The Syndicate

Yay questioning!

1) What are you most looking forward to in your teaching career?
2) What scares you the most about teaching?
3) Grossest ice cream flavor you've ever had and why?
4) What's a book you started reading but never finished and why?
5) How do you like your eggs?
6) What form would your Patronus take?
7) Soft or firm mattress?
8) Tea or coffee?
9) Favorite piece of world literature (not British or American) and why?
10) What show should I start watching next on Netflix or Hulu?

Much love for the Biggoron sword

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I always forget that key that's inside the center tower. It's so counter-intuitive.

(well now I'm not forgetting it anymore since I remember it even when I don't play the game )

And there's a neat trick for beating Dark Link without Din's Fire. Just turn off Z-target. He only fights well when you use it.

Duly noted! I've been playing the game so long that stuff like that slips my mind. Of course, I do enjoy knocking him in the face with the hammer when I remember

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Keys are stupid.

In games where you have the firepower of the Romanian army, you can't blow the door down. Or unscrew it. Or pry it open.

You need the key.

And in some cases, any key you find will work. What cut rate security system is this?

Have you seen the way they lock doors in Hyrule? It's almost amusing.

Don't even get me started on the "fences" and "trees" you can't pass. I can defeat a giant dragon, survive a miles-high drop, and come back from the dead, but I have to go around the fence to get to the castle

Metalmarsh89 wrote:To me, the Water Temple on Majora's Mask was far more confusing and difficult than the Water Temple on Ocarina of Time. But like you, I always forget a key or even two somewhere. Luckily, I made it out this time with all of the Gold Skulltula tokens on my first go, so I don't have to go back in there.

I think I hate every water temple, but that one just tops them all for suckitude.

MovingPictures07 wrote:More video game related questions!

- Favorite LoZ dungeon
- Least favorite LoZ dungeon
- Favorite LoZ boss
- Least favorite LoZ boss
- Favorite LoZ storyline
- Least favorite LoZ storyline

Woo hoo! I'm about to write you the nerdiest novel here, so bear with me.

1) My favorites are the Spirit Temple in OoT and Ganon's Castle in Twilight Princess. Spirit Temple, because this place was just…incredible. I loved the music (it was cool and kind of creepy but not too creepy), and the puzzles were fitting for the final temple. Twinrova was one of the most fun bosses of the game if not the best. I would often beat this temple before beating the Shadow Temple because I couldn’t wait to do it (also because I am a wimp, as I've mentioned before). I love Ganon's Castle in TP because it has so many different facets in different areas (outside being a master bowman and hunting with the wolf sense, inside going up multiple floors with both puzzle-y and fighting challenges. I love fighting the Darknuts in this game). Also, I'm a sucker for throwback music, and this one used a version of the Hyrule Castle music from A Link to the Past that progressed and became stronger as you moved through the castle. Freaking. Awesome.

2) Least favorite dungeons are the Water Temple from OoT, and Turtle Rock and Ganon's Castle in A Link to the Past. I'll discuss the latter first. I don't quit video games. I just don't. But Turtle Rock pisses me off so badly, and the last time I played ALttP, I accidentally went outside after getting past the part with the freaking Cane of Somaria paths in the dark (I needed magic for the final boss), and the prospect of doing it again made me want to destroy things. I convinced my brother to do it for me. And I have much hatred for Ganon's Castle. There is a room with torch lighting, floor razors, and a fucking Wallmaster, and I usually just quit the game because this room makes me so mad.

But oh, let me tell you about my pure loathing of the Water Temple. Fuck this place. Fuck. This. Place. Nothing about this place, save the chill music (and even that starts to piss me off after a while), is redeeming. The puzzles are not fun, I always forget like four keys, and I swear to God I have lowered and raised the water level 14 million times before I finally beat this god awful place. I almost die at Dark Link because I run out of Din’s Fire and forget to use my Hammer, and when I finally do open the boss door, I fight the game’s most unsatisfying boss fight. I can’t even hit Morpha more than once at a time. Fuck the Water Temple.

