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Lover Pretend (Nintendo Switch) Otome Review
Published on November 26, 2022 November 26, 2022 by Blerdy
Do you like rom-coms? Chill vibes? Well, then you'll want to check out Aksys Games's latest Otomate otome localization, Lover Pretend. Get pulled into the entertainment industry with aspiring screenwriter, Chiyuki as she navigates her budding career, life and love! Sometimes a love born from a little white lie can blossom into something real!
Genre: Slice-of-life | Romance | Drama
Rating: ESRB T
Developer & Publisher: Otomate & Aksys Games
Where to Get the Game: Aksys Games | Amazon | Nintendo eShop
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Chiyuki is a college student with dreams: One, to become a scriptwriter like her late mother, and two, to find her father, whom she's never met.
Living alone with no romantic experience whatsoever, Chiyuki struggles with writing stories about love. But one day, on the hunt for clues for the identity of her father, Chiyuki learns that he may have been involved in the production of a romantic drama based on a script her mother wrote before she was born.
In a stroke of luck, Chiyuki lands a job as an assistant for an upcoming film working with the sons of the former staff from her mother's soap opera. But things take an even more surprising turn when she becomes the main love interest!
Will she be able to find her father and pretend to be in love, despite not knowing anything about love herself?
Official Synopsis
Lover Pretend Characters
In Lover Pretend there are five love interests. At the start Kazuma, Harumi, Yukito, and Riku are unlocked, while the fifth route unlocks after you clear the Happy ends of the first four guys. Each of the love interests are involved in some aspect of the entertainment industry—Kazuma is a stylist, Yukito is a model, Harumi is the son of a famous director, and Riku is a promising young actor (the final LI is also in the industry). And after a misunderstanding (or k-drama level hijinks) Chiyuki winds up in a fake relationship with one of them.
As if a fake relationship isn't enough, Chiyuki is also looking for clues about her absentee father and wouldn't you know it, the love interests may be at the connected to that too.
The routes are fairly short; Episodes 1-3 comprise the common route and Episodes 4-7 make up the character routes. There is no set play order (aside from the locked route) and each route follows it's own unique storyline, so you can play in whatever order you like without any issues.
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Kazuma Kamikubo (CV. Makoto Furukawa)
Kazuma is Chiyuki's bestie and an aspiring stylist. He's a force of nature, energetic, friendly, and a bit impulsive. He can be a bit extra, but he always means well and does everything he can to support those around him. Kazuma has known Chiyuki since middle school and he is the closest person to her so, she considers him family. He has always been there to encourage her both in her career and her day-to-day life. Kazuma gives boy next door vibes. In his route he and Chiyuki pretend to date as a cover for an incident that happens at work.
You'd think a friends to lovers story would be simple. Sadly, Kazuma got done dirty by the writers, which is a shame because on paper he is my ideal. He's a loyal, well meaning, down to Earth guy, a bit annoying at times, but he's always there to be the supportive bestie you need. His relationship with Chiyuki is so genuine and I love how much they support each other in their careers and life. There is an ease to their bond that allows for some really fun moments, and I'm not gonna lie the two of them bickering and teasing each other gives all the cute 90's rom-com vibes.
This is not meant to be a huge story, rather the "conflict" of the route is Chiyuki and Kazuma's both coming to terms with their changing feelings for one another. They've kind of outgrown the "just friends" label and are just beginning to explore if romance is the next step for them. They clearly have feelings for one another, they just need a little push to transition from platonic/familial love to romantic love. But, instead of letting their relationship NATURALLY progress, the writers threw in a last minute "twist" that completely derailed the wonderful emotional story they'd been crafting up until that point. Before that, this was my favorite route in the game. He's an idiot, but I love him.
Yukito Sena (CV. Tatsuhisa Suzuki)
Yukito is a popular bad boy fashion model known for his wild social life and womanizing. He kinda does whatever he wants so there are a ton of rumors about him in the media. Yukito eats up all the publicity and really leans into his public persona, giving off the impression that he doesn't really care about anything. He wants to break into acting, against the wishes of his agency, but most just see this as the latest in a long line of publicity stunts. In his route he claims that Chiyuki is his girlfriend to avoid an awkward situation with a fellow model.
Ain't no secret I'm not a fan of the flirty otome guys, I find their constant flirtations annoying and eyeroll inducing. BUT, Yukito is one of the best written characters in Lover Pretend. I begrudgingly admit to loving this man. He has a "reputation" as a bad boy in the industry, and he really leans into that persona, most of his early interactions with Chiyuki is just a lot of cheesy pickup lines (much to everyone's annoyance). But despite his flirtations, Yukito never pushes her boundaries. He teases the heck out of Chiyuki, and I love how sis never gets flustered by his antics.
Yukito is used to turning on the charm to get what he wants, but that doesn't work with Chiyuki and that's what initially attracts him to her. But it isn't until Chiyuki starts to see beyond his flirty façade that their relationship really takes off. Chiyuki is very career focused, so she doesn't know how to just exist and relax. This route is pretty lighthearted, lots of cute dates and fun without any huge conflicts or drama. Their relationship works surprisingly well, Yukito softens out Chiyuki's rough edges and Chiyuki gives Yukito the push he needs to finally start taking things more seriously.
Harumi Makino (CV. Kengo Kawanishi)
Harumi is a college student and the son of a famous director. He studied abroad in Europe and recently returned to Japan. Harumi has helped his father on film sets before and most folks think he plans to follow in his father's footsteps. He tends to avoid getting close to others and can come off a bit cold, but he's a generally nice guy. Because of his good looks a bunch of girls on his college campus have formed a fan club and he spends most of his time ducking and dodging rabid fangirls. He has a secret that he doesn't want getting out. In his route he pretends to be Chiyuki's boyfriend when he gets caught by his fan club buying something… secret with her.
