Would anyone care to define the term chambara? Is it simply a "samurai movie" or is it the conventions (that is: flashy sword play of the "my school's better...
Dorian L. G. Davis
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Sep 28, 1999 8:29 am
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Imagine my surprise when I found this group resurrected on onelist! Unfortunately there's not too much activity... Anyway, I've kept a large portion of the...
eyin@...
Sep 28, 1999 8:59 am
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Hi, Eric. I really loved your signature picture! ... lot more, which will hopefully go up in a couple of weeks (ain't unemployment great? ^_^) Purely out of...
Andrew Martin
Al.Bri@xxxx.xx.xxx
Sep 28, 1999 9:37 am
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Hi Andrew, OUATIC = Once Upon A Time In China; it's my Pendragon wuxia variant set in a fantasy late-medieval China. Ugh, 3 a.m. Time for bed ^_^ * . *...
Eric Yin
eyin@xxx.xxx.xxxx
Sep 28, 1999 9:49 am
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... I went to the online J to E dictonary and it does not seem to know the word: http://enterprise.dsi.crc.ca/cgi-bin/j-e/jis/dict I then searched the Web and...
David Allan Finch
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Sep 28, 1999 2:48 pm
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... Yes I set it up a while back and had not got around to broadcasting its reemegaince. Nice to see you back :-) ... Thanks. If you could block them up into...
David Allan Finch
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Sep 28, 1999 2:55 pm
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... Ooops spelled it wrong, it should be 'chanbara' hence they translate it as 'sword fight', but you most likely knew that anyway :-)...
David Allan Finch
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Sep 28, 1999 4:35 pm
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In a message dated 9/28/99 9:44:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, david.finch@... writes: << {Interestingly (well for me) I did not know that there was...
GoldRushG@xxx.xxx
Sep 28, 1999 7:46 pm
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... Released 1970 (if memory serves correct). Aka: The Ambush; or Incident at Blood Pass. It's a Mifune Studio Production, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. ... ...
Dorian L. G. Davis
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Sep 29, 1999 8:06 am
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Yes, sometimes Mark seems a little dogmatic about stuff, and since Bushido, LOTRS, and various other older games are still of interest to me, I'm glad we have...
James Eckman
fugu@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 29, 1999 3:29 pm
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I have just uploaded to the files section of the DragonsOfTheEast the old archives of the Dragon list (collected by Eric Yin 1994 to May 1997, Thanks Eric) ...
David Allan Finch
david.finch@xxxxxxx.x...
Sep 29, 1999 3:37 pm
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... To be fair, the list is the /official/ list for the SENGOKU rpg and I have no qualms with that. No, my main concern is that the contents of the list are...
Dorian L. G. Davis
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Sep 30, 1999 7:32 am
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In a message dated 9/29/99 1:03:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lgd14@... writes: << To be fair, the list is the /official/ list for the...
GoldRushG@xxx.xxx
Sep 29, 1999 9:10 pm
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... Thanks for clarifying that. Now, I'll just crawl back into bed, pull my head in under the covers, and continue quietly dyiing of the summer 'flu. Dorian ...
Dorian L. G. Davis
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Sep 30, 1999 2:17 pm
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... Just a note: the files are not complete. I actually deleted most of my own messages because I didn't think they were very important ^_^ ... Lots of great...
Eric Yin
eyin@xxx.xxx.xxxx
Sep 30, 1999 2:56 am
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... Personaly I do not have problem with that. But just so it is clear the: All articals in the 'DragonsOfTheEast' are unmoderated and copyright remains with...
David Allan Finch
david.finch@xxxxxxx.x...
Sep 30, 1999 12:16 pm
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Thank you for the clarification Mark. In the gaming industry, this attitude makes you a saint. I remember forms from other publishers that basically signed...
James Eckman
fugu@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 30, 1999 4:06 pm
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In a message dated 9/30/99 9:15:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fugu@... writes: << Thank you for the clarification Mark. In the gaming industry, this ...
GoldRushG@xxx.xxx
Sep 30, 1999 6:31 pm
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Hi there, Though lots of people on this list have read and recommended Judge Dee series, I am curious to know if anyone else has read Master Li and Number Ten...
Chuan Lin
linch9@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 2:44 am
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... Ox series by Barry Hughart? I have. Got all three. Loved them all. Must read them all again. ... Andrew Martin Al.Bri@... ...
Andrew Martin
Al.Bri@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:54 am
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... Oh yes :) Must say I prefered _Bridge_ to _Stone_ or _Gentlemen_. Pity that I lent them out, and that person has now disappeared off the face of the...
Dorian L. G. Davis
lgd14@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:02 pm
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... series, I am curious to know if anyone else has read Master Li and Number Ten Ox series by Barry Hughart? Like Judge Dee, Master Li is also dealt with ...
Paul Mason
panurge@xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Oct 1, 1999 9:37 am
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... Now that somebody has pointed them out to me, I will. As most people on this list know, the number of cliched detective novels is probably only surpassed...
James Eckman
fugu@xxxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 2:44 pm
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... Unfortunately, Laura Joh Rowland's Tokugawa era investigator, Sano Ichiro, seems to be following this very cliched path :( What started out with some...
Dorian L. G. Davis
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Oct 2, 1999 7:40 am
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... Hi Paul! Which Judge Bao books are you reading - the Leon Comber translations? * . * * * . * . . * . *...
Eric Yin
eyin@xxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 2, 1999 3:40 am
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... Hi Eric! Not reading, _writing_. Bao: Absent Heads is the name of the first one. Yes, I've read the Comber, and the poor translation by Blader of parts of ...
Paul Mason
panurge@xxxxxx.xx.xxx
Oct 2, 1999 8:54 am
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Thanks, Doomo, don't know the current spelling for shea, shea... Jim Eckman...
James Eckman
fugu@xxxxx.xxxx
Oct 2, 1999 4:16 pm
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... old archives of the Dragon list (collected by Eric Yin 1994 to May 1997, Thanks Eric) ... these archives, as the Sengoku list split off from the Dragon...
Andrew Martin
Al.Bri@xxxx.xx.xxx
Oct 3, 1999 9:39 am
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... Don't know what is worst. Reading his western myth/history interjected within a novel. Or reading entire Master Li and Number Ten Ox journey in Hell and...
Chuan Lin
linch9@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 3, 1999 1:13 pm
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At 06:13 3/10/99 -0700, Chuan Lin, your nimble fingers typed... ... Could you give some spoiler warnings next time please! Some of us haven't read the books &...