I can't believe this to be an exclusive forum ... I mean, I've been excluded from diverse groups all my life. So if I am in here, this can't be exclusive.
I can't believe this to be an exclusive forum ... I mean, I've been excluded from diverse groups all my life. So if I am in here, this can't be exclusive.
welcome to the cloughb.
I've never been part of an exclusive group before either, I feel special
I don't get it.. Why are people talking about Telltale making Broken Sword. Revolution is still around, and, just because they're working on a new IP doesn't mean they won't get around to Broken Sword 5.
Have telltale been talking about bying the rights to the series?
Well, Lucasarts are still around, and TTG made Tales.
But in a recent survey on what future games people would like to see (sent out by Telltale), BrokenSword was listed as one of the non-LucasArts games.
Just for the records : Switzerland have what you call a "french section" wich mean they speak french with a few differences. But don't call them french because they would take it as an offense ! It borders France and like with Belgium, you can drive there and shop and come back, there is no real controls at the border.
Yeah to go to Canada here, you need a passport. I have one, but the only time I could have gone I didn't, because I was afraid I'd be mugged and the Canadians would steal my kidneys. I'm paranoid when it comes to foreign countries.
sorry but I loled. In Europe, spanish women are more likely to be the "most beautiful women" but it always depend, you can't say one country has more than another.
I've kind of heard a bit of that, but in popular culture here, as well as movies and books, there are more references to the women of France than any other European country. There's also a stereotype that the women of Sweden are all sluts. No offense to the Swedes; it's a stereotype.
And there isn't lot of maid nowadays, that was in the 19th century !
There is a HUGE stereotype in books and film here that maids tend to be from France if they're pretty, and they're also usually sleeping with someone. O_o Americans are closet perverts.
I didn't mention it because it's in English. Movies by Luc Besson (including "Leon The Professional" and The "Fifth Element") have American (Canadian, British...) actors and are in English, I assume many people wouldn't consider them to be "French movies". Plus, they're already well-known in the US and probably don't need me to advertise them
Well, I like foreign movies done in English. That way I can understand them without having to go looking for subtitles. I know the Fifth Element, but didn't know it was a French movie. Bruce Willis in a French movie? Haha. Leon sounds awesome from what I read, so I'll definitely check it out.
Well, I can't pretend to know all French movies by a long shot, but I'll give you some that I liked.
Amelie is actually famous outside of France. It's a romantic comedy that I really liked, it had something magical to it. To me, it's an example of how to use special effects properly: not for showing off, but for giving a whole atmosphere and moving along the story.
By the same director, Delicatessen is about a post-apocalyptic France where people of a building kill and eat their building managers, and The City of Lost Children is about a man who can't dream and kidnaps children to steal their dreams. They're afraid of him, though, so they only have nightmares. I haven't seen that last one but heard great things about it.
A comedy that I really liked was Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. Based off the book but with some more modern jokes. Not all translate well but I'd say it's still entertaining in English/with English subtitles (the dubbed version is cut, though).
I also like comedies by Francis Veber. I'd suggest The Dinner Game, about a man who invites a stupid man for a game (they all have to invite the most stupid guy they can) and gets stuck with him and The Closet, about a man who works for a condom factory and pretends to be gay so he won't be fired.
My favourite by that director, "Tais-toi !" ("Shut up!"), doesn't seem to be available either dubbed or subtitled in English, unfortunately.
... That's off the top of my head and only reflects my personal tastes. If you're more interested in an artsy point of view I'm not the right person to ask though.
I've heard of Amelie, but the rest are completely off my radar, which is great! I'll have to check them out, and I'll probably watch Tais-toi too if I ever get bored. Sometimes I can follow a movie without knowing what's being said; so I'll see.
It's escargot, which means snail. We're not fussy about calling things what they are, the name of the animal is the name of the meat, too.
As far as very French foods go, I can think of cassoulet, a dish of duck and white beans as tasty as it looks disgusting, and ratatouille, a casserole of tomatoes, eggplant and ******** made famous abroad by the movie of the same name. Both a peasant food and very traditional. There is also pot-au-feu, a French beef stew, and Boeuf Bourguignon, another beef stew but cooked in wine.
Other childhood favourites include meat fondue (you put oil in the fondue dish and dip raw meat in it to cook it) and raclette, a winter meal revolving around cheese.
