#still the Japanese wikis tend to be limited by location

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On the Sanderia Malayensis:

English Wikipedia:

[No Common name]

Japanese Wikipedia:

Amakusa Jellyfish :D

(OK, I’ll admit that I’m exaggerating just a bit and taking things out of context, but the bottom line is that you can learn a lot just from researching the same animal from different languages of the Wikipedia!

If you’re also interesting in learning about this jellyfish, I’ll link them here :>:

sanderia malaynsis (EN) アマクサクラゲ (sanderia malaynsis) (JP)

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Inspector Mizuguchi and Calorie Malorie- BNHA Oc’s

Inspector Mizuguchi: 

Full Name: Lin Mizuguchi

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 27

Quirk: "Air Quotes"

Quirk Characteristics:

By making the air-quotes gesture with her hands, anything said within earshot of the user before she closes the quotes, is recorded and stored in permanent memory. She can access these quotes by making the gesture again and speaking, able to repeat whatever has been said verbatim. 

Quirk Limitations: The longer the recording is the more physical a toll it makes on the users body, if the quote is left open-ended for more than an hour, it can cause her intense migraines, nausea and possibly forgetting previous stored quotes in an attempt to put all of the brains effort into capturing what is being said.

Because of this, Mizuguchi tends to use a dictation app and make constant reports to make sure that the V.I.T bureau has an updated record, should her brain ever fail her.

She cannot capture sounds, or repeat noises, only words.

Position: Special Investigator for the V.I.T or Villain Intelligence Task Force. She is most often dispatched in order to infiltrate villain organizations and record their plans and any other pertinent information.

Her current assignment is lead Special Investigator into the inner workings of the V.F.A and the capture and detainment of its lead members.

Calorie Malorie

Full Name: Malorie  Thibodeaux

Nationality: Canadian 

Age: 25

Quirk: Calorie Counter

Quirk Characteristics:

If the user and another person consume calories from the same source, the user can track the subject anywhere. The more calories consumed by both, the stronger the signal for the user.

Quirk Limitations:

The user and the subject must eat from the same batch. Ect. The user would have to have a special batch of donuts made, otherwise if they consumed something from a mass-produced batch, the signal would be wide and unclear as it would be tracking the faint trails of everyone who had eaten at the same place that day.

When this occurs, Malorie can experience intense dizziness and fatigue from the overload of moving signals in her internal radar. Due to this, she must make and cook all of her own food.Aslong as the calories are still being processed by the persons body, she can find them.  When the person has burned off all the calories they have consumed, Malorie loses track of them.

Position: Communications Officer and Tracking Specialist with the V.I.T

The V.I.T. specifically has special batches of donuts and sweets made that Malorie shares with other investigators before they leave on sting operations. It is Malorie's duty to keep track and log all of the locations of the special investigators and make sure that they don't make any unexpected deviations. She will also be dispatched to locations in disguise as a food delivery person to re-supply investigators with their sweets. While she isn't often called out of the V.I.T. Bureaus office, she has been called on occasion to restaurants in which top-brass villains and mafia members eat. While back in the kitchen, the cooks make a batch for just enough for two, and she eats while under cover, able to track the villain back to their places of hiding once they have said their goodbyes and left the establishment.

Background: Malorie has actually been obsessed over becoming a hero since she was small, and gave herself the nickname "Queen Calorie" when she was young. She insists on being called it when in the office to the dismay of her hard-edged co-workers. Eventually though they settled on "Calorie Malorie" as a sort of teasing nickname to bother her. Her quirk was far more suited to Intelligence work, so after graduating from the Transfer program, she was quickly recruited to work in intelligence.

Often times Mizuguchi doesn't stop working to eat more than soup, so Malorie is always finding ways to sneak food into her. She finds that when Mizuguchi is mentally locked onto paperwork she will basically eat out of your hand as long as you don't break her eye contact.

Lin is also the one who wrote the V.F.A Wiki.

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Game 108: Nippon Safes, Inc. – Introduction

Written by Torch

Doesn’t look very safe to me

Two years after my first ever playthrough for The Adventure Gamer, I’m finally up for another. Quite the gap, but – surprise! – we’re still doing games from 1992! We sure are taking our time here, or perhaps 1992 was just a particularly bountiful year. Either way, the next game up is Nippon Safes, Inc. This game was developed by Dynabyte software, an Italian game creator. I couldn’t find a lot of information about this company, but running a couple of Italian wikis through Google translate helped a little.

Dynabyte. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that it’s a portmanteau of dynamite and byte

Dynabyte made 6 games in all, of which 3 were adventure games. Nippon was the first in 1992, followed by Tequila & Boom Boom – a cartoonish western themed adventure named starring anthropomorphic animals – in 1994, and finally Big Red Adventure in 1995 ( 1997 on Amiga ).

