the knights who say に!
I downloaded a whole bunch of "licensed" manga, so now I feel a little better. I also made hiragana flash cards, which I've been using all day. They look a little odd, but I was able to correctly identify "ni" in the Unicode chart (I think), so hopefully they'll eventually work for me. Maybe. Also, oddly enough, it seems like crummy American
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...Okay, what the fuck is that.
Seriously, because. What the fuck is that?
The hair, okay, the sneakers, okay, the red mandarin pajamas, I am having a hard time picturing even Dream being colossally lame enough to wear. So. What the fuck?
Also: ♥
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Uhhh Robert Smith is like some sort of ideal dude in Gaiman's POV, which is in itself part of the problem, not the solution. NOTE THE HAIR. NOTE DREAM'S HAIR. Note the dark death sitting-on-the-floor rock music. Note Dream being homies with Death and also his feelings of general despondency.
Come to think if they go on to screw over th characters of Death and Delirium in this movie, I will be highly upset. HIGHLY UPSET
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Really? What? Robert Smith? ...I had just kind of assumed, given certain possibly incorrect assumptions on my part, that Dream was a sort of, like... what's a Mary Sue character called when it's written by a man? A Marty Sal? Well, maybe it's a Mary Sue no matter what you've got in your pants. I thought Dream was a Mary Sue. But Robert Smith is much worse, you're right.
Also, Dream's hair does kind of look like that, now that you mention it. I just assumed it looked like that because Dream was manufactured by Marvel in the 1980s, which cuts the chances of his being genuinely attractive or stylishly designed basically down to zero, but that hair really does look wretchedly awful in three dimensions. Not that it was winning the pretty prize in two, of course.
Is it okay if I stop looking at the picture now? It's making me feel funny.
Also, my grade-school report cards did not mark "Keeps in Touch with Others" as a skill I had mastered, myself. So no worries.
Also I love your icon. It made me laugh until I coughed.
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Gary Stu? I'd imagine, since Dream is as close to Gaiman's ideal self-image as one could logically get without infringing on actual The Cure Copyright. I know, I'm scared too.
IF YOU KEEP LOOKING AT ROBERT SMITH YOU'LL EXPERIENCE THE SUDDEN NEED TO LISTEN TO EVERY REMIX OF "STRANGE ATTRACTION" EVER MADE. Please feel free to delete my comment up there, for the good of everyne here. I don't even know what I was thinking.
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I'm going to play XII. It's like the last name-brand game made for the only console cheap enough to consider buying. Having bought. Whatever. If I were a Trump, I wouldn't spend $700 on a game console. However, if I were a Trump, I would undoubtedly also be an individual of questionable style and taste, so PlayStations probably wouldn't be on my radar, anyway.
Speaking of which, I vote that from now on, male Mary Sues are referred to as "Robert Smiths." That is truly terrifying. Um. Since Dream Alpha is clearly a fanfiction character whose reference sailed over my head like five paper airplanes, do you by any chance know who Dream Beta is supposed to be? Because he's even worse.
Also, if I delete your comment, I will lack clear textual evidence of the Robert Sue. I just need to be sure to look at it for less than nine seconds per day, or I will be breaking out the white base and dark orchid lipstick of yesteryear. (They look even dumber on a black person.)
Thank you very much, though. Also: ♥
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I am not sorry.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who take to Yasumi Matsuno like 16-year-olds to Thom Yorke, and everyone else. Upon hearing that XII was going to be a YAZZ GAME, I flipped. We all flipped. We were very happy. Which is why I approached the game subjectively, and which is why I love it.
I am not sorry.
Everyone else is of the opinion that this is probably the first FF game in a long time that makes gameplay fun, if by fun you mean kinda hard sometimes, and if by sometimes you mean every boss in the first third of the game. BUT IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE GLOWING FEELING YOU GET AFTER TRULY KICKING ASS. It's a nice change from the PRESS START TO WIN of usual FF fare. Everyone else likewise says the characters aren't as deep as, say, those of FFX, which is what happens when you only have 2 solid hours of plot in a 60-hour game, and that the plot is too political and severely lacking in SAVINGU ZA WAARUDO. I presonally can't see what they mean, but if a bunch of peole say this, there must be something I'm seeing that tey're missing, so I don't know.
Also, I am all over political intrigue and novels of manners like a hobo in a corndog warehouse AND I AM SOOOO NOT EVEN A LITTLE SORRY.
