I've never actually eaten passion fruit. Which is strange because I've eaten a lot of other weird exotic fruits. Star fruit, dragon fruit, lychee, longan, guava, persimmon, mangosteen. Even durian, which is know is pretty horrifying to a lot of people.
It's very hard to describe the flavor. It's very tangy and tropical. I think it's very aptly named, because it's easily the most lush and sexiest fruit flavor I can think of. I've had almost everything you mentioned, except for longan and durian, which I will try the minute I have the opportunity.
Longan is pretty similar to lychee, with a tendency to be less tart and more...melon-y? (I'm not even sure I know exactly what I mean by that.) You aren't missing out on too much there.
You are missing out on quite a bit when it comes to durian, but that might not be a bad thing based on how some people react to it. It is genuinely impossible to describe, with people comparing its flavor to everything from sweet custard to onions to steaming garbage to everything in between and all of them at the same time. So, uh, let me know how that goes for you.
Here's another one for me: Final Fantasy X-2. Feel free to laugh now.
Once you get past the rather "girl power" and the J-Pop inspired soundtrack, it's an excellent game. It encourages folks to go for the completion, and it does offer a bit of a decision in the story. It does have the best use of the job class system in the entire series imho, and I've played them all up until FFX-2 (I skipped VIII though.) Also, the story is just more than a "find my lost love" tale, which was a pleasant surprise the first time I played X-2.
It gets into an intriguing concept. What happens when, after a 1000 years, the Big Bad is dead? The end of a millennia of a strict theocratic rule, when the religion turned out to be a lie. What would that do to politics, remaining religious beliefs and a newfound acceptance for a different culture? For once, a game actually answers that question and you do have to work for a completely happy ending. Oh and of course we have to save the world again from a different Big Bad. Like that's a spoiler.
Most of Chapter 4 can kiss my pucker though. Watching those sphere scenes are boooring.
Now why would you do that? Aside from one cringeworthy twist, the story was quite good, and the gameplay enjoyable. In the end, I think I ended up liking it more than X, X-2, and XII.
Now why would you do that? Aside from one cringeworthy twist, the story was quite good, and the gameplay enjoyable. In the end, I think I ended up liking it more than X, X-2, and XII.
My main problem with VIII is that none of the characters in your main party really stuck out to me. The whole time, I just found myself just pining for the next Laguna dream sequence. Also, the fact that the most effective way to go through that game is "don't level up; keep everyone at critical HP" annoyed me.
Here's another one for me: Final Fantasy X-2. Feel free to laugh now.
Once you get past the rather "girl power" and the J-Pop inspired soundtrack, it's an excellent game. It encourages folks to go for the completion, and it does offer a bit of a decision in the story. It does have the best use of the job class system in the entire series imho, and I've played them all up until FFX-2 (I skipped VIII though.) Also, the story is just more than a "find my lost love" tale, which was a pleasant surprise the first time I played X-2.
It gets into an intriguing concept. What happens when, after a 1000 years, the Big Bad is dead? The end of a millennia of a strict theocratic rule, when the religion turned out to be a lie. What would that do to politics, remaining religious beliefs and a newfound acceptance for a different culture? For once, a game actually answers that question and you do have to work for a completely happy ending. Oh and of course we have to save the world again from a different Big Bad. Like that's a spoiler.
Most of Chapter 4 can kiss my pucker though. Watching those sphere scenes are boooring.
I actually liked the whole changing dress/job in the middle of a fight thing.
Lightning Returns does the same thing only, in my clearly unbiased opinion, better cos Lightning. Just ignore the fact that I haven't actually played Lightning Returns yet.
I just don't like Yuna. I have no idea why but I don't.
Urge to play FFX is strong now. Don't care if everyone else i know hates it, it was my first FF game darn it. I'm gonna sulk about not having it for minutes now. Minutes!
Speaking of games i have zero idea why but I want to waste my money on a Monster High game for the 360, it looks repetitive as all heck but I want it so badly. I blame the puns they're pulling me in and using black-magic to make me give them my money instead on something else I wouldn't need to use the 'it's for my 8 year old cousin' excuse on at the store.
I'm not sure it really counts, because it's clearly one of the best things ever but:
Thunderbirds is totally awesome... and I'm still annoyed that when they recently brought back the series a couple years ago, it was with CG characters rather than puppets and model work.
Seriously, why are both telly and film afraid to admit that practical effects are just plain better?
Does it count if you don't actually think whatever it is was bad?
