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I don't really know. Barristan Selmy was definitely one of the biggest badasses, though Sandor Clegane was, indeed, also a great fighter. Then again, the series is filled with great fighters.

The sequel to Legacy of Kain: Defiance. There was talk that it would be made, long ago, but all sorts of things happened, it wasn't a priority, Tony Jay died, who knows what else. I still hope they make it one day, though. It's the best voice acting I've ever seen in a video game, and it really deserves a sequel.

I don't really like it. I like softer, simpler music with clear melodies and understandable vocals.

This one's pretty obscure nowadays, I think. As far as I know the song's just called 'Ritz', but the video has this title on it. Not sure.

Not 'athletes', maybe, but I certainly think being good at e-sports requires a lot more skill than being good at darts. I really don't understand why that game's so big.

It's just too subjective to ever be possible. What some people will praise in a game, others will hate. It is possible to find your own perfect game, of course, but that game won't be the perfect game.

Nope. I don't like the color shift and I've never noticed any problems sleeping, nor the quality of my sleep changing no matter whether I use it or not. I'm probably wrong, but hey.

Any Pokemon game. I played them all the time, was always online looking for elusive ways to catch Mew or Celebi (it took me years to find the Mew glitch), training up my Pokemon in Cerulean Cave/Mt. Silver. I'm considering buying a Switch just to play Sword and Shield.

I'm very old-fashioned and I don't really like wireless anything. I prefer wired earbuds, wired mouse, wired keyboard, wired internet. I have a pair of wireless earbuds, but they have a habit of losing connection and then beeping at maximum volume to helpfully tell me they've lost connection. I'll stick to wired, thanks.

Depending on the song, I really like them. This is one of my favorites: I like this one because I think the music is awesome, by the way. The lyrics are funny, but the music is what makes me like it most.

I can't speak about the gameplay, because I don't own a PS3 and I watched a Let's Play, but I personally loved the portrayal of Joel and Ellie. Whether or not the premise makes sense, I really don't care all that much, because I feel the characters can and do carry the story. The way their bond grows over the course of the story really sold them on me.

Personality isn't always represented through dialogue. In Doom 2016, the Doom Slayer never says a word, yet he very much has a personality which is conveyed through the way he looks at things and interacts with them. I consider him to have exactly the right amount of personality, too, and portrayed extremely well. The opposite would probably be Flash Sentry for me. He was so generic that no matter what he did, it just fell flat in my eyes. All there was to him was 'love-interest'. They could have replaced him with the floating word 'love-interest' and nothing would have changed. He's set dressing, not a character. Then there's the fact that a lot of 'personality' is basically handled by attaching a neon sign to a character labeling them as the funny one or the slow one, and never once moving beyond that point. A loud and obnoxious character can work, if that character's motivations and reasons for being the way he is are explored enough. Ultimately, I think 'personality' is just far more than a character's traits, and that a lot of writers, both amateur and professional, forget about that.

In both cases, I prefer the more mainstream, poppy variation. I like old Taylor Swift songs, Lady Antebellum, Miley Cyrus's Nothing Breaks Like a Heart, it's all country-pop that I enjoy the sound of. With rap, it's the same thing. My favorite rap is probably Numb/Encore, and the better-known Eminem tracks. Purists of both genres will probably loathe me for saying that, but oh well.

For me, the power in good slice-of-life comes from the way very little moments are shown or described. In the K-On movie, for instance, you get a few shots of the monitors on the backs of chairs in the plane, and a short image of the plane's route. It's something relatable that adds to atmosphere and not much else. Just that feeling of, 'oh yeah, that's something I always notice at moments like that'. That said, I wouldn't like to RP it. I'll actually live moments like that myself, thanks.

