James Moar

On the up side, the people a few floors up are getting some nice presents.

Yeah, that would have been a better bait-and-switch with the characters reversed.

(I do like the meta bit about the reliability of Heath Robinson devices when the case is revisited.)

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Bee Speaker has this, except with an attempted countermeasure that results in something worse than death for the employer.

“Hartnell really can’t continue in the role, any ideas how to handle this?”

It sounds a lot like a conventionally cathartic story structure, where the latter parts of Threads portray a world too bleak to even *have* story.

Reminded of seeing a poster for a comedy thing called 「三匹のおっさん」where using that counter for people was deliberately wrong.

Yep.

Monokuma in the original is played by the actress who played Doraemon for decades, using basically the same voice. It’s something like managing to get in the voice of Winnie the Pooh for your villain.

They could always retcon in a story about Black Bolt and Medusa giving her advice on picking a codename.

McSweeney Agonistes.

(Makes spurious claims of a ‘the dew on my sleeves/senses an unkind heart’ poem in The Tale of Genji)

Including the ‘it means someone has stolen our tent’ variations.

Turns out the pill is the size of a Dyson Sphere….

Maybe it’s known as ‘Shiki Total Landscaping’?

“….you’d have thought ‘makes everything purple’ would be a stronger selling point.”

It’s the rhyming thing — both the English and Japanese versions give the two characters the same voice actor, but they’re not the same person.

“You assured me you were strictly a fujoshi.”

Have you played Gnosia? Like Traitors, it was derived from the Werewolf/Mafia game. (Its handling of its nonbinary characters can be faulted but comes nowhere near Danganronpa’s lowlights.)

….though it would be kind of fun to see a literal “cow-eyed Hera”

I guess the fast playback also makes things look light. It’s especially pronounced in that first sequence.

Probably any farcical one as well.

Stop looking so smug, Astro Boy, you won those first couple seasons by default.

‘Policure’ in the quoted post is playing on Precure, the long-running magical girl series, by the way.

New and exciting opportunities for game modders present themselves.

“The plan is to make her new husband seem like a blessed relief.”

Could be completely off-base, but the automation of addressing mail might work against naming houses a bit?

“Sorry, I meant that it was a subject that *includes* Mickey Mouse….”

It works if the previous question was “and the will says only legitimate offspring may inherit?”

“And which one that guy is depends on what the colourist decides.”

“Surely we can cut sone of those roars.”