In answer to your question, D-David Bowie? I DON'T HAVE MAGICAL POP CULTURE ABILITIES, THOUGH I WISH I DID, I ONLY KNOW THAT SPIKE SPIEGEL IS SUPPOSED TO SORT OF BE BOB DYLAN.
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Um, well, as for me, I am naked ugly ass at videogames, so the more challenging something is, usually the more I hate it. Advent Children is my favorite FF game, sadly enough. Also, I usually give up costume design for face design, which is why I'm a Nomura fan. Actually, I'm a Nomura fan because he's a Johnny Depp fan. A really big one, apparently.
...I'm not really a Nomura fan, though. I knew absolutely nothing about Yasumi Matsuno before XII, and I have no doubt he would probably beat Nomura in an art-off any day of the week. It's just, when it comes to videogames -- you know that really annoying anime fan who likes dubs, and goes into popular fan comms where everybody knows kana and is a snob, and defends Crispin Freeman as an artist? And then gets flamed and cries and says things like, "I hop ur happy i'm NEVR WATCHING ANIMES AGAIN!!!!!" before flouncing out? When it comes to videogames, I'm sort of like that person. Well, I'm not quite that bad, since I know how dumb I am. But, it's an art form I don't really "get." Or play well. So, while all you hip kids are all admiring the artistic differential, I'm going, "How the FUCK am I supposed to know there's a LEVER behind that STATUE?? HMMM????"
So, the ears are not deaf, technically. A little tone deaf, perhaps, but I still try.
Wow, I would not have picked Bob Dylan as the reference for Spike Spiegel. Although I'm told he did make several trips to outer space during the more productive periods of his career. Plus, I think you do have Magical Pop Culture Powers! Yes! If someone had said to me last week, "Do you know that Sandman is in fact a The Cure fanfiction?" I would possibly have had a hearty scoff. Now I am older and wiser. So. Tori Spelling, Robert Smith... David Bowie? Looks possible. I will inquire about it more thoroughly the next time I talk with people who Know Things about Sandman.
Hm. What the hell: ♥
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My unconscious mind truly is evil.
I meant "Tori Amos."
AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA~!!!
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I believe it's safe to say there is NEVER at ANY POINT a lever behind a statue, and what levers there are few, far between, and in plain sight. Welll I guess there is that one time there's a LEVER connected to a FUSE BOX, but at this point in the game said fuze box will be the least of your concerns, because you will notice that for the entire segment Basch seems to be wearing NO PANTS AND A G STRING.
I am not a gamer either, in that I do not play a lot of games, and so I do not know much about games in general. The thing is, XII is very easy to get the hang of quick. GAMBITS ARE COOL, I PROMISE! You can let the game play itself while you go water the houseplants! When you get leveled enough, there will be long battles during which you can go do something else while occasionally peeking in on your party's progress. IN A WAY, FIGHTING IN XII IS LIKE MAKING CUPCAKES. You like cupcakes, don't you?
As for Dylan, it's just that familiar silhouette, and the relentless smoking. AND THE COWBOY SONGS ABOUT LOST LOVE.
http://www.cojeco.cz/attach/photos/3accd5607ee49.jpg
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/62/5d/3102628-resized200.JPG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/bobdylan/images/bob26.jpg
And this one's a lot the Spike and Juila image in the usual credits, which might be a reference to the cover of Freewhelin':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/bobdylan/images/bob19.jpg
This is of course referential and not at CURE FANFICTION LEVELS.
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I love cupcakes, actually. That's a good Pavlovian bell-ringing association, too. Now, when I do actually get around to playing XII, I'll be unconsciously imagining cupcakes, so I'll be happy. White cupcakes with pink icing, I think.
What was this about no Pop-Culture Magic? Clearly, Pop-Culture Magic, wtf. Also, I love Bob Dylan's gay fairy boots in the third image. If Spike had a whiny, high-pitched, unintelligible voice and slightly less manbooty, he would clearly be Bob Dylan's cartoon doppelgänger. Which is actually a sort of terrifying concept.
Speaking of which, I don't think it reaches critical Cure fanfiction mass until you've written several comic books about your new idea and begun convincing gullible fans that it is the source of universal awesome for everyone. So. Unless you start composing a graphic novel whose protagonist is a long, lanky, Russian-American hypocrite who smokes incessantly, writes cowboy songs, owns a static blond 'fro, travels the universe looking for Truth, and is named Miss Lonely, I think you're safe.
Also, because I'm getting superstitious: ♥
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That seems pretty much to be the consensus. Everyone was officially frightened after fabulous_papaya pointed that out, and we had to go lie down for awhile. Separately, of course.
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