From tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr Mon Nov 15 18:30:58 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 22176 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2004 02:30:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Nov 2004 02:30:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n9a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.43) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2004 02:30:58 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.58] by n9.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2004 02:30:57 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.114] by mailer7.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2004 02:30:57 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:30:57 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200411151919.55730.phma@phma.hn.org> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 731 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.94.237.43 From: "sshiskom" X-Originating-IP: 211.104.100.115 Subject: Re: Katamari Damacy? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=179208444 X-Yahoo-Profile: sshiskom X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23397 --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat wrote: > One of the examples says "Katamari Damacy is a strange game." > To me it's a strange *name*. What language is it from? > What does it mean? Well, it *is* a strange game. I have played the game. Katamari Damacy, PS2, Namco 2004. http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/katamaridamashii/ You roll the sticky ball. It will grab all kind of strange things from fish to bench. You need to grow the ball to some specific size in the limited time. And the ball becomes a star in the sky. Well, that's the story, but gameplay is much more funny and bizarre. Imagine a police officer waving his hand while stuch on the ball, for example. mi'e sanxiyn.