Recent content by osarusan

It absolutely does for me, and it's totally working. I love it!

Or even just... Fighter Thief Magic-User Hmmmm....

The term? No, not that I know of. I would have thought that word was coined much later. But incels, weeaboos, etc., certainly existed, long before words to describe them did. They seem like an internet phenomenon but I'm sure they predate the internet too.

I can see both arguments. One the one hand, Watanabe Ken's character is "the last samurai" as he saves Cruise and teaches him their culture in a last ditch effort to cling to a vanishing noble cause. On the other hand, Cruise's character is an incel's dream. A broken man who comes to Japan...

To be fair, the white savior complex in that movie is strong. :p Of course it takes a white man to teach the barbarian Japanese how to follow their own (ridiculously romanticized) ideals. But it's true that towards the end of the Edo period, the shogun's strength was impotent and crumbling, and...

Incidentally, here is a source that cites four different experts, all of whom contradict the claim that Japan's population was stagnant between 1600 and 1850.

You wrote something that seemed outrageous, and I literally asked you what you meant by restating what it sounded like you were saying. Your response was "Yes. That's exactly it." And to "do the research." I don't appreciate being called dishonest when I specifically asked for clarification and...

This is why I specifically restated what it sounded like you were saying, then asked you if that is what you meant, after which you seemed to confirm it. But if that was a misunderstanding I happily take it back. Look, my formal education is not in early modern Japanese history, but I can...

I'm afraid I can't recommend anything like that as I'm more of a reader than a watcher, and I prefer my instructions to be in text rather than video. The challenge comes with the fact that Fantasy Grounds looks like a table top, with 3d dice sitting there and some icons representing the stuff...

For what it's worth, I thought your post was great, and filled with really nice nuggets for scenario-building!

Recently I switched from using Fantasy Grounds for close to 15 years to Foundry VTT. The switch wasn't super easy, as I was intimately familiar with FG (as were my players) and I liked it a lot. And in some ways, FG is more intuitive than Foundry. But Foundry, while young, seemed to be...

So you won't provide any sources of this supposed 250-year-long secret program by the shogunate to "disappear" tens of millions of people, and your only answer is "do the research" (sounding again like the rhetoric used to support ancient aliens or anti-vax conspiracy theories). That's...

I'm legitimately baffled by what it sounds like you're saying. You seem to be saying that there was no way for the population of Japan to stay stable unless there was some massive conspiracy involving the "disappearing" of tens of millions of people? This is "aliens built the pyramids" level of...

I mean, you're pointing out that there were legitimate problems. Sure, I'll agree with that. Of course there were. None of that comes close to the hellscape you painted in your first post though. You want to talk about the population growth? Sure, let's talk about it! It's a fascinating subject...

I'm sorry, but what??? Not to be hyperbolic, but this is the most misguided take I have ever read about Edo period Japan. A perfect fascist dystopia??? A stagnant economy??? Falling three centuries behind the world in power??? Stagnant technology??? And some kind of master race theory??? None...