Ask a forumer anything...

[Prophet42 1,502]

No, don't wear watches.

 

Do you wear a watch?

[Schulmanator 5,787]

I do. Comes in handy.

 

Got any fun travel plans?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Three weeks at the in-laws from tomorrow, then a flight home to the US.  First time back in over 4 years.

 

What's the longest time you've been away from home?

[RipRap 4,400]

If I still consider the Philippines as my home country, it's been around 2 years and 6 months. Before that trip back in 2012, it was around 5 years. Now in Winnipeg, the longest that I have been away is 3 weeks (in Minneapolis at that time).

What is your favourite attraction at a theme park and why?

[jmsepe 2,039]

I don't like theme parks or any parks for that matter but I wouldn't mind spending all the time atop the Ferris Wheel provided it has two good views, the panoramic view at the top and the view of the person I am with in the cabin. 

 

What do you think of cosplaying?

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Good, just too pricey for me to do!

What was the last thing you dressed up as? (for a party, Halloween)

[Dazzyls 576]

Halloween is not very big here and I don't like carnaval, so the last time I dressed up as someone or something was more than 3 years ago and I forgot it (fortunately)

Have you ever given money to UNICEF or the WWF or something like those?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I've given money to various charitable causes over the years, but generally in insignificant amounts.  I'm pretty poor and now have three kids to worry about so every last yen needs to stretch as far as I can make it.

 

What's your retirement plan?  (mine is work until I die)

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Win the lottery and get a 24K gold plated beach house! (I wish)

 

 

What trait(s) do your friends have in common with each other and/or you?

[C4The_Architect 64]

We are all poor.

What do yo think of Vladimir Putin?

[Dazzyls 576]

Putout

If you must eat 100 McDonald's cheeseburgers in one day or only eat sauerkraut the rest of your life, which would you choose?

[timmie 988]

I dislike both options and I am very sure both will kill you. But I'll go for the cheeseburgers.

 

What... is your quest?

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Good question. I don't have a specific one but I do try to ensure my choices help me to lead a meaningful and impactful life.

 

What activities make you happy?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Hanging out with my family on a relaxing, sunny day, writing, driving, drinking green tea, listening to Led Zeppelin or the White Stripes, playing old video games, writing.

 

Do you like any old music?  If not, why not?  If yes, what do you like and why?

[Dazzyls 576]

What is old? Do you mean 90s music or 1600s music? I do like some almost ancient songs from Bach for example, but not that I listen to it all day.

Which movie music made you cry?

[Odainsaker 2,135]

Most recently it was "Hotaru" (「蛍」"Firefly") by Southern All Stars, which was used as the ending theme to the kamikaze war drama "Eien no Zero" (「永遠の0」"The Eternal Zero").  Waah, I'm still moved to samurai tears...waaah, Okada-kun!  The portentious music of doom as Zeroes piloted by mere teenagers run futile death dives and as the carrier Akagi dramatically blows up was also hauntingly evocative.  Samurai Tears!  Japanese audiences in 2013 were reportedly moved enough to make the controversial film among their all-time highest grossing live-action flicks.  All those middle-aged housewives weeping for V6 boy bander Okada Jun'ichi...waaah...err, hey, wait a minute...!!!

Also always inducing tear flow is the climactic scene and theme music ending the "The Joy Luck Club" as young Chinese-American daughter June takes the place of her deceased refugee mother Suyuan to meet her long-lost elder sisters who had been mistakenly abandoned as infants to the upheavals of wartorn China.  A postwar family reunion catharsis on the old Shanghai waterfront scored to Chinese instrumentals.  Waaah, sister...our family!

What were to you the most beautiful movie soundtracks?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Hm...  I think that the score to Ponyo was excellent, a breezy, beautiful set of music to go along with that stupid, trite Ponyo song those kids sang in every commercial for the next five damned years.  Pixar's Up was great, too.  Certain sections of that score can bring me to tears without even watching the movie, and that's really saying something.  I only really watch superhero movies any more these days, so I'm not sure what else has a beautiful score.

 

What Pixar movie do you like the best?  Why?

[TheCjm1999 11]

I don't know, to be honest. All the early Pixar movies I grew up with were really good, so I don't have a particular favourite. Although if I had to choose, it would have to be either Toy Story or Finding Nemo. 

 

What is your favourite childhood movie?

[Prophet42 1,502]

I didn't see too many movies when I was a child.  One of my favorite movies that my children have seen is The Incredibles. Does that count.

 

Have you abandoned SC4 and moved over to Cities: Skylines yet?  ( I have not).

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Nope. Still SC4 100%

 

 

How do you see SC4 vs CSL?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Eventually, SC4 is going to be lost to the past.  Maybe C:SL is the game to put it to rest, but I don't know.  I don't want to get it if I have to have a *sigh* Steam account.  Same reason I haven't gotten Civ V or their new space game, even though I really want to try them out.  I'm a gaming dinosaur, though (and pessimistic about it to boot), so I'm probably the wrong person to ask to speculate on this.

 

What are your thoughts on modern gaming versus the way things used to be before full internet integration?

[RipRap 4,400]

Hate the system. Most games today are entirely dependent on the Internet. I miss gems where I can play games by myself and not get bothered with other people.

What are your thoughts on your old laptop/PC?

[Dazzyls 576]

It was OK, until it broke.

 

When did you get your first computer?

[The Avatar 1,089]

I think I was around 10-11 at the time.

Did you do anything for Star Wars Day yesterday?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Star Wars Day was two days ago for me.  I watched some Superman: The Animated Series with my kids.

 

What animated series do you find the most interesting?  Why?

[Odainsaker 2,135]

The space war opera "Legend of the Galactic Heroes," an OVA series based off the novels, left me amazed. As a fan of history, I enjoyed how they managed to weave the Romance of the Three Kingdoms with the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, World War II, Vietnam, and even Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War. The slow naval space battles were set to Wagner and other mighty pieces of the Romantic period. They have perhaps too cynical a view of the corrupt decline and fall of Western Liberal Democracy, but it was amusing that such an old anime somehow foresaw an http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78juY_OcxrI. South Vietnam had not to long ago fallen, South Korea was under a new military coup, and Reagan and Thatcher were coming to the fore when this show first came out. I had to take a traumatic break halfway through the series when a certain key character was shockingly assassinated and overturned all our expectations for the war.

Your most despised animated series? Why?

[Fantozzi 4,067]

"Arupusu no shōjo Haiji" by HaijiIsao Takahata (hope I spelled it right). Why making Fräulein Rottenmeier so evil?

 

 

Did you ever invent a dish by your own (without using a cocking book or a learned recipe)? If yes - how did you call it?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Nope. I've stolen everything I've made from those around me, plus I don't cook much, I hate it.  I do love doing dishes to 80s metal, though.

 

What are you up to today?

[Prophet42 1,502]

It is raining outside, so all my outside plans are shot.  Probably cleaning the basement (which is the center of entropy of the universe right now).

 

Do you have a plan B?

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

For what? I usually work out everything so there's no plan needed...

 

What have you been doing for the last three weeks I wasn't here D: