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<blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 4459221" data-attributes="member: 30709">As garyh says, the problem here appears to be that you didn't recognize the phrase in question - in context it all seemed pretty clear to me, but because the expression was an unfamiliar one to you it seems you parsed it as &quot;Kara-Tur was fine as far as Shou Lung, Tu Lung, Kozakura, Wa and maybe the Hordelands went.&quot;, which is of course a totally contradictory statement to the one Kobold Avenger seems to have meant. Ah, well, you live and learn.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Moving away from all that...Contemporary pop culture is an interesting one to bring up.&nbsp; I have no qualms with this - I've inserted Kaiju into my own oriental setting, for example, and am toying with ressurecting a dead one in a metal-clad form.&nbsp; ;-)&nbsp; But I can absolutely see why some people would find that a deal breaker - like any occasion you have two very different sets of expectations in your group.Perhaps a related problem here is that &quot;Asian&quot; culture is all so often lumped into one big category.&nbsp; For example, I've met plenty of people who were huge fans of Manga and Anime and had somewhat confused conversations with them about the good and bad - but they're huge genres which get lumped into one big &quot;comics &amp; cartoons from Japan&quot; mould.&nbsp; Similarly, if you come expecting Seven Samurai and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, do you really want Sailor Moon and a Bollywood musical to be lobbed into the same category because, hey, it's all eastern?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GQuail, post: 4459221, member: 30709"] As garyh says, the problem here appears to be that you didn't recognize the phrase in question - in context it all seemed pretty clear to me, but because the expression was an unfamiliar one to you it seems you parsed it as [i]"Kara-Tur was fine as [b]far[/b] as Shou Lung, Tu Lung, Kozakura, Wa and maybe the Hordelands went."[/i], which is of course a totally contradictory statement to the one Kobold Avenger seems to have meant. Ah, well, you live and learn. :-) Moving away from all that... Contemporary pop culture is an interesting one to bring up. I have no qualms with this - I've inserted Kaiju into my own oriental setting, for example, and am toying with ressurecting a dead one in a metal-clad form. ;-) But I can absolutely see why some people would find that a deal breaker - like any occasion you have two very different sets of expectations in your group. Perhaps a related problem here is that "Asian" culture is all so often lumped into one big category. For example, I've met plenty of people who were huge fans of Manga and Anime and had somewhat confused conversations with them about the good and bad - but they're huge genres which get lumped into one big "comics & cartoons from Japan" mould. Similarly, if you come expecting Seven Samurai and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, do you really want Sailor Moon and a Bollywood musical to be lobbed into the same category because, hey, it's all eastern? [/QUOTE]

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