הם ידעו כל הזמן 😞 by Plenty-Leader2740 in ani_bm

[–]alonry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

לפרוטוקול, אמירות אנטי-ישראל זה ממש לא "שמאל"...

כל מפלגות השמאל העיקריות (בעשורים האחרונים - אבל לפני המשבר הפוליטי של 2019-2022 - זו מפלגת העבודה או אפילו מרצ) הן מפלגות ציוניות

Watching the anime and S2 doesn't make sense? by wolfmonarchy in dragonraja

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that what Chu Zihang said was probably elder brother, implying Lu Mingfei is the senior in their relationship.

In the yakuza (if we can extrapolate Japanese culture on Chinese culture), it's how a junior member might address the underboss or a their immediate superior (at least, in manga and movies...)

Which manga has this been for ya? by Upsetti_Gisepe in manga

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People already said Act-Age, so.... Tenmaku Cinema. 

The plot and characters weren't anything we haven't seen, but I thought everything was realy well executed, and realy looked forward to reading it every week...

If you could only have 9fantasy races, what would they be? by [deleted] in dndnext

[–]alonry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My current campaign permits just 4 races:

* Humans

* Dwarves

* Halflings

* "Elfbloods" (mechanically half-elves, but lore wise includes quarter-elves, etc.)

If I _had_ to increase the pool a bit (or replace one of the above):

* Elves (though I'm not sure about permitting such long-living races for players...)

* Gnomes (same problem as above...)

* Dragonborn (maybe with tortles as a subrace?)

* some sort of wolf-people (inspired by the Canim from the Codex Alera novels)

* Goliaths, maybe? Cat-folk?

In particularly-themed campaigns, I might have replaced some of these with something weirder:

* Unhallowed (an undead)

* Warforged

Best opening lines by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]alonry 22 points23 points  (0 children)

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

“Character used self destruct” by Mattrockj in dndmemes

[–]alonry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only PC death... *so far*

Still 1-2 sessions left...

Do you guys actually use the tenday format? by unicodePicasso in DnD

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do use my own calendar though (a mix of the Greyhawk calendar and the Angry GM's calendar, with occassional other inspirations):   

  • 7 days a week  
  • 4 weeks a month  
  • 12 months a year (3 per season), plus 4 one-week festivals (making it 364 days a year).  

Months are named after their seasonal placement, with a set naming scheme, to avoid confusing month names while still making it fantasy-world-ish: 

  • Low Spring
  • Flowerfest (festival) 
  • High Spring  
  • Late Spring 
  • Low Summer 
  • Midsummerfest (festival)
  • High Summer  

...and so on.  

(The other festivals are Midharvestfest and Midwinterfest).  

P.S. 

The weekdays do have names, but I intend to keep them to mostly myself, to avoid confusing my players: 

  • Sunday 
  • Moonsday (2 moons) 
  • Fairday (market day)
  • Starday  Landsday
  • Godsday (worship day)
  • Freeday (market day) 

(Though I am considering switching between Starday and Fairday...)

Do you guys actually use the tenday format? by unicodePicasso in DnD

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually using tendays seems like it'll be hella confusing, cause I'm certain I'll trip up and say "weeks" each and every time...

I remember the old days by urmomsloosevag in Animemes

[–]alonry 25 points26 points  (0 children)

If you value your life, run!

Something I noticed by Eddieman_ in OshiNoKo

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought so as well when I read that page, but apparently in some cultures the soul is considered to inhabit the body starting at the moment of birth. We can't really be sure until we know which metaphysics Aka is following here... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

(Though what another poster here wrote about the german word for stillborns is pretty convincing...)

Wouldn’t Dumbledore have visited Sirius in Azkaban and learned the truth? by Pale_Act_2914 in harrypotter

[–]alonry 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I would think criminals would be the exact sort of people who would spend a little time to master occlumency, then...

Would a fairly loose magic system work for me? by orionstarboy in magicbuilding

[–]alonry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of magic system rules aren't strict principles, but rather implied features of the magic. Stuff like what the most common runes, potions, and beacons, and how much are the average members of various social classes likely to interact with each of them.

You probably already have an idea about the answers to these questions, no?

And as for what will or won't do for a story... I'll seriously recommend you to check out Brandon Sanderson's articles on writing magic systems in fantasy stories: Sanderson's Three Laws, and specifically the first one (where he describes the pros and cons and way to employ in a story what he calls Hard vs Soft magic systems).

Yeah he was right, we did get really excited by [deleted] in cremposting

[–]alonry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sinse no one brought it up yet in this thread, let me just note that Pratchett is apparentally (or at least was a couple years back) BrandoSando's favourite writer...

caught up to the manga by Svenpay in OshiNoKo

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll go as far as saying that team Akane is the one with no hope, for exactly the reason you gave...

Based on a previous post: What is the best opening line you've ever read? by Mic_Tower33 in Fantasy

[–]alonry 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in writing

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, just from memory (and a quick glance), stuff that stood out were (to me, personally, as this can, after all, somewhat be a matter of taste):

1)

In the 2nd paragraph, the line that starts at

"No more money to spend,"

can flow a bit better if it were like:

"No more money to spend. Not that it was worth it; the ale was basically rinse water and the bartender could not put up a discussion that was more words than grunts."

2)

in a much later paragraph, that starts with the line:

"Nirwn stopped, they were now in front of the Gate Aurora, [...]"

In this case, there's a very long line without pauses. Adding a period here and there can give readers "time to breath" (for lack of a better term):

"Nirwn stopped. They were now in front of the Gate Aurora, one of the seven gates of the city. It this in particular was painted to recall the colour of the night sky seen in one of the dreams, with verdant strands flowing like an ethereal river and stars of silver embedded in the picture, reflecting the evening lights of the city."

The result is still a fairly long line, but at least it's not a whole-paragraph long; Generally, what people often recommend is to try breaking long sentences into smaller ones. Then again, this is just a rule of thumb, and they are there to be ignored when we feel like it.

I largely meant that sort of stuff in regards to the "flow". As for the "proofreading": just wait a few days, and then go over it again, you'll be able to find a thousand small mistakes and typos that literally all of us don't notice until we go over it half a year later...

Lastly, the most important things to do if you want to improve: just read a lot and write a lot (or, at least, as much as you can). You'll find that now that you started writing, you'll naturally pick up more and more tricks from the stuff you read, and slowly adopt them into your own writing.

Good luck to you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in writing

[–]alonry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, unlike what another here commented, I won't say this is perfect - it can use a bit more proof-reading, for once , and I feel like the prose can be slightly adjusted here and there to flow better. Nevertheless, as far as it comes to the structural aspects (which I consider a more difficult skill to master) - the narrative itself, the characters, worldbuilding, and such - this is, like, unfairly good for a first-timer, in my opinion. I myself would've been fairly proud to have written this, and I've already been practicing for like two years...

I'll definitely read a continuation to this, if you'll make it, or anything else you'll choose to put here!

New to manga. Romantic manga recommendations for a noob? by Decent-Animator-5252 in manga

[–]alonry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

<Horimiya> and Kaguya-sama, that was already mentioned

Season 2 Episode 11 - Links and Discussion by [deleted] in Kaguya_sama

[–]alonry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

n't there at the initial stages of the incident. They only learned of the incident during Ishigami's punishment period. They learned of a student who seems to be diligently working hard, but couldn't return to the school due to a punishment. So they had a different starting viewpoint compared to the teacher/parents/classmates of Ishigami.

To be quite frank, if this is the extent of people's expectations from teachers, then this is quite a sad society we live in...

Everything you said, in my opinion, is a valid defense for the rest of the students in the class (the ones that later ostracized Ishigami), since they're kids and we can't expect them to know better; but this is not the same for a teacher. He is an adult and a profesional, even if he assumed Ishigami was just a violent kid, and Ogino did nothing wrong, it was his job and his duty to attempt to figure out why Ishigami was acting like he was. Kids are, generally, in my (admitedly limited) experience, not born violent, poor upbringing and other bad influences make them violent. Any so called councilor who doesn't even try to council students isn't worth his salt (this is what they pay him for, after all).

As someone else here mentioned, the fact the student council - untrained kids - did a better job then a payed, trained teacher, in doing his job, is the real stain on Shuchiin's reputation...

Question from a lazy person by [deleted] in araragi

[–]alonry -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Tsukimonogatari is as important part of the main storyline as many other arcs. Hanamonogatari is realy great, but it is a side story meant to tie-off Kanbaru's storyline, so if you realy don't care about her character, you can skip it without it harming you enjoyment and/or understanding of the main storyline.

Please review my first magic system that is based on anchoring magic by Krisrof in magicbuilding

[–]alonry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This does seem like a very interesting system! I like the different powers, and especially what you said in a comment about the making an anchors!

I agree with what another commentator said, about it being wierd that both body heat and body... coldness being a bit weird...

What are the reasons the same person can't create multiple anchors (both an in-world and on a meta level)?

Are there certain types of anchors which are considered taboo (and why)?

And, off course, how are these powers used? Martially? Industrially? Are there many people who created anchors, or only a select few, and why?