MLP-related, it's mainly some of the comics. I never liked the Nightmare Forces, and the Sirens' Fiendship issue is also one I refuse to acknowledge. In non-MLP things, Harry Potter only has seven books. There is not, nor has there ever been, something called 'The Cursed Child'. Anyone who claims otherwise has to write 'I must not tell lies' with a Blood Quill ten million times. In the same vein, I do not consider the Fantastic Beasts movies to be canon at all. They're funny little experiments, but nothing in them really happened that way in the main universe. Still, I don't loathe them as much as the Book-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.

I followed smpfilms and The Mean Kitty. Even though I found other content I liked better over time, I never unsubscribed.

Undertale. For the vast majority of the game, it really doesn't go beyond 'okay' for me. Only the True Pacifist part in the lab, and the entire Genocide Route, truly show how powerful the writing is at times. I do absolutely love the music all the way through, especially the main theme.

I think it's anything in the 'Griezelbus' series, which for the non-Dutch speaking people here means something like 'Scary Bus' or something. The first one was about a school trip, in a bus, where a children's author reads scary stories. Obviously, the stories themselves are chapters in the book, and the writer is not what he seems either. Later books all still involve the bus, and scary stories, but they become progressively stranger (in a good way, mostly). These stories are still some of the scariest I've ever read, simply because they tend not to end all that well, and they're written in a very to-the-point style. It's also influenced me immensely in how much I wanted (and still want) to become a writer. The books actually deal quite a bit with the process of writing stories and how they come alive in different ways. Being horror books, the 'coming alive' part is not metaphorical.

I'm a big softy most of the time, though I phrase things in a hard way because it's easier. I wish I could be harder sometimes, though.

I don't consider learning languages to be hard, but the way I learn them is simply by being exposed to them a lot. English isn't my native language, but years of playing games, watching TV, and reading books have made me fluent in it all the same. Right now, I'm using Duolingo to learn a bunch more languages because I find them fascinating, and the app's way of teaching by simply repeating things an ungodly number of times works quite well for me. What doesn't work for me is explicitly learning grammatical rules. I know next to nothing about the terminology, and the second someone starts to talk about things like 'nominative case', 'accusative case', 'genitive case', or any other kind of case I instantly lose focus and I have no idea what they're talking about. This holds true for every single language I know. For me, learning a language is as easy as just remembering how to write something in a specific situation, and extrapolating from there. In languages like Greek and Russian words change spelling constantly depending on the case, but since there's quite a bit of structure to when something is spelled a certain way, I just remember it, rather than looking at a complicated table of grammatical cases that means nothing to me. I honestly think repetition and exposure are the best ways to learn languages, and that trying to learn by learning the rules is adding unnecessary complexity. I admit I'm only fluent in two languages, but I can't explain any rules in either of them, because I didn't learn them 'by the rules'. I will say that it sometimes helps me to translate things literally. Quite often phrases are translated in such a way that the meaning is preserved, but not the actual literal words. I find it useful, in those cases, to know the literal translation so I can better remember the way to structure a sentence. Some examples would be '私はトムです' (watashi wa Thom desu), which means 'I am Thom', but which more literally would be something like 'Concerning me, it's Thom'. Similarly, ' ему 15 лет ' is Russian for 'he is 15 years old', but literally translated it's more 'to him 15 years'. It gives a frame of reference as to how things are phrased, which you can then use when constructing your own sentences. As for the ability to learn...I don't know. I do think it will be far harder for some people than for others, just like it is with anything. Some people consider math to be very intuitive and straightforward, but I just can't see anything in it. Formulae and numbers easily lose all meaning for me, and I'm glad I'm just about able to do simple arithmetic, and even then I tend to use a calculator for that to check if I did it right.

I'm fairly decent at writing and learning new languages. If either is really a talent can be debated, though, since it's not like I'm supernaturally gifted at them.

My parents MIGHT have had it. It wasn't officially confirmed, but they matched the symptoms. They're fine now, and I've visited them since. My girlfriend (who works in a hospital lab) and some of her colleagues suspect they might have had a mild form, but they're not sure, either.