I did not go in expecting to like Harumi. He's quiet, kinda has RBF and his whole vibe screams angry child, but this route ended up being my favorite. Harumi is a raging anime nerd and it's just so cute to see this normally reserved dude lose his absolute sh*t over his fave anime series (very reminiscent of Il's love of otome in Café Enchanté). But, he's very insecure about his hobby, so he keeps it on the down low to avoid being judged by others.
Much like Chiyuki, Harumi has ZERO experience with love, so there's a lot of fumbling and awkward cuteness going on in this route. They don't really know what it means to be in a relationship, so they treat their fake dating like a learning experience. They actually make character bios and scripts for their fake relationship, which is both hilarious and adorable. This is the route (Kazuma not included) where the chemistry felt the most balanced. Also I was raised in the south and seeing Harumi open doors for Chiyuki and walk on the street side of the sidewalk brought me so much joy!
⭐Personal Note: Harumi's Good End is my FAVE ending in the game and that CG… *chef's kiss*!
Riku Nishijima (CV. Tomoaki Maeno)
Riku is a hot young actor and the son of the famous actor, Kosuke Nishijima. Despite his young age, he has already made a name for himself as a rising star in the industry. He's polite, and his acting prowess surpasses that of industry veterans, but he seems to not be as passionate off camera. In his route he asks Chiyuki to pretend to be his fiancé to get out of a sticky situation with his father.
Just about everyone I talked to raved about Riku, so the bar was set pretty high for this route and I am happy to say, this he exceeded my expectations. This route is perfect, just EVERYTHING was on point! Riku is a guy who is almost too good to be true, he's handsome, talented, actually nice… As the son of a famous actor everyone expects great things from him, and even though he does his best to live up to his father's legacy, he doesn't seem to be super passionate about his career. He's just kind of going through the motions, which is frustrating to someone like Chiyuki who gives her all to everything she does.
This route hits all the cheesy rom-com clichés! I was riding the highs and the lows from the misunderstandings to the drama, there's even a second lead swooping in to "steal" Chiyuki—and I ATE it up! I love the relationship between Chiyuki and Riku, just enough give and take to make their romantic progression feel real with a sprinkle of spice to make all the ups and downs worth it.
Eiichirou Asagi (CV. Toshiyuki Morikawa)
Eiichirou is Chiyuki's professor and her mentor. He's the son of a famous screenwriter and he has made a name for himself as one too, writing scripts for a number of drama series and movies. He's kind, but doesn't shy away from constructive criticism, doing his best to help Chiyuki hone her skills as a writer. He takes on a supportive role in Chiyuki's life and is always ready to lend a helping hand.
I don't know what it is about otome games and locked routes, but they always seem to frustrate me. Eiichirou is someone, I absolutely love as a supporting character. As Chiyuki's mentor he is there to give her little nuggets of wisdom to help her navigate her career aspirations. And he seems to genuinely care about her well-being, but I always felt like their relationship was more platonic than romantic. Making him a love interest completely undermines everything he does for her throughout the game and I wasn't feeling the uneven teacher/student power dynamic.
But, my feelings about the romance aside, this route does finally give a resolution to the whole, "who's the daddy" mystery. However, your mileage may vary on how satisfying you find the answer.
Chiyuki Ueda
Chiyuki is very much an otome heroine through and through; she's kind, reliable, a hard worker, and she has a knack for fixing broken boys. She lost her family at a young age, so she's had to work hard to make her way in life, even if that means making a few sacrifices along the way–including never experiencing love. Because of this she has a hard time connecting with other people and she doesn't have a lot of friends aside for Kazuma. Chiyuki desperately wants a true connection, so she pursues a career in scriptwriting as a way to learn more about her parents, and herself. But her lack of experience gets in the way of that and she has a hard time writing meaningful romance stories.
Lover Pretend Review
Follow aspiring screenwriter, Chiyuki Ueda as she navigates the ups and downs of life and love, but with a fun little twist plucked straight outta the world of K-dramas. Chiyuki dreams of two things, becoming a screenwriter like her late mother and finding her long lost father. The only lead she has is that he might be connected to a film her mother wrote the script for years ago. So, she throws herself into her studies in hopes of breaking into the entertainment industry and finding the clues she needs. As luck would have it, she lands a job as an assistant on the set of a major film directed by the same director who worked on her mother's film! Also working among the production crew are the sons of the men who may have worked with her mother all those years ago.
Of course this is an otome game, so it wouldn't be a party without a few romantic hijinks. While working on set she catches the eye of a few of the hotties and each one propositions Chiyuki to take part in a fake relationship. Since she needs more experience to write better love stories, she agrees. Along the way her pretend love blossoms into something more and Chiyuki finds herself experiencing her first taste of true love.
And that's the gimmick of Lover Pretend. You have to fake it till you make it in four (five) pretend romance stories. Choose from your best friend and aspiring stylist, Kazuma; bad boy model, Yukito; handsome college student and son of a famous director, Harumi; promising young actor, Riku; and your handsome professor and professional screenwriter, Eiichirou.
While Lover Pretend may be set in and around the entertainment industry, the story itself is surprisingly pretty grounded. There's a bit of drama (and the threat of a scandal or two), but for the most part a lot of the conflict in each route is kept within the realm of believability. Even in Riku and Yukito's routes where their fame thrusts Chiyuki head first into the spotlight, the focus is less on their celebrity and more on their struggle to balance their careers with their personal desires (ie. a normal life).
Unlike some otome games where the MC is overshadowed by the love interests, Lover Pretend is very much Chiyuki's story. Just as much time is spent exploring her wants and needs and as far as heroine's go, she is the most grounded and realistic. She's not a warrior or a superhero or a Mafia princess; she's just a normal girl making her way in the world the best way she knows how and I think that's something a lot of otome gamers can relate to.
