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[Parsely]

Has anyone ever completed Wind Waker without using the boat?

[Frumple]

I'm... fairly sure they have? Or at least mostly. One of the major speedrunning exploits involves shenanigans with swimming.

[Yoink]

I haven't watched it yet, but one of my more reserved friends gave it a uncharacteristically strong endorsement.  As soon as I finish this season of NCIS it's next for me.  Apparently it's about gamer geeks in a horror situation?

Something like that, but there's a lot more to it. It's really good, though. I've got just one episode to go... going to savour it for a while, haha.

Also, think...

Spoiler: Incredibly mild, one-word hint about the setting that isn't really much of a spoiler at all but I'm just paranoid about spoiling things (click to show/hide)

Retro.

[Rolan7]

Yeah.  So far it reminds me a LOT of Super 8, and ET.  Better than Super 8 though, at least for me (I was meh about that movie).

[Yoink]

Never saw Super 8 myself, not sure I'd even heard of it. I can see the ET resemblance, though, ha.

Are you liking it? Does that count as a small "random" question?

[Rolan7]

I am liking it (:
On episode 3 now.

[Neonivek]

Ok and welcome to my impossible to answer questions!

So 15th Century Korea (or Joseon)

So in the show one of the characters is pretending to be a Spirit Medium and possessed.

Why is it that spirit mediums need to remain chaste?

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Also I love how that excuse doesn't get her killed... it is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE difference as compared to many other countries (namely the Christian/Catholic ones).

I know it is also the case in China and Tibet where that sort of thing wouldn't necessarily be considered "bad" (to be possessed by a spirit or other being).

Well ok... It doesn't get her killed, thrown away, or exorcised. It does seem like it is considered SOMEWHAT a bad position to be in, but in a "being possessed itself sucks" not because of what someone might do to you.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Just another general combination of abstinence with permissions. I think that might well qualify as a human universal, though the exact things being abstained from and permitted in return vary wildly.

[Neonivek]

Just another general combination of abstinence with permissions. I think that might well qualify as a human universal, though the exact things being abstained from and permitted in return vary wildly.

Well what happens if they have sex?

I guess it could anger the spirits by throwing off the medium's spiritual energy... or pass on the ghosts.

[Tawa]

Why do so many people write "ō" as "ou" when writing Japanese names? I don't see how "ou" implies "ō" any more than a regular "o" does.

[Frumple]

Because it's a hell of a lot easier to type ou.

[Tawa]

But I mean, why is it necessary to write "ou" instead of "o"? Like, for example, Touhou. Is the "ou" really necessary? I've seen more people wonder how "Touhou" is pronounce than actually know right off the bat how to say it. It's not like your average English speaker is going to assume "Toho" is pronounced "Too-hoo" or something.

[Frumple]

Probably just to show that it's not, y'know. O. So you add something else as a shorthand type thing for the accent mark. Or any number of other reasons. Certainly looks better most of the time. Touhou has a hell of a lot more panache than toho, and would probably be fair less of a pain in the ass to the editors/translators/whatever to typo check ("So is this actually togh or did this jackass misplace tough again?").

There's probably a reason or five that'd be able to be better explained by someone that actually does translating, I guess. It's been a fairly standard convention for about as long as localization has been a meaningful thing, so it's not unlikely there's something behind it besides plain ol' inertia. If it's something besides aesthetics and convenience I don't know what it is, though.

... though an english speaker is certainly a lot less likely to pronounce touhou too-hoo than they are toho. You can conceivably get it out of the latter but there's damn sure no Us in too or hoo. So there's that.

[IronTomato]

It's not like your average English speaker is going to assume "Toho" is pronounced "Too-hoo" or something.

Uh... yeah. You'd have to be some kind of stupid to do that.

* IronTomato walks away guiltily

[Rolan7]

We were just saying it that way, uh, ironically!  Like pokemans!