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ausf said:
Speaking of references, and Japan, anyone remember Lucky Star? The anime? Anyway, being newish to anime when I watched it, I did not get half the references at the time. The ones I did get were funny, but the ones I didn't understand were obviously meaningless to me. That was a third of the show. The other parts being Konata, which were great, and the pointless slice of life stuff, which was pretty boring.
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Starting to feel either young or sheltered lol.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
I can't comment on Russian versions of the names, but linguistically, Ivan is John. It's a Biblical name. In Italian, that's Giovanni; in German, Johann; in Spanish, Juan; in Portuguese, Joao; in French, Jean, etc.

I don't think anyone associates the name Ivan with Russia because it's widespread even outside Slavic countries. Typical Russian name, when a movie director wants to be sure, is Sergey (Sergej).

My name, Ivo, is one of the variations of the name Ivan. In South Slavic languages, we have Ivan, Ivica and Ivo as male names. English equivalents would be John, Johnny and Joe. So, I'm Joe. 🤷‍♂️
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Sergey yes very popular (y)
 
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ausf said:
When I searched for Conquests of Camelot coins, this is the AI response:

"In the Sierra game Conquest of Camelot, players need to choose the correct coins for various tasks, including paying for safe passage, hiring mercenaries, and purchasing items. Some tasks require specific amounts of copper, silver, or gold coins. For example, one section of the game requires a minimum of 5 copper, 7 silver, and 4 gold coins."

The thing is, you have no idea about this before you set off, and you can't go back, and no one has change. It's just a complete waste of time. Either you had a walkthrough telling you exactly how many of each coin you needed, or you failed repeatedly, repeatedly repeating the game, until you worked it out for yourself. If Sierra, the king of adventure games, wasn't a maker of good games, then who was?

Some games were supposed to be funny. Some were just puzzle games, where you do puzzles, but forcing you to restart hours of game over something so ridiculous is not fun. Also, these games were reviewed very highly. I just thought they sucked. Same with Monkey Island's fights. Matching insults with counter insults? Why couldn't I just fight them with sword skill?
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Today we live in a world of consumerism and planned obsolescence, use and throw away. People have millions of music discs, movies, series and videogames.

Before, people would buy a disc or cassette and listen to it over and over again until it was rotten. They bought a videogame, and it had to last them 10 years. :ROFLMAO: . It was a different era.
 
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panto-esp said:
Before, people would buy a disc or cassette and listen to it over and over again until it was rotten. They bought a videogame, and it had to last them 10 years. :ROFLMAO: . It was a different era.
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I understand that. Some games were difficult, so you had to learn the patterns, until you could beat the game. This was also a way to encourage you to keep throwing money into arcade games.

What they didn't do was let you keep playing for hours, get halfway through the game, then give you a game over screen because of something you did on the first screen. Only adventure games did that.

Of course there were also intentional troll games, like Takeshi's Challenge on NES. There were also games as WN mentioned where you were supposed to do nothing, use the second controller, sing, or keep the controller in the sun.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
I can't comment on Russian versions of the names, but linguistically, Ivan is John. It's a Biblical name. In Italian, that's Giovanni; in German, Johann; in Spanish, Juan; in Portuguese, Joao; in French, Jean, etc.

I don't think anyone associates the name Ivan with Russia because it's widespread even outside Slavic countries. Typical Russian name, when a movie director wants to be sure, is Sergey (Sergej).

My name, Ivo, is one of the variations of the name Ivan. In South Slavic languages, we have Ivan, Ivica and Ivo as male names. English equivalents would be John, Johnny and Joe. So, I'm Joe. 🤷‍♂️
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Yes, Iván is very typical in Spain (Igor and Sergio isn't unusual either.)

All russians are named Sasha (Alex), XD
 
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