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My research paper " #Kpop Fandom’s Affective Role in Shaping Knowledge of Gender and Sexuality among #LGBTQ+ Fans in Australia and the Philippines " - written with Kelsey E. Scholes - is now available FREE and OPEN ACCESS in the journal Sexualities! 🏳️‍🌈💞🏳️‍⚧️ Link here: doi.org/10.1177/1363...

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In 2004, Kazutoshi Iida (Aquanaut's Holiday, Tail of the Sun) sat down with his friend Hideo Kojima to discuss the original Metal Gear Solid, apropos of the Japanese guidebook for The Twin Snakes, of which he was Editor in Chief. Today I present to you a translation of this conversation.

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“We’ve had some very strong chess players recently,” says Hiroshi Manabe, president of the Japan Chess Federation. “One day soon, all of us will be welcoming the first Japanese grandmaster in history.”

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Je ne joue pas en français, donc c'est quelque chose que je n'ai pas remarqué, mais difficile de ne pas rapprocher ça du changement de la dernière ligne d'Aerith dans Remake ('I miss it. The steel sky.'). Il y a des choix de sensibilité et on les apprécie ou non, comme pour toute traduction.

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I find the entire existence of the western "parody dating sim" to be extremely odd since the collective Western gamer sphere never really had access to any of the genres foundational texts. Its an extremely bizarre game of telephone where the starting point was something that never truly existed?

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Tokyo is moving ahead with an infrastructure overhaul aimed at restoring open skies to one of the city’s most culturally significant landmarks — the Nihonbashi bridge, which is overshadowed by an overpass.

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I finished yesterday Star Rail 3.3 Trailblaze Mission, and although the wrap-up of the first half of Amphoreus is weird is a vacuum, I find that interesting that it ties so strongly to the lore of the Unknowable Domain and the Emperor's Wars. Genuinely intrigued by Polka's inevitable involvement.

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Hey! I have a new research paper out called "Yokomoji arerugī"! This study examines social beliefs about katakana among both Japanese natives and Japanese learners in the journal Japan Forum. And guess what, it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Silent Hill 2 opening: 20 minutes Silent Hill 2 Remake opening: one hour Perceived length: four hours I don't mind having to roam a bit before the apartment complex, but the atmosphere just doesn't land for me with the shrieking and jumpscare-adjacent elements.

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Ahh, j'aime tant ce que dessine Yumi Sudō. Certaines de ses histoires sont tout simplement mon idéal.

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Vraiment, ça se passe de commentaire. La pseudo-patrimonialisation, mais en effaçant la moitié de l'histoire : on ne peut pas faire plus explicite que Shōjo Club, quand même. D'une rare audace, c'est beau.

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「権力者は異論を嫌う」学術会議法案反対、上野千鶴子さんら座り込み：朝日新聞 www.asahi.com/articles/AST... #日本学術会議

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Visited the small exhibition at the Ritsumeikan library pairing Edo-period art and unique controllers from their games collection. Was surprised to learn that recreational fishing began in Edo! It looks like the Center for Game Studies will also have a booth at the Expo from June 16th with Nintendo.

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Even without the context of the Twitter discourse or whatever, I fully agree with this article. I'll get into it at some point, but it's important to remember how 癒し was always a site for exploitation, and it has been thoroughly bowdlerised and sugarcoated when the West discovered that concept.

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hi i wrote some words about the video everyone on twitter was mad about yesterday note.com/zweiteturm/n...

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To be fair—and I wrote pages and pages and pages on that—you cannot understand Japanese games from that era outside the scope of the Lost Decades.

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OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

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Daring to Speak its Name: Goodbye, My Rose Garden and the queer historical romance Utilizing the narrative devices of early feminist and WLW literature, this yuri series is a shining example of nuanced, happy historical queer fiction. www.animefeminist.com/daring-to-sp...

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Sometimes, I do that for money, but Goddess I hate technical translations as a freelance.

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Many companies are shutting down in Fukushima Prefecture even though they are making a profit, due to the aging of managers who run the businesses and their failure to find successors.

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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

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They say it's the Sega Saturn birthday month. A console stylish in any colour, but those Japanese White Model 2 magenta accents were thirty years ahead of their time.

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D4 Enterprise will port Xtalsoft's 1984 PC-8801 RPG title Mugen no Shinzou / Heart of Dreams to Nintendo Switch on June 5: www.rpgsite.net/news/17568-1...

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WoL's Hands - Miss Sephine hands of a woman that can kill a man 😳 #ffxiv #ffxivart #ff14

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Akata vient de sortir le premier tome de Satoko & Nada, la série de Yupechika à propos de deux étudiantes, saoudienne et japonaise, aux États-Unis, qui découvrent leur culture respective. C'est doux et innocent, dans la pure tradition du yonkoma.

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The Waves' next GOTY experience.

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Jiro Ishii of 428: Shibuya Scramble fame launched a crowdfunding for a new Shibuya-based live-action adventure game, and it was instantly funded. The game is set to be formally revealed within 2025: www.rpgsite.net/news/17556-j...

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‬I have recorded a complete playthrough of TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅. The game plays stably on Basilisk II running MacOS 8. Total duration: 03h52m. In the future, I hope to find the time to record a commentary track offering added context. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGev...

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Early Hidden Gestral Arena Solo Maelle Medalum Profit I mean, she is obliterating all the optional bosses.

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In the series of 'we hate Nintendo, especially when they feel overconfident', I hate how hard it is to find music sheets nowadays with the multiple crackdowns since last year.

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I actually have an answer to why it was different. It was different because the Napalm Girl photograph did not actually end the war. A year before the photo was taken, a majority of Americans already believed it had been a mistake to send troops to Vietnam. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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In the wake of LA's 2025 fires, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social explores "the fallacious supposition that new technologies and better design will prevent the next fire, the next flood, or the next degree of global heating" and how highway construction/landscape manipulation contributed to it all:

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