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Crazy people were sending harassing messages to anyone who PewDiePie follows on Twitter, and this guy was trying to exacerbate it.
You'll never guess what happened next.
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Japan's "otoko no ko" (男の娘) movement and transexuality are not the same, and re-writing 男の娘 characters as transgender amounts to harmful sexual colonialism in which one queer subculture erases and undermines another when they should be mutually supportive.
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Mike Fahey got a tattoo of a lolicon succubus on his forearm but publicly shits on hentai games to hide his own, uh, problems.
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In the 70s, Soviet censors tried to ban games like Pac-Man.
When Alexey Pajitnov invented Tetris, his overseers confiscated the money "for the nation".
Pajitnov wasn't rewarded for his work until the USSR collapsed.
Pajitnov now lives in America and is a millionaire.
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2013: Chinese tech firm giant 10cent acquires a share of Activision Blizzard.
2019: Blizzard mass-bans Chinese Overwatch players for saying "Winnie the Pooh".
(Winnie the Pooh is banned in China for resembling Chinese President Xi Jinping.)
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"Playing video games is my least favorite part of being a video games journalist."
-video games journalist
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Japanese made GHOST IN THE SHELL and LAIN.
Japanese made AKIRA.
These works borrowed from Western creators, and were borrowed from in turn. They fostered cultural exchange.
That is a good thing. That is progressive, in the true sense.
Please don't misinterpret it.
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An arsonist used gasoline to burn down the Kyoto Animation production studio.
Several people are dead.
headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190718-…
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On June 13, the newly elected Akamatsu Ken announced the organization of a team of experts to embark on the legal preservation of all old video games in a playable state.
Akamatsu is also interested in preserving online games and social games that are no longer available. twitter.com/KenAkamatsu/st…
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Kyoto Animation has announced a donation drive to aid employees and families harmed in the July 18 arson attack.
All donations will be directly received by Kyoto Animation.
Please see the URL and image below for details.
kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/?i…
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Porn where the guy ties up the girl and then she just lays there while he makes noodles. twitter.com/HEISEI_love_bo…
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@MallowyGoodness "Waifu" isn't "bad Japanese"!
It is how we actually pronounce it. Our whole language is, with few exceptions, Consonant＋Vowel.
日本語は基本的に母音で終わる言語です。
「ワイフ」をローマ字で書くとWA・I・FUと母音で３つの音節に分れ、個々の音節はCV（子音+母音）の構造になっています
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"TRANS👏IN👏GAMES👏TRANS👏IN👏GAMES👏TRANS👏IN👏GAMES👏TRANS👏IN👏GAMES👏TRANS👏IN👏GAMES👏TRー"
"OK. In the future trans people are seen as sexually desirable and exploited by corporations in the same way that sexually desirable people are today."
"ＮＯＴ ＴＨＡＴ ＷＡＹ"
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Asuka weebs and Rei weebs have been arguing for 23 years, so the Japanese government declared a winner to put a stop to it.
Welcome to the imperial era of "reiwa".
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Most of the "Japanese" restaurants in your country are not owned or staffed by Japanese.
Even on your West Coast, only about 1 in 10 restaurants is "real".
Do you care about that?
Were you even aware of that?
Japanese are aware.
Japanese do not care.
So why do you?
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Kotaku's Chris Kohler plagiarized another person's Mario Maker level and promoted it as his own idea for blog traffic and internet clout.
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Permobil Japan designed a transforming wheelchair that lets people with serious disabilities stand up.
twitter.com/origamicat/sta…
みんなのおかん。ゲーム好き。Everyone's #01 Mom. I like video games.