Where do you stand on "Francisco, el Hombre"? It's not a period, but still a punctuation mark, and they're named after a Columbian folk hero although the band was founded by Mexican-born naturalized Brazilian citizens who sing in Spanish and Portuguese. Well, Brazilian Portuguese, I have to assume.

I've got a super cheap Windows transformer-type thing from Toshiba (who I think don't do consumer notebooks anymore) and I enjoy it a lot. If you're already invested in that ecosystem, that might be a good option too.

Yeah, this is both the best appraisal of KQ3 (which totally is the secret VIP in the series!) I've ever read and also one of the best write-ups directly linking a game with personal history I've seen.

I've mentioned it before, but it's probably been 3 or 4 for years, so here I go again: The secret to 3D Land is Street Pass competition. I know someone somewhere is better than me and I don't care, so online leaderboards do nothing for me. But if you're some random person walking MY streets and hanging around MY…

That's definitely not advised. But like I said below, regular sake should yield good, if different results, too. I'm wondering if adding a tiny bit of sugar might help, but I really can't say, sorry.

Side note to the side note though, I haven't seen a Japanese recipe that specifies nigorizake and when I make miso sanma, I use some regular old stuff. Still, if you want to follow Pang's recipe to the T, that'd be the way to go (Decent quality nigori like the one pictured is usually comparatively cheap too, so that's…

Minor side note, this is nigorizake, which is far sweeter than regular sake. So anyone looking to do this at home, keep that in my mind before you reach for the Hakutsuru Maru one cup.

Yes, he was definitely the (or a?) director on it. The producer was Shelley Day (who's also co-founder of his current company) who is suppose was mostly concerned with financial matters.

I'm fairly sure Gilbert was never credited as a producer during his stay with Lucas. Mikami is weird in that he does (or used to do) one and then the other without much regard to his seniority.

Thanks a lot for your posts. They're very interesting. I think maybe we're just talking about different kinds of games. I hope no-one's denying that the producer has an important role, but trust me when I tell you I could tell a Boku no Natsuyasumi without Mineko Ueda's art. Or which adventure game is written by Ron…

I brought up brands because the post you replied to had been about whether one should hope for a return of Jade Empire or not. If you wanted to separate it from that, apologies; I hadn't picked up on that.

Yeah, no, that seems really backwards. Surely it's brands that are interchangeable and it's talented individuals who make Things We Like?

Yeah, what am playing? I've been browsing the GOG sale but can't find anything. After 5 playthroughs of 80 Days I thought I might try Sorcercy, but they don't have it. I figured I might give the recent-ish Colonization a shot, but they don't have it. So I thought I'd try Free-Col but that'd require me to install Java.…

Thanks for the input! I personally like Aooni better than Shiga Kogen's Pale Ale, but they're somewhat different styles of course. Also, wow, I seem to have a really good grocery store (except their selection of German beers is Warsteiner and Löwenbräu, which, eh).

I can see the Hitachino going for 400+, but I think those Yoho beers are around 350 here in Fukui. Man, I do like Hoppi A LOT, but Shochu on its own is a mystery to me.

I like what I tasted, but haven't made it through their entire lineup yet. Any particular recommendations?

I mean, beer is crazy expensive in general, so… That is definitely the upper end of the spectrum, though. Maybe your grocery store stocked some really premium stuff only? But I admit I also mostly, ahem, browse the basket of cans that have been marked down because they're slightly dinged at my super.

Have you tried the Mitsuboshi Pale Ale by any chance? I think so far my favorite ales here are the ones from Yoho, but given how enthusiastic I'm about their pilsener, I'm wondering…

Meanwhile in Japan:

Yes, but