Unagi. My grandfather always used to bring barbecued eel home, and I and my father would eat it. My mother and sister found it too sweet and greasy, but I have an insatiable sweet tooth.Unagi? Or anago?
Also, favourite book and why?
My favorite book is Mushrooms Demystified, because it's just the best mushroom field guide there is... and a great intro to a lot of naturalism. Plus, the jokes are funny.
Ferdinand Lance was the prosecutor I played at the now-defunct PhoenixWrightTrials site! A fer-de-lance is a venomous snake, Bothrops lanceolatus.What's the story behind your name?
I agree that the courtroom scenes of Ace Attorney are almost uniquely geared towards the discovery of truth by confrontation, rather than strict step-by-step logic. I don't think Thought Route is an inherently bad idea, just that it could stand to be a little harder and a little more logically placed in gameplay. Right now, it looks as though court grinds to a halt whenever it happens... but what if a character explicitly had the ability to mentally slow time? Everything in the courtroom would slow down (as appears to happen when we see Apollo use Perceive) and the logic would click into place while the rest of the world operated in slow motion.(comments on differences in game style)
Your thoughts on this line of thought?
I have seen none of the above!- Opinions on the following:
* Baccano!
* Psych
* Starkid musicals (Little White Lie, the A Very Potter Musical Trilogy, Twisted: The Untold Tale of a Royal Vizier, Holy Musical B@man!, etc.)
All of these are overgeneralizations. There's an anti-anime contingent at somethingawful, but I seem to recall that a fairly major VN translation was done there............................- How could AAO broaden their inclusiveness? I mean, we obviously can't have the anime-hating, Japan-loathing (almost as if they don't like the fact that some video games even are produced from there) something awful crowd, as we have (gasp) roleplayers, and (horror!) people that like anime, and (oh, the humanity!) sometimes occasionally reference tropes in Japanese media. We could intensify the fetishization of gay relationships, which clearly fuels a good chunk of the Ace Attorney fanbase, but that might bring in the really intense fujoshi that rabidly and fanatically defend their ships to the exclusion of anyone else that doesn't share their fanatacism. We could put on shades and use the word XTREME a lot, but this isn't the 90's.
As for the fangirls, the writing on certain memes is frequently better than the best writing on AAO, and often, though not always, handles those relationships with perspective. So I'm all for bringing in the screaming rabid yaoi fangirls, especially since the most obnoxious of the lot have either grown up or moved on to trendier fandoms.
The offended are wasting their time and thought, but if they want to broadcast that, let them. I refuse to waste a moment's thought on being offended at their offense.- Coke has recently come under fire by homophobes and racists for the commercial that had multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful (which is NOT our national anthem, contrary to apparently popular belief) and (oh, my stars!) a gay couple in it for like a fraction of a second (DUN DUN DUNNNN). Thoughts?
It is overwhelming on a few levels. First, it's a fundamentally different way of thinking about words. While my skill at English can easily transfer to Spanish and Romance Languages in general, it falls flat when I try to write even a simple sentence in Chinese. Second, I'm not a very visual person, and those characters are... pretty visual. It was engaging to try, but pushed me a little too hard. Finally, it is phonetically tricky to pick up some of the distinctions between Chinese consonants in speech - the different sibilants, for example. So I got one term in, did okay that term, and then went off to do other things! I might go back to it someday.Something I've been curious about: how exactly does Chinese seem to a foreign newcomer? Is it really overwhelming? Is it hard? What sort of impression does it give? Did you like it? Oh, and how far did you get before you stopped?