Gyokuyoutama
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Does this count as twintails?
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RIP VHS rewinder
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My VCR actually rewinds tapes in literally a twentieth of the time that the separate rewinder did.
It's only purpose was to reduce the demand on my VCR motors, to help assuage the fears that they will blow out without me being able to repair them and I will have to swap out to the next VCR/DVD combo player in the pile.
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Waiting 20 minutes so that your virtual Windows 95 machine can install a game at an era realistic time, when all that is really happening is that files already on my hard drive are moving to somewhere else on it, is something that causes me to question what I'm doing with my life.
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Today I learned that one possible output for "neko" in the microsoft JP IME is =^_^=. This is apparently due to 2chan users adding it to their personal IME and widely distributing the files.
You can also use "ai" to get ぁぃ(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ and other variations, "ase" to get (-_-;) among others, warau for ((´∀｀))ｹﾗｹﾗ etc.
I feel like I've just broken a secret code or something.
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You can also use it to get emojis, which is where I found this out from (though emojis are banned on SPUF for some reason.) Sometimes you get characters that aren't technically emojis like ☆ from "hoshi", ♪ from "ongaku," or ♀ from "mesu."
But man when looking into this I have found a bunch of weird stuff. Here's some websites archiving and giving tips for kaomoji use:
https://kaomojinavi.net/index.htm
http://www.nekoguchi.com/2007/10/24/japanese_emoticons/comment-page-2/ (unfortunately the kaomoji dictionary links are broken)
https://nihonshock.com/2010/04/12-japanese-ime-tips/
I also discovered that the emoji feature in Windows 10+ also has a kaomoji page. (Access by WIN + ;) Though I think the IME option is better once you know what words correspond to which kaomoji.
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numa numa a
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numa numa a
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It blew my mind when I found out that that song was in Romanian.
Not that it's that unusual for a meme song to be from some random corner of the world (as we've seen with finnish leek polkas, vaca polaca, azumanga brazil drinks, etc.) But I picked up some very rudimentary Romanian (i.e. equivalent to maybe a month of a class) from some graduate students. Coming back to the song and understanding individual words instead of having it be 100% gibberish was an experience.
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I fully intend to die without ever hearing a non-nightcore version of Rockefeller Street.
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I fully intend to die without ever hearing a non-nightcore version of Rockefeller Street.
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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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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.
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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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where were you when e3 dies?
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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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I always forget why "butt rock" is an insult until I remember that there are bands that play in that genre other than Crush 40.
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A 1970 Corvette reacted to this
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Let's all remember the only man to walk into parliament with honorable intentions.
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It's so hot! I'm feeling parched in this heat... It's hot, even when I'm not moving at all...
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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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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.
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Russian coup bros... we're so back
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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.
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Well Amazon I managed to find the product, despite your search engine and recommendations.
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Well Amazon I managed to find the product, despite your search engine and recommendations.
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If June is pride month, which months correspond to the other six deadly sins?
