Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 9

[davidn]

Here's another fifteen-minute episode, in which this time a whole lot more happens! The exploration continues, I end up a bit stuck, then remember something I ignored earlier and get right back on to the route again, including epic battles with two bosses, one manageably small and one intimidatingly large. And grabby.

http://youtu.be/1NSei4KciRA

Comments

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

Maridia: you want to throw up, thinking about going from one side of Maridia to the other. Great music, though!

I'm glad you had so much difficulty with the boss of this area, or as I've always called it, the. . .that, thing. I've never actually come up with a name for it. .

[xaq.livejournal.com]

"I don't think Americans know what Kinder Surprise is..."

I only know about them thanks to the legal hullaballoo there is about whether they're legal to sell in the US. (Short answer: they aren't. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/342) Long answer: Under U.S. Code Title 21, Section 342, they're marked as an "adulterated food" due to being a confectionary with something wholly embedded in them that serves no functional or nutritional purpose.)

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, uhh...did I accidentally reply to Crassadon's reply instead of the main post there? Hehe, whoops.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

Ohhh!!! I completely forgot to mention Kinder Surprise!! :D

I love them!! Everybody at my school would love them, and we would trade the little toys around; and even some of the teachers love them, and would trade the toys, too~ They would sometimes be rare "solid" toys, and you could trade two of the standard ones for one of those. . I still sometimes buy them; I just got a future race car.

I think they are banned in the US, because the small parts may injure children--although no other country has this issue, to my knowledge. I also think there's now a "Kinder Surprise-like" item for sales in the states with much the same general structure. But who knows! I must play video games, and cannot look this up!!! D:!

[xaq.livejournal.com]

They are illegal to sell here, yes; I provided a link to the text of the specific law covering them in that last comment. To piece the exact wording together [and fill in the blanks as necessary, something which English 111 drilled into my head last semester], it goes like this:

"A food shall be deemed to be adulterated [and thus illegal to sell within the United States] if it is confectionary and has partially or completely imbedded therein any nonnutritive object, except that this subparagraph shall not apply in the case of any nonnutritive object if, in the judgment of the Secretary [of Health and Human Services] as provided by regulations, such object is of practical functional value to the confectionery product and would not render the product injurious or hazardous to health[.]"

So basically, unless this person (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services) says they're okay, we can't have them. (That "judgment call" caveat, by the way, is why we're allowed to have lollipops even though the handles meet this criteria of them being "adulterated" foods.)

[davidn]

I wonder why it only applies to confectionery - a chocolate egg with an obvious plastic bubble in it is banned, but a gravel and tyre pastie is fine?

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Welcome to America. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/WillRennar/ViridianPonyShrug.png)

[davidn]

We used to play poker in sixth year of school using the little things that came in those eggs as tokens. I'll have your turtle and raise you a small aeroplane and this thing that looks like a dishwasher.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

. . .Secretly, I don't even know what the hands of cards even are, so I would still like to play that version.