darkbaptist: (I caused the apocalypse)
Hikawa ([personal profile] darkbaptist) wrote in [community profile] compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am

1st Conception - Video

[The communication starts with a hissing sound, like you'd hear in a low burn, and then focuses on the source of the noise: two skillets being set down on the burners of a stove. Around the counter viewers can make out cooking ingredients: a stick of butter, margerine, salt, eggs, chocolate, a whipping spoon. After a few seconds Hikawa begins to speak.]

As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.

It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.

[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]

Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.

[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]

While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.

So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-

[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]

Or the dish made with chocolate?

[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
rewindtime: (Default)

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[personal profile] rewindtime 2012-11-29 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Starting over is never a bad idea.

[She is the Queen of Start-Overs, in fact.]
forceofnature: (Hmph)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-29 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well.

Nature is telling you now that that's the dumbest thing she's ever heard. Humans aren't special. At all. It's because you all think you're entitled to something that all the trouble happens at all.

My world is going to change, with or without the cooperation of the humans.
forceofnature: (Scheme)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-29 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
You can survive if you learn to do it without stamping out every other life form on the planet. It's pretty easy, really.
booyaka_boom: (Selphie Quite Confused)

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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2012-11-29 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
A metaphor, huh?

*Her nose wriggles a little and her eyes glance from side to side ~ apparently, she's thinking quite hard*

Metaphor for what?
all_wound_up: (curious)

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[personal profile] all_wound_up 2012-11-29 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be, but isn't learning those things part of growing up?
all_wound_up: (surprised)

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[personal profile] all_wound_up 2012-11-29 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't always easy, but I agree. I'm learning so much myself, too.
forceofnature: (Exuberant)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-30 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, can't argue there.

Righteous indignation just feels so good, you know?
universebeware: (I'm a genius. You're not.)

[personal profile] universebeware 2012-11-30 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
I do, but the things I consume are quite different than those befitting organics. Various fuels and similar things.
booyaka_boom: (Wink From a Clutz)

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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2012-11-30 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.. I see.. So maybe something seems like a good idea, but actually it isnt?

*Selphie grins gently and flashes a quick wink*

You mean..like a lady friend?
kagami_arrow: (o. the beginning)

[personal profile] kagami_arrow 2012-12-01 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Certainly not, but there is more to food than the way it looks.
Edited 2012-12-01 03:56 (UTC)
nyxterious: (Its brilliance)

[personal profile] nyxterious 2012-12-01 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
I can see where you're coming from. There's definitely a difference there.

I've heard something similar, before. "The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate..."

I'd like to think it does more good, though. Even if it can tread a path towards self destruction, it's something that is still wonderful. I think most things are like that, really. Something that can cause good or bad. I've personally seen it do more good than harm. I can still see how it could be a double edged sword, at least.
forceofnature: (Confused)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-12-05 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not really righteous indignation for you more than it is glancing around and realizing how crappy your species is.

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