He's an idiot is always the correct answer when Kazuma is involved
Every otome game nowadays has a "gimmick" and in Lover Pretend you can hone your acting skills by completing missions in "Pretend Time". Answer a series of timed questions and prove that your fake relationship is legit in this interrogation styled mini-game. Correct answers clear away puzzle pieces obscuring the screen, while incorrect answers will cover it up. If you successfully complete your mission the story progresses, but failure can often lead to Bad Endings, so be sure to have your wits about you. Pretend Time is a lot of fun, definitely giving the Ace Attorney Psyche Lock vibes and I am always down for more interactive gameplay in my otome. But, one downside is that they rarely involve you having to "defend" your fake relationship, more times than not Pretend Times occur when you have to get out of a sticky situation.
There's also some fun extra stories and scenarios in Back Stage that give more insight into the characters outside of the main story. These are cute and often hilarious shorts that take full advantage of the game's phenomenal cast. I love the interactions among the LIs and more bro time opportunities with them is always appreciated.
The overall tone of Lover Pretend is much more in line with a 90's rom-com or a K-drama, there's a nice balance of lighthearted moments and drama. The dramatic parts don't get super dark, but it's enough to create some believable obstacles for the characters. The MC is romancing the sons of the guys who could potentially be her father, so there's a bit of an "oh sh*t, I might be falling for my brother" situation going on. The "accidental incest" potential had me wary about this game early on, but, thankfully it's not a huge issue in most of the routes. So no worries on that front. Chill vibes only in Lover Pretend!
The Verdict: So, is Lover Pretend Worth Playing?
Lover Pretend is the latest otome localization to make its way to the West and the one I was most looking forward to playing. No mafia bosses trying to snatch me off the street. No life or death superhero battles. No swords. No magic. Just a chill slice-of-life romance game. Finally something to soothe my rom-com loving heart! Everything about this game screams chill vibes, from it's bright inviting UI, grounded modern setting, and fun, easy-going characters, Lover Pretend is the feel good story many otome fans have been begging for. This is proof that you don't need world ending storylines and angst to tell a really great story!
Thank you to Aksys Games for providing a copy of Lover Pretend for this review.
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2 thoughts on "Lover Pretend (Nintendo Switch) Otome Review"
Jessica From Shoujo Henshin says:
Oh are the rom com vibes comparable to Cupid Parasite? There were times where that one had me legitimately laughing out loud.
Blerdy says:
Definitely a similar vibe to Cupid Parasite, though lighter on the comedy. More of a 90s rom com or a K drama.


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M&S buys intellectual property of AI personalisation marketplace Thread
M&S is the new owner of Thread, the fashion marketplace that launched with an aim to personalise shopping by only recommending clothes in a consumer's style, size and budget. Thread has just gone into administration.
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The retail giant has acquired the intellectual property as it seeks to deepen its revenue opportunities from personalised services.
The deal is a pre-pack one with M&S lined up to buy the business before its administration filing. The purchase price hasn't been revealed.
M&S has taken on key assets such as source codes and the algorithms developed by Thread. The "cutting-edge, proprietary tech" will be integrated into its website, which means Britain's biggest clothing retailer will now also be able to recommend clothes based on style, size and budget. The company already has an element of personalisation on its site and estimates that this has boosted revenue by £20 million so far.
Importantly too, it's not just an IP deal with the new owner also taking on 30 of Thread's former data scientists, software engineers and creative teams to lead the integration.
Kieran O'Neill and Ben Phillips, who founded the business 10 years ago, are also part of the purchase.
M&S co-CEO Katie Bickerstaffe said that between 20% and 25% of its digital customer interactions are personalised at the moment and within 18 months it wants that figure to be 50%. She also said such services could eventually be worth up to £100 million annually for the business.
"The acquisition of Thread is the perfect example of a 'buy not build' approach — enabling us to accelerate our personalisation strategy by integrating the market-leading tech in under 12 months," she explained. It could take around three years for the retailer to build the technology from scratch.
Kieran O'Neill, who joins M&S in December as Senior Head of Product, added: "We have worked for the past 10 years on building the most advanced AI personalisation for online fashion, proven to increase customer conversion and repeat orders. We're so excited to join forces with M&S; through their infrastructure and support, we're able to take our market leading technology to the next level, providing a personalised and unique shopping experience for their 30 million customers."
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Chosen Chicanos: La Plaga de los Evangélicos
May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 icareviews 0 Comments Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, christianity, DNA testing, Evangelicals, George W. Bush, Hispanic Israel Leadership Coalition, Hispanics, immigration, Iran, Iran deal, israel, Jack Jenkins, Jerusalem Post, Latinos, Marranos, Mexicans, Mexico, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Freund, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, Robert Iger, Rupert Murdoch, ThinkProgress, zionism
By Rainer Chlodwig von Kook
As increasingly libertine and spiritually disinvested whites present less and less promising prospects as a reliable bulwark of support for its bellicose foreign policy aims, the Zionist menace is hedging its bets by wagering on more bovine stock. High stakes are attached by the Israel lobby to the manipulation of immigrant perceptions of the Zionist state, and the most promising field for their ethno-supremacist ideological fertilizer is the growing presence in the U.S. of evangélicos – Hispanics whose brainwashing bears more resemblance to that of typical white evangelicals than that of their Catholic co-ethnics.
"The 2016 election may be the 'coming out' year for the Latino evangelicals," writes Jack Jenkins at ThinkProgress. "Yet unlike Hispanic Catholics, who overwhelmingly reflect the Democratic party platform on several key issues, Latino evangelicals share political sensibilities with both parties," Jenkins explains, which "has made their voting habits increasingly uncertain, meaning the group could become that much-prized unicorn of American politics: the swing vote." The following numbers give a sense of the group's appalling proportions:
[…] even as Hispanic evangelicals begin to flex their political muscles, assessing their true electoral power is tricky, in part because exact estimates of their budding population are hard to come by. The U.S. census does not include questions about religion, so the best guess for their population size comes from a 2014 Pew study that listed them as roughly 16 percent of the nation's 35.4 million Latino adults. That amounts to an estimated 5 to 6 million voting-aged worshippers, and the real number could be even higher: Rodriguez has claimed that there are 16 million Hispanic evangelicals in the U.S., and the NHCLC says that evangélicos make up about 20 percent of Latinos overall.
