Cool. I vaguely remembered something like that. Seems like that happened in '88-'89, so it fits pretty well.

Otaku (anime otaku in particular) have been quite heavily looked down on since as least the early 90s. Any additional pejorative connotations must be pretty slight.

The Chinese hold them in a similar way, but halfway down the chopstick, because their chopsticks are around twice as big. I always feel like a little kid holding grown-ups chopsticks for a bit when I go to a chinese restaurant again -.-

Those poses.... I feel like I've seen them before.

Did you notice that the Birdman on the building is in every poster except the Japanese one? At least they didn't screw up so bad they had two (three?) of Birdman on the poster at once.

Her love of playing chess by herself, using it to clear her mind, speaks to the strength she finds in solace.

Isn't the Deep Down name a bit of a pun? Half "deep down in the dungeon" and half "deep down in his heart".

エニックス. Enikkusu. So ee-nicks is definitely more correct.

I've seen pictures of this before (on Kotaku and elsewhere), but I didn't really have a good idea of the scale of the thing. How damn big is this anyway? Guessing something like 8-10m tall, based on your photo and the image of the army guys working on it above.

The article says, "In Final Fantasy XV, pre-rendered and real-time graphics do look different. Not that different, apparently."

The closer you look the more obvious what shortcuts they have to take for the real-time version.

What one looks like for what it's worth. Never did look as good as it tastes....

Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. Bacchanalia were festivals in the name of Bacchus that were basically orgies. A bacchanale is "an orgiastic musical composition". Merriam-Webster has Bacchanal (orgy) readily accessable, but Bacchanale appears to be behind their paywall. I got most…

There are also businesses who can take delivery and forward it overseas for a small fee.

Even the tatoo artist knew that guy was lying and not really the God of War. Because "liar, liar, pants on fire".

So would you be Tingling all over or all over Tingle? :P

American version. Some parents have all the time.

Yes. There were plenty of hints in SAO II about what was going to happen to Yuuki, but it was surprising when the tribute event in the story was mirrored by events in real life. Not just in Japan either, where I might have expected such a thing to be normal, but across many servers.

This one is a bit corny.

Fantasy Life is kind of a mix between a solo MMORPG and a rhythm game. The cutesy story and skinner box gameplay got me mildy invested, but the rhythm game elements were an excellent addition that increased my concentration on the moment to moment gameplay. It felt pretty good to pull off a 5 hit combo in combat or to…