The “of course” in his quote is because this is how Toriyama himself felt, what he himself had been writing toward, and all that was planned for the series originally. There has been a lot of squabbling over the fact that this quote can’t be found in publication anywhere, but this is always what anybody close enough…

GT = ごめんね、鳥山さん (Apologies, Toriyama). That’s been the joke literally since the series started.

1. Fair enough. Kids can’t be killed in Fallout

Re: The kilt one. I mean, you make a comment to someone about the condition of their privates — especially a drunk person — because you think you’re being cute, and then they show you their privates. I don’t think that’s that weird. Shouldn’t have put it on the counter, but otherwise yeah. I mean, escalation is one of…

It is a little bit like fries if you serve it with salt! But it has an unmistakeable broccoli flavor. I'd love to hear what you think of it.

I played Watch Dogs very soon after it came out. I didn’t see any of the pre-release hype. I am the sort of person who knows what kind of gameplay I like and looks interesting to me, doesn’t buy games very often, and so doesn’t pay a lot of attention to the industry except on a very very basic consumer level. I loved…

I don’t know if this is enough of an insight to include here, but about two years ago I started experimenting with broccoli stalks, the bottom stem parts that most people seem to throw away. I eventually came up with chopping them into medium-thick chip slices for the fat part of the stalk, and little spiky clusters…

I sort of disagree that average people inherently don’t like to read, or hear foreign languages.

“Forever,” is a mess in katakana English, though. It’s basically made entirely out of sounds that don’t exist in Japanese and need super lossy approximations. I can’t think of ever seeing it used in Japanese English titling or expressions.

It doesn’t matter how good the dubbing quality is, Independence Day dubbed over in Polish or Portuguese is not really Independence Day. It depresses me that there is even a demand for dubbing, anime or otherwise.

The scene in Spirited Away/千と千尋の神隠し where Haku remembers his origin and he and Chihiro are falling from the sky is basically the final word against Dubs. Watch it in English and watch it in Japanese one right after the other. For all Ghibli’s best efforts, it is so stupid-sounding and -looking in English.

Dubbing is…

I loved this.

The person who said that was a woman.

I’m the guy who submitted the story. The call came just as I was walking out the door with the new pizza to get in my car. I didn’t stick around to listen to it. When I got to my house, the guy basically screamed a lot of word salad with the words and phrases like, “unacceptable,” “need to be taught a lesson,” “not a…

Hi. I was the person who submitted that story. I mean, you’re not wrong that it would have been awesome of me to jump to the guy’s defense. I will mention (this detail was in my original submission, but C.A. Pinkman cut it — completely fairly, because I am always long-winded) that I was barely 18 and the guy getting…

In-car mirrors still completely unusable for realistic first-person. That’s too bad.

How does one do this? I can't find the setting. I have a super sweet ultra detailed realistic Osaka going, but everybody driving on the right side of the street is totally killing it.

I don't think I said Japan was a special case. I was just pointing out that it's vastly different from England, which your whole point is predicated on it not being. Being historically realistic, it's England/The UK/Western Europe/etc. (i.e. the great white fraternity of privilege) that's a special case, so maybe I…

Well, of course you wouldn't be worried. You guys didn't go through what Japan went through and you have never paid for your crimes. That your level of historical privilege is so great you can't even feel offense doesn't mean the commenter wouldn't actually be out of line, though.

Voice actress Yuka Otsubo lends her voice to the characters Kitakami and Oi. In the following clip, Kitakami and Oi are talking about food that Kitakami likes. It sounds like two people, but in the recording studio it's the same person talking herself!