🐯 Welcome to the Jungle: The Official Den of Johnny (Tiger) Tai

One of my favorite jokes is that Chinese people are the only people Chinese people are racist against. And before anybody gets upset, relax. I’m Chinese,  I was born Chinese, I grew up Chinese, my parents are Chinese, my relatives are Chinese. I’ve spent over forty years dealing with Chinese people; I think I’ve earned the right to bitch :) The funny thing is that whenever I make this joke, every Chinese person within hearing distance immediately starts nodding and chuckling. Not cautiously, not politely—just full recognition, like I’ve just said something everybody already agreed on but nobody wanted to say out loud. Now I’m not saying Chinese people are uniquely terrible. Every culture has its own internal chaos. But there is something uniquely funny about how a Chinese person can walk into a room full of Chinese people and immediately find twenty-seven reasons to dislike the other Chinese people in that same room. In the video attached to this post, I go into the ...

There are action figures you buy because they look cool. There are figures you buy because they complete a team. There are figures you buy because they'll look great on a shelf beside what you already own. And then there are the holy grails. The characters that don't just represent a franchise, but a memory, a period of your life, a piece of who you are. For me, Orochi Yashiro falls squarely into that last category. Alongside characters like Sagat from Street Fighter, Younger Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho, Bryan Fury from Tekken, and Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower, Yashiro has always been one of those characters I was going to buy no matter what. Too big, too small, poor articulation, high price—I didn't care. If somebody finally made him, he was coming home with me. And after waiting decades, Storm Collectibles finally delivered. Image: box back showing multiple posed photos, interchangeable heads, Japanese text, character art, and health-bar style name strip. ## Who Is O...