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I can appreciate the emergent behaviour from the game theory of the simple rules of the second one. You could even just have it be "whoever has most people in their room in the end wins" full stop and get plenty of tension out of it.

Even if I'd likely hate reading it XD

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113 the mc's team eventually figured out where to go to join the one person who was in the room above where the mc started out and won

also, it felt like tog in its early stages, remember there was a 20th floor test, and unsafe room?

Edited by PItiful Boar, 05 April 2024 - 03:44 PM.

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I don't remember, I'd need to go back and re-read it ~w~

Speaking of memory over a long time towards beloved things: Today I went back and watched the first few episodes of Mushishi. They left a huge impression, but it's also been a hot decade or so since I saw them. The result was very weird; some different episodes clearly blended together in my head, or I remembered key parts of some but the order things happen in or the context are completely different from my memory, to the point that part of my brain was demanding, "That can't be right. Is this a reboot?!"

But no I was pretty obviously watching the original 2005 series. Memory is a funny thing.

Also god that series is good.

When I saw it back in the 00's, I was convinced it was probably the best anime ever made. Naturally, I had a lot of terrible opinions in the 00's but I'm sitting here now trying to think if there's actually anything I've seen that's better, by whatever yardstick it is my heart uses for these things. If I were to look for anything to top it in storytelling, immersion and pure experience-having, I guess I'd probably start by going through the Satoshi Kon stuff I haven't seen? (e.g. most of it)

Though for Mushishi I don't know if I saw it for the first time today some of the old CG would be distracting (the series counts on some of it looking strange and unnatural, but some of it parses a smidge different nowadays anyway)

Edited by pokari, 07 April 2024 - 02:11 PM.

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i only rememer the first episode of musashi and the grandma/fox wedding ritual which is classic japanese stuff

instead of uniting foxes and human they united boy with grandma

actually it stilled carried a bit of the incestuous thats in japan, normally sister/brother sort of thing like izanagi and izumnami

japan is the real alabama that nobody makes fun of

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He didn't... marry his grandma. Like, I suppose you could read romantic tension into it if you wanted to, but...

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Pretty much everyone's got a bit of incest in their mythology, tho. Like (appropriately to Alabama references I suppose) there's that really awkward bit of awkward sweaty fanfic passed down through the Old Testament where the guy has to sleep with his daughters or humanity will end. Which gets really awkward if you combine it with the "everything in the bible is true" and "everything is as according to god's will" shtick, I don't envy the cognitive dissonance of the people stuck believing that bit of 3000 year old garbage porn as part of some divine design.

Not saying Japan hasn't had it bad. I always assumed that the modern epidemic in fiction had something to do with low birthrates and a lot of only children with really weird ideas about siblings. As tentative support for this tentative theory, manhua seems to get really weird about siblings a lot too, maybe?

Edited by pokari, 08 April 2024 - 12:04 PM.

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117 we didn't get to hear from the Amonites what their origin story is like. They prob didn't have the "yeah they are part of the family but they're also incestuous bastards" version as told by the Isrealites. I mean, the ancient Hebrews did not have any daughters in the original 4 (who needs women to give birth anyway! men can do it too! w/o pain in fact!) 

as for inbreeding in remote rural/redneck areas well thats just have to be a thing... before cities etc

its not unique to rural alabama 

you know how us treasury secretary janet yellen went over to china and talked about excess capacity of industrial goods etc... well, japan (and korea now) has been producing a flood of cheaply made webtoons (by brutalizing the rights of webtoon artists, giving them heart attacks no less) why is no body talking about that

yeah i think we should boycott them cheap entertainment

go back reading books and classics like doestevesky

highlight of my weekend i revisited high school maths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M2RWtD4EzI

that proof by contradiction is p cool... if A isn't the answer and B isn't tthe answer then only C is the answer

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118 i want a job where i'm out in the sun sunning

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119 today i lead a discussion where i supervised and trained new staff - Im p tired but happy in a kinda tired way

Edited by PItiful Boar, 10 April 2024 - 12:36 AM.

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120 

Edited by PItiful Boar, 10 April 2024 - 06:38 PM.

