#HBC | Nabe
Beneath it all, he had H-cups all along
THE INTERVIEW: In which Nabe is really late and really pretentious: new page bonus version 1.1.2 Radio Edit (now compliant with forum rules) -- The 9-Disc Collector's Set ~ The ReMIX: 2013/2; NeoSmashboards Special Edition with never-before-seen content!
Questions of Personality
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Sewing, curling (the sport), vidja, podcasting, reading, painting, translating The Sex.
The remake's great too, and for anyone who frequents Playism, GOG, Desura, Steam (soon), or Wiiware (for some reason) -- check it out. Due to copyright, the remake instead tributes NIGORO, the company that made the game, and manages to throw in some tongue-in-cheek references to other games despite itself.
I could name 50 more games or series, and maybe I should, but most of them are obvious (the Nintendo staples) and the rest are well-known as my likes (Chrono, Lufia, SMT, Zero Escape). Live-A-Live is worth mentioning as an aside, and that wonderful classic Seiken Densetsu III.
There's a great OVA by Shinichi Watanabe called Puni Puni Poemy. It's a metafictional interpretation of the main voice actor from Excel Saga as a magical girl in her off-time from VA work, as she combats aliens, perversion, and other ridiculousness. I'm extremely fond of it, I watch it once a year, and it more or less describes me and my life philosophies to a T.
Honourable mention goes to China Mieville and especially The City and The City, which is exceptional, as well as New Crobozon, Kraken, Railsea etc. which are just as good. And Embassytown! Just read this guy in general.
I hate to give the pedestrian answer of "Sherlock", but it's okay because I liked it before it was widely enjoyed.
Check it out, if only because it's an extremely appreciable narrative spectacle.
Aha! I have a deep and enduring fondness for The X-Files as well, and I suspect I always will. Even and especially the "bad" seasons. Honourable mention.
Super Mario Bros. is a movie that, as a kid, I always insisted my parents should rent. I still enjoy it, albeit on a different level than I did, because of its subversion of the games and its similarities. It's charming in its own way.
Even Canadians point and laugh at this answer.
But, let's talk about what I'm currently into. Lately I'm on a Ghibli kick, my favourite being Porco Rosso. I'm also watching the Lupin III spin-off from last year, which has been good, and Ben-To, which is boobs. As for manga, oddly, I don't read much of it. I've always been a fan of Sun-Ken Rock. The only manga I own in their entirety are Love Hina and NHK ni Youkoso. One manga I'm really enjoying is talked about later!
One of my favourite setups was my Spelunky Mafia offsite (to which Party 3+4 owes a few small debts). Also, I haven't played the XBLA version! Also, I haven't played Spelunky in years! But you should, because it's a great game.
(EE, play Spelunky if you end up liking Faster Than Light.)
Go figure.
Ivysaur
Venusaur
Charmander
Charmeleon
Kyurem
Keldeo
Meloetta
Genesect
In all honesty though, even in the 150 there is a whole subset of Pokemon I just don't care about, at all. The Pokemon games are best played without catch-em-allism, either on their own or as Nuzlocke, because while you may catch them all, you're never going to like them all.
And since you didn't ask:
Red - Gold - Sapphire - Diamond - Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEjqqUTz-us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCz4dHcA1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8E20i-dLBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7H257n8y1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwtASYeer8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi-CxR-a2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjb-hxUtE3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncP4FDLyKaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GK8HhjQQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZITvd_cL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx0zW3MkaA0
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdV4ZkUrnyMcP2iEPE2rrR0JP06BjISbD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBS6MDkoEMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=019DAhMGlO0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21DrMRdaIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMphk_j27yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxnxw1Fs-8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_mFvJ6y_3I&list=PL6E98779A35272453
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-CEFD8X1Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0aoqbDNKaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142lNYKdPOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTHBCpiU8Y
Jaime Lannister
Otakon
When I have wallpapers, they're either solid colours, or extremely unsafe for public forum consumption. I wouldn't want to attract the attention of certain moderators!
Ohmanohman, are you ever going to be sorry you asked for this!
Edit: Nice try, Nabe. ~ Red Ryu
I bet you didn't think I was going to do it, eh?!
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg
Professor Lemeza Kosugi
Robert Baratheon
Lin (Perdido Street Station)
Arthur Dent
Naoto Shirogane (Honourable mention)
Dr. Watson
Ginny Weasley
Min (WoT)
Noah (The Bible)
Now, I know, that last one needs a bit of explanation.
Think about it though -- he had to collect two of every animal. Play Tokyo Jungle to get an appreciation for all of the varied wildlife this bad dude would've had to deal with.
Le Chevalier D'eon
Whose Line is it Anyway? (before it crossed the pond)
Sherlock
Excel Saga
Game of Thrones
Firefly
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) (Oops, this isn't anime at all)
The X-Files
Witch Hunter Robin
[TITLE REDACTED], the theme of one of my upcoming games!
And then, as I was writing this list, I realized how extremely nerdy I am. I've also realized that I'm giving away all of my hidden mafia themes!! But oh well.
La-Mulana
Nier
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Seiken Densetsu 3
Dark Souls
ZERUDA Majora's Mask
Killer 7
An Untitled Story
Harvest Moon 64
and lastly, [REDACTED TITLE] (because this one's getting a mafia setup )
Questions of Identity
(To clarify, I do not run this website.)
When I was much younger, on a certain IRC channel (hi guys) I was on, there was a girl I was fond of. She was upset with some of the people there, who were saying things behind her back. Incognito, I went in under the guise of Nabeshin (I had just watched Excel Saga) to spy on my compatriots and protect the oppressed damsel!
But my daring plan of espionage fell through. I hung around as Nabeshin for about a week, then just stayed around as Nabeshin as I came to be known under that name, forgetting about my lady love entirely. I had forgotten the most important rule of the spy game -- never get too involved on the other side!
- Bertrand Russell
Something more important, to me, is people who are respectable, intellectuals, or otherwise worth listening to, and I can name quite a few of these. The obvious ones are the physicists, the mathematicians; people who understand the hows and whys of the world and aren't going to spout nonsense. These people are so important because so many of them aren't just people of their trade, they're strong rational philosophers who challenged the ideologies, epistemologies, and metaphysical arguments of their day. Everything said by someone you respect is something worth listening to.
This was more topical when I posted it during that night of haberdashery in November, but it still has value.
Probably smarter than Ryker.
I'm a big fan of mysterious answers like these and you'll probably see a lot of them!
Oops, that was a joke answer. My real answer is The Enigma of Amigara Fault. This hole etc., drr drr drr; absolutely grotesque and heartbreaking. I saw it when I was a kid and it'll be ingrained into me forever. What I did was to go outside and stop being raised by the Internet, for a day. And then probably went to my friend's and played SNES.
I do wish, a bit, that I had a deeply societal soul-bearing answer to this question, like seeing my flatmate wearing a horse tail plug and a saddle and being ridden by Peter Dinklage. But at the end of the day, awkwardness and embarrassment are really just in the mind. People should be themselves, and only unless doing so hurts other people. If your true self is a murderer, keep that mind locked away! You people are the reason God needs me to own a gun in this 51st state of our free-speaking America!
My username? Maybe. I'm well-known by this name, but it's derived from popular culture. And aside from being less-than-hip, it's also very common on many other sites to have users named Nabe or Nabeshin before me (Soundcloud being a recent example!). I could change my username to GDW, which is strictly speaking the same username (figure it out, readers!) but has a little more mystique to its origins. Or (more likely) I might change it entirely to avoid unfortunate comparisons to Internet celebrities who have Original Characters you shouldn't steal.
Oh, that sounds creepy.
I'm a Nic Cage fan and apologist. (I hope I didn't mention this earlier in the interview!)
I really enjoy writing and sending people letters in the mail.
I played Yu-Gi-Oh competitively for years.
My conversational Japanese is actually really poor.
I play a lot of SFIV, SFxT and P4A in social circles. I used to be in a number of choirs.
At all.
I wake up late and end up taking Ponyta, or Slugma, or (most likely) Numel.
We head for Pewter City, and along the way, no one knows how to react to my foreign Numel, a Pokemon they've never seen. At first we're somewhat of a pair of social outcasts. But we earn respect quickly; the trainers of Veridian Forest quickly learn some respect, and there's a repeat when the Pewter Gym meets Numel's Magnitude. Brock tags along with me, leaving his gym unattended (which is fine since he never opens his eyes anyway). A spunky opinionated girl comes with us too, because I stole her rollerblades to rush poor Noomsy to Cerulean after he got caught in the rain.
After long last, the League acknowledges our victory and my mastery of Pokemon training. I look over at the hardy Camerupt. Ill-nicknamed now that he's evolved, he still stands strong by my side. We share a look. We've been through it all together.
Dreaming of ditching our companions for newer, younger, sexier models who nevertheless react exactly the same in 95% of situations, we sneak off at night towards the Orange Archepelago! We never think about catching them all... We've already caught each other.
Would I name a daughter that? Depends on the situation and the daughter, but yeah.
Not terribly proactive. But, I manage to keep calm in a lot of situations that usually make people anxious, because I know I'm comfortable dealing with what life throws at me.
"Hello," he said. "I have an appointment for my cavity to get filled?"
She took him to the dentist's chair. He got up on it backwards with his butt in the air.
I haven't led a very productive life.
I generally change up what I do for leisure every week or two. Not on purpose, but I fall in and out and in and out of love with day-to-day stuff pretty quickly. The thing I do most regularly is game, but that comes and goes too.
You don't own enough shoes.
The gravedigger puts on the forceps.
The stonemason does all the work.
You don't hate Adele.
War Pigs (Black Sabbath) is about me, though. Little known fact. Ozzy and I had some wild times back in the day before he wrote that song, let me tell you. (Check out the Cake cover!)
(Sorry.)
Finn / Flame Princess is adorable.
Super Mario Bros. Film noir. Anything with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, even though he's cast as a bumbling oaf; usually I'm a sucker for anything to do with Sherlock Holmes. As a kid I went through a huge Kevin Smith phase.
Questions of Geography
I'm really into Thai food right now, as there's a good cheap place 10 minutes from me, and lately I've been making a lot of curries and soups. But King's Town has so many excellent and varied restaurants that it's hard to settle down.
No one will understand this joke.
After the meal, the waiter asked about Rockin's experience with the meal.
"Well," he said, "I've got to say, I was quite surprised with the maple syrup. It was much sweeter than I thought it would be, and brown, and not at all salty."
"But of course, monsieur! It is a fine local product from the farm across the road. You can see their majestic maple trees from here!"
"Oh, a product of their maple trees?" asked Rockin. "That explains it. I thought it was a product of the Maple Leafs."
The government uses SI across the board. But in most of Canada and certainly in southern Ontario, many people use different units for different tasks. A large number of people use Imperial for height, for weight, for temperature, and for cooking, but use SI for driving and for liquid measurements.
But we have wonderful natural scenery. We're like New Zealand, really, just much larger and much more expensive to fly to. You should absolutely come on exchange for a year or five.
If you came visiting, well, depends where you come to. Canada's a big place. Ontario? Probably Parliament, or if Toronto, the CN Tower, and we'll eat all the fine Canadian cuisine in Kingston that we can manage to beg for en Francais.
If I were Naben, the husband of Carmen married to her and having non-traditionally taken her name, I'd spend all my time looking for that fine lady. It would be the most incredible foreplay.
To begin with, it's an artifact of the 19th century. We don't define units of measurement by extremely malleable physical properties of objects anymore, we model them on Cesium decay and electrons and whatnot. For another thing, it's under guard, so it's still an exhilarating challenge to steal, but it's not locked up as tightly as the nearby Louvre. Third, they keep it in an appealing series of glass bubble jars. Fourth, it's old and French, and thus powerfully romantic. And lastly, it would make for the most ironic paperweight ever owned.
