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High-Context Discourse / Re: Quotes
« on: September 18, 2013, 07:31:30 AM »
It's the kind of pedantry up with which most people do not put.

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Vampires vs Werewolves VIII / Re: The Party of the Century
« on: March 22, 2011, 06:21:28 PM »
Classic.

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Assorted Creations / Re: Worst Stray Thoughts Ever
« on: March 14, 2011, 12:58:58 PM »
An FPS that gives you the option of playing with either regenerating or static/numeric health and alters the stage makeup and game mechanics accordingly, e.g. more cover for the former, faster movement speed, armor and health pickups for the latter.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Spam
« on: March 13, 2011, 08:35:22 AM »
That's because you were too busy making too many attempts.

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LP Hell / Re: Let's play Shin Megami Tensei!
« on: March 09, 2011, 04:36:34 AM »
If it's the actual Kusanagi (and considering what's happening in the world, it's entirely reasonable to assume it is), having it just be in a chest with no fanfare honestly kind of makes sense: The real one was lost, misplaced, stolen or otherwise not where it should have been for centuries and it certainly doesn't look like it's of earth-shattering importance, least of all to people whose experience with Japanese gods entails either fighting them or hiding from them.  The Mesians could have just killed the person (or demon) who had it without knowing what it was, then just tossed it into a storage room.  Or they could have looted it from a shrine when they were off doing Mesian things, e.g. fighting anything that's not a Mesian.

...and/or the relative lack of fanfare upon getting it could be a sign that the world is not as it was.  I'm probably reading into things too much.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Unforgivable Sins of Game Design
« on: March 05, 2011, 04:38:05 AM »
Doors blocked by filing cabinets also pop up a lot in the Condemned games.  It must be one of Monolith's trademarks.

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Media / Re: ok so
« on: March 03, 2011, 10:12:15 AM »
This is basically the "Man Who Enjoys Thing Informed He Is Wrong" article from The Onion in action, isn't it?

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Vampires vs Werewolves VIII / Re: A Mysterious Invitation
« on: March 01, 2011, 02:37:27 PM »
The butler.

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LP Hell / Re: Let's play Shin Megami Tensei!
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:44:43 AM »
You can fuse Nebiros and Belial to get Alice in Persona 4, though, and having them both at the same time in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army leads to a quest chain that lets you fight her (and possibly get her as a demon, I'm not sure).  That... might be all the special things there are for those three.  Still, continuity nods.

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Assorted Creations / Re: The Gamers of Yesterday, Today
« on: February 09, 2011, 05:04:24 AM »
In retrospect I don't know or remember what point I was trying to make, if any, when I posted this.  You could probably cut it in half, dump the first part in Guild Hall and put the rest in a general Gamers Are Embarrassing thread.  Or just delete the first half.  Or keep it around as a self-demonstrating post.

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Media / Re: Jap Comic Books
« on: February 03, 2011, 09:12:45 AM »
http://www.borders.com/online/store/UsedSearchResults?sku=1597961728&type=1

WHAT IN THE SEVEN FUCKS IS THIS SHITTING BOOK PRINTED ON

SOLID FUCKING GOLD? THE WOOD OF THE TRUE CROSS

I JUST WANT TO FINISH MY STORY ABOUT A MOON CRASHING CRAZY VAMPIRE AND THE KID WITH THE DEVIL AND VAGUE CHRISTIAN IMAGREY AND THIS SHIT IS FUCKING NUTS

Isn't it sad, Lyrai? ;_;

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LP Hell / Re: Let's play Shin Megami Tensei!
« on: January 30, 2011, 02:42:10 PM »
Could've had Ialdabaoth (and they did in the X-Box SMT game), although Gnosticism doesn't lend itself well to the "Law versus Chaos" conflict seeing as, according to Gnosticism itself, the Demiurge is objectively wrong and misguided and the Serpent (whatever his name may be) was working on the true, unknowable God's behalf to bring wisdom to man.  That said... I don't know how they did it in the X-Box SMT game aside from that they did.

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LP Hell / Re: Let's play Shin Megami Tensei!
« on: January 29, 2011, 11:05:43 AM »
Oh boy, another theology discussion I can dick up! :whoops:  But seriously though.

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It's clear that the game doesn't think highly of Christianity, what with the Judeo-Christian demiurge being the series' primary antagonist and all. To a typical Japanese person who lives steeped in Shinto and Buddhist religious concepts, I guess Christianity is all about wiping out a nation's native belief system and replacing it with the One Jealous God. In general terms, it's always been a source of strife and conflict. It's hard to argue with this view, but on the other hand, by focusing only on the fundamentalist, militant aspects, you don't get to see Christian orphanages or hospitals or homeless shelters (though even those have been tainted more than their share, I suppose). Eh... I'm not trying to defend anything here or spark a debate on religion, I guess I'm reflecting on how the game may be justified in focusing on the negatives exactly because its creators haven't really been exposed to what positives there are.

Christianity, on the whole, has so many concepts which differ from Japan's native faiths that it's... well, alien and almost sinister-sounding compared to their own, which is probably the reason why they don't have reservations about using it as such (see also: Final Fantasy Tactics, Breath of Fire II, Vagrant Story, That One Game).  It's doubtful that it's done out of malice; they just needed a scary foreign faith that differed from their own.  If it helps, just see it as the Occidental equivalent of how western gurus talked about the "secrets of the Orient" in the 60s and 70s.

Plus I have it on good authority that the developers of the Megami Tensei series have said that "God is not the source of all evil in the MegaTen universe." Then there's the aspect of how it's "Law versus Chaos" and not "Good versus Evil;" both the Mesians and Gaians have good and bad points to make, all told.

Not sure how relevant some of that is to anything, but there you go.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Game News Dump
« on: January 28, 2011, 07:55:14 AM »
Would you have preferred it if I had said "it's like carpet you can touch on the back" instead?

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Game News Dump
« on: January 28, 2011, 05:09:08 AM »
Eagerly awaiting the commercials for this thing.

"It's like a nut you can touch on the back!"

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Minecraft
« on: January 27, 2011, 05:12:43 AM »
Ryg's giant floating platform is creating a patch of darkness under which enemies can spawn with impunity, and after all the initial destruction the water is now funneling them towards the center, for... even more destruction.  It's probably one of the more effective security/armageddon devices I've seen, especially considering that it was completely unintentional.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: State of the Worst
« on: January 26, 2011, 09:09:50 AM »
You forgot the part of the story where Guild, Thad, Brentai and I teamed up to defeat Lavos and retrieve the Booster Shield to enhance the Shuttle Craft so we could fly it into the Space Colony Eurasia to retrieve the Reboot Cluster to enhance the Reboot command

Then the world exploded.

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LP Hell / Re: Let's play Shin Megami Tensei!
« on: January 21, 2011, 12:35:20 PM »
I'd spare him, but then again, that's just me.

You said earlier that if you go Law/Chaos that you can't recruit demons of the opposite alignment, right?  Because if that's the case then it sounds like you're better off staying Neutral so you can hire demons from both sides.  Might miss out on items like the Rosary, yeah, but you can still use both factions' inn analogues and if you run into anything that you'd need the Rosary for you can just recruit them and talk to other demons while you have 'em to get out of fights, so...

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