[ScreamingAtAWall]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to post all of this. I had no idea about a lot of this stuff, especially the eating-sushi-with-your-hands tip, or the proper use of the ginger, or the picking-up-a-rice-bowl-to-make-life-easier. I always fumble with chopsticks over here in the US whenever I use them...

And I've always thought the arcade queue was a little intrusive. Some of my friends that play DDR do that, place something on the machine to call a spot, but I've never seen anyone do that with any other game (or at least they don't get enough of a crowd to warrant such a practice. Most arcades here are pretty much dead, like you mentioned.)