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MrResetti posted...

Now now, let's not compare current Russia to communism as that would give communism a bad name

The Soviet Union was about as communist as current Russia (which is to say it wasn't) and gave itself a bad name by being just as imperialistic and brutal.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

I know it's the literal translation. My point is that it doesn't make sense to say "white paper" in English. It contextually means report, file, record, log, document, etc so it's better to just use that to get the message and nuance across. And even the article you posted says this

Strictly speaking, they are collectively known as "white documents."

It's like how the Chinese term Qi ( Ki in Japanese) literally means "air" but it's come to refer to the vital force or energy in our bodies. If you just went with the literal translation of air, most people wouldn't understand

I still don't really get what you mean here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper

A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. A white paper is the first document researchers should read to better understand a core concept or idea. Since the 1990s, this type of document has proliferated in business. Today, a business-to-business (B2B) white paper is closer to a marketing presentation, a form of content meant to persuade customers and partners and promote a certain product or viewpoint.[1][2][3] That makes B2B white papers a type of grey literature.

The term originated in the 1920s to mean a type of position paper or industry report published by a department of the UK government.

The Japanese word is just translated from English. I couldn't find that quote you posted either.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Touche. I guess stars are basically hyphens in Japanese?

But if the stars don't mean anything, then there's no indication that the Yu's are short for anything, is there? Obviously there are ghost connotations but that doesn't mean the term ghost itself is supposed in the title. So is the title supposed to be something like Hidden Travel Files? Underworld Travel Files?

Yeah, I'll just go with Ghost Files lol

But I posted the Japanese Wikipedia excerpt explaining what it means and a brief summary in English...

I mean you can call it whatever you like, I was just trying to explain the title as per your original post.

The stars aren't blanks. They're just for style. Like in YuGiOh, . You don't need to fill them in with a character.

Alright I will break it down for you. And yeah that Google answer is pretty bad.

Hakusho is the easy part. It's literally white book, but it's the Japanese word for white paper ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper )

Now the Yuu star Yuu star is a little more complex. is like dark or hidden, but also the first part of Yuurei meaning ghost. is like travel or roam, but also the first part of Yuugi meaning game. So to figure out what exactly it means is open to some interpretations.

The Japanese Wikipedia page gives us the best explanation:
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Basically the was indeed meant to be for ghost. And the was chosen for it's use in Saiyuuki, commonly called Journey to the West in English. So something like Ghost Journey White Paper would probably cover it.

NV > 4 > 3 > 76

I am putting 4 above 3 because neither of them are remotely as good as NV, but 4 has better gameplay. The dialogue thing in 4 really is terrible though. But the "choices" in 3 are ridiculous.

Maze_ posted...

Yeah honestly that boob armor really isn't bad.

I was picturing way worse in my head.

Especially if this was designed in the 90s

Those are the modern sculpts. Here is the original ones from 1997:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d27ecd7c.jpg

Maze_ posted...

Knowing nothing about 40k. Why do I have a feeling that the "Sisters of battle" have giant boob armor.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5dc5e889.jpg

Guide posted...

They really, really should've just gone with "hey we have new bigger models now". Primaris are, at best, awkward within the lore and on the tabletop.

And that's exactly what they did with Chaos, Eldar, etc. they just made them bigger without changing the profile. It's just a stupid cash grab. Just like how now your AoS Stormcast have old armor that doesn't work anymore so you need to buy new ones. And I love Stormcast both from a design and lore perspective, but the armor lore is such a blatant excuse to just keep making new models to replace your current ones.

St0rmFury posted...

Noob question here, what's Chaos' counter to Primaris?

They fixed the scale on them without getting new profiles. Eldar did the same thing (but we really need a new Dire Avengers sculpt because they look so short next to Guardians now).

evilpresident posted...

What army do you play? My main issue with the Primaris stuff is how streamlined all the Space Marine factions are now. Death Company for Blood Angels, Grey Hunters for Space Wolves and so on. They all just look the same.

I think Primaris look a lot better. As do the Chaos resculpts, and the Eldar ones, and basically all of them. But for some reason Primaris needed to be entirely new profiles... I wonder why? (Because money)

havean776 posted...

