The demon looked around. There was a summoning sigil drawn in the ruddy sand, but nobody… It shifted its perception to the spiritual plane. Ah. A dust devil.
“Why hast thou-”
“A battery.”
“A battery?” The demon looked around. “What need for a battery on Mars?”
“For our friend.”
I live down the street from a school that’s also a Pokémon Go gym so I’ve been going up there to kick all the kids pokemon out and taking it over with my avatar dressed as team rocket everyday.
I’m like their one man Jessie and James, I like to think
The Rhydon is at the school and I’ve just been going back up now and then between their classes to heal it lmao
Not on my watch. Get some more Layton votes in there.
Layton-heritage-posts, you are my beloved comrade, but on this occasion, I fear we will have to be temporary enemies. I hope you can understand.
VOTE GUMSHOE!!
Understandable, but have you considered that, as sweet and kind as he is, ACAB still includes Gumshoe?
I find no fault with this statement as is; all cops are indeed bastards, but as an argument, my dear comrade, it falls flat. My counterpoint is thus: this is a poll whose purpose is to find out who would be considered the best fictional detective. I posit that Hershel Layton is not truly eligible. One’s opinion on policing notwithstanding, Detective is a job title, and if my eyes do not deceive me, *Professor* Layton has an entirely different job title preceding his surname. I rest my case here.
VOTE GUMSHOE!!!!
Im sorry @aceattorneyheritageposts, but you’ll have to try harder than that. While it is true that the good professor doesn’t have the official job title of “detective”, he isn’t the only one. This tournament features several people who aren’t officially detectives, including Mystery Inc.(more accurately paranormal inestigators) , tintin (an investagative journalist), Bruce wayne (a billionaire ceo), and steve (just some guy with a mischevious dog). What all these people have in common isn’t that they all have the profession of detective, but that they do the job of a detective, that being investigating clues to find a culprit, a job which the good professor does on the regular.
(Ack! There goes my argument…Just what are all these unlicensed police-badgeless detectives doing running around investigating crimes anyway?!)
(…Let’s not follow that train of thought too far… or else our own local PD might start asking me and Maya more questions about why we’re snooping round their crime scenes…)
Ahem, anyway.
True it may be as you say that the actual job title of Detective isn’t required for eligibility in this tournament. However! I still believe Gumshoe has the edge over Layton, and here’s why!
Gumshoe, in design and naming, is the very essence of a detective. His beaten up coat, low-maintenance hirsuteness, the pencil behind his ear - all of this screams “detective”. Where is the detective swag in Layton’s design? It simply isn’t there, your honor. Not only that, but his first and last names - “Dick” and “Gumshoe” - are both established slang terms for a detective! He was born for this profession! This man eats, breathes, and LIVES investigation!
(I’d better not mention that he’s not actually very good at it… That might undermine my point somewhat.)
It is true that Gumshoe does seem to have the essence of a detective, but aesthetic alone does not make him the better detective. What makes a good detective is finding evidence and solving cases, and as we both can attest, Gumshoe is terrible at his job.
In fact, your job is to claim that he has failed in his duty as a detective. Gumshoe may look like he has the essence of a true detective, but in reality he has the spirit of a buffoon.
O-oof!
(I really should have guessed that Edgeworth of all people would draw attention to the fact that Gumshoe is a crappy detective… Poor guy’ll be getting another salary cut in 3, 2… Wait, hold on a minute!)
Wait, Edgeworth!
Maybe he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, but without Gumshoe helping out, there are so many cases we wouldn’t be able to solve! He’s saved all of our hides more times than I can count. Without him and his metal detector, you’d be in jail for a murder you didn’t commit, remember?!
And he has the biggest heart this side of Japanifornia! What more could you want in a detective? Actual detecting skills? Utterly irrelevant to the case at hand! It’s a popularity contest, not a skills contest, and on the former metric, he absolutely deserves to win!
Are you really so cold as to throw such a kind and upstanding man under the bus, just because he’s not very good at his actual job?!
Yes we are. Besides that, the title of the tournament is still “best-fictional-detective”, not most “popular” or “beloved” detective.
