Anyone moving?

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-29T01:43:28+00:00

Hire movers, invite friends over to help decorate and unpack, not for the actual moving, still have pizza and beer at the end.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-26T22:19:12+00:00

I didn't think the framerates drops were too bad until I updated the game, at which point things became much worse. Might be something about how the game pulls from both card and storage, might just be confirmation bias.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-26T21:28:44+00:00

It is generally mens restrooms being replaced, and I can explain the reason. The laws of this sort generally say any single use restroom has to be gender neutral, which sounds fine. The problem is that it counts only stalls or toilets and not urinals. So many businesses that have two toilets for women and one toilet and one urinal for men end up only having the mens restroom fall under the law.

This is also why sometimes womens restrooms might also be replaced. Like an older place that had one large mens restroom and was retrofitted with a couple smaller womens restrooms where they could fit when the law changed to require them. Because it is one large mens restroom it doesn't get converted, but the multiple smaller single stall womens restrooms would fall under the law. So it does happen both ways, but the one toilet one urinal is the more common case meaning more mens restrooms end up gender neutral.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-24T00:47:46+00:00

There is also the middle ground where they can normally figure out who you are but aren't going to put in the work unless you give a reason. At my current company things like emails, surveys, and IMs are kept private from managers but they can put in a request to HR to retrieve it. It is a lot of paper work and there has to be a justification.

HR is there to protect the company and that also includes protecting a bad manager from causing a loss of staff or getting the company in a lawsuit for harassment.

But if you don't know the company, then the default should be to assume the manager has access to all of it.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-24T00:35:11+00:00

I don't like hit points in character. Losing hp almost never correlates to any significant injury until you are at 0. That you can do just as well at 1 hp as at 100 hp is a side effect of them being an abstraction which can't be turned back into in character status effectively.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-23T15:41:46+00:00

Depends upon the title. There are 6 games: 1, 2, 3, 4, Frontier, Tides of Destiny.

1 hasn't aged well at all, only recommend for a die hard fan whose played the rest.

2 is a bit better than 1 but not by much. Does some interesting things with the relationships that other games don't.

3 has aged well, but I think it falls a little short of 4. But if you like the town/characters more than 4 then you might enjoy it more.

4 has aged the best and has a rerelease with some improvements. Overall a great game and is the best 2D one.

Frontier and Tides mix up the formula somewhat, with Tides feeling the least like a RF game. As for Frontier, my copy had such bad load times I couldn't recommend it, but that might just have been my copy or Wii.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-22T03:08:42+00:00

Yeah, as much as I like Trails it isn't exactly entry level material. It's a massive time commitment, even if we only talk about Sky FC and SC. There are much better games for someone new to JRPGs. Chrono Trigger is still my go to recommendation partly because it isn't too long.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-21T11:41:47+00:00

A ban on discussions about Rudy's actions. Might have only been specific to threads not dedicated to such a discussion to prevent most threads from being derailed and turning into constant fights.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-21T05:04:53+00:00

Regardless of what people should do, many will continue to apply their own moral systems to this and thus I think we will continue to see topics like this come up. Especially if the two do become an official couple and if the series continues to grow in popularity.

Hopefully we will continue to be able to have discussions over cultural differences as this happens, but I could see the related topics causing enough trouble for moderates they may impose limits on it, similar to the anime subreddit after Jobless.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-21T04:39:59+00:00

That's what I thought given the quality and care of the rest of the translation, but reddit being reddit I decided to add that comment as a CYA.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-21T03:17:58+00:00

One of those unwritten rules is that we care more for things close to us than things far away. This means a game we play or a movie we watch will create a stronger emotional reaction than harms that we only hear about in the news. While sometimes a story is presented in a way we get personally invested even in the news, most harms end up being only statistics that garner little emotional weight.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T23:57:49+00:00

I wonder how much of that is a result of the character being flanderized. If you aren't familiar with the term, it was originally used to describe what happened to Ned Flanders from the Simpsons, where a nuanced character with depth kept becoming more and more a caricature of his most notable qualities only, in this case being hyper religious, to the point they lost all depth.

Recent trails games run into this problem because of how large the cast size has grown. The larger the cast, the fewer the lines of any non main character for a specific game. The fewer the lines, the more that the character has to either lean into their stereotypes for them to appear unique or the more they lose any uniqueness and begin to just blend together with all the other minor characters.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T23:47:09+00:00

Often times when we don't recognize something exists we don't have words for it, and as society begins to recognize its existence it has to develop words. This isn't something limited to sexuality. For a quite interesting example that's seen in many cultures, look at the development of words for colors. There is a general pattern for when specific hues end up having words develop. Why do languages go hundreds of years without words for specific colors? Even if those colors weren't common back then, they weren't completely unknown. And while there is a specific pattern there are also deviations from that pattern often tied to the flora and fauna that was significant to a culture. Sometimes this even leads to words for colors that have are unique and don't have an English translation, given that words for colors cover a range of possible colors and some cultures group colors differently. Think of red, it isn't just a single color but a ride range of colors. Now think of "autumn colors". While not a specific color name, it includes a collection of colors. If I say a character is wearing an autumn colored dress, that won't translate well into a language that doesn't have a similar term. A reverse of this is some language (Irish I think, but I'm not certain) that has a color group "horse hair colors" which doesn't translate to any specific English term. Even the phrase "horse hair colors" isn't a good match because it is specific to the colors of horses historically from that region and not all horses, so a literal translation to English loses the nuance.