Wait what happened here?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/04/whats-leaving-the-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-range/

They basically sandwiched this between other announcements and hoped few people would notice, but people definitely noticed and got super pissed.

*I should note no one cares about them discontinuing those old Skaven models, some of which are decades old. However the Stormcast ones are literally from the first edition Age of Sigmar starter. They aren't old and they're basically just being swapped for new Stormcast models in the new edition. I think they're testing out a rotation of models. This happens in card games, but it hurts way more here due to the time and money invested in making your army.

People keep saying it's due to an Amazon show, but if I was going to do a conspiracy theory it would be to distract from Age of Sigmar players having had two armies removed entirely and all the first generation Stormcast models get squatted. Arguing over lore distracts from the absolutely awful business model they use.

St0rmFury posted...

Thanks @Guide for the mini lore dump lol.

So that means female custodians are not incompatible with existing lore, right?

Not incompatible, only Space Marines are said to need to be specifically male. Though that could be retconed pretty easily if they wanted. But as has been pointed out many times in here the lore is constantly changing and being retconed, so the idea of needing to be compatible with existing lore is pretty nebulous.

Lokarin posted...

Now, ever since Cawl made the Primarus Marines all rules are out the window

It's funny this is the retcon people are up in arms about and not Primarus. You know the one designed to make your thousands of dollars of Space Marines obsolete so you have to buy new ones. They keep slowly discontinuing the old "first born" and it seems to be having a slowly boiling the frog effect since even though it's obvious what is happening I rarely see any outrage.

St0rmFury posted...

Asking as a WH40K noob here, unlike Spartans, astartes augmentations are not compatible with female biology, right?

And iirc, custodians undergo the same augmentations as astartes?

Custodes undergo a very different process and the end result is stronger. I don't think there was ever any mention of it being incompatible with women. The lore is always changing, so there isn't some consistent lore, but Custodes we're usually the sons of former nobility. So not recruited from the common people like Space Marines.

I almost think 40k needs an actual good humans faction with democracy and egalitarianism. Because currently Games Workshop keeps sending mixed signals about the horrible fascist dictatorship called the Imperium. They put out a great post a while ago saying the Imperium aren't the good guys and outlining how bad they are, but then people interpret stuff like this as the Imperium being woke or egalitarian or some nonsense. It's a shit situation. You have to balance being the most ruthless corporate force in the miniatures business and extracting maximum profit from customers with hopefully not appearing to downplay the horrors of fascism.

tl;dr: Games Workshop is a really bad company, but it's not because of female Custodes, it's because they're anti-consumer profit maximizers. Female Custodes aren't problematic because women exist, but because the Imperium is a horrible fascist system and we shouldn't think positively of it.

WingsOfGood posted...

No you didn't.

You posted that poor people tend to have more babies. That is NOT the data explaining why birth rates are declining.

I posted a literal pew research article that asked the ACTUAL FUCKING QUESTION why aren't you having kids and the people answered there reasons and the reason was found that statistically yes economics is a reason for many.

I am not explaining anything. I am posting the data, while you try to push agendas. You just keep saying what you want to believe and then ignoring data. I mean you literally made a big deal out of home ownership rates when they're literally the exact same today.

Just go ahead and push what you want to push. I posted the data for those interested. You can pretend we lived in a utopia in the 80s and everything sucks now.

WingsOfGood posted...

???

why are birth rates declining?

Are you suggesting....everyone is rich so they have less kids? The data says literally the opposite.

Why would you reject it?

I literally posted the god damn data. The less money you have, the more kids you have. I am sorry it doesn't fit your narrative but that's the data.

Birth rates are declining everywhere. I literally posted data showing the poorer you are, the more kids you have. You tried to claim people aren't having kids because they can't afford them. That's the opposite of what the data shows. You want to believe the 80s was some utopia from a propaganda movie or something. It's ridiculous. The data is there and I lived through it myself. There was a reason the US media fear mongered about Japan taking over. US median income was already behind many European countries and then Japan overtook it in the 80s and the US didn't overtake Japan in median income again until the 2000s. People literally murdered a random Chinese guy because they thought he was Japanese. This was not some utopia. People were losing their jobs and pissed off at the world.

