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Saw the basic purple theme right away but only the letter homonym half, not the tennis part (so kayfabe initially got mixed in). I don't think "deserve" starts with a "dee" sound anyway, more like a "dih" which makes the category kind of iffy ("beset" has the same issue). Green was relatively obvious but had some overlap with blue (with "face"), and then blue was also pretty straightforward but I'd never heard of jobber. So I was trying to make these 3 categories work that I had 3/4 for each. Once green got done I saw the tennis part and put it together
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At this point I feel like the white folks stereotype in the US has shifted to an extreme dichotomy with very little overlap: you're either a spice head like Sean Evans and pretty much everything up until Da Bomb level (not personally tried that one but extract sauces in general just taste like metallic death with no redeeming flavor qualities) can feel hot and even uncomfortable but it's not ruining your entire meal or day, and then you've still got those who think anything more than black pepper is straight up hellfire.
More sumo fans. Of course then I probably wouldn't be putting in the effort to do daily match recaps, so at least it's inspired me to create more content, which lets me talk more with the fans we do have.
I don't think Japan spice levels are regional, it's just that actual spicy food is more widely available in cosmopolitan areas. Traditional Japanese food has basically zero spiciness outside of stuff like wasabi, which is a different kind of spicy that kicks through your nose and is gone in moments, or Japanese pepper, which makes your lips tingle but doesn't affect your tongue very much. Their chilis that get used in the spice mixes called ichimi or shichimi are a very low level of spice, and up until the past 10ish years, the hottest stuff you could commonly find was tabasco.
Because of that, you often ran into the same sort of issue in all places without a reputation for spicy, meaning that 98% of the restaurants will make nothing spicy no matter how hot you ask for it, and the other 2% will melt your face when you order the max level.
No he didn't, which is why I made the joke about Flavor Aid
Jones proposed "revolutionary suicide" by way of ingesting a powdered drink mix made from Flavor Aid, later misidentified as Kool-Aid, that was lethally laced with cyanide and other drugs.
Oh yeah, I probably should've put the link in, I'll put it up there now. It's from the Onion and the artist is satirizing conservative cartoonists, although I'm not sure if he took the specific drawing style from anyone in particular.
I always think the single random downvote on an uncontroversial comment or post is odd, so sometimes I check into those. A few times it's been from some account that has like 3 comments from 18 months ago and no activity since. Still scratching my head over those ones.
I think the joke was that Variety only used single quotation marks as their scare quotes because they're half-assing even taking a position on using scare quotes. Normally the US (Variety is a US company) uses double quotation marks unless it's a quote within a quote.
It's an interesting theory, but it's not so much the information density that bothers me, it's the explosion of graphics everywhere, which feels dumbed down to me in the other direction. Like on the rakuten page I linked, it's not good enough to list "3 awards" with bullet points and a small graphic, they need 2 screens worth of huge text next to trophies and stars. It's like they don't trust their customers to read something unless it's got giant text the size you'd find in books for literal toddlers and exciting or cutesy graphics to grab your attention. I get standing out in marketing, but it feels unfocused, like they couldn't decide on the couple things to highlight so you have to scroll past more than a dozen flashy banners to just click on the thing you're already on the page to buy.
On a separate somewhat related note, the literalness or overexplanation of the information also feels too much. Like they can't just have a simple title for a movie, manga, or webpage, they have to give a synopsis of the work in the title. Like how Pixar's Up becomes "Old Man Carl's Flying House". Or a site about the history of chocolate isn't just "History of chocolate and cocoa", it becomes "What's the history of chocolate? Also an explanation about the origins of cocoa". There's no extra info in that title, it's just longer.
I get that it's largely cultural, but if I could posit a theory it might just be like that because it's always been like that, rooted in how Japan is so slow to change. Ad company shacho rejects ads that don't barf colors because that's what he saw in ads when he was growing up. If I could make a somewhat skewed analogy, US TV shows through the 2000s had laugh tracks, but now if a show does that it feels lowbrow, almost bordering on insulting.
