not quite next time...
(This is not the first new post! They just happened at the same time. Scroll down a little first).
ok, so I said that's next, but I had one other interesting fact from the book, but it didn't really go in the last post, nor did I have enough to say about it for it's own later on, so here it is:
p110: "The actual power of a highly placed Japanese depends on his jinmyaku (social connections)... building a jinmyaku requires time, energy, charm, flattery, and a liver strong enough to cope with large volumes of alcohol."
?!
A voice rings inside your head...
sound familiar? I guess that's more than just a bizarre game idea, it's apparently reality there.
1 Comments:
(This refers more to the blog before this one)When we were in graduate school, you had to know 2 languages to get a PhD in English--but one of those languages could NOT be Spanish since "no great literature" was written in it. At the time we thought it was a strange comment; later we realized it was total nonsense. So I am always skeptical of someone making such a sweeping comment as there have been no great.... from a country. Such an arrogant and subjective statement.Then,on top of that, the point you're making about anime and videogames as an essential kind of storytelling now. I guess it took many decades for people to recognize film as an art form; the older generation always rejects the younger's music; so maybe someday people will take off their blinders and recognize that videogames and anime can also excel and indeed be great. ....M
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