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Working Title: Who Comes Up With This Stuff?: From YKTTW
Looney Toons: Andyroid, I've cooked both crepes and okonomiyaki — they're very similar, the only difference being the selection of fillings and when they're added. (But yes, they're both a variety of pancake.) Okonomiyaki are nothing like pizza, however, except in their appearance when animated on a budget, and Viz' characterization of them as such is one of their great crimes against Japanese Culture.
Andyroid: Owch, my bad.
Looney Toons: Much later, thatother1dude decides that despite crepes being a variety of pancake, it's not accurate enough for him...
As much as they're not really like pizza, they're even less like crepes. It's basically a pancake that you put sauce and fried vegetables on.
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Well, dude, how does that definition differ from a crepe? Plus, does it even matter that I have the experience of making both from scratch and can pretty demonstrate the essential similarity of the two recipes?
SpiriTsunami: I took an art class, and became possessed of a desire to roleplay a literal "martial artist", using X-acto knives as deadly weapons and, for ranged weapons, pencils—although that bit was probably inspired by The Dark Knight. Hey, I'd found out that we got to take our X-acto knives with us, and I suddenly had this tiny bladed weapon in my backpack. It was cool. It just got me thinking about a roleplaying setting in the modern world, at a college, where people's abilities would be derived from their majors—my aforementioned art student trained in using art supplies as weaponry, and perhaps a chemistry major that uses alchemical weapons, and of course, literary and foreign language majors would be the magicians of the setting, because Words Can Break My Bones. (Music majors, too. Theatre majors, on the other hand, would have shapeshifting abilities.) Math majors might have some sort of magic, too, although it would be more analytical and would probably be somewhat in conjunction with the Computer Science and Engineering majors' technology-based abilities—magical constructs and such. No clue what a pre-law student would be able to do.
