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Difference between Japanese IRL and Japanese in Anime

J, thought you’d find this article interesting.

Also, after reading this, I’m just going to assume you’re going to get the crap beat out of you when you travel to Japan and try to speak to the local town-folk.

J, Read This Japanese AI Cyborg Turtle Book and Tell Me If It’s Good

As found in this article.

Here’s the link on Amazon:

Russian Military Copies MGS

First off, no, it’s not the Fulton recovery system. But it’s close. Seriously, go read this article in the NYT right now.

My Neighbor Totoro, Recreated In Minecraft

Yeesh, this is amazing. I got nothin’ else.

No Man’s Sky – Crushing Loneliness

This is a pretty great honest review for No Man’s Sky. My favorite quote: “At least they got one part of space exploration right: crushing loneliness.”

Dark Crabs 3

We’ve been radio silent lately because we’re all addicted to Dark Souls 3. As such, here’s vid of DS3 with all textures replaced with crabs (HT Todd).

This dude made a working 1KB hard drive… in Minecraft

The title really says it all, check this shit out (HT Reddit, natch).

UPDATE: Apparently, this is child’s play. People are making actual computers now, and have been for some time. There are extensive wikipedia articles on it. SMH, it’s so meta I can’t stand it.

Uh, Josh – I could use some help here

What the fuck is going on in Kojima’s new game?

I’d better clean the dust off my WiiU

Because Zelda is finally coming. Check out the trailer below, in glorious 720P.

Dwarf Fortress

I’ve heard about Dwarf Fortress before, but I’ve never played it. Maybe I should, given this great article from the Seattle Weekly on the video game Dwarf Fortress. Oft considered the most complex video game ever created, Dwarf Fortress is less of an RPG and more of a world simulator. Here’s a great excerpt from the article (but go read it):

“If we just start with What’s in a dwarf’s head?, there’s 50-something personality facets we pulled from a psychology textbook, 30 intellectual values, a...