Some other French foods are famous abroad, such as crêpes for instance. There are actually crêpe stands in France similar to hot dog/pretzel stands in the US.
As a vegetarian (and now allergic to milk), I have to point out that France isn't vegetarian-friendly at all. It's seen as an insult to France's heritage and culture to refuse to eat some of its most traditional dishes.
I've had escargot before; it was pretty good. The thing is the stereotype for French food is mainly escargot; whenever people think of the French they think of snails, or slightly related, being slapped by fish. And I know of ratatouille too, thanks to the movie. It's never seemed to me that French food has a lot of meat to it, it seems to be very thin. Maybe that's just me; I eat like a hog and I like my plate overflowing with food. Maybe when I hit 25 and have to start watching my weight I'll start dining at French restaurants.
Well, it borders France. As a result people from the North of France have expressions also used in Belgium but not in the rest of France for instance. And it's pretty much a free border, you can drive there and shop and come back.
It has many similarities with France, culturally and with the language, which of course is also the same, but it has differences too. I'd say it's pretty similar to the US vs Canada.
Okay. I know someone from the Dutch side of Belgium, but he doesn't like to talk about the French side; he doesn't like French Belgies so I know absolutely nothing about the French side of Belgium.
Nudity is definitely not a problem. It's not illegal to be naked in public, except if you're waiting in front of a school or something, and movies that have full frontal nudity can still get rated for everyone. France has a big difference between sexual and non-sexual nudity, a concept that seems lost in North America.
Basically, where it seems nudity is always considered sexual in the US, in France it's only considered sexual in some circonstances, depending on position of the body and other things (for instance for a man it's pretty obvious what would be considered sexual nudity).
I think you have to see it the other way around, "why is nudity a problem in the US", and that's linked to puritanism I think. We didn't have that in France.
Think about all the naked sculptures and paintings. Obviously nudity wasn't a problem then. We still grow up going to museums that are full of naked people so it's really part of our culture I think.
Yeah, here in American if you walk around naked in public you get publicly humiliated, and possibly even sent to a psychiatrist for mental therapy. You also get slapped with a fine and possibly prison time. We here in America don't seem to know what our views even ARE. We have the biggest pornography industry in the world, as far as I know, and yet we can't even make up our minds if pornography is legal or illegal. I personally don't have anything to do with it, but that's just me, and I know plenty of people who enjoy it, I guess. However, Americans are huge hypocrites. HUGE hypocrites. We lie through our teeth about our sexuality. Not everyone does, but a lot of us do. I know people who look down on France because of their "lack of modesty" as they call it, and that irritates me. So many Americans think everybody else has to act just like them, or they're immoral freaks, and that's retarded. I don't understand the big fuss. Maybe I'm a hypocrite to say that, in fact I probably am. I do definitely despise pornography, and prostitution.
The French aren't generally very patriotic in the American sense. I don't think you'd see many French people say they love their country or something like that because it seems so abstract, you walk two steps and you're in another country. But things like culture, they get very attached to and proud of it. The government right now doesn't have that much support. Sarkozy is pretty right-wing for France, even if he'd probably be a Democrat by American standards. He's made some pretty big changes in the way things are done and isn't too fond of waiting for the people to give their opinion, or caring about their disagreeing. And the French do like disagreeing publicly, there are demonstrations all the time. I'd say the French generally don't like change very much. But it's nothing as bad as Bush was in the US for instance.
I haven't heard of many governments in Europe right now that do have a lot of support. Everyone I know from other countries tend to be generally unhappy with the state of things. However, I do see love of ones culture, love of ones people, love of ones heritage, or love of ones rights as patriotism as well. Americans can't make up their minds what they want, because they're too diverse.
Hum, I'm not sure about the "French view of the French", but my view of the French, if I was to generalise, would be people who are proud and don't want to be considered inferior, but can be very nice. What I mean is if you go to France and try to speak French a bit, even a few words, people will be nice and help you in English because they'll feel respected. If you only speak English however they'll feel like you assume they have to learn your language and might get upset. Apart from that, I'm not quite sure I've notice much difference with people from everywhere else... Mhh, good focus on entertainment in general. Food, sex, or just relaxing, it's considered more important to know how to enjoy life than to be a workaholic, I'd say French people are less stressed out about things like that. Maybe that's why we have a reputation to be lazy. On the other hand French people can get very attached to their privileges, and they'll complain a LOT if someone tries to take them away. This being said, it usually works, so...