Two preeminent evangélico stink tanks in the U.S. are the Hispanic Israel Leadership Coalition and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. The latter is sponsored by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a cabal founded by Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg and counting among its co-chairs Disney CEO Robert Iger and the mayors of more than one immigrant-friendly demographic disaster area. Giving an indication both of Latino evangelicals' clout and the level of interest Zionist schemers have shown in winning the group's allegiance is the fact that the quintessential neocon commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, has appeared six times as the keynote speaker at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast.
"In a world that is increasingly hostile to all we hold dear, it would be comforting to know that we have a large cadre of amigos whose friendship we can count on in our hour of need," reflects Michael Freund of The Jerusalem Post. Freund, a typically paranoid and war-horny Zionist, makes clear that he is in perfect earnest:
This summer's bruising and ultimately failed effort to torpedo US President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran has provided pro-Israel activists in the United States with an important and timely lesson.
Despite spending tens of millions of dollars, organizing advertising campaigns in the print and electronic media and lighting up switchboards on Capitol Hill, they did not succeed in preventing the White House from putting together the votes needed to stymie opposition to the atrocious atomic accord.
Clearly, Israel's defenders in the US are in dire need of some reinforcements, and I believe that Hispanic Americans may just provide the key to ensuring long-term support for the Jewish state.
While organizations such as the Conference of Presidents and the American Jewish Committee have been reaching out to the Latino population in the US in recent years, far more must be done to court this crucial sector of American society and it behooves Israel to wake up and take notice.
Benjamin Netanyahu announced in 2013 that Zionist agents in the U.S. would begin making "a more concerted effort to target" Hispanic Americans. Freund, furthermore, believes that the Jews may possess a more powerfully personal hook with which to bait this particular species of fish:
A number of Jewish groups are already utilizing some of the standard tools available in pro-Israel advocacy work, such as organizing leadership trips to the Jewish state and producing materials in Spanish that explain Israel's cause.
But I believe there is a far more powerful instrument at our disposal, one that will touch the souls of many Hispanics and draw them closer to Israel and the Jewish people, and that is the Jewish ancestry that many of them share.
In recent decades, an awakening has been taking place as a growing number of people throughout the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world are discovering their Jewish roots. These people, known as Bnei Anusim (Hebrew for "the progeny of those who were coerced") or by the derogatory term "Marranos," are descendants of Iberian Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries. Despite being hunted by the Inquisition, many continued to preserve Jewish practices and customs covertly down through the generations.
Nowadays, as more people discover their historical Jewish connection, either through genealogical research or DNA testing, this almost inevitably results in reshaping their attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people. As chairman of Shavei Israel, the largest organization in the world today working with Bnei Anusim, I have seen this burgeoning phenomenon first-hand.
Consider the following: over the past decade, a series of genetic tests carried out on Hispanic men living in New Mexico, southern Texas and northern Mexico found that as many as 15% had Sephardic Jewish ancestors. […]
If indeed 15% of Hispanic Americans have Jewish ancestry, this means that as many as eight million US Latinos are descendants of Jews. This presents a unique opportunity for Israel and the Jewish people to reach out to them, and it is one that should not be missed.
Due to the passage of centuries since the forced conversions and expulsions of Iberian Jewry, many Hispanics are no longer fully aware of their historical connection to the Jewish people. We must work to remind them of this salient fact, and to utilize it as the basis for a coordinated outreach program to build bridges between Hispanics and Jews.
As the general Hispanic population learns of their community's connection with Jews, it will build new bridges of understanding with the Jewish community and Israel, make them less likely to fall prey to anti-Semitic stereotypes and less inclined to support anti-Israel initiatives such as the BDS movement.
The benefits of such outreach could also extend to the demographic sphere. Inevitably, upon discovering or re-discovering their Jewish roots, a certain percentage of Hispanics will seek to rejoin the Jewish people. […]
Reawakening the Jewish consciousness of Hispanic Americans will naturally lead them to be more supportive of Israel in the political arena. This can serve as an important boost to Israel's cause on Capitol Hill, resulting in a powerful alliance of pro-Israel forces ranging from Jewish organizations to Christian evangelicals to Hispanic-Americans.
Leave it to Aryan Skynet, though, to propose a much more comprehensive and final solution to the Pregunta Evangélica. Just give Mexicans, Guatemalans, Puerto Ricans, and all of these other alleged Latin American crypto-Jews the automatic Israeli citizenship to which they are so obviously entitled. Better yet, why bother with naturalization? Just stop enforcing race-based Israeli immigration laws altogether, allowing the south-of-the-border Chosen the free and undocumented entry into the Zionist state that they inherited as their birthright.
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Rynn's World Area of Engagement Expansion Board (Aeronautica Imperialis)
In the late 41st Millennium, Rynn's World was subjected to a devastating Ork invasion – Waaagh! Snagrod – which culminated in the total destruction of the Crimson Fists' fortress-monastery and the loss of much of the Chapter's fighting strength. Yet while fierce fighting erupted across much of the planet's surface, the Imperial Navy and Ork Air Waaagh! fought a grueling campaign of aerial warfare in the skies above.
SKU: WH-500-17 Categories: Aeronautica Imperialis, Miniatures & Tabletop Games, Uncategorized, Warhammer 40k
Rynn's World Area of Engagement is a fold-out card game board for Aeronautica Imperialis that represents two of the key locations in the War for Rynn's World. Measuring approximately 3'x3', this game board is even bigger than the one found in the Aeronautica Imperialis: Wings of Vengeance boxed game.
The double-sided game board comes in two pieces and features artwork depicting the following aerial war zones:
– Side 1: Jadeberry Hill N266-E114 – the strategically vital area on the outskirts of New Rynn City. A blasted wasteland of hills and extensive maglev lines and roads.
– Side 2: New Rynn City N292-W451 – one of the beleaguered districts of the city.
