It's been a long time since I last made a news entry; so now's the time I play a little catchup. Here goes everything:
Here's a list of everything I got for my birthday:
2 jogging suits
a $25 iTunes gift card
one of those iHome docking station/alarm clock/radio devices
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations/Gyakuten Saiban 3 (the game card contains both versions)
a pair of earrings
two packages of daifuku (Japanese mochi cakes)
I've been playing through the game I mentioned above, and there've been multiple pop-culture references thrown into the English-language version. Here are some of them:
Case 1: If you press the last statement in Phoenix Wright's testimony in the first part of the trial, he states that Dahlia's mini-omelettes are "magically delicious."
Case 1: When Dahlia Hawthorne first woos the judge and prosecutor, Mia thinks to herself "Well, we know whose milkshake brings all the boys to the yard..."
Case 2: When you examine the trash can in "Mask DeMasque"'s lair, you find a piece of paper containing instructions for how to steal the "Mazarin Stone." This is an obvious reference to "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ironically enough, this one even existed in the Japanese version; it wasn't added into the translation.
Case 3: The "MC Bomber" virus is mistakenly called by Maya "MC Hummer." I thought this skirted the edge of the definition of copyright infringement, since the Hummer is a registered trademark of General Motors, and "MC Hummer" sounds like a bad romanization of "MC Hammer." To add to the automobile references, the "MC Hummer" confusion is even followed up by "MC Jeep."
Case 5: If you present a piece of evidence to Sister Bikini in Hazakura Temple's Main Hall, she will call herself an "immaterial girl." Detective Gumshoe follows up by saying she lives in an "immaterial world." See what the localizers did there? If not, it's a reference to Madonna's song "Material Girl."
Case 5: When Larry (Laurice) talks about the feminine figure in his drawing, he mentions she flew "just like the dude with the red underwear." Presumably, he's talking about Superman.
Case 5: During the portion of the trial when Dahlia is channeled, both Godot and Phoenix reference the old Sherlock Holmes quote "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
More references to be added at a later date. I seem to recall there being more, and I plan on going back through the game and fishng them out.
Oh yeah, I got hold of the trial version of ZenGems from this here site, and I love and highly recommend it. It has almost everything a girl like me could want: sparkly colors, hours of unlockable gameplay, puzzles to solve, and even a sexy mascot, Hoshiko! (He could've stood to have a more masculine name, though...)
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yeah i did lol
HibiscusKazeneko
Did what?