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Dec. 23rd, 2012 06:00 amBrian drove me and Marie to this restaurant called El Dorado yesterday. There, I ordered an Alex BBQ burger, complete with pulled pork, cheddar cheese, bacon, and jalapenos (the last of which I removed before eating), along with a dish of macaroni and cheese (which I would be too full to consume after eating my burger).
While we were waiting, Brian told Marie about what Starbound is going to be about, but mistook Lucky Star for it. He told her that "Lucky Star" is about these "four" girls with beehive hairdos that enable them to use psychokinetic powers to fight aliens with. I explained him that that's what the fic is going to be about, and that the actual anime is just about their much more ordinary lives in high school, and even proposed including a DVD set of the series if I ever do complete the fic and compile it into a physical form for him.
(I put "four" in quotes, because while Tsukasa is one of the core characters and will travel with the other three, her hair is too short to be updone. Also, six others are going to join them along the way, so both the fic and the anime would be about them in the same way that Earthbound is about Ness. And finally, he also told Marie that I was planning to make some kind of game, but I should mention that there's no guarantee that such a thing will occur. That will only happen if the fic ever gets finished, and if Brian actually is able to work on such a project.)
Brian also asked if the girls would form their own band, kinda like the Runaway Five in Earthbound. I asked him what brought that up of all things, and he told me that the concept of their hair being updone reminds him of the B-52's (at least in the past, according to TV Tropes & Idioms). I told him that the last episode of Lucky Star revolves around a cheerleading number (which was actually Patricia's idea), Mother 3 has the DCMC (Desperado Crash Mambo Combo) as its equivalent to the R5, and in Earthbound Zero, the player characters themselves get to karaoke late in the game.
(In any case, yeah, that does sound like a good idea for someone to suggest in-universe, be it Konata or someone the party meets along the way. Also, I did toy with the idea of the same cheerleading performance that everyone did in canon taking place again during the epilogue, but pretty much decided against it. Something could still happen during the main story, though.)
At some point, we moved on, and Brian told Marie about the first episode of Nichijou that he, I, and Talia watched together last summer (in particular, about Nano's first scene, where she chases a cat, runs into someone, and triggers a nuclear explosion that doesn't actually destroy anything). She told Brian about that one scene (much later in the show) where Mai's dogs surround Yuko, Mio, Hakase, and Sakamoto, and bite the former two of them so hard that they shoot epic laser beams out of their mouths while screaming (something I showed her and Mom during her last visit, after Mabel bit her so hard she burst into tears).
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That burger was so filling that I was barely able to eat any of my mac & cheese, or even dinner later on (although I did have ice cream just to cool my mouth down). Brian and Marie had me pay $18.40 in debit while they left a cash TIP. We then drove to a nearby shopping center to look for Christmas gifts in Target and BestBuy.
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Last night, I showed Brian that list, but he simply scrolled down to The Five That Suck, not wanting to read that whole entry in one go. There was that entry and also that list of PK powers I recently posted on this blog, and he let me pull both things up on his laptop.
While I was at it, I attempted to set him up with a new password for his account on this site. After being unable to enter his current email address, I asked him what email account he used when he first established his blog, but he couldn't remember. He proposed creating a new account so that he could leave signed entries, but I told him that if he doesn't actually plan on writing to it, then there would be no point. Marie even said from her room (just adjacent to the dining room, where we were at the moment) that that's actually one of those things that people would prefer not to dig up (and I might have mentioned before that she had already outright terminated her own account on this site).
Anyway, it's no big deal, really. I don't have a problem with unsigned comments; it's just that I found it kinda weird when Brian commented on several entries two months ago without signing them, even though he did leave a signed entry much earlier on despite having stopped writing to his own blog even by that point. I assumed he still would have the password, but then again, it probably should come as no surprise if he left a different computer that he no longer uses to remember it for him and assumed he'd remember it himself, or something like that.
While we were waiting, Brian told Marie about what Starbound is going to be about, but mistook Lucky Star for it. He told her that "Lucky Star" is about these "four" girls with beehive hairdos that enable them to use psychokinetic powers to fight aliens with. I explained him that that's what the fic is going to be about, and that the actual anime is just about their much more ordinary lives in high school, and even proposed including a DVD set of the series if I ever do complete the fic and compile it into a physical form for him.
(I put "four" in quotes, because while Tsukasa is one of the core characters and will travel with the other three, her hair is too short to be updone. Also, six others are going to join them along the way, so both the fic and the anime would be about them in the same way that Earthbound is about Ness. And finally, he also told Marie that I was planning to make some kind of game, but I should mention that there's no guarantee that such a thing will occur. That will only happen if the fic ever gets finished, and if Brian actually is able to work on such a project.)
Brian also asked if the girls would form their own band, kinda like the Runaway Five in Earthbound. I asked him what brought that up of all things, and he told me that the concept of their hair being updone reminds him of the B-52's (at least in the past, according to TV Tropes & Idioms). I told him that the last episode of Lucky Star revolves around a cheerleading number (which was actually Patricia's idea), Mother 3 has the DCMC (Desperado Crash Mambo Combo) as its equivalent to the R5, and in Earthbound Zero, the player characters themselves get to karaoke late in the game.
(In any case, yeah, that does sound like a good idea for someone to suggest in-universe, be it Konata or someone the party meets along the way. Also, I did toy with the idea of the same cheerleading performance that everyone did in canon taking place again during the epilogue, but pretty much decided against it. Something could still happen during the main story, though.)
At some point, we moved on, and Brian told Marie about the first episode of Nichijou that he, I, and Talia watched together last summer (in particular, about Nano's first scene, where she chases a cat, runs into someone, and triggers a nuclear explosion that doesn't actually destroy anything). She told Brian about that one scene (much later in the show) where Mai's dogs surround Yuko, Mio, Hakase, and Sakamoto, and bite the former two of them so hard that they shoot epic laser beams out of their mouths while screaming (something I showed her and Mom during her last visit, after Mabel bit her so hard she burst into tears).
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That burger was so filling that I was barely able to eat any of my mac & cheese, or even dinner later on (although I did have ice cream just to cool my mouth down). Brian and Marie had me pay $18.40 in debit while they left a cash TIP. We then drove to a nearby shopping center to look for Christmas gifts in Target and BestBuy.
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Last night, I showed Brian that list, but he simply scrolled down to The Five That Suck, not wanting to read that whole entry in one go. There was that entry and also that list of PK powers I recently posted on this blog, and he let me pull both things up on his laptop.
While I was at it, I attempted to set him up with a new password for his account on this site. After being unable to enter his current email address, I asked him what email account he used when he first established his blog, but he couldn't remember. He proposed creating a new account so that he could leave signed entries, but I told him that if he doesn't actually plan on writing to it, then there would be no point. Marie even said from her room (just adjacent to the dining room, where we were at the moment) that that's actually one of those things that people would prefer not to dig up (and I might have mentioned before that she had already outright terminated her own account on this site).
Anyway, it's no big deal, really. I don't have a problem with unsigned comments; it's just that I found it kinda weird when Brian commented on several entries two months ago without signing them, even though he did leave a signed entry much earlier on despite having stopped writing to his own blog even by that point. I assumed he still would have the password, but then again, it probably should come as no surprise if he left a different computer that he no longer uses to remember it for him and assumed he'd remember it himself, or something like that.