>>Since a pan/skillet is involved, is this for deep dish use only, or
>>will it serve for thinner crusts?
>
>Not only for deep dish, I usually do a regular "stretched dough"-type
>crust. I haven't tried it with anything that might be marketed as
>"thin 'n crispy", as that's not really my thing.

Chiming in here as a guy that works in a pizza place - namely a chain of Papa John's stores.

The hand stretched version you're thinking of is referred to as "hand tossed" dough, as the more showy dough slappers can toss the dough skin in the air and spin it on a finger tip to let centrifugal force do its thing.

(The term "Dough Slapper" itself comes from the more basic form of dough tossing - also called dough slapping - where they simply slap the dough skin from one hand to the other.)

Regarding special implements... As G said, none are really required beyond having a halfway decent oven. Gas or electric will do, but convection ovens, of course, work better. However, there are "Proper" pizza ovens, but these are only special in that they have a slab-bottom made of either stainless steel or stone that you supposed to directly place the pizza on - no need for pans or screens. But these are prohibitively expensive to own and require a LONG warm-up time since the "Proper" temperature for cooking pizza is anywhere between 600 and 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

As for what kind of pizza I like? Here, my status as a Human Black Hole applies. Generally I like hand tossed style crust, but I also love a good thin crust now and then. (Papa John's thin crust is particularly good, IMO.) Same with pan-style pizza - particularly where the cheese and topping are out to the edges of the pan. Properly done, it's great stuff.

Pizza Pie is an actual thing, and not simply a term to refer to a pizza in general. In fact, referring to any other pizza as a "pie" is a generally erroneous thing. Actual Pizza Pies are more akin to the Chicago-Style pan pizzas, which can often exceed an inch in thickness.

Suffice to say, a Pizza Pie is the kind of pizza where you have no choice but to eat it like a pie - with a knife and fork.

>>(I expect Flandre and Minna will cross paths eventually, so
>>this should only require patience, but that's never been a strong suit
>>of the EPU fandom. Though I think we have, on average, gotten better
>>over the years.)
>
>Given the incredible variability of output over the last decade or so,
>those of you who are still here have had little choice, unfortunately.
>:/
>
>>If she had been present, she probably would have seconded Erica's
>>motion regarding marriage requirements.
>
>Part of me is tempted to actually show the witches in council over
>this matter, but then I would have to entitle that episode "Failing
>the Bechdel Test" and I dunno if I need the tsuris. :)
>
>(Well, OK, the Bechdel test stipulates that women in scenes must not
>only talk about men, not that they never can, but
>still.)
>

Eh. I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but the Bechdel Test is an overrated thing, and anyone that believes in it wholeheartedly needs to be pointed towards a porno flick that happens to technically pass the Bechdel Test.

Besides, these sorts of people are pretty toxic in general, though, and not the sort to hang around here.

>>The second card would probably trigger various amused sounds from G
>>and Remilia that Eila would entirely not comprehend. Interesting that
>>both cards official (as much as Tarot can be said to have it)
>>interpretations actually do seem fitting, above and beyond their
>>winking reference value.
>
>The thing about Eila's Tarot readings is that nobody else thinks
>they're accurate, and even Eila doesn't realize how they are a
>lot of the time, but they usually are.

Expanding a bit on this topic here, as someone who dated a Pagan.

The funny thing is that tarot decks, much like dice for some hard-core DND and other table-top gamers, seem to have their own personalities where the same two cards for different decks can have wildly different interpretations. For example, said Pagan girlfriend had a special limited-run tarot where the artwork was all done by the infamous HR Geiger (the man who is responsible for the Xenomorph's aesthetic in the series of Alien films). Said tarot deck had some particularly and wickedly snide and sarcastic interpretations that were very fitting of the representing artwork on the Major Arcana.

>These days, Flandre sometimes thinks that "I'll Get It Sorted Out
>Eventually" (possibly in a Latin translation) should be on her
>personal coat of arms, if she had one.
>
>(Of potential interest, the actual motto on the Scarlet family's
>escutcheon is NON CEDERE - "we do not yield".)

Oh man, these can be so much fun if you work at it. In one of my current projects, I'm having it that a Macross-class SDF has the following motto: "Ecce et flebitis"

>>I knew nothing of Touhou before this storyline came about, so that
>>wasn't me. It does give me the mental image of one of the Scarlet
>>sisters actually wielding Sakuya as a weapon and beheading
>>someone with her.
>
>Heh. Well, three out of the four people she lives with are strong
>enough to deploy her in a Fastball Special, which might count. :)

Pffft. I love the bits in the picture there...

"Piotr Rasputin--Colossus. Organic Steel. Fast Ball tops out at 220 MPH."
"Logan--Wolverine. Adamantium Skeleton, Claws. Currently traveling at 220 MPH."