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It's possible they were just inspired by the figures but didn't want to call it that outright? But I have also heard the Chinese government has gotten a bit more stringent in depictions of ghosts and zombies. Honestly I couldn't tell you if it's one way or the other, since I don't really play video games haha

Reviewing the words in case I get a chance to do some recording myself, though it looks like I have a full week of work ahead. Sigh.

[OT complaining]

I wouldn't mind so much if my annotation side-job wasn't still about conciseness, which is an incredibly tedious thing to evaluate for one thousand lines. First I gotta read to understand the line's meaning, then I gotta read again to decide if it's overly wordy or not, and if it is, then I gotta read the correction provided to see if it's an improvement or not. When half the lines are legalese, it's utterly mind-numbing and takes forever, and I hate feeling so sluggish at this when I felt like the Flash on the last project (reading for incorrect verb forms).

Every now and then I get something that seems to have come from a godawful erotic story, though; those lines are at least entertainingly bad, and often easier to judge, too. Kinda wish I could just edit that, but OTOH, it looks like rubbish, so that would only make for a different kind of brain damage.

[/OT complaining]

Anyway. Really just wanted to check about that one word. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

but I don't speak Chinese, so I only play Japanese localizations/dubs. _{Onmyōji might be a special case, since it's about Japan and originally voiced in Japanese.} The Japanese dub of Tale of Food _{you can say it's Chinese Touken Ranbu; pretty boy personifications of Chinese dishes} translates "young master" (player character) from original 少主 into the term 若, among other changes to modes of address (Yángzhōu Fried Rice uses the rare first-person pronoun 晩生 whereas in the original it's just the mundane 我) and speech.

What I'n curious about is the treatment of the mythical figures Hēibái Wúcháng (Black-White Impermanence, a pair of Chinese death gods) in two of the games I play. The Japanese localizations straight-up use the term, whereas the original Chinese texts avoid them – the ones in Onmyōji are called 鬼使 and the ones in Identity V are called 宿傘之魂. Is this because of a cultural reason or otherwise?

this sort of thing could be nice and configurable, especially by way of taking someone's code for adding a dark mode and turning it into a "green mode" setup.

Not technically a shanty, but rather a rewrite of the classic filk song, "Banned From Argo".

When we portalled to Ankh-Morpork for a much-needed break
We each set out to find what such mementos we could take
Each of us tread lightly as we wandered off to see
But it seems the city's unprepared for agents such as we

And we're banned from Discworld everyone!
Banned from Discworld just for havin' a little fun
We took a jolly trip there for a mere three days or four
But the flowers won't allow it anymore

Our Slasher's needs were simple but her methods were complex
Filching memorbilia with multiversal tech
We kept our eyes upon her fingers but she must have had a chance
She portalled home with almost half of Vetinari's pants

And we're banned from Discworld everyone!
Banned from Discworld just for havin' a little fun
We took a jolly trip there for a mere three days or four
But the flowers won't allow it anymore. 

The Assassin drank most heartily from anything with Bleep
After so much work it was such that he needed it to sleep
The trouble really started when he mixed it with some Splot
And all of us went deaf when next we heard him try to talk

And we're banned from Discworld everyone!
Banned from Discworld just for havin' a little fun
We took a jolly trip there for a mere three days or four
But the flowers won't allow it anymore

The Floater was a silent type, without much need for rest
He went to Stibbons' building just to see what he could test
He was well versed in magic (at least of a sort) that's true
But Hex is now possessed by both a daemon and a grue 

And we're banned from Discworld everyone!
Banned from Discworld just for havin' a little fun
We took a jolly trip there for a mere three days or four
But the flowers won't allow it anymore

The technician had no lust objects as far as we could tell
She never asked for anything and did her job quite well
We didn't pay attention and we realized our mistake
When the whole of the Seamstress' Guild began to shake

And we're banned from Discworld everyone!
Banned from Discworld just for havin' a little fun
We took a jolly trip there for a mere three days or four
But the flowers won't allow it anymore

Our Pyro had been punished for his own proclivities
We hid all of the matches and the gas quite carefully
Nobody for a moment even let him out of sight
We were quite confused how the Assassin's Guild was set alight

And we're banned from Discworld everyone!
Banned from Discworld just for havin' a little fun
We took a jolly trip there for a mere three days or four
But the flowers won't allow it anymore

Wonder why?

Translation: Even emoji get displayed just fine, look.