Ah, I see we're using the "Fuck You" silverware collection tonight
Michael Keaton on SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wyzKUmlw5c
::: spoiler spoiler The pronunciation half was crap, but at least you could get it from the tennis half I suppose
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struggled with this one
::: spoiler spoiler Saw the basic purple theme right away but only the letter homonym half, not the tennis part (so kayfabe initially got mixed in). I don't think "deserve" starts with a "dee" sound anyway, more like a "dih" which makes the category kind of iffy ("beset" has the same issue). Green was relatively obvious but had some overlap with blue (with "face"), and then blue was also pretty straightforward but I'd never heard of jobber. So I was trying to make these 3 categories work that I had 3/4 for each. Once green got done I saw the tennis part and put it together
:::
At this point I feel like the white folks stereotype in the US has shifted to an extreme dichotomy with very little overlap: you're either a spice head like Sean Evans and pretty much everything up until Da Bomb level (not personally tried that one but extract sauces in general just taste like metallic death with no redeeming flavor qualities) can feel hot and even uncomfortable but it's not ruining your entire meal or day, and then you've still got those who think anything more than black pepper is straight up hellfire.
But corporate daddy HBO is so much more ironic, no?
More sumo fans. Of course then I probably wouldn't be putting in the effort to do daily match recaps, so at least it's inspired me to create more content, which lets me talk more with the fans we do have.
I don't think Japan spice levels are regional, it's just that actual spicy food is more widely available in cosmopolitan areas. Traditional Japanese food has basically zero spiciness outside of stuff like wasabi, which is a different kind of spicy that kicks through your nose and is gone in moments, or Japanese pepper, which makes your lips tingle but doesn't affect your tongue very much. Their chilis that get used in the spice mixes called ichimi or shichimi are a very low level of spice, and up until the past 10ish years, the hottest stuff you could commonly find was tabasco.
Because of that, you often ran into the same sort of issue in all places without a reputation for spicy, meaning that 98% of the restaurants will make nothing spicy no matter how hot you ask for it, and the other 2% will melt your face when you order the max level.
No he didn't, which is why I made the joke about Flavor Aid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
Because Flavor Aid wasn't popular enough for most people to remember it?
Oh yeah, I probably should've put the link in, I'll put it up there now. It's from the Onion and the artist is satirizing conservative cartoonists, although I'm not sure if he took the specific drawing style from anyone in particular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickos
I always think the single random downvote on an uncontroversial comment or post is odd, so sometimes I check into those. A few times it's been from some account that has like 3 comments from 18 months ago and no activity since. Still scratching my head over those ones.
Oh man, the rare triple entendre
Guess you never ran across that kids book from the 70s. Apparently it also became a Seattle mascot. Anyway I never thought of it as a fancy word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheedle
I think the joke was that Variety only used single quotation marks as their scare quotes because they're half-assing even taking a position on using scare quotes. Normally the US (Variety is a US company) uses double quotation marks unless it's a quote within a quote.
That's just 80s hair
It's an interesting theory, but it's not so much the information density that bothers me, it's the explosion of graphics everywhere, which feels dumbed down to me in the other direction. Like on the rakuten page I linked, it's not good enough to list "3 awards" with bullet points and a small graphic, they need 2 screens worth of huge text next to trophies and stars. It's like they don't trust their customers to read something unless it's got giant text the size you'd find in books for literal toddlers and exciting or cutesy graphics to grab your attention. I get standing out in marketing, but it feels unfocused, like they couldn't decide on the couple things to highlight so you have to scroll past more than a dozen flashy banners to just click on the thing you're already on the page to buy.
On a separate somewhat related note, the literalness or overexplanation of the information also feels too much. Like they can't just have a simple title for a movie, manga, or webpage, they have to give a synopsis of the work in the title. Like how Pixar's Up becomes "Old Man Carl's Flying House". Or a site about the history of chocolate isn't just "History of chocolate and cocoa", it becomes "What's the history of chocolate? Also an explanation about the origins of cocoa". There's no extra info in that title, it's just longer.
I get that it's largely cultural, but if I could posit a theory it might just be like that because it's always been like that, rooted in how Japan is so slow to change. Ad company shacho rejects ads that don't barf colors because that's what he saw in ads when he was growing up. If I could make a somewhat skewed analogy, US TV shows through the 2000s had laugh tracks, but now if a show does that it feels lowbrow, almost bordering on insulting.
mmm, tang...
If dino DNA existed in amber mosquitos in 93, I wonder if cloning or CGI would've been cheaper