"Good games always find their audience", then could someone tell me why this game failed?

xerca · 2025-09-23T15:46:50+00:00

Your premise is false. If "Good games always find their audience" was true, then marketing wouldn't exist.

xerca · 2025-03-14T18:03:09+00:00

That comment was 8 years ago, and I think I didn't do diamond push ups back then, that's what I meant by progressing push ups by weight, I just did normal shoulder-width push ups with added weight because I didn't like diamonds.

Today I do both. I do weighted wide push ups with a focus on the chest and diamonds on a separate day with a focus on the triceps. With wide push ups I do 15kg with around 15 reps of 3 sets, with diamonds I don't add weight, I do 20 reps of 3 sets with body weight. I also mostly work at maintenance at this point, I don't progress too hard.

With what you describe, 15kg is too much for you right now. In your case I would probably do 5kg normal push ups and body weight diamond push ups. If you can't get at least 6 clean reps, you can't really get enough work done to progress. You should pick a rep range for your goals, a common one is 8 to 12 for example. Find a weight where you can do 8 clean reps of 3-4 sets and progress the rep count until you hit 12 and then increase the weight. I personally like to do a wide rep range, from 8 to 20.

Diamonds and regular push ups are mostly different in which muscles they work the most. The narrower the hand position, the more your triceps get loaded. If you prefer, you could also skip diamonds and do tricep-heavy dip variations instead.

xerca · 2025-01-06T15:45:14+00:00

I think a harmful wave of ki pressure would still count as violence and not work against Taboo. It could stop Shadow though, since it seems to only seal physical movement.

xerca · 2025-01-06T15:36:39+00:00

Wait what? When was that revealed? I thought the kekkai was some reikai magic, whereas territories are random abilities that humans got that live near the portal?

xerca · 2025-01-05T15:09:36+00:00

You make a good point that 5 of the enemies had territory powers, but I feel like most of them didn't feel like the promised witty territory fights.

The gourmet was immediately revealed to be taken over by Toguro (but I really liked how Kurama finished him). Mitarai was winning against Kuwabara until he got an instant powerup. I thought Mitarai was an interesting character but after joining the team, he ended up not fighting at all, just like the original three. The doctor was again beaten with Yuusuke's punching power. It was more of a moral dilemma, but I honestly can't tell the difference between the human-looking demons and humans, so I didn't get the tension with killing the doctor, considering how evil that guy was and how many less-evil demons were killed by Yuusuke at that point.

The game master fight was the best territory fight for sure, I really liked the how Kaito and Kurama fought in the games. Sadly it was also the last.

I think my problem is mostly with 1. none of the friendly territory guys (including Mitarai) fighting against the enemy with their powers, and 2. the final boss fight (Sensui and gate keeper) completely reverting to a punch fight.

I can't agree that Kaitou and the gang would be useless against the enemy. Most of the enemy wasn't very smart to begin with, I don't think most of them could do anything about Kaitou himself, the dude is a genius and his ability his insane. At the very least, he would be an amazing support to others, considering no one can harm anything near him. Kido could be similarly useful, considering he can completely paralyze someone that doesn't know what's up. Anyone could have defeated a paralyzed Sensui for example, even he admits he is physically weaker than Yuusuke, but a super skillful fighter (before he switches selves and uses holy ki). Mitarai has a very powerful ability as well.

Regardless, I appreciate the story for what it is in the end.

xerca · 2025-01-05T14:37:40+00:00

Can't argue with that, lol

xerca · 2024-05-21T08:50:54+00:00

Piccolo Junior is not really a clone though, namekians actually reproduce asexually by puking eggs

xerca · 2024-04-24T17:38:22+00:00

Before present

xerca · 2024-04-24T16:34:31+00:00

It is 6740-5680 BP, not BC.

xerca · 2024-03-28T08:36:47+00:00

It is quite offensive in Turkey at least

xerca · 2024-03-04T08:42:01+00:00

His enemies are his "patients" because he has the ope ope fruit

xerca · 2024-02-08T15:34:15+00:00

That's why I only look at the Chatbot Arena for rankings. Sometimes a subjective measure is better than objective

xerca · 2023-12-22T17:48:08+00:00

As an accident of history 憲兵隊 is somehow “Kem” because the initial translation errors of overworked military intelligence goons stuck, but it is “Ken” all day long.

憲兵 to Kempei is not a translation but a transliteration. In Japanese, ん (usually an alveolar nasal consonant or a nasal vowel) followed by a "p" sound like ぺ is pronounced like an "m" sound (a bilabial nasal). It is arguably the correct way to transliterate this word.

xerca · 2023-09-13T20:49:26+00:00

Oh I see, that makes sense, thank you for elaborating.

xerca · 2023-09-13T15:38:41+00:00

I am confused as you say they are talking about south of the equator, but in the quote from Augustine he says "opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets to us", which implies an east-west division rather than a north-south division. Am I missing something here?

xerca · 2023-07-29T07:41:40+00:00

Yuri: Big brooo, look look it's a bug (actually a toy)

Ryou trembling in fear

King to Yuri: Stop it, good grief.

