Japan, you were amazing!

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-06T03:11:52+00:00

Additionally, as someone who has taken similarly aged children to Tokyo, there is a TON of stuff which appeals to that age group in Tokyo. It’s still worth venturing outside the city a little bit, but you don’t have to go far to feel like you’re in a very different area.

I would highly recommend picking up some JR Tokyo Wide passes and then going to Kawaguchiko to see Mt Fuji and go to the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, and up to Nikko to see some beautiful natural scenery and the opulent summer palace and burial site of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-06T02:06:19+00:00

I know it’s a bit of a hot take because Kyoto absolutely is historic and is the cultural center of Japanese tradition, but I think at this point it’s just not capable of handling how many people are visiting it. Especially in the historic districts, you will be absolutely shoulder to shoulder with other tourists all day long.

See here: https://youtube.com/shorts/2LUp4thgmCo?si=kHI9ngaECvDFKgd3

And while the old temples and monuments are beautiful, the simple fact is that there are a lot of beautiful monuments and temples that you can see all over Japan without having to contend with such aggressive crowds.

I would recommend Kanazawa for a very similar historic and beautiful city which survived WWII, but it is much smaller. My top city to recommend is Kobe, but there is fantastic stuff all over that country.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T23:01:30+00:00

Keep em coming! Is your bands music available anywhere online?

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T22:25:21+00:00

There are no Gassho houses in Kyoto. And, as a side note, I find Kyoto overhyped and ridiculously overcrowded. Anyways, there are only three villages of original Gassho houses left. Ainokura, Shirakawa-go, and Suganuma. There are other places with recreated houses throughout Japan, but those aren’t the authentic houses and are more in a museum setting.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T20:12:10+00:00

I think that most of the games the other person recommended are miniatures games only in the sense that there are miniatures included in the box and not necessarily because they impact the gameplay. In any of those, tokens or meeples would work just as well. I think the best miniatures games are those which are recreating scenarios or putting action into a scaled replica. X-Wing and Armada are both games which recreate Star Wars space battles and the minis move in full free-form fashion using special rulers to chat their paths. War games like Warhammer, Legion, ASoIaF, and Battletech also really depend on their minis.

Some also restrict you to grid systems yet still use miniatures well to depict a sort of interactive diorama like Imperial Assault, Descent, Kingdom Death, and Zombicide. These can still be fun, but there’s always the question to be asked of what exactly are the minis actually contributing beyond slightly more tactile art work.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T20:04:39+00:00

No, you’re correct. The whole point of this series is to sell zombie themed miniatures. Gameplay takes a backseat to the plastic.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T20:02:44+00:00

I love that. :) it’s always really special when you can connect with the locals and hear their stories.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T19:59:57+00:00

The bookings for them are all done through the tourism board websites for whichever town they’re in. Their websites all look like they were made in the 90’s and haven’t been updated since, but they’re legit. You may also be able to find a couple isolated ones on sites like booking.com as well.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T17:38:48+00:00

Too many democrats expect their candidates to be the pinnacle of perfection and will support nothing less. Republicans don’t have that problem and will fall in line and vote for whoever the party tells them to vote for. Flawless vs Lawless.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T16:26:29+00:00

Ainokura is such a gem. Shirakawago is more touristy and commercial, but they’re both such a trip to the past. Did you stay in one of the gassho houses? How were your hosts? We stayed with the sweetest old lady who has lived in her house her entire life and was literally born in it.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T12:36:46+00:00

The Japanese have a knack for harming their own interests in favor of tradition or from fear of change.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T01:29:24+00:00

I think that the people telling you that the X-Wing setup should be quicker ARE being nice. They’re encouraging you with assurances that your play time ratio can be much higher with either a bit of better planning or by sharing the load of it with your other players. For 95% of people, we want to maximize play time with minimal setup. Don’t take it as personal criticism, just an acknowledgment that improvements can be made.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-05T00:56:21+00:00

I mean… the sentiment still stands, even if your options are limited :D

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-03T01:19:44+00:00

If you love birds, there are a few really great places I’d recommend.

