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Finally doing this! Oh, and for those of you who have already done this shindig, we'll just go back and forth in comments.
- Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile".
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
These questions are from April!
1. What's one country you've yet to visit but really really want to?
-Turkey. There is so much history, and so much cultural history and clashing that it would be so interesting. Different and apart from the places in Europe that I have been, but with a lot of the influence. Istanbul would be something of a religious experience for me I think, just because of all the things that happened there. Going to the Maria Sophia... wow, just wow. Plus, I would dig learning as much as I could about the Ottoman Empire.
2. Who's your favorite Resident Evil character?
-Damn, tough one. I love Resident Evil because of its kicks, but I'm not a complete fanboy, so I don't know each person in and out. If I had, had to pick though? Leon. I just love the feel of his 'I'm so tired of this happening to me. I just want to go home and have a beer' mentality you see in RE4. Plus, zombie invasion, first day as a cop? I totally identify with that sort of luck. Second pick though? Wesker, because of him being just a complete, unapologetic ass, and being good at it.
3. If you could travel to any period in history, what would it be and why?
-GAHHHHHHH. So many choices! I would love to be in so many places so... grrrh. Alright, if I had, had to pick? It would probably be at about 0 A.D., just so I could see all of that happen firsthand. Only if I could speak Hebrew and Aramaic, though. I think after that, I could have to pick 1510 or so. Three of my favorite people in history (Luther, Gutenburg, and Durer) were all at their prime about then, and to chill with them, and German monks? THINK OF THE BEER AND CONVERSATIONS YOU COULD HAVE.
4. What Shakespearean quote is closest to your heart?
-April, I hate you making me choose things like this. I frakin' love "Get Thee to a nunnery!", but it doesn't have much besides just being a hilarious insult. I guess I would, at the very end, have to go with Shylock's famous monologue:
He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
5. Why are ninjas better than pirates?
-I love Ninjas because of their origin story. Peasants that said "Screw you and your Bushido. Check this out!". Then they ended up being hired guns to anyone who could. It was a way to make a living, and they did it without royalty titles, or any claim to heritage. Plus, the sheer amount of stories and rumors that happened because of their existence... its pretty incredible the stuff they managed to do and invent for their craft.
There! Let comments begin!
- Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile".
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
These questions are from April!
1. What's one country you've yet to visit but really really want to?
-Turkey. There is so much history, and so much cultural history and clashing that it would be so interesting. Different and apart from the places in Europe that I have been, but with a lot of the influence. Istanbul would be something of a religious experience for me I think, just because of all the things that happened there. Going to the Maria Sophia... wow, just wow. Plus, I would dig learning as much as I could about the Ottoman Empire.
2. Who's your favorite Resident Evil character?
-Damn, tough one. I love Resident Evil because of its kicks, but I'm not a complete fanboy, so I don't know each person in and out. If I had, had to pick though? Leon. I just love the feel of his 'I'm so tired of this happening to me. I just want to go home and have a beer' mentality you see in RE4. Plus, zombie invasion, first day as a cop? I totally identify with that sort of luck. Second pick though? Wesker, because of him being just a complete, unapologetic ass, and being good at it.
3. If you could travel to any period in history, what would it be and why?
-GAHHHHHHH. So many choices! I would love to be in so many places so... grrrh. Alright, if I had, had to pick? It would probably be at about 0 A.D., just so I could see all of that happen firsthand. Only if I could speak Hebrew and Aramaic, though. I think after that, I could have to pick 1510 or so. Three of my favorite people in history (Luther, Gutenburg, and Durer) were all at their prime about then, and to chill with them, and German monks? THINK OF THE BEER AND CONVERSATIONS YOU COULD HAVE.
4. What Shakespearean quote is closest to your heart?
-April, I hate you making me choose things like this. I frakin' love "Get Thee to a nunnery!", but it doesn't have much besides just being a hilarious insult. I guess I would, at the very end, have to go with Shylock's famous monologue:
He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
5. Why are ninjas better than pirates?
-I love Ninjas because of their origin story. Peasants that said "Screw you and your Bushido. Check this out!". Then they ended up being hired guns to anyone who could. It was a way to make a living, and they did it without royalty titles, or any claim to heritage. Plus, the sheer amount of stories and rumors that happened because of their existence... its pretty incredible the stuff they managed to do and invent for their craft.
There! Let comments begin!