Does the Board not support non-Latin characters? Paging an Admin...

For what is Misty Mountains Cold but the Theme Shanty of the Quest for Erebor? /bricked

As for the chariot song, I think...

Eledhwen: And five bars of chocolate wouldn't do me any harm...
Christianne: Yes it would.
Eledhwen: No, it wouldn't!

Christianne: And a shot of Bleepuvour wouldn't do us any harm...

The Disentangler: And my sonic pen returned wouldn't do us any harm...
Eledhwen: If you want it, come and claim it.

The Agent: And an Earl Grey crumpet wouldn't do us any harm...

Lori Starrett and Bill Fallis: And some time off with our son wouldn't do us any harm...

[A shiny new DBS Agent I am working on]: What is happening?!
Christianne: Singing! You can sing in English, right?
[DBS Agent, managing to sing to the tune]: 你俩别要撒狗粮，我就觉得很好了*
Christianne: ...That works, too.

All: And we won't be long behind!

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*Translation: If you two stop doing PDA, I'll be very happy

But, to add a few more verses

And a big sack of loot wouldn't do us any harm...!

And a full night of sleep wouldn't do us any harm...!

And a real hunk of beef wouldn't do us any harm...!

And a quick in-and-out wouldn't do us any harm...!

Taq: And a cheap pint of ale wouldn't do us any harm...!

Peregrin (having figured out the pattern but not the context): And a ream full of leaves wouldn't do us any harm...!

Farah: And a nice flawless warp wouldn't do us any harm...!

Kkukttak: And a slow merchant ship wouldn't do us any harm! And a slow—

Farah: You're being really insensitive, you know

Kkukttak: But am I wrong? And it's not like we haven't done any plundering.

Farah: Still, this is a merchant song and that's just rude

Everyone else, ignoring the argument:

And we'll roll the old loony bin along,
We'll roll the old loony bin along,
We'll roll the old loony bin along,
And we won't be long behind.

a.k.a. "Roll the Old Chariot Along"

Yeah, this is low-hanging fruit since it's a supply-your-own-verses song, but that's why it lends itself so well to being picked up by disgruntled agents trying to pass the time!

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Well, a day without a [BEEP!] wouldn't do us any harm!
A day without a [BEEP!] wouldn't do us any harm!
A day without a [BEEP!] wouldn't do us any harm!
And we won't be long behind.

Chorus:

And we'll roll the old loony bin along,
We'll roll the old loony bin along,
We'll roll the old loony bin along,
And we won't be long behind.

And a decent night of sleep wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

Another sip of Bleepka wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

Just a little bit of drool wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

And a fic that doesn't suck wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

And a big, fat check wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

And any pay at all wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

And so on!

Jenni: Another verse or five wouldn't do us any harm...!

... Oh, all right.

And we'll roll the old loony bin along,
We'll roll the old loony bin along,
We'll roll the old loony bin along,
And we won't be long behind.

Derik: A drop of Benden red wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

Gall: Another horn of mead wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

Ilraen: A run on the grass wouldn't do us any harm...!

Chorus

Nume: Some goddamn peace and quiet wouldn't do us any harm...!

All: And we won't be long behind!

~Neshomeh

P.S. What verses would your agents add? {= D

P.P.S. My headcanon is that a version of this song definitely made it to Pern, and I might write that filk, too.

Maybe not worth the trouble, but being able to change the color at will would be interesting

They are pretty much the #1 nonsense "health" product peddler IMO.

First it was getting the giggles after a test verse and chorus. Now...well, I only skimmed before, and thought surely I could try just singing it, since I know the tune well and the words seem to fit well so far.

And then that backfired when I got to "Leggy" and just broke off to laugh for a bit. At this rate I'll end up having to post outtakes or something!

~Z

ETA: Have now given it a quick run through. Boromir's verse kind of got me as well. Let's see if I can make it all the way through now...

I'm not suggesting we actually change it, because red is Traditional, but the green was very pleasant to my eyes!

~Neshomeh couldn't think of a funny alternative persona for the 1st.

The badfic looks bad, your activity looks good, so that's two points in your favour immediately.

On paper and from the bios, I like the look and feel of your characters, I like the idea of both of them and I like the descriptions that you've given, even going into their favoured weapons etc. I feel I should point out that I didn't look at your first Permission request, so I can't directly compare them with how they were then, so please so keep that in mind.

