More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
people who don't know about remilia's design flaws that make certain random iterations of her attacks 100% unavoidable or understand why it is bad and why touhou never made that mistake again
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
“It was really hard for me to come up with a totally new concept for Akai Katana,” recalls Hideki Nomura, who was behind the world setting and character design for the 2010 arcade original. Before then, this meek and polite designer was responsible for Mushihime-sama Futari and Espgaluda II. “The order that came down from the management was just to create a game where huge ninjas fought against huge battleships. That was it.”
Yeah, simple enough, right? No pressure. For a studio like CAVE however, requests like these are an everyday occurrence. “Yes, that’s a normal day at work,” Nomura laughs with a bit of a sigh. “If you don’t do things that are completely abnormal at CAVE... well, someone will get mad at you. Here, being normal is wrong.”
The jolly, spiky-haired director of the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation Vita port, Hiroyuki Kimura, points out the idiosyncrasies of the World War II-based shooter and jokingly adds, “Having a giant ninja do battle against a giant battleship that has been summoned by another giant ninja looks normal and natural in this game though! That’s what’s so funny. This kind of skill is something we pride ourselves on!”
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Wincing as if in pain, but laughing at the idea, it’s apparent that while Ikeda does have feelings for his past, it’s probably not something he wants to bring up again. “When I look at the old games I’m so embarrassed,” he laughs. “I feel like I want to die! When I go to the arcades and see the old games running there, I just want the electricity to switch off! I don’t want to deny that stuff in the past, but for me it’s just really embarrassing. There was so much I didn’t know at the time, that I can see when I’m playing the game.”
Of course, I couldn’t start a conversation about Toaplan and fail to bring up Zero Wing, a Mega Drive game that is famed in the West for its rather atrocious localisation. I ask the translator if Ikeda had any involvement with the game, and before speaking in Japanese he asks me to remind him of the internet meme that Zero Wing indadvertedly created - “All Your Base Are Belong to Us.”
Ikeda reacts like he’s taken a bullet, laughing hysterically as he’s probably fearing that the foreign journalist and company translator have ganged up on him at this point. “No, I don’t know anything about it,” he yells, unconvincingly. “All that happened while it was being localised... it happened so long after the original game came out that we didn’t know about it for ages.”
“When we saw the video on the internet for the first time, I couldn’t understand what was so funny about it,” Ikeda continues, interspersing his story with infectious squeaky fits of laughter. “I’m not that good at English, so I looked into it and realised why people found it funny. I’d like to say it was an isolated case, but we can’t really say much against other people’s English!”
The exec is referring to a legendary Engrish mistranslation of Cave’s old legal warning screens, which had the immortal phrase, “Violator and subject to severe penalties and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the jam.” Not exactly threatening. Still chuckling, he explains the potential reason for this inaccuracy, putting the matter to rest once and for all.
“Probably the reason why the “law” became “jam” is because someone wrote it down in handwriting - the ‘l’ became a ‘j’ and the ‘w’ became an ‘m’.” It’s a bit of a bizarre explanation, but it’s the best thing to closure we’re ever going to get to this mystery. “At the time, all the developers would see that screen over and over again, every single day - and not one of them noticed! That’s the level of a lot of Japanese people’s English, though. We were given this as official legal text too, so we didn’t think it could be wrong. But... it was.”
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It's obviously too early to know what the new facade will look like, but I liked the old one a lot.
(They even had that silly screen over the Kroger sign to keep birds from nesting in it, hee hee)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
His Royal Highness Anonus, Price Consort of Centralia
Hmm, I think I a dragon-girl who stars in eXceed 3rd accidentally someone on Steam whose userpic there is an alligator wearing a scarf, and possibly something else.
A young knight, reckless and proud, looking to prove her ability. A stalwart defender, ever loyal. An optimistic medic, taking it upon himself to cure all the world's ills. A veteran hunter, her body scarred from battle. A twisted assassin, devoid of empathy, looking to bring the group to ruin.
Hmm, I think I a dragon-girl who stars in eXceed 3rd accidentally someone on Steam whose userpic there is an alligator wearing a scarf, and possibly something else.
A young knight, reckless and proud, looking to prove her ability. A stalwart defender, ever loyal. An optimistic medic, taking it upon himself to cure all the world's ills. A veteran hunter, her body scarred from battle. A twisted assassin, devoid of empathy, looking to bring the group to ruin.
I love this. I would pay to read this.
I believe that is a standard Dungeons & Dragons starting group.
A young knight, reckless and proud, looking to prove her ability. A stalwart defender, ever loyal. An optimistic medic, taking it upon himself to cure all the world's ills. A veteran hunter, her body scarred from battle. A twisted assassin, devoid of empathy, looking to bring the group to ruin.
I love this. I would pay to read this.
I believe that is a standard Dungeons & Dragons starting group.
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like i do every day ._.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Zelda's Bizarre Adventure
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I love this. I would pay to read this.
I need to meet this scarf alligator person.
I still think it's an interesting group dynamic.
What an ordeal getting my food, incidentally, and another ordeal actually getting on their wi-fi, but whatever. I'm here now.
Hi all.