Shihali
@Shihali@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- • Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran - Episode 8 discussion 1 month ago:
This one was a disappointment to me, because it was a test to see if it would be just as good as the original and it wasn’t.
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Pacing: needing to take up twice as much time as the '96 anime means stretching scenes out. Adding back all the scenes from the manga that were cut in the original helps, and so did making up two extra tricks for Chou to show off with that flexible blade, but the tension can’t help but suffer some.
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Music: I didn’t notice this on my first viewing, but after seeing people comment I went back and listened. Using heroic music for Kenshin’s attack with Shakkuu’s last sword instead of tense, ominous music was a major mistake. Sure, Kenshin is here to save the day, but that’s less important than whether Kenshin will save the day by losing his soul.
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Positioning: I really disliked how Kenshin ends up next to Chou after giving him the elbow and how we clearly saw Chou’s body after Kenshin struck it with Shakkuu’s last sword. While Okina was talking, Kenshin should have been able to do something if he were that close to Chou, like disarm him or beat on him some more. The old anime pushes Chou far enough away that Kenshin plausibly couldn’t get over there and do something before Chou recovered. Showing Chou’s body clearly lets us see that he doesn’t have any cuts on him of the sort that would be expected after having been slashed with a very sharp sword.
Sure, 80-90% as good as the original isn’t a disaster, but I’d convinced myself that this remake had climbed up to par with the original and it fell short when it needed to deliver.
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- Comment on Anime Phone Cases Suggestions [request] 1 month ago:
Rhinoshield lets you customize a case and has cases for a few popular anime series in stock.
- Comment on Which is better: F-Zero or Super Mario Kart (SNES)? 2 months ago:
Today I’d rather play F-Zero because its controls are more responsive, but there’s more to do in Super Mario Kart.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- • Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran - Episode 7 discussion 2 months ago:
I’m getting worried about the pacing. This was a quieter episode, but it only adapted two chapters like the previous two episodes. I can’t imagine they could finish the whole arc in two cours at this rate. I’m not sure they could finish the whole arc in three cours at this rate. They might take an entire additional season for Kyoto.
- Comment on Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- • Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran - Episode 6 discussion 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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? 4 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? 5 months ago:
There’s a real chance that my employer will abruptly ban Chinese-branded phones from their network.
- Comment on Games like Mother 8 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 10 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 1 year ago:
Leave a bad review. I did get halfway back.
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.