I like that better than the stereotype I had before. You make the French sound like they should be living on a tropical island instead, drinking coconut milk and listening to Bob Marley, while swinging back and forth in hammocks.
EDIT: I almost forgot! Same old song is one of my favourite movies. It's mostly about everyday life stuff (although you know, stuff does happen) but the catch is that the characters suddenly break into song from time to time. They're actually just mouthing it and French songs are played with the original singer. Nobody takes notice of it.
Probably of less interest to someone who isn't French but I really liked it.
Plus I like stories that are just "everyday life" where there isn't a single main characters but several lives crossing each other's path.
Greetings, fellow Dispatch denizens! I am here because Sam & Max is my One True Love amongst the various Telltale franchises. (Still love you long time, H*R.com!) Which I hope means I'll actually, like, ask questions and stuff instead of the giddy yet nervous lurking I did in the Private Pirates Club.
Not that big a fan of episodic so got season 1, 2 and ToMI once all episodes were released.
But the forumgoers here convinced me of the good stuff happening between episodes/before launch, so ... here I am.
I'm going to be giddy yet nervous anyways. but I will also ask questions
I'll have good company, then. One thing I didn't mention is that I don't think I'm very good at the whole come-up-with-questions-to-ask-the-creator(s)-of-something-you-love deal. But I'm going to give it my best shot this time. I mean, it's Sam & Max! *flails*
<Campaign voice> I, if elected president, promise to go mad with power right away. That way you will never have to worry about your president being evil, you will know that he is </voice>
Hi. I'm not normally a forum guy, but this seems like an unusually friendly place. I preordered this instantly, after having picked up the first two seasons (and everything else) during a steam sale in 2008 and slowly working through it. Sam and Max season 2 was literally the most fun I've ever had playing an adventure game, so ... I have to get in on the ground floor for this one!
Really excited about Sam and Max season 3, trailer looks awesome. I got seasons 1 and 2 when all the episodes were already released so I'm actually looking forward to long agonizing waits between episodes and pre-launch discussions
The trailer has my heart racing. A COMEDY ADVENTURE GAME TRAILER GOT MY HEART RACING! It's exciting as heck and I can't wait. No trailer for a game has gotten my heart racing before, I've seen some cool ones, but not like this
I was just thinking.
You know that this is the Freelance Police dispatch.
You know what would be the coolest thing ever?
If you get a REAL Freelance Police badge as a pre-order perk!
I bet everyone would sign up immediately then! I know I would! (If I hadn't already!)
(Just don't give 'm away with the Deluxe Edition again)
Not related with French, but for the Fun With The Languages Of The World Section
I'm not surprised, at the very least for Africa. We're talking about a continent that was randomly cut into countries with no consideration to the existing tribe and cultural borders.
I don't know much about South America but I wouldn't be too shocked if some of the same thing happened there too. Europeans tend to go to new places and decide what countries will be like.
In Europe it's much "weirder" since borders happened over centuries, so one might think that countries would be more "logically divided". And still you have people who want Belgium to separate into two countries nowadays for instance.
Now the idea of a S&M Freelance police badge... That would be pretty sweet. But it'd have to be well made, not some cheap plastic thing. Genuine metal in a faux leather wallet thing. with maybe a bullet hole and a bite mark in it.
Man, this is gonna take a loooong time to reply to. I appreciate the insight though; the more you know.
Here also is a good link BTW on French stereotypes; it basically sums up a lot of other things Americans think the French are or about the French.
You're welcome!
That link you sent lists the 112 questions about the French but I'm not sure if it listed the answers... So here you go, the explanations/answers for all of these stereotypes: http://www.e-rcps.com/gripes/ published in 1945, destined to the US troops in France.
Most of the stereotypes are apparently the same to this day.
Well, I like foreign movies done in English. That way I can understand them without having to go looking for subtitles.
That makes sense, although simply by being made in English with English-speaking actors and for English-speaking audiences, they're less foreign already, I find. In many ways, they don't feel much like "regular" French movies.
I hope you'll enjoy the movies I mentioned. If you do then I'll name more, you just need to ask.
It's never seemed to me that French food has a lot of meat to it, it seems to be very thin.
