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asked by IdahoniklixÉtienne Daho, a french singer/songwriter who specialies in synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles.
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Self-discipline! Man. If I could make myself work more and get distracted less easily, maybe I'd be making some money!
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Get up early, because days feel longer. unfortunately, early for me is 9am. :( I'd love to be one of those people who can go to bed late and get up for the sunrise.
Maybe when I can have pet cats. They're pretty good at waking you up at 7am for food. -
Honey roasted peanuts, i think. Chocolate pecans would be nice, but the pecan taste goes better with light brown things like maple and coffee rather than dark brown things like chocolate.
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I should, shouldn't I? XD I hadn't thought of doing one because it seemed like a webcomic-artist-specific thing, but I can always just upload it elsewhere =D
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GABE NEWELL AND HAYAO MIYAZAKI OMG
I WOULD BE SO PRETTY
Eh, I dunno. The sort of person I want to be doesn't work as a character, and isn't particularly famous. -
asked by dotgif
Alyx regenerates health over time, which is why it's so hard to get her killed in-game; however, she only carries a pistol most of the time.
It depends how well-equipped Gordon is. If he's had full preparation (full health, amour and ammo for all weapons) then Gordon would win; if he only has one or two weapons, Alyx would. -
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With tea, custard tarts, closely followed by biscuits of some kind.
With coffee, cinnamon- or pecan-flavoured pastries, or chocolate if the former is not available.
Coffee, pastry, and a glass of orange juice is my all-time-favourite breakfast. How can you go wrong with a breakfast like that? -
I'm sorry, but I'm straight + engaged.
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I quite like silent protagonist types in games (Gordon Freeman, Link), but I'm not sure if they really count as characters. Well, Link's not really silent but you know what I mean.
Luffy from One Piece because he's so simple and direct. I think everyone in his world likes him for the same reason.
Spike from Cowboy Bebop because he's badass.
Having the opposite problem of the female question here, there are too many male characters that it's hard to pinpoint them.
Maybe Richard from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, because while he's similarly polite and inept as myself, he sort of finds himself as the book goes on. Wouldn't that be nice! -
My girlfriend wants me to put her here, but that would just make me look weird. Weirder.
Alyx Vance from HL2, just because she goes against most of the stereotypes about what a girl in a video game should be (while she is attractive, she doesn't dress like a hooker and she's obviously very intelligent).
Susan Death from Discworld, because Terry Pratchett, and also she's a similarly realistic woman to Alyx. In my experience, rounded female characters are usually written by female authors, but Susan goes against that.
It's worrying, because I'm finding it very hard to think of more. Worrying and sad, as a feminist. Maybe I just need to read more.
I'll say Rachael from Detective Conan(/Case Closed), because while she is in love with the main, male character, she could beat him up easily and has saved his life a few times. -
When I and Ruth went to Paris, and we walked across the city one evening to see Notre Dame and wound through all the old streets and past cafes and evreything. 'Nuff said.
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Quite mixed, I think. I really love digital paintings, and how you can make surreal, fantastic things look very realistically painted. I also really like well-done 3D work, and of course, cartoons.
Useful Link: My dA favourites http://bonzairob.deviantart.com/favourites/
Something about expression and fluidity in cartoony styles really fascinates me, and how something that objectively look so different from us actually reveals our deeper and more intense emotions.
http://hanime87.deviantart.com/
http://alexds1.deviantart.com/
http://www.teamfortress.com/
Digital painting is something I'm desperate to improve on. I want to be able to speedpaint concept art for P&R and also satisfy my own curiosity about some things like lighting and depth and scale and stuff. At the moment time's a problm but I'm going to try to dedicate myself to it more and let music and coding take a back seat, now I'm 99% done with university.
http://kyomu.deviantart.com/art/Dreams-Illustration-163115358
http://barukurii.deviantart.com/art/Beautiful-World-of-Ghibli-165085816
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/
http://voyager212.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1lzov9
3D work is somethign I'm getting more interested now thanks to P&R and my own experiments with 3D modeling. It's goddamn hard, and people who can create photorealistic scenes with it just blow me away. I just found this today: http://madmaximus83.deviantart.com/gallery/
This is being rendered in realtime (albeit in the Crysis engine) - to put that in perspective, I read today also that Pixar movies take an average of 7 hours per frame to render. That these beautiful; scenes are being rendered at 60 frames per second is mind-blowing.