(But I'd like to see you do this with your country's bacon.)
Questions of Philosophy
Yup.
After some thought, he comes to a conclusion that shatters everything he thought he knew about himself.
"...I'm straight."
Trains and horses have their moments, I'm sure. I can't read on a train, unless I take a Gravol or something to settle my stomach. I've never tried to read on horseback, but I suspect the problem is compounded.
Duck humour is rather grim.
Questions of Romance
"Oh my goodness, I'm sorry!"
"No, it was all my fault!"
These were the words that sparked the first encounter of our relationship in my new love's heart's essence of passion's form, in Hokkaido that spring day.
As we both picked up my fallen, wayward schoolbooks on the third floor of Decisive Gakuen, our hands brushed fleetingly, both of us trying to lift the same books off the floor. All I could hear was the pounding of my heart as it seemingly tried to beat its way out through my ears. At that young time of my life, I couldn't have collided with a person I found more deeply attractive than him. He intrigued me.
Smiling shyly, he invited me to lunch alone with him, on the roof. I blushed, but accepted with as much grace as I could muster between frantic deep breaths. A man, asking me to lunch? And yet... I couldn't help but want to explore this further. I was awash with tender new feelings that I didn't know how to deal with. I only knew that this was the start of something beyond my previous naive self, the me who had never given thought to heated passions like these.
We met on the rooftop, exchanging shy glances. There was no need for words. In silence, we looked out onto the rural landscape in front of us, the kings of all we could take in with our heightened young senses. We were two young men and the world stretched outwards under us, filling our hearts, massaging our souls.
We went on like that for what felt like forever, days, weeks, again and again. Never speaking, only letting the sense of the world flow through us. Time seemed to stop when I was with him. At that time, I didn't think words were necessary. School was beyond our thoughts, and the perils of what might happen when it all came to an end. An end was beyond our perception. I was in love with those moments, with him, I thought.
At last, terribly, we came to the end of our schooling year. The birds, sensing our passion and feelings of loss, were silent. The wind would not relent for our urges; it whipped around us, drawing us closer for lack of other warmth.
This would be the last lunch I spent with him on our throne.
We looked at each other longingly. I wet my lips. The breath caught in my throat as he leaned in to kiss me.
His breath smelled of ashes, as if his throat were burnt from the expulsion of flame, bringing to mind our canine mascot, a great striped flaming beast. His lips felt rough, the lips of a grizzled man who had thought never to find love or happiness in a barren world like ours, and maybe never would. He tasted of salt.
I broke our silence for the very first time. "Gheb," I said. "I think we should break up."
"...Fine! I didn't want to date someone so bad at mafia anyway."
J Oops.
Ryker: I love the contrast between his manly beard and his cartoonish physicality.
Gova: Those rosy cheeks and that captivating smile. I especially love how he doesn't let mafia get in the way of life, love or League.
Swiss: His devil-may-care attitude, rakish good looks and rugged sense of how to exploit townies. <3 Redheads!
Cello: Takes charge of me so good. xoxo miss you
Circus: One day, I'll take him away from all this.
Me. They have to walk that fine line where at the toss of a hat, any day, any moment could find us playing games on the couch, or playing games on the couch.
Money is also a plus.
"Oho," he exclaims, his mouth getting dry as he examines the merchandise. "This one looks particularly delectable. OO years old, seeking older man with swag and authority. Likes: yakisoba, takoyaki, the company of other fine men, karaoke."
"This one looks pretty good too," said a voice to his left. Nabe turned to see the exact man he had been looking at on the screen, leaning on the top of the partition and staring at him.
And as the passion rose in that tight and suddenly-steamy cubicle, a relationship was born. A relationship that contained little to no hetero whatsoever.
Swiss/Cello
Ryker/Raziek
Rake/Orbo
Nabe/Asdioh
Gheb/Gheb
I did know that. It has nothing to do with my username, but you're welcome to think of me as a big hot melting pot of sex, charisma, and rippling horse meat.
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Not on my watch. Really racking up those citations, Nabe! ~Red Ryu
Not strictly NH x Rockin, but you get a taste for their love life.
(PM me for this one.)
But, I recognize that that's a textbook answer and is also not interesting to read at all, so here are five women I find particularly captivating from afar -- women I respect, admire, and would bend over any surface if allowed to -- in no order:
Louise Brealey
Katie St. Ives
Gillian Anderson
Fred Vargas
Stephanie Leonidas
Carolyn 'Cat' Santamauro -- oops, that's 6!
(Honourable mention: Andrew Scott)
(In all honesty, I'll settle for anyone willing to settle for me.)
JUPITER'S BICEPS FLOATS AROUND SPACE BEING GENUINELY AWESOME IN EVERY WAY. SUDDENLY LIKE A BOLT FROM THE BLUE THE EQUALLY AWESOME NEUTRON NABE LEAPS FROM THE NEARBY NEBULA AND BLASTS INTO THE AREA AND SLAMS INTO JUPITER'S BICEPS. IMMEDIATELY THE TWO REALIZE THEY ARE ENGAGED IN A GALAXY-SHATTERING BATTLE THAT WILL SHAKE THE VERY COSMOS TO ITS FOUNDATIONS. JUPITERS BICEPS UNLEASHES HIS PLANETHAMMER MARK III. NEUTRON NABE COUNTERS WITH HIS POSITRONIC ION AFROBEAM. THEY FIGHT FOR HOURS, NEITHER DEFEATING THE OTHER. THEN THEY AGREE TO BREAK AND GO FOR DINNER AT THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. THEN THEY SPLIT A SUPERNOVA SUNDAE AND CHILL AND TALK ABOUT COOL STUFF.
We'll drink maple syrup whiskey and wile the days away.
I'm as surprised as you.
^ Click me ^
Although, apparently there's a market in the gay community for stocky hairy dudes. Bears and cubs, you know. So if I'm 50 and feeling lonely, I know where to go. (Directly to bear Bardull)
Questions of Mafia
The latter is easy. AiB games were drying up. Sold said, "hey, guys, I'm a mod on DGames now!" and I jumped ship to greener pastures and mixed metaphors.
Ha.
Seriously though, I really do miss SRB.
In terms of actual setups (since that's the actual question ) hard to say. I rarely judge setups purely on the merit of their roles. I really enjoyed 98% of the closed setups I've been in, so the better question might be my least favourite closed setup.
(Hi, vand)
Honourable mention to The Wall, hydra'd with the good ol' boy. That marks the most recent time my town play has been actually effective in ages.
Mafia: Lazy Neighbourhood, on AiB. It was a gimmick game with movable neighbourhoods. I kicked two members of my mafia to the curb when they demonstrated how obviously mafia they were, berated them soundly and accurately for their poor play, and manipulated my neighbours into believing in me wholeheartedly. I won the game as the remaining member of my faction.
Honourable mention to a game on Hnet, Castle Crashers, where I extensively researched the flavour despite never playing the game and came up with a fakeclaim that carried me and won over a series of days.
Honourable mention #2: I really enjoyed claiming Adam West Batman in Super Heroes Mafia. It was at once masterful and fool-hardy, and is without a doubt the greatest fakeclaim I've ever pulled off.
Honourable mention #3: Hearts Mafia by JDietz. I haven't had as much fun as mafia since as I did with J and marshy in this game, working the game mechanics for every drop of nuance.
Indy: The only time I've been successfully cast as an indy was as a jester on Crisis forums. I helped town for a couple days to lynch mafia, a sort of self-balancing that I thought was apt, and then I brought a slow-building natural suspicion onto myself to get lynched for my wincon.
I went into the game knowing there would be 18 players who would be coming into their roles at different times, and that I wouldn't be able to do more than influence the general order they would come into play. I also knew that if the theme came out, the 18 roles would have to immediately co-exist with each other. So from the start I wanted it to be somewhat simple, for the swing to be low but the role interactions to be interesting.
Phoenix Wright Mafia. 3 mafia (Godfather/Locksmith/Usurper) and a recruitable traitor. An abductor whose abduction doesn't affect mafia, but affects the traitor until he's recruited and the usurper until the godfather is dead. Town has jailer, judge, tracker and census vig. The rest are VTs.
And to that end I need to, you know, try.
Swiss
Circus
Kat
J
I haven't met any DGamers though, so the list could continue.
he's a kid he is hot ****, but also approachable and probably the most easygoing DGer there is.
Swiss: Earth; gritty and grounding with hard logic and harder truths.
Circus: Water; my mouth is always hydrated in anticipation of his next post.
J: Wind; gentle, but his posts sometimes blow me away.
But when I got to the thread, I realized a) deadline was closer than I'd thought, and b) I had been a scumspect and was already lynched.
Oops!
Favourite role of someone else: [REDACTED] (It's going in one of my games!)
Very-close second-favourite role of someone else: OS' Two-Face
Ryker: Raph
Ran: Mikey
Xonar: Leo
Glyph: Don
Nabe: April
FF isn't always scum! (Bear and Fish)
Never give up! Trust your instincts! (Cinemafia)
Rockin is never scum. (Every game)
Ran is never scum. (KSSU)
Laundry is only scum when you think he's town. (Every game)
Don't settle for less. (Discworld)
Sometimes tunneling is hilarious. (Tiger's Celeb)
Try harder than you think you need to to get Swiss lynched. (TWEWY)
You're not always right. (Every game)
I'd change the amnesiac mechanic a bit so that it wouldn't be such a hit to the setup to have the theme outed within D1.
Edit: NABE. You can't post that kind of slander and filth in here.
~ Red Ryu
But all of that was worth it, even the concussion.
Alice/Dio/Quark
W.R.T. scumhunting, I've found that in practice, it doesn't hurt anything. People who have been recruited play differently than they did beforehand, and when people know there's a recruiter, they're especially on the lookout for odd behaviour.
Questions of Ran
It works on some people, oddly.
The Cranberries
World 1-2 -- Super Mario Bros.
annoying
Vig, because then I don't have to convince people that my scumreads are scum.
...
Ohhhhhhh man, Ran. I don't pay enough attention to answer the rest of these questions. This is like an essay. I would have to do extensive research. Sorry (sort of) but I don't have enough patience or sanity for all of this.
Questions of Wizardry
(This is as good a time as any to talk about the Potter fandom. Let's advertise Wizard People, Dear Reader. It's an alternate audio track to the movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which Brad Neely humourously takes on Harry Potter while doing his best Steven Jesse Bernstein impression, which is a wonderful parody on its own. It's from 2004, so Harry Potter fans need to check it out if they haven't. Google that.
Let's also offhandedly mention StarKidPotter and A Very Potter Musical!)
Read into that one on your own.
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And this would've been a great time to talk about Wizard People, Dear Reader! So instead, I'll comment that I also really enjoy these older movies paired with commentary tracks from Pottercast.
Azkaban is listed as a lot of peoples' favourite, and understandably so. Azkaban was a departure from the simple whimsy of the first two into something quite a bit better, in a similar way to the book series. The book and movie both built the Wizarding World up into something past the younger Harry's "holy crap I'm a wizard" impression -- you begin to see the shape and form of the magical government, you see a wizarding village, you see a person escape from the inescapable wizard prison, wizard transit, etc. And anyone growing up with the books or movies was cheering Harry on as he rebelled against his relatives and against society. The movie takes both of these strings farther, and the screenplay has some genuinely funny content.
Azkaban is also when Michael Gambon shows up to play. For many people this was a dealbreaker. (Many of those people came around in the later movies.) I've loved him in the role since Azkaban, and he's every bit what I had in my head.
From Azkaban, the movies get better and better, and I have fewer complaints. My favourite is Half-Blood Prince, book and movie both.