You will need a copy of the Rynn's World Air Campaign book or the Aeronautica Imperialis: Wings of Vengeance boxed game to use this game board.
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Some Thoughts for Holy Thursday
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But for the eagerly anticipated Easter Vigil, there is no richer celebration in our Church's liturgical treasury than this Liturgy of the Lord's Supper.
Some days ago, I treated myself to a day of prayer centered on the sacrifice of the Mass and the Holy Eucharist. In particular, I have over the years been struck by the profundity of recent papal meditations on this Mystery of Faith. This Holy Thursday I would like to offer you, without scholarly references, a sample of the sublimity of those meditations in the hope and prayer that this Lord's Supper and every Mass in your future will draw you more deeply into this greatest mystery of all mysteries of God's love.
In a much overlooked letter to all the bishops of the world, Pope John Paul II noted that, "Beginning with the Upper Room and Holy Thursday, the celebration of the Eucharist has a long history, a history as long as that of the Church…in the course of this history…there has been no change in 'mysteries' instituted by the Redeemer of the World at the Last Supper…for the Holy Thursday supper was a sacred rite, a primary and constitutive liturgy, through which Christ, by pledging to give His life for us, Himself celebrated sacramentally the mystery of His passion and resurrection, the heart of every Mass…the sacred character of the Mass is a sacredness instituted by Christ. The words and actions of every priest, answered by the conscious active participation of the whole Eucharistic assembly, echo the words and actions of Holy Thursday."
This is a most radical declaration—that every Mass since the Last Supper, wherever and whenever celebrated, is dependent upon and in some way rooted and participative in the Last Supper of Jesus two millennia ago.
The very foundation of the Church is "closely bound up with the mystery of Holy Thursday," as the twelve who constituted the first Church at the Last Supper, shared in the body and blood of the Lord. To appreciate this, it would help to cut to the very heart of Catholic worship called liturgy.
And what is the place of this liturgical act of the Lord's Supper in relation to the sacrificial death and resurrection of Christ? Therefore, "At every celebration of the Eucharist, we are spiritually brought back to the Paschal Triduum: To the events of the evening of Holy Thursday, to the Last Supper and to what followed it. The institution of the Eucharist sacramentally anticipated the events which were about to take place, beginning with the agony in the garden." Christ's sacrifice "is so decisive for the salvation of the human race that [he] offered it and returned to the Father only after He had left us a means of sharing in it as if we had been present there."
The possibility of this literal one-ness of our Eucharistic sacrifice with that first Holy Thursday and the days that followed is concisely explained by Cardinal Henry Newman: "And He is still with us, for all that He is in Heaven, so again is the hour of His cross and passion ever mystically present, though it be past these eighteen hundred years. Time and space have no portion in the spiritual kingdom which He has founded; and the rites of His Church are mysterious spells by which he annuls them both."
Or, in the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "…all that Christ is—all that he did and suffered for all men—participates in the divine eternity and so transcends all times."
We could go on quoting a host of resources but these few references might prompt some to study, even in small groups, the ever-developing theology of the Eucharist as offered in recent Church documents. And inseparable from the timeless mystery of the Mass is, of course, the role of the priest who, by ordination becomes one "in the person of Christ, the head of the Church." This, to such an extent that in the words of Consecration at Mass, "the priest says these words, or rather puts his voice at the disposal of the One who spoke these words in the Upper Room and who desires that they should be repeated in every generation by all those who in the Church ministerially share in his priesthood."
And in case anyone would like to delve deeper, all the above is taken from three papal encyclicals—a little steep for some but containing real riches for all:
John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae (The Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist) 1980
John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Eucharist in its Relationship to the Church) 2003
Benedict XVI, Sacramentium Caritatis (The Sacrament of Love) 2007 A blessed Easter to all and may the risen, Eucharistic Christ shine in your hearts that you, in turn, might make known the glory of God shining in the face of Christ. (2 Cor. 4-6)
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This would be fore the purpose of automated parsing of a log file using regular expressions (e.g. looking for a key word like "Invalid" and having the file context be in the result, not just the one line containing the message).
egreg answered this with a definitive NO, it is hardcoded in XeTeX. :(
UPDATE 2016-05-19
In an e-mail to the maintainer of anyfontsize P. Szabó:

I'm not actively maintaining this package anymore. Feel free to convert it to UTF-8, and upload the new version of CTAN. You have my approval.

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I am typesetting documents with XeLaTeX. I have the bold aspiration to remove all warnings and errors from my document builds :D (nearly impossible, but nothing I cannot strive for!)
One of the warnings I and a colleague finally tracked down to anyfontsize, which is an official package in TeX Live. All packages are either in UTF-8 or ASCII, except this one (ISO-8859), because the creator has diacritics in his name (likely Hungarian ;) ) I e-mailed him about this already. Anyway, my real concern is the following  message:
grep -Pin 'Invalid' myfile.log

Invalid UTF-8 byte or sequence at line 3 replaced by U+FFFD.

This message is useless without a context (yes, line 3 is a context, but hardly useful as you can see). I propose adding context to these messages by adding the file name. This way, I could immediately know that this error was cause during the reading of anyfontsize.  Maybe something like "show last file loaded" before every error/warning.
Is this already possible? I know about \listfiles, which is great!
I can try to suppress messages that are not a problem by using the silence package. However, it is not a good idea to do this, because the message is not unique enough without a context (line 3 of what?).

A: When you compile with XeLaTeX the following document
\documentclass{article}
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aaa

\end{document}

your log file will contain
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Invalid UTF-8 byte or sequence at line 3 replaced by U+FFFD.
Invalid UTF-8 byte or sequence at line 3 replaced by U+FFFD.
Package: anyfontsize 2007/11/22 anyfontsize.sty by pts
)

that's pretty self explanatory: (Xe)TeX has opened anyfontsize.sty and found the bad byte sequences on line 3.
