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Not the same Tesla at all. You might as well buy a 3D mousepad instead. It's good for your wrists, wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

These guys have the perfect women for you. (first link NSFW, second link probably NSFW unless in Japan)

You could always drink it...

Life-like texture ;_;

... will I have to get a friend in Japan?

Are you advertising JList?

Well, I've never actually gotten anything from them, but I know J-List> has some that are translated into english

JList carries plenty of eastern "wierd stuff" (and anime / hentai / pocky if that's your thing.)

Peter Payne, the American-born founder of J-List, a source for all things Japanese, had this to say in today's instalment of his regular newsletter:

"After a long wait, Apple's iTunes Japan music store has finally opened, allowing customers here to download Japanese and international music for around $1.75 per song. Despite the large number of digital-savvy users in Japan, it's not at all surprising to me that it took so long for Apple to get the iTunes store up and running. Japan can be a very conservative place, and to big companies with established businesses, nothing is more terrifying than change, any change at all. Apple has had to navigate between greedy record companies who have kept the prices of CDs at the artificially high price of $30 for decades, and industry groups like the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) and the Recording Industry of Japan (RIAJ), who have closed ranks against any kind of digital distribution of music that doesn't guarantee more profits for them than conventional CDs. A big problem was JASRAC's insistence that Apple follow "Japan's rules" when it came to selling music online, which apparently meant that the industry group was to receive 7.7% of every song sold in addition to what the actual copyright holders receive. It's all very silly when you think about the fact that in Japan, you can go into any one of thousands of CD rental shops and rent a whole album for $3 or less. Sadly, Japan's copyright-happy record industry lacked the vision to allow Apple to sell Japanese music to customers outside of Japan, so worldwide fans of JPOP are shut out from participating in the Japan iTMS. Apple isn't the first company that's had to endure pressure from the establishment in Japan: Amazon was blocked from selling products below list price on their site here, since price fixing is still allowed for some products, like books and CDs. If there's one good thing that's come from the past decade of recession in Japan, it's that many of Japan's closed economic doors have been forced open, letting the light of competition and common sense flood in. If you want to see a hilarious commercial that marries the iPod with Sazae-san, one the most popular anime in Japan's history, here's the link: http://www.jbox.com/sazae (Quicktime required)"

(I've developed several titles, including the top selling PC game a few years ago. And no, not the Sims.)

1. Give us A.I. that will actually outsmart us now and then.
Actually, this is the point of the cell processor. The cell is meant to allow lots of pipelined tasks to happen with little additional overhead. This means that the difference between a "simple" AI and a complex "AI" (in terms of performance) is little different. And the cell is actually seperate from the RSX, which is the graphics chip from NVIDIA.

2. Give us a genre of game we've never seen before. Something that's not an FPS or an RPG or Madden NFL or...

The fallacy of this statement is laughable. Games don't simply exist. The reason that a particlar game genre is produced again and again is become you asshats keep buying them. Again and again and again. Want more games like Katamari Damacy? Then buy the game. No, pirating a copy doesn't count. Want games of alternative genres? They're out there. They're just not advertised and they're not always available at your local Best Buy. They will often be at your smaller game store, or available online. So get off your lazy ass and go vote with your dollars.

3. Don't bullshit me about your graphics
We wouldn't have to, except that by the logic in argument 2 this seems to be the #1 thing that people care about. You vote with your dollars. Your mouth is saying "graphics don't matter" but your wallet says "grapihcs are all that I care about. Shit in the box as long as the graphics are top notch." Doom 3, Unreal 3, Half-life 2... All top sellers because of their stellar unrelated gameplay?

4. Nipples?
5. And on the opposite side of the nipple coin...
A game these day costs in the tens of millions of dollars to release. A company is simply not going to risk that kind of green (and possibly the fate of the company) on an analyst's hunch. There has to be something more than a gut feeling to release that kind of game. I mean, when's the last time you bought a Japanese dating simulation? (NSFW)

6. All of the new consoles will have hard drives. Use them.
Agree.

7. Loading...
As soon as you come up with a mechanism to physically get 16 megs of data off a DVD rom faster than 1 second, I'll be all over improving load times. It's truly staggering how much data has to be loaded from disk and how frequently it has to be done. On the PC, fire up ye old task manager sometime and turn on the I/O stats for the process. Then be shocked as your game loads multiple gigs of data from disk over the run of the game. All in the name of that "immersion" you're looking for.

