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I once chatted with a guy from Hawaii, we started talking about languages. I mentioned that while I've heard very little of it and hardly seen more of it written down, the Hawaiian language seems to have extremely similar balance of vocals and consonants as Finnish does, so it's actually pretty likely that there are some words that exist in both languages, but mean one thing in Hawaiian and a completely differen thing in Finnish - much like in Japanese.

He didn't find it plausible, so we agreed to disagree. Later on he mentioned that his name is [firstname] Kalani Kanaele, and when I told him what that translates to in Finnish, I had to spend like 20 more minutes trying to convince him that I'm actually not fucking with him.

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nowikknowthislooksbad please tell me if you ever find this story because this sounds absolutely insane and I need to read it

Good ol' Chuckie Brown.

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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Anna Harker, Monster Hunter

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Date night

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truly

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@warthogreporter

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Eating bagel sold by dino in magical utopia: waow....this is amazing....I'll never forget this

New Yorker traveling companion: meh...it's not as good as da bagels we got in new yawk...dinotopia don't got soft enough watah

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"please god, let me have a happy dream"

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IBM 7094 + Hatsune Miku, singing computers.

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what if you were watching Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi) and suddenly Ultraman showed up and obliterated the sociopolitical themes and message of the movie by beating the fuck outta Godzilla

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pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

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I don't know if this is a hot take but I feel like Ultra is at its heart an episodic show. For me its most soaring heights are usually self-contained episodes or occasionally two-parters. And so I don't see any reason why anyone has to commit to watching an entire season of Ultraman to get the greatest hits. There's something nice about watching the whole thing, but the quality varies a lot episode to episode and there's no need to put off experiencing some fantastic television due to being overwhelmed by a ton of 40+ episode shows. You don't need to see all of Blazar to appreciate "Planet of Music," or Max to love "Butterfly Dream." And you certainly don't need to slog through all of Ace to watch its masterful if awkwardly titled fourth episode, "300 Million Year Old Chouju Appears".

In short, I think more people should be fine with just putting on a random episode of ultraman every now and then and seeing what happens, and I'd encourage people to watch the "greatest hits" even if they're not interested in watching a whole show.

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little design challenge for myself. designing dragons for different genres.

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I love how ghidorah's character is just "whatever the opposite of godzilla is at the time."

is his godzilla a grumpy antihero who attacks when angered? he's a force of pure destruction.

is his godzilla a wild card who can't be controlled? he's a mindless weapon.

is his godzilla the force of pure destruction? he's a heroic guardian.

is his godzilla nature's balance? then he's literally climate change.

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a lil cheeky commission I'm workin on