I love your Mushishi connection. It would definitely not be a detriment for it to borrow from that seminal work.

Meh, looked fine to me. My problem is with the whole premise, considering how seriously NASA and the other space agencies take debris collision avoidance.

Year 237, Month 4, day 2 of our interstellar voyage. Jebediah is, as usual, handling the stress better than any of us. It's been almost two and a half centuries and he still has that stupid grin on his face. Bill, on the other hand, is a quivering wreck again today. It's this spin. Ever since we ran out of…

Yeah, it's almost like traffic engineers TRY to create death traps. Short merge lanes, forcing people to stop on an onramp or in the merge lane, ending multiple lanes at an exit— all of those things cause traffic nightmares.

Pretty much every traffic problem on highways seems to either be caused, complicated, or exacerbated by merging.

He's insane. Every real writer knows an insane character just can't drive a *meaningful* story. If a character doesn't have the capacity to change, there's no tension to any decision he makes.

I've read Howl's Moving Castle and its sequels, and I have to say it's hard to qualify which one (anime or book) is better. In a way I feel they are complementary to one another— they seem to comfortably exist side by side.

Evan, you probably know more about your family's history than I do mine. I don't know how any of my family came to America, though my mother's side claims Jean Lafitte as an ancestor. Did my father's side come over as debtors or sharecroppers? What was my family's place in England and Scotland before they came…

You know... I think I'd agree with him on this even if he were talking about grass in the real world.

They should keep doing what they've been doing. Mix up the crazy, try new things, and keep the good stuff (sliding).

He gets it right later. He's also far better than most anime fans at actually pronouncing the characters' Japanese names correctly.

They were always going to have a publisher of some kind, since part of their reward tier fulfillment was boxed retail versions of the game.

And so follows the wailing and weeping, the righteous vindication, the kneejerk reaction of the semi-informed masses.

I keep reading that screen cap sign as "This house is not for sale!"

Even if I never play 47% of the games I buy, I have absolutely zero remorse about buying them— I don't have to actually play the game to support the people making the game and almost all the games I own are the sorts of games I want the industry to keep making, indie or AAA alike.

Japanese construction sites also tend to be both well lit and feature an abundance of flashing lights. You definitely know it when you're approaching one at night!

However did this fail to get crosslinked?

Personally, I *hate* video walkthroughs. I'd rather have a map or a text walkthrough in almost every situation because timeshifting through a video to find the relevant information is so much more time consuming.

Two things stand out for me here:

Actually, if there's any kind of real threat in a crowded building that requires people to quickly evacuate, you DO yell fire. Because people know how to respond to fire.