Quoting: NezchanI'm assuming the title is a pun on the Japanese word "tampopo", which means "dandelion". The little dudes aren't anything like dandelions, but at least it's a flower word.

Reminds me of the classic movie "Tampopo" which was a Japanese movie all about food. There's kind of a core plotline about this woman named Tampopo running a ramen shop with kind of crappy ramen, who helps this trucker guy out and in return he starts doing this quest with her to get her ramen up to spec, seeking out great broth recipes and stuff. But it also has all these weird hilarious vignettes, like these homeless bums who live behind classy-restaurant row and eat all the best food and are connoisseurs, or these girls taking etiquette lessons from this older woman who has taken them to an Italian restaurant to learn how to properly eat spaghetti, and she's doing the whole formal thing with winding it on the spoon and telling them Americans will be shocked and dismayed by their manners if they don't eat it like this . . . and is interrupted by the slurping sound of an American a few tables over vacuuming their spaghetti, at which point all the girls start doing it and actually having fun eating their spaghetti . . . It's a great movie, tons of good bits.

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"Witch Beam" makes me imagine this "Sentai Ranger Witch" character with like a power ranger outfit and a witch hat, powering up and going "Witch . . . BEAM!!!!" in a thick Japanese accent and doing this big destructive beam that turns people into frogs or something.

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Quoting: JarmerDoes it really need building size mechs?

Doesn't everything need building size mechs?

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I never played it the first time around, so this is fine with me, seems like it could be my kind of thing.

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I feel betrayed. The picture doesn't show any dogs, much less sleeping ones. :grin:

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The aesthetic isn't my thing.

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Quoting: Bogomips

Quoting: Linux_RocksNow I want a honeycrisp apple [External Link]. 👀

The irony for a self-sterile patented apple…

I have to admit I don't really like most of the new apple breeds . . . they all kind of taste the same and don't have much character. They're not bad, they're generally sweet and crisp, but they don't taste much like apple.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhy does everyone write this?
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I mean.. who doesn't know this at this point?

Why, anyone in today's 10,000 [External Link], of course.

Sheesh. Because of you I just spent five minutes reading about the Yellowstone supervolcano . . . probably for the second time.

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I had no idea I needed that. I wonder if you can export pictures of castles you come up with.

. . . You can pat the sheep!

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I've been playing "Endless Legend" and "Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War", both due to a tipoff from GoL that they (a) existed and (b) were currently free. Having fun with both.

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