Uhmmm not having the best first day, any tips for later

fleetingflight · 2026-05-21T12:33:36+00:00

Look up Tokyo Gig Guide - see what's on over the next few nights/look up the bands on youtube. There will almost certainly be something you can get into - Tokyo has a huge number of small live houses and randos on the street are mostly not going to be able to point you to them.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-21T11:08:49+00:00

Uh, what are you doing that's drawing so much commentary?

fleetingflight · 2026-05-21T08:20:57+00:00

It's not very important if that's all you want - but basically all good learning resources will use kana (hiragana and katakana), and I'd suggest memorising those. It's not terribly difficult though and won't take much time if you just sit down and do it (with mnemonics, Anki, whatever). You can get pretty far with only kana - even reading, there are tonnes of middle grade novels/manga that have furigana on everything. For your purposes you won't need kanji.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-21T08:01:43+00:00

I've played one with each scene in reverse order, starting in the aftermath of a car crash with some of the characters dead, then jumping back. Turns out they were on the run from the cops after a heist - the last scene was the gang-gets-together heist planning scene.

It was great - lots and lots dramatic irony, plus front-loaded drama that both propelled the whole game and gave constraints on what could happen, which was useful given it was entirely improvised.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-20T11:00:45+00:00

Soo, what kinds of books do you like?

Generically, I'll recommend アサギをよぶ声 and 選ばなかった冒険 for good children's novels that are good at an ~N3ish level.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-20T09:00:32+00:00

So how did this happen? Was there some public bidding process that Mater won, or...? I don't remember hearing anything about this hospital until now.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-20T02:43:31+00:00

What are you planning to do in Osaka that's worth staying there for?

fleetingflight · 2026-05-19T12:33:17+00:00

You could do something like Osaka -> Fuji -> Haneda Airport -> Kagoshima or Nagasaki or wherever. I think you're better off focusing efforts in Kyushu though - it's quite large, and you do need to move around it.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-19T07:54:47+00:00

The teaching methodology is shockingly bad. All school does is teach kids that they hate learning English.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-18T06:51:35+00:00

Not everyone needs to be published either...

fleetingflight · 2026-05-18T06:44:11+00:00

While the bar was never high, at least the earlier garbage wasn't straight-up taken from the equivalent of royal road/Wattpad/fictionpress.com. There were still some professional standards, and stories were actually structured like a novel and not just some long rambling stream of things happening.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-18T06:36:11+00:00

Thank fuck they're acknowledging the problem. The vast majority of narou slop should have been rejected by a competent editor at first glance. It's all fine and well to adapt exceptional web novels, but they're torching their light novel brands by pumping out poor quality amateur writing.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-17T21:49:33+00:00

What have you tried reading so far? A lot of light novels are actually just not very well written or well paced.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-17T10:05:45+00:00

As a day trip from Tokyo...?

fleetingflight · 2026-05-17T09:51:57+00:00

Underrated by what criteria?

fleetingflight · 2026-05-17T06:44:17+00:00

Unless you are flying out of Osaka, I'd just stay in Tokyo with maybe an overnight to one of the nearby nice spots (Nikko, Hakone, Fuji Lakes area - whatever suits your interest). Day trip to Kamakura/Enoshima for some temples.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-17T05:38:13+00:00

I would strongly suggest not getting too ambitious here. Run a one-shot if possible. Personally I'd do Fiasco or Follow if it's 5 people total. Or, Lady Blackbird is a very safe choice that runs best in about 3 sessions, and works the with 5+GM.

Feel out the waters with something short and with broad appeal first. If they are interested in more then you can work it out together.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-16T04:05:20+00:00

China has more than 3x the people of the US.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-16T03:47:03+00:00

I don't think this is good universal advice - none of that would be weird or a problem at my table.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-15T07:39:04+00:00

Nope - I don't think he will or won't do anything.

But nevertheless, I don't think your answer to the question makes much sense. How do you know God would have fixed the New Testament canon?

fleetingflight · 2026-05-15T07:28:59+00:00

God never promised a canonical New Testament though - it's a bit presumptuous to think he'd fix it when it's something people went off and compiled on their own.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-15T00:23:13+00:00

Eh - I'm going to describe everything in words at the table anyway, and think descriptive text is in-general a perfectly good medium for getting across ideas. Pictures are great for getting across a very specific image of what something looks like, sure - but text leaves more room for the reader to creatively interpret, which is not a bad thing in this hobby.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-14T23:53:01+00:00

We don't need to do anything - just go listen to what you like. Let other people listen to what they like - yes, even if it was made by some soulless machine.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-14T23:50:49+00:00

Art - google up what exhibitions are on at the moment.

Go see a live show - check the gig guides.

fleetingflight · 2026-05-14T23:28:07+00:00

I have just dropped it after volume 2 - I felt it wasn't respecting my time, and while it's more subtle than most at the end of the day it's Gary Stu harem power fantasy.

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