8. I understand that John Madden was raised by wild boars...
This hooks in with #7. Bottom line, consider the requirements of this. It's a simple M*N cost to have more sounds. (M events by N events per sound, assuming a flat distribution of sounds). Of course, one could argue (successfully) that an increase in all sounds isn't necessary, and just in the sounds that come up again and again. Of course, you could also forsake the Madden franchise in favor of a lesser known football series. (This would also have the side benefit of ceasing to support the EA cartel.)

9. Immersion and the invisible hand of God
Agree. This is generally just laziness (or a very tight schedule).

10. And while we're at it...
I sort of agree here, but I see the other side of the coin as well. I mean, if I let you get to areas that aren't important for gameplay, then I need to populate them with content. You also might become lost and frustrated, which is something I don't want to happen either.

11. And while we're still at it...
I agree, with the caveat that this is a genre-specific complaint. For example, I don't mind health bars imposed in an RTS, because I realize it's just a game that I'm playing. On the other hand, having numerous hea

...rubbing up against some fat guy in a squirrel suit he had shipped over from Japan.

You can get a fat guy in a squirrel suit shipped from Japan? Wow, what will J-List think of next?

This is a nice little game that may help you learn your katakana and hiragana.
Also, some people put sticky labels with the foreign words on their stuff. And it may sound "babyish" but flash cards are pretty useful for learning Kanji. J-List sells sets of flash cards, and loads of other Japanese goodies too :o)

I've been trying to learn Japanese for a while now, but I haven't had much time to, what with final year of uni.

Go on over to J-List and say again that the most fucked up games don't come from Japan.
Or to ssee the worst of the worst, check out SomethingAwful's Hentai Game Reviews

From the depths of someone's truly twisted imagination. What would be more relaxing than a hand charged version of the Hello Kitty Vibrator?

Now with a deluxe model for reaching hard to get areas.

"It's meant to mobilize supporters, raise money and create buzz."
Maybe, this would be better for buzz.

wavetwisters the movie.

bang the machine (officialsite missing?) (fileplanet trailer)

random fun from jlist (anime and art films and more)

random fun from giant robot

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

Fantasia (1940)

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)

I read the article (gasp) and then looked directly under my desk... doesnt look like I'm doing much better. So when is Power Over IP going to come out again?

Another interesting thing to ponder, last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused... where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.

Yet another thing to consider. I just came back from a 200 person LAN party this weekend. A buddy in my clan (read: geeks that LAN together, not CS \"noobs\"); was relieved that he brought his trusty Dell QuietKey keyboard rather than his wireless logitech. The clan sitting directly behind us all were using these devices are were having trouble with interference all the time. Probably could have fixed things with using different channels but by the looks of things (19" LCD, green Antec cases, blue LED casefans) these guys didnt know a CAT5 from a Hello Kitty Personal Vibrator

There's this one but it's not USB-powered

To get a really good Japanese dictionary, you're probably going to have to go to Japan. Fortunately, there are importers such as J-List which will happily provide you with such things.

The world has gotten a lot smaller since Nelly Bly's 1889-90 trip around the world. Goods and services travel around the globe readily; some are now all but universal. Various organizations act to strengthen "free trade" between countries. But the DVD region codes are a method for not only protecting copyright, but limiting who you can sell your initial copy to, unless they have a region-free DVD player.

With the routine shipping of items around the globe (I've ordered obscure computer hardware from Australian PC dealers a couple times), this attempt to control the release of movies at different times in different countries seems doomed in a not overlong timeframe.

Try buying a player in the US that can circumvent regional coding from any major retailer. They simply don't exist.