I’ll accept your point if you can show me that the majority of poll voters are basing their decision on each character’s respective deductive skill and investigative talent, but I strongly suspect you have no evidence to prove such an assertion! The jury are not going to be picking who is the “best” based on skill. They’re going to be picking based on which one they love more, or, alternatively, considering this is Tumblr, which one they wish most to put in a jar and shake it, or to put in a maid outfit and have a tea party with, or to flatten with a steamroller, or any of the other stuff they do to people here.
This website sure is weird.
I can assure you that during my time as Heritage Blog runner I have seen more than one Layton in a Maid dress. Also you are talking about a stereotypical example of a British Gentleman, of course he likes tea.
As for the evidence that voters actually vote for the better detective and not just who they like more,
This Certificate has been handed to me by a source that wishes to stay anonymous. The Prosecution requestes that it will be added to the Court record.
(No way…! they actually have evidence…! How the heck did they get that?)
(It’s so over… I’m sorry Gumshoe… I’m sorry everyone…)
(What was that…? Chief…?!)
(Don’t give up yet, Phoenix! Find the contradiction in the evidence! You can still do this, for Gumshoe!)
(I need to examine the evidence more closely… think, Phoenix, think! Where is the contradiction Mia mentioned?)
Wait!
Hold on a minute! That note is in your own handwriting!! Your Honor, this certificate… is a fake!!
(Ok so first of all, I might be biased here but how can we have a Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney Battle and not use the music from Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney. With that out of the way,)
So, you think that this certificate is a scam?
And just how do you intend to prove that? I don’t remember an instance in which you could have seen how my handwriting looks. Furthermore, I want you to have a look at this:
You might remember it, after all, as we can clearly see, it is only 47 minutes old.
Your Answer to the question if you have ever played a Layton game before is a clear no. You might wonder what role this little fact plays, and it’s actually quite simple.
You view this poll through an incredibly small lense! You never actually saw Layton in action except the occasional post you might have come across! Whereas I actually played through the original ace attorney trilogy, and therefore have a very good picture of both contestants!
THE DEFENSE IS IN FACT NOT FIT FOR THIS COURT, AS IT HAS ONLY FULL KNOWLEDGE ON ONE OF THESE CHARACTERS! THE PROSECUTION RESTS ITS CASE YOUR HONOR!
Wh… Wha…
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
(How could it have come to this?! It’s impossible to argue against that!!)
Fine. I admit that my viewpoint is narrow and biased against Layton due to not having full knowledge of his character and games.
But still, gracious in defeat, I will leave you all with this final exclamation.
While there is friendly rivalry between Singapore and Malaysia over
who makes better food, for one notable family in Singapore, the best sambal belacan (a spicy condiment made from shrimp paste) indisputably comes from Malaysia, though only from a very special source.
In 2019, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong conveyed his thanks to the Malaysian queen for regularly sending over her sambal belacan
to his family. “Thank you for your warmth and kindness, sending my
father (and me) your special sambal belacan all these years!” he tweeted
on 28 October 2019. “I hope you enjoy making it as much as we enjoy
eating it!” A few days before, Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah
Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah had shared on her Instagram account a letter
written in July 2009 by former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He wrote
that the six packets of sambal belacan she had given him were
delicious. “I shared them with my two sons. They have all been consumed.
It is the best chilli belacan we have tasted. Can my family have a few
more?”1 Since then, she has been regularly sending her sambal belacan across the Causeway.
Sambal belacan is a regular accompaniment to rice in Malay, Eurasian and Peranakan meals. It is made by pounding toasted belacan
with chillies and adding calamansi lime juice, salt and sugar to that
mixture. While it is popular with many people, its key ingredient, belacan, has a somewhat malodourous reputation.
Hugh Clifford, who served as Governor of the Straits Settlements between 1927 and 1929, referred to belacan
as “that evil-smelling condiment which [had] been so ludicrously
misnamed the Malayan Caviare” in his 1897 account of the Malay
Peninsula. He wrote that the coasts reeked of “rank odours” as a result
of women villagers “labouring incessantly in drying and salting the fish
which [had] been taken by the men, or pounding prawns into blâchan”
throughout the fishing season. The stench was so strong that “all the
violence of the fresh, strong, monsoon winds” would only “partially
purge” the villages of it.2
In his book, A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries (1856), John Crawfurd, the former Resident of Singapore, describes balachong (belacan) as:
“[A] condiment made of prawns, sardines, and other small fish, pounded and pickled. The proper Malay word is bâlachan [belacan], the Javanese trasi [terasi], and the Philippine bagon [bagoong].
