Katsuhiro Harada is a lifelong fighting game creator and director of the "Tekken" series, from "Tekken 3" to the recent "Tekken 8". Harada often has a lot of interesting and useful things to say on social media and is quite sensitive to his fans - meaning people often contact him consistently with ideas, concepts, memes, and downright jokes.

Recently, Harada has received one request regarding a new stage of Tekken: a 24-hour diner in the southeastern United States called Waffle House.

"Okay, I will ask you just once about this request. Why are some communities sending in requests for "Waffle House"? Please be sure to explain the basis for your request, including the original story, history, and background. I look forward to an explanation from someone in the know," Harada asked on Twitter/X.

Mr. Harada, why do people want Waffle House? Because Waffle House is like an internet meme: it's pretty cheap, it's open 24 hours a day, and it's a place where people who are drunk and high get into fights. Fighting with each other. With employees. And with themselves.

Not that I condone this, of course, but you can find any number of internet fight videos set in Waffle House. Of course, I do not condone this, but you can find any number of fight videos on the Internet that are set in Waffle House. This has been the case for years, and as a true American Southerner, I have never seen a fistfight at a Waffle House, but I know a dozen people who have seen some sort of fight. [But last year, the Waffle House fight meme status went viral when a Waffle House employee in Texas was videotaped catching a thrown chair and deftly deflecting it aside.

Prior to this, the real meme for Waffle House enthusiasts was the part about not only being open 24 hours a day, but having a contingency plan that would allow them to operate in almost any weather or situation. If the power goes out, there is a menu for that. If there is no water, there is a menu for that. The government disaster response team calls this the "Waffle House Index."

Food and travel writer Anthony Bordenon once called Waffle House "an irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts, where everyone is welcome regardless of race, creed, color, or degree of intoxication. Its warm yellow glow is a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry, the lost, and the seriously beaten down into the South.

If you want the absolute truth about what Waffle House is to much of the American South, you need look no further than Anthony Bourdain's trip to Waffle House on his show Parts Unknown. I have linked to it and will embed it below.

As for "Tekken 8," it's a huge success, with PC Gamer's review of "Tekken 8" describing it as "a wonderful blend of nostalgia for longtime fans and welcome skill for newcomers."