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dajaregambler · 3 years ago
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HeliosR - Akira Otori Card story “Beware of staying up late”
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Translation of Akira Otori’s initial 4* card story from ‘Helios Rising Heroes’.  
Akira: Yah, take that!
Akira: Heheheh, I won again. And with this I’ve gotten complete victory on all matches against Will today♪
Will: You’ve been good at fighting games since forever, haven’t you. But still, it feels miserable that I kept losing… 
Akira: Then let’s have another round. It’ll be an other crushing victory for me though♪
Will: There’s no way I can back out now with you saying that, I accept your challenge
Will: Actually Akira, are you sure you don’t want to go to bed? You’ve been waking up early everyday to go out to run since you became a hero, right?
Akira: It’s ingrained in my body to wake up early everyday now, and lately I’ve been waking up on my own too, I can take it easy♪
Will: Yes, yes, how good of you to keep that up
Akira: Oi, don’t treat me like a kid
Akira: I’m finally a hero now, it’s obvious that I can!
Akira: And, I’ll be surpassing Brad before he’ll even know it, I’ll show him who’ll be the greatest hero here!
Will: That again… you know you’ll get scolded again if Brad-san or Oscar-san were to hear this.
Akira: Hell yeah! Victory!
Will: Aaah, the moment I looked away you…!
Akira: Heh, even if ya didn’t, it woulda still been my win. ‘Cuz you suck~
Will: Sigh, and here I thought my skills were average at best
Akira: Awright, one more time… 
Will: We should wrap it up here for today, we’ll need to be training early in the morning tomorrow.
Will: I’m off to sleep, make sure you don’t overdo it either, Akira
Akira: I know, I know. I’mma sleep too
Will: Okay. Then, goodnight
Akira: Hmm… I said I’ll sleep buuut, feels like I’m not too satisfied yet
Akira: Okay, I’ll hop online and have one more match…!
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Akira: A successful combo of attacks! Hell yeah, another crushing victory!
Akira: Is every guy I run into some kinda noob or what, getting a bit boring to just keep on easily winning like that. Ain’t there a tougher guy or somethin’
Akira: Heheheh, guess there’s not a single guy that can win against me. AHAHA!
Akira: ...Woah, it’s already this late. I wanted to just do one match but ended up getting way too into it
Akira: Oh man it’ll be bad if I don’t go to bed now….
Akira: Huh? A challenge to fight? I was just thinking to stop though
Akira: Well, guess I’ll see what kind of guy it is
Akira: Geh! Ain’t their character looking exactly like Brad now. A hoity-toity baton user.....
Akira: Alright, I’mma beat his ass and go to bed
Akira: Fufufuh. If only I could do this to Brad in real life...
Akira: Geh, huh, wha-, hold u-.... Gwah!
Akira: No way…. I, I already lost…?
Akira: The moment the match started he fired off that ultra combo instantly, is that even possible!
Akira: Huh, a message from them? “Already done or what, you sore loser”...
Akira: HAAAH!? Who the hell does he think he is…. “Jet”?
Akira: Goddaaaamnit, NO way I’ll forgive him for this! I ain’t gonna sleep till I win!
Akira: One more round, Jet! I’m going to get your ass REAL GOOD this time!
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Will: ….kira, Akira! Wake up!
Akira: Snzz...buh…..
Will: I was thinking how time was flying by and you weren’t waking up… look, you’re gonna be late!
Akira: Uuuh, what’re you panicking for, Will….
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Will: Are you awake!? Come on, hurry up and get changed!
Akira: ….Still, wanna sleep….gimme few more mins….
Will: Even just a bit is out of the question, we’re gonna end up being late at the meet up! Wake up and get changed already!
Akira: T’is fine, fine...guh...
Will: It’s NOT fine…! Good grief, just till what hour did you end up gaming yesterday?
Akira: Hmmhn… Got fired up, dun’ remember…. In the end, I couldn’t win against that Jet guy...
Akira: I know I didn’t win… but next time, I’mma get him… dammit….
Will: Aagh, I shouldn’t have asked… If you can talk then get out of bed! Geez, I’ll just leave you here!
Will: I already thought something was strange since you didn’t go running, I knew should’ve woken you up then
Akira: Snzzz….zzzz….
Will: DON’T go back to sleep! Open your eyes!
Will: Please, it’s already this late! Brad-san and Oscar-scan will be furious with us if we’re late!
Akira: I ain’t scared of Brad or Osca-ah….ah?
Akira: Eh…. Wha- Aren’t we supposed to be there already!
Will: I’ve been saying that how many times now. Looks like you’re awake now, so I’ll be heading off now
Akira: Shit, I’ve gotta hurry! I‘ll be damned if I’m late….
Akira: Oi, wait for me, Will!
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thisdaynews · 5 years ago
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Maybe Trump isn’t solely to blame for your angry Thanksgiving
New Post has been published on https://thebiafrastar.com/maybe-trump-isnt-solely-to-blame-for-your-angry-thanksgiving/
Maybe Trump isn’t solely to blame for your angry Thanksgiving
Yet if the trend of recent years continues, a high number of holiday dinners again will be marked by raised voices, glowering stares, tearful pleas to take a breath and calm down, defiant refusals to take a breath and calm down, slammed doors, early departures.