Screw major retailers. I spent about 10 seconds on Google and found all of these:

• Zone Free DVD
• DVD City
• Overseas Best Buy
• 220-Electronics
• J-List
• and a whole hell of a lot more

Fortran: a dead language?

this torrent seems to be seeded

I bought an Elecom MAPP mouse designed by Shirow Masamune via eBay, to use on my PowerMacintosh 5400/200.

It's an absolutely beautiful work of art, as well as being a fine mouse.

There are a couple of sources for it here in North America. JLIST has it, as do several other vendors. Google is your friend.

Despite the curious asymmetrical shape of the mouse, it's quite comfortable in the hand. You don't hold it, so much as you rest your hand on it. Even though it looks small, it fits my large gaijin hand very well.It's very light and moves with hardly any effort. The scrollwheel is made from some kind of soft polymer, just tacky enough to ensure a non-slip feel to it.

The mouse engine itself is 800ppi, I'm not sure how many times it images, though. The mouse cord is about 3 feet long, which is nice for when I sit back and use the mouse on my trouser leg.

I did need to get a PCI USB port card for the Mac, as well as USB Overdrive, a shareware driver for both Classic and OS X Mac OS's. It allows one to fully use all the buttons and wheels on a mouse or trackball or joystick.

One can also program each indivdual button for use in any application, as well as mouse pointer "speed". Slower for smaller screens or precise positioning, or faster for big screens.

It's well worth the modest US$20.00 shareware fee.

I have both the logitech dual optical (weighted) mouse and an elecom MAPP mouse (designed by Ghost in the shell artist Masamune Shiro). They are both excellent, but I much prefer my MAPP mouse. The big scroll wheel, it's light weight, fast response, and sex appeal make it well worth the somewhat steep mouse price.
Shinza.com sells this mouse, but the site appears down now. perhaps they are no longer in business??
you can also get it here

I prefer this cordless electronic device to the Logitech Cordless Mousman! Doesn't do much for navigating the computer, though.

why not?

this seems to work to get to the hello kitty vibrator

why not?

this seems to work to get to the hello kitty vibrator

I knew that Rei blow-up doll couldn't be a licensed product...

(No, I couldn't deep-link directly to it. Look in the 'Toys' section.)

Enjoy!

Waaay, off topic, but being as you can read Kanji, you should take a look at these shirts. They're at least good for a laugh.

Not all Japanese porn is tentacle rape stuff. Just take a look at this fine video for an example of refined Japanese taste.

GMD

Hello Kitty cellphone/vibrator combo. Hey, it's definitely not out of the question when we're talking about all things Hello Kitty.

Actually, Helly Kitty vibrators already exist.

GMD

G-spot success

And Hentai mags.

There's always the user friendly J-List! I mean, their slogan is even "you've got a friend in Japan..." Oh yeah, and they sell the famous Hello Kitty Vibrator, and a t-shirt that says looking for a japanese girlfriend -- in Japanese... Man, I love this site.

There's always the user friendly J-List! I mean, their slogan is even "you've got a friend in Japan..." Oh yeah, and they sell the famous Hello Kitty Vibrator, and a t-shirt that says looking for a japanese girlfriend -- in Japanese... Man, I love this site.

There's always the user friendly J-List! I mean, their slogan is even "you've got a friend in Japan..." Oh yeah, and they sell the famous Hello Kitty Vibrator, and a t-shirt that says looking for a japanese girlfriend -- in Japanese... Man, I love this site.

I would love to have a T-shirt with a few Kanji characters on it.

Then check out the shirts at JList. Warning, this is some, errr... "nakedness" on their site as well ;)

This site has some: J-List. I did think that they had more shirt than I could find now however. Most likely it's on the site somewhere, it's just not very organized. (But there are a lot of crazy stuff there, so it's fun to browse around.)

If that doesn't help you might be able to find more places from Japan referense altough that is more of a link site to a lot of Japan oriented sites.

Also places like MegaTokyo has some fun shirts as well. (Like the b4k4^2 in kanji shirt.)