[Japanese] - Shenmue - "Years ago...I was Chinese"

If you've ever played Shenmue before, then you've no doubt ran into this infamous line of dialog.  The line of dialog in question being:“Years ago...I was Chinese. Now I’m a Naturalized Japanese. In China, my name was Su Jian Ren.”Sounds odd, right?Now here is the original Japanese as presented...

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[Feature] - My Top 5 Dreamcast Games

When I was a child, I grew up with a massive love of everything SEGA. I was as far from the Nintendo kids as one could get. SEGA was my number one guy! The first console I remember in our household was the original SEGA Master System. You know? The big bulky one that came complete with an E-Card Slot...

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[Review] - Last Night In Soho

A young, pretty and naive country girl heads to the big city with aspirations of becoming the overnight success story she always dreamed of. Only to be confronted by a barrage of perverted predators looking to feed on hot young flesh in return. Tell me if you haven't heard that story before? It’s an...

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[Feature] - A Look Back At Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist

For the past few years now, John Ajvide Lindqvist has become one of my favorite horror authors. The man made his name a few years back with his most well known work, Let the Right One In. A classic story of a bullied 12 year old boy befriending a vampire. The novel became so quickly beloved that it...

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[Feature] Happy 21st Birthday to the Shenmue Dojo

Man, it’s hard to believe it’s been 21 years since I first played Shenmue on my Dreamcast way back when. It’s even harder to believe it’s been at least 19 years since I first heard of the Shenmue Dojo. My first time hearing about the fan site known as the Shenmue Dojo was way back in 2002. I found the...

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[Feature] - Cold Fish (Or An Examination of Societal Pressures In A Conformist Society)

Have you ever felt downtrodden? Have you ever felt past your prime? Have you ever felt so disrespected and overlooked that it makes you boil with anger deep inside? Have you ever felt so powerless to actually let that anger out in any healthy fashion? Have you ever felt that deep resentment fester until...

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[Review] Home Sweet Home Alone -- (or Better Left Alone In The Trash)

I believe that we now have a new genre for certain films. I like to call this genre “Movies for the Lobotomized.” Surely that’s a bit mean, you say. But I ask, have you seen Home Sweet Home Alone? A Disney Plus affair that makes the perfect case for my argument. Because I firmly believe that the ONLY...

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[Feature] - Let the Right One In (Or A Meditation On The Nature Of Love)

Let’s jump way back to 2009. It was another day stuck behind my desk in a dreary office pushing paperwork through the system. It was a bright warm March day outside and there I was stuck in a cold office dreaming of escape. My plan for that weekend was to go and see the then-newly released film adaptation...

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