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Coldness, darkness, no sound, feel no pain

Pointless trivia about Persona 4. A few of the party members went through some changes in the development of the game. Rise was originally going to be an actual party member, rather than support, and would have been remarkably different - her original incarnation was an "ice queen"-type delinquent who wielded a chain. In the final game, the delinquent role went to Kanji, and Rise was reworked into an idol when her appearance was changed to look more like her Japanese voice actor. Kanji was originally going to be a middle-aged man, and Naoto would have been straight up male, as opposed to a female crossdresser. (Which makes you wonder what her Shadow encounter would have been like if that had happened...) Speaking of Kanji, his sexuality (whether he's attracted to men, women, or both) is deliberately left ambiguous throughout the game. Troy Baker, his English voice actor, revealed in an interview that he was instructed to portray Kanji as if he were gay, and firmly bel

Life goes by so fast

Welcome to another episode of "Twilight Blogs About Stuff You Don't Care About". I've decided to title this one "Misquotes, Misrememberings and Mandela Effects", just for the alliteration bonus. If you want to know what a Mandela Effect is, ask your mum. Or Google it. And yes, I know it should be "misquotations", but "misquotes" flows better. In the Batman & Robin movie, Mr. Freeze (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) makes a lot of ice- and snow-related puns. However, one line he didn't actually say, despite many claiming or remembering that he did, was "Ice to meet you". People are most likely thinking of Rainier Wolfcastle on The Simpsons, a caricature of Schwarzenegger, whose character McBain uses the line "Ice to see you" in one of his movies. The adverts for Mr Bucket never said "I'm Mr. Bucket, put your balls in my mouth". One of the ads said "Put your balls in my top" and "