Lastly, the world around me. I love this tiem of year (spring) because all the flowers come out and everything smells nice an suddenly mister sun peeps through the clouds and Coventry stops being quite so grey for a little while. Plant and animals, even the crazy and disgusting ones, are all beautiful and amazing.
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At 9am: nurr cofffeee braaainnnns.
Other times: I really like coffee but I got a bit addicted to it in high school, so I limit myself to 2 cups a day, max. But I have a big cup =D
Cup of choice: Douwe Egberts, gold roast. Instant coffee because I can't be bothered with an espresso machine.
I HATE fruity-tasting coffee. I dunno if that's rich roast or not-rich-roast or hickory or what, but bleh. Also, don't get Morrissons own-brand, it tastes like bacon.
Tea:
I drink craploads of tea, like a few litres a day. Mostly I stick to normalish tea (Clipper organic everyday, om nom), but I particularly like green tea with jasmine, and smoky teas like oolong and lapsang. It depends what's in the cupboard and whether I'm doing something that requires concentration, or relaxation.
Caffeinated soft drinks are usually disgusting and syrupy and bleh. And you wee them out in like half an hour. -
See also: the music question http://www.formspring.me/bonzairob/q/596440466
Probably true of all musicians, but what I listen to is what inspires me. Pieces with emotional attachment have more weight.
Jo Hisaichi, from the Studio Ghibli movies for orchestral work.
Debussy for emotional, ethereal pieces.
Bit Shifter and Anamanaguchi for bright, saturated chiptune work.
Beck (and Animal Collective to a lesser extent) for fun and intelligent ways of mixing electronic and acoustic techniques.
Koji Kondo for Mario and Zelda work (Hajime Wakai for Wind Waker).
Yoo Kanno for the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. THE SINGLE BEST soundtrack on any series ever, for the sheer mix of genres.
I'm sure there are many more that I listen to a lot but don't make a conscious dent, as it were (Ruth's usually playing a mix of Placebo and Regina Spektor and Phoenix Wright and stuff, for instance.)
Amusing note: My iTunes order-by-playcount has been hilariously skewed by my tastes as a teenager when I had few tracks I liked and played them all on repeat. Movies by alien Ant Farm is winning and I haven't listened to it in a year and a half. -
Ike wears more red and has shorter hair =D
Ike's MUCH slower. Like, oh look he's swinging his sword, I can get in a few hits before it lands on me. Or just down+B if I'm playing Lucario, for massive damage. -
Jesus, what a question. Literally greatest, Stockhausen wrote a piece for three orchestras, I think.
A few candidates I can't pick between:
Film: http://youtu.be/4Z-5ma8CQ8I - Kamisama Tachi from Spirited Away (Jo Hisaichi). Mostly from 1:00. Close second is The Dragon Boy (Ryuu No Shounen).
Video Games: http://youtu.be/lzNgndc9ySA Staff Credit from Zelda: Wind Waker, although probably only if you've played the game. (See also, http://youtu.be/ibkZdr-YPvo which brings tears to my eyes if I'm in the right mood.)
Other honorable mentions:
ChipTunes: http://youtu.be/N7bIMrNjMk8 Jetpack Blues, Sunset Hues. If you don't like this there's something wrong with you.
Rawk: Tenacious D, Tribute OR Beelzeboss. 'Nuff said.
Super Mario Galaxy also has a great OST, but I'm not as emotionally invested in it as I am Wind Waker, which leads me to this:
No Mozart or anything here? No Metallica or whatever? I'm not a big metal fan, or most rock/pop; but while the great composers' works are objectively brilliant, they don't emotionally connect with me the way the music above does. So to me, they're not as great.
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