Solution: none. Either you change the .sty yourself or the author does it. The message cannot be silenced.
On the other hand, anyfontsize does nothing useful when fontspec is loaded. It does little useful, in general, frankly speaking.

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The Miami (OH) RedHawks and Ball State Cardinals meet Tuesday in college basketball action at the Worthen Arena.
The Miami (OH) RedHawks look for a win here to get a game above a .500 record. The Miami (OH) RedHawks are averaging 71.9 points on 43.2 percent shooting and allowing 74.1 points on 46.3 percent shooting. Nike Sibande is averaging 16.1 points and 1.2 assists while Dalonte Brown is averaging 13.8 points and 5.4 rebounds. Darrian Ringo is dishing 5.3 assists and Bam Bowman is grabbing 5.2 rebounds. The Miami (OH) RedHawks are shooting 34.4 percent from beyond the arc and 68.4 percent from the free throw line. The Miami (OH) RedHawks are allowing 34.3 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 32.9 rebounds per game. The Miami (OH) RedHawks have lost five of their last six road games.
The Ball State Cardinals could use a win here after splitting their last six games. The Ball State Cardinals are averaging 80.2 points on 49.5 percent shooting and allowing 73.8 points on 41.7 percent shooting. Tayler Persons is averaging 17.1 points and 4.7 assists while Tahjai Teague is averaging 14.9 points and 7.7 rebounds. K.J. Walton is the third double-digit scorer and Trey Moses is grabbing 6.8 rebounds. The Ball State Cardinals are shooting 35.9 percent from beyond the arc and 71.3 percent from the free throw line. The Ball State Cardinals are allowing 33.7 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 34.3 rebounds per game. The Ball State Cardinals have won five of their last seven home games.
The Red Hawks are 10-4 ATS in their last 14 Tuesday games, 2-6 ATS in their last 8 road games and 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games overall. The Cardinals are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games following a straight up win, 1-4 ATS in their last 5 Tuesday games and 2-8 ATS in their last 10 vs. Mid-American. The Red Hawks are 8-2 ATS in the last 10 meetings in Ball St and 15-5 ATS in the last 20 meetings. The over is 13-5 in Cardinals last 18 overall. The under is 9-3 in Red Hawks last 12 overall.
The Miami (OH) RedHawks have been awful on the road to say the least, as they've lost five of their last six and are losing by an average of 14.7 points while shooting just 39.6 percent from the field. At home this season, the Ball State Cardinals are winning by an average of 15.5 points while shooting 48.9 percent from the field. Just from those two numbers alone, there's a good idea how this game is going to go. I'll side with Ball State in a comfortable home victory.


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Find directions to each of our gardens in the greater Seattle area.
The garden is located in the Mt. Baker neighborhood in Southeast/Central Seattle.
17601 S.E. Lake Moneysmith Rd.
This garden is behind the South Shore School and the Rainier Beach Community Center near the tennis courts.
RBUFW is located in the Rainier Beach neighborhood a few blocks south of Seward Park, just south of Pritchard Beach and east of Rainier Beach High School.
The farm is located in the Sandpoint neighborhood in NE Seattle, on the Center for Urban Horticulture campus.
This is an example of a school yard garden. Visitors must check in at the office.
The Tilth Alliance office and community learning gardens behind the Good Shepherd Center is in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.
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Unique Games: Bubble Ghost
There are plenty of great games on the Game Boy. Zelda Link's Awaking, Donkey Kong, Tetris, Dr. Mario. The list goes on and on, but there's one little incredibly underrated game that hardly anyone has heard of. And that's Bubble Ghost!
Bubble Ghost is a maze game, but unlike most maze games where you're confined to the walls of a maze or labyrinth. In Bubble Ghost, you play as a ghost who can actually go through walls, however there's a bubble floating about, and the little ghost wants to leave this old house with his bubble in tact. Issue is, there's plenty of stuff there to burst your precious little bubble.
Be it spikes, flames, hard dryers, or even the heat emitted from candles can burst your little bubble. The idea is simple. You move from room to room, blowing your bubble away from any objects until you get to the final room whereby you can escape from the house with your bubble. The game has a total of 35 levels, and the GameBoy version has a great sound track. I had this game for quite some time and never thought about the game's roots. I always thought that as it was released by Pony Canyon, a Japanese Software and media company, I thought it came from the east. But I was amazed to find out that it was originally developed closer to home…
Surprisingly, it was originally released on the Commodore 64 in France and later ported to the Atari ST and DOS in the US and Canada. What's more interesting about this version is the fact that the ghost sprite looks different. Clearly the GameBoy version, had it's design of the sprite not just so it would appeal to the Japanese audience, but so that it could fit on the GameBoy screens lower screen resolution so that it wouldn't be too big on-screen.
The PC-DOS version of the game is now abandon-ware. Meaning that you can download the game without the fear of being accused of pirating. As Christophe Andrcani, the designer and programmer of the original game, doesn't own the rights to it any more. Nor do Accolade, they went bust in 1999, and didn't take the publishing rights of the game either.
Not only is the PC-DOS game abandon-ware, but there's a remake of the GameBoy version done by Vision Software and Brothers Soft. You can download this right here.
Before I go though, here's the music to the GameBoy game that brings back some good memories of gaming's past!
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In Catching Fire, one of the most ambitious arguments about human evolution since Darwin's Descent of Man, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham makes the claim that learning to cook food was the hinge on which human evolution turned. Eating cooked food, he argues, enabled us to evolve our large brains, and cooking itself became a primary focus of human social activity—in short, cooking made us the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. Path-breaking and provocative, Catching Fire will fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins—or in our modern eating habits.
