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Apr. 20th, 2018 05:42 amAfter having analyzed in my notebook why I found myself not using that much food up in Earthbound when I was playing both recently (for Mom) and last year (for Marie), I think I'll try playing Mother 3 again at some point just to compare. Even though that game has free healing spots all over the place, the enemies are generally more challenging, and I did find myself economizing my items much more actively throughout the game when I played it right before hosting Starbound.
Also thinking of having a feature in Day of the Beehive, in which one more turn plays out in battle for everyone to make a point of healing eachother after all enemies are defeated and the experience gained is stated. The idea is that the characters all treat eachother as friends, rather than the player treating them all as inanimate pieces to be played depending on their own anticipation of what's to come. Various things will take priority over others, depending on the situation, starting with reviving fallen party members.
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Went with everyone to drop Mom and Dad off at the airport. Coming home, Brian asked me to assess my situation for him, and from there, we agreed just to watch Popotan already, since he will be here again after leaving for just a few days.
I went on to offer him my Pokemon Crystal guide for him to read, but he declined. Even though he commented last time he was here how awesome player's guides are, he said this time that he isn't gonna treat them as literature. With that, I suppose I should let him simply skim through it, and then sell it with the game itself, because without all the context from that game, there is no way he'd be able to help me reformulate Team Rocket's strategy in Johto.
We actually had a rather confusing conversation from there about that, given how badly he says I'd be tampering with canon by having Ellen and Jimmy's stories take place concurrently. That's exactly the thing, though, because Unwilling Service is actually its own continuity divorced from the games, and it's also the basis of my planned Freelancer contest that I still intend to enlist his help with.
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With my Breath of the Wild guide still not here, we were about to play Super Mario Odyssey last night, but then the Switch kept blipping off, and we discovered that the controller batteries were low. I re-attached them to the handheld unit and charged that up, and we went on instead to watch two episodes of Popotan.
I then showed him my entries for both that show and Lucky Star in TV Tropes: Audience Alienating Premise. (Copying here, in case they get changed or removed later on.)
*Popotan. Want an idea of what that's like? Try to picture something sweet and charming, like Little Bear, The Busy World Of Richard Scarry, Pokémon, or A Little Snow Fairy Sugar. Now, imagine it chockful of sexual jokes, half of which involve underage characters.
*Speaking of saccharine cutesiness, Lucky Star was made specifically with otaku on mind, and was best marketed in America by DVD like nearly everything else from Japan. It's about high school girls, but the way they look, sound, and speak, along with the aesthetics in general, makes them seem like grade schoolers in what would seem to belong on Nick Jr., where it would actually have to undergo some kind of butchery first to land. Some of the things the girls talk about range from things that real teens don't (case in point: How does one eat such-and-such?) to references to yaoi, breast sizes, and kidnappings. Incompatible subjects for the same show, much?
He actually begged to differ regarding what I described as "Nick Jr. vibes" (something Mom did agree with me on that regarding LS), but we did chalk such differences in aesthetic-demographic combinations up to cultural differences. He did click the Sugar wick, though, and we agreed just offhand to watch that next time he's here.
(There is something in common about those shows, along with others that come to mind. I actually did find myself reminded of such shows when I saw NBC Kids airing certain things before on one of the gym TVs. I know there already exist tropes like Tastes Like Diabetes and Sugar Bowl, but the former of those is mainly about audience reactions, and the latter can't really apply to Lucky Star, due (along with the occasional dark themes that the girls talk about) to all kinds of on-screen situations ending badly for someone or another. Both Popotan and Sugar get rather melancholy after a while, and a trope like whatever is in question can't possibly apply to something like Kill Me Baby despite that show's cutesy aesthetics. Definitely applies to Azumanga Daioh, which is about high schoolers depicted more age-appropriately than in LS, but parsing out similar shows to that would surely get problematic. And then there are two different people who described Galaxy Angel (which I first watched right after Sugar and didn't get the same vibe from) and Princess Tutu as "sugary cuteness" and "the sweetest thing since Care Bears" respectively.)
