moisms: Can you see difference between "can possibly lead to" and "will surely lead to"...?

Quote from: Fritzs;255785moisms: Can you see difference between "can possibly lead to" and "will surely lead to"...?

Apparently you can't. Tell me where I said "will surely lead to" and I'll gladly recant.

Actually, don't bother. You've thoroughly drained my will to live. I'm off to collapse in a heap somewhere while ruminating over the minutes I've wasted on this discussion and how I should have spent them more productively.

Quote from: noisms;255751There are lots of Yellow Submarines - it's a chain/franchise thing, and not all of them sell RPGs. I think there are at least two in Akihabara, and a couple of others in Shinjuku and Yokohama. There are probably many more. You might just have been unlucky in choosing one of the non-rpg ones.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks.

I must have gone to the wrong one, the one I went to had no rpgs and really didn't look like somewhere that would have had space for them after all the anime stuff.  Next time I'm in Japan I may try again.

Or I may not, my wife reads Japanese, I don't so it's not like I can get anything I can understand that I couldn't buy more easily in Britain.

Quote from: Balbinus;255803Next time I'm in Japan I may try again.

Hobby/game stores in Tokyo:
http://www.tgiw.info/etc/link-t.html

Three Yellow Submarines in Akihabara (the rpg one is marked):
http://www.yellowsubmarine.co.jp/shop/shop-059.htm
More west, just outside the upper end of the map, is Role & Roll Station.

Quote from: noisms;255787I'm off to collapse in a heap somewhere while ruminating over the minutes I've wasted on this discussion and how I should have spent them more productively.

Like by discussing proper rpgs.

Quote from: jhkim;255694Conversely, you can have lots of wacky servant sitcom plots without the innuendo.  Jeeves & Wooster come to mind for me, since I'm hopefully going to be doing a Jeeves & Wooster larp in a week.  I'm not familiar with the anime genre, but the Maid RPG is filled with wacky stuff like ninjas, alien invasion, and so forth played for comedy.

Cool on the J&W larp, sounds like a lot of fun.

As for anime featuring servants without innuendo, I recommend the aforementioned manga and anime Emma: A Victorian Romance. Kaoru Mori's a confirmed Anglophile as the numerous drawings and photographs of England on her blog show.

The manga is released in the US by DC Comic's manga division, CMX. Right Stuf released the anime. Both sites have previews. The manga had a historical supplement, no idea if it will be translated to English, though the Edwardian story Shirley is licensed.

Quote from: CavScout;255561Wow... is this a back-handed attempt to propagate the stereotype that blacks are lazy?

Nice try, but that's not what I said.  I just stated what I see on my drive to work every morning (and back to work after I go home for lunch).  The workers for the local maid service are always out on a smoke break every time I drive by.  I am saying the local maids appear to be a bit lazy, but I wasn't generalizing beyond that.

The "young black women" part was in response to Pundit's statement about maids in the US predominately being older, Hispanic women (in my area, the Hispanic population tends to work primarily at meat-packing plants and doing flood reconstruction work).  I was just pointing out a regional difference in the stereotypical maid.

But despite that I've explained it, I'm sure you'll still feel the need to follow up with some more faux-outrage, though.

Quote from: jgants;256138The "young black women" part was in response to Pundit's statement about maids in the US predominately being older, Hispanic women (in my area, the Hispanic population tends to work primarily at meat-packing plants and doing flood reconstruction work).  I was just pointing out a regional difference in the stereotypical maid.

Huh? Where did I say that?

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPundit;256174Huh? Where did I say that?

RPGPundit

Shit, you're right.  My bad.

It was something J Arcane, not you, said way back at the beginning of the thread (about replacing the sexualized maid girl with the "stereotypical elderly immigrant") that I was thinking of.  And even then, I didn't remember what he was talking about correctly.  That's what happens when you post without going back through the thread to double-check.

It's floating around the interwebs now, curiosity got the better of me.

It totally buries the needle on the weird-o-meter.

Don't bother asking me anything, I've deleted it.

Quote from: Fritzs;255615King of Old School: So, if it was for example 10 years old female demon, it would be acceptable, because demons, like orcs, aren't real?

What, slaughtering little demon girls?  Go for it!  They're demons, they're evil... besides which, do demons even really have childhoods?  Aren't their humanoid forms just illusions anyway?  Demons aren't regular organisms, AFAIK (notwithstanding that, yes, demons aren't real to begin with).

Or did you mean raping a 10yo female demon?  Well, I don't want that shit at my table whether you're talking about demons, orcs, humans, faeries or smurfs.  What you and your SO want to do in the privacy of your own home is totally cool with me, but playing out a rape scene (and I'm not talking about "fade to black" here) in a game in front of a group of people is IMO creepy as fuck.  YMMV.

KoOS

Quote from: J Arcane;255557And this right here is why I fucking hate bringing politics into a fucking gaming forum.

Oh, you think I'm talking about their political views!  No.  Even if Gleichman was a Gramsci-spouting anarchist (or, god forbid, a moderate), I'd still think he was a pathetic, socially-retarded fatbeard who makes the hobby look bad by association.

(Likewise Werekoala, but insert "semi-literate" into the sentence between "pathetic" and "socially-retarded.")

KoOS

Quote from: jgants;256187Shit, you're right.  My bad.

It was something J Arcane, not you, said way back at the beginning of the thread (about replacing the sexualized maid girl with the "stereotypical elderly immigrant") that I was thinking of.  And even then, I didn't remember what he was talking about correctly.  That's what happens when you post without going back through the thread to double-check.

Well, that's ok.  I'm probably the only person involved in this thread who actually HAS a maid, and she is, in fact, an elderly hispanic woman.
They just do the best job cleaning!

RPGPundit

I think it would be stranger if your maid wasn't a hispanic woman, all things being equal.

Maybe a hispanic man. Or a Korean man... do you put Jong into frilly black crepe?

Quote from: Spike;256356I think it would be stranger if your maid wasn't a hispanic woman, all things being equal.

Maybe a hispanic man. Or a Korean man... do you put Jong into frilly black crepe?

:rotfl:

This makes me think of a Smithers-Mr. Burns like relationship between Jong and RPGPundit.