Shihali
@Shihali@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- • Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran - Episode 6 discussion 6 days ago:
The moon waning as Sano trains was some surprising attention to detail. The moon really was waning in the second half of May 1878, with last quarter on May 24.
The first conversation with Anji during training was good filler. The second one, I’m not so sure, but it worked.
There are four acts that make a monk immediately fall from the religious life and make him ineligible to ever become a monk again in this lifetime: sex, murder, grand theft, and false spiritual claims. Anji didn’t fall from desire, so what did he do? (Don’t answer that.)
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- • Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
This is the first episode so far this season that adapts only 2 chapters and adds several original scenes to fill out the runtime.
I liked the new scenes.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- • Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran - Episode 4 discussion 2 weeks ago:
The much-expanded Senkaku fight was silly, but he’s never not going to be silly.
- Comment on Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh 3 weeks ago:
It’s been a long time since I thought about Tenchi Muyo.
- Comment on New NES RPG Former Dawn seeks crowdfunding | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
The Magic of Scheherazade showed us that mixing turn-based and action RPG battles is harder than it sounds, so I’m a little worried about the balance here.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran • Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
This episode was a noticeable improvement over the previous one, which itself was above the show’s running average. I’m getting my hopes up for the quality of the rest of the season, if not their odds of getting to chapter 128.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran • Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- - Episode 2 discussion 4 weeks ago:
The preview for this week’s episode is mostly Aoshi monologuing, but it’s funny rather than insightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0ciz8yWDk
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran • Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- - Episode 2 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I think the first anime handled Aoshi’s thought process in this episode more clearly. In this one it’s as opaque as the manga, even though Aoshi got a little more camera time.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran • Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- - Episode 2 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Solid. Compared to the old anime, music isn’t quite as good, bloodier, more focus on Aoshi.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran • Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- - Episode 1 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Seems more promising than last season, but I’m not sure how they plan to get through the entire arc in just 23 episodes at this pace.
- Comment on Why is quakers.social defederated? 2 months ago:
Thank you! I don’t even plan to subscribe to any of their content, but they stuck out in a sea of instances that sounded like Canadian legal problems waiting to happen.
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- Comment on What's with all the hate for Chinese phones? 3 months ago:
There’s a real chance that my employer will abruptly ban Chinese-branded phones from their network.
- Comment on Games like Mother 6 months ago:
Undertale is the obvious suggestion, although it’s more deconstructive than Earthbound.
- Comment on Akira Toriyama, the Creator of Dragon Ball, Dead at 68 8 months ago:
Dragon Quest has lost both its composer and its designer within two and a half years. I assume Dragon Quest XII is far enough along to complete and release, but this might be the end of the series.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 9 months ago:
Leave a bad review. I did get halfway back.
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 10 months ago:
Chrono Trigger is around 25 hours for a casual playthrough. Great game with a very fast pace for its genre but it seems way too long for OP.
- Comment on Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue 11 months ago:
The US has lots of land that doesn’t require irrigation, but also lots of land that can grow crops if irrigated. Some of that land in California is some of the best farmland in the whole country, growing things that prefer California’s Mediterranean climate (similar to parts of Australia’s southwest coast).
We have the technology and have had it for a while. But we don’t have the laws and habits of dry countries so US water laws are a wasteful mess.
- Comment on Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue 11 months ago:
An irrigation canal like this is a big ditch to move water from a river to near farm fields. Without the extra water taken from the river, there wouldn’t be enough water in the soil for crops to grow in the area.
Being a big ditch open to the sky, the hot sun and dry air make a bunch of the irrigation water evaporate before it even gets to the field. So we went to all the effort of taking water out of the river just to waste it humidifying the nearby air.
Why did we do it in the first place? Because it’s way easier and cheaper to dig a ditch than to lay a big pipe, and I don’t know if the US had any other water-delivery tech at the right scale when these were built.
- Comment on This new macOS malware could leave you severely short-changed | TechRadar 1 year ago:
This title is a play on words, meaning “leave Mac owners short change”. That is, not having as many coins as they assumed they had. Usually you are short change because you had a little less money with you than you thought, but with malware involved they mean theft.
It’s difficult. I didn’t understand the headline until reading the summary.
- Comment on RPGs for people who don't like RPGs 1 year ago:
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars might work. It’s going to be difficult (fear the spear) and you’ll want to use those items, but it is overall easier than Chrono Trigger. And it has a remake coming out soon with some system changes.
Otherwise, possibly the very easiest remakes of old games like the Final Fantasy 4 Pixel Remaster.
- Comment on he finished Paper Mario 64 1 year ago:
Dragon Quest is the OG for a reason. The remakes are a lot less grindy and don’t use ye olde Englysshe so they would be easier to read but less educational.
- Comment on What Are Some Good Card Videogames? 1 year ago:
WBridge5 (www.wbridge5.com) is a free award-winning bridge program. It won’t teach you how to play the game, though.
- Comment on Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music 1 year ago:
Seems to vary depending on whether I’m attempting to listen to music on my device (“attempting to” is the right word as it takes 15 seconds to load each individual song as it goes through a playlist) or listen to a YouTube video. It can go further into the background if it’s music on my device, no further back than a big window drawn over the screen if it’s a podcastable video, and must be in the foreground for a video IIRC.
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- Comment on Showing the destination before the journey - Dragon Warrior 1 year ago:
DQ5 wasn’t the first generation game or the first monster-catching game, but it was one of the earlier games to offer either and AFAIK the first game to offer both.
- Comment on F-ZERO 99 - Nintendo Switch Online | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 1 year ago:
That looks like the point. They brought in using health to boost and spinning from F-Zero X, so just surviving to the finish line takes some skill and discipline.
- Comment on What to play after experiencing Chrono Trigger? 1 year ago:
If you have one part of the Masamune, go to Porre and ask around.
If you have two parts of the Masamune, an in-game cutscene told you to visit Melchior, near Medina.
The old guy at the End of Time will often give you a useful hint if you’re lost.
- Comment on What to play after experiencing Chrono Trigger? 1 year ago:
Nothing else reaches the same quality as Chrono Trigger in the same way. You have to settle for lower quality with similar pacing, or try to reach the same level of quality in a different way.
Similar pacing, lower quality: Phantasy Star IV, Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy IV
Comparable quality, different style: Earthbound, Final Fantasy VII (FF6 is the real answer, but FF7 is the most similar game to FF6)
Similar aspects, lower quality: Dragon Quest IV, Radical Dreamers & Chrono Cross, possibly Radiant Historia - Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
we’re centrists. we hold the political center between anarchism and Marxism-Leninism.
Is that an inside joke? Because outside of Hexbear and maybe 1930s Catalonia, “between anarchism and Leninism” is extreme left.