It doesn't have a lot of meat in it, proportionally and compared to North America, but what I meant is that dishes that don't have meat at all in them are very rare.
[EDIT] also, it's about the attitude, I think. When someone in North America learns that I'm vegetarian, they tend to be like "well, it's your choice, and it's just food". A French person would be more like "What do you mean, JUST food??!!!" [/EDIT]
Also, since we're talking about food, you should know that the idea of eating meat or eggs for breakfast seems completely foreign in France. And that there are 4 main meals: breakfast around 8 am called "petit-déjeuner", lunch around noon called "déjeuner", a meal at 4 called "goûter", and dinner at 8 pm called "souper"
Other French speaking countries start with "déjeuner", then "dîner", "goûter" and "souper".
Only lunch and dinner have meat/eggs in them. Breakfast and goûter are more focused on grains and fruit.
I have to go right now so I'll answer the rest later.
I don't know much about South America but I wouldn't be too shocked if some of the same thing happened there too. Europeans tend to go to new places and decide what countries will be like.
Here, in a way, the limits were done using the natives knowledge mixed with the fact Portugal also send some conquerors =P.
Spain send some people to conquer and colonize America in the way if they can stay in the place and make a living, they are the owners of that land until they die. If they conquer a tribe in the process, they are also owners of the tribe's lands. Roughly.
Now, Bolivia, they probably has the biggest natives compared to the people which Spanish roots rate. Since almost all those natives are from diferent "tribes" (I don't know a better word in english, sorry!), they also speak a diferent dialect, so, Bolivia took the chance and make official all those dialects.
By the way, about the limits, they are different now of how they were in the past. It's there the Pacific War which change the limits again: Chile anexed some territories from Perú and Bolivia, while Argentina demanded at the same time the part of the Patagonia the other side of the Andes, and Chile agreed, just because we were in the middle of the said War.
Edit: My sister also told me the biggest diference were the fact with Africa, they discovered the map at first, while, with America, they discovered the land while they were explore it.
Okay. I know someone from the Dutch side of Belgium, but he doesn't like to talk about the French side; he doesn't like French Belgies so I know absolutely nothing about the French side of Belgium.
Yeah, it seems they're a bit "at war" sometimes.
About stereotypes: the French stereotype of Belgians is that they're stupid, but it's not a serious stereotype. Just think about every blonde joke you've heard, the French version would have a Belgian instead. But you know, everybody realises it's not fonded on anything. Philippe Geluck, a Belgian cartoonist and humorist who offen appears on TV or on the radio, makes Belgian jokes all the time. It's how I've heard most of them.
It's not like he suddenly goes "a Belgian walks into a bar", it's more small comments like "he must have been Belgian" when talking about other stuff.
I don't usually found that funny, but when it's a (clever) Belgian guy making these jokes it's funny for some reason.
The stereotype about the Swiss is that they're extremely laid bad, nonchalant, not worried about anything. If you want to pretend you're Swiss, you talk slowly and say things like "the lake isn't on fire" (meaning "no need to rush"). There are also jokes about them being neutral and bankers.
Hmm, the jokes about the Brits are mostly food-related. Things about how delicious British food is as long as it's not originally from Britain, and things like that. Otherwise the stereotype is that they're either super-shy, the type not to hug people and where married couples sleep in different beds, or super-eccentric.
The vision of European people from the south of Europe is that they're more hot-blooded. As in, they're better lovers, but you're probably going to argue and break up pretty fast as well.
For some reason, there is a stereotype about Portuguese women not shaving their legs. Not sure where that comes from.
Hmm, that's all I can think of right now.
About the US towards nudity and sexuality: well I think the US is always (or close to always) divided, and a country of extremes. When I went there I was surprised by the amount of unhealthily overweight people, but I was equally surprised by the amount of unhealthily skinny people, for instance. And I quickly realised that clothes stores didn't seem to have clothes made to fit the average consumer.
I think it's a bit of the same here. Both coexist. You have the extremely puritan people who wouldn't ever wear something as unmodest as a swimsuit, and you have the whole hidden part. In a way, I think it's because the "morality" of it has been so hammered on people that they end up doing things in secret. As a result there is a huge market for stuff like pornography, and at the same time it's considered to be a bad or wrong thing.
