Just occurred to me "resident evil" was really meant to be "abiding evil," wasn't it?
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...why is number four in [Japan]......why is it bad luck? I mean, if it's bad luck, why don't they just change the name of it? As I understand it, they do the thing that the Western lands sometimes do with the thirteenth floor of a building, where they don't name it "thirteen" because it's unlucky. But four is a low number, so you'd have to do ( Read more... )

Phantasy Star II: Noah...because of Noah's ark.

It's time to ramble on about Lunar 2, specifically the city of Pentagulia and etymologies. ( Spoiler cut )

Highlight: Blue Slime, Red Slime, Metal Slime.

[Regular, Blue] Pison, Red-Pison, Metal-Pison.

I'm just solving the mysteries of the RPG universe, aren't I?

By the way, just who was it that sent Pison after you, anyway? CW consensus seems to be the bad apple at Patrof, though that seems drearily anticlimactic if true.
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PSIII, the little rat-like enemies that pop up in the early caves:

Eindons...Tsveidons.

Eindons...Zweidons.

I never got that until now.

And now I'm posting about PSIII monster names. I really need to go to bed.
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From the freaking incredibly creative Illbleed fansite ILLBLEEDMANIACS:

heavy condaller = omoi kondara ["heavy kondara"] --> omoi~kondara~ ["if you concentrate..."] - meaning, the baseball in-joke from the theme song to [baseball anime] Kyojin no Hoshi. Heh, I wonder if the gaijin got this.No, evidently; the closest explanation we all ( Read more... )