This article is of universal use as a condiment, and one of the largest
articles of native consumption throughout both the Malay and Philippine
Archipelago. It is not confined, indeed, as a condiment to the Asiatic
islanders, but is also largely used by the Birmese [Burmese], the
Siamese, and Cochin-Chinese. It is, indeed, in great measure essentially
the same article known to the Greeks and Romans under the name of
garum, the produce of a Mediterranean fish.”3
Today, the Malay term belacan is commonly used in Singapore,
Malaysia, Brunei and parts of Indonesia to refer typically to shrimp
paste. In Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, it is called kapi, which is borrowed from the term ngapi (literally “pressed fish”) used in Myanmar, while it is referred to as mắm tôm or mắm ruốc in Vietnam.
Because it is rich in glutamates and nucleotides, belacan
imparts savouriness to any dish, what is often described as “umami”.
Other foods that are rich in umami include fish sauce, soya sauce,
kimchi, mushroom, ripe tomato, anchovy and cheese.
Making Belacan
A 17th-century account gives a remarkably detailed description of making belacan. In 1688, the English privateer William Dampier encountered people making a paste of small fish and shrimps called balachaun during his visit to Tonkin (North Vietnam). He saw how this process produced nuke-mum or nước mắm
(fish sauce) as well. His account, published in 1699, provides one of
the earliest Western descriptions of making fish/shrimp paste:
my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now
?????? *raises hand* I’ve been writing for years and don’t know this trick by these words! do tell?
Okay, so a few people have asked for me to cite the dark magics at them, and i’m super happy to share because it’s my favorite thing ever.
so, let’s see if i can explain this the same way that i learned. read a sentence out loud. you come to a full stop when you hit the period, and you take a normal, breath. but, when you hit a comma, you take a slightly longer pause. and when you hit a dash - you take an even longer pause.
this is a natural rhythm that we pick up when we’re first taught to read; we do it without even thinking. but when you start to think about it, you realize that it can become a tool.
think of your heartbeat. a period is badump. a comma is badump-dump. and a dash is thump badump. one breath. a longer breath. two breaths.
that means what you read automatically affects the rhythm of your breathing and your heartrate. which means that you can control the amount of physical tension your reader feels… by altering your punction and your sentence structure.
for fast paced scenes, you use short sentences. a lot of hard stops. mostly periods, with just a few comma’s thrown in for the full breath. your reader’s heartrate accelerates. their breathing is slightly and unintentionally, on their end, quicker. you hit the dramatic ending of the scene - and your reader’s body phsyically feels the gasp, the breath of fresh air, of these longer sentences.
now, read that paragraph again ant take note of your natural pauses, and how it subtly affects your breathing.
the same thing can be said of comma’s and dashes. while they can be used as a breath of fresh air, they can also cause a new line of tension as they lead your reader to hold their breath. during this section, you should use longer sentences; breaking up the harshness of the pauses by using variations of punction. read this paragraph out loud from the start and take note of how long you go between pauses and full breaths.
and then, comes the biggest trick.
the hard stop.
the paragraph.
because while the periods, commas, and dashes are variations on a short stop, the paragraph is a hard stop. you take a full breath. you pause for a moment, then move to the start of the next paragraph.
which means you can create an entirely new sort of dramatic tension. read the sentences that are in bold. see how you take a naturally longer pause at the end of each paragraph?
see how it makes you feel?
how it makes you breath different?
how doing it once, twice, or three times creates a different line of tension?
this little magic trick can be used to cause a reader’s heartrate to speed up during a fight or chase scene. it can be used to cause their breathing to slow down during moments of dramatic tension, sorrow, or softness. and it can be used to create hard breaks that add a new level of physically felt emphasis to your written work.
i hope these examples make sense! it’s my favorite writing trick!
Just a curiosity, not dog related, question. Got this egg fresh out of the egg carton and there was a feather on it. Sometimes there’s also a bit of dried chicken poop on eggs.