The author of the comic finds herself embroiled in intellectual property lawsuits for twenty-five years, and finally, in debt. When the dust settles, she's become a sketch artist on la rue Papineau, and a bartender by night, and turns tricks when the tips aren't good. As she lies awake most nights, huddled in her blankets alone, she curses whatever deity or demon gave her the sudden inspiration to write Potterman so long ago.
Although you didn't ask, I'd bring a tiger, a raft, and a topical novel.
Or a wand, a hat, and a cloak. I'll found Hogwarts Island.
You'll notice this has nothing to do with wizardry -- this category needed some padding. Let's press on!
The Le Bateleurs
Yaks on High
Jesuslesfilles
Cœur de pirate
Ginny and the Heartbreakers
She
The Mudbloods
The Bosswich
Recruit 18
Millencolin
Masseuses of New York
N-Prime
AWOLNATION
Shōji Meguro
The Inquisitor's Aspects
Ariane Moffatt
S.Megami and the Ten Seis
Galaxie
Philémon Chante
The Letter U's
Favor Got No Savour
Bastard Pop Terrorists
(This would be a good time to comment that I haven't seen Black Swan.)
Although sometimes...
And let's be honest, I spend a lot more time ogling drawn women. It's most of my job description.
Ehhhhhh, but we can get a little fetishistic. Natural women are key. Amanda Fuller, Lena Dunham, Jane Greer. Give me some flesh, Larkin Love even, and a boatload of personality. Emma Watson is attractive when she does that pensive Hermione look with her lips parted (you know the one) and don't get me wrong, she's beautiful, I'll watch Fifty Shades of Grey if she's in the lead (she won't be). But she's nowhere near my perfect cup of tea.
I've got to give a shout-out as well to an ecchi series I'm reading right now, Kono S o Mi yo! which is captivating me at the moment. It's about a man with a magical birthmark on his *** that captivates any woman who sees it. Despite that description, it turns out to be a very mature dramatic tale, romance again but with sort of crossed lovers, very hard to put down.
People who are interested in the Dark, Sinful World of 変態 should feel free to PM me. There's a lot of thought-provoking content out there, as well as hilarious comedies and just plain hot stuff, and I'm very much the person to ask about it all.
Amusing story: a long while before Hentai Mafia II, I asked Sold if he'd allow me to run a Hentai Mafia II, described the lengths I would go to to make it PG etc. and he turned me down. But maybe one day I'll finally add to the legendary series.
I've been very naughty. Do with me what you will, Snape~
Questions of Self
I'd like to get together with that girl I love. (Aw.) And then have sloppy makeouts in a full-on no-holds-barred slap-tongued MSPA style, let's be perfectly ****ing honest. Sometimes you just have to get your feelings out, you know?
Bang. Bang. Bang. "May the Mole People of Lower Portugal please come to order!" the judge shouted, slamming his rock wildly against another slab of rock. "This court is now in session. We the people hereby accuse the defendants Nabe and Xonar of crimes of illegal import from the Sunworld. How do they plead?"
"Guilty as charged, your Honour!" yelled Xonar, his head held high. The crowd murmured loudly.
"No, Nora, don't do it!" said Nabe, tears in his eyes. "It's not worth it!"
He spoke back to Nabe softly. "Our freedoms and civil liberties are worth it, Nobsy, they are worth this price." He looked up at the judge. "Any price."
"Please repeat that, defendant. How do you plead?" The judge looked amused with the proceedings.
"Guilty, your Honour. None of our citizens should have to live without anime or other Japanese content. I'll stand by that, to my death if I must, but I know it to be true."
The judge nodded. "Right you are. Bailiff, take him... above." The judge thought a moment longer, then smiled. "Put him out in N-land with the Dutchies."
To the past, I say what's done is done. History is written by the victors, and as far as I'm concerned they can also be the ones spending time caring that it took place. The only thing you can ever know for sure is the fact of your own existence, and to that end memories are a welcome and valuable truth all their own. To the present, I say to embrace what happens and to live in the moment. Change is to be embraced, not to be shied away from. The strongest people there are in our world are the people who are themselves and who take on change without losing a stride. And to the future, I say to set out in a way that will best accomplish the future you want and to strive towards that future in all things. To not try because a result is uncertain is to give in.
tl;dr nudity is the key.
This has been Nabe, making sense what are you talking about.
But if I had to, I'd name Les Breastfeeders. And then I'd take that back, because it is slightly possible Soup has heard of them, and offer a second opinion of Jesuslesfilles and a third opinion of Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs. Which is all to say that while I don't know Soup's actual preference in music, I do know that that music is good and he should like it if he knew of it, if he has taste. And thus, I gift it to Xonar, to be done with as he will.
I would remake Super Mario Bros, except that the cast would be the exact cast from the recent Les Miserables down to the last actor. Mario is Russell Crowe, Luigi is Hugh Jackman, Daisy is Anne Hatheway, and Sasha Baron Cohen steals the show as Koopa. It would in fact be a musical, with all the live singing and full-song closeups of Les Mis, but with more fungus and more of Everybody Walk The Dinosaur.
Held up only by my latest adrenaline shot, I climb the mountainside. I'm at the end of the list now, two items on the agenda before I can allow myself to die. I can't spare a moment to think about how weary every part of my body is. I've waited my whole life to accomplish this, and it's so close now.
I grasp the knocker on the monastery door. I'm only going to get one shot at this. I throw my weight with my swing, slamming it against the door.
Thankfully, it opens. A barely-legal girl comes to my aid, naked as the day she was born. I lick my lips. Maybe afterwards, but I'm here for one thing and one thing only. I take her arm for support.
He comes into the room. "So," he says, "you've finally arrived. How many years has it been?"
"Far too many," I say, reaching into my pocket. I pull out a small white tube of gel and toss it into his hands.
He looks from it to me, and he understands. "Leave us," he says to his servants.
"I certainly don't mind if they stay..." I say, looking my receiving girl up and down. "You choose good company."
"You know they have no appeal to me," he says, then chuckles to himself. "I simply surround myself with attractive things. So then, how will we do this?"
"Well," I reply, "there should be enough in that tube for two rounds, Circus. Two final entries on that bucket list I wrote with Soup so long ago."
"Ah," he says. "Then, I guess it's only a matter of rock-paper-scissors."
I smile; he has the advantage of youth, as my arthritic old hand could only handle the paper symbol. But he'll listen to me. "No, I'll go first. Lose the clothing."
(Mysterious.)
As for happy things, not really, no. Maybe one of my ridiculous mafia wins like Super Heroes or our win in Hearts? Eh. Sorry, good question though. I wish I had an answer that was uplifting or even just cool.
...On second thought, leave them on.
~USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THIS POST~ Red Ryu <3
Questions of Personality
I'm so pumped. Start pumping the questions. I'm ready. Let's do this. I'm sure you'll ask me lots, Peeka.
...
Good question. What do I do for fun? Hmm.
Sewing, curling (the sport), vidja, podcasting, reading, painting, translating The Sex.
I'll do one for each, just to keep things civil (and to keep my potential Party Mafia themes a secret).
La-Mulana. It's a freeware exploradventuretronic superdome that's a tribute to archaeology, to world culture, but most importantly, to the MSX and the days of olde-time gaming (Maze of Galious, Gradius, Metal Gear), to the point of the player collecting and using MSX cartridges all across the game's expansive world. A small debt is owed to Indiana Jones as well. I think I can safely say I'll never run a La-Mulana setup, if only because me and Xonar would be the only people to enjoy it, but I will always love it to death, and put it just here, beside my head on a pedestal.
The remake's great too, and for anyone who frequents Playism, GOG, Desura, Steam (soon), or Wiiware (for some reason) -- check it out. Due to copyright, the remake instead tributes NIGORO, the company that made the game, and manages to throw in some tongue-in-cheek references to other games despite itself.
I could name 50 more games or series, and maybe I should, but most of them are obvious (the Nintendo staples) and the rest are well-known as my likes (Chrono, Lufia, SMT, Zero Escape). Live-A-Live is worth mentioning as an aside, and that wonderful classic Seiken Densetsu III.
I wish I could say I had good taste in this area. When I was younger I watched a lot of humour; Full Metal Panic, Excel Saga, Nerima Daikon Brothers. The staples of course are always valuable, Bebop etc. and there is always room for shonen stuff, Soul Eater etc. I remember when Bebop came out and I also watched Sailor Moon as a child, like a lot of 4-year old boys of the 90's, and enjoyed it until my testicles dropped. I was a massive fan of Digimon too. More recently I've been catching up on Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and Shibatora.
There's a great OVA by Shinichi Watanabe called Puni Puni Poemy. It's a metafictional interpretation of the main voice actor from Excel Saga as a magical girl in her off-time from VA work, as she combats aliens, perversion, and other ridiculousness. I'm extremely fond of it, I watch it once a year, and it more or less describes me and my life philosophies to a T.
ASOIAF is great, and Potter will always have a place with me. But for my "one" let's say the Commissaire Adamsberg series by Fred Vargas. Adamsberg is just a character I really enjoy and relate to, and Vargas a wonderful writer. I'd recommend it to anyone who cares to read it.
Honourable mention goes to China Mieville and especially The City and The City, which is exceptional, as well as New Crobozon, Kraken, Railsea etc. which are just as good. And Embassytown! Just read this guy in general.
Gosh, I haven't watched anything in ages.
I hate to give the pedestrian answer of "Sherlock", but it's okay because I liked it before it was widely enjoyed.
Check it out, if only because it's an extremely appreciable narrative spectacle.Aha! I have a deep and enduring fondness for The X-Files as well, and I suspect I always will. Even and especially the "bad" seasons. Honourable mention.
Hard one. I have an lasting affection for Nicolas Cage, but try as he likes, he himself is not a movie.
Super Mario Bros. is a movie that, as a kid, I always insisted my parents should rent. I still enjoy it, albeit on a different level than I did, because of its subversion of the games and its similarities. It's charming in its own way.
Let's drop some local indy beats (that I'm obligated to mention). The Bosswich, The Cobrahawks, and of course, Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs. I love French music as well, but I think I've spied another opportunity to talk about that farther down.
A lot of reading (currently reading the fantasytrash of Robert Jordan), a lot of tabletop (really into Small World at the moment), a lot of video games (Tactics Ogre on the go at the moment). I make(?) and consume Let's Plays, I podcast about Zelda, I listen to A Podcast of Ice and Fire. And occasionally, I use the time not spent consuming other people's content to create my own by working on my solo game project, doing schoolworkery, and translating.
High school education? I've been attending Queen's University and working on my software portfolio off and on for a few years.
As of (the actual posting of) this interview, yes!
Curling.
Even Canadians point and laugh at this answer.
Ughhhhh. I'm so changeable, these questions never really get a good response from me. See my answer to Swords.
But, let's talk about what I'm currently into. Lately I'm on a Ghibli kick, my favourite being Porco Rosso. I'm also watching the Lupin III spin-off from last year, which has been good, and Ben-To, which is boobs. As for manga, oddly, I don't read much of it. I've always been a fan of Sun-Ken Rock. The only manga I own in their entirety are Love Hina and NHK ni Youkoso. One manga I'm really enjoying is talked about later!
I answered this somewhere up or down from here with La-Mulana, but let's take this opportunity to confuse everybody! Spelunky is a fantastic game, properly described as a cross between NetHack and La-Mulana and for decent reason. It's for anyone who enjoys platformers and roguelikes and, in my opinion, preferably has a group of friends to play with or around, to well-meaningly curse the game's existence and yell "ahhh arrow trap!"
One of my favourite setups was my Spelunky Mafia offsite (to which Party 3+4 owes a few small debts). Also, I haven't played the XBLA version! Also, I haven't played Spelunky in years! But you should, because it's a great game.
(EE, play Spelunky if you end up liking Faster Than Light.)
It does.
