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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Also, the menu screen needs to say...

  • SAVE (the children)

  • LOAD (the gun)

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've been to multiple hamburger festivals in Japan

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Japan is heavily Americanized.

Show me the Hamburger Party in Hamburg.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s awesome, and only a six hour drive! I’m even familiar with that area from previous road trips. I’ll have to put it on the list for next year

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm only five hrs from the Cheeseburger festival in Caseville, MI and I'm a fan of the area. Summer can't come soon enough!

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Close to 16 hours for me. That’s a bit far for a cheeseburger

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

That sounds pretty awesome, wish I had done that at some point in my life.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Why WOULDN'T it be real? I remember many years ago I saw a trivia fact that said around 50% of all restaurants in the United States had hamburger on the menu? Maybe that changed (it was a late 90s/ early 2000s trivia fact) but hamburger is still super common and popular.

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago

To be fair, this was a pretty safe bet.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I legitimately want this

Japan failing to understand Western Culture is like.. one of my favorite Bad Writing Tropes!

I love it when they try to give Christianity a magic system.

God I love Castlevania, but I gotta chuckle when I see things like Church Appointed Witches or the Catholic Church having Pan as an informant....

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Christianity takes in Japan is wild. It was an underground religion for a few centuries, which always makes things fun.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

To be fair it was an underground religion in the west for a while too

Honestly, NGE's version of the Rapture/Eternity/Fanta wasn't even that bad.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Japan as a whole utterly fails to comprehend what nuns are and it's kind of hilarious when it pops up.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This thing has been reminding me it exists every few years for the past 2 decades.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

My first time seeing it.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 52 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Just in my immediate area I could go to (when they're being held that is):

A peach festival, a garlic festival, a chocolate festival, the state fair which is like a giant stereotype all of its own, an apricot festival, a Sturgis satellite thing, classic car festival and tribute to American Graffiti fucking up traffic downtown, and so many more I haven't personally been to or even heard of, I'm sure.

We celebrate everything because then we have an excuse to party.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Potential character names:

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I went to find this before realizing this was the reference!

[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

You know, for a bunch of made up names some of them sound both funny and kinda believable.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Bonzalez at least looks like an English->Japanese->English transliteration problem.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Toad Bongzales would be a great stage name

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[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There are no finer names than Bobson Dugnutt and Dwigt Rortugal.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Bobson Dugnutt has always been my favorite. It sounds like a perfectly legitimate Western name, it just...isn't. The Japanese equivalent would be something like Fujohiko Watashinze.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

But what about all american county boy Todd Bonzales? Hes just a teenager in american high school who secretly had the power of Trucks and County Music and Cowboy Hat.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mike Truck is my personal favourite.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago

Isn’t he a governor in Texas? Works closely with the very Biggest of Big Oil.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I like how the portrait of Karl Dandleton is a pretty girl

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Picking a food that doesn't have a festival in the US would be harder than the other way around.

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[–] ByteOnBikes 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

One of my favorite games is Earthbound, made by a Japanese company who made a game with a setting similar to America.

I want more JPRGs from an outsiders lens looking in.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

They really captured it with police brutality and trashcan hamburgers.

Real talk, though, Earthbound is unique in that they hired a famous comedian to write it. Same for the other Mother games.

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[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

in Hamburg, PA

Perfection.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bros just stole that from Hamburg, Germany

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 29 points 4 days ago (22 children)

I need to go to the USA and actually try an American hamburger. Not a McDonald's, a proper big fuck off freedom burger

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