TLR again

As there is no point talking to game forums about this (it's full of guys who just don't care or are there to argue about nothing or who always think they're better than you):

1. TLR's Japanese official site > the English one

2. Two of the people responsible for doing the English translation have been interviewed here. I want to go strangle them (especially the one who did the localisation) and ask them why they did such a poor job with the battle dialogues. WHY.

3. Like one of the translators said, and also in my post last night (in the comments), Japanese is much shorter than English when written down. So why is it that the Japanese game guide is 992 pages thick (A5, so let's say 500 pages A4) whereas the English one has 304 pages? Does the Japanese one list where to find every single component? Is it just because of the additional interviews, or are there loads of pictures? I WANT TO KNOW. I WANT PICTURES.

4. Can we have less Conqueror pictures and more David and Emma pictures? ;;

5. Why isn't there an artbook? ;; Don't they artbook everything these days?

6. OMG THERE IS JAPANESE DAVID/RUSH FANART. Can't look right now, but there are links at balterossa!

Office clearout

I found ordinance surveys of Luton, apparently from 1924 (obviously a reproduction, but still very old). Nobody wants them. Do you think anybody would pay for them on eBay? XD

If not, I'll take them home. They're rather pretty.

[edit] MY BOSS HAS A JAR OF COFFEE ON HIS DESK WITH A BEST BEFORE DATE OF MARCH 2004. WTF.

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( Random notes on character writing/creation/perception )

Link from lelola: The Not Rape Epidemic, something everyone should read.

Hah, programmed the central heating to come on before I come back from work. MUCH BETTER.