I got a copy from walking across the street to the local GEO. I’ve definitely been enjoying studying abroad.

Doesn’t appear to be out quite yet. Probably later today.

If you’re convinced RPGs are just numbers and stats, you’ve missed the point of the genre. They’re trappings, but they don’t define role playing.

You’ve absolutely done nothing to argue this case. The fact that you don’t like crafting in no way determines that RPGs can’t be about crafting.

Just so you know, Nikkei is a subscription service, and the little snippet you see isn’t the whole article.

Industry news journalists can and do publish rumors from reliable sources that don’t go out and expose who their sources are. This isn’t new, and while not a guarantee (it IS a rumor after all), the nature of rumors depends on having reliable sources in the first place. Naming them sort of has a habit of making them…

Fallout 4 was never going to be my favorite RPG, but all the claims that it isn’t one altogether are just eye rolling.

Nintendo has every reason to deny the rumor, but that doesn’t make it any less likely to be true.

I don’t think I’ve been to a McDonalds here yet that even offered breakfast items. I’m sure they exist, but they’re a lot less common than they are back stateside.

I think the issue with Steam is much like Twitch; a matter of consistency. A Witcher 3 or GTA5 has no trouble, but a visual novel with nudity or sex (even if censored) has to more or less cut that content out altogether.

The ban on pornography from PayPal is actually only digital goods. You can apparently buy and sell physical pornography using PayPal. And PayPal has gone to occasionally extraordinary lengths to close down accounts of users who have happened to have been in porn previously, even if they’re not using the service to…

They have a very interesting idea of what pizza is, I can say that much.

The article talks about how even going at it from an indie angle is difficult, because many of the payment methods (crowd funders, PayPal, etc.) to get funding will shut your project down because it’s very easy to have anything involved with human sexuality labeled as porn.

I honestly wasn’t aware anyone took ketchup that seriously until I read about it here. But I don’t know that my home state really has the strong regional insistence on what an authentic hotdog/burger/pizza/cheesesteak/whatever is that seems more common back east.

The great thing about being an adult is only having to hold yourself accountable for what you do with your food. The thought of an age limit on condiments is bizarre. And a gender qualifier too?

I can’t even fathom what kind of insecurities you’d need to have to be worried about what other people thought of your condiment choices.

They put mayo on seemingly everything here. Rice, yakisoba, pizzas, grilled squid, occasionally french fries (probably more common in the US, but I’ve seen it offered at least once while here.)

Dude eats pizza with a fork. Not hard to find a better qualifier.

Who said anything about a majority? I was talking about how you just decided it wasn’t an issue despite it not affecting you in the first place.

No, seriously. The whole point of that article wasn’t about equality in sexy things, but the difficulties in talking frankly about sexuality in video games. They’re not the same thing.