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A man has gone viral for unexpectedly liking the video game Dressmaker, a cozy indie game inspired by real dressmaking that’s been trending online since it was released in late September.

In clips online, he can be seen midway through his meal when a waiter approaches him about additional orders

American Twitch streamer Lacy was left furious during his Japan livestream after viewers allegedly exploited a restaurant’s QR code ordering system to place food orders worth thousands of dollars without his knowledge. The streamer claimed he was eventually forced to pay approximately $12,000 for orders placed by online viewers as a prank.

Social media influencer, Lacy, found himself in a unique situation after his livestream viewers hacked the restaurant’s QR code and ordered food on his tab.

A routine restaurant stop during American Twitch streamer Lacy’s first trip to Japan turned chaotic when he accidentally showed the table’s QR code on camera. Viewers quickly scanned it from the stream and placed a flood of remote orders that Lacy says ballooned the tab to roughly ¥1.6 million (about $12,000 USD).

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The Toshima City Tokiwaso Manga Museum (豊島区立トキワ荘マンガミュージアム) will hold the special exhibition “Manga Artist Hideko Mizuno Exhibition: That Single Brushstroke Changed Manga” (特別企画展「マンガ家 水野英子展 -その一筆が、マンガを変えた。-」) from Saturday, December 5, 2026.

The US Democratic Partyis facing a crisis ahead of the upcoming midterm elections in November. At the centre of the chaos is the 35-year-old Turkish-American podcaster, Hasan Piker. He has a strong following with three million followers on the streaming platform Twitch.

Legendary Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, who caused a national sensation with his boxing series “Ashita no Joe” or “Fighting for Tomorrow,” a story about an orphan becoming a professional boxer, has died. He was 87.

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