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Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, 1735 CE
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Super Famicom - Wing Commander
Title: Wing Commander / ウイングコマンダー
Developer: ORIGIN Systems / Mindscape Inc.
Publisher: ASCII Corporation
Release date: 23 July 1993
Catalogue Code: SHVC-WC
Genre: 3D Space Combat Simulation
The Confederation has been at war with the Kilrathi for the past 20 years, and you're just now joining the Vega campaign. You're a 2nd Lieutenant just out of the Academy, with some good work under your belt. You're posted to Tiger's Claw, the flagship of the Confederation Fleet. Will you help the Confederation to victory, or go down in infamy? Wing Commander is a space combat simulator interspersed with shipboard dialogs. Onboard the ship, you can save/load the game, visit the bar to get the latest gossip or go on to the next mission briefing, and the 3D space combat part.
As much as I hated Wing Commander on the Amiga (I never played on an Amiga or Amiga-based system), I can't deny that it makes a damn fine console game. Even the Amiga CD32 (which I haven't tried yet) and Mega CD versions should play quite well, and I heard the 3DO update titled "Super Wing Commander" deserves my attention as well. It looks good, sounds good, and is the sort of game that the SNES has been screaming out for ages! Okay, so it's not a patch on the all-conquering Star Fox by Argonaut Software but it's much better than the tragic Warpspeed (which only saw an American release on the SNES) and Vortex even and shows that the SFC can do impressive-looking 3D even without the aid of a special chip! I'm not sure how long it'll hold its appeal, but you're guaranteed plenty of fun for as long as it does.
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DUDES!!
Apparently some splendorous French folks scanned and uploaded a bunch of art from the Japanese Battletech books. FUCKING RAD MAN.
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I may have found an English translation of the Japanese text for this book.
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Okinawa costco.
Holy shit, even after 79 years, America keeps humiliating Japan.
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This illustrated guide to Columbo is really cute
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what the hell
named mcdilda??
obsessed with this guys understanding of how an atomic bomb works
i love this post cause it really shows how torture is never useful to acquiring information
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Not just the Russian orthodox doing that then
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ドクターイエロー。
Doctor Yellow is going to retire! Nooo! 😭 It's supposed to be good luck to see this yellow train, because it's rare and unpredictable.
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Found what might be the greatest twitter account ever
Fujoshi beast mode
Oh lord.
The Japanese know of the Skyline chili.
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Japanese cover of James Blish’s “Spock Must Die!” featuring the Enterprise as drawn by someone who’s only ever had it described to them in words
“You know, it’s got a saucer part, and then some cylindrical thingies behind it. Perfect.”
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god i love sentai
fire-breathing giant frogs are a long-standing ninja association! i can’t remember why, though~
It had to do with the legendary Ninja Jiraiya and his association with a gigantic frog/toad. He as also known to use shape-shifting magic to turn himself into a gigantic amphibian. His tale is Chronicled in Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑物語) which became popularized as a serialized novel in the 19th Century.
A great version was in the 1966 Tokusatsu film Kairyū Daikessen a.k.a. The Magic Serpent which featured a climactic battle between Jiraiya as a fire-breathing, horned toad and his arch-enemy Orochimaru who transformed into a dragon.
This is also why Jiraiya in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger has a frog for a mecha.
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It’s so fucked how in Japan, the mangaka behind Rurouni Kenshin, who had so much child porn in his possession authorities thought he was producing it, only got a light jail sentence of a few months, and shortly after leaving jail his manga got a second anime adaptation and even publicity all over Japan.
Meanwhile the mankaga behind The Apothecary Diaries, who got caught up in tax evasion charges, almost got her manga axed because of that, and even after paying her dues with interest there’s still a risk of the manga getting cancelled, as the publisher wasn’t happy with the news.
That is not a healthy society, I can say that much.
God knows if the different response was because of one crime being seen as more acceptable, or if it was because one of them was a woman.
In a place like Japan, fuck if I know which one it is.
Sadly it’s probably both…
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@authortobenamedlater as the native Bostonian, would you care to comment on this?
Baseball is huge in Japan, so they could pick worse cities for a takeover.