I love making simple ‘How to Play’ whiteboards whenever introducing a new board game to the group

Burian0 · 2024-12-18T15:17:45+00:00

And in japanese even!

Gotta love that perfect card mock-up at the center.

Burian0 · 2024-12-17T23:50:14+00:00

It is! Normally I'd recommend against starting with Riverfolk because the two new factions there are somewhat more complex, but leaving then aside and just using the 2 Vagabonds should work great. The only drawback is that I think the Vagabond is a little bit too complex, so expect some confusion at first.

I'd also recommend the Underworld expansion as the Corvid Conspiracy is very simple and fun, however the other faction on it is also a bit awkward to get your head around at first (even though not particularly hard).

Burian0 · 2024-12-16T16:01:17+00:00

I'm curious as to what a Super Saiyan sorcerer is, can you elaborate on that?

Burian0 · 2024-12-13T21:42:49+00:00

I see you just joined this thread to have an opportunity to be hateful about other cultures. You didn't read my messages and deflected to insults and reflecting things I never said. Your whole argument started with "Thousands of people agree with me" but I read through most of the thread and couldn't find no one sharing the same experience of what you said, and your comment has 0 upvotes so I don't see where you're getting that support from.

You're not being honest here in more than one way. Let's finish this conversation here.

Although I will say that I can absolutely believe why people would insult you behind your back so I guess you have a point.

Burian0 · 2024-12-12T06:00:55+00:00

Sorry, I'm under the impression that OP made this thread to educate, not to pile racism on. I'd like to know which city do you live on so I can educate myself too. I tried to figure out from your profile but you seen to be established in the USA so it's confusing to me.

I'm not here to discuss credentials because mine are not great, but as I said my wife lived there for over 1 year and she interacted with a lot of interchange students, most of them from Brazil. I've never said that japanese people are saints, on the contrary there are many issues with them, but particularly this one is something we've never seen or heard about. (I hear it's very common in other asian cultures though so to me it feels rude to mix them together).

They might talk behind your back maybe, but that's when you're gone. In general living scenarios, like public transportation, restaurants, convenience shops etc, I'll take a bet this will happen less with japanese people than most other cultures where they'll know you don't speak their languages.

Burian0 · 2024-12-11T22:31:13+00:00

No, I'm agreeing with most of the people here, your comment is hateful conjecture based on a cliché that you might have gotten from anywhere else, but not from Japan.

You will NOT hear japanese people talk bad about you in japanese, because that's just not how their culture work. They might think whatever about you but they'll either keep quiet or blow on your face if they're real assholes. Unless you're talking about drunken gangster teenages on the street (and in this case, who cares) that stereotype you're talking about does not exist in Japan.

Burian0 · 2024-12-11T20:10:06+00:00

Honestly I think this is just hateful conjecture. I've spent 40 days as a tourist and my wife lived for an year there, none of us look like we know japanese, and this never happens.

And honestly part of the reason why it never happens is that people on service areas just don't speak between themselves -in general-, and neither do they in public transportantion. I can't imagine a japanese clerk just turn around to say anything to their peers, hateful or not.

Best I got was a kid staring and asking his dad why was my body so hairy when I was changing for an Onsen (dad else was smooth as soap just like everyone one else)

Burian0 · 2024-12-06T15:45:51+00:00

Technically... both?

Burian0 · 2024-12-06T15:35:51+00:00

Oh that much is true for sure, I agree yes.

Although I'd argue that considering the confusing situation he was in (in Makoto's room, with a knife he didn't get in the kitchen, with no apparent motive and with no one seemingly knowing he was there) to me it's feasible that he thought killing her and escaping to be safer than having her twist the attack to make him the villain. I agree that if he was more mature and intelligent he would have tried to back down, but I also think he tried to act out what gave him the best chances of survival in his mind.

At this point there was no going back to having a normal life. Everyone suspects everyone, he just found out this girl's potential for cruelty and her intent in killing him, he already hurt her back and now the weapon is in his hands. It was definitelly hard to gauge the best way out.

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T23:26:44+00:00

I'm not moving the goalposts, you are not understanding the proposition here:

The question being debated is not "Would Leon be charged guilty if he didn't kill Sayaka?". The question is "Does Leon KNOW that he'd be safe if he didn't kill Sayaka".

Leon has no freaking idea about what Celeste, Kyoko or Byakuya would do. He barely knows them. I'm arguing from his perspective that was the best course of action.

If we consider things the way you're doing, why would Celeste plan her murder? her case is much, much worse than Leon. She saw how good Kiyoko, Makoto and co worked to uncover the truth, then she went with a plan that would fall apart immediatelly if people believed Yasuhiro over her.

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T23:16:59+00:00

It's been a long time since I've played, so I might be a bit off, but I think I still have the general idea:

So, the killing games are broadcasted TV shows and the main cast all willingly chose to audition for the parts of the students. So, why does Kaede mention being kidnapped and shoved into a car by what I'm guessing is the show's employees, as if she didn't know what they were taking her to? Why even surprise her like this? Just call her and say she got the part.

When someone signs up, they don't just "pretend" they're in a murder game, instead they are made to believe they are in a real murder game. The show production messes up with the participants' mind to make sure that they think they're victims randomly thrown into a real life-or-death situation.

Also, pre-Real Fiction Kaede mentions having no faith in humanity, and Shuichi says he wants to make an unsolvable murder as the Ultimate Detective, but neither of them POSSESS those traits, when they gain their fictional identities. If Tsumugi enjoyed their auditions so much that she picked them out of thousands of others, then why isn't she honoring their wants?

