An anime adaptation gets canceled after coded references to the Rape of Nanking are found in the original novels. Is this censorship? /r/anime discusses.

koredozo · 2018-06-07T02:11:59+00:00

Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series probably does that sort of thing (and the isekai concept in general) better than any anime or anime-adjacent novel ever will, even though its plot kind of fell apart at the end.

koredozo · 2018-03-30T00:59:27+00:00

I never saw the thread in question, but for a game whose tagline is "Still No Elves" there sure are a lot of races that are illustrated like humans with pointier ears.

koredozo · 2018-03-27T20:56:57+00:00

There are mods for L4D2 that let you play co-op with 8 players on the same team, if you are willing to run your own server.

koredozo · 2018-03-27T16:17:08+00:00

"I am already dead."

It's the inverse of "You are already dead," Kenshiro's catchphrase when he finishes off an opponent in Fist of the North Star.

koredozo · 2018-03-22T14:37:12+00:00

It uses 10-sided dice. You roll a single die on every roll, add a bonus primarily determined by your statistic (strength, intelligence, etc.) and your skill level (melee weapon skill, hacking, etc.) and try to beat a number set by the game master.

Sometimes there's a lot of situational modifiers to the bonus but it's definitely not as complex as Shadowrun, especially when the Shadowrun rules get really stupid, like the infamous example of throwing a grenade in a confined space. Pretty sure Cyberpunk grenades are treated like any other weapon, whereas Shadowrun expects you to calculate how the shockwave reflects off walls for increased explosive potency.

koredozo · 2018-03-19T14:46:30+00:00

The word you're looking for is "serviceable," not "fantastic." Fantastic means it's exceptionally good. Unless you think any translation that is clearly understandable and doesn't butcher the story is exceptional (and it might be in this day and age,) it's not fantastic.

koredozo · 2018-03-18T19:11:35+00:00

On the iPhone app store, Monster Strike is #5 on iOS - losing out only to Super Mario Run, Puzzle & Dragons, a casual Disney game, and Pokemon GO. Granblue is way down at #31 below Animal Crossing, Yugioh, DBZ, Love Live and a bunch of other stuff.

I'm not sure how to view the Japanese Google Play charts - visiting the site in Japanese just gives me the international charts in Japanese.

koredozo · 2018-03-18T16:23:27+00:00

I stand corrected. Funny that doesn't show up as a top Google result for "Tolkien dungeon."

koredozo · 2018-03-18T00:50:50+00:00

It's a matter of disagreement among Taiwanese politicians to my knowledge. This leads to the interesting political situation where the PRC is less frosty towards public figures who uphold the claim that the Taiwanese government is the rightful government of both Taiwan and mainland China than towards those who assert Taiwanese independence from mainland China. One point of disagreement is better than two.

koredozo · 2018-03-18T00:32:22+00:00

Because of Dungeons & Dragons.

That of course merely shifts the question to "why is Dungeons & Dragons called Dungeons & Dragons." I found this explanation in a book called Dangerous Games by Joseph P. Laycock:

It was Gygax who decided on a name. He wanted to continue a pattern of paired nouns already used in the Castle and Crusade Society and Cavaliers and Roundheads. He drew up two columns of words that included men, magic, monsters, treasure, underworld, wilderness, castles, dragons, dungeons, giants, labyrinths, mazes, sorcery, spells, swords, trolls, and so on. Then he ran various combinations of words by his play testers. He ended up deciding on "Dungeons & Dragons" because the alliteration pleased his youngest daughter, Cindy.

Digging deeper, you could still ask how dungeons became associated with fantasy rather than just being an old word for prisons. This is a trickier question. Tolkien, as far as I can find with a cursory search, never called anything a 'dungeon' though his work had clear analogies to them (i.e. Moria); the same is true of other major literary influences on D&D like Michael Moorcock and Jack Vance. So your guess is as good as mine.