I personally find pornography as natural as reading a romance book. It's just not meant to arouse the same part of you. And of course there can be an appeal or not. I find just as stupid people who feel they need to hide that they watch it than people who feel the need to hide that they don't.
I think the problem might be that it's so much said and repeated that sex is wrong and evil and stuff that a) people who want to say "no, it's not" end up overdoing it too and b) people who wouldn't feel bad otherwise end up feeling bad about sex period, even if they wouldn't otherwise.
For instance a religious woman who is married would feel bad about the idea of doing things that she takes pleasure in because it's been repeated to her that it's wrong so often. Even if she's married so it's okay with her religion anyways.
Well, I guess some religions think pleasure in itself is wrong, but... I can't imagine living like that.
I read once that the most repressed cultures produce the most extreme behaviour as a response. Look at Japan, culturally even holding hands seems very unusual, let alone hugging or kissing to say hi, and there are the weirdest perverts out there. I think it's a natural response, when you're refused something too much, that some people will just start being extreme the opposite way. Actually, it's the same with food, too, come to think of it. That's why so many diets fail.
Can we get to the talking to Steve Purcell and Jared and the design and web teams and stuff now? the anxiety is driving me InSaNe! AnD i'M gOiNg To AnNoY pEoPlE lIkE tHiS!
Can we get to the talking to Steve Purcell and Jared and the design and web teams and stuff now? the anxiety is driving me InSaNe! AnD i'M gOiNg To AnNoY pEoPlE lIkE tHiS!
Does this supercede any standing restraining orders?
Now the idea of a S&M Freelance police badge... That would be pretty sweet. But it'd have to be well made, not some cheap plastic thing. Genuine metal in a faux leather wallet thing. with maybe a bullet hole and a bite mark in it.
Yeah, the bullet hole and bitemark are a great idea.
I don't know how much it'd cost to make something like that though.
I bet it's more then a slipcase.
But the deal would be pretty great.
I would buy it if it was available from the shop, but it's more exclusive as a pre-order bonus.
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welcome to the cloughb.
I've never been part of an exclusive group before either, I feel special
But in a recent survey on what future games people would like to see (sent out by Telltale), BrokenSword was listed as one of the non-LucasArts games.
Here also is a good link BTW on French stereotypes; it basically sums up a lot of other things Americans think the French are or about the French.
Yeah to go to Canada here, you need a passport. I have one, but the only time I could have gone I didn't, because I was afraid I'd be mugged and the Canadians would steal my kidneys. I'm paranoid when it comes to foreign countries.
I've kind of heard a bit of that, but in popular culture here, as well as movies and books, there are more references to the women of France than any other European country. There's also a stereotype that the women of Sweden are all sluts. No offense to the Swedes; it's a stereotype.
There is a HUGE stereotype in books and film here that maids tend to be from France if they're pretty, and they're also usually sleeping with someone. O_o Americans are closet perverts.
Well, I like foreign movies done in English. That way I can understand them without having to go looking for subtitles. I know the Fifth Element, but didn't know it was a French movie. Bruce Willis in a French movie? Haha. Leon sounds awesome from what I read, so I'll definitely check it out.
I've heard of Amelie, but the rest are completely off my radar, which is great! I'll have to check them out, and I'll probably watch Tais-toi too if I ever get bored. Sometimes I can follow a movie without knowing what's being said; so I'll see.
I've had escargot before; it was pretty good. The thing is the stereotype for French food is mainly escargot; whenever people think of the French they think of snails, or slightly related, being slapped by fish. And I know of ratatouille too, thanks to the movie. It's never seemed to me that French food has a lot of meat to it, it seems to be very thin. Maybe that's just me; I eat like a hog and I like my plate overflowing with food. Maybe when I hit 25 and have to start watching my weight I'll start dining at French restaurants.
Okay. I know someone from the Dutch side of Belgium, but he doesn't like to talk about the French side; he doesn't like French Belgies so I know absolutely nothing about the French side of Belgium.