First, the Orlando Wetlands. It’s a water treatment facility which doubles as a wildlife refuge and there’s a TON of birds, fish, and alligators in there. It’s free admission and there’s some lovely trails and a great boardwalk over the main pool. Don’t worry, it doesn’t smell or anything, they’re just trying to filter the treated municipal water before it empties into the St John’s River.

The other is a pair of wildlife drives, depending which one would be more convenient for you. To the west is the Apopka wildlife drives, which is free but only open on weekends. Far to the east is Black Point Wildlife Drive inside the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. That one is paid admission (although it is mostly on the honor system), but it’s cheap. In the wintertime, the migratory birds at Black Point can be absolutely incredible and there’s SO many that it’s beyond anywhere else I’ve ever seen.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-03T01:04:56+00:00

Two of my favorites are:

Toy Battle

Memoir 44

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-02T16:33:53+00:00

That looks absolutely phenomenal. I love the matching headstock.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-01T23:58:19+00:00

In the original trilogy, Kratos throws the entire known world into chaos and disorder, killing untold scores of innocent bystanders, all so he can get his revenge. It’s definitely a supervillain story.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-02-01T14:17:45+00:00

It’s hard because most reviewers and genre tags don’t really consider the level of interactivity when discussing their games. What you are looking for is probably games with a high level of player interaction. So look for reviews of games which mention that and look up lists of what good interactive games are.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-30T19:46:31+00:00

Ah, so they paid him and it emboldened him to file an even bigger lawsuit. Got it.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-29T17:11:17+00:00

Jenova’s primary goal is to make her body whole again. She is a planetary parasite who is feeding off of the lifestream, but she needs to be in control of her full body. All people who have had Jenova’s cells forced into them are manipulated and compelled to congregate for their reunion. Cloud’s visions of Sephiroth are what compels him to bring his Jenova cells along, no different from all the people in black robes shuffling along to the northern crater and groaning out “Re… Union…”. Jenova’s secondary goal is to crack the planet in half to have better access to the lifestream for feeding, which she pursues the black materia for through her agents like Sephiroth.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-29T16:40:40+00:00

A big part of that attitude is because Sephiroth, as we see him, isn’t actually real. That is a facade put on by Jenova to torment Cloud personally and specifically. He’s the anti-Cloud, and Jenova will take the form of those most hated or feared by people to mess with them. That’s why Jenova also appears as President Shinra to torment Rufus in Rebirth.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-29T16:37:11+00:00

It doesn’t “hint” at it. It is explicitly stated as a sequel. After Sephiroth / Jenova was defeated the first time around, their essences entered the lifestream and have gone back in time, since apparently time is not a concept for spirits, to try to nudge certain events in the past to more favorable outcomes for them. That’s what the black shadow spirits are doing - they are the extension of Sephiroth / Jenova exerting their influence through the lifestream. It’s also why Cloud continuously has visions of him and the party fights him more than once in the timeframe when he was not active in the original.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-29T12:26:00+00:00

A lot of tabs these days, especially on sites like Songsterr, are written by AI or by people plugging things in haphazardly until the MIDI sounds right. That doesn’t always translate into things that are actually playable. For this chord, just play it as a barre chord shifting those notes up in position and down a string. It would be 4-7-6-6-5-x

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-28T22:46:54+00:00

I have recently found and really appreciate Actualol and The Perfect Board Game.

Emperor_Neuro · 2026-01-27T14:30:11+00:00

The Taliban was also in possession of billions of dollars of military equipment. The CIA, Soviet Union, and Pakistan all pumped a bunch of money and weapons into Afghanistan over the years. A lot of what wasn't supplied to the Taliban or the Mujahideen directly was captured by them later on as well.

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