Can you spot the KGB agent? ( It’s a trick question. They’re all KBG agents )

Big Red is a direct sequel to Nippon, but I doubt Tequila is related. Not sure how they’d make that work… In 1997 they either changed their name to Ludomedia or disbanded and then created a new company named Ludomedia, I can’t tell for sure. Either way they went out of business the same year, so I guess it doesn’t matter much.

Logos from ‘95-97 Can’t put my finger on it, but it’s like they didn’t fully commit to the new company name

That’s pretty much all I could dig up about Dynabyte, so if any Italian readers see this and know more, please feel free to chip in.

So let’s get back to the game at hand. I read about Nippon Safes Inc. in an Amiga magazine many years ago, and the cartoony graphics kind of caught my eye, but that’s the extent of my familiarity with this game, so I’ll start off by checking out the manual, to see what I can expect.

The story begins like this: “In the most disreputable parts of the Japanese metropolis of Tyoko,a shady character wanders around looking suspicious. What can this mysterious person be up to?”

Talk about suspense building.. To help me learn more about this mysterious character, I will be able to control the dynamic trio of….

“DOUG NUTS. He is an electronics genius who uses his knowledge for not exactly a lawful purpose (with meagre results). His career as an electronics engineer at Oxford ended abruptly when he was caught fiddling the results of the exams stored in the faculty computer. After moving to Japan, the homeland of electronics, he has problems with the law each time one of his breaking in gadgets doesn’t work quite like it was meant to.”

“DINO FAGIOLI. A former boxer of Italian origin, basically a good and honest soul,often falls into the traps set by people taking advantage of the fact that he tends not to think very hard. After a series of defeats in the boxing world, he boarded a ship bound for Japan as a deckhand. After getting into the umpteenth scrape he was thrown off the ship in Tyoko, where he is trying to make ends meet.”

“DONNA FATALE. A variety actress, she abandoned a promising career as a ballet dancer to follow the path of the glittering world of show business. She arrived in Tyoko dazzled by the promises of a self-styled impressario who, after having squandered all her possessions, left her to a life on the border of legality.”

Ok, so brains, brawn and… show tunes? How’s that for diversity? According to the manual, these guys are linked together, and I’ll be able to play them either one at a time, or I can alternate between them. This is referred to as something called the “Parallaction system”. Yes, “parallaction”. As in… “parallel action”. These Dynabyte guys seem to have a thing for wordplay. You may also have noticed that the name of the city where the action takes place is “Tyoko”. That’s not a typo ( or a tyopo – sorry, couldn’t resist ). The manual states that the city of Tyoko is located “somewhere not better identified half way between Tokyo and Kyoto as the crow flies.”

Easily one of the safest mountains to climb

In general, the manual has a certain… let’s call it “Lost in translation” vibe to it. In addition to character introductions, it also contains a test quiz, to help me decide which of the characters I should play. Hmm.. I thought I’m supposed to play them all eventually? Anyway, here’s an example question:

1)YOU ARE ON STAGE.YOU MUST CHEER UP THE EVENING.WHAT DO YOU DO?

I bring out all my artistic gifts. NA Nothing.I would feel out of place. NE Ever heard the one about the airship? WA

It doesn’t say how this helps me decide on a character though. Each answer corresponds to a 2-letter combination, and there are 6 questions so I can end up with a “word” like NARAKIWANAHO. I have no idea how this will help me with such an all-important decision, but hopefully we’ll find out when I actually start playing the game.

Lastly, the manual contains some information (fun facts) about Japan that may or may not be related to copy protection, including but not limited to Japanese written language, the geisha, fish, public baths, hotels and railways. This is actually a fairly interesting and a fun read, both for its content and for the sometimes strange English. Take this section about the subway trains:

To understand just how crowded they are, you should know that most stations have “oshiya”, or throwers-in. These are people charged with pushing the passengers inside the carriages. Each passenger is determined to get in, in order to reach his place of work on time, but the doors of the carriages will not work until until everyone has either got in or out. Since the other passengers are far to well-bred to interfere, these “oshiya” with their impecabble white gloves, help the poor devil make up his mind.

Having read through the manual, I feel ready to take on the game itself. The game is listed as working in ScummVM with a “Good” support level, but in for authenticity, I’ll be playing in Dosbox.

Tough call, but I’ll probably go for japanese engr… soll…sorry! English!

So join me next time as I make my way through the thriving metropolis of Tyo… wait, what?

So it WAS a tyopo after all

Anyway, prepare for a barrage of “safe”-related puns ( or maybe it’s better to Nipp(on) the whole thing in the bud ) as we explore the cartoony world of bank robberies and who knows what other crimes in an imaginary Japanese city.