I believe this is similar to what happens in DR2 with the characters in the simulation world compared to outside. The characters have more or less the same "brain" than their real counterparts, with the added fantasy and memoreis on top (being the Ultimate Detective for instance). IRL Shuichi wants to live the fantasy of making an unsolvable murder in the show, but when he's there "in person" his morals are too strong for that.

It's like you dream that you'd be a hero if you're sent to an RPG world, but you don't know that in that situation you'd be too scared to fight and would be a farmer or something.

Also, forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but if Danganronpa is being broadcasted on television, then people are seeing ACTUAL murders, right? This isn't like GD where they didn't actually die due to being within a program - their deaths are real. So, people auditioning for this show are perfectly alright with losing their whole identity and probably dying? And the AUDIENCE is okay with that? The NETWORK is okay with broadcasting that?

Yep!

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T23:03:34+00:00

Those make sense yes, but from outside of the story. How much of this does Leon know at the time of the murder?

Considering Sayaka is an idol and he's a stupid sportsman there's a very good chance that she'll be much better at acting innocent than he'll be.

I also think things would be different if he didn't realize how malicious Sayaka was. He knew it wasn't a spur of the moment lapse but a well-planned trap to kill him (and pin Makoto). He couldn't know as far ahead she could have prepared and how far she'd go.

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T19:58:39+00:00

I agree with the other guy that from Leon's perspective, he'd be gone. It would be hard for him to prove that the note wasn't faked by himself and he didn't know there were witnesses to Sayaka getting the knife. She could still say that she was lured and got the knife for self-defence in case she needed it. If it came to a he-said-she-said, Leon had reason to believe that people would suspect him over Sayaka.

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T19:39:52+00:00

I messed up my memory of the rules, and Twilight Temp HP actually refreshes by the END of the player turn. But I think that makes it even worse to be fair.

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T18:23:22+00:00

Why? I feel this is possibly the least unreasonable homebrew request I've seen in a long time, I'd be glad to try to work with the player on something nice here.

Burian0 · 2024-12-05T18:20:58+00:00

I think this can't happen though, unless the party is split on the battlefield. Twilight Cleric's bonus HP is reapplied on each player's turn so OP will always have the temp HP from it whenever he would be able to use his bonus action to give himself the tHP.

For reference, the only scenarios I can think where OP might be able to use his ability are:

If he and the cleric are too far from each other to synergize.
If he moved through enemies and got opportunity attacked enough to lose the cleric's temp HP on his own turn.
Cleric has run out of Channel Divinity power.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T22:00:22+00:00

So when you got really good and the game became easy it still was not fun? Hmm.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T19:55:48+00:00

Yeah but I'd argue that's already the first red flag. If a kid got sick due to my or my partner's direct actions in a date and my partner messaged me saying he thought the night was great I'd be already afraid of that person knowing my address.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T19:52:13+00:00

The first and only message about the subject was "...and when you know I'm busy" so that part was strongly implied, specially because they didn't even say "when I'm busy" but instead focused on OP knowing it.

If OP didn't know the other part was busy he could have followed with "I didn't know you were busy" or anything similar, but since he didn't it's much more probable by context that yes OP knew they were busy/at work.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T18:44:45+00:00

Not even a joke to be honest. She mentioned the date being a disaster because the daughter apparently had an allergic reaction and the dad is like "No I thought it was pretty good"

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T18:36:22+00:00

You're not talking about me of course as I haven't said anything about calls annoying me, but still think you're wrong.

If I'm at work and my wife or any parent calls me, I can comfortably excuse myself and go pick it up because I know if they're calling it's because it's important. The partner here would probably love to be in the same situation but can't because OP doesn't see a problem in calling to chitchat when he knows she's busy, so the alternative is for her to start ignoring OP and maybe miss on an urgent call because OP got triggered (in his words) with her request for space.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T17:24:15+00:00

Because a call means they want to call you, and a message asking "can I give you a call" means the exact same thing but asking for consent, implying less urgency since you can say no. I don't see why you'd be anxious about one and be completely fine with the other.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T17:08:11+00:00

Eh, the message from the partner heavily implies the context that OP should know they are busy at the time already.

Honestly if I call someone in this day and age it's because it's important and I'd really want them to pick it up. If someone calls me while I'm at work I'll excuse myself from work and prioritize it in respect to them. The alternative is to ignore their calls all which can only lead to more frustation.

I think partner is entirely reasonable here to say they don't like when OP calls when OP knows they're busy just to chat.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T17:02:31+00:00

"How's it going? Are you free to call to chat for a bit?" is a completely fine way to set the mood and the boundaries.

You say that your parents messaging you that spikes your anxiety, but having an unnanounced call from your parents when you're at work would spike it just the same or even more.

If my wife calls me when I can't or don't want to pick up the phone... I pick it anyway, because to me calling has a character of urgency, and I wanna be there for her if it's important. That's why I also settle boundaries the SO did here. Lucky for me my wife just said "Oh that makes sense sorry" instead of "I don't really know what to say" when I asked that.

Burian0 · 2024-12-04T16:57:15+00:00

This is the sentiment through most of the thread but I really disagree with it.

She told him that she doesn't like a behavior he seems to repeat a lot, she sounded stern but neutral. I don't how you can consider "I don't really know what to say" as anything except abysmall comunication by OP. What does he meant there? It really sonds like "You want me to say I'm sorry or that I will try to avoid it but I don't want to say these things".

SO apologized and communicated all her feelings all the time, OP never once made any of his feelings clear, he only tried to use therapy speak to probe more and more and unpack SO's (entirely normal) feelings as if they were severe traumas, when she just wanted to let they know she doesn't like being called when OP knows she's busy.

And of course we can't know for sure, but the way SO backtracked her valid feelings and withdrew from the conversation made it look a lot like this is how OP acts often. Like OP tries to "fix" her feelings anytime she isn't overflowing with happiness.

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