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I have gotten many cheaply-done dental fillings over the past couple days and now it hurts to chew ~w~

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you know how us treasury secretary janet yellen went over to china and talked about excess capacity of industrial goods etc... well, japan (and korea now) has been producing a flood of cheaply made webtoons (by brutalizing the rights of webtoon artists, giving them heart attacks no less) why is no body talking about that
yeah i think we should boycott them cheap entertainment
go back reading books and classics like doestevesky

Art doesn't have lobbyists, what were you expecting?

The U.S. asking everyone to "play fair, by nice-capitalism rules" is fucking hilarious FWIW.

 
highlight of my weekend i revisited high school maths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M2RWtD4EzI
that proof by contradiction is p cool... if A isn't the answer and B isn't tthe answer then only C is the answer

I thought proof by contradiction was like, "Assume A isn't the answer—now from that assumption, we must logically also conclude that 1 plus 1 may equal 3. That would be hogwash, so, that assumption can't hold and A must be the answer after all."

119 today i lead a discussion where i supervised and trained new staff - Im p tired but happy in a kinda tired way

I'm glad. :3 I hope they do well.

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122 eh i dunno external factors at play here, like changing vendors 

we are very much screwed tbh

vendor for our biggest selling items (oil) decided to go into battery making, coz that's the future right? everyone going electric and burning coal/gas instead of petro instead? 

not sure if it'll delay the heat death but, yeah, at least its looks more aesthetic

I don't understand what I'm doing... like wtf man

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123 so today idiot manager calls me with idiotic questions...

instead of getting angry/upset i started yawning

boss didn't like it and messaged me in front of the whole group... i'm like, i haven't taken a break for months now

big boss - if you're tired you can take some time off

me - if i take a break who's going to do X work

big boss - you can let me or [boss ] do it 

I'm like - writing the documentation rn

how are you doing on mushishi? 

Edited by PItiful Boar, 12 April 2024 - 03:09 AM.

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I haven't watched any since my last post on it. It's best enjoyed in small bursts anyway IMO; they do tend to pack a punch.

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"Big Boss" in above transcript read in Metal Gear voice in head (I never played anything metal gear really but people around me did) and this increased the entertainment value immensely.

I hope you do get a break, though ~w~

coz that's the future right? everyone going electric and burning coal/gas instead of petro instead? 
not sure if it'll delay the heat death but, yeah, at least its looks more aesthetic

Clumsy efforts at going green are probably better than no efforts. I mean given that we're screwed and it's just a matter of "by how much" at this point.

On the bright side I look forward to having both a navigable Northwest Passage and a settleable Antarctica. There's always a silver lining somewhere. Though sometimes it takes a bit of digging to find it.

Fun fact: IIRC Greenland apparently isn't succumbing to sea rise because it's getting so much lighter as the ice melts that the whole landmass is actually rising—"floating" higher on top of the mantle.

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125 hurray for greenland! 

i admire your discipline bud, but after all it is a rewatch

i remember the days when i would just not be able to stop and binge till early hours in the morning

btw did you know the isreali minister of war is Gantz? 

the anime gantz was gud, at least the 1st 24 episodes or so

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I vaguely remember trying Gantz in the very long-ago and hating it but it's been so long I might not even be thinking of the right survival series :/

Seems a bit on the nose for someone nominally partially in charge of the current massacre, though, doesn't it? (Though it appears he's actually considered a moderate—open to some amount of negotiation instead of the current main admin's "bomb them into the stone age" classic war-crime approach. Like Vietnam but without any of the distance or detachment.)

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I have this distinct feeling that the average quality of anime experiences has been going rapidly downhill since like, the mid 2010's. But I can't tell if it's like, just me getting old though?

Like if you show me something clichéd I'll not only immediately recognise it as such but, also, likely be bored with it.

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127 evangeleon

when i was a wee lad i thought it was the best thing ever

then came the rebuild

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128 i'm reverting back to covid days of isolation... i might need some help

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What sort of help do you think you need?

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130 All kinds

Like I have 3 books I checked out from the library that i have yet to go through, that I really should. 

Self discipline, goal setting, cleaning up my room. Writing that cancellation letter for my insurance (fking bloodsuckers)

I remember there was a lad online who sad he just let the mosquitoes land on him and suck his blood because he was too depressed to squat them away

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131 at least i'm losing weight somewhat

i need adult supervision 

im watching too much tv (youtube)