat relative to the bread.

I used to live in the Southwest, and now I live on the East Coast. I cannot understand the opinion that Five Guys has better burgers than In N Out.

I mean, Five Guys is fine. It’s better than most other burger chains. It has more options than In N Out.

Yeah, $40 was liike late 80s, very early 90s. I remember it was like $50 for a short while before things bumped up to $60 by the late 90s I think? Then it stayed $60 for like 20 years.

median income, adjusted for inflation, is up very slightly from 1990.