Metroplex System

Something I really appreciate in Fate/Samurai Remnant is the localization. The audio is all in Japanese, with only the text translated to English, so it lets me catch a few things I wouldn't otherwise.

For instance, Musashi's spoken line above is normal Japanese, but the word "list" is in English, because she peppers her language with various English words sometimes due to her travels. This is Edo-era Japan, so most other characters don't catch the foreign words. In the voices, Iori just replies "list...?" in English because he doesn't know what that word means.

The localization, to keep the spirit of the joke, has her use present-day words (which she would still know, because Plot) in the subtitles. It would be dumb and kinda take me out of the flow if Iori didn't know what a "list" was - I'd have to switch brain modes a bit and remember "oh yeah, this is the joke" and it'd be a clunky experience. The localization team does a great job at keeping the spirit of the joke by changing the details of it just a bit, and it just keeps things running smoothly.

ANOTHER thing I appreciate about the game is the ability to view a text log during any cutscene in case I miss a line - you can even play the voice lines back at your leisure. It's a very Modern Visual Novel thing to do, and I'm glad they kept it here <3

There's a long-standing gap in medical knowledge about what happens if you give someone "too much" vaccine– basically, nobody actually knows if that's even a thing, let alone what it would look like, because there's no ethical way to find out. This has been true pretty much since vaccines were invented. And I'm giving you that context because I want you to appreciate that a tremendous number of scientists and doctors wish they had that knowledge, if only there was some way to get it without turbo super ultra ethics violations.

Hey remember how when the COVID vaccine first came out and various powers told people to go get it, a black market sprung up wherein antivaxxers would pay to get out of shots, sometimes via simple document forgery... but sometimes via a stand-in getting the shot in their name?

Prosecution in Germany found a guy who, in over the course of 29 months, got 217 COVID vaccinations. (That's an average of 7.48 vaccinations per month.) When he got caught he volunteered for medical scientists to inspect him. The study has been published. tl;dr he's fine. Science emphatically does NOT recommend that you do this... but detectable anti-spike IgG in his saliva aside there's otherwise nothing of note, he's fine.

Putting this on main blog too because I am HOWLING.

In summary, our case report shows that SARS-CoV-2 hypervaccination did not lead to adverse events and increased the quantity of spike-specific antibodies and T cells without having a strong positive or negative effect on the intrinsic quality of adaptive immune responses. While we found no signs of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in HIM to date, it cannot be clarified whether this is causally related to the hypervaccination regimen. Importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.

i love this last paragraph. "well, it's not like anything bad happened, and he didn't get covid, but please don't go getting any ideas"

man these games are great

💜 the worst part about the yuzu shutdown is that everyone is going to forget about it alongside all the other weird and bad things nintendo has done to prevent archival and homebrew and emulation in like two to three weeks when they make some kind of kirby or pokemon announcement