Dungeon Fantasy 7: Attack of the Healbots

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Tyneras

Please explain the Shokuso Gi joke, because it looks like a standard bit of powerful ninja gear to me.

See this post.

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by Tyneras

Please explain the Shokuso Gi joke, because it looks like a standard bit of powerful ninja gear to me.

And that is the problem with inside jokes.

[PK]

Originally Posted by trooper6

And that is the problem with inside jokes.

It's not an inside joke. It's just an obscure joke. Anyone familiar with that actor, which includes many "chambara movie" fans, will get the joke. An inside joke is a "you had to be there" thing between a few friends.

[Tyneras]

Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty

It's not an inside joke. It's just an obscure joke. Anyone familiar with that actor, which includes many "chambara movie" fans, will get the joke. An inside joke is a "you had to be there" thing between a few friends.

After Kromm's post, I get the joke, and I think it is rather clever. But I am also absolutely horrid with names, so I could have watched every single one of his movies and not gotten the joke anyway.

[Kromm]

Yeah, it isn't an inside joke at all . . . but if you somehow like ninja in games without ever having seen a ninja movie, or if you do watch ninja movies but have miraculously avoided all the ones with Sho Kosugi in them, then you might be left baffled. We assumed that most gamers know what a "gi" is, given their fascination with martial arts, and also that they'd have seen ninja flicks with Kosugi in them.

[PK]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Way back when GURPS came out one of the things about reading the book that has since diminished or vanished is the humor.

Really, no humor in DF7? The book that gave us the Sacred Shovel of Zombie Beheading and barely-clothed priests/priestesses of Love with access to Erotic Art? I admit that DF7 may have taken a slightly more serious tone than other books in the series, but the occasional cheesy/humorous bit is definitely present.

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Yeah, it isn't an inside joke at all . . . but if you somehow like ninja in games without ever having seen a ninja movie, or if you do watch ninja movies but have miraculously avoided all the ones with Sho Kosugi in them, then you might be left baffled. We assumed that most gamers know what a "gi" is, given their fascination with martial arts, and also that they'd have seen ninja flicks with Kosugi in them.

Well, count me in the first camp. I like playing ninja, but haven't seen many ninja movies. Also, I'm not sure his movies get much airing outside of America...

[DanHoward]

Australia definitely saw all of his movies. The ninja craze and martial arts in general were endemic in teenage Australian society in the 80's.

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

Australia definitely saw all of his movies. The ninja craze and martial arts in general were endemic in teenage Australian society in the 80's.

maybe they didn't get dubbed into Spanish, maybe they were, but as a direct to video thing, or maybe they were from before my time, but my first contact with Sho Kosugi was with DF12. Now, mind you, it's a very good joke.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty

Really, no humor in DF7? The book that gave us the Sacred Shovel of Zombie Beheading and barely-clothed priests/priestesses of Love with access to Erotic Art? I admit that DF7 may have taken a slightly more serious tone than other books in the series, but the occasional cheesy/humorous bit is definitely present.

I didn't say no jokes but somehow it feels different then it used to.
But maybe its the format and jokes are easier with a book in my hand ten on a computer screen. Or maybe I'm just getting old and losing my sense of humor.
I remember my friends reading my GURPS books that I loaned them (trying to get them to convert) and the two things they liked the most were the solid research and the sense of humor in them.