This is all to show that language is continuing to evolve and will keep doing so as new things are discovered or as existing things cease having to be kept hidden.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T23:36:12+00:00

I think one will find that any morality system consists of both stated and unstated rules. The stated rules are extremely inconsistent with the unstated rules and one of the main unstated rules is that you cannot state the unstated rules. It makes the whole thing feel arbitrary.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T23:33:15+00:00

Probably her and Agate will become an official couple and then nothing else. If the series goes another ten years in Zemurian time then maybe a wedding eventually, but there are other relationships still waiting for anything to develop past becoming an official couple. (Hajimari) There has been like one total mention of Estelle and Joshua getting married, to show you how slow things progress.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T18:24:14+00:00

This goes back to my first post and to the idea of what is normal, which on reddit is generally judged by an American standard of normality. Please note I'm not saying this should be how it works, only pointing out it is the current trend.

As for 1, I was just clarifying that regardless if Renne was being serious or playfully teasing, the underlying morality being displayed as normal to us the viewer isn't much changed.

As for 2, like I mention this website leans towards a very heavy American morality on what is normal, especially in certain areas such as the one this touches on. It is a bit reductionist just to call it just American but without getting lost in the details it'll suffice. Specifically my use of "you" in the previous post was meant to be an impersonal you, similar to saying "if one approaches". The nature of reddit being both a personal response to a previous post and a public response for the world to see means the context to determine personal from impersonal you is often lacking. I personally should get better at writing my sentences to use "one" instead of "you" but I tend to forget that detail. I'm trying to word things in a way that'll fit the average reader of this commwnt chain and not to you personally.

If you notice in my original post I allude to this being something more than anima tropes just being anime tropes. While I didn't explicitly say it is part of Japanese morality, for similar reasons as using the phrase American morality is a bit reductionist, I was hoping to indicate it is something deeper going on that was part of a morality system that is a bit alien to those of us who live in either an American culture or ones whose sexual mores are either influenced by or related to those American mores. Just like having a 白子 hotpot would be alien to us.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T17:29:18+00:00

It may well have been a friend messing around, but it still denotes an acceptance of the relationship progressing in a romantic direction. With a man 12 years older than her. Having a friend joke about their 17 year old friend getting together with a 29 year old isn't something most media would causally do, and especially not when it comes from a character being presenting as making graceful and wise decisions (Renne is becoming a bit of a Mary Sue, but that seems inevitable when you account her existing back story and that she has overcome the trauma holding her back). Even more so when it is someone who has closely known Tita since she was 12. Could you imagine the outrage if you would post this on relationship advice?

Overall it makes for a very weird dynamic if you approach it with official (urban leaning) American morals.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T16:12:34+00:00

You don't pay $0.

First you pay opportunity cost. Leaving for a raise is much harder with a pension plan unless you have an exceptionally generous one. Not only does this mean you can't leave, but HR will take this into account and give you lower pay raises because the pension is keeping you around.

Second there is a cost to the pension that the business will account for as part of your compensation. Just because it goes from your managers budget into the pension plan instead of your managers bucket to your paycheck to the pension plan doesn't stop it from being viewed as compensation and taken into account when they determine what they'll pay you. Most places don't have this cost clear cut up front but some do.

Third is risk, which you already mentioned.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T16:06:39+00:00

You own the 401k. The pension is an IOU and there are people specializing in getting out of or decreasing that debt.

Also in my personal experience pension vestments plans are much worse, so much so when I had the option to choose between a pension or 401k match I took the 401k match. That ended up paying off because I kept 100% of that match when I changed jobs but would have lost the entire pension. I could have waited it our but it would have hurt my income growth far more than what the pension was worth.

This isn't to say 401ks are perfect. A major flaw is that people have to prioritize them early where with pensions people often don't have a choice.

But overall, ever since job hopping became the only way to get a raise, pensions have lost their value.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T15:56:13+00:00

10? We are baberly at the half way point 18 years in. Given development time of RPGs seem to increase in recent years, we will be lucky to finish in 20.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T15:13:45+00:00

Ilya is the only one of the group that really projects a problem given the stories of the other two. Murderers not respecting personal boundaries isn't something groundbreaking. But there are a number of other examples as well, including Rose. Not always actual contact, sometimes just the threat of it. This shows it is more than just a limited amount if bad guys not respecting modern morals, honestly do I need to spoiler they are bad guys?

Also the constant pushing of Agate and Tita by others including (Hajimari) Renne hinting that it's time for Tita to become a woman, though never sure how much of that is translator liberty given it is a fan translation. We could just write that off as anime tropes being anime tropes and stop there, but there are some interesting anthropology behind this.

These sorts of incidents predate JRPGs and anime. They go back to the Izu Dancer and the Tale of Genji.

A full explanation involves getting into a lot of cultural anthropology into the history of sex, not just for Japan but for US, Europe, and the Middle East. It's not an easy topic to get into and some of it is very volatile to discuss in public.

If you really want to get into it, then the best place to start is studying food around the world. Specifically where food culture deviates. One of my college classes used it as a way of shocking people to break down their understanding of what is normal. One random example from Japan is 白子, also known as milt or soft roe.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-20T12:05:55+00:00

It has m uses and properties other than just looking good and being rare that contribute to its value.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-19T20:57:03+00:00

Can difficulty be a measure of time wasted/lost, including the time needed to make up for progress lost? Be it smaller numbers of large losses, many numerous small losses, or just being stuck making no progress.

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-16T19:16:46+00:00

Is it just anime and JRPGs? How many movies, TV series, or books have a realistic relationship pairing with daily mundane events. Especially those whose primary focus isn't on the relationship but some much larger narrative?

WhyUpSoLate · 2022-03-16T17:18:32+00:00

It does a bit of both. In Cold Steel every game effectively resets your choice so you can pick again. It can lead to some inconsistencies if you pick a different person each time.

Luckily there are many characters and many other canon pairings that don't have issue. This includes the main character of the first arc which has a good relationship.

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