Stereotype Meme

I just realized that my LJ was often used as a meme/quiz dump. I guess I'll start dumping some that seem amusing enough to keep here.

Amusing meme.. ready.. go!

Tsunderekko
[x] You come off as sort of aloof to other people.
[x] In public, you intentionally refrain from showing much weakness.
[x] You have a secret obsession with something cute.
[ ] You pretend that you hate your crush even though you really love him/her.
[x] You blush when people point out your sensitivites.
[ ] You blush when people tell sexual jokes.
Total: 4

Yanderekko
[ ] You’re very sweet and kind in public.
[ ] When romance becomes a topic of discussion, people say your personality changes drastically.
[ ] You know some sort of martial art, swordplay, or otherwise.
[ ] You have a crush who you’d literally kill for.
[x] You have a pet-peeve that makes you snap.
[ ] Bipolar?
Total: 1

Meganekko
[ ] You have glasses.
[ ] You can sometimes be clumsy, ditzy, or absent-minded.
[ ] You are always very polite in your speech.
[x] You are fairly intelligent in some field.
[ ] You take discipline seriously.
[x] You have some sort of fetish for something.
Total: 2

Tsukkomi
[x] You have a friend who often makes dumb or embarrassing remarks.
[x] You smack/beat up this friend in some way.
[x] You do your best to maintain a calm facade, only to be thwarted by this friend.
[ ] If you & your friend were a yin-yang, you’d be the “yang”.
[ ] You swear a lot.
[ ] You try to bring out the more serious side of your ridiculous friend.
Total: 3

Boke
[ ] You often make silly or embarrassing comments.
[ ] You like annoying the heck out of your best friend.
[ ] You often get beaten up by your friend in some way, but you take it in good stride.
[ ] If you & your friend were a yin-yang, you’d be the “yin”.
[x] You are normally very laidback and carefree.
[ ] You try to bring out the happier side of your angry friend.
Total: 1

Nadeshiko
[ ] You are always, almost overly polite.
[x] You love traditional Japanese culture.
[ ] You often wear either a kimono, yukata (summer cotton kimono), or apron.
[ ] You’re an excellent cook.
[ ] You are hardly ever angry.
[ ] You have really long hair.
Total: 1

Tomboy Character
[x] You feel comfortable in boy’s clothing.
[ ] You have short hair
[x] You have a crush whom you act friendly with rather than romantically.
[ ] You are really good at sport/s.
[ ] You are admired by girls and boys for your talents, though you’re sort of in denial.
[ ] You show your girly features on rare occasions.
Total: 2

Sexy Character
[ ] Your bust/package is...formidable.
[ ] You like making sexual innuendos.
[ ] You encourage trips to the beach, pool, or onsen.
[ ] There are some sexual things that you are ignorant to or need explained to you.
[ ] You’re an expert cosplayer.
[x] You like the taste of alcohol.
Total: 1

And at last...Lolita/Shota Character
[ ] You like sweets or chocolate.
[x] You adore cute things and/or the word “kawaii”. (Super Kawaii~)
[ ] You use Japanese suffixes like “-chan,” “-tan,” “-sempai,” etc...
[ ] You add unnecessary suffixes to the ends of your sentences, like “nyo,” “nyu,” “un,” etc...
[x] You are considered gullible or naive.
[ ] You have a tall/powerful friend who protects you.
Total: 2

I'm not surprised I'm tsundere.
Wait, that feels a bit weird to acknowledge...

Retsu Talk About FOOD - Part 2

I've been eating out a lot lately, and it's been hurting my no-income wallet a bit, but hey I have more to add to this food talk.

So we had the new ramen place I mentioned on Sunday with Team Cupcakes (school group project people). G-men was the name. No, there were no men catering, except doing the cooking. The inside felt very much like their other store, Gyoza King in DT, but the theme here was ramen. The bar area was designed to look like a ramen stand which held a HDTV broadcasting old school kungfu vids. Vee couldn't stop staring at the actor's rather protruding pecs.

About the food, I'm a salty person so the not-as-salty-as-Kintarou's-ramen was not as good, but it was decent. The bowls were not as ginormous, so I wasn't insanely full after which is a good and bad thing ;D... The place was surprisingly packed and I recall they did little to no marketing (aka. ads) but the AzN people just poured in like it's been around forever.

Tuesday (yesterday) I had AYCE Hot Pot at Top Gun with mo2 and shi2. Insanely much food and yet we still went for bubble tea afterward.

Earlier today, I had a three course lobster meal at the Boathouse for Lisa's bday and - gawd - it was awesomely good. Bisque, then sirloin+lobster bits (that was perfectly medium rare like I wanted it), then finished with a chocolate mud pie. Oh, and you can't forget the ENDLESS BREAD HURHUR!

Cough, I'm a bit sick in the throat too and somehow got a cut inside my mouth (stings like a bitch) but that doesn't stop me from having good food! Now I just sound (and feel) like a pig.

I'll write about other stuff I wanted to talk about tomorrow. I better stop slacking and get to bed for class early tomorrow morning.