I really liked the "let's go back to the time of the dinosaurs so we can bring in resources from the past because we f'd up our planet" show Terra Nova. Sure, I did think the dino fx, when they appeared, were a bit bad, but all of the human stuff was great. I mainly watched it for the family, and Stephen Lang as the head military commander. It was panned in reviews, lambasted in various comment threads, and only rarely did I see remarks by people who liked the show for what it was: an excuse to watch attractive people survive in the primordial wilderness, with a dash of familial cuteness to break up the tension.
Alien vs. Predator is another one. The female protagonist makes the movie for me: a successor worthy of Ellen Ripley, my favorite female protagonist of all time. I'm not crazy about the other Predator movies aside from the first, but I did like their depiction in this film. In addition, the link to my favorite space horror franchise was pretty well done (at least, I thought so).
Terra Nova had a great premise and even if sometimes the storylines and acting wasn't the best, it really was starting to hit it's stride when it was cancelled. Even worse that it only got a season when you have things now like the 100, which is the exact same show (only with even more annoying teenagers) and people can't get enough of it.
I have to admit, that AvP is a terrible film but there's something about it I can't help but enjoy. It's kind of like a less popular Independence Day, a film that has rather thin characters, dumb decisions and a goofy plot, but somehow makes you nonetheless just want to sit and watch it.
For similar reasons, that's why Deep Rising is ones of my favourite movies, because it's a horror movie that doesn't take itself at all seriously and isn't afraid to have fun with it's premise and the characters.
Stargate Universe was a show that was just starting to get good when it was cancelled, despite the first season making the mistake of thinking it was Battlestar when it was more like Voyager. I have no idea how they could have continued the show because it only really got a slightly nebulous plot in Season 2, but it'd have nice to have had some idea how it might have ended. Though I'd rather we had two more seasons to wrap up Atlantis than have SGU replace it and ultimately go nowhere.
Still, at least SGU getting cancelled meant Ming-Na Wen was free to do Agents of Shield and Robert Carlyle could be in Once Upon A Time, so swings and roundabouts.
I mean... that's cool guys, whatever floats your boat.
Donk, can I join you in the shame box?
I've also binged that show for a good solid month on Netflix and and... I liked it.
I shouldn't tho, it's embarrassing but I do and I must return to it.
Like on paper I should hate it, but I weirdly like it. We can both feel awful about this at least, that's comforting aha.
Exactly! It isn't the sort of going I would usually go for.. But somehow, I enjoy it. I guess I like the idea of a bunch of dumb girly teenagers being messed lol
Exactly! It isn't the sort of going I would usually go for.. But somehow, I enjoy it. I guess I like the idea of a bunch of dumb girly teenagers being messed lol
Some of the blackmailing is pretty funny, agreed! xD
Also Donk have you been watching OITNB? I need that show back in my life soon.
I know right?
It's on my list. I'm watching all of Vikings again and still need to watch season 5 of Game of Thrones.
I never watched Vikings but heard good things. Season 5 of GoT was okay, kinda getting tired of it now tho. I will still watch the new season, need to be in the loop lol.
My IQ dropped 50 points watching that **** but I laughed my ass off hearing him explain how Terry Bollea, the man himself, doesn't have a 10 inch penis but the Hulk Hogan character does.
The motherfucker even quoted his own theme music ffs.
^ It took a bit, but they finally posted a response to the verdict. As expected, they play the downtrodden journalist, victim card. It's disgusting, it really is. What is a shame is that there is, and can be, some really good content on that site, and on all of the networked sites, but it gets weighed down by all of the other crap. Unfortunately, all of the good content likely gets paid for by the dreck. Such is the world we live in.
Back to the topic... I would say that the comments sections on sites like Gawker, and sister sites, are a guilty pleasure. They can also be quite hilarious in their absurdity, and informative, particularly those persons who post of their own life experiences to offer perspective in a given article.
Although their application is sometimes hypocritical (releasing the Hogan tape versus lambasting 'The Fappening'), they do tend to lean toward the social justice warriory end of the scale, so I get a considerable amount of news from there, particularly Jezebel, relating to certain issues I'm interested in: women, PoC, LGBT, etc.
I read Lifehacker regularly, so I'd be disappointed to see that go, but honestly any good content that's on any of the network's websites is just not worth it compared to the trash they produce. Between 'Gawker stalker,' the Coca-Cola and 'brands are not your friends' disaster, the disgusting Condé Nast CFO extortion piece, the celebrity nudes double standard, and the article that compared the situation of farm chickens to what slaves in the US went through, I think there's little that could redeem them. (Oh and let's not forget about the writer who's sniffing poppers and having sex in Disneyland bathrooms trying to make sweeping generalisations about gay men based on his life...)
Also, please lifehacker, stop posting those hottest articles features with (click bait) links to jezebel and gawker, so I can stop going there and getting so angry.
Anyway, another guilty pleasure - Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
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