@Blue It gets complex though.

For example, I am on round 3 of Liar Game. the game:

2 teams of 9 players are placed in two seperate rooms called "countries" (the Northern country and the Southern Country) both countries have an ATM machine containing ¥2.7 billion yen belonging to the OTHER country. (300 million yen per team member) All players have a card, each of which they can use to take out the money in their accounts. (only 100 million can be withdrawn and used officially in any given round though) The game has 50 rounds.

A member from each team is elected one at a time and sent across to the other country's ATM with a briefcase that can contain up to exactly 100 million yen in order to extract an amount of money (or nothing if they want). They then must take the briefcase through customs, where an inspector (an elected member of the rival team) is waiting for them. The inspector is then given 10 minutes to make a call of either "Pass" or "Doubt". "Pass" means he thinks there's no money in the briefcase. "Doubt" means he thinks there is. If the inspector calls Doubt he must then give an estimation on how much he thinks is in the briefcase. If the inspector calls pass and there's money in the case, or if the amount he doubted is less than what was actually in there, then the smuggle is successful and the smuggler takes all the money in the briefcase. (which is then added to a seperate bank account away from the ATMS in either country. This "Third country" account has 100 million yen in it, and all the players in both teams have one of their own, each with 100 mil in it to start with.) Not only that, but if the inspector doubted a sum that was too small (or doubted when there was no money in the briefcase at all) then half of the amount he doubted is then taken from his "third country" account and given to the smuggler as compensation. If the inspector Doubts correctly, then the smuggling is foiled, and the amount in the briefcase is added to the inspector's "third contry" account.

When the South and North have both attempted to smuggle, that constitutes a round. At the end of 50 of those, the game is over. The officials then tally up the amount of money in all the "third country" accounts, and the team with the most collective money in those accounts wins. The money (if any) that's left unsmuggled from the North and South ATMS are then divvied out equally amongst the members of the other team (for example, if 900 million of the northerners' money was left unsmuggled from the ATM in the South country, then 100 million would be given to each member of the Southern team)

... see how this could get confusing?

WALLOTEXT PAGETOPPA!! XD

edited 8th Jun '12 7:13:13 PM by gingerninja666

Shonen means the work is written for young males. If you're looking for more mature work what you want is Seinen, which means it is written for adults. I'd recommend Cowboy Bebop. Well, almost anyone will recomend Cowboy Bebop because it's awesome. I also enjoyed Black Lagoon. It's fuckin good.

edited 8th Jun '12 7:15:10 PM by WillKeaton

@Ginger: I am legitimately sorry that you typed all that out, but I'm not gonna read it because I want to go into the series blind and also I have to leave. Thanks though!

Problem with Black Lagoon is there are no characters to root for. I'd suggest Baccano!

edited 8th Jun '12 7:18:53 PM by Bluespade

@Blue Oh you dick!

http://tweevle.deviantart.com/art/What-is-Friendship-307159204

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lmSoFOt_g

edited 8th Jun '12 7:20:06 PM by marston

Is that the joke?

edited 8th Jun '12 7:19:37 PM by Chadaman99

But I wasn't trying. That was actually one of the first things I thought when I saw the premise.

@Seraphem - I woke up late today, almost right before I had to be in work so I didnt get to watch any this morning. Im going to try and squeeze an episode or two when I get home from work tonight.

Don't you just hate writing out pointless walls of text

I think I'm gonna cry now

I keep my post to four lines at max.

I could lest read that much let alone write it.

Or I'm just being lazy. Lazy stupid, no real difference.

edited 8th Jun '12 7:24:31 PM by Chadaman99

Like these chips?

I doubt anyone could find a reason to reccomend Cowboy Bebop to me

I tried to watch Trigun, but I didn't like it

I'm used to walls of text, especially after The Hall of Records.

It's only confusing because you stated the rules in a confusing manner. With the way you said it, the optimial strategy is to always doubt for the full 100mil, since there's no penalty for doubting too much. But I think you mixed up the rules a bit, since that makes no sense.

@Ace Not when the only person who might be interested i reading and responding to said wall of text tells me boldfacedly that he ain't gonna read it

Hey I'm interested.

@Ginger: needs more line breaks.

I'm giving it a try.

@story

Yes, if you doubt 100 million every time, then you will ALWAYS thwart a smuggling attempt if there's any actual money in the case. but if there's no money in the case at all (which I said), then the inspector loses half of the amount he doubted (in this case 50 million) to the smuggler.

edited 8th Jun '12 7:33:31 PM by gingerninja666

Old stuff is still fun stuff.

Meh, I heard that the main antagonist's of Trigun were much better in the manga anyway.

I don't really know how or if I can reccomend Cowboy bebop to you Ginger. I sometimes really wish that you never watched Gurren Laugen, because according to you that show has made reccomending things to you alot harder then it use to be. Yet another reason for me to dislike that show I guess.

edited 8th Jun '12 7:39:21 PM by marston

Oh, ok. The way you said it in a parenthetical phrase made it sound like an additional case of the previous sentance, not an opposing case.

Outdoor rave.

@story I have no idea what that means

@steve Does it have good villains? Why would I bother watching it if not? What's there for me to anticipate if I get bored?

Ok let me see if I understand this correctly. Let x be the amount actually taken and y be the estimate. There are three cases.

• x = 0: Sumggler gets y/2, Customs gets -y/2
• 0 < x <= y: Sumggler gets 0, Customs gets x
• y < x: Sumggler gets x + y/2, Customs gets -y/2

Is this right?