The prompts for me are a bit weird. They're on the short side which, while not bad generally gives us less to see the characters in action, and it's this that has me a bit curious and a bit worried in some ways. The only person to speak in both prompts is Chizuru, one line in each prompt, so we don't really see any interaction between the two agents beyond, perhaps, the last line of the first prompt. With this I don't really get a feel for Kaguya in any real way in either prompt. Don't get me wrong, I like the list of everything that went wrong for both characters in the first prompt and while it does allow us a bit of a window into each character and what they like to do, it doesn't really showcase either character for me. And with the second prompt, we only really get that Kaguya's just standing there, having a BSoD moment as he can't compute what's going on. And that's good, but again it doesn't really give me much of an idea of Kaguya and how he acts/reacts in situations and Chizuru's panicking while good, again doesn't really have much of an interaction with anything to bounc off of (or at least, that's how it feels to me).

I think what I would want is more, more from both prompts, more interaction between the two agents and more of a focus on each agent seperately and how they act/react, what they're thinking/doing, to give these prompts a bit more life so to speak and really give us, the reader a good feel for both of your characters.

The only other thing for me, is that while the SPaG in the prompts is good, it doesn't quite feel as smooth as it could perhaps be, I think this is more my opinion than anything that you or Midnight missed/did wrong, but it occasionally feels like words have been missed or not skipped that perhaps shouldn't have been.

Nova

You know, all those things with shame-based marketing, designed to solve "problems" that weren't problems before someone made a product to solve them, chiefly aimed at women? Not that men escape completely—consider the multitude of muscle-builders and, ahem, other enhancement products out there that require a guy to feel inadequate to buy them.

I got to wondering this morning if "tired of those dark/puffy circles under your eyes?" isn't less insane than "tired of that unsightly dimple under your nose?" I mean, yes, sunken or swollen eyes can be a sign of trouble, but doesn't everyone have those circles, and don't they always look a bit different from the surrounding skin, even when a person is perfectly healthy?

And "ladies, that hair on your legs is gross!" is definitely more insane than "men, that hair on your face is gross!" You could totally market facial shaving products that way. It itches and gets in your mouth, it gets sweaty and causes pimples, it traps food that bacteria can feed on, it totally repels your significant other! Get rid of it! Buy now! Never mind that all of that is only a problem if you don't practice basic hygiene!

So, yeah, I'm gonna say the Inconvenience Store is the PPC's source of personal care products from around the multiverse that people from some cultures can't live without and people from other cultures think is complete BS if not downright dangerous. And they're probably right. ^_~

(Alternatively, Phobos suggested that an inconvenience store simply never has the exact thing you're looking for, and the closest thing they do have is garbage.)

~Neshomeh

A winner is you!

I will take it, and gladly! The PPC one hundred percent needed a "Wellerman" filk. Thank you!

... Friends. Boarders. Netizens. Write more sea song/shanty filks, and I will make a songbook to put them in. I am very here for this. {= D

~Neshomeh is getting into the shanty-singing scene, courtesy of an IRL friend who was doing it before it was cool.

I am using the same agents from my first request, but reworked their personalities and wrote entirely new samples; new request here. The first fic I want to spork is still the same from before – bad SPaG, laziness, image upload abuse, the works. Thanks once again to beta Midnight.

This thing recently got lodged in my brain so please, take it:

There once was a Sue, first name Mary
Who joined the Quest to destroy the Ring
Her skills contrived, her past tragic,
Her boyfriend Legolas

Chorus: Soon may the PPC come
To witness, charge, and kill, and run
One day when the mission is done
We’ll take our leave and go

She had not been two hours in town
When to the Council she went down
Revealing that she had the crown
Of some land still unknown

[chorus]

When Frodo said he’d take the Ring
The Sue thought it’d be a nice thing
To tag along and therefore bring
The Walkers up to ten

[chorus]

When Crebain flew, the Sue did see
A chance to hit on poor Leggy
She disregarded secrecy
To try and hold her prince

[chorus]

In Moria, at the East Gate
The Sue tried to change Gandalf’s fate
But Balrog whips do not forsake
And down Mithrandir went

[chorus]

In Lorien, Galadriel
Spoke with the Sue of tidings fell
And let her peer into a well
To see her future there

[chorus]

Poor Boromir, whose country’s need
The Sue decided was Ring-greed
He suffered from misogyny
At her hands, and then died

[chorus]

The agents had enough of this
They’ve compiled a huge charge list
And for the Duty, they won’t miss
The Sue, shot in the head

[chorus]