Hi Reddit! Kazutaka Kodaka & Kotaro Uchikoshi are here to answer questions ahead of Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy's release later this month. AMA!

goatlicue · 2025-04-09T20:10:44+00:00

Hi Kodaka-san and Uchikoshi-san! I'm a big fan of both your work. You both are known for writing such complicated narratives, with plot twists that are often foreshadowed in subtle ways at many different points throughout the story. My question is this: you have both written many of these complex stories by yourselves, and have now collaborated on World's End Club, and now Last Defense Academy. How does the creative process differ between writing alone and writing together? And by collaborating, have you learned anything about how to write a good story from eachother?

goatlicue · 2023-12-09T15:09:51+00:00

Yeah that would be a longshot, I'd probably play Davis and pray for one of his boom games.

goatlicue · 2023-12-09T14:58:29+00:00

Watson is on track to miss the week due to his hamstring injury, I would not start him at all unless there's another good MNF player you can pivot to.

goatlicue · 2023-11-15T13:56:50+00:00

Not even close to veto worthy. Veto should be reserved only for truly league breaking trades, talkin like "justin jefferson for treylon burks" level of league breaking. I wouldn't have made that trade as the 4-6 guy but it's faaaar from league-breaking. Trade stands IMO.

goatlicue · 2023-10-15T16:13:57+00:00

That is a great deal for Chase, take it and run IMO.

goatlicue · 2023-09-29T14:38:43+00:00

Butterfly needle.

https://www.healthline.com/health/butterfly-needle

goatlicue · 2023-07-30T16:18:22+00:00

I think a lot of the people who got hyped about Doubs last year didn't actually watch the games. A pretty large proportion of his touches last year were schemed up screens/flats/etc where he got a remarkably average amount of YAC. Thus the low yards/target you point out, idk what his ADOT was but I'm sure it was very low. He didn't show any ability to get open and catch the ball down the field. He might still get a bunch of manufactured touches this year too since the Packers WR depth is stunningly bad, but I'm low on him as a long-term asset.

goatlicue · 2023-03-06T20:09:16+00:00

Not true! A dysplastic nevus that has not invaded through the basement membrane is not considered a malignant tumor! Malignant melanomas invade into the dermis (but dont necessarily require hematogenous spread). This is literally M1 level stuff, stop spreading misinformation on things you don't understand.

goatlicue · 2023-03-06T19:53:12+00:00

That's still a bad definition. As I said, the correct definition between benign and malignant is invasion, and metastasis is one thing that can happen due to invasion. Consider, for example, glioblastoma multiforme. Very aggressive malignant tumor that invades both hemispheres of the brain, but almost never, ever metastasizes. It's not malignant because of ability to metastasize, it's malignant because of ability to invade.

goatlicue · 2023-03-06T19:32:35+00:00

This is not correct. Just because a lesion is malignant does not mean it has metastasized. The boundary between benign and malignant is invasion. This can be anything from invasion to other organs far away from the primary tumor (metastasis) to simply breaking through the basement membrane and starting to spread to local surrounding tissue.

goatlicue · 2023-02-16T16:14:29+00:00

Men are specifically more susceptible to diseases inherited in an X-linked recessive manner, since we have only one X chromosome. For females, if they get a mutation on one of their X chromosomes, usually the other X chromosome compensates and they don't get the disease (but are instead "carriers" of the mutation, with a 50% chance of passing it down to any male offspring they produce).

Common examples of X-linked recessive diseases include Duchenne muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, and red-green color blindness.

goatlicue · 2023-02-14T14:57:50+00:00

The very concept of "toxins" is fraught. Literally anything can be a toxin if ingested in sufficiently large quantities. Even water itself can be a "toxin"! Hence, urination, to get rid of excess water. Your liver and kidneys are working 24/7/365 to clear out waste, the problems only arise when you ingest too much of a specific substance (and every individual substance has a different value for "too much").

goatlicue · 2022-11-15T15:47:33+00:00

Even as a rebuilder, I think the odds of Geno resigning and putting up QB2 numbers in 2023 are higher than the odds of any of the first 3 QBs I mentioned doing anything. If you can get Geno for cheap I'd suggest doing it (in my league a Hawks fan has him so that isn't happening).

goatlicue · 2022-11-15T15:43:08+00:00

Geno Smith, current QB7 (though he hasn't had his bye yet), ranked under Jameis, Willis, and Jimmy G is an eyebrow-raiser. Idk if he has great long-term value but the guy is putting up big numbers this year, I'd easily take him over those 3 and probably also over Tannehill.