I'll go in a different direction here. Although I love playing and watching curling, the sport I most enjoy watching is soccer.
Go figure.
Entirely unemployed! Or I might better say, I am self-employed in a non-profit organization in the field of software design.
I don't have a link to the image you're referring to, but yes, that's me.
Bulbasaur
Ivysaur
Venusaur
Charmander
Charmeleon
Landorus
Kyurem
Keldeo
Meloetta
Genesect
But really, in no order,
Top 5: Blissey, Wailord, Meloetta(!), Lanturn, Ampharos
Honourable Mention: Missingno.
Bottom 5: Dodrio, Delcatty, Simipour, Unfezant, Carnivine
Dishonourable mention: Lucario
Top 5: Blissey, Wailord, Meloetta(!), Lanturn, Ampharos
Honourable Mention: Missingno.
Bottom 5: Dodrio, Delcatty, Simipour, Unfezant, Carnivine
Dishonourable mention: Lucario
In all honesty though, even in the 150 there is a whole subset of Pokemon I just don't care about, at all. The Pokemon games are best played without catch-em-allism, either on their own or as Nuzlocke, because while you may catch them all, you're never going to like them all.
Pokemon Gold. The height of the Pokemon craze, for me, was right after Yellow came out in NA, waiting around online until the unseemly hours of the morning for the Japanese rom of Pokemon Gold to drop. When it was about time for my parents to wake up, I snuck back upstairs, and repeated the process every morning until I finished playing it, thus kickstarting horrible sleep habits that persist to this very day and time of writing of this question's answer. To this day, english Gold was my only 100%, and only because of my reliable cache of 'mons from Red.
And since you didn't ask:
Red - Gold - Sapphire - Diamond - Black
Patchouli, or Nitori. My favourite game isn't mainline at all, I mainly play fangames. The MariAri series is great. Favourite shootyshot game would be Mountain of Faith.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwtASYeer8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi-CxR-a2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjb-hxUtE3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncP4FDLyKaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GK8HhjQQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZITvd_cL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx0zW3MkaA0
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdV4ZkUrnyMcP2iEPE2rrR0JP06BjISbD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBS6MDkoEMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=019DAhMGlO0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21DrMRdaIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMphk_j27yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxnxw1Fs-8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_mFvJ6y_3I&list=PL6E98779A35272453
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-CEFD8X1Q
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Rand al'Thor (sorry, MH)
Jaime Lannister
Otakon
Electric.
Poison.
Water.
Hiker. Those guys hike all over the place, but they're still so fat. So, they must all be eating some really good food, and a lot of it. I'd want to get into that culture and share those secrets.
Josh.
I seek the holy Arceus.
Gold.
I can't do any of this! Well, won't, mainly.
When I have wallpapers, they're either solid colours, or extremely unsafe for public forum consumption. I wouldn't want to attract the attention of certain moderators!
also this
Ohmanohman, are you ever going to be sorry you asked for this!
Edit: Nice try, Nabe. ~ Red Ryu
I bet you didn't think I was going to do it, eh?!
(What anime is this image from, Nora?)
(Nora being Xonar)
(in no order)
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg
Professor Lemeza Kosugi
Robert Baratheon
Lin (Perdido Street Station)
Arthur Dent
Naoto Shirogane (Honourable mention)
Dr. Watson
Ginny Weasley
Min (WoT)
Noah (The Bible)
Now, I know, that last one needs a bit of explanation.
Think about it though -- he had to collect two of every animal. Play Tokyo Jungle to get an appreciation for all of the varied wildlife this bad dude would've had to deal with.
(in no order)
Le Chevalier D'eon
Whose Line is it Anyway? (before it crossed the pond)
Sherlock
Excel Saga
Game of Thrones
Firefly
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) (Oops, this isn't anime at all)
The X-Files
Witch Hunter Robin
[TITLE REDACTED], the theme of one of my upcoming games!
And then, as I was writing this list, I realized how extremely nerdy I am. I've also realized that I'm giving away all of my hidden mafia themes!! But oh well.
(in no order)
La-Mulana
Nier
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Seiken Densetsu 3
Dark Souls
ZERUDA Majora's Mask
Killer 7
An Untitled Story
Harvest Moon 64
and lastly, [REDACTED TITLE] (because this one's getting a mafia setup
)Questions of Identity
Hey, Soupamario.
Me, in context. Named for the director/character Nabeshin from Excel Saga and other works. People call me Nabe to shorten it, so, here I am today.
Make it! Or if you're not talking about the dish of food, watch Excel Saga.
(To clarify, I do not run this website.)
An interesting question.
When I was much younger, on a certain IRC channel (hi guys) I was on, there was a girl I was fond of. She was upset with some of the people there, who were saying things behind her back. Incognito, I went in under the guise of Nabeshin (I had just watched Excel Saga) to spy on my compatriots and protect the oppressed damsel!
But my daring plan of espionage fell through. I hung around as Nabeshin for about a week, then just stayed around as Nabeshin as I came to be known under that name, forgetting about my lady love entirely. I had forgotten the most important rule of the spy game -- never get too involved on the other side!
Not knowing where I get my avatars is a good thing, I assure you. The source of most of them is hentai, or doodles by the current artists of the same, purloined from the dark corners of the Internet. This is the source of Batchu, Disgruntled Mario, and The Butt, just to name a few.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell
I'm always surprised that people seem to have ready-made answers for this question. I don't pay attention to quotes, really. The previous answer was only gathered by looking for quotes from a man I know I respect.
Something more important, to me, is people who are respectable, intellectuals, or otherwise worth listening to, and I can name quite a few of these. The obvious ones are the physicists, the mathematicians; people who understand the hows and whys of the world and aren't going to spout nonsense. These people are so important because so many of them aren't just people of their trade, they're strong rational philosophers who challenged the ideologies, epistemologies, and metaphysical arguments of their day. Everything said by someone you respect is something worth listening to.
It's entertaining with girls in the room as a drinking game, and very good for a chuckle. Drink every time that creeper werewolf guy is staring at someone from where he thinks no one can see. Drink every time teens are awkward and angsty, but learn they aren't so different from their parents after all. Drink every time the women in the room gush over topless men on-screen.
This was more topical when I posted it during that night of haberdashery in November, but it still has value.
Because No Hetero is a somewhat offensive stereotyped pastiche of an effeminate homosexual man in popular Western culture.
Pretty smart? But average smart, not smart-smart. Probably-failed-the-MENSA-test-by-a-couple-points smart. Common-smart.
Probably smarter than Ryker.
That I tried and it wasn't enough.
I'm a big fan of mysterious answers like these and you'll probably see a lot of them!
Twilight: New Moon. But my riposte was to drink heavily, and as a result I don't remember a thing.
Oops, that was a joke answer. My real answer is The Enigma of Amigara Fault. This hole etc., drr drr drr; absolutely grotesque and heartbreaking. I saw it when I was a kid and it'll be ingrained into me forever. What I did was to go outside and stop being raised by the Internet, for a day. And then probably went to my friend's and played SNES.
I do wish, a bit, that I had a deeply societal soul-bearing answer to this question, like seeing my flatmate wearing a horse tail plug and a saddle and being ridden by Peter Dinklage. But at the end of the day, awkwardness and embarrassment are really just in the mind. People should be themselves, and only unless doing so hurts other people. If your true self is a murderer, keep that mind locked away! You people are the reason God needs me to own a gun in this 51st state of our free-speaking America!
As in, my actual name? Probably not. I thought about it as a kid; I went through a phase where I asked people what name they thought I looked like. (Donald?) But there's no value to that, and a few good people are generally very happy to call me Josh(ie).
My username? Maybe. I'm well-known by this name, but it's derived from popular culture. And aside from being less-than-hip, it's also very common on many other sites to have users named Nabe or Nabeshin before me (Soundcloud being a recent example!). I could change my username to GDW, which is strictly speaking the same username (figure it out, readers!) but has a little more mystique to its origins. Or (more likely) I might change it entirely to avoid unfortunate comparisons to Internet celebrities who have Original Characters you shouldn't steal.
Watching the world from afar.
Oh, that sounds creepy.
I exclusively listen to French music and pay close attention to the Quebec music scene.
I'm a Nic Cage fan and apologist. (I hope I didn't mention this earlier in the interview!)
I really enjoy writing and sending people letters in the mail.
I played Yu-Gi-Oh competitively for years.
My conversational Japanese is actually really poor.
Nope!
I play a lot of SFIV, SFxT and P4A in social circles. I used to be in a number of choirs.
Heartburn.
Pregnancy.
But I don't like either.
At all.I wake up late and end up taking Ponyta, or Slugma, or (most likely) Numel.
We head for Pewter City, and along the way, no one knows how to react to my foreign Numel, a Pokemon they've never seen. At first we're somewhat of a pair of social outcasts. But we earn respect quickly; the trainers of Veridian Forest quickly learn some respect, and there's a repeat when the Pewter Gym meets Numel's Magnitude. Brock tags along with me, leaving his gym unattended (which is fine since he never opens his eyes anyway). A spunky opinionated girl comes with us too, because I stole her rollerblades to rush poor Noomsy to Cerulean after he got caught in the rain.
After long last, the League acknowledges our victory and my mastery of Pokemon training. I look over at the hardy Camerupt. Ill-nicknamed now that he's evolved, he still stands strong by my side. We share a look. We've been through it all together.
Dreaming of ditching our companions for newer, younger, sexier models who nevertheless react exactly the same in 95% of situations, we sneak off at night towards the Orange Archepelago! We never think about catching them all... We've already caught each other.
Numel - END
Hard question. I think my favourite girl's name is Melissa (and hello to any Melissas reading this) but would it suit me as a girl? Probably not. Still, that's my answer.
Would I name a daughter that? Depends on the situation and the daughter, but yeah.
"**** happens."
Not terribly proactive. But, I manage to keep calm in a lot of situations that usually make people anxious, because I know I'm comfortable dealing with what life throws at me.
Rockin went to the dentist the other day. He went up to the receptionist.
"Hello," he said. "I have an appointment for my cavity to get filled?"
She took him to the dentist's chair. He got up on it backwards with his butt in the air.
J'arrive toujours un peu trop lard -- Philémon Chante
Half-finishing the Ran section of this interview.
I haven't led a very productive life.
Huddling up with a loved one and a blanket on a couch, safe from the harsh no-nonsense cold of the unforgiving southwestern Ontario night.
Those are all good things that I do when the thought occurs to me. Hrm.
I generally change up what I do for leisure every week or two. Not on purpose, but I fall in and out and in and out of love with day-to-day stuff pretty quickly. The thing I do most regularly is game, but that comes and goes too.
Not being quick to judge.
Singing along to grunge and punk and rock and early 90's highschool music of all genres with my 10-years-older sister when I was probably too young to be hearing it. Not to mention Ace of Base, which what even.
You need to eat more fruits and vegetables.
You don't own enough shoes.
The gravedigger puts on the forceps.
The stonemason does all the work.
You don't hate Adele.
A milk oolong infusion, with lime juice and a blend of honey from Brazil and Australia. Twice daily at least takes all the Mikes and Bobs out of my head (and replaces them with Nabe).
Nah, I never met them. I suppose it applies to me, and I do hear it every morning when I wake up, although I can't imagine how you knew that! Better check my closet...
War Pigs (Black Sabbath) is about me, though. Little known fact. Ozzy and I had some wild times back in the day before he wrote that song, let me tell you. (Check out the Cake cover!)
Kim Pine.
(Sorry.)
I don't follow it, at all. But from afar, it's at least no worse than the only other cartoon fandom. And the R34 is better.
Finn / Flame Princess is adorable.
Probably my eyelashes, or that's what girls always say. Apparently I used to have a perfect nose until it got broken.