Let's talk about FOOD

Every week, me and my group of classmate friends have been visiting new and old restaurants throughout the lower mainland. Usually we manage one a week. I must say, we've been quite ambitious and tried quite a few places.

Today we had Posh, not exactly new nor first time, but exceptionally awesome - all you can eat sukiyaki. I think most of us are in a food coma right about now.

However! For first timers, we tried Ebisu downtown. The food was awesome except our fried potatoes were forgotten and we agreed to wait an additional 30-45 minutes for them!

Also downtown, we had Kintarou and Guu with Garlic. We actually wanted to eat at the organic ramen place next door instead of Kintarou but they were closed. I've yet to try the organic one... :/

Oh, we also had Himalayan food too. Or.. so I thought.. it was pretty Indian to me.

I only went out for one dinner for Dine Out Vancouver this year. We decided on the Shaughnessy Restaurant in Vandusen Gardens and it was actually not bad. The plates were small but surprisingly filling. I wasn't able to finish my creme brulee D:

A new ramen shop is opening at Continental Centre where there used to be pho restaurant. That's probably where we wanna try next... if it ever decides to open.

While still on the topic of food, king crab cheap season has arrived. I've already had it three times this year.. <_<;; That's not necessarily a bad thing though. ;b

Odin Sphere: bounded to prophecies

Odin Sphere was one of those games I had no plan on playing anytime soon, considering all the other games that had priority for various reasons. A friend suggested it because it was nice and short. And it was Atlus. Atlus seems to do no wrong nowadays huh.

Story - 5/5
I'm a sucker for mythologies and the such so the story was excellent. Basically a prophecy foretold the end of the world and all the nations were part of it (in saving or destroying). But then there were cute romantic relationships with all the main characters that made every couple so canon. The good ending was bittersweet, and the additional ending made it even sweeter. The game made it so you played through a particular character's point of view, and then had you play through another persons. At the end, you were able to put all the pieces together to form the big picture.

Characters - 5/5
I don't think there was a single character I came to dislike in this game (bad guys don't really count because you're supposed to hate them :b). At first you would hate a particular someone until you played through their story to find out their background and why the scene happened the way it did. Though I think my favourite character is Ingway and yet he's not a playable character. It seems as though he could've been a playable character too (just to balance off the guy vs girl ratio). I swear it's not because I'm entranced by his awesome Morikubo Shoutarou voice (<_<)... As I mentioned, the couples were all so fit for each other. When does that really ever happen eh...

Gameplay - 4.5/5
Everyone complains about this - LAG. It's the strangest thing to happen in this game, and yet it happens so frequently. The graphics and the mechanics seem so simple, you would've never imagined this game would lag at all. When it lags, it really LAGS. It becomes a nuisance when it starts interrupting your flow.

Besides the horrible lag of death, the actual gameplay is really unique to this game. It's a 2D side scroller (much like, say, Mario) and areas are a continuous loop until you jump to another area that's also another continuous loop. In this game, you had to eat. A LOT. You basically fought, ate, mixed some concoctions and ate some more. But it's consumptions that helped you raise levels and boosted stats. The whole ring menu reminded me much of Seiken Densetsu but because of the amount of items you had, organizing and finding items were a bit of a pain. It was also funny to see that not only were your characters fighters, they were also gardeners too. Before/after/during battles, you can do some gardening by planting fruits and whatnot. Then you can eat them. Or make more food with them and still eat them. The whole vegetable hiding under the ground aspect was also very cute. Vegetables are alive at first (run around or hurt you even) until you give them a good smack after you find them. Same goes for sheep that grow from plants.

Graphics - 4/5
When I first saw this game, I first thought - whoa flash animation. But now, I don't really think of it that way anymore. I've come to really like the animation and art style to the point that I don't know what to think of it anymore really. It's nice and pretty... and different.

Sound - 3.5/5
The music for Odin Sphere was decent. There weren't that many tracks to begin with (I guess also because the game wasn't very long either) and tracks for certain stages were the stage for all characters you played through. You basically ended up listening through the same few tracks again and again. I think the most annoying noise was the "electricity" sound effects you would hear when you popped an Unlimited POW/Painkiller/a potion that boosted your stats for a limited time. The noise would stick around until the potion itself wears off. It was also hard to tell whether the potion was still active or not if you had more than one active at the same time if you were in the midst of battle. The only other way to tell was the thin coloured spark that surrounded your weapon. I can't quite see it when I'm swinging around like mad now can I.

Voice acting. I kept it on Japanese audio the whole time and wow, there were nothing but big names doing the roles, even the minor ones like for the Halja(Shinigami). The voices fit well with their characters.

Overall - 4.5/5
Odin Sphere was an extremely satisfying and refreshing game. Though may I say it was a bit short, it still executed the story nicely and the pacing was good. I did not grind, unless I was farming, and the variety of challenges that were presented were all fun. There were a number of exploits that made the game easier, but overall, I did take a few tries at some bosses. I can't imagine how this game would be like in Heroic mode though... {No Thanks.}

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