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The delivery for that Zelda guide has indeed been delayed, and I had to accept changes in schedule for it to arrive between the 1st and 11th of this coming month. Going to call both Target and BestBuy to see if they have it, in which case I will just cancel the order altogether after Brian drives me to buy a copy.
Also thinking of having a feature in Day of the Beehive, in which one more turn plays out in battle for everyone to make a point of healing eachother after all enemies are defeated and the experience gained is stated. The idea is that the characters all treat eachother as friends, rather than the player treating them all as inanimate pieces to be played depending on their own anticipation of what's to come. Various things will take priority over others, depending on the situation, starting with reviving fallen party members.
-----
Went with everyone to drop Mom and Dad off at the airport. Coming home, Brian asked me to assess my situation for him, and from there, we agreed just to watch Popotan already, since he will be here again after leaving for just a few days.
I went on to offer him my Pokemon Crystal guide for him to read, but he declined. Even though he commented last time he was here how awesome player's guides are, he said this time that he isn't gonna treat them as literature. With that, I suppose I should let him simply skim through it, and then sell it with the game itself, because without all the context from that game, there is no way he'd be able to help me reformulate Team Rocket's strategy in Johto.
We actually had a rather confusing conversation from there about that, given how badly he says I'd be tampering with canon by having Ellen and Jimmy's stories take place concurrently. That's exactly the thing, though, because Unwilling Service is actually its own continuity divorced from the games, and it's also the basis of my planned Freelancer contest that I still intend to enlist his help with.
-----
With my Breath of the Wild guide still not here, we were about to play Super Mario Odyssey last night, but then the Switch kept blipping off, and we discovered that the controller batteries were low. I re-attached them to the handheld unit and charged that up, and we went on instead to watch two episodes of Popotan.
I then showed him my entries for both that show and Lucky Star in TV Tropes: Audience Alienating Premise. (Copying here, in case they get changed or removed later on.)
*Popotan. Want an idea of what that's like? Try to picture something sweet and charming, like Little Bear, The Busy World Of Richard Scarry, Pokémon, or A Little Snow Fairy Sugar. Now, imagine it chockful of sexual jokes, half of which involve underage characters.
*Speaking of saccharine cutesiness, Lucky Star was made specifically with otaku on mind, and was best marketed in America by DVD like nearly everything else from Japan. It's about high school girls, but the way they look, sound, and speak, along with the aesthetics in general, makes them seem like grade schoolers in what would seem to belong on Nick Jr., where it would actually have to undergo some kind of butchery first to land. Some of the things the girls talk about range from things that real teens don't (case in point: How does one eat such-and-such?) to references to yaoi, breast sizes, and kidnappings. Incompatible subjects for the same show, much?
He actually begged to differ regarding what I described as "Nick Jr. vibes" (something Mom did agree with me on that regarding LS), but we did chalk such differences in aesthetic-demographic combinations up to cultural differences. He did click the Sugar wick, though, and we agreed just offhand to watch that next time he's here.
(There is something in common about those shows, along with others that come to mind. I actually did find myself reminded of such shows when I saw NBC Kids airing certain things before on one of the gym TVs. I know there already exist tropes like Tastes Like Diabetes and Sugar Bowl, but the former of those is mainly about audience reactions, and the latter can't really apply to Lucky Star, due (along with the occasional dark themes that the girls talk about) to all kinds of on-screen situations ending badly for someone or another. Both Popotan and Sugar get rather melancholy after a while, and a trope like whatever is in question can't possibly apply to something like Kill Me Baby despite that show's cutesy aesthetics. Definitely applies to Azumanga Daioh, which is about high schoolers depicted more age-appropriately than in LS, but parsing out similar shows to that would surely get problematic. And then there are two different people who described Galaxy Angel (which I first watched right after Sugar and didn't get the same vibe from) and Princess Tutu as "sugary cuteness" and "the sweetest thing since Care Bears" respectively.)
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The delivery for that Zelda guide has indeed been delayed, and I had to accept changes in schedule for it to arrive between the 1st and 11th of this coming month. Going to call both Target and BestBuy to see if they have it, in which case I will just cancel the order altogether after Brian drives me to buy a copy.