I play them off and on. For years, I spent every moment not spent at school playing Melee with the same friend, jamming Marth on Falco matches until our eyes bled and burst out to wiggle helplessly on the floor. At which point we probably had lunch.
I like most movies. Favourites?
Super Mario Bros. Film noir. Anything with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, even though he's cast as a bumbling oaf; usually I'm a sucker for anything to do with Sherlock Holmes. As a kid I went through a huge Kevin Smith phase.
Hard one. I remember being in a bathroom with my mother while she was getting ready to go out, and looking in a mirror for the first time, and her telling me that I was seeing myself in it. Mindblowing.
I don't care about religion, and I don't subscribe to one. People who do, sure, why not. Like anything in life, I prefer that you don't push it on me, and that's about it. Organized religion on a large scale is a different thing, but of course most people already know and understand that there's a difference between the two. Recently in Canada at least, the largest religious conflict I know of is a growing discontent within school boards that Catholic boards get special financial dispensation from the government when other religion-based schools don't, and whether they should to begin with.
Probably not, since that didn't work too well to begin with. Grr. I do give good massages, for what it's worth.
Uh. I suppose technically, yes. But I think Le Bateleur would have more questions for you than you would have for her.
Questions of Geography
It's good. A little cold.
It's liberating. I get all the benefits, like healthcare and moose burgers, but I'm not limited to fulfilling stereotypes like ****ing beavers and getting wasted on strong maple syrup. I can be taken seriously or even respected in a workplace environment without being expected to wear fur or flannel on casual Fridays.
The Seiken Densetsu 3 translation in the days of olde, back in the Second Era of the Internet. The Internet essentially raised me, and these people were the heroes of the day. It helped that the game was amazing, of course, but even then I had such respect and appreciation for all the delicate and indelicate work that translation took.
Russian. It's always a useful language for the workplace, and it's always interested me on a personal level. Swedish is in vogue right now as well, and that would be a runner-up if only to consume fresh content before it reaches our shores. Not to mention, Sweden has been a hotbed of gaming activity in the past few years.
Judging from all of my experience with Dutch people (you), Japan-Netherlands relations are even stronger than the stereotype suggests.
European? I hate to say Caucasian, but we're such a melting pot at this point that I couldn't possibly tell you which nation's ancestors I owe my below-average genes to.
But it's all good! Uh...
I'm really into Thai food right now, as there's a good cheap place 10 minutes from me, and lately I've been making a lot of curries and soups. But King's Town has so many excellent and varied restaurants that it's hard to settle down.
Dunno. Probably something with a green curry sauce, bamboo shoots, maybe some chicken? I'm eating it as I type this answer.
More or less. If there's one thing we can't do, it's Ada. I don't think it's been used in anything national aside from CATTS, and in my experience most applications could stand to have a little more Ada involved.
No one will understand this joke.
Rockin was in Canada, and sat down for a restaurant breakfast. He was offered maple syrup for his pancakes. "On pancakes?" he replied. "I'd never have thought of it, but I suppose I'll try anything once."
After the meal, the waiter asked about Rockin's experience with the meal.
"Well," he said, "I've got to say, I was quite surprised with the maple syrup. It was much sweeter than I thought it would be, and brown, and not at all salty."
"But of course, monsieur! It is a fine local product from the farm across the road. You can see their majestic maple trees from here!"
"Oh, a product of their maple trees?" asked Rockin. "That explains it. I thought it was a product of the Maple Leafs."
Nope. But if he's anything like Kingston Batman, I'm not sure I want to. And have you heard Montreal Batman's gone rogue? There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm too busy watching the skies to think of it.
The women.
The men.
So good! I don't know what's wrong with the Americans. No time to savour the best letters of the Queen's alphabet. They're probably too busy with their disco fries and their back bacon and their Nickelback.
Of course! ...Sort of.
The government uses SI across the board. But in most of Canada and certainly in southern Ontario, many people use different units for different tasks. A large number of people use Imperial for height, for weight, for temperature, and for cooking, but use SI for driving and for liquid measurements.
It's okay. It's very sweet, you wouldn't want to use it all the time. But it really can't be compared to table syrup, they aren't at all similar. Maple is a wonderful addition to lots of things, and while I wouldn't say cooking is a hobby of mine, I am pretty good at it, my tastebuds will attest. I make a maple pumpkin sauce for pasta -- paired with chicken or pork it's a fine-*** meal.
It's a little fair. Our temperaments are certainly different. I'm constantly getting into communications issues and faux-pas with the blaggards. I think it's because on one end, speech is muffled through maple syrup and coffee, while on the other it's punctuated with intermittent racial slurs and flecks of deli meat.
It's a great place for tourists. We don't have many landmarks, if that's what you're into.
But we have wonderful natural scenery. We're like New Zealand, really, just much larger and much more expensive to fly to. You should absolutely come on exchange for a year or five.If you came visiting, well, depends where you come to. Canada's a big place.
Ontario? Probably Parliament, or if Toronto, the CN Tower, and we'll eat all the fine Canadian cuisine in Kingston that we can manage to beg for en Francais.I was as surprised as you. But now, I embrace it as just another fact of this fine country. I mean, when you really think about it, it makes so much sense.
Sorry. Working on it, chief.
[remark about fat people here]
Why would I go to Whitby to play games? Have you been tested for HIV since you left?
Of course! Get us a decent hotel rate somewhere in between (Winnipeg?) and we'll French braid our hair, eat poutine, stab each other (the local tradition), and "stab" each other while covered in gravy
If I were a sexy femme master criminal decked out all in red, I'd be disregarding males and acquiring currency. Where else? Maybe hanging with Waldo and Odlav and Wizard Whitebeard and engaging in epic coitus, because let's be honest, we are who we are.
If I were Naben, the husband of Carmen married to her and having non-traditionally taken her name, I'd spend all my time looking for that fine lady. It would be the most incredible foreplay.
Theft of the international prototype kilogram from France. A teacher told me about it as a child (Grade 6?) and I was mesmerized by the idea, and it's never quite left me.
To begin with, it's an artifact of the 19th century. We don't define units of measurement by extremely malleable physical properties of objects anymore, we model them on Cesium decay and electrons and whatnot. For another thing, it's under guard, so it's still an exhilarating challenge to steal, but it's not locked up as tightly as the nearby Louvre. Third, they keep it in an appealing series of glass bubble jars. Fourth, it's old and French, and thus powerfully romantic. And lastly, it would make for the most ironic paperweight ever owned.
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L'étendard sanglant est levé,
L'étendard sanglant est levé!
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes!
Neither of these are actual things, but I'll entertain the question. Back bacon and side bacon both have their uses, and generally I'll eat either as long as they're meaty cuts. Back bacon is naturally a bit more meaty, but it also lacks some of the flavours of belly bacon. And it might surprise you to learn that so-called "Canadian bacon" is a little more challenging to find than the other. So a resounding shrug, in this case.
(But I'd like to see you do this with your country's bacon.)
Just the one.
He's the one!
Pretty close, except Saruman is still alive and well in the towers of Ottawa, and the orcs try to separate from our country every five years or so.
Questions of Philosophy
I wake up early and make myself a pot of tea and a dirty breakfast, like fried shaven potatoes and sausages and eggs scrambled in the grease. (Hi, United Kingdom!) I eat, then drink my tea until the sun's up. I lie on the couch and read part of a long novel in a long series that I probably have no hope of finishing any time soon. (Hi, Wheel of Time series!) I probably won't eat lunch, but if I do it's just a bowl of soba, and maybe a pork chop if I'm feeling adventurous. More tea; I didn't finish the pot, and it's gone cold. I put on my parka and seal mittens, fancying a walk in the blistering Canadian summer heat. In the evening I chill with some friends, probably play a game. Then I fall asleep, preferably cuddlin' with a lady.
Yup.
Not great. I've had a cough going on a couple months now.
Late in the day, Rockin contemplates life on a hill by the lake.
After some thought, he comes to a conclusion that shatters everything he thought he knew about himself.
"...I'm straight."
Soft. There's a place and time for hard tacos, but soft are 100% content. There's no shell getting in the way of the food, you don't have to catch fallen pieces of shell, and you can load it as full as you want without worrying about overflow.
Really doesn't matter. Just don't set out to hurt people's feelings and you'll be fine.
Boat. One day I'll live on a yacht. (I think I've mentioned that.)
Trains and horses have their moments, I'm sure. I can't read on a train, unless I take a Gravol or something to settle my stomach. I've never tried to read on horseback, but I suspect the problem is compounded.
"Would you like a portion?"
This is proof enough. How does Xonar know what Zen thinks? He's not even here. Unless, of course, he is here, and is Xonar.
Much worse, I'm afraid. Soup can only have been bought out by the corporate agenda to ignore such a plain and unembellished truth.
Well, strictly speaking that would be Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin, who co-wrote Who Put the Bomp in 1961, the origin of that phrase. But the song is a parody of the doo-wop music of the time, so for the answer, you might want to look to the genre pioneers as early as even The Mills Brothers. You can even begin to hear the beginnings in swing earlier in the century.
The actual phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a fragment from a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, but the phrase in meaning can actually be traced even earlier. There's even a similar line in Hamlet by Rosencrantz. In general usage it can mean for example that conversation on an issue solves that issue better than violence. "Actions speak louder than words" is a common idiom across cultures, and is about a judgment of a person's character based on what they do rather than what they say if the two are contradictory. So the sayings aren't really in conflict with one another.
Because many people crave cigarettes on a regular basis, and as such they're a common item to be found in the wide majority of convenience stores, including those at gas stations which (after all) are still businesses and want to make money.
I'm certain there's something in the law that requires them to do so, if nothing else. At some point though, they may find themselves having to leave the store unstaffed, and then common sense says they'll need a lock on the door.
Driver's licences are a ubiquitous item of government-given identification that most people of drinking age own, and carry on their person for the majority of the day. As such it's convenient for verifying a customer's age.
Strike a balance between doing what you enjoy and cutting out a niche for yourself in society. Fall in love. Propogate your genetic code in the form of offspring, who (given that you've survived long enough to do so) will have good enough genes to be getting on with.
Nope. The well-known English alphabet song was written in 1835. The alphabet's order is sometimes attributed to priest and scholar Byrhtferth in the 11th century, but really dates back earlier to Phoenicia and the abjad in good ol' BC. The Greeks added vowels later, so if the question is why A comes first, blame the Greeks.
That depends. Sensory perception to begin with is affected by our expectations of the environment around us. Someone who has seen his whole life then loses his vision would (I imagine) sometimes have visual dreams, but may find himself experiencing a lack of visual clarity in the dream of once-familiar objects from life. A dreamer who has always been blind would probably receive information from the visual regions of their brain very rarely, perhaps as simple colours or forms, or as more complex figures from life that their brain has created to match what their other senses take in of those objects. Their other sensory perception of their dreams would naturally be much clearer, since dreams draw from experiences and memories.
Set in this case is short for setup, which is to say that it contains all the appropriate electronic components to watch television, and already set-up in the proper configuration so that the consumer doesn't have to.
Probably not. Mint has long been a popular herb for breath and digestion, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Your saying is usually said in counter to another sentence as a way of saying, "Yes, obviously," and really shouldn't be taken out of context, but in truth a bear doesn't care at all about where he ****s, aside from instinctual factors related to the odour like prey-predator relations.
Music of the audible genre.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about linguistics to tell you why any one word in a language came to be what it is today. But there's really no reason that a word needs to visually represent its own meaning.
They order chicken wings with no sauce. When the order arrives, they laugh loudly. They exit leaving the plate uneaten and fly away, laughing all the while.
Duck humour is rather grim.
When I buy lemon juice at the store, it's made with real lemons. Regardless, lemon juice has properties that assist in cleaning. Some people find the taste of lemon juice to be tart and would rather drink the artificial. The artificial flavour is also cheaper.
