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zeketitan

Quote from: BadWolf on August 06, 2014, 04:58:01 PMwasabi is Japanese for "OH SWEET MERCIFUL LORD THE PAIN!"
A friend of mine, who studied in Japan for a year, reports this fun game while you're hanging out at the bars with your friends.

  • Get a dish with some wasabi (about a marble's worth).
  • Get a dish with some green tea ice cream (again, about a marble's worth). Under typical bar lighting, wasabi and green tea ice cream should look the same.
  • Mix up the dishes and pick one at random.
  • Put the contents in your mouth and convince everyone else that you got the ice cream!

Hopefully, not too off-topic.

Super Firebug

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Quote from: zeketitan on August 06, 2014, 07:34:52 PM
A friend of mine, who studied in Japan for a year, reports this fun game while you're hanging out at the bars with your friends.

  • Get a dish with some wasabi (about a marble's worth).
  • Get a dish with some green tea ice cream (again, about a marble's worth). Under typical bar lighting, wasabi and green tea ice cream should look the same.
  • Mix up the dishes and pick one at random.
  • Put the contents in your mouth and convince everyone else that you got the ice cream!

Hopefully, not too off-topic.

I wouldn't worry; the topic is only relevant when Ironwolf has a progress report. Until then, we're just keeping ourselves entertained.
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Quote from: Des_Tructive on August 06, 2014, 10:12:01 AM
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.seriouseats.com%2Fimages%2F2013%2F08%2F20130828-snyders-pretzel-pieces-primary.jpg

My poison of choice.

Oh... and these:

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.yopi.de%2Fproduct_images%2F186%2F186667%2Flightbox%2Fmerba-white-chocolate-cranberry-cookies.png

OH god just looking at those makes me need to use the bathroom lol.  I love the pretzels, but I think we both know what happens if you eat too many of them.

GenericHero05

On a non-food related topic. My wife and I were always disappointed that NCSoft or for that matter Cryptic never marketed the opportunity to have your hero put on a shirt. Either your individual hero or a screenshot would have been pretty cool. They could have even offered some type of phrase with each character type (Scrapper - WARNING: If you can read this, you are within range).

I know you could have always done it yourself at Zazzle or Cafe Press but the true nerdist in both of us would have rather ordered it from the source.
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nicoliy

Quote from: makjwalton on August 06, 2014, 09:19:34 PM
On a non-food related topic. My wife and I were always disappointed that NCSoft or for that matter Cryptic never marketed the opportunity to have your hero put on a shirt. Either your individual hero or a screenshot would have been pretty cool. They could have even offered some type of phrase with each character type (Scrapper - WARNING: If you can read this, you are within range).

I know you could have always done it yourself at Zazzle or Cafe Press but the true nerdist in both of us would have rather ordered it from the source.

That would have been great. Also, as an avid scrapper player - I love the warning.

GenericHero05

Quote from: nicoliy on August 06, 2014, 09:27:17 PM
That would have been great. Also, as an avid scrapper player - I love the warning.

I can't take credit for it. It's from my son's taekwon-do shirt, but I thought it would be perfect for a scrapper.
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Quote from: ukaserex on August 06, 2014, 11:58:28 AM
For a while, when I was out of work (putting on the aforementioned 60 pounds) I would have crackers and nutella. Oh no, sportsfans. Not the meager 2 tbsp serving they suggest - at least half the bloody jar!


I've been through some very rough financial times in my life, too.  My personal tip - a can of potted meat and a handful of store-brand corn chips made a reasonably satisfying lunch for roughly 40 cents.

Shadowe

Blaster t-shirt, on the back:

If you can read this... I need a Wakie.
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By the way, Guardians of the Galaxy was quite good. Excellent, in fact.

MattTreck

Quote from: sindyr on August 07, 2014, 12:02:40 AM
By the way, Guardians of the Galaxy was quite good. Excellent, in fact.

Movie was outstanding, hilarious.

InOnePiece

Quote from: Shadowe on August 06, 2014, 11:55:19 PM
Blaster t-shirt, on the back:

If you can read this... I need a Wakie.
Love it!