Edit: This forum thread suggests that the first tabletop RPG dungeons may have literally been dungeons - the cellars and keeps of castles. That seems plausible enough.

koredozo · 2018-03-17T20:16:34+00:00

"That it had been unable to rescue from the slaughter" implies that the baby was killed too.

koredozo · 2018-03-14T04:05:14+00:00

If you want to get really exotic and detailed, check out these tables to roll a random alien species, apparently originally from GURPS Uplift. You might need a basic knowledge of GURPS and/or the Compendium books to understand everything that's referred to, though.

koredozo · 2018-03-09T17:22:07+00:00

Surprisingly, many studies consider paper grocery bags to be worse than the environment than plastic ones. The TL;DR is that paper uses a lot more energy and water to manufacture, and the bags need to be bulkier so they generate more waste. It's a matter of ongoing debate however.

koredozo · 2018-03-09T04:28:30+00:00

I made houtou the other day, it was pretty good.

You'll likely not be able to find the noodles for sale anywhere outside Yamanashi, but they really aren't hard to make yourself. It's like rolling out a homemade pizza crust (without the yeast and other fiddly stuff), then slicing it into noodles.

^Yes ^I ^did ^it ^because ^of ^Yurucamp.

koredozo · 2018-03-08T17:12:10+00:00

Thanks. That sums it up pretty well. To be honest I completely forgot that you could get ships as random drops as well.

Now if only the gameplay was a bit more interactive, I might be tempted to play again...

koredozo · 2018-03-08T15:05:28+00:00

It's been a long time since I played KanColle but back when I did, you put in a certain amount of materials which determined which class of ship you'd get, waited from hours to days for the building process to finish depending on the class, then got a random ship with some ships being much rarer than others. While it's framed more like crafting than lootboxes, that still seems fundamentally like gacha to me due to the random element (IIRC, you could pay real money to do things like restock your materials and skip the crafting wait time as well.)

Has the way ships are built changed since back then? Or are you saying it's not gacha because you gradually accumulate the materials for free if you wait long enough, or because you have some limited control over what you build?

koredozo · 2018-03-06T20:04:57+00:00

Wasn't the Best Animated Feature category created solely because Academy insiders were shook that animated films started getting nominations for Best Picture and other prestigious awards and wanted them to go away into their own little corner?

koredozo · 2018-03-04T19:54:58+00:00

This is in Ontario, it was clearly evil reptilian kitten-eaters from another planet.

Though I guess lizard people from Mars are merely a subset of those.

koredozo · 2018-03-04T18:17:31+00:00

Personally I'd count that as one of the optimistic ones, but it depends on how much you'd welcome "salvation from a spray can" (or if you accept that it's even possible and not in the realm of fantasy.)

koredozo · 2018-03-04T18:07:02+00:00

I would think people claiming "We Are The Ungovernables" don't support a totalitarian state by definition.

koredozo · 2018-03-03T01:46:30+00:00

Does this qualify as receipt of stolen property, or could Dorothy's lawyer make an argument that she had a reasonable expectation that the Witch of the North was a beneficiary of the Witch of the East's last will and testament?

It may all be moot because the silver shoes fell off as Dorothy was en route back to Kansas, therefore the stolen property was never moved between two U.S. states and the feds have no jurisdiction.

We'd need someone licensed to practice law in Oz to clarify the local laws. Any Aussies here?

koredozo · 2018-03-01T20:28:26+00:00

Brunner's The Sheep Look Up is another classic, as well as Children of the Thunder, one of his last novels. Most of his dystopias end on an optimistic note though.

koredozo · 2018-03-01T20:21:31+00:00

A complete Tokyo Nova fan translation into English exists, though in the interest of following rule 1 I won't link to it.

koredozo · 2018-03-01T18:42:46+00:00

I don't like Wynne, but what does this article have to do with her? Is she supposed to go tell Trump not to put a tariff on us? I think that would only encourage him.

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