ck-indies.bsky.social
Owner-Operator of CK Indies eBay store:
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*Comics, magazine, posters, & more w/ a heavy focus on Japanese imports
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Pulling up the actual study, it much more reads as "stop trying to shoehorn romance and/or sex into stories that don't need it", at least to me. Not "less sex in TV/movies", just "less sex in TV/movies that aren't romance-focused".
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I think it's safe to say that this guidebook cannot be considered a canonical source of Silent Hill lore, unless we can find definitive proof that Mr Koguchi consulted w/ Team Silent. @voidburger.bsky.social
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Found it! Their credited Konami source* was Tomoaki Koguchi, a manager from the Dance Dance Revolution team.
*The only of the 4 listed credits that worked at Konami.
(I'm using Google Translate on the original Japanese text. It's far from perfect, but good enough for this basic stuff.
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Okay, monkey wrench time. I've just been going through a digital scan of this guidebook, and I cannot find a single mention of who their source from Team Silent / Konami was. As best as I can tell, Mohe Shiraishi is just the strategy guide company's writer.
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To be extra fair, a lot of the White Claudia drug ring sub-plot is tucked away in optional locations and fairly easily missable.
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Time for some speedrun de-rust perhaps? Just spit-balling.
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Why am I sorely tempted now to see just how depraved of artwork someone could make said "artist" spend hours/days of their lives working on?
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Was gonna say the same, though they are pretty good about migrating stuff to YT.
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The truly baffling part is that data storage (in the context of tech infrastructure) is dirt cheap, and we know they already OWN the hard drives & server racks. They planning on just flooding the market w/ old recertified drives?
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If all this was was a tool for streamlining compatibility & optimization testing, I wouldn't mind so much, but we all know that's not the case.
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Has anybody done a Leon Kennedy (for example) canon story run? Essentially, every campaign/scenario Leon is playable in canon order, so RE2, 4, & 6 if I remember right. Obviously, no need to play both OG & Remakes, as they're the "same" story.
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Test Reply. If this posts, there's currently no timer (at least if I unfollow, then re-follow).
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Accurate. Most of the "world" history taught (mostly in secondary school) is British history as it relates to the US - independence, War of 1812, etc - and the events leading to WW1 & 2.
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It's one thing to maybe mix up Benin from Sierra Leone (no offense meant, central Africans!), but I've legitimately met people (fellow Americans) who thought Iraq was in/near the southwest US, "because that's where the desert is".
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My elementary taught us at least a couple years of basic Spanish but then never brought it up again. It was honestly a bit odd in retrospect, because growing up in Indiana in the 90's, there was virtually zero need (or even use) for it.
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Oh yes, not a single soul ever works on a project before it's publicly announced. Never. Not for a movie, TV show, video game, album, comic, or any other media. The first tease is a surprise for everyone! Even the production team!
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If it changes anything, “She’s Israeli, but she’s not Mossad. Now she works in the U.S. government” & a former Black Widow, according to a recent Variety interview w/ Nate Moore, a producer.
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What a nice Remedy for a stressful day!
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Favorite coffee shop I ever visited - Ghost Alley Espresso in Seattle - a *tiny* hole-in-the-wall under Pike Place Market (next to the famous gum wall).
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I've literally seen cases where a game's "mixed" on Steam, because they promised a specific language available on release but couldn't finish the translation in time. Legit complaint, but utterly meaningless to much/most of the market.
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Can't quite decide if the idea's amusing, terrible, terribly amusing, or amusingly terrible.
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Woo!
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And no, getting really high and doom-scrolling TikTok doesn't count as an "Immortality-like".
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Gorgeous! One of my favorite spots when I visited a "few" years back.
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And owned by foreign companies, yes. American-made but not American-owned.
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Correct. Most got bought out by one or another major corporation over the years.
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Many of the big ones are owned by foreign companies nowadays. Those're probably the safest bets. I just pulled a bunch of them up on Wikipedia.
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Most of the big names are owned by foreign companies - Suntory, Campari, Diageo, etc.
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Maker's Mark, Jim Beam, & Knob Creek (among others) are all owned by Suntory (Japanese). Wild Turkey is owned by Campari (Italian). Looks like they're aiming mostly at American-owned, maybe even just red-state owned.
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Also, the "That price is insane! I already own it on cd. I'm not paying that!" nonsense drives me nuts sometimes. Okay, buddy. Good luck getting that working right on your Windows 11 machine w/ no disc drive.
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1000%! I'm especially looking at you, Disney live-action remakes.
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Do we ever see anyone other than high ranking Shinra employees using a cellphone? Maybe the flip phone was one of the early commercially available models after the fall of Shinra?