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  2. In "The Marriage of Mrs. Fox" (Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin) Mrs. Fox's husband has nine tails and is quite proud of this fact.  You can see this in this Brothers Grimm cartoon from way back:

     

     

    I guess this is technically an anime even though I think it was primarily made for European audiences.  But the detail appears in the original fairy tale, as the very first line goes: "Es war einmal ein alter Fuchs mit neun Schwänzen" i.e. "there once was an old fox with nine tails."

     

    Anyway, this is literally the only time I've seen references to foxes having multiple tails in a western, non-influenced by Japan work.  The fact that there are nine tails specifically is stranger still, as just having multiple would be enough for the story to work.

     

    The story is basically about worrying about getting cucked and faking his death to see what happens only for his wife to be faithful to him... until she finds another fox with nine tails and then immediately decides to marry him.  The story could have had Mr. Fox get beat out with the new suitor having ten tails, but it stops at nine, like that's the max.

     

    Anyway, I'm posting this for two reasons.  One is just I thought it was an interesting tidbit.  Second, I'm curious if anyone has encountered any western stories with foxes having multiple tails, discounting stuff influenced by anime.  The closest thing I can think of outside of this is when Samson burns down a vineyard by tying pairs of foxes together by their tails.

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    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Foxfire (i.e. Will o' the Wisps) being associated with foxes is pretty universal, unlike the multiple tails thing.

       

      It's also common consensus that the tip of a fox's tail is white because it got burned and/or produces fire.

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Discotek just announced that they're no longer pressing new discs for Grimm's Fairy Tales, so if you want the above episode and more in a pro-physical version you'll have to buy soon.

       

      Don't miss out like you all did for Joshiraku.  (Holy shit, it's going for $160 on ebay.)

       

      What am I saying all of you guys just pirate everything anyway.

    4. hugthebed2

      hugthebed2

      I have someone who works as a sound engineer for the western anime companies occasionally. I've been tempted to buy some BDs for some old shows from Discotek but I simply buy nothing period.

  3. 9/33, never forget.

  4. you've heard of gunshot fade to black but have you heard of gunshot cut to AIJOU YUUJOU

    1. Idiot Cube

      Idiot Cube

      Nothing will top gunshot, fade to black, fade to "Hey, you, finally awake?"

    2. Huff

      Huff

      BETHESDA SOFTWORKS PRESENTS

  5. We need a good quick term for ChatGPT and StableDifussion style algorithms other than AI.

     

    Seeing people talk about "AI" as if no one ever used the term before two years ago feels like being gas lit.  I've even seen someone say "I want to be one of the first people to make games that use AI."

    1. Idiot Cube

      Idiot Cube

      I propose "strainer", as in spaghetti strainer! It takes in a large amalgamation of material, then kinda shakes it around until only the desired portion remains. 

       

      ChatGPT is a "sentence strainer", stable diffusion is an "image strainer", etc.

  6. mikanko foo-li coo-li

    1. Rynjin

      Rynjin

      Fun deck

    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I like the cute girls on the cards but I'm not sure about the deck itself

    3. Rynjin

      Rynjin

      It's standard going second deck but it has more teeth going first than similar decks like Numeron, Earth Machines, etc. If you end up having to go first Hu-Li (the green one) is a a good one turn towers since she can't be destroyed by battle or card effect and can't be targeted. Notably Kashtira has like zero outs for Hu-Li. Plus it has an in-archetype Snatch Steal that can be played on the opponent's turn, which is neat.

      If you like looking at your opponent's board and going "Herald of NOTHING, IDIOT"* and then ramming them for 10k damage with 0 ATK monsters it'll be great. I picked it up during Kashtira meta in Master Duel and just used it to do my dailies and somehow ended up in top Diamond just playing 1-2 games a day. It's not exactly a big brain deck, but sometimes you need something simple that gets the job done.

      *Is Mecha-Godzilla now.

  7. the horror of trying to remember the four games you played this year to have a post for the goty thread ;~;

    1. Moby

      Moby

      Wasnt it Touhou, Noita, Touhou and Noita?

    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I mean I apparently launched Noita more times in 2023 than there were days, but I luckily managed to check the steam year review and remembered "oh I played that THIS year?" for a few of them

  8. it's just another endless monday...

    1. A 1970 Corvette
    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      LAST DAY OF THE REST OF MY LIFE

  9. Merry last hours of Christmas.

  10. where were you when e3 dies?

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    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      e3 died so SPUF could live

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      i was sat at home playing bulit hel game when news site pop up

      "e3 is kill"

      "no"

    4. Idiot Cube

      Idiot Cube

      Planning to not go this year but maybe next year for the 16th year in a row.

  11. We're not done yet!

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    2. Moby

      Moby

      Oh, so it wasn't my provider after all.

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      My provider crapped out at the same time that SPUF went down so I was also confused.

    4. Idiot Cube

      Idiot Cube

      Don't forget, you're here forever.

  12. BREAKING - GTA 6 CONFIRMED to have the WORST soundtrack in the series - "Holy shit," said Sam Houser, "I'm so sorry."

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    2. Moby

      Moby

      So basically the same as GTA 5 with the 7 rap/hip-hop radios and the 5 techno/electro radios but only one classic rock radio.

