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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • This problem stems from この先 being able to mean “ahead from here in space”, or in time which (mis)translated to “the future”. Without proper context (that it is a sign on a road) the translation software had to make a guess, and it guessed wrong.

    It may be possible to infer from 前へ行く in the second sentence that it is more likely referring to space than time, but I still think it is possible to construct some similar sentences which even humans might misunderstand.









  • Disclaimer: this is not from experience so perhaps someone who do run servers with USB HDDs can comment on long term stability of USB as an interface.

    Technically speaking, even USB 3 gen 1 (5Gb/s (gigabits per sec)) is far more than enough to saturate a broadband connection (probably under 1Gb/s). Assuming you’re going to use mechanical HDDs, best case they can transfer around 200MB/s (that’s megabytes per sec)), so no problem there either.

    You might want to use external 3.5 inch HDDs as they have separate power supplies (less picky on power supplied from USB) and are much more likely to be CMR (which performs better than SMR, best if you check the specific model’s spec to make sure it is CMR) than 2.5 inch ones.








  • Turns out Pencilgon did a lot of things off-screen:

    • check out her loot
    • equip Inventoria
    • hide the other two in the Scale
    • pass the Scale to Sunraku

    All before walking out of the cave. It seems she was prepared to get rid of her PK status beforehand.

    I have wondered what Psyger-100 meant by laundering in ep 19, and we got the explanation this time. (Still unsure how that would be relevant to a negotiation though.)

    The Tomb of Truth Pencilgon got was the same as Sunraku’s, so there wasn’t additional lore.

    How is hunting unique monsters a profitable enterprise? Pencilgon specifically said it in the monetary sense, but she spent a ton of mahni fighting Wethermon and hasn’t got any back yet. Perhaps we’ll see how she turns a profit in a future episode?

    Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words wolf, meaning “wolf”, and gang, meaning “path”, “journey”, “travel”. (Wikipedia)

    This matches the kanji name 旅狼, travelling wolves, and also the title of this chapter revealed last episode: “Venturing Wolves, Be Ambitious.”



  • Emul is so cute!!!

    In typical MMO fashion, you gotta do some fetch-quests before the story can proceed.

    The devs means it when they say Wethermon is a mid-game boss. His follow up quest items are labelled delta, #4 out of 7.

    That’s lots of loot for Sanraku alone. Do the other two also get some Wethermon-related drops? I’m most interested in what game lore they got, though.

    Emul is so cute!!!

    Edit:

    Addendum: I saw some people in discussions elsewhere thinking Sanraku needed Divinity-level gear for Wethermon’s moves. The Japanese word used is 設備 setsubi so it is not “equip-able gear” that is needed, it is some kind of “Divine-era Facility” (presumably to decipher the cube containing Wethermon’s moves).






  • The quest is finished. IMO the timing is quite unfortunate, it occurred on the night of a large update. Players who heard the announcement might thought the three were just lucky to be the first to encounter new content and clear it, when it had nothing to do with the update and was accomplished through meticulous planning and preparation.

    With Wethermon put to rest, no one else would know how strong he was. It would probably be unthinkable IRL for an MMO to make content that can only be enjoyed by a single party, but that might be part of Shangri-la Frontier’s Kamige appeal. I wonder if it has something else prepared (e.g. some kind of Shadow of Wethermon monster) for other players.

    Curiously Rei was only worried about Pencilgon. Does she know Oikatzo’s player is male?