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Brian Ashcraft
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Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored six books, including most recently, The Japanese Sake Bible.

That dude under a CRT screen is asking for serious trouble. Read more

That last one is definitely the best one. Also most dangerous. But still the best. Read more

“I look forward to playing it in 2045" Read more

Well, it can’t taste worse than all the other chu-hai already on the shelves. Read more

I believe we’ve peaked as a sentient race at this point. Read more

I did voice over for a few years and developed a handful of voices. I had “authoritative serious guy,” “fun commercial guy,” and some goofy cartoon voices, and sometimes those voices just come out of me spontaneously.

I hung out with a group of veteran voice actors at a bar after SDCC one year. There were no fans Read more

Aaand we’re hungry again...
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While we’re talking about sports event mascots, allow me to brag a little and share with you the mascots for 2018 Asian Games. Which will be held in Indonesia this summer.

Compared to a lot of previous Olympic mascots, these guys are leaps and bounds better, honestly. Considering some of the ones we’ve seen before, I’ll take generic Pokemon ripoff characters any day.
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Gotta keep both hands on the wheel. Single handed driving is unsafe. Read more

I’m gonna assume when you open the chips an ad pops up in the bag that keeps you from getting to the chips for 5 seconds. Then another ad plays when you’ve been eating for at least 8 minutes.
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Arc System Works’ Daisuke Ishiwatari noted that Capcom’s male characters don’t have nipples either. But... Mario has nipples!

I like to think Miyazaki said, “this Harvey Weinstein,” with a little dismissive question mark at the end.
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There’s a Holocaust museum in Hiroshima. There is literally no excuse. Read more

Once again we find that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. Even though this happened in Japan this reminder is still relevant:

Can you really call it fired when the guy was freelance and his contract was over months ago? Read more

I reported the guy on twitter when the gas chamber tweets started appearing and I’m glad that he got what he deserved (still waiting on twitter to do something though). Read more

Or you take the high speed shots of other skaters out of context and it looks like a bethesda game

Give your tile a Kai-O-Kleaning!
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