albion Wrote:場の雰囲気を道連れに自爆する - self-destruct, taking the mood of the place with them

Nathanael Wrote:I believe 地味た is a made up word that comes from the verb 染みる【しみる】 and the adjective 地味. When 染みる is used as a suffix, like つく becomes づく, it becomes じみる. So you can say things like 「二回も告白して振られておいて未だに粘着しているストーカー染みた【じみた】行為をしているのはどうかと思います」. Since it's read じみた, you can change the kanji out for 地味た to add meaning from 地味 as well.

Virtua_Leaf Wrote:Still not too sure what 道連れに means. Ah wait, putting it into Denshi Jisho gives me this as one of the answers:

道連れにする みちづれにする to make take part in some activity; to take along with you (w. negative associations)

Which would tie in with what you said. But in the sentence, 自爆 is between this phrase and する. Can it still mean the same thing?

Quote:意味分からないけど、できるやつは映像で見たりゲーセンでやったりした。

PrettyKitty Wrote:平成生まれ means those born in the Heisei era. 1989 - present. Far from middle aged, the oldest of this generation would be about 19.

昭和生まれ means those born in the Shouwa era. 1926-1989. Most people over 19 fall into this era. Oldest being up to about age 82 at the present.

He's comparing his generation to the new one. The new one is the one he feels is 哀れ. The young gamers. Not the older ones.

More info on eras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name

PrettyKitty Wrote:My interpretation:
「◯◯君（俺）はゲーム好きだからモンハンとかプロスピ４とか鉄拳５とか
少年時代だった時にやらせたいよ」とか言っていた。

He said, "You (referring to me) like games, so I want you to let me play some of the games from when you were young like Monster Hunter, Pro Spirits 4, or Tekken 5."

Virtua_Leaf Wrote:Hmm I did think something along these lines, but apparently this guy is 34 which is waay before these games came out.

albion Wrote:意味分からないけど、できるやつは映像で見たりゲーセンでやったりした。
I don't get what [he] meant, but I watched videos of and played at an arcade the ones I could.

I think やつ here is talking about the games, rather than people. So he went and watched videos of/went to an arcade and played the ones he could find from what his relative mentioned.

PrettyKitty Wrote:Perhaps it's:
"I want you play the games from when I was young like [...]."

yarasetai had me confused

yaraseru - I'll make/let you do it.
yarasete - Let me do it.
yarasetai - I want you to do it.

That seems to fit better. Makes more sense too. I was thinking of 少年時代 as referring to the writer's childhood somehow, but even young people seem to phrase things, "When I was a kid."

Really, I dunno. ^^;

PrettyKitty Wrote:Are you sure? It seems to me like it would just mean "I want to make/let you do it." And be used as a way to say what we would normally phrase as "I want you to do it."

And "I want you to let me do it" would be something like やらせてほしい