Makes you wonder how much the developers were influenced by Bushido Blade.

You think it’s a waste of time if you don’t orgasm? I mean, I understand it feels good and everything but isn’t the intimacy and feeling of human connection worth something? I climax maybe half the time but I never leave a sexual encounter thinking, “Damn, I should’ve done my taxes or something instead.”

As a person who has lived in Japan for over a third of his life now, speaks the language fluently, and has integrated into Japanese society about as much as a foreigner can, I feel I can say with certainty that geisha are not a “living tradition.” They are a tourist attraction. The number of actual geisha currently…

Because they have to make a living. When you combine a headline that’s provocative or funny or interesting with an article that’s true and important, you get more reads. I don’t get the argument of “How dare you trick me into reading this thing that is true and important, which is also the reason why people consume…

Hm. Cover mechanics in a JRPG. Hopefully they also give Barret the ability to ADS.

I think this raises a larger issue about eSports in that the roster of games rotates every couple of years. Football players and baseball players and tennis players have their entire professional lives to hone their craft in that one particular game. What’s popular in eSports (and therefor where the money is) is going…

Seems odd to me that these privileged white men think privileged white men should be the arbiters of whether or not something is offensive. iDubbbz talking some bullshit about the power of words is no different than those shitty rich white kids from your Freshman year saying, “Hey, black people are allowed to say…

I think what compounded the offensiveness was the “Hey, look at what I (a very rich person) can get economically disadvantaged people to do for 5 dollars” pretext. It would be like if Louis C.K. brought a starving child on stage to be the punchline of a joke about poor people. I mean, you’ll note that this isn’t…

Photoshop shenanigans aside, in every undoctored photo of him I’ve seen, his appearance seems to bear all the hallmarks of a hardcore alcoholic.

h3h3 Productions, run by two Jewish individuals, came to Kjellberg’s defense in a recent video and it was fairly compelling. Although it felt a lot like somebody defending their racist uncle, it also did accurately point out that the media has taken a lot of this out of context for clicks.

By all appearances, this guy was a dickhead, but something also caught my attention:

Satire is an American tradition and, at this point, about all we’ve got.

China probably has the means and North Korea could drop a couple of nukes on us (or a number of our allies, assuming they will still be allies in a year’s time) if they really wanted to. North Korea has been posturing like this for years. They shoot ballistic missiles towards Japan all the time just to show they can.…

The best part of the video is Trudeau clearly gritting his teeth.

Most Japanese don’t shake hands with other Japanese, only with foreigners, so there’s really no innate cultural precedent. The thing about no eye contact is wrong, since the handshake is borrowed from western cultures and it’s largely understood that eye contact is appropriate. Those that do business with foreigners…

This is way overblown. I’ve never seen or even heard of a foreigner so offended by noodle slurping that they actually harassed someone. This, as with most Japanese TV show segments where foreigners are interviewed, reeks of yarase.

Kojima’s arrogance has always bothered me. He’s obviously surrounded by translators and interpreters a lot of the time and I can’t imagine nobody advised him that “transfarring” is an ugly, clunky term that’s embarrassing to say out loud. But, Kojima clearly isn’t the sort to take advice from people more knowledgeable…

Is one of them like two feet tall or is that some kind of perspective trick?

Maybe they’re taking a page from Japan’s fast food restaurant books?

I think what it will really expose is that America is an empire in decline and the next four to eight years will be the last shuddering gasps of a country that, while still viewed as backwards and incomprehensible to the rest of the civilized world, at least garnered a modicum of respect during Obama’s tenure. I’m…