"Catching Fire is convincing in argument and impressive in its explanatory power. A rich and important book." —Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma
"This is a daringly unorthodox book, and one that might just transform the way we understand ourselves." —Sunday Times (UK)
"The ambition of Wrangham's theory gives it great appeal: Cooking is a powerful biological force and the universal activity around which the rest of human history—the households and tribes, the migrations and wars, the religion and science—arranged itself. But the added treat of the I-cook-therefore-I-am idea is the counterintuitive light it sheds on one of our most intense cultural preoccupations—living the right life by eating naturally." —Slate
"An exhilarating book." —The Times (UK)
"A cogent and compelling argument." —Washington Post
"Absolutely fascinating." —Nigella Lawson
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Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. He is coauthor of Demonic Males, and has been featured on NPR and in the Boston Globe, New Scientist, and Scientific American. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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G. Winkler
2.0 out of 5 stars Would be good if didn't were taken by left identity politics.
The book was ok until the "Married cook" chapter, were the author gives us a whole ideologized account about how the patriarchy oppressed women into being the cooks of the family for the "leisure" of the men.
Not once, the author considers the reality of the men risking their lives and dying in the hunts, as the reason for the bargaining of being cooked by their women. It's just a marxist oppression regime according to the author, everything is about the power exercised by the men.
Never once, the author considered the willingness of men to take risks and actual deaths occurring until today, where more than 90% of work related deaths, are men.
It's a shame when supposedly scientific works are tainted with this kind of non-sense left leaning politics and agenda.
Brian A. Sparr
3.0 out of 5 stars While I did enjoy reading Dr
Dr. Richard Wrangham, renowned primatologist and Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, goes against the grain in this book with his assertion that the advent of preparing cooked meals, not merely increasing amounts of meat consumed, is the genesis of the list of extraordinary traits our ancient ancestors acquired over the last 2 million years that eventually gave rise to us, Homo sapiens.
Drawing on a number of food studies, ethnographic data, as well as his own primatological research, Dr. Wrangham argues that the transition from Homo habilis to Homo erectus would be impossible without a regular supply of cooked food. Citing the general unpalatability and undigestibility of a chimp's diet for modern humans, the seeming energy deficit seen in raw food proponents, the chemical changes that occur in foods that are cooked and the subsequent absorption of the unlocked calories, and the increasing reduction of our early ancestors' gastrointestinal tract through the millennia, he is convinced that the utilization of fire for cooking has its origins much farther in the past than the current evidence from the archaeological record tells us. The discrepancy between the archaeological record and his claim is around 1 million years, an incredibly large gap to bridge. In the latter third of the book, Wrangham makes the tangential argument that cooking is also what spurred our cultural evolution, e.g., concepts such as pair-bonding and the sexual division of labor, through the creation of a sort of "protection racket" that guards women from food thieves and ensures men a ready supply of food.
While I did enjoy reading Dr. Wrangham's book and readily admit that he makes some interesting and valid points, I am not convinced of the veracity of his hypothesis, especially in the light of more recent research on the variability and actions of the microbiome present in the digestive tracts of animals. In presenting his case for the need of cooked food for an increased energy supply in late habilines/early erectus, he ignores the fact that much of the successive change in the musculoskeletal morphology leading to our species had the effect of allowing us to conserve energy through increased efficiency of movement.
This does not necessarily mean that Dr. Wrangham is incorrect. However, the gaps in his arguments, coupled with the gaps in our own knowledge, have effectively rendered the cooking hypothesis unfalsifiable. There very well may come a time when the available physical evidence supports his position, but for now the only appropriate response is one of interest, skepticism, and further research.
Freebeerforall
5.0 out of 5 stars Cooking made us human? This book is convincing
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018
A well thought-out and opulently referenced text that convincingly posits that the evolution of humans from over the past 500,000 years or so was driven by the nutritional benefits that can be ascribed to cooking food. If you're interested in the development of Homo sapiens and/or the core role that cooking has played in humans not only surviving but thriving, this is well worth a read. It runs to over 300 pp but well over a third is references, notes and the index. I have to say though that insight into the Inuit diet has not sold me on overwintering in the Arctic...
Patrick L Boyle
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book from Wrangham
This guy Wrangham is a serious scholar. He muster's a good deal of evidence for his thesis and presents it well. At one point in the early part of the book he casually mentions how a number of different African fruits taste. These are fruits not eaten by people but by chimpanzees. Apparently chimps relish fruits that humans detest. It's always nice to read a book by someone with real expertise. Who else can comment intelligently on chimp fruit?
Wrangham does not specifically state this but he implies it strongly. The Atwater system of calorie counting is wrong. That's the system that tells us that protein and carbohydrates yield 4 kilocalories per gram and fat 9. It also leads to the conclusion that raw food and cooked food are equal in their nutrition. This is a central point in the book. Atwater in the nineteenth century devised the procedure by which we measure the caloric value of a food article by burning it in a bomb calorimeter. This procedure is cheap and easy whereas Wrangham has to use evidence to the contrary based on measurements taken from the contents of person's colostomy bags who have eaten supervised diets. This procedure is more adequate scientifically but expensive and difficult. If you follow the simple, cheap Atwater conventions as almost everyone does then cooking hardly seems important at all. Food is food - no matter if raw or cooked. That's why Wrangham's insights will probably strike you as new.
As a primatologist Wrangham has a number of chimp anecdotes that stick with you. He points out that chimpanzees spend at least four or five hours each day just chewing. No wonder they never got around to building a civilization. Wrangham believes that <I> Homo erectus</I> emerged when they developed cooking as a way to externalize digestion thus freeing up their time and energy. Anthropology changes all the time, his specific theory may prove to have been wrong. Cooking may have arisen earlier or later than he thinks. But whatever else is subsequently learned, this is an important book.
4.0 out of 5 stars A brave collection of ideas about cooking and human development
This is one person's thesis about how human development was progressed by fire and cooking of meat. It goes out on a limb to some extent, disagreeing with common and accepted viewpoints but that is quite refreshing and is why this is a thesis and not a textbook. It covers quite an amount of material and ideas from how cooked food increased our brain size, how this created conjugal bonds based on mutual need, how this led to social cooperation between individuals and so forth. He ends with a rant about how this has set the scene for obesity. He draws a lot upon the animal kingdom as a reference point which is where the weakness lies in this book because essentially this book is just one man's view without evidence just logical and philosophical reasoning to justify his points. An interesting read nonetheless with some useful, yet unconventional ideas.