Hair and skin are of two different biochemical compositions.
Dogs.
Penguins.
Incest.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, I suppose. It has a lot of seasons, most of which I haven't seen yet, and it's moderately entertaining. So, I could watch it over an extended period of time, and perhaps revisit it again after several years.
One saying uses 'right' in the sense of a moral correctness, while the other uses 'right' in the sense of a clockwise turn of a physical body with respect to the perception from that body's perspective.
Again, I'm not a linguist. I'd imagine it's a slang term that gained popularity after other "ing" words had already been nouns for some time.
Slim chance is a literalism, while fat chance is likely similar to the use of nonsensical words in "X as Y" phrase formations (see below) wherein a word is used in place of its literal opposite. I suspect fat chance is a product of this century.
A requirement of the owning institution's legal department. A financial institution can't be seen to be discriminating against people with disabilities in any respect. ("What if I'm blind and I want to walk through the drive-thru ATM?!|) It also serves as a future-proofing in a sense, for a potential time when blind people can drive with the help of science!
Because they grow so used to just throwing around phrases of the form "X as Y" that they don't actually think about what they're saying, and get lazy, and start to just use random words, including swear words. In this case, the phrase you've given happens to be one with an irony, rather than having no meaning whatsoever.
You can only be bothered by this until you've done it yourself. Everybody gets old eventually.
Ryker, Swiss, Overswarm. And I expect them to kill people with it.
I find that things you've been anticipating are even better when you've given up on anticipating them because they've taken too long.Why are you so slow with this interview?
Naoto and Chie want a word with you.
Teddy bears.
The power to not be broke.
Mafia++ and Friends.
Questions of Romance
Whenever we find the time and the appropriate surface.
"Oh my goodness, I'm sorry!"
"No, it was all my fault!"
These were the words that sparked the first encounter of our relationship in my new love's heart's essence of passion's form, in Hokkaido that spring day.
As we both picked up my fallen, wayward schoolbooks on the third floor of Decisive Gakuen, our hands brushed fleetingly, both of us trying to lift the same books off the floor. All I could hear was the pounding of my heart as it seemingly tried to beat its way out through my ears. At that young time of my life, I couldn't have collided with a person I found more deeply attractive than him. He intrigued me.
Smiling shyly, he invited me to lunch alone with him, on the roof. I blushed, but accepted with as much grace as I could muster between frantic deep breaths. A man, asking me to lunch? And yet... I couldn't help but want to explore this further. I was awash with tender new feelings that I didn't know how to deal with. I only knew that this was the start of something beyond my previous naive self, the me who had never given thought to heated passions like these.
We met on the rooftop, exchanging shy glances. There was no need for words. In silence, we looked out onto the rural landscape in front of us, the kings of all we could take in with our heightened young senses. We were two young men and the world stretched outwards under us, filling our hearts, massaging our souls.
We went on like that for what felt like forever, days, weeks, again and again. Never speaking, only letting the sense of the world flow through us. Time seemed to stop when I was with him. At that time, I didn't think words were necessary. School was beyond our thoughts, and the perils of what might happen when it all came to an end. An end was beyond our perception. I was in love with those moments, with him, I thought.
At last, terribly, we came to the end of our schooling year. The birds, sensing our passion and feelings of loss, were silent. The wind would not relent for our urges; it whipped around us, drawing us closer for lack of other warmth.
This would be the last lunch I spent with him on our throne.
We looked at each other longingly. I wet my lips. The breath caught in my throat as he leaned in to kiss me.
His breath smelled of ashes, as if his throat were burnt from the expulsion of flame, bringing to mind our canine mascot, a great striped flaming beast. His lips felt rough, the lips of a grizzled man who had thought never to find love or happiness in a barren world like ours, and maybe never would. He tasted of salt.
I broke our silence for the very first time. "Gheb," I said. "I think we should break up."
"...Fine! I didn't want to date someone so bad at mafia anyway."
Gheb - END
Aw, hon. There's so much of me to go around. But don't you fret. You'll always be in my mind and in my heart, even when (and especially because) I'm nailing people who aren't you.
Ryker: I love the contrast between his manly beard and his cartoonish physicality.
Gova: Those rosy cheeks and that captivating smile. I especially love how he doesn't let mafia get in the way of life, love or League.
Swiss: His devil-may-care attitude, rakish good looks and rugged sense of how to exploit townies. <3 Redheads!
Cello: Takes charge of me so good. xoxo miss you
Circus: One day, I'll take him away from all this.
The dark, sweet musk of a hot [REDACTED], colored by just a hint of rosemary, ginger and sesame oil.
Gimme a facial
See above
Money is also a plus.
I love defiling young minds, and I'll take anything coming out of Japan.
Nabe is browsing the internet at a maid cafe in a private booth in Japan. He's looking at the Young Men Seeking Old Men (Over 18!!) thread on his favourite Japanese imageboard.
"Oho," he exclaims, his mouth getting dry as he examines the merchandise. "This one looks particularly delectable. OO years old, seeking older man with swag and authority. Likes: yakisoba, takoyaki, the company of other fine men, karaoke."
"This one looks pretty good too," said a voice to his left. Nabe turned to see the exact man he had been looking at on the screen, leaning on the top of the partition and staring at him.
And as the passion rose in that tight and suddenly-steamy cubicle, a relationship was born. A relationship that contained little to no hetero whatsoever.
X1/July
Swiss/Cello
Ryker/Raziek
Rake/Orbo
Nabe/Asdioh
Gheb/Gheb
Did you know that "nabe" in Japanese is a pot dish? Rather inappropriate considering the most sopping dish isn't even half as steamy as you, babe
I did know that. It has nothing to do with my username, but you're welcome to think of me as a big hot melting pot of sex, charisma, and rippling horse meat.
In Mass Effect, I was planning to play through the No Hetero account but posting entirely by myself and pretending Marshy was in. Marshy told me he was taking a break from mafia and wanted no part, but knew I was doing it. When the game started, I was away from the thread for about 24 hours. When I got there, Marshy had already posted a few times with reads and other content and was actively playing the game.
Not on my watch. Really racking up those citations, Nabe! ~Red Ryu
Not strictly NH x Rockin, but you get a taste for their love life.
When he returns my Scott Pilgrim-branded Keds and admits they weren't for his sister.
Ehhhhhh. I want to give a bad answer to this question. I rank physical attractiveness on par with or at a lower level than my appreciation for a person's personality and my respect for them as a person. So, the people I find most attractive are definitely people you don't know.
But, I recognize that that's a textbook answer and is also not interesting to read at all, so here are five women I find particularly captivating from afar -- women I respect, admire, and would bend over any surface if allowed to -- in no order:
Louise Brealey
Katie St. Ives
Gillian Anderson
Fred Vargas
Stephanie Leonidas
Carolyn 'Cat' Santamauro -- oops, that's 6!
Realistically, no. For one thing, DGames is 99% men and the 1% is dating someone. And I lost the Mayling family long ago...
I just answered this question, Bardol! Can't you read?!
(In all honesty, I'll settle for anyone willing to settle for me.
)how would you respond to me if I confessed my love to you? Here's the scene:
Just one? Hmmmmm.
(Sort of an FTL fic)
JUPITER'S BICEPS FLOATS AROUND SPACE BEING GENUINELY AWESOME IN EVERY WAY. SUDDENLY LIKE A BOLT FROM THE BLUE THE EQUALLY AWESOME NEUTRON NABE LEAPS FROM THE NEARBY NEBULA AND BLASTS INTO THE AREA AND SLAMS INTO JUPITER'S BICEPS. IMMEDIATELY THE TWO REALIZE THEY ARE ENGAGED IN A GALAXY-SHATTERING BATTLE THAT WILL SHAKE THE VERY COSMOS TO ITS FOUNDATIONS. JUPITERS BICEPS UNLEASHES HIS PLANETHAMMER MARK III. NEUTRON NABE COUNTERS WITH HIS POSITRONIC ION AFROBEAM. THEY FIGHT FOR HOURS, NEITHER DEFEATING THE OTHER. THEN THEY AGREE TO BREAK AND GO FOR DINNER AT THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. THEN THEY SPLIT A SUPERNOVA SUNDAE AND CHILL AND TALK ABOUT COOL STUFF.
When you come to visit, naturally. I'm not going to spend a ton of money for a little tail and some time spent exploring some tiny floating kangaroo rock in the ocean. Come explore in Canada.
We'll drink maple syrup whiskey and wile the days away.A few, but she's certainly a nice-lookin' lady.
Door #1. You had me at anal... but you kept me at disliking sunlight. Rawr.
That depends what he's Rockin.
99% of the men on Earth, including Christopher Walken.
I'm as surprised as you.
But you look so... innocent... I couldn't........ possibly..................
Sometimes. It depends on whether you're directing your lynching efforts at me or at other people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrpRXZh_N8
Most of the girls in Digimon seemed appealing when I was 9.
^ Click me ^
I don't engage in those shenanigans! I have ***thma, good sir!
No. Luckily for me, all the women I've had the pleasure of knowing fell in love with me clothed first.
Although, apparently there's a market in the gay community for stocky hairy dudes. Bears and cubs, you know. So if I'm 50 and feeling lonely, I know where to go. (Directly to bear Bardull)
Questions of Mafia
I started playing Mafia with TCat on forums for the Chrono series. My first role was Robo, a selective bodyguard for the Lucca role. When Lucca died, I fakeclaimed that, being a robot, I received logical statistics about the state of the game, s.t. player X is scum or player Y is a doctor etc. and directed the town to who I thought was scum, and was right. I've been hooked ever since.
I do! That was one of my favourite games for sure, especially double-bussing Lactose and Gala. I'm not sure why he would ever complain, since I single-handedly won the game for our faction by publically arguing with him and convincing the town they were scum.
TCat needed a replacement for her game with GLG. I subbed into a mafia slot and got bussed by Ryker to a rewarding conclusion.
The latter is easy. AiB games were drying up. Sold said, "hey, guys, I'm a mod on DGames now!" and I jumped ship to greener pastures and mixed metaphors.
Lactose and Gaga, naturally. And Tizzy. Leafy. Magan. Simpleblast? Why not the whole crew?
Ha.
Seriously though, I really do miss SRB.
I hate to tell you Potterwolf... so I'll say Lazy Neighbourhood.
By still thinking you're scum all the time.
X1's 7P AIM setup. The period when X1 was obsessed with Poisoners and his Knife role was a wonderful time indeed. (Mainly because he was still playing mafia.)
Ronike's Cinemafia. This is a bit of a cheat answer, because this game wasn't amazing because of the setup, it was amazing because of the flavour and the speculation that resulted from it. This game played a large part in my inspiration for the Party series.
In terms of actual setups (since that's the actual question
) hard to say. I rarely judge setups purely on the merit of their roles. I really enjoyed 98% of the closed setups I've been in, so the better question might be my least favourite closed setup.Town: Hard one. I rarely play good town. My best traditional town play was in OS' FFVI as Setzer, and it wasn't great. I used my doublelynch ability to poor effect. The only reason I list this game is that I would've nailed the game (entirely on a setup basis) if not for DH misreading his Night results
(Hi, vand)
Honourable mention to The Wall, hydra'd with the good ol' boy. That marks the most recent time my town play has been actually effective in ages.
Mafia: Lazy Neighbourhood, on AiB. It was a gimmick game with movable neighbourhoods. I kicked two members of my mafia to the curb when they demonstrated how obviously mafia they were, berated them soundly and accurately for their poor play, and manipulated my neighbours into believing in me wholeheartedly. I won the game as the remaining member of my faction.
Honourable mention to a game on Hnet, Castle Crashers, where I extensively researched the flavour despite never playing the game and came up with a fakeclaim that carried me and won over a series of days.