3) Favorite LoZ boss...Hmmm. TwinRova from OoT was fun. Zant from TP was fun. Ganon at the end of TP was mostly fun (I didn't care for the horseback chase much). I think my favorite bosses are ones with multiple stages that require very different skill sets (so, for example, while Stage 1 requires you to shoot him/her with the bow, Stage 2 requires pure swordplay, etc.). I like being able to stabbity stab stab at some point, too.

4) So with that being said, I don't care for bosses that only allow me one or two hits at a time, like Morpha, or ones that cause me to lose the sense of where I am in the area. I hate being chased by things I can't see so much, because I already can't see well in real life.

5) Favorite storyline is actually still The Wind Waker. I love the idea of the game being set in the far future, where the world of Hyrule that we knew while playing Ocarina of Time is lost underwater, and that Link (and the gamer) is slowly putting together a puzzle discovering these lost pieces of history. I also played this before I ruined my life with blessed myself by extensively studying literature for a living and essentially ruining the ending to any movie, book, or other storyline, so I was pleasantly surprised at the whole Tetra/Zelda thing. The only thing I didn't like was the ending, but that was before I realized there's actually other games that come after it story-wise.

6) I guess my least favorite is Link's Awakening, although I really enjoyed the game itself. The storyline was kinda boring, though, and I hate the owl because I hate being interrupted.

Keep those questions comin', people

MovingPictures07 wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Alright, Blooper, as a Zelda fan, who is your favorite Zelda character? Least favorite?

Ooh, always a tough one. We gon' get real specific here now.

For favorite character, it's a three-way tie between Midna, Zelda from Wind Waker (Tetra), and Zelda from Skyward Sword. Midna was a dark, sassy bitch who didn’t take crap from anyone and I loved her. Zelda from Wind Waker was a BADASS PIRATE CAPTAIN and actually helped Link fight Ganon for the first time (not just crying out from the sidelines every time he got hit). And Skyward Sword Zelda was also sassy, independent, and ambitious; she did what she needed to do to save Hyrule and needed Link to help her save the land, not herself.

Least favorite? Tingle. Fuck that creep.

Awesome answer. You definitely picked out the two best Zeldas, in my opinion.

I considered Midna as my avatar here at first but went with the Blooper (obviously). More mysterious. And more tentacular

MovingPictures07 wrote:Alright, Blooper, as a Zelda fan, who is your favorite Zelda character? Least favorite?

Ooh, always a tough one. We gon' get real specific here now.

For favorite character, it's a three-way tie between Midna, Zelda from Wind Waker (Tetra), and Zelda from Skyward Sword. Midna was a dark, sassy bitch who didn’t take crap from anyone and I loved her. Zelda from Wind Waker was a BADASS PIRATE CAPTAIN and actually helped Link fight Ganon for the first time (not just crying out from the sidelines every time he got hit). And Skyward Sword Zelda was also sassy, independent, and ambitious; she did what she needed to do to save Hyrule and needed Link to help her save the land, not herself.

Least favorite? Tingle. Fuck that creep.

Epignosis wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Ninja, who has been your favorite coworker?

Anyone but that asshole in M11.

Epignosis wrote:Ninja, who has been your sexiest coworker?

Anyone but that asshole in M11.

That poor old man who comes from Sandhoke?

Good thing I'm in M10.

I've never been able to get those rooms right ever since they switched the numbering

Hooray, questions! Bring it on

Golden wrote:Niju/ninja/blooper - Could you please explain the origins of each of your different names and nicknames here?

The actual username is from long-ago nerdiness from DBZ. The androids are named after numbers (Number 17, Number 18, etc.) and my favorite number is 29. So, my username is as follows in Japanese:
Ni = two
Juu = ten (nijuu = 20)
Kyu = nine
Gou = number-ish thing

Blooper, Bloops, Ninja Blooper, and any other variation comes from my avatar, which has always been a depiction of Blooper from Mario, and often a mixture of whatever alphabet soup people like to come up with based on the original name. When I first signed up, no one knew what to call me because I looked like a virus or InternetBot, so many settled for "Ninja Blooper." And here we are today

S~V~S wrote:Ninjajujube, where do you find your awesome seemingly endless array of squid avatars?

