Editing Questions/Question 254

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    |AskedBy=lumberlady
	|DateAsked=2025-09-05
	|QuestionText=Quick cinema question, just in case!  If our characters are from real world places but different time periods (in Konoha's case, alternate Japan circa 1630), would media from her world come in the form of "video of some form of movie-like entertainment from her world and time period", like a story puppet show or narrative lute ballad performance, or would it take the form of "movie from 50's/60's Japan or other period but beyond her time period when movies were invented"?<br><br>Thanks in advance!<div class="edittime"><em>Edited <span class="datetime"><span class="comment-date-text"> </span> <span title="">2025-09-05 01:34 am (local)</span></span></em></div>
    |DateAnswered=2025-09-05
    |AnswerText=<i>Most</i> of the VHS tapes are actual movies/shows from worlds that characters hail from. However, to even out the playing field to allow players to let their characters recognize things even from a setting like Konoha's... we have Found A Way that is in-keeping with the method™ these VHSes are being obtained.<br><br>Yes. Characters can find specifically <b>recorded performances</b> from their world and their lifetime. Movies and shows cannot be derived <i>specifically</i> from that character's world from a different time period, though real life Japanese films from the 50's/60's have an existing Karterian parallel—but they're not <i>quite</i> the real deal. But back to these recorded performances from Alternate 1630s Japan: they will have the quality of a shaky home video, and will be far glitchier than the movies snagged from canons like Human Earthworm 4. There will be only a single copy... and if anyone has the ability to tell, the VHS the performance is recorded onto is <b>not a copy.</b> It's the one and only, as if someone loaded a tape into a recorder and recorded such performances, somehow managing to avoid being seen running around with a hulking, antiquated video recorder. The footage is muffled, grainy, and not nearly so clear as being there in the flesh. But it's there.
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