WingsOfGood posted...

The 1989 U.S. homeownership rate was 64 percent; in 1980, 66 percent owned their own homes.

So about the same as today?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rate-in-the-us-since-2003/

However, in 2023 the proportion of households occupied by owners declined to 65.7 percent

WingsOfGood posted...

there is a reason today people forego having kids

This is objectively wrong as well. The richer and more educated a population becomes the lower the fertility rate. This is true across the world. Additionally even today in America the people with the lowest incomes have the highest fertility rates. You are someone interested in pushing an agenda pretending to be interested in facts.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/

WingsOfGood posted...

anecdotally that may be true

but all I am doing is finding the price in 1980 from the item in the picture and it is looking realistic

therefore if it turns out $20 bought all that grocery in 1980, that becomes an objective fact

your experience that your parents didn't bring home that much grocery is then a subjective fact and why is not because of reasons realted to $20 buying that much grocery

but noted about the 52% of women working thing

Dude I am talking about the blatant lie you pushed that most families were a husband working and a wife not working when the reality is the percent of women working is barely different than it is now (which is to say the majority were working). You are creating some idealized 1980s where a man brings home big money to his stay at home wife that didn't exist. That's not what most people experienced, and that isn't an anecdote, it is a fact that most women were working.

I don't care about the groceries because the guy who made the image already said he just made it up.

Also you ignored that families were making less in the 1980s than the 1970s, which was from US census data I posted. I don't know what agenda you're trying to push, but it's not the reality of what happened.

The 1980 median family income of $21,020 was 7.3 percent higher than the 1979 median, however, a 13.5-percent increase in consumer prices between 1979 and 1980 caused a net decline of 5.5 percent in real median family income.

The sluggishness of real income growth during the last decade (figure 1) is evidenced by the fact that 1980 median family income was about $1,330 lower than the 1973 median ($22,350) in constant dollars

WingsOfGood posted...

Numbers aren't made up. You can look it up yourself.

This info came from simple googles.

And yes the typical family in 1980 was stay at home mom with husband MORE than making up for the finances.

My parents in the 1980s born worked and we were still poor as shit.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1982/demo/p60-132.html

That says real incomes were declining as well. I don't know what you think the 1980s was like, but I certainly don't remember my dad making tons of money while my mom bought piles of groceries.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/05/art2full.pdf

52% of women were working. It was 56.8% in 2022. So not that different than today.

Ghoul definitely has good Charisma. He literally passes a Charisma test on the show with the sound and everything.

No one has mentioned it, but I think Enter the Gungeon is a really good roguelike.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e6d1906b.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fff4a3b5.jpg

I gathered three reasons for why Aphrodite is fine and Stellar Blade isn't for you guys:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e6f00ee2.jpghttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e6d1906b.jpg

"I was being rhetorical, because I was trying to make the point that equalizing a colonoscopy to this particular procedure was apples and oranges," he said. "So I was asking a rhetorical question that was designed to make her say that they weren't the same thing, and she did so. It was the response I wanted."

Let's assume that this was the intention, why not just say that instead of "fascinating"? Seems weird to make it seem like you're just an idiot if your real intention was this.

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Okay. Yeah that person is absolutely lying. I was looking at the actual Pokemon Go topics.

I went over to RE and checked and I am seeing basically universal hate for how the characters look. The only apologia I see is that this will be used by people as an example of desexualization of games being bad. Some seem to be concerned about the shittiness of these characters being weaponized against desexualization in general, but I haven't seen anyone actually say they like the update.

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ResetEra is the actual strawman that everyone who says they're trying to remove attractive women from games is referring to. When you hear people are outraged about Stellar Blade or Tifa having a swimming suit they're talking about ResetEra.

His haircut got boring and his skin got lightened for some reason? What exactly are they trying to do?

FortuneCookie posted...

If they "accidentally" struck Syria, it could be the next step in launching World War 3. Israel is badly outnumbered and America has to help her.

Fuck Netanyahu.

They have been bombing Syria for years. A lot of countries have.

Doe posted...

What the fuck are we talking about anymore?

https://youtu.be/arty9MuqEg0

Like yes TDKR is flawed and not as good as TDK but people pretend it ruined their lives or something.

That's one of the most memed on scenes in history. Like it's hilarious, don't get me wrong, but not sure what you are trying to say here.

MangaBroski posted...

Alright, Im honestly surprised. Vegetarian diets arent very common outside of the USA and parts of India* from my understanding. I figured there wouldnt be any indicators.

*From my understanding, while a number of Hindu Indian people identify as vegetarian the number who are is lower. Still considering that, I would expect to be able to easily find vegetarian options in many parts of India.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country

You are right about India having a lot and wrong about the US.

Also you can go to CoCoIchi or Mos Burger basically anywhere in Japan and get vegetarian curry or burger. Also no matter how middle of nowhere I go in Japan there is always at least one Indian restaurant, so I can't imagine not actually being able to find vegetarian food. Kyoto has way more than normal though, it has some Buddhist restaurants similar to what you see in Taiwan.

Edit: That source says 9% of Japan is vegetarian, but my search in Japanese for percent total vegetarians and vegan gets either 6 or 7%, so I think that one is overestimating it. But this is saying US is 5% vegetarian or vegan, so Japan is still a higher percent.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/510038/identify-vegetarian-vegan.aspx

Dragon Slayer is 1984. Early JRPGs were PC and tended to be action oriented. But the popularity of Wizardry and to a lesser extent Ultima in Japan made the style that most Westerners call JRPGs popular. But really the Ys series and other action stuff by Nihon Falcom is the most traditional example of a JRPG.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

From always felt Western tbh.

Like, I played Armored Core 2, and aside from being about big robots (which is obviously a very Japanese thing) I could have sworn it was made by a Western company. Mostly because the movement sucks, but still.

Japanese RPGs were heavily influenced by Wizardry and to a lesser extent Ultima. So they were always born from Western games. Ironically the Japanese style of RPG in the 80s were action RPGs like Dragon Slayer. You can even find old reviews in Western PC magazines talking about how Japanese RPGs are more arcadey and action oriented.

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That's because most people in the West are unaware of the Japanese influences, including From's own King's Field and Shadow Tower games. They mistakingly think it was influenced by some Western game even though it doesn't play like any. I honestly hate the way JRPG is used these days. If it doesn't mean RPG made in Japan then come up with a new label.

Been posting on LUE since the beginning and still post there sometimes. The things it got closed off for were done by a small, but definitely awful subset of users. Those type of people left the site for LL (now called EotI) long ago.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Pretty sure I've never even come across those places, and I've been to Tokyo twice and now living in Osaka.

You're gonna have to go out of your way to find something like that. And people who complain online like that, its usually inflated, since most people who have good times don't go out of their way to comment that they did. And if they did, they wouldn't get such a reaction like negative comments do.

It's illegal, so if you find a place like that you could sue them. I have never seen one and have lived here for 7 years.

MangaBroski posted...

As a strict vegetarian, I may require an ingredients list.

I'm vegetarian. There are websites that tell you in English what restaurants are vegetarian and also in Tokyo and Kyoto many places will advertise it directly. There is a vegan ramen place in Kyoto that's extremely good.

It definitely wasn't good, but it's better than a lot of other Batman movies (because of how bad they are). It also provided the most memes, so it has that Spider-Man 3 factor (worst in the trilogy, but most memorable due to all the memes).

MangaBroski posted...

Touristy stuff sounds like boring moneysink stuff.

I live in middle of nowhere Japan and you would largely be fine even here, but I wouldn't recommend coming here at all because it's a boring moneysink unlike Tokyo and Kyoto which are awesome. I go to Tokyo and Kyoto every year. Lots of people who live here do, because they're great.

nekrodev posted...

I mean, I've seen a ton of youtubers like this and it doesn't encourage me, it makes me sad that people are going to japan / other countries w/ zero knowledge of the language or culture and are just super entitled.

The Japanese government wants them to come. Tourism is important. That's why they put out all the English/Chinese/Korean information.