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Nov 23, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
At a Thanksgiving dinner where the family are playing a party game where you "assassinate" someone if they "activate your conditions" (usually a specific mundane request for help like passing the salt) and I've never felt more like I was placed unwittingly in a JoJo's scenario. My natural reflex to be as polite and helpful as possible is being kept in check by the knowledge that all of these people want to kill me.
Dec 26, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Jet Li on the ethical reasons why he rejected the role of Seraph in the Matrix movies. Li clearly saw the direction Hollywood was headed. ImageImage Various people have pointed out that Jet Li was mo-capped for the PS2 game Jet Li: Rise to Honor around the same time as a possible hypocrisy. Li's objection was not being scanned, it was turning over contractual ownership to his movements. I'm sure this was explicitly negotiated
Dec 25, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
Ran into this guy in Dungeon Encounters. On the first turn they stole 10,000 gold. On the second turn they stole another 10,000 gold. "That's funny," I thought, "I didn't even have 10,000 gold." They fled. I am now in -13,000 gold debt to them. This rat is garnishing my wages. Image Congrats to the Dungeon Encounters team for inventing one of the most creatively and hilariously unfair JRPG mechanics I've come across in years. This rat fished my social security number out of my wallet and opened an entire line of credit. Gave me a good laugh. Great game.
May 10, 2019 51 tweets 11 min read
Junji Ito at TCAF 2019 Junji Ito asked if his wife gives feedback on his stories: “Yes. I wouldn’t say that she knows a lot about horror, but she has a very good sense of what horror is.”
Jan 23, 2019 5 tweets 4 min read
Hello, Nyankees Nyankees is a manga about the conflicts between rival stray cats, as played by Japanese street gangs.
Dec 19, 2018 7 tweets 4 min read
I’m all about Gokushufudo right now. A reformed yakuza trying to be a supportive house husband to his professional wife.
Jul 4, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
This is being shared around like it’s cute, but in reality it’s the kind of invasive nightmare that makes you want to become a hermit. Stuff you self disclose going viral has unintended consequences, now imagine someone documenting several intimate hours of your life unbeknownst to you for content. The poster couldn’t have known it would gain the momentum it did, but there’s a moral obligation to NOT DO THIS.
Apr 2, 2018 15 tweets 7 min read
Never meet your heroes.