Carno Polo
5.0 out of 5 stars Coquo ergo sum
Cogito ergo sum, said Descartes. Coquo ergo sum is the gist of this book. According to largely accepted scientific knowledge, Homo erectus sprung up from the earlier Australopithecines by eating meat.The transition from homo erectus to homo sapiens, us, is owed to a major innovation: cooking.
Levi-Strauss, in his The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a science of mythology (Pimlico), wrote that fire marks the transition from nature to culture. Few would dispute that the cuisine of any nation is a major trademark of its cultural somplexity and sophistication. And cooking, in its many diverse methods (grilling, steaming, boiling, baking etc) is an essential part of any major cuisine in the world.
Our bodies evolved because we learned to cook: besides a smaller stomach and larger brain, we lost our climbing ability (no need to climb if fire can protect camp on the ground) in favor of better running skills. And we have much smaller teeth compared to our ancestors who did not cook.
Cooking also played an essential role in making mankind a carnivore, as it makes it efficient to digest and store large amount of animal proteins in a way that would have been unthinkable with just raw meat. But for vegetarians there is some consolation as well: cooking made it possible to digest many more types of roots.
Finally, this book dwelves on the social implications of cooking: how it shaped the man/woman relationship in the house, and how it made it easier to use meals as a social event. Some cultures have peculiar (to us) habits: among the Bonerif of Papua, a woman will sleep with every man in the village except her brothers before finally getting married; but the moment she feeds a man she is irrevocably considered his wife!
andyhb
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Popular Science
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2019
Highly recommended book. An excellent proposition well presented and argued. Wrangham has the happy knack of writing scientifically robust work while retaining a very accessible style for the non-specialist.
I'd recommend this book first, then "Demonic Males" followed by "The Goodness Paradox" - I feel it presents the subject in the most logical order.
Samantha Wallace
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting take on human's early origins
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2017
Overall I enjoyed this book. However, at times it read like an undergraduate's essay in as much as there was a lot of cited information but didn't seem to develop into a coherent argument. The author would quote some research and then a little later quote something else which seemed a contradiction, without giving the chapter the structure of a for and against debate. This occurred more than once throughout the book. Also, I felt that the term habalines really should have been better explained earlier in the book.
Overall, an enjoyable and informative read, I'd really like to give 4.5 stars or 9/10 for this book.
oxfoodblog
4.0 out of 5 stars Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2012
Considering the evolution of humans in the context of food and cooking is a fascinating subject. Why do we eat the foods we do, as opposed to the food chimpanzees eat? How did we develop cooking, and what effect did it have on our morphological development? Why do we like the flavours of the foods we do? `Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human` examines the hypothesis that it was actually the development of cooking which was a major evolutionary transition. The physical composition of cooked food is different from that of raw food, changing the costs of digestion like chewing, resulting in different developments in humans, like smaller jawbones than chimpanzees. Similarly, the way societies evolved, and the community structure we have is based around the collection and distribution of food. There were a lot of key advances in human society due to culinary developments, and `Catching Fire' is one of the few books I have seen that looks at them.
Perhaps more of a popular science book than a food book, you won't find any recipes or many applications of the evolutionary ideas to modern day cooking. But you will find a good amount of theory- well sourced and ideas clearly explained- concerning our culinary development. I might have hoped for a little more detail in developing the ideas, and perhaps some discussion of how these ideas affect our gastronomy today- the book has a large font and, without the `notes' sections, only totals around 200 pages. There are many interesting examples for each idea presented, looking at tribes which developed society independently of ours. Overall, there are a lot of good ideas presented, and it's worth a read, from both a science and a culinary perspective. 8/10.


Kathmandu in its raw form is better viewed from the suburb area. As we drive out from the central Kathmandu, within an hour we can reach the foothill of those Green forested hills that surround this valley. On the face of the hills, there are innumerable small villages. It gives a magical feeling to walk through such villages. They throw an aura of rustic life and its simplicity.
The best you can get on the top of that is the number of Buddhist Monasteries built on the top of the Hills. The monasteries are a display of Buddhist teaching and rituals. They accommodate numbers of monks and nuns. And you a chance to participate in their daily ritual of Puja, Chants and Meditation!
As usual, we drive to Namobuddha after breakfast. Today we head to Namo Buddha, a historical place. One of the four most holiest Buddhist Shrines. We will explore the area that includes a legendary Buddhist stupa, Phenomenal Buddhist Monastery etc. over night at Namo Buddha Organic resort.
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Ford quits the Japanese market
Back in the eighties, Japan was in love with America. The Lincoln had more swagger than a karaoke bar at midnight, and baseball was bigger than Takeshi's Castle.
Unfortunately, the halcyon days are gone for American corporations and Ford is ready call it quits in the land of the rising sun.
Presently, Ford Motor Company sells six models in Japan, ranging from the elusive Mustang to the family-based Fiesta. Collectively, all six models brought in no more than 5,000 sales in 2015 which gave Ford a 1.5% share of the important new car market.
One Japanese consumer we spoke to said Ford's are just too big, with the Fiesta in particular coming under fire for being at least several times too huge. "We buy small cars here. The Ford Fiesta? Get outta here. Too big, man."
Ford now see "no reasonable path to profitability" and have had to pull out of the country it has operated in since 1974.
Affected employees have all been notified via email.
Ford Motor Company will also be pulling out of the Indonesian market, where local manufacturing is too dominant. Ford had a share of just 0.6% of the imported new car market last year.
But it is the Japanese market that has become notorious in recent years for its frustrating volatility; at the moment, its automobile market is considered a no-go for foreign car manufacturers, with the situation not expected to improve anytime soon.
The economy is stagnant, so Ford had nothing else to do but say "sayonara!"


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