sometimes I worry about the ways that a lack of accessible helpful mental healthcare intersects with personality test culture to create a thing where everyone is dying to self-diagnose based on hearsa...

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.

In reality, Tokimeki Memorial is a titan in Japanese game history in its own right, its reach similarly vast and persistent across decades. If those N64 classics helped define how games in more established genres would play and control as the industry embraced polygons, Tokimeki Memorial helped expand what games could be about outright, demonstrating how to apply existing technology and design techniques to enrich the gameplay experience and infuse it with more personal significance, often with tools as simple as the human voice. It’s no exaggeration to say, then, that it stands as not only one of Konami’s most important games and not even simply one of the biggest games released in the 1990s, but one of the most vital Japanese games ever made. Foreign audiences may only just now be widely beginning to warm up to some of its ideas as its progeny attain even greater heights in its wake. But in Japan, they’ve been informing video games this entire time, 25 years and counting. That they’re now making a mark overseas at long last speaks to the universal power belying them and the continuing relevance of one simple, radical belief: that love belongs in video games, too.

good explanation on rendaku, and why 一本気 is pronounced like that

A general reminder on the importance of sensible subtitle styling, which is something that no service that deals in subtitles ought to fail at - especially ones dealing primarily with subtitled content like simulcast anime - yet here we are anyway