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  1. Does this count as twintails?

     

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    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I would be killed if I ever got close enough to check so I wouldn't know.

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  2. Does this count as twintails?

     

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    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      Of course not. Would you say Chen is a twintail character?!

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  3. Merry Christmas!

  4. Zombie goasts leave this place!

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      but this is our home :(

  5. pudding

    (^has never had pudding)

  6. 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.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      Manuals were so cool. I only was around for the tail end of them but even the Halo 1 manual had all this cool lore and weapon and enemy descriptions that I would come back to and read and reread.

       

      Now you just get a single printed page with a QR code telling you to install Origin or something

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  7. 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.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      People are just files in the Matrix getting moved around from place to place. You're just experiencing mind-static due to the simulation's inner workings being revealed

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  8. 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.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      a small addition: I was pleasantly surprised to see that typing "nya" has one of the predictions "nyanpasu." it's not too surprising if it really was copied from 2ch users but still fun

       

      That last link blew my mind with the "type english sentence by starting with a capital letter" though, that's a genius feature

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  9. 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.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      On one hand, hey I can finally get some of those weird emoji really easily (;゚Д゚)

       

      On the other hand, wow that is pretty wacky

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  10. numa numa a

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      A 1970 Corvette

      Next you're going to tell me Caramelldansen isn't Japanese.

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  11. I was trolling around Facebook marketplace and it seems I found a table from the exact same maker of this one 40-year old wicker table I own. It's pretty crazy, the wicker construction looks identical.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I've heard you can just download models and load them into a 3d wicker nowadays, technology has really gone too far

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  12. 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.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      Maybe western stories preferred to give their mythical creatures more heads instead of more tails. Personally I see many heads as a downgrade over many tails for several obvious reasons, but unfortunately I can't take up these issues with the makers of myth since they're (probably) long dead.

       

      As an aside this entire discussion made me think of the Magic card Foxfire, which has really nice art.

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  13. mikanko foo-li coo-li

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

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

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

    1. 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

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      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

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  15. 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

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

  17. 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.

    1. 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

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  18. 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.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      You fool! Now they know to search your MP3 players for all your secrets!!

       

      Pretty cool idea though

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

     

    1. 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

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

     

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      damn I don't know a thing about what's going on out there but that song is good

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