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On Sampo's name (ALL of his names!)
I feel like everyone who's a fan knows the meaning of Sampo's full name by now- the sampo was a legendary item that could magically make endless supplies of gold, flour, and salt, all priceless items at the time! So it works perfectly for a scammer businessman like Sampo. ☆
"Koski" is the Finnish word for "water rapids" which might seem kinda random but actually makes sense for him, since Aha and the Masked Fools are also referred to with water terms:
This kind of analogy isn't specific to only Aha and the Masked Fools, but it does still tie them together. So water rapids fits perfectly! Sampo wants to stir the pot! He likes to shake things around and spice things up! He's taking that stagnant pool and turning it into water rapids! It would actually explain his ridiculous hair color, too; a dark blue wave tipped with white foam haha
EDIT: an amazing contribution from @ricochetlovebombs, who heard it from hoyolab user Rattaboy. If you interpret his first and last name together, instead of separately like I did, you would get something like "money river."
In other words, Sampo's name literally means CASH FLOW SKXJMDMDMD
What I really wanted to talk about is his drag alias name, though, Brughel Poisson, because to me that's where it gets really interesting.
So like in the English version, Sampo goes by Brughel Poisson when he's in disguise. Searching for just "Brughel" itself doesn't seem to get you much at first: a Flemish and Dutch Renaissance painter named Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who was famous for his landscapes and peasant scenery, especially Hunters in the Snow and The Blue Cloak.
He's referred to as "the Elder" because he had a son also named Pieter Brueghel (the Younger), and he began a long line of painters, all named Brueghel. Some of them did original work, and many of them created reproductions of the Elder's art to sell. The Elder was also famous as a printmaker. All of this is hilarious when you remember that Sampo is an infamous counterfeiter and has sold a relic called the Parallel Universe Printer JSKZJSMD
There is also something called Brueghel's Syndrome, named after one of Brueghel's paintings called De Gaper, which pictured a man yawning widely. It's a condition that causes the mouth to open and gape uncontrollably, twisting a person's countenance into a distorted mask of their usual face.
Tumblr doesn't have a way of censoring pics like twitter, so for the sake of the medically squeamish, I'm just showing De Gaper here. But if you look up Brueghel's Syndrome, you can find pictures of actual patients, some of whom really do make faces resembling Aha's comedy and tragedy masks!
In the Chinese and Japanese versions, his alias last name is a lot more silly- In those, "Sampo" is phonetically written as "san-bo" and "san-po." And in disguise, his last names are phonetically written as... "Bo-san" and "Po-san." The Chinese version uses different tones, but still. This smug asshole seriously just decided to write his own name backwards and called it a day NDMKXMDMD
In the English version, Poisson itself is kind of a reused Hoyo asset- it's also the name of Navia's fishing village in Genshin Impact. Which is a really silly name for a village, because it literally just means "fish" in French smzjxkdkdk but!
Again, more water imagery. And in English, if something is suspicious, we say that it's "fishy," which is perhaps the most fitting association yet for someone as shady as Sampo ☆
And for a good while I thought that was the only connection. But then. My beloved @hydrachea, who is an actual native French speaker, dropped this on me right after April Fool's Day:
Poisson is literally the word you use to pull an April Fool's prank.
#honkai star rail#sampo koski#brughel poisson#hsr sampo#hsr sampo koski#hsr#I feel like I should note that all the info on the CN/JP versions are things I know secondhand#it was posted in a server where there ARE actual people who can read/speak Chinese and Japanese and no one corrected it-#-so I'm assuming it's at least decently legit. but if it's in any way incorrect I would love to hear from others!#I'm especially interested in CN since it's the original. and I've never heard anything about 'Brughel' in any other languages.#so anyone else with fun tidbits about Sampo's name in LITERALLY ANY LANGUAGE please feel free to reblog/tag/askbox me that shit#I love learning stuff like that it's so fun ♡#fun story in the old myth the sampo was lost in the sea. and in genshin impact the village Poisson was flooded by the sea.#not only that but Brueghel's last painting- which was unfinished due to his early death- was titled The Storm at Sea.#something something foreshadowing-
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weirdos on Twitter loooove to assume that for any given localization job that the original Japanese is INHERENTLY better, as if one of the most common goals in localization isn't 'turn dogwater writing into something interesting'
#spitblaze says things#have we forgotten Ghost Stories. which sucked so bad they just turned it into a comedy full of improv#also the amount of times the CREATORS look st localizations and go 'damn this is better than the original actually'#did u know that just bc something is from japan doesnt mean its better#did u know that just bc localizers touch it with their Filthy Western Hands doesnt mean something is ruined#i keep thinking about the ppl complaining about neo twewys localization job#as if squenix games arent translated IN HOUSE WITH DIRECT CREATOR INPUT#and one of the biggest parts of twewy is its encapsulation and focus on society's shifting trends and ideas and language#minor gripe. a while ago some rando waltzed into the octopath server im in and was like#'hey has anyone done a retranslation i assume they butchered the original japanese'#the first reaponse was 'no thank god' and everyone clowned on this loser
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pro tip: play the Japanese version of MGR and stream it to your friends on discord to make them suffer with you together 👍 trust me, it'll be worth it (everyone is gonna cry, even you)
#mgr#mgrr#metal gear rising#metal gear rising revengeance#MGR Japanese edition#golden thoughts#golden gaming#direct link to the game on amazon NA btw#I got mine from amazon Germany last year#worth it#I am just gonna suffer here#sadly there is no steam version you guys gotta play it on ps3#I got a capture card gifted by a friend so I could stream it on my server#thank you again T_T <3
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San sees the Twisted EN players enjoying the "Masquerade" event. She plays on a Japanese server. Players twst EN. - Such a beautiful event! And such cool costumes! Probably it will be like in the event with the Silk Festival! San biting her lip, taking a deep breath. She's a good girl and doesn't want to spoil anyone - guys…….can someone warn them, no? They even gave a costume for a Grimm!! What a cutie! San takes another deep breath and stocks up on handkerchiefs and sedatives - Cute innocent children…you still have chapter 7 waiting for you..
