Rumblings of Korean War II

So the American government decided to send a carrier group to the Korean peninsula as a show of force against Korean nuclear ambitions, which prompted the representatives of the Eternal Lich President to issue its own response.

And then an hour ago, I saw that nhk_kokusai had tweeted this out:

菅官房長官は、アメリカの #トランプ 政権が #北朝鮮 に対し武力行使も排除しない姿勢を示していることに関連し、アメリカや韓国と緊密に連携しながら、朝鮮半島で在留邦人の退避が必要になる場合も含め、万全な態勢を取っていると強調。https://t.co/2ll84vLzm5

— ＮＨＫ国際部 (@nhk_kokusai) April 12, 2017

Here's my translation:

Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga [Yoshihide] highlighted that, in relation to President Trump's deployment of the military toward North Korea and refusal to lift sanctions, while America and South Korea maintain their cooperation, [Japan] must be prepared in case an evacuation of Japanese citizens living on the Korean Peninsula becomes necessary.

So, they're at least admitting the possibility of another war. Remember when people assumed that our Dear Leader would be an isolationist who wouldn't go around starting wars, unlike that hawk Clinton? Those takes, as they say, did not age well.

At least Twitter will keep us entertained in the 20 minutes after the missiles launch.

Game Review: Owlboy

Owlboy is a gorgeous game with great music and a touching story that I can't recommend because it doesn't know what it wants to be.

Owlboy first came to my attention the same way Hyper Light Drifter did, by reading an article on Rock Paper Shotgun about it. A later review cemented it in my mind, with John Walker, who hates everything except puzzle games, gushing over the gameplay and story. And, of course, the art.

Well, I'm not sure how far Walker got into Owlboy. I suspect he never beat it, because if he had, he would have written one of his rants about difficulty preventing his enjoyment of a good game. I did beat it and that's what happened to me. I had nothing but goodwill for Owlboy when I started, but it was slowly worn away by the course of the game, and for the last hour or so I just wanted it to end. And then it finally did, and I put down the controller, and I deleted the game, and I'm almost certainly never going to play it again.


This game is beautiful, though.
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