Comments on: Annotated 45-1

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 11 May 2022 11:26:06 +0000

Caneghem, Miyamoto not tagged.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 10 May 2022 23:57:07 +0000

I am reminded of the TV show “Lost”, when Linus asks Jacob, “What about ME?” and Jacob replies, “What ABOUT you?” So … Linus stabs him!

By: someone

someone — Tue, 10 May 2022 20:45:15 +0000

Taro learned this lesson well. Taro set his own goal and met them. He didn’t bluster, he didn’t promise, he just poisoned all his family to be the heir, and they never saw him coming. Not even his dad who was the one who encouraged all of Taro’s sociopathic impulses and even directly showed him how poisoning other people in the name of power-grabbing was cool and good.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 10 May 2022 20:29:11 +0000

I’m wondering how things would have played out had Taro been patient enough to just take over after his father had actually finished consolidating power. I imagine, faced with the united forces of everyone outside of Gastonia/Iwatania and the Adventurer’s Guild, Iwatani would have tried to parley rather than take a clearly losing battle. Maybe he’d have even claimed that this was his plan all along, that he had realized Gastonia was corrupt and needed to do something drastic to bring about peace? Anything to secure his legacy, right?

By: LP

LP — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:35:35 +0000

I liked the turnaround (followed by another similar turnaround much later) that Iwatani’s careful plan (to have other people smash shit so he can take what he wants) works, as does Taro’s direct smashing shit and taking what he wants, but both are completely blindsided by the shortcomings of their approaches.