Yeah, here in American if you walk around naked in public you get publicly humiliated, and possibly even sent to a psychiatrist for mental therapy. You also get slapped with a fine and possibly prison time. We here in America don't seem to know what our views even ARE. We have the biggest pornography industry in the world, as far as I know, and yet we can't even make up our minds if pornography is legal or illegal. I personally don't have anything to do with it, but that's just me, and I know plenty of people who enjoy it, I guess. However, Americans are huge hypocrites. HUGE hypocrites. We lie through our teeth about our sexuality. Not everyone does, but a lot of us do. I know people who look down on France because of their "lack of modesty" as they call it, and that irritates me. So many Americans think everybody else has to act just like them, or they're immoral freaks, and that's retarded. I don't understand the big fuss. Maybe I'm a hypocrite to say that, in fact I probably am. I do definitely despise pornography, and prostitution.
I haven't heard of many governments in Europe right now that do have a lot of support. Everyone I know from other countries tend to be generally unhappy with the state of things. However, I do see love of ones culture, love of ones people, love of ones heritage, or love of ones rights as patriotism as well. Americans can't make up their minds what they want, because they're too diverse.
I like that better than the stereotype I had before. You make the French sound like they should be living on a tropical island instead, drinking coconut milk and listening to Bob Marley, while swinging back and forth in hammocks.
Thanks again!
You can make them here:
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12
Woo!
But the forumgoers here convinced me of the good stuff happening between episodes/before launch, so ... here I am.
Let the play begin!
I'll have good company, then.
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That's what I started thinking right away there
Everything about it looks fantastic. Can't wait.
I was just thinking.
You know that this is the Freelance Police dispatch.
You know what would be the coolest thing ever?
If you get a REAL Freelance Police badge as a pre-order perk!
I bet everyone would sign up immediately then! I know I would! (If I hadn't already!)
(Just don't give 'm away with the Deluxe Edition again)
I'm not surprised, at the very least for Africa. We're talking about a continent that was randomly cut into countries with no consideration to the existing tribe and cultural borders.
I don't know much about South America but I wouldn't be too shocked if some of the same thing happened there too. Europeans tend to go to new places and decide what countries will be like.
In Europe it's much "weirder" since borders happened over centuries, so one might think that countries would be more "logically divided". And still you have people who want Belgium to separate into two countries nowadays for instance.
Now the idea of a S&M Freelance police badge... That would be pretty sweet. But it'd have to be well made, not some cheap plastic thing. Genuine metal in a faux leather wallet thing. with maybe a bullet hole and a bite mark in it.
You're welcome!
That link you sent lists the 112 questions about the French but I'm not sure if it listed the answers... So here you go, the explanations/answers for all of these stereotypes:
http://www.e-rcps.com/gripes/ published in 1945, destined to the US troops in France.
Most of the stereotypes are apparently the same to this day.
That makes sense, although simply by being made in English with English-speaking actors and for English-speaking audiences, they're less foreign already, I find. In many ways, they don't feel much like "regular" French movies.
I hope you'll enjoy the movies I mentioned. If you do then I'll name more, you just need to ask.
It doesn't have a lot of meat in it, proportionally and compared to North America, but what I meant is that dishes that don't have meat at all in them are very rare.
[EDIT] also, it's about the attitude, I think. When someone in North America learns that I'm vegetarian, they tend to be like "well, it's your choice, and it's just food". A French person would be more like "What do you mean, JUST food??!!!" [/EDIT]
Also, since we're talking about food, you should know that the idea of eating meat or eggs for breakfast seems completely foreign in France. And that there are 4 main meals: breakfast around 8 am called "petit-déjeuner", lunch around noon called "déjeuner", a meal at 4 called "goûter", and dinner at 8 pm called "souper"
Other French speaking countries start with "déjeuner", then "dîner", "goûter" and "souper".
Only lunch and dinner have meat/eggs in them. Breakfast and goûter are more focused on grains and fruit.
I have to go right now so I'll answer the rest later.
Here, in a way, the limits were done using the natives knowledge mixed with the fact Portugal also send some conquerors =P.
Spain send some people to conquer and colonize America in the way if they can stay in the place and make a living, they are the owners of that land until they die. If they conquer a tribe in the process, they are also owners of the tribe's lands. Roughly.
Now, Bolivia, they probably has the biggest natives compared to the people which Spanish roots rate. Since almost all those natives are from diferent "tribes" (I don't know a better word in english, sorry!), they also speak a diferent dialect, so, Bolivia took the chance and make official all those dialects.
