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Subj: Re: Don't tip the waiter if that happens.
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 at 12:35:34 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: Re: Don't tip the waiter if that happens.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 07:50:59 pm EST (Viewed 370 times)



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    It *is* kind of silly for a highly trained Samurai to be completely disarmed as easily as losing their sword somehow. This is usually true of medieval European and Middle Eastern warriors though.


Chiaki's not really a traditional samurai though. She's not heavily armoured, horsed, or supported by ground troops.


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    As an aside, Keiko would have received the same sort of training, only at one point there's a deviation where Keiko is taught to rely on her body and multiple deadly accessories rather than a single sword. Keiko could handle a sword too; but she doesn't carry a belief in it, like Chiaki does.


I think there's a distinction in the direction or purpose of their training too. Keiko was trained as an assassin, Chiaki as a warrior.


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    Chiaki's fighting style is highly defensive and "energy efficient". She is not strong, but she's agile, so she uses her opponent's strength and her own patience against them. She will always start that way, so that her opponent will become angry and lose control, and also begin to tire, before she finally strikes.



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    For instance with undead zombies, she probably observed that they were strong but fragile, slow but relentless, and that they tended to come at her in clusters. So the most efficient way to destroy them is cause them to become tangled with each other to the point of ineffectiveness, and then cut them down.


Yes. And I'd see an ability to make that kind of assessment as a key part of her skillset.


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    I pulled out all the stops. The page timeout has been dramatically increased, the HTML completion has been re-checked, and the pages are now gzip compressed (meaning they transfer over the net connection faster because they're smaller, and then are de-compressed at the other end).



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    If all that doesn't work, next is traceroute logs and an email to Support.


I'm still getting quite a lag and lots of error pages (generic ones not Mangacool ones). It seems especially bad on the gap between posting a reply and getting a generated reply page, but maybe that's just because I notice it more because I have to check if each reply actually made it to the board.