Few of these debacles will unfold because people spoke honestly about the food. They will happen because people spoke honestly about other people and subjects that divide family and neighbor no less than the country at large.
It seems churlish to write about politics on Thanksgiving.In deference to the day, let’s engage a theme at least obliquely related to politics without mentioning the Current Occupant of the White House or the proceedings against that person underway on Capitol Hill.
The subject is why you and I lately have become so angry and so raw—quicker to take offense and to give it—for reasons that have no logical connection to events in Washington. My local mayor in Virginia tells me he sees the trend every day. So does the president of Microsoft, who acknowledges that the technology he sells is part of the reason.
This means the peevish spirits haunting national life can’t be blamed entirely on the Occupant, or the agitated responses he inspires. Something else—or something in addition—is going on, and it is closer to home. The mood is reflected in the way our fingers tap the keyboard on our phones and the way our feet slam the accelerator in our cars.
Speaking of cars: I got my driver’s license 40 years ago. This may be a bit too anecdotal to impress Nate Silver, but I’d say for the first 39 years I had an angry encounter with another driver maybe once every five to ten years. Nothing serious, but the kind of thing that leads to blared horns and raised fingers.
Over just the past year or so, I have had four episodes in which minor misunderstandings of the road—involving no accidents and no flagrant culpability on either side—sent the other motorist over an emotional edge, hurling obscenities, shaking with rage, one hand on the steering wheel and one on the iPhone as they contemptuously record the moment.
What’s wrong with these people? A more uncomfortable question: What’s wrong with me?
Most people who know me, I’ll venture, experience me as a calm person, arguably to a fault. These people probably would find it funny that in one of those instances on the road I was as out of control as the other person, shouting F-bombs, ready to escalate before the absurdity of the situation returned me haltingly to reason.
The standard explanations don’t cut it. Gerrymandered congressional districts are not to blame. Sure, I am concerned but I am not personally affected by erosion of the manufacturing sector. By appearances the other people were more likely to be beneficiaries than victims of economic disruption. No car was sporting bumper-stickers to signal one way or the other how they felt about you-know-who, or guns, or abortion. Toxic masculinity might explain my contribution but not the other’s, since all four were women.
My hunch on a culprit is two factors, in combination. First, modern life offers a lot of things to be legitimately anxious about. In addition, the pervasiveness of technology has created a new style of communication—spontaneous, judgmental, self-involved. Emails, texts, social media are both platforms for and stimulants of exaggeration, indignation, egomania, in ways that seep deeply into everyday life.
Another example close to home. An email list serve in my neighborhood is the place people go for interesting or useful information. Someone was up early and saw a fox so be careful leaving small pets outside. This guy is wondering whether anyone has recommendations on a plumber.
Lately, the forum has taken on a surly tone. People are fuming about the City of Alexandria’s decision to designate a bike lane on a route heavily used by commuters. It’s made traffic worse and is hardly used by cyclists. A proposal to promote more affordable housing by modestly loosening zoning laws to allow some multi-unit dwellings in single-family neighborhoods has inspired a furious response.
Venting on these issues is different than venting about dry turkey. If you think bike lanes on Seminary Road are a terrible idea, it is good citizenship, not bad manners, to say so. But how one says so is revealing.
As someone who used to cover local government, I am quite open to the possibility that a politician could be a dope or self-dealing conniver (not unheard of at the national level either). But shouldn’t one also be open to other possibilities, like maybe he or she is genuinely trying to balance competing values on behalf of the public interest?
“We’ve gotten a lot coarser and we are seeing a lot more vitriol” in recent years, said Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson. As a Democrat, he added, “I’d like to say it all startedon January 20, 2017, but it goes back more than that.”
He said his wife urges him to stay off Twitter and Facebook and list serves, but Wilson is on constantly, calmly answering insults and accusations with detailed explanations of his own views and city policies. He’s still struck by the speed with which people assume bad faith.
“People cannot assume that the other side has a disagreement on policy,” he said. “As for the way out, I wish I knew.”
Brad Smith, the Microsoft president, in an interview offered a sensible proposal for the way out when people’s fingers hit the keyboard: “Don’t move faster than the speed of thought.”
Smith’s recent book on technology was titled “Tools and Weapons.” Echoing Wilson, he acknowledged that too often in our civic life technology is more weapon than tool, producing “more candor but less thought.”
It’s a distressing notion. Most of the recent debate about social media has been about the danger of trafficking in manipulation and falsehood. But our fellow citizens may be the more pervasive hazard than Russian trolls, trafficking not in deliberate lies but their own version of truth. Along the way they display old dimensions of human character—the capacity for self-righteousness, self-justification and self-regard—for which no one was seeking new testimony.
Smith offered a suggestion that worksboth on line and in person: “People are getting so good at identifying people’s weaknesses without appreciating the other person’s strengths….This is not just about politics but about our culture and what we risk having that culture become.”
Not a bad thought for Thanksgiving. At my house, by the way, I’m the one who cooks the turkey, which I trust people will say is as good as ever.
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