By the way, about the limits, they are different now of how they were in the past. It's there the Pacific War which change the limits again: Chile anexed some territories from Perú and Bolivia, while Argentina demanded at the same time the part of the Patagonia the other side of the Andes, and Chile agreed, just because we were in the middle of the said War.
Edit: My sister also told me the biggest diference were the fact with Africa, they discovered the map at first, while, with America, they discovered the land while they were explore it.
Yeah, it seems they're a bit "at war" sometimes.
About stereotypes: the French stereotype of Belgians is that they're stupid, but it's not a serious stereotype. Just think about every blonde joke you've heard, the French version would have a Belgian instead. But you know, everybody realises it's not fonded on anything.
Philippe Geluck, a Belgian cartoonist and humorist who offen appears on TV or on the radio, makes Belgian jokes all the time. It's how I've heard most of them.
It's not like he suddenly goes "a Belgian walks into a bar", it's more small comments like "he must have been Belgian" when talking about other stuff.
I don't usually found that funny, but when it's a (clever) Belgian guy making these jokes it's funny for some reason.
The stereotype about the Swiss is that they're extremely laid bad, nonchalant, not worried about anything. If you want to pretend you're Swiss, you talk slowly and say things like "the lake isn't on fire" (meaning "no need to rush"). There are also jokes about them being neutral and bankers.
Hmm, the jokes about the Brits are mostly food-related. Things about how delicious British food is as long as it's not originally from Britain, and things like that. Otherwise the stereotype is that they're either super-shy, the type not to hug people and where married couples sleep in different beds, or super-eccentric.
The vision of European people from the south of Europe is that they're more hot-blooded. As in, they're better lovers, but you're probably going to argue and break up pretty fast as well.
For some reason, there is a stereotype about Portuguese women not shaving their legs. Not sure where that comes from.
Hmm, that's all I can think of right now.
About the US towards nudity and sexuality: well I think the US is always (or close to always) divided, and a country of extremes. When I went there I was surprised by the amount of unhealthily overweight people, but I was equally surprised by the amount of unhealthily skinny people, for instance. And I quickly realised that clothes stores didn't seem to have clothes made to fit the average consumer.
I think it's a bit of the same here. Both coexist. You have the extremely puritan people who wouldn't ever wear something as unmodest as a swimsuit, and you have the whole hidden part. In a way, I think it's because the "morality" of it has been so hammered on people that they end up doing things in secret. As a result there is a huge market for stuff like pornography, and at the same time it's considered to be a bad or wrong thing.
I personally find pornography as natural as reading a romance book. It's just not meant to arouse the same part of you. And of course there can be an appeal or not. I find just as stupid people who feel they need to hide that they watch it than people who feel the need to hide that they don't.
I think the problem might be that it's so much said and repeated that sex is wrong and evil and stuff that a) people who want to say "no, it's not" end up overdoing it too and b) people who wouldn't feel bad otherwise end up feeling bad about sex period, even if they wouldn't otherwise.
For instance a religious woman who is married would feel bad about the idea of doing things that she takes pleasure in because it's been repeated to her that it's wrong so often. Even if she's married so it's okay with her religion anyways.
Well, I guess some religions think pleasure in itself is wrong, but... I can't imagine living like that.
I read once that the most repressed cultures produce the most extreme behaviour as a response. Look at Japan, culturally even holding hands seems very unusual, let alone hugging or kissing to say hi, and there are the weirdest perverts out there. I think it's a natural response, when you're refused something too much, that some people will just start being extreme the opposite way. Actually, it's the same with food, too, come to think of it. That's why so many diets fail.
I'm doomed
Does this supercede any standing restraining orders?
In fact, I want to find somebody which play some Fizzball. But, I can't, because now we have limited supply of Evil Smelling Beer, somehow =P
Is it sad, that I actually want to play fizzball and post it on youtube? Because it's going to be Spring, and well....yeah.
Yeah, the bullet hole and bitemark are a great idea.
I don't know how much it'd cost to make something like that though.
I bet it's more then a slipcase.
But the deal would be pretty great.
I would buy it if it was available from the shop, but it's more exclusive as a pre-order bonus.
It's going to be Fall here =P.
Now I wonder, has never the Telltale Fans from USA do some sort of meeting or something? That would be a perfect moment to play some fizzball too =P
Do you want post on you tube the fizzball play or you wanted to play some fizzball?
It's possible only a few were made and signed