Le Communard
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Man-ogynist pig.
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On a bit of an East Asia kick lately. Currently working though The Analects as well as the I Ching. Also, just starting Postwar Japan as History, Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan, Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan, The Anime Machine, and Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime.
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Yeah, his animated visions. I love every single one of his films, and I think I've seen every major release he's ever been a part of. Reading his direct person-to-person statements in text, however, is like listening to Alan Moore after you just got back satisfied from watching The Watchmen in theaters.
See, I think Alan Moore is fascinating, so now I see where our disagreement is. One should never be comfortable with genius--that is the nature of the beast.
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He's also an old psychotic technology-hating son of a bitch.
Love his movies, but the more I hear about him the more out of touch I think he is with the world.
I'd describe him more as "odd" than psychotic or anything. Thats what makes his vision so compelling--its so different, you can't help but be dragged along for the ride.
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You'd be mad to compare Ryvius to Geass (Planetes still pending) The problem with Ryvius for me was that the characters were a bit meh. And pacing was, as you say an issue. Alot of the plots secret revelations were shoulder shrugging boring.
*Wheeze* Neya, I am your father~ *Wheeze* for me was: Yeah, so? Who are you again?
Mad? There is a clear thematic continuity in terms of political issues, especially in terms of power dynamics--especially in the confused nature of conflicting structures of social organization. And Izumi is a fascinating proto-Lelouch*, just to talk about the most basic comparisons. There's a significant thematic interplay between the two, even if it isn't necessarily obvious on the surface--Goro Taniguichi is a director who has a set of things he really likes to explore, and hits similar notes in all his productions. Not that there's anything wrong with that: Hayao Myazaki makes the same movie every time and he's the most beloved director of animation in the entire world.
As for the plot revelations, I don't disagree.
The characters had potential but none of them really panned out perfectly, unlike in his later projects. As I said, it seems like a warm-up act.
*Not to mention Koji as a completely unlikeable Suzaku.
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Just finished Patlabor and Infinite Ryvius yesterday. Patlabor is pretty awesome, even if it only basically has three plots for 47 episodes (OMG! It's a terrorist/rogue labor/monster!), it makes it up with a handful of amazing standalones, plus a great cast of characters. Ryvius was good, but not without problems. It dragged on a bit at more than one point, and I really wasn't that much a fan of the ending as it were. It really felt like a warm up act for both Planetes and Code Geass, both of which were much better, IMHO.
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And as for conjugation in English: I am, you are, he is. =D What are the 26 Greek articles these days? I only know of 24 separate cases, some of which share the article.
Alright, I admit it--I can't count. :P What I meant to say had I not just pulled the first number I remembered out of my ass would be 18.
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German
Fair enough.
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I killed a Parisian. What does that make me?
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-there's 10+ ways of saying "a" or "an" depending on the size and shape of the object.
-the way you say "aunt" "uncle" "grandma" etc. changes depending which side of the family they are on, and how old they are in relation to your parents.
Those are just issues of vocabulary, not the sort of structural foibles that make the most confusing languages so difficult. Take articles for example. In Greek, there are 26 articles not based on vocabulary, but Declension, which relies a series of complicated formal grammatic rules as opposed to a simple logical choice. Or formal politeness: Javanese (spoken by 80 million people in Indonesia, so not obscure by any measure) has three different styles based on very complicated social rules, each of which has a very separate and distinct vocabulary and grammar. It's so complicated most native speakers don't even understand it. But those are both extreme examples: the real point is that Chinese doesn't have any Conjugation, Declension (which we don't have in English, either, thank God), or Inflection, all of the things that actully make language unnecessarily complicated as opposed to just a lot to remember. The simplicity is frankly genius.
Note: that doesn't necessarily make it easy, I don't have all that much practical knowledge of it, I only know that the grammar is pretty simple.
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Oh yeah, speaking of madness and Call of Cthulhu, I was totally planning for my current WoD game to have Old Ones of some form present. I was actually planning on having them listen to this song in a coming session, when I plan for them to start happening upon a deeper situation involving primal beings such as them.
Thats a fine CD (the Mythos Christmas Carols, or something like that). Have you heard A Shoggoth on the Roof before? That is hilarious. Myself, I've been trying to find some people to play Delta Green with (Delta Green is a frankly, staggeringly awesome modern CoC setting), and have a pretty elaborate campaign worked out, but I really haven't had any luck.
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Best HnH since H&H Afrika.
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I plead the fifth. Let the question be stricken from the record.
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But you should never -NEVER- learn French. It's such a satanic language, with exceptions from the norm, and exceptions from the exceptions, and exceptions of the exceptions of the... you get me?
This is a grave insult to the tongue of my username. This calls for an immediate declaration of war to extract revenge for 1870.
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I'm trying to put together a surreal kind of thing, but they always decide to go after the bump in the night.
You aren't giving up are you? Fine. You and the party finally encounter the Star Vampire. Being as how it is, however, COMPLETELY INVISIBLE, you can do nothing but watch as Dave starts writing in pain as he is entrapped within the beasts hideous (invisible) tentacles and it engorges itself on his blood. His screams are terrible, so terrible: you can think only of making it stop. The sight is utterly traumatic and inhuman, everybody please make a sanity check, 2/1d10. What's that, Jeff, you failed with a 7? I'm afraid something isn't right with Jeff anymore. While the Vampire continues his meal, something comes over Jeff's face as draws his .31 and points it at Andrew....
And I was going to give them some powder of Ibn Ghazi too.
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I blame the players, hahaha, the rulebooks actually explicitly state that any method of overcoming an obstacle should net you similar experience, and all reasonable options should be made possible. Can't fault you on the power growth thing (to be fair, it's not really unlimited, especially in 4e, but that's kind of a moot point); if you want to keep your heroes from being near god power level it can be kind of hard in DnD...
The same experience? Thats a little ridiculous: a major de-incentivization for any sort of cleverness, or obeying the wishes of the master. How are you supposed to railroad players into becoming unthinking drones? :P As for the power issue I think its really a bi-product of the level system used in d20 games and is sort of endemic.
But I believe someone was talking earlier about a game...?
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1880s Victorian London sounds absolutely perfect. Like the exact image I have of the series.
I might try to pick it up when I get some spare cash, then. OR MAYBE I'LL CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW EVEN THOUGH I DON'T kekekekeke
I don't think the Chaosium books are in print anymore, to be honest, so you really can't buy it. BTW, their Supplemental material is amazing, especially the setting stuff--there is really close attention to period detail that makes it come alive. The 1890's sourcebook is one one of my personal favorites, too.
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That sounds cool, and also sounds like an awesome way to punish people in my group that I am annoyed by. Though whenever I think about the setting, I think of it as like late 1800s, and my friend tells me that it apparently takes place like in the 50s.
In terms of punishing, the game is perfect, since the entire universe is stacked against the player and anyone who tries to win by gaming it will quickly find themselves shoggoth food.
As for setting, the original game has three: the New England of the 20's, 1880's Victorian London, and the "present" (AKA, the 90's--it's a little dated). You could run all your games in the 50's though, there's nothing preventing that.
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in Far from the Forest...
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Man-ogeny is more fun to say.