Note Regarding Spoilers and Companion Assist Points: There’s a set of rules regarding spoilers and companion assist points. Please read it here before making any comments that could be considered a spoiler in any way. The short of it is that no CAPs will be given for hints or spoilers given in advance of me requiring one. As this is an introduction post, it’s an opportunity for readers to bet 10 CAPs (only if they already have them) that I won’t be able to solve a puzzle without putting in an official Request for Assistance: remember to use ROT13 for betting. If you get it right, you will be rewarded with 50 CAPs in return. It’s also your chance to predict what the final rating will be for the game. Voters can predict whatever score they want, regardless of whether someone else has already chosen it.

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The Path to Becoming a Successful 우리카지노계열 Player #5417

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Continuous urbanization in Japan

The continuity of urbanism along the 500km shinkansen bullet train track between Osaka and Tokyo was astonishing. Throughout the journey, the buildings almost never thinned out, and at no point did I feel like we were in suburbia, let alone true countryside. The route went through Kyoto and Nagoya, both major cities in their own right, and there was a continuous metropolitan zone along the entire shinkansen line.

At the same time, I was surprised by Japan's lack of density, especially in Tokyo. I didn't find any one area that felt especially built up. The entire metropolitan area is highly populated, and the median building height is greater than most American cities, but there was no central urban core with significantly higher density than the surrounding areas. Instead, the height level of buildings was mostly continous across all neighborhoods. By contrast, major American cities tend to have an extremely dense, bustling center with steadily decreasing density in neighborhoods radiating out from that core. This is usually a business and shopping district with high rise apartments. Many people live in that center, but even more commute in and out each day for work.

Japanese cities' lack of centers with extreme density surprised me. My intution about how cities formed was a life-scale Hotelling Game , in which the optimal location for a new enterprise is in the middle of where everything else is. This minimizes the distance to the greatest number of amentities, shops, people, and so on, and so it is the highest value land. Businesses want to be where people are, and people want to live close to their schools and work. This creates a cycle in which city centers are valuable, incentivizing developers to build denser, taller buildings. As more people in, the land in those centers because even more valuable, which incentivizes more building. With all these uses vying for the same space, the only alternative to build up, and you get urban cores with a far greater average building height than the surrounding areas. (Of course this is a simplification — zoning rules, geography, weather, and more affect land values, too. But the Hotelling dynamic plays a role in shaping the density and land values of cites. You can see the effect in the Google Earth images of New York and San Francisco below.)

Google Earth view of Manhattan _. The Financial District on the south end of the island and Midtown just below Central Park are extremely dense. Concentration of people draws in businesses and shops, which in turn makes it a more attractive place to build housing, transit, and amenities. Meanwhile, building height drops off quickly outside of these centers. The median number of floors in Greenwich Village (around Washington Square Park) is less than four!_

Google Earth view of San Francisco _. San Francisco is a striking illustration of this phenomenon. It's is a bit unfair, because most in neighborhoods outside of the Financial District and (_ as of 2015 ) Mission Bay, buildings are limited to 4-6 stories. However, the SF's neighborhoods for the most part took on their current form before building codes cemented it, so Hotelling still provides a useful model.

Japanese cities don't appear to follow this logic. Tokyo's tall buildings are fairly even distributed throughout the city. There is variation of course, and neighborhoods like Ueno are more spread out than others, but there is no single area that is far taller than the rest. The closest thing to "downtown" was the area around Tokyo Station, but that was more a function of its role as an intercity transit hub connecting the shinkansen lines than of being the central business district.

Google Earth view of central Tokyo .

I'm still at a loss as to what caused this dynamic. My best guess is that the city developed alongside a mature, well-supported rail system that could whisk people from one part of the city to another, so the advantage of being in the middle of it all was lower. Manhattan's subway system could be described in much the same way though, so this answer is not satisfying.

Japanese land use regulations are also very different from their counterparts in the US , so that certainly played a part too. It's possible that this accounts for most of the difference. In the San Francisco most neighborhoods limit buildings to 4-6 stories, which artificially enforces the funnel shape, where the old parts of the city that were dense before regulations took hold are the only place where tall buildings are allowed in the first place. Other US cities follow a similar regulatory pattern. This raises an interesting question — if SF lifted all density limits, where would we see growth? Would the financial district grow even taller, or would the surrounding neighborhoods build out to match its height? My guess is it would be a mixture of the two, with further densification of the core as well as development of the surrounding areas, with lessening growth as you went outward. Overall though, the effect would likely be an evening of heights across the city. I'd guess that the variance in median heights between neighborhoods would decrease, and we'd have a situation closer to that of Tokyo.

I'm not well-versed in the history of Japanese land use. So if you have any other ideas about why their building height variance is low, please let me know!

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