Honourable mention #2: I really enjoyed claiming Adam West Batman in Super Heroes Mafia. It was at once masterful and fool-hardy, and is without a doubt the greatest fakeclaim I've ever pulled off.
Honourable mention #3: Hearts Mafia by JDietz. I haven't had as much fun as mafia since as I did with J and marshy in this game, working the game mechanics for every drop of nuance.
Indy: The only time I've been successfully cast as an indy was as a jester on Crisis forums. I helped town for a couple days to lynch mafia, a sort of self-balancing that I thought was apt, and then I brought a slow-building natural suspicion onto myself to get lynched for my wincon.
Do not emulate me in any way, shape or form. Actively think about what you should be doing in a given moment and situation, and do it. Listen to thinking music when you post. Get your music from EE.
Mafia. My other factional play is atrocious or gambit-ridden; Bingo is a good example. As town, I often resort to gambits to get my way, or represent the setup in a way that paints the player(s) I want to lynch in a bad light. I'm best balanced by another player in a town situation, of which No Het is a great example.
To win, naturally.Why did you scare the **** out of my in Adventure Time mafia with that claim switch?
Good question. Couldn't tell you. I'd imagine it has something to do with me making it up as I go, that could be endearing.
My philosophy? Hmm.
I went into the game knowing there would be 18 players who would be coming into their roles at different times, and that I wouldn't be able to do more than influence the general order they would come into play. I also knew that if the theme came out, the 18 roles would have to immediately co-exist with each other. So from the start I wanted it to be somewhat simple, for the swing to be low but the role interactions to be interesting.
I ran a game a couple years before Party 1 that was the same concept, but simpler. I wanted to run it bigger and better, because I wanted to run a crazy game after Cinemafia and Halloween was approaching. I was happy with how it turned out, although I'd rather there hadn't been so many replacements and so much inactivity.
About the setup? Probably not.
I'd love to. And always considering it. I thought of doing something related to Zero Escape, but I think that's getting covered by [REDACTED]. I might still, and I have another puzzle game in mind too. But we'll see how things go.
All my ideal setups are closed setups that I want to run, haha.
Phoenix Wright Mafia. 3 mafia (Godfather/Locksmith/Usurper) and a recruitable traitor. An abductor whose abduction doesn't affect mafia, but affects the traitor until he's recruited and the usurper until the godfather is dead. Town has jailer, judge, tracker and census vig. The rest are VTs.
Free and easy. Probably find a town buddy I like as a Watson, or aggressively pursue a player on a guttell from a single post.
Oh, I absolutely need to improve. For one thing, I need to establish a better town meta so I have a demonstrable fallback for my mafia games.
And to that end I need to, you know, try.Town PR, always. I've only played three or four in my mafia career.
How could somebody not know who they chose to target? What in the actual ****. I've been robbed! I hope you modkill yourself in your next game!Describe your feelings when you found out that Dark Horse had forgotten who he tracked.
I never name search it. When my therapist tells me it's time to read it again, I slowly click backwards through the pages of DGames, remembering how much has gone on since then. Then, I get there and cry once more at the futility of life. I can only but dream of a day that goes by without that game in my thoughts.
The Vand must die! The Vand must die! The Vand must die!I reread the end of a certain game a few months ago, and I must say that in hindsight I came off as a bit of an *** in postgame, so sorry about that :o. It's a good thing you're such a nice guy, but can you ever forgive me?
Vand
Swiss
Circus
Kat
J
I haven't met any DGamers though, so the list could continue.
Dark Horse.
Kantrip. Poor guy gets a bad rep when he's actually quite intelligent, and works as hard at games as Ran.
When I first came to DGames, I heard stories of marshy, and thought he must be the hottest ****. Then when I finally played with him, I was happy to realize that
That would be Ran.
Chuckie: Fire; aggressive play that burns and burns and never gives up.
Swiss: Earth; gritty and grounding with hard logic and harder truths.
Circus: Water; my mouth is always hydrated in anticipation of his next post.
J: Wind; gentle, but his posts sometimes blow me away.
I really just winged it. I set out to enjoy that game and to not take it as seriously as Mega Man, where I had already rolled indy. As a result, I had a ton of fun and really felt I was making stronger posts than I normally would as town. I loved everything that happened in that game. Hider seemed like the most fitting claim, and I would again in the same situation.
I was knee-deep in schoolwork after replacing, trying to get it done quick so I could play.You should have played your slot in Skies of Arcadia. Maybe then AM wouldn't have won. Why didn't you?
But when I got to the thread, I realized a) deadline was closer than I'd thought, and b) I had been a scumspect and was already lynched.Oops!
Favourite role(s) of mine: Indy Maneater, Lover's Pillowmaster/Scanner-Succubus, Hawaiian Assault Team
Favourite role of someone else: [REDACTED] (It's going in one of my games!)
Very-close second-favourite role of someone else: OS' Two-Face
Anybody who signs on to vote my scumread in an endgame situation is sexy in my book.
Let's be honest: I never watched TMNT. That said,
Ryker: Raph
Ran: Mikey
Xonar: Leo
Glyph: Don
Nabe: April
I came from AiB when Sold told us he was a mod here. I stick around because it's proven to be the best mafia forum of the many on the internet. I enjoy the chase of mafia, that kill-or-be-killed feeling where one of the players might be around the corner with a knife. About DGames, I enjoy that I can play a little less seriously without being taken at my word. I enjoy that I can sometimes get away with something like running Hearts on the mechanics. I enjoy that the metagame often plays a large role. I do wish people would pay more attention to the subtleties of individual posts sometimes, although occasionally it's gratifying to make a post that means something different to Ryker than it does to someone else.
People you disagree with aren't always scum! (Bear and Fish)
FF isn't always scum! (Bear and Fish)
Never give up! Trust your instincts! (Cinemafia)
Rockin is never scum. (Every game)
Ran is never scum. (KSSU)
Laundry is only scum when you think he's town. (Every game)
Don't settle for less. (Discworld)
Sometimes tunneling is hilarious. (Tiger's Celeb)
Try harder than you think you need to to get Swiss lynched. (TWEWY)
You're not always right. (Every game)
Both factions should play very similarly. Before submitting a post, track down whether or not your post is actually logical from perspectives that aren't your own. Strive to revise every sizable post you make after spending 15 minutes away. Ask yourself if what you've written really has the tone you think it does.
Not much. I probably wouldn't hand out a recruit in late-game, since that seemed to make Kary a little peeved. I wouldn't give someone a private expression of a win condition that would allow them to milk people for the proper response and cause every faction to tie.
I'd change the amnesiac mechanic a bit so that it wouldn't be such a hit to the setup to have the theme outed within D1.I was happy when Ryker recruited you. I was sad when Kary got recruited, in the end, although it was necessary for you. I wish J had found Ran a bit earlier. I wish the theme hadn't been outed so early, as I had a lot of clues planned.
I didn't expect Chuckie to know Le Bateleur was me before I had even posted, or for them to have a massive logic bomb on the subject, which they PM'd me in Night 0.
Overswarm once mentioned that he wanted to put himself in one of his own games, but that it wouldn't work. I thought, "Why not? With stipulations, or if the play is in the spirit of the game, then it shouldn't be a problem at all." And I'm a big believer in doing things just because they can be done.
Well,
Edit: NABE. You can't post that kind of slander and filth in here.
~ Red Ryu
But all of that was worth it, even the concussion.
Love 'em. I'm rarely in one, but when I am I love being recruited. I love anything that adds layers of intrigue and deception to the game, whether I'm hosting or not.
K/Phi/Luna
Alice/Dio/Quark
See my answer to Vand! Mafia is a game, and for me, an extremely enjoyable puzzle. I love recruits because they add complexity, and I love being recruited and pretending I haven't been, and I love rooting out recruited players and taking them to the gallows. But yeah, it's a game, and if you take it too seriously, you're going to get hurt. All games are like that, because games have winners.
W.R.T. scumhunting, I've found that in practice, it doesn't hurt anything. People who have been recruited play differently than they did beforehand, and when people know there's a recruiter, they're especially on the lookout for odd behaviour.
Party pooper.
You and Overswarm ran a close race, but I think he had you beat. For one thing, he had a couple QTs to ask questions in, in addition to private messaging.
Questions of Ran
You used to expect people to stick pretty firmly to a set of principles.
Your ability to ask a ridiculous amount of questions. It can be good or bad.
Your first game. You were worse at mafia when you started than you have been since.
Your most recent game. You're better than you were in your prior games.
I think I answered this elsewhere. Let's say Cinemafia this time.
Skies of Arcadia, since I got lynched as a town PR before posting.
A little, since you're typically very vocal.
I don't pay this much attention.
Run a large game.
Zen-style. Gambit until you get people to listen to you.
Mafia. I'm good at it.
Just a gut reaction. You seem to read me well as scum, not sure why.
Talk at your scumspect until they admit they're scum.
It works on some people, oddly.
You would ask me a lot of questions in the QT, and I would have no answers for you since I usually play early-game on gut. We would probably put your views forth publically, and I would work on mine in private until I had what I wanted.
July, Vand, J. I like their interactions with you.
Marshy, Circus, J. Good scumteams make good partners make good lovers.
That you ask so many questions.
That you ask so many questions.
You ask the right questions.
Ask the right questions more often, and only those. Try not to say everything that comes to mind.
I have a good sense for bull****.
Bad town game? I'm not really trying to consciously improve on it though. Usually I'm just playing with gut and enjoying myself.
You're very inquisitive.
Yes.
Until someone else posts to tell me what's wrong with them, yes.
Look at how many questions you asked me about yourself in this interview, and ask me this again with a straight face.
Ace of Base
The Cranberries
World 1-1 -- Super Mario Bros.
World 1-2 -- Super Mario Bros.
annoying
annoying
Daycop, so you can poke at people and see immediate results.
Vig, because then I don't have to convince people that my scumreads are scum.
Reverse the two.
Vengeful townie. Yippie ki-yay.
Doctor. Play cautiously and carry no stick.
...
Ohhhhhhh man, Ran. I don't pay enough attention to answer the rest of these questions. This is like an essay. I would have to do extensive research. Sorry (sort of) but I don't have enough patience or sanity for all of this.
Ranmaru - BAD END
Questions of Wizardry
An' a thumpin' good 'un, I'd wager.
(This is as good a time as any to talk about the Potter fandom. Let's advertise Wizard People, Dear Reader. It's an alternate audio track to the movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which Brad Neely humourously takes on Harry Potter while doing his best Steven Jesse Bernstein impression, which is a wonderful parody on its own. It's from 2004, so Harry Potter fans need to check it out if they haven't. Google that.
Let's also offhandedly mention StarKidPotter and A Very Potter Musical!)
Transfiguration.
Read into that one on your own.
Why is the Headmaster putting the hat on my head? That **** is McGonagall's job. And naturally I'd ask for Gryffindor to get a crack at that fine *** on Ginevra Weasley. But I'd probably get Hufflepuff, and get a crack at that fine *** on Susan Bones.
Hurt me? Not at all. Rather, I am feeling my heart get full of ingnominous passion...
The first and second movies are very faithful to the books, capturing . In other words, they're very long, dry, and (aside from their endings) pretty boring too, unless you're the target age of the books (which is fair). While I applaud the director's faithfulness to the source material, a script this complete should have been saved for a BBC miniseries adaptation. They just drag around the middle.
And this would've been a great time to talk about Wizard People, Dear Reader! So instead, I'll comment that I also really enjoy these older movies paired with commentary tracks from Pottercast.