Mostly Google. However, it is notoriously hard to find pictures of Blooper typing that in to Google Images (you'll mostly get weird pictures of "bloopers" from shows), so I have to scroll through a search of "Mario Blooper," which is mostly random Mario stuff. I find some gems. My current avatar is actually from a t-shirt that I've desperately, desperately wanted for like a year now but haven't gotten around to buying.

Spacedaisy wrote:Ninja, obviously you know something about other languages, how many do you speak?

English, Spanish almost fluently, proficient in French, a teensy bit of Japanese (enough to recognize it and some familiar words/phrases but not enough to hold a conversation) and I dabble in language for its linguistic properties/descriptive grammar in general. If I had a superpower that wasn't an actual superpower, it'd be to speak and understand any language just so I could study it for its nuances. Oh, and communication with other people. I guess.

Epignosis wrote:Ninja, who has been your favorite coworker?

Anyone but that asshole in M11.

Epignosis wrote:Ninja, who has been your sexiest coworker?

Anyone but that asshole in M11.

I've never had savory oatmeal/porridge, but it looks interesting! I'd give it a shot.

And cats are awesome.

Greetings!

1) What is the ultimate breed of cat? You may combine breeds if necessary.
2) Do you play video games? If so, what's your favorite?
3) Do you cook? If so, what's your best dish? If not, what prevents you from cooking?
4) What's your favorite food that you couldn't be bothered to cook yourself?
5) Crunchy or creamy peanut butter?
6) What is the best fruit of all time?
7) What is the worst vegetable of all time?
8) What movie makes you cry?
9) Favorite childhood toy and why?
10) Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: i just bought a flute though, i look forward to annoying my neighbors.

What do you plan to do? Beat them with it? Parade around in their front lawn in nothing but your underwear doing "Thick as a Brick?"

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:6) Least favorite school subject and why?

english (hi Epi ). learning the mechanics of the language is cool, i can dig that. but the reading comprehension portions which forced me to analyze novels instead of merely read them (especially when unique interpretations were discouraged) were always infuriating.

Sounds like you had shitty English teachers. Analysis happens on its own if actually read the fucking novel.

And therein lies the problem - reading the fucking novel

But I, too, love the mechanics of language and linguistics! Funny thing was, my least favorite part of English classes was discussing interpretations of books when all I wanted to do was read them. And look at me now

You have ten appendages. I don't see the correlation. Do you read ten books at once?

Look, high school does some pretty fucked up things to ya, like lowering your self-esteem and causing an extra tentacle growth or two. I don't want to talk about it.

Epignosis wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: i just bought a flute though, i look forward to annoying my neighbors.

What do you plan to do? Beat them with it? Parade around in their front lawn in nothing but your underwear doing "Thick as a Brick?"

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:6) Least favorite school subject and why?

english (hi Epi ). learning the mechanics of the language is cool, i can dig that. but the reading comprehension portions which forced me to analyze novels instead of merely read them (especially when unique interpretations were discouraged) were always infuriating.

Sounds like you had shitty English teachers. Analysis happens on its own if actually read the fucking novel.

And therein lies the problem - reading the fucking novel

But I, too, love the mechanics of language and linguistics! Funny thing was, my least favorite part of English classes was discussing interpretations of books when all I wanted to do was read them. And look at me now

Hiya! I don't think any of these are repeats, but apologies if they are:

1) Do you like cartoons? What's your favorite?
2) Favorite toy as a kid?
3) Best musical instrument and why?
4) What extracurriculars, if any, did you participate in in high school?
5) Favorite school subject and why?
6) Least favorite school subject and why?
7) Worst book of all time?
8) Dark or milk chocolate?
9) Coolest animal and why?
10) Favorite type of food (like, ethnic or style) and why?