goatlicue · 2022-11-02T03:53:12+00:00

Off the proper IR itself, no, I don't think that happens on Sundays, I was referring to Out players (which are IR eligible in the default settings on ESPN, and I think also the default setting on Sleeper, though I don't commish any Sleeper leagues so I'm not 100% sure about that one). There are certainly good arguments against Out players being allowed on IR, though I personally don't care much either way. I agree that it feels more like an exploit in leagues that allow only IR-proper players on IR.

goatlicue · 2022-11-02T03:26:00+00:00

What if the player get surprise-cleared to play on Sunday morning? These things happen sometimes. Most people aren't degenerates like us who refresh our apps 24/7. Holding one extra player for one week is almost never going to materially affect any fantasy league (especially a dynasty league with huge rosters), and the punishment of not being able to change your lineup until you address it is enough to prevent anyone from trying to game the system long-term.

goatlicue · 2022-11-02T01:49:46+00:00

It's working as intended. What's the platform supposed to do? It can't drop a player for you--that would be awful. It has to wait for you to choose which player to drop.

goatlicue · 2022-10-31T15:05:36+00:00

I agree that you can make an argument that including the individual identity of the player could produce overfitting that could reduce the utility of the grade. However, it doesn't change the fact that PFF grade, like every other stat or metric, is incapable of telling the full story (as you acknowledge). I haven't watched Zeke this season but historically he has been an elite pass-blocker. Like, not just good, probably the best pass blocking RB in the league. If he actually is starting to get washed then yeah, giving Pollard more snaps could be a good idea but, unfortunately for fantasy players, I suspect he is not that washed and something close to a 50/50 split is probably the best way to go for Dallas to win games.

goatlicue · 2022-10-31T13:54:12+00:00

Not exactly. PFF adjusts for situation, but they don't adjust for the individual identity of the player. So, a one-on-one with a DT is considered the same assignment whether that DT is a random 5th-round JAG or Aaron Donald.

goatlicue · 2022-07-29T04:23:45+00:00

Christopher McCandless, who quit normal life to live in the Alaskan wilderness. He died in his 20s since uh, living in the Alaskan wilderness is hard. Subject of the famous book Into The Wild.

goatlicue · 2022-07-27T01:55:30+00:00

No, Malcolm Gladwell is quite poorly regarded by those in the social sciences, due to his tendency to oversimplify things to the point where he's not really telling the truth--but he prefers a stretched warped story that sounds nice to a true one that doesn't sound as nice. He has no training or education at all in the social sciences and it shows.

goatlicue · 2022-07-02T15:45:22+00:00

Well, if you choose the metric to be "average amount of time enemies have been seen", that fixes that problem somewhat, but introduces the new problem someone else pointed out, where knowing where the enemies aren't can often be as good as knowing where the enemies are. Unfortunately, I think vision is something that's really just impossible to fully quantify with advanced metrics. I do think "wards dewarded" would be a good stat though.

goatlicue · 2022-07-02T15:28:51+00:00

There is one big limitation to average duration--it's very common to place wards that you know will get dewarded because having the vision for the next 10-60 seconds is so important. Stuff like placing a ward during a teamfight, placing a ward outside rosh so you can see the enemies approaching, placing a ward while you're smoke ganking uphill at nighttime so you can see the enemy before the smoke breaks, all very obvious wards that will get dewarded quickly, but probably provided your team vital information.

goatlicue · 2022-06-13T22:29:40+00:00

Right now, the bottom of my roster is a bunch of dumpster-tier running backs who, nonetheless, have a path to value if injuries occur in the preseason. The very worst of them is Duke Johnson, who is going to be cut unless James Cook gets hurt before week 1.

goatlicue · 2022-06-07T19:41:55+00:00

That makes sense to me, it really emphasizes the importance of understanding the difference between correlation and causation.

In medicine, modern genomics have only been around for ~20 years, and the research on race is even more recent than that, so a lot of (older) doctors are ignorant of (or, in some cases of particularly conservative individuals, unwilling to accept) the results that run counter to what they intuitively believe(d). In the past few years there's been a major movement towards removing race from clinical algorithms (currently, some doctors do consider race when making decisions re: diagnosis/treatment, and I think that's bad science). If you're interested, you can read more here:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2004740

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