Once upon a time, the Rumble Pak was considered a stupid little gimmick.

While it’s nice that Rosetta Stone has Asian languages, the quality of the materials is significantly worse than for Western/Romance languages. It’s almost as if... they took the latter’s material and simply translated it. Oh, wait:

You didn’t actually read it, did you?

For folks who are absolutely certain they won’t fly internationally and will be in need of a compliant ID, you can get a passport card (only good for land and sea crossings to Canada, Mexico, and some cruise destinations). $55 for the card versus $135 for the regular passport.

Why do you even care about the video? The narration is what makes this thing matter at all. Hit play and switch to another tab.

You’re welcome.

Counterpoint:

• Back when only rich people had cars, smaller roads had landscaping in the surrounding area, similar to a park.

If you re-read it more carefully, you’d realize that Poey said he bought a 3DS that someone else had returned after swapping identifiers. He didn’t pirate anything.

Oh for fuck’s sake, folks. How many Japanese have you guys seen complaining on Kotaku about GITS? Hell, how many Japanese even read Kotaku? Seriously, how balls-to-the wall stupid do you have to be to not realize that most complaints are coming from Americans?

It’s shitastic is what it is, but if your kid brother started eating paste does that mean you’ll open up a fresh jar and go to town?

we are ALL frog fractions 2 on this blessed day :)

See the TURTLE of enormous girth!

Felica’s non-adoption outside of Japan has nothing to do with it being untraceable. If that were the case, you would not be able to buy prepaid debit/credit cards throughout Europe. Spoiler: you can. It’s a matter of technology; Felica was created and promoted by a consortium of Japansse companies before the…

This service is only available in Japan because Suica is only available in Japan. The payment hardware only works with NFC Type-F, which is non-existent outside of Japan.

This is to Grid-It what acetaminophen is to Tylenol, or facial tissues to Kleenex. Considering that Grid-It doesn’t exactly spend a ton on marketing, I wonder if these guys had to cut corners on the elastic to keep costs down.

This is to Grid-It what acetaminophen is to Tylenol, or facial tissues to Kleenex. Considering that Grid-It doesn’t…

I don’t see the appeal of peeping on either real or virtual women without consent, but I’m having a hard time coming up with an explanation as to why taking an upskirt photo in some future version of GTA would be more objectionable than shooting that same person in the face.

Man, I must have missed that day in history class when they talked about invincible flamethrower-wielding infantry.