Damn I'm hungry now.

Hi, ika!

1) Favorite branch of science and why?
2) Favorite pseudoscience and why?
3) Favorite children's book?
4) If humans had tails, what animal tail would be the best for them to develop? Discuss.
5) What literary character is most like you?
6) If you were a Hogwarts professor, which subject would you teach and why?
7) Favorite mythical creature?
8) Do you like trivia?
9) Favorite descriptive word that begins with the letter "L"?
10) Most disgusting vermin, in your opinion.

That's all I got for now.

G-Man wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote: Worst book you have ever had the displeasure of being forced to read? To date there are only three books that I ever stopped reading and told myself I'd never finish them. The only one of the three that was assigned was On the Road. I can't stand Beatniks or Hippies. I couldn't stand the character of Dean Moriarty and still don't understand why people like him. To me, he came across as an arrogant know-it-all with little to no work ethic. I had to read the first part of this book for a Religion in Literature class in college. I also recall hating The Scarlet Letter in high school. Hawthorne's style just bugged me.


The nastiest two beers I've tasted have to be Coor's Light (putrid and weak) and Red Stripe (had an aftertaste that I swear tasted like sweat).

Based on these two answers, I've decided you are my spirit animal

On the Road made me angry, as well, and I was also not able to finish it. You said exactly what I think of that sorry excuse for a character, and I have also never understood why people are drawn to him.

Favorite breed of cat?
Favorite flavor of ice cream?
Favorite book you read in school?
Worst book you have ever had the displeasure of being forced to read?
Worst animal and why?
Least favorite planet in the solar system and why?
Do you cook? If so, what is your specialty?
What is your opinion on Marshmallow Peeps?
Best and worst beers?

Hello, Boomslang! I like asking the weird questions. Hope you don't mind

Favorite snack?

Favorite food that others might find disgusting?

TV show, movie, and/or song you are embarrassed to admit you love? (If you're not embarrassed, then something someone else would find "embarrassing," if that makes sense)

What is/are your family's country/countries of origin?

If you were an X-men mutant, what would your power be and why?

Favorite gameshow and why?

How do you deal with people's stupidity in real life?

Russtifinko wrote:
Wow good questions, Ninja! I thought everything had been asked already haha. Sorry I didn't really answer any of your questions, since I picked multiple for every favorite you asked.

Multiple favorites = always okay.

Except children. There can only be one favorite

What was your favorite high school subject? Least favorite?

What was your favorite book you were forced to read as a kid/teenager?

Favorite teacher and why?

Best beer ever? Worst?

Worst job you've ever had?

Favorite swear word?

Favorite dessert?

Elohcin wrote:Everyone should come to Ephraim's 3rd birthday party in May and hang out for the weekend.

And I suppose I can forgive you for your transgression, Canuck, since bills are important.

...

...This time.

(But for real, small world, everyone! How exciting )

Also:

Who is your favorite Shakespeare heroine? Least favorite?

In your opinion, what is the most disgusting popular American food?

What is your favorite swear word and why?

Cats or dogs?

Coffee or tea?

Carolina Blue or Duke Blue? (there is a correct answer to this. Choose wisely )

Canucklehead wrote:

juliets wrote:Very interesting story about being vegan. I am sliding toward vegetarian but I don't think I could go full vegan.

Are you from Canada Canuck or are you an American Canucks fan?
What part of Canada?
And where are you in school?
How much time do you have left?

Born and raised on Vancouver Island, so I come by my unfortunate fandom honestly.

I'm at school in the lovely/very strange little town of Durham, North Carolina. A very different place compared to Toronto, from whence I came here.

I'm not sure how much time I have left on the planet (probably not much, at the rate that this program is rapidly anxiety-ing me to death!), but I should have no fewer than two and no more than 4 years left in my program.

Whaaaaaaaaat I went to UNC-CH!! And I'm moving back to Raleigh! This is excellent happenstance!

Oooh fun room.

Favorite Shakespeare play?

Least favorite Shakespeare play?