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Ask A Staffer Final Round - The Askening: Tengukami
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: rdjuugi Hoshiguma on August 15, 2011, 06:05:40 PM ---You did see it in the cards before, though :< [/missing the point]
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Aah that was fun.
--- Quote from: rdjuugi Hoshiguma on August 15, 2011, 06:05:40 PM ---Selamat pagi?
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Selamat sore!
--- Quote from: rdjuugi Hoshiguma on August 15, 2011, 06:05:40 PM ---Have any interesting articles turned up in the paper recently? If so, how many of them did you write?
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We're fortunate enough that even though most of our staff are freelance, they continue to submit great material, in full and on time. My pieces tend to be about current events in Iceland; newsy pieces on politics, both local and national, as well as social trends. There are two or three articles from me in pretty much every issue, whereas I post four news articles on the website every workday.
--- Quote from: rdjuugi Hoshiguma on August 15, 2011, 06:05:40 PM ---How's it feel being both the beginning and the end of this series?
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Pretty good, to be honest. I never thought that my starting yet another narcissistic "EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION TO ME TALK TO ME" Ask-A-Blank thread was going to lead to this, but Kilga had the wisdom to see it as a great way for the user base to know the staff better. I'm just glad to be a part of that.
Jana:
--- Quote from: Tengukami on August 15, 2011, 06:02:30 PM ---Yeah, my first video game was Nintendo's Donkey Kong. I haven't been following handheld console games at all, so I don't really know what I'd wanna try. If Persona is available for a handheld, then that one.
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There's P3P, the Persona 3 port to the PSP. They've also remade the original Persona for it, and they're working on Persona 2 as I recall.
...If you get a PSP, would you check out Monster Hunter? :D
Aside from video game stuff: Anything special you can cook? Do you cook for your daughter?
Alfred F. Jones:
What book or story do you like so much, you wish you were the one who had written it?
Any reporters or columnists you like in particular?
Do you own a music player? If so, what is it?
What is your favourite era of history to study or learn more about?
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: Jana on August 15, 2011, 06:26:23 PM ---Aside from video game stuff: Anything special you can cook? Do you cook for your daughter?
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I love cooking, even if most of what I do tends to be stir fry and seafood. So yes, she eats a lot of stir fry and seafood.
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 06:41:01 PM ---What book or story do you like so much, you wish you were the one who had written it?
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God, pretty much anything by Yoko Ogawa. Her voice is so pitch perfect, her word economy so precise, it literally aches to read writing this good.
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 06:41:01 PM ---Any reporters or columnists you like in particular?
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I grew up watching and admiring Walter Cronkite, but as far as journalistic writing goes, there's Janine Di Giovanni, Edward R. Murrow, David Brinkley and (to a far lesser extent) Matt Taibbi
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 06:41:01 PM ---Do you own a music player? If so, what is it?
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I have this Taiwanese POS mp3 player that holds like, I dunno, 50 songs tops? But that's really all I need for an mp3 player.
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 06:41:01 PM ---What is your favourite era of history to study or learn more about?
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The fall of the Roman Empire. Mostly because we're learning new things about it all the time. The greatest empire the world had ever known collapsed from within and without, for many reasons, but also had residual effects on the Western world that are with us to this day. It might be a clich? to draw parallels between Rome's decline and modern-day America, but well, people make that comparison for a reason.
Alfred F. Jones:
Where have you traveled? Any places you'd love to go back to?
Do you like gardening?
What would you like to see change in the US over the next decade? How about Europe (particularly the EU)? The rest of the world?