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So at work, a conversation about some company recalling a bunch of salami because it has salmonella turned into a discussion about curing techniques and some really fancy eye-talian meat or cheese. Which in turn reminded me of an episode of Archer (hilarious show, BTW) a few weeks ago, where the one guy says, "The citric acid cooks the fish". I was wondering if that was for real, and it is, he was referring to Ceviche. It does sounds intriguing, I think I'd like to try it one day.

When I was a kid, I used to hate seafood. But, some cutie forced me to try sushi, and I liked it. I eventually moved on to being able to eat cooked fish (again, because some cutie made me try it. Pretty much a lot of food I hated when I was a kid, I eventually tried and liked, because some cutie made me. Like eggs!), but I still prefer sushi to it. I dunno, cooked fish doesn't taste as good to me. This ceviche does sound appealing. (apparently, there's even Filipino ceviche?)

But heh, Archer does seem to drop random info like that. Like the fact that designer Hugo Boss made those cool looking Nazi uniforms. Now, I'm not saying Nazis are cool, but you have to admit they were pretty snappy dressers. Speaking of Nazis, I was reading this article on the 12 most controversial video games of all time, and I didn't realize that "Ethnic Cleansing" game was for real. I mean, that ep of SVU that first introduced Marcia Gay Harden's FBI character (oops, spoiler!), they reference a similar game, but I thought it sounded way too outlandish to be something that actually existed. But apparently it does. I guess they have referenced real video games before, like the GTA series (where the detectives make a break in the case because Stabler's son was at the station and saw some crime scene photos or something and he was all, "Oh, that's like (the SVU universe's analogue of GTA!)") and Second Life (where some girl is kidnapped because of the similarity of her avatar to some girl Locke's dad kidnapped years earlier. You know, whenever I see Kevin Tighe's name in credits, I always confuse him with Colonel Tigh.).

Speaking of video games, they revealed the final 3 new characters in the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV. As I said, the newest character they introduced, Juri, is a pretty awesome addition, (I mean, how can you not think she's cool from this anime-style trailer I've posted before.) but the other eight characters they added are returning from previous games. They already had Cammy and Fei Long from Super Street Fighter 2, but they had to complete the set by adding T Hawk and Dee Jay. And then there's Guy and Cody from Final Fight and the SF Alpha series, though I still think Cody's prison stripes look totally stupid. Couldn't they have put him in a smarter looking orange prison jumpsuit? And the last new one they had before this most recent announcement, was of course, Adon, who I always thought was cool.

But the newest three are from SF III. I was hoping for Alex, but between Zangief, Abel and El Fuerte (what's with all fighting games not only having a Bruce Lee looking guy, but a Rey Mysterio looking guy? I mean, doesn't Virtua Fighter and Dead or Alive both have Rey Mysterio analogues), and I suppose E Honda, they have enough grapplers. But, instead they have the ninja Ibuki (but isn't Guy a ninja?), the young karateka Makoto (again, isn't Sakura a short haired young girl who does karate?!) and Dudley (don't they already have a boxer with Balrog?).

But, anyways, there's a new character trailer out featuring the new Super SF IV characters from SF III.

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