Oh right. Me me me and me, mental health, no coherent elucidation of rationale from you. Presumption of self superiority must feel pretty goddamned good.

in that case, I envy you

That's a fair point. I am not saying China will end the world, we can be adults and not be insanely black and white about everything. I was simply expressing that this affects some — eventually most of us, and while the engineering and work is quite impressive, admiring it feels to me like gazing at the wonder of the…

He or she killed an animal because it satisfied him or her. You eat the flesh of animals other people killed because it satisfies you. Where is the important moral distinction, exactly?

I'm a white Mexican immigrant to Japan, so I know the type exactly; I was absolutely projecting the associations I have with embarrassments I meet doing the same thing here, and I see now that you didn't deserve it. I was wrong, and I'd gladly buy you a beer to apologize. I'm sorry I was a dick, but I am kinda glad I…

Well done. I'll gladly eat my hat to this.

I referenced Rome because of the chronological distance from us here and now. And I'm not alarmed about China from a US perspective, I'm alarmed from an East Asia/global stability perspective. The decline in American influence part is fine. It's the institutionalized presumption of suzerainty over all of East Asia and…

The most useless of all retorts. I'd be in trouble if I confused the comment section of Kotaku with a party. You must contribute lots of smarts at your job. ;D

Awesome username, though.

Cha-ching.

You're not looking at the Roman coliseum, dude. This is ominous, bad times for everybody but China (or just everybody, really, if there is a military conflict over it) and it is happening right now and will affect things in your lifetime. You can admire Nazi weaponry or the Mitsubishi Zero too, sure, but it seems sort…

We've got these in Japan, and when I first came here as a teenager I remember thinking they were super neato. But living with them sort of starts to feel like a pain in the ass after a while. "Oh... I would have had to wait at a red light for a few minutes before crossing the street, but instead I get to walk up a…

It's a mechanic that starts off interesting – especially in the smaller areas where the choice to bust a group or go in shooting feels like a decision you're making – but as the game progresses it reveals itself for what it is: an awkward stealth takedown mechanic to delay an almost inevitable alarm. Later, as levels…

Yeah, no — nice try.

Now you're just presuming to be the arbiter of good reasons and motives. If you've ever eaten even a little more animal flesh than you absolutely needed to at the time to survive, and you did it for your own pleasure, then you really don't get to cast that stone.

Thank you. And to clarify my admittedly petty aversion to the trendy use of the abbreviation "guac," the reason I wish people wouldn't use it is that guacamole is guacamole because it's "mole" (sauce) made from "aguacates" (avocados). Chop the "mole" part off and you're basically just saying a shortened form of…

Doug Deadmoon's story doesn't exactly fit with the others. The customers sound terrible, but the fault was absolutely with the restaurant, and when you work in customer service and you fuck up, you don't simply insist to the customers that your fuckup was "understandable," and put the onus on them to be forgiving.…

The first story pretty much made me cum it was so awesome, but this is the unfortunate part:

And as a result, I live in a near state of panic over the fact that he is bankrupting me via tissue usage.

A random person who nobody knows of or cares about interrupted a Q&A session that a bunch of famous people probably just had to do out of promotional obligations and didn't want to be at anyway, so she can grab some attention and show off her relationship to the world and maybe get Internet famous. The Q&A session was…