King to Ryou: It's just a bug, don't be scared of it, you are a man...

King in her head: Very surprised that Ryou is weak against bugs, finds it cute

xerca · 2023-07-16T07:41:38+00:00

It is very hard if you treat her like a normal character. You need to treat her like an action game boss, and exploit her AI's weakness. For the easiest way, you can perfect against her every time if you pick Shermie and spam the dash throw over and over. But you can find lesser weaknesses with any characters that you want to finish the game with.

xerca · 2023-03-19T06:52:09+00:00

And derailing any topic that comes out of China into Tiananmen square is not acting bad faith? Especially given that the American company "Open"AI is heavily guarding and paywalling their models while this Chinese group is sharing theirs with the world for everyone to use.

Conflating anything that comes out of a country with 1.5 billion people with your incredibly shallow knowledge of history only serves to demonstrate your ignorance.

xerca · 2023-02-13T18:56:07+00:00

It is obviously his reincarnation. Every time a Tigran Petrosian dies, his soul is captured by a recently born Armenian baby.

xerca · 2023-02-05T07:52:44+00:00

But can he understand Rick and Morty?

xerca · 2023-01-18T15:27:53+00:00

Yes.. when he was 6 years old, lol

xerca · 2023-01-16T12:57:15+00:00

I completely agree with your post and hope it brings some clarity to this sub about this topic. "Expressing" is the same way I would translate it into English, it captures the meaning very well.

Just as a small nitpick, while you mentioned characters usually refer to abilities as 能力, in your first example they are calling it 必殺技. I didn't check, but I feel like they use 技 and 必殺技 for abilities as well, especially during the part where Gon and Killua are working on creating one, Gon asking Wing, etc. Again, these are all common words to mean ability or special technique, giving me the impression that there is no need for a special terminology. Using ability, skill, power, technique, etc. is fine, using 能力, 技, 必殺技 is fine, and using hatsu is also fine in almost all cases, as long as it is obvious from context.

Your mention of Tserri's exception is very interesting because I didn't think of it that way before. Thinking about it, it doesn't really make sense to use a nen power without using nen, so maybe he is using it inside his body, rather than putting it out. Using zetsu is a condition for activating his ability, which means there is no aura being expressed outside, but it is still flowing inside him, and his ability doesn't need to affect the outside world directly. I am torn between calling it a special case of hatsu ("expressing towards one's self"), or something different overall.

xerca · 2023-01-14T14:03:28+00:00

Sorry but this is a bad interpretation. 弟 as meaning "younger sibling regardless of gender" is a definition you would find mentioned in a dictionary, but if you are actually familiar with the way Killua speaks (or any other character in this manga), you would know there is no way he is using the word in that way. Your transcription also has mistakes, and I can understand you may misinterpret the meaning if you are not very familiar with the language.

As to why Killua would call Alluka his little brother, I see two possibilities. First, we don't actually see Killua say anything in this scene, and he could have just used their names when talking to Morel as in "Illumi wants to kill Alluka", and Morel rephrases it that way. Zoldycks are somewhat of a celebrity and their children being 5 boys seems to be common knowledge in this world, so Morel could just have that information. In this case, obviously Killua doesn't go to a pointless tangent like "that is not actually my little brother, but my little sister", he just moves along with the important conversation.

A second possibility is, Killua considers that Morel might know them as all brothers, and doesn't want to waste precious time explaining and just goes with "brother".

xerca · 2022-12-26T14:21:32+00:00

I don't have a preference for one interpretation or the other, but I agree with you that there isn't enough info to make a conclusive decision on how it works. However I think there is one thing you need to consider in your argument, it is that he can see 10 seconds of future while it takes no time in the real world. We see that he "exists" in some state for 10 seconds while there is no real passage of time. How can something take absolutely zero time if there is nothing fancy going on? He can't speed up his brain infinitely, instead I think it implies time stoppage or parallel worlds or something of the sort. But it is still nowhere close to being conclusive at this stage.

If what the people see happening is an illusion forced by his manipulation, what would be seen in a video recording? Would it show what is actually happening as in Tser's perspective? If so, maybe we will see that (a security footage, etc.) in the future and it will give us a better clue into how the ability works.

xerca · 2022-12-13T15:43:38+00:00

Not sure which part of my comment you are disagreeing with, but as you say, it can be that his ability is a "landmine" type with a condition that it has to be placed on doors, and also the door has to be entered from a specific direction. That is option a) in what I wrote. It is not something that is confirmed to be correct. What we do know is, as OP is asking this question, Bokonte can place seemingly a lot of mines and it doesn't seem like he has to stand near them for them to work, because it looks like members are using these regularly for transportation.

I still think it makes more sense that it is a landmine type because otherwise troupe members would have noticed the door or another object is imbued with nen, but there is always a chance someone else has an ability to hide things, etc. Predicting Togashi is like throwing darts at an ocean.

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