Azkaban is listed as a lot of peoples' favourite, and understandably so. Azkaban was a departure from the simple whimsy of the first two into something quite a bit better, in a similar way to the book series. The book and movie both built the Wizarding World up into something past the younger Harry's "holy crap I'm a wizard" impression -- you begin to see the shape and form of the magical government, you see a wizarding village, you see a person escape from the inescapable wizard prison, wizard transit, etc. And anyone growing up with the books or movies was cheering Harry on as he rebelled against his relatives and against society. The movie takes both of these strings farther, and the screenplay has some genuinely funny content.
Azkaban is also when Michael Gambon shows up to play. For many people this was a dealbreaker. (Many of those people came around in the later movies.) I've loved him in the role since Azkaban, and he's every bit what I had in my head.
From Azkaban, the movies get better and better, and I have fewer complaints. My favourite is Half-Blood Prince, book and movie both.
I'd love to. Mostly depends on the time difference -- let's find a time that works for the three of us, acquire beverages, loosen our buttons, and get to it.
The ability to reproduce the effects of any spell from the Potter series. But it only works as long as I have a wand in my hand and I believe that I'm really a wizard. At one point a supervillain reveals the secret to me, and I spend several issues with a mental block, being unable to use my natural ability. But at last I come to terms with it, get past my block, and triumph over evil. The love interest is a redhead, a combination of Ginny Weasley and Mary-Jane Watson. Her famous line, "Face it, stud, you just bit the wrackspurt!" is plastered on T-shirts across the globe.
The author of the comic finds herself embroiled in intellectual property lawsuits for twenty-five years, and finally, in debt. When the dust settles, she's become a sketch artist on la rue Papineau, and a bartender by night, and turns tricks when the tips aren't good. As she lies awake most nights, huddled in her blankets alone, she curses whatever deity or demon gave her the sudden inspiration to write Potterman so long ago.
Okay.
Although you didn't ask, I'd bring a tiger, a raft, and a topical novel.
Or a wand, a hat, and a cloak. I'll found Hogwarts Island.
Of course. My only regret will forever be not taking part in that three-way.
You'll notice this has nothing to do with wizardry -- this category needed some padding. Let's press on!
Le Breastfeeders
The Le Bateleurs
Yaks on High
Jesuslesfilles
Cœur de pirate
Ginny and the Heartbreakers
She
The Mudbloods
The Bosswich
Recruit 18
Millencolin
Masseuses of New York
N-Prime
AWOLNATION
Shōji Meguro
The Inquisitor's Aspects
Ariane Moffatt
S.Megami and the Ten Seis
Galaxie
Philémon Chante
The Letter U's
Favor Got No Savour
Bastard Pop Terrorists
They're both rather plain to be perfectly honest (if you can ever really call an attractive woman plain) and Mila Kunis spending actual money on a monthly subscription to WoW doesn't make her more appealing. If we're talking That 70's Show, I would rather have Laura Prepon. And between the two, give me Emma with long hair and I'd be content.
(This would be a good time to comment that I haven't seen Black Swan.)
I find her attractive as she portrays Hermione? She's not entirely my cup of tea.
Although sometimes...
This is a little much and kind of fetishistic. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but a little excessive, and I'd be mainly repeating my answers to Bardull.
And let's be honest, I spend a lot more time ogling drawn women. It's most of my job description.
Ehhhhhh, but we can get a little fetishistic. Natural women are key. Amanda Fuller, Lena Dunham, Jane Greer. Give me some flesh, Larkin Love even, and a boatload of personality. Emma Watson is attractive when she does that pensive Hermione look with her lips parted (you know the one) and don't get me wrong, she's beautiful, I'll watch Fifty Shades of Grey if she's in the lead (she won't be). But she's nowhere near my perfect cup of tea.
doushio
To this interview? Murder-suicide, given how long it was in the making and the shame it brings on myself and my house. (Hufflepuff)
Don't be such a fairy.
Not a whole lot, given that I'm mainly busy with school. But yes. I still do commissions from time to time if you're interested.
Depends on the length of the volume, the font, the quality of the scan, and whether I find the material appreciable, or maybe too appreciable. For a 180ish-page tank added to my current workload, a busy couple months. (If I had finished this interview last year, the answer would be a month. This semester is killer.)
This is a question that could get a little too interesting and also go on way too long, so I'll keep it tame and not reveal too much of my seedy underbelly. Take On Me by Takemura Sessyu is a very good manga, not my favouritest favourite, but it's one of the new classics. It has an enjoyable romance story, interesting but relatable characters, and doesn't get into anything that's extremely heavy, sexually. It's widely appreciated and widely lauded, very charming, very sexy. Sadly, I can't recommend the official translation (released in NA as Domin-8 Me!) since it isn't any good. I'd highly recommend checking out the translated Take On Me and its sequel TOM2, and of course, support the mangaka by purchasing a copy!
I've got to give a shout-out as well to an ecchi series I'm reading right now, Kono S o Mi yo! which is captivating me at the moment. It's about a man with a magical birthmark on his *** that captivates any woman who sees it. Despite that description, it turns out to be a very mature dramatic tale, romance again but with sort of crossed lovers, very hard to put down.
People who are interested in the Dark, Sinful World of 変態 should feel free to PM me. There's a lot of thought-provoking content out there, as well as hilarious comedies and just plain hot stuff, and I'm very much the person to ask about it all.
Absolutely. His gentle enthusiasm has been blown out of proportion. It's not glamourous, or something you often get a chance to make public or take credit for, but I'd wager I'm the foremost expert in DGames.
Amusing story: a long while before Hentai Mafia II, I asked Sold if he'd allow me to run a Hentai Mafia II, described the lengths I would go to to make it PG etc. and he turned me down. But maybe one day I'll finally add to the legendary series.
Yeah, sorry. And I also lied in saying this section had to do with wizards!
I've been very naughty. Do with me what you will, Snape~
Questions of Self
I'd like to find people who are interested in working on my current game project, or get it done myself, and release it.
I'd like to get together with that girl I love. (Aw.) And then have sloppy makeouts in a full-on no-holds-barred slap-tongued MSPA style, let's be perfectly ****ing honest. Sometimes you just have to get your feelings out, you know?
Probably not. But that could be for the best. Society seems to function at its peak without people like you and me. Maybe we should form our own society.
Bang. Bang. Bang. "May the Mole People of Lower Portugal please come to order!" the judge shouted, slamming his rock wildly against another slab of rock. "This court is now in session. We the people hereby accuse the defendants Nabe and Xonar of crimes of illegal import from the Sunworld. How do they plead?"
"Guilty as charged, your Honour!" yelled Xonar, his head held high. The crowd murmured loudly.
"No, Nora, don't do it!" said Nabe, tears in his eyes. "It's not worth it!"
He spoke back to Nabe softly. "Our freedoms and civil liberties are worth it, Nobsy, they are worth this price." He looked up at the judge. "Any price."
"Please repeat that, defendant. How do you plead?" The judge looked amused with the proceedings.
"Guilty, your Honour. None of our citizens should have to live without anime or other Japanese content. I'll stand by that, to my death if I must, but I know it to be true."
The judge nodded. "Right you are. Bailiff, take him... above." The judge thought a moment longer, then smiled. "Put him out in N-land with the Dutchies."
Deep. I don't put nearly this much thought into existence, I'm sad to say. And I don't hold many strong beliefs that require any amount of hope.
To the past, I say what's done is done. History is written by the victors, and as far as I'm concerned they can also be the ones spending time caring that it took place. The only thing you can ever know for sure is the fact of your own existence, and to that end memories are a welcome and valuable truth all their own. To the present, I say to embrace what happens and to live in the moment. Change is to be embraced, not to be shied away from. The strongest people there are in our world are the people who are themselves and who take on change without losing a stride. And to the future, I say to set out in a way that will best accomplish the future you want and to strive towards that future in all things. To not try because a result is uncertain is to give in.
For me to have something valuable to say. I don't speak up without reason, and some people take that for a lack.
Hm. I don't really look for qualities in people. I fall into relationships with people of all sorts, and the good ones stick out because they're the people you can trust with the world, you know? But how about this: a friend shouldn't ask you to be someone you're not, but a friend should challenge you when you're not being who you are. You should be at ease with a friend when you're baring yourself to them, in any sense of the word, or vice-versa.
tl;dr nudity is the key.
This has been Nabe, making sense what are you talking about.
Impossible. I don't know any up-and-coming bands who are lauded for being slightly different from their peers and admired for having members who aren't classically attractive and unknown by Soup. I mean, he already knows about AWOLNATION, fun., and Marianas Trench.
But if I had to, I'd name Les Breastfeeders. And then I'd take that back, because it is slightly possible Soup has heard of them, and offer a second opinion of Jesuslesfilles and a third opinion of Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs. Which is all to say that while I don't know Soup's actual preference in music, I do know that that music is good and he should like it if he knew of it, if he has taste. And thus, I gift it to Xonar, to be done with as he will.
Everyone knows the obvious answer to this is The Phantom Menace, given that video that's been passed around everywhere that explains why and how it should have been different, and how everyone who sees it goes "ohhhhhh".
I would remake Super Mario Bros, except that the cast would be the exact cast from the recent Les Miserables down to the last actor. Mario is Russell Crowe, Luigi is Hugh Jackman, Daisy is Anne Hatheway, and Sasha Baron Cohen steals the show as Koopa. It would in fact be a musical, with all the live singing and full-song closeups of Les Mis, but with more fungus and more of Everybody Walk The Dinosaur.
Every person has to spend at least one day a month at home, preferably naked, reading a good book, drinking some tea, or otherwise relaxing, without being held to societal obligation. (Not everyone has to take the same day off.)
$1,000,000 in my chequing account, a yacht, and a robot butler. Simple.
I get to be a vig with confirmation of being the sole PR? Hell yeah. I shoot Swiss as he's statistically likely to be a member of the mafia, then I'll start my day investigation.
No way! Let's respect people's rights and freedoms here, sicko.
I hadn't thought about it. Hrm.
Held up only by my latest adrenaline shot, I climb the mountainside. I'm at the end of the list now, two items on the agenda before I can allow myself to die. I can't spare a moment to think about how weary every part of my body is. I've waited my whole life to accomplish this, and it's so close now.
I grasp the knocker on the monastery door. I'm only going to get one shot at this. I throw my weight with my swing, slamming it against the door.
Thankfully, it opens. A barely-legal girl comes to my aid, naked as the day she was born. I lick my lips. Maybe afterwards, but I'm here for one thing and one thing only. I take her arm for support.
He comes into the room. "So," he says, "you've finally arrived. How many years has it been?"
"Far too many," I say, reaching into my pocket. I pull out a small white tube of gel and toss it into his hands.
He looks from it to me, and he understands. "Leave us," he says to his servants.
"I certainly don't mind if they stay..." I say, looking my receiving girl up and down. "You choose good company."
"You know they have no appeal to me," he says, then chuckles to himself. "I simply surround myself with attractive things. So then, how will we do this?"
"Well," I reply, "there should be enough in that tube for two rounds, Circus. Two final entries on that bucket list I wrote with Soup so long ago."
"Ah," he says. "Then, I guess it's only a matter of rock-paper-scissors."
I smile; he has the advantage of youth, as my arthritic old hand could only handle the paper symbol. But he'll listen to me. "No, I'll go first. Lose the clothing."
Yes, once. It wasn't a pleasant thing. And I'd be lying if I said she really deserved it.
(Mysterious.)
As for happy things, not really, no. Maybe one of my ridiculous mafia wins like Super Heroes or our win in Hearts? Eh. Sorry, good question though. I wish I had an answer that was uplifting or even just cool.
Eh.vanderzant said:
Just take off those clogs and we'll get down to business.Xonar said:
...On second thought, leave them on.
Probably Dexter, although I appreciate the concept.Sworddancer. said:
Deal.Cello_Marl said:
Yes. Or no, depending on who you're in love with and willing to trust with yourself.
That about sums it up.
Nabe - END
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