    3. TheOnlyGuyEver

      TheOnlyGuyEver

      This is the news I come here for

    4. General DeGroot

      General DeGroot

      Was anyone surprised that Normie Game: The Video Game has zero good music?

  13. Let's all remember the only man to walk into parliament with honorable intentions.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Now that I look at it here that link does look pretty shady...

    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      These kinds of links are the ones I get sent by users who clearly looked into their junk folders SOLELY to find things to report, ignoring that OUR TOOLS PUT THOSE IN JUNK AUTOMATICALLY SO YOU DON'T NEED TO REPORT THEM WE KNOW THEY'RE BAD LINKS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    3. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      My psychosis aside that's a great game

  14. Is Moby the Duck a reference to Moby Dick?

     

    If so, am I retarded for taking this long to notice?

    1. Moby

      Moby

      Yes. At first it was just "Moby Duck" when I began using the nickname on my first Ragnarok Online character.

       

      Specifically, the idea came from this episode of Fairly Odd Parents with Tom Sawyer where he changes the "i" in Moby Dick to an "u".

      image.png.3da9ed0bb824b5861bb8c469605ee4b3.png

       

      Conclusion: Very yes.

  15. I swear you can find Blue's Traveller's "Four" in every single used record store in the world, and it used to be played all the time, but the songs on it have gotten pretty obscure now.

  16. ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU

    AND MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU AND LIVE HARMONY HARMONY DOGE LORD

    1. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      IT CAN'T BE SEEN BUT THERE'S BLOOD ON THE GREEN

      ONLY GOD KNOWS I'M INNOCENT, TAKE ME, TAKE ME HOME

      A DARK SEED REIGNS IN ME, THE STORM RULES OVER THE SEA

      I CHALLENGE THEE, DO NOT CROSS THIS BRIDGE ALONE!

  17. If I needed to explain to someone what the 00's era internet was like, I would link them to this ZZT World:

     

    https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/9elation/

  18. It's so hot! I'm feeling parched in this heat... It's hot, even when I'm not moving at all...

  19. If you watch this video ten times in a row you can almost believe that old SPUF still exists.

     

     

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I recently went out of my way to find the skyward sword saxton hale cutscene edit where he's falling after Link and that channel is like a portal back to 2011 SPUF as well

    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  20. Turns out the machine god is real and is keeping my site's welder together.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      So are you gonna build a shrine?

    2. General DeGroot

      General DeGroot

      I'd have to explain to my boomer management what it was, and I don't know if I could.

    3. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      On the whole I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing but at least the welder's together.

  21. I was fiddling around with an old mp3 player of my brother's that he had left at my parents years ago.  All the buttons on the outside are busted, but I thought maybe I could get it working.  I couldn't get it to play music, but I did get into the file structure and saw names that both resembled my humor far more than his and referenced stuff that he wouldn't have been interested in (like Big O and Aura Battler Dunbine.)

     

    I hooked it up to my computer and apparently I used it as a makeshift external hard drive backup of my first personal computer.  In addition to a gig of the first music I downloaded from the internet, there were also about 60 books in .txt format, lots of various school assignments, some old java programs I made, and Hello! style archives of the very first forum I was active on.  I only vaguely remember making the decision to transfer this stuff over to the mp3 player, and as far as I remember I never transferred them to any other device before now.

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    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Sweet, free mp3 player!

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Now it's pretty much only an external harddrive.  Most buttons on the mp3 player are broken, including the play button and most of the navigation buttons.  (Notably once you go into a folder the only way to go back is to reboot the whole system.)  It has a remote that might work, though the battery in it is almost certainly dead.

       

      On another note I had ignored it for a while since when you boot it up you get random garbage characters so I had assumed the hard drive was fried.  Turns out that these are just music files from the Dunbine soundtrack that had Japanese names that the display wasn't set up to show properly.

    4. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      My car has a USB port that you can put a flash drive with music files on and it will play them, and unfortunately it just cannot handle japanese characters which is extremely unfortunate for my love live mixtape

  22. Russian coup bros... we're so back

     

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    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      well now "it's so over" so there's no need to worry about it anymore

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Gyoku's policy of not paying attention to current events for at least a week after they happen pays off again.

    4. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      it would have been cool to see a russian reenactment of the romance of the three kingdoms but oh well

       

      actually considering the vastly expanded capacity for destruction nowadays maybe  it would not have been cool at all

  23. Pros and cons of becoming known as "that guy who still watches VHS tapes":

     

    Pros: People will randomly give you free VHS tapes.

     

    Cons: People will randomly give you free VHS tapes.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      Hey I have a stack of religious kids' programming on VHS, I'm sure you want all of it right?

    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Honestly I find that stuff less annoying than "hey, here's a copy of Back to the Future that I've watched fifty times."

       

      At least weird religious kids' programming is unlikely to be available on DVD or bluray.

  24. The verdict? Guilty. His sentence? Loading up an in-progress strategy game save file from 5 years ago and being forced to figure out what the fuck he was trying to do.

    1. A 1970 Corvette
    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      I have this problem more with old CRPGs and 16 bit console rpgs.

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