Enter Denim Jacket Guy. DJG was a small, pale man, and regardless of the weather, he wore a denim jacket every time he came in, which was nearly every Monday. DJG would order the AYCE burger special and a 40 oz Colt 45 (not all our beers were shitty; this guy just wanted the biggest, cheapest beer). He would come in…

So angry right now.

“These enemies rise from the shame of our past,” Overman tells the New Reichsmen as they discuss the first attack by Uncle Sam and his rebels. Leatherwing invokes the callous logic heard in post-war Germany: “I’m not ashamed of anything. That happened decades ago, before I was born. My family had good reasons for…

There’s no one thing that makes a Final Fantasy, other than its grandeur.

Materia was perfect. Tactics’ class and skill system was perfect. They were both fun, functional, and rewarded grinding and exploration but demanded neither.

This might be just a generational divide, but that game is just not good. It was the first not good Final Fantasy game in series. I don’t even agree that the battle system was improved.

Diplomatically handled. Would a lid with a steam vent get the same effect, or still trap too much water?

Shiitake mushroom stems are much tougher than white mushroom stems, and than their caps.

Am I the only person who got what the customers were trying to order even in its transliterated form?

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…