AnElfCalledMack

#8332
Tanker T-Shirt: "If you can read this, you aren't behind me".
Or "I got this."

EDIT: Ironwolf's given us the official "no news" for the week. :)

Ohioknight

#8333
While we're thumb-twiddling since things are still "quiet for a bit" --

I was very interested to hear that Affleck-Batman is INDEED intended to be a much older Batman than Superman -- apparently in Batman/Superman Batman will have been Battling the underworld in semi-secret for 30 years and is thought to be an urban legend -- nobody's ever gotten a clear picture -- criminal-victims are not believed -- etc.

I think this is actually an entirely original take.  I can't ever remember seeing an Old-Batman, Young-Superman story before -- and I have to say, I like the idea.

after 3 pages of snack discussions, I'm assuming it's OK to discuss this in this thread
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sindyr

Quote from: Matt Treck on August 07, 2014, 12:13:19 AM
Movie was outstanding, hilarious.

And Guardians of the Galaxy was not just funny, movie had great heart as well.

MattTreck

Quote from: Ohioknight on August 07, 2014, 01:51:52 AM
While we're thumb-twiddling since things are still "quiet for a bit" --

I was very interested to hear that Affleck-Batman is INDEED intended to be a much older Batman than Superman -- apparently in Batman/Superman Batman will have been Battling the underworld in semi-secret for 30 years and is thought to be an urban legend -- nobody's ever gotten a clear picture -- criminal-victims are not believed -- etc.

I think this is actually an entirely original take.  I can't ever remember seeing an Old-Batman, Young-Superman story before -- and I have to say, I like the idea.

after 3 pages of snack discussions, I'm assuming it's OK to discuss this in this thread

The underworld bit is new to me but I would consider him to be older in The Dark Knight Returns comic/animated films, in which he also fights Superman. But I have no idea how old he actually is in those, just basing it off of the way he was drawn.

Ohioknight

Quote from: sindyr on August 07, 2014, 12:02:40 AM
By the way, Guardians of the Galaxy was quite good. Excellent, in fact.

Terrific film -- Marvel Studios is really batting them out of the park. 

I wonder if there will be more "tone"-clash problems/issues going forward.  Marvel's "Space" society is unabashedly SILLY (as it is in the comics) and that world doesn't REALLY fit well with the world of Winter Soldier/SHIELD/Iron Man or even Thor (I, for one, found the silly costumes and makeup in the Collector's place rather dissonant in the Thor Dark World stinger).

Still, I'm certainly not betting against them based on this exceptional record
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Ohioknight

Quote from: Matt Treck on August 07, 2014, 02:04:54 AM
The underworld bit is new to me but I would consider him to be older in The Dark Knight Returns comic/animated films, in which he also fights Superman. But I have no idea how old he actually is in those, just basing it off of the way he was drawn.

Oh in Dark Knight he's old -- but Clark is the same age as him (roughly) -- notice the elderly Perry White and late-middle aged Lana and Jimmy.  The point there is that Clark is that old and doesn't LOOK that old -- Miller is revving up the Bruce Wayne super-powers envy

Its the Old Bats/Young Superman take that's new -- I'm wondering if they're going for almost a "Batman Beyond" dynamic with Clark as Terry
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Quote from: Shadowe on August 06, 2014, 11:55:19 PM
Blaster t-shirt, on the back:

If you can read this... I need a Wakie.

I laughed. Out loud.
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MattTreck

Quote from: Ohioknight on August 07, 2014, 02:14:57 AM
Oh in Dark Knight he's old -- but Clark is the same age as him (roughly) -- notice the elderly Perry White and late-middle aged Lana and Jimmy.  The point there is that Clark is that old and doesn't LOOK that old -- Miller is revving up the Bruce Wayne super-powers envy

Its the Old Bats/Young Superman take that's new -- I'm wondering if they're going for almost a "Batman Beyond" dynamic with Clark as Terry


Oooh gotcha, yeah that's interesting.