A bit too realistic...

This link basically takes a shitload of comparisons between the anime "Kannagi" and the real life town it is based on.
Hell, you can see Kannagi's run down ass house if you click, though the originalpost has censored the initial google screenshot preview. (I've uncensored it here)

I remember thinking that it was really cool that Hinamizawa/Shirakawa was a real town.
But lately it seems more and more anime aren't even bothering to think up their settings, they just go to a town, photograph it, then draw the photographs, or even photoshop directly over them.
Maybe it helps people connect to the anime more.
People in that town anyway...(and for the people of Lucky Star town, milk it for all its worth.)
It sort of smacks to laziness to me though.

Added bonus:
Clannad: After Story doing the same thing.

Real World Disconnect.

I never really understood how you could have casual players of the bishoujo/eroge genre because of the obvious pandering along with the target audience...
Sometimes it can happen though.

(12:49:57 PM) HengzhiZhong: :(
(12:51:41 PM) sibladeko: =/
(12:51:57 PM) HengzhiZhong: i stayed up the nite to play games
(12:52:02 PM) HengzhiZhong: now i feel crappy
(12:52:04 PM) sibladeko: why is that bad :V
(12:52:04 PM) sibladeko: oh
(12:52:06 PM) sibladeko: =/
(12:52:13 PM) HengzhiZhong: and my right arm hurts
(12:52:14 PM) sibladeko: headache pills :V
(12:52:16 PM) sibladeko: what games
(12:52:30 PM) HengzhiZhong: i don't know what they are called
(12:52:41 PM) HengzhiZhong: but basically the player acts as a parent
(12:52:46 PM) HengzhiZhong: and raise a child for 8 years
(12:53:05 PM) HengzhiZhong: then after 8 years, depending on the points, the child has certain endings
(12:53:25 PM) sibladeko: ...computer game?
(12:53:28 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:53:33 PM) HengzhiZhong: i have tons of games in that genre
(12:53:46 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's like the sims
(12:53:47 PM) sibladeko: why do you have this
(12:53:51 PM) sibladeko: is it anime styled?
(12:53:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:54:03 PM) HengzhiZhong: i have them since i was a kid
(12:54:05 PM) sibladeko: is your child a boy or a girl
(12:54:08 PM) HengzhiZhong: it was one of the first games
(12:54:11 PM) HengzhiZhong: girl
(12:54:18 PM) sibladeko: ...
(12:54:21 PM) sibladeko: princess maker?
(12:54:25 PM) HengzhiZhong: yes!
(12:54:26 PM) sibladeko: why do you have this game.
(12:54:32 PM) HengzhiZhong: why not?
(12:54:41 PM) sibladeko: It's rare as hell for one thing.
(12:54:52 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:54:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's very hard to find
(12:55:07 PM) HengzhiZhong: but i started playing before i play street fighter
(12:55:12 PM) HengzhiZhong: omg, before loderunner
(12:55:22 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's one of the first comp games i played
(12:55:40 PM) HengzhiZhong: the cheats are so hard to find
(12:56:10 PM) HengzhiZhong: how do you know this game?
(12:56:23 PM) sibladeko: cult status
(12:56:28 PM) HengzhiZhong: it's a cult game?
(12:56:30 PM) HengzhiZhong: eh?
(12:56:35 PM) sibladeko: as in it's a game with cult status
(12:56:39 PM) HengzhiZhong: you know, i couldn't get my hands on version 4...
(12:56:45 PM) HengzhiZhong: how come?
(12:56:46 PM) sibladeko: you're also looking at someone pretty well versed in obscure jp crap
(12:56:50 PM) HengzhiZhong: i think it's a classic tho
(12:57:00 PM) HengzhiZhong: at least i like it
(12:57:14 PM) sibladeko: princess maker 2 right?
(12:57:18 PM) HengzhiZhong: yeah
(12:57:20 PM) HengzhiZhong: i like 2
(12:57:23 PM) HengzhiZhong: i don't like 1
(12:57:29 PM) sibladeko: It's sort of just weird cause most people who have the game i'da ssume are sort of otaku wackos or some such XD
(12:57:37 PM) HengzhiZhong: why?
(12:57:43 PM) HengzhiZhong: my uncle bought me this game
(12:57:51 PM) sibladeko: cause it's an anime styled child raising sim that's almost unheard of stateside
(12:57:52 PM) HengzhiZhong: he also bought me lots of porn games... -_-
(12:57:54 PM) sibladeko: ...
(12:58:01 PM) sibladeko: :V
(12:58:04 PM) HengzhiZhong: i don't have a molesty uncle, just a porn game uncle
(12:58:10 PM) sibladeko: V:
(12:58:12 PM) sibladeko: :V
(12:58:17 PM) HengzhiZhong: well... i don't know
(12:58:27 PM) sibladeko: your uncle is otaku wacko
(12:58:33 PM) HengzhiZhong: 3 years ago when i went back to china, i told him to find me some good comp games for girls to play
(12:58:35 PM) HengzhiZhong: i said GIRLS!
(12:58:39 PM) HengzhiZhong: he again bought me porn games
(12:58:42 PM) HengzhiZhong: i am like... okie...
(12:58:50 PM) sibladeko: lmao maybe because they had girls on the front
(12:58:59 PM) HengzhiZhong: so i went to game stores myself
(12:59:03 PM) HengzhiZhong: and asked that question
(12:59:08 PM) HengzhiZhong: the sales person gave me porn games too
(12:59:09 PM) HengzhiZhong: -_-
(12:59:13 PM) sibladeko: AHAHAHAHA
(12:59:20 PM) HengzhiZhong: i was like... dude...
(12:59:24 PM) HengzhiZhong: i said games for girls to play
(12:59:32 PM) HengzhiZhong: not games with girls to play!
(12:59:41 PM) sibladeko: now i am totally curious about what games you own
(12:59:45 PM) sibladeko: :V
(12:59:46 PM) HengzhiZhong: princess maker!
(12:59:50 PM) sibladeko: besides that one lol
(12:59:50 PM) HengzhiZhong: girl wrestling
(12:59:54 PM) HengzhiZhong: i actually like that one too
(12:59:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: -_-
(1:00:08 PM) HengzhiZhong: they are probably made at the same period
(1:00:15 PM) HengzhiZhong: guy chasing after girls games
(1:00:28 PM) HengzhiZhong: i never got anyone except my own sister in those games... -_-
(1:00:36 PM) HengzhiZhong: you know those games, right?
(1:00:41 PM) sibladeko: oh god i'm dying of laughter
(1:00:43 PM) sibladeko: yes i do
(1:00:48 PM) sibladeko: ahahhhhhhhaha
(1:00:53 PM) HengzhiZhong: i never ever got anyone except my own freaking sister
(1:00:55 PM) HengzhiZhong: arrrgh

Musings on poker

I find it sort of funny that poker is the only "tournament sport" where the larger the size of the field the less skill matters in the victory.
Even Magic doesn't follow this rule, though I'm not quite sure how that would hold if there was a 6000+ person Magic tournament.