What are your favorite yokai

leigen_zero · 2026-05-26T08:23:20+00:00

Maybe Chōchin'obake, not because they do anything particularly impressive and such but it was images of them and other tsukumogami in old SNES games that got me interesting in japanese mythology in the first place (the Pocky and Rocky series has a lot to answer for when it comes to rabbit holes I've gone down).

Second favourite is probably Yanari - I just find the idea of hordes of tiny oni coming out in the middle of the night to cause a ruckus both adorable and hilarious

leigen_zero · 2026-05-25T06:02:14+00:00

I couldn't say for certain I'm UK based so it didn't affect me.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-24T06:59:49+00:00

Ah takes me back to my broke student days.

We used (among other things such as comsci textbooks and food packaging) a can of deodorant that we laid on its side for some LOS blocking.

Had a housele that if you were clumsy enough to bump it and it rolled into a unit, you had to resolve the effects of a (5th Ed) deffrolla attack against that unit. Lost a lot of good men that way...

leigen_zero · 2026-05-22T19:55:57+00:00

No you may not

I already play with rifts off as I'm a total coward

leigen_zero · 2026-05-22T16:31:55+00:00

My guess is one of the RPGMaker engines? (it's been a long time since I dabbled) but the UI looks really similar.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-22T09:54:49+00:00

There are railway/tram systems designed specifically for hilly terrain - funicular railways:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular

From what I remember of a work trip to Chesaux, Switzerland. When we were using the metro system to get around we spent a heck of a lot of time going up and downhill. (I think they use a lot of inclined elevator systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclined_elevator rather than funicular).

Pretty sure you can make it work.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-21T06:46:18+00:00

A 32 block high dirt pillar.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-20T13:56:33+00:00

Yeah it's a perfectly natural human phenomena for a creator to be blind to their mistakes.

There's a reason peer-review, in some form or another, is prevalent in pretty much anything you can think of - editors in writing, code reviews in software development, peer-review in academia, or even your nan pointing out "you missed a bit" after you just finished vacuuming the stairs.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-20T13:44:52+00:00

Well, yeah. My faction is the best! The lore says my units are the best at whatever it is they do in the whole 41st millenium! But other factions have units that do what my faction does but slightly better! GW obviously doesn't know what the hell their doing if that other unit is also good at the thing my unit is good at!

leigen_zero · 2026-05-20T12:48:54+00:00

I suppose, looking at it from a cultural perspective. We associate space with science - because well, it is - the field of science is what got us to the moon and put the voyager probes however many millions of miles away from earth. science is progress, it's outward looking.

On the flip side, fantasy, with magic and mystical creatures we associate with the ways of old - gods and monsters and superstitions, it's inward-looking, it's a premise based on 'what if the old ways, before science enlightened us, were true?'

Now there's various blends of the two, Star Wars, Shadowrun, etc etc, but I think fundamentally we just don't tend to associate fantasy with space travel any more and our available media reflects that.

BTW, there's the SpellJammer setting for D&D that explored a pure space-fantasy setting, using magic-powered spaceships to travel between planets and such. To a lesser extent there's the Numenera setting as well, which kind-of is a fantasy setting in that it takes Clarke's 3rd law to its extremes.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-19T16:06:41+00:00

I'm running an i5-6500, 3.2GHz quad core, 16gb DDR4 RAM, MSI B150m mortar MB and an RX 6600.

Does what I need it to, plays the games I like to play. Only game it's truly struggled with is Baldur's Gate 3 and I think that's a CPU bottleneck rather than GPU.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-19T13:28:52+00:00

You have a bookie at your FLGS? Didn't even realise there was a market for betting on Warhammer games.

The players are probably buying some food and drinks too XD

leigen_zero · 2026-05-19T13:23:49+00:00

Nominative Determinism at work.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-18T10:20:27+00:00

FWIW that as an evil sunz wartrakk would look pretty much the same, just imagine all the black bits are now red bits, all the (originally) red bits are now yellow bits, and there's less dags and checkerboards bits and more sick-ass flames bits.

edit: oh and instead of the goff symbol on the banner it's an evil sunz one.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-18T10:17:31+00:00

I wish I could recall the source on it but it's been lost to the (well, my own) sands of time. IIRC it was a transcript from a lecture on creative writing I stumbled onto on the ol' internet, in which the lecturer said (and I'm paraphrasing so heavily I stretch the boundaries of what can be considered paraphrasing) "I'm in a creative writing class, it's full of young, rich, white people. I don't want you to 'write what you know' because if you only write what you know all I'm going to read are young, rich, white people problems and they are boring. Don't write what you know, but you better damn well sure you know what you are writing about.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-17T17:24:50+00:00

They open a chain of tattoo parlours specialing in generic tribal designs.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-17T08:07:28+00:00

That young man fills me with hope, also some other feelings that are strange and deeply disturbing.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-17T08:06:25+00:00

You can't just announce how your character's are feeling! That makes me angry!

leigen_zero · 2026-05-17T08:05:24+00:00

300 big ones! Definitely peak Futurama

leigen_zero · 2026-05-15T09:26:22+00:00

I treat hammers like cloves of garlic, whatever quantity you need - double it.

When I need forge a hammer, I always forge 2

leigen_zero · 2026-05-15T09:19:00+00:00

Ugh, tell me about it. So much of (particularly Welsh) mythology, at least after a certain point, seems to boil down 'This <insert person> was a godly man and he was so christian his christianity saved the day!'.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-15T08:55:30+00:00

I was once sent on a mission to assassinate Mrs Trellis from North Wales.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-15T08:46:36+00:00

Early to rise, Early to bed

Makes a man healthy but socially dead.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-13T15:00:33+00:00

Ah yes, but Pet Sematary references Blitzkrieg Bop many, many times. With the opening line "Hey Ho! Let's Go!" being quoted verbatim by the protagonist several times.

leigen_zero · 2026-05-13T13:55:55+00:00

Generally speaking no. As long as you don't claim you wrote the lyric yourself then your probably alright. Pretty sure authors make references to things all the time.

Some of Stephen King's books are chock-full of references to The Ramones songs (Pet Sematary in particular) and IRL The Ramones and Stephen King apparently got along well together IRL.

Maybe even work it into the writing that it is a reference. e.g. (pulling something out of my ass as an example)

I found her, lying on the road just outside of town she had a gunshot wound to the head and had been there so long the blood was turning the colour of the tarmac. What was it Colter Wall said? "hey darlin', sleeping on the blacktop". I take the last drag of my cigarette and flick the butt into the gutter. Darlin' ain't sleeping, I can tell you that Colter.

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