#twst#twisted wonderland#twst wonderland#twst joke#every time I laugh when the players from the Japanese server are already gray-haired#they look at the cheerful players from the English server
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Hey hey this is kinda random but yall do know how easy it is to get Japanese games(or Chinese or korean) on ur phone right? I saw a bunch of ppl talking about how they're sad they can't play haikyuu touch the dream cuz it's not global but like u totally can and it's super easy
Android: just download qooapp u just gotta look up qooapp and if u want download their app and boom jp games galore! Qooapp is what I use but the caveat is its not for ios
Apple: okay ur getting this info second hand so if someone has more than I do that would be very helpful. From what I've heard u just have to make a Japanese apple ID and I don't have an apple phone so I don't know how it works sorry!
Japanese IP bypass: some Japanese games check if you have a Japanese IP address which makes them harder to download however u can work around it with a VPN. I used tunnelbear when I downloaded magireco and it Def worked. All I did was change my location to Japan and then make a Japanese IP email acc and sign in to the googleplay store. Make sure to set the app to auto update tho so u don't have to deal with it later. Luckily it's only a few games you'll have to do do this for
In conclusion:downloading Asian games is very easy and the only issue is language and u could easily look up translations for story and mission and stuff though I wouldn't recommend story heavy or games where you feel like you would need to be able to read I know some people use like apps that translate in real time but idk how to do that lmao
#if anyone has more info they'd like to share please do#this is all my own experience so id love to have input from someone else#Almost all the games on my phone in Japanese lmao#I used qooapp for US or global stuff too tho cuz it's easier to update rather than Google play lmao#Oh yeah omg if ur from outside the US u can play US or global games thru qooapp too but idk if that's helpful for u guys#Just thought I'd mention it#If ur not downloading JP games ur seriously missing out guys#haikyuu touch the dream#enstars#bandori#Project sekai#I'm trying to tag things with en servers#A3!#I'm still sad about the A3!EN shutting down that was really the goat#Twst
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Hi ghiralink fans I know people on this site don't like twitter but you are missing out and I think everyone should know about pisu_1107 and fu_akane's art so here are their pixiv and twitter accounts ❤️ I won't repost any of their work (though I see pisu's get reposted a lot unfortunately, and they specifically ask for it not to be 😔) but they are AMAZING and you should know about them
pisu_1107 pixiv twitter
fu_akane pixiv twitter
#I'm still working on making a ghiralink discord archive and might?? share it??#idk#never been in an loz server that had anything to do with ghiralink that went well but if no one can say anything at all it can't be that ba#it's a lot of art from Twitter and Pixiv that I just can't find again. some of it's been deleted I know#pisu and I are mutuals on Instagram<3 however I don't really use that account anymore rip#I wouldn't add their twitters but their pixivs aren't up to date... sacrifices must be made#also I wrote fanfic based on a drawing of fu_akane's AND THEY READ AND COMMENTED ON IT#this is very important to me because they only post in Chinese I can't believe they saw the fanfic 😭#ALSO if you read pisu's full bio it is in Japanese and the abbreviation C P does NOT MEAN WHAT IT DOES IN ENGLISH#it just means pairing
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Currently obsessed with the second vers Ashley's song from super smash bros and the more I listen to it I gotta agree
The instrumental really reminds me of Pinky and the Brain like the little March melody? A course singing about the main characters and what they wanna do? The little silly musical sounds in between the song? Little like Patb
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which also is kinda fitting for Ashley and red in a way?
They have that grumpy character and happy go lucky character trope going on which I love they're so silly
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#pinky and the brain#patb#wario ware#wario ware Ashley#rambles#idk having a fixation both at the time makes me think wow they're so connected...#(literally have just similar character types as the only connection to pinky and the Brain)#it's so bad I think I gotta work on that au some time soon I keep mentioning it but when I'm done cleaning I need to work on it#I already did sketches so let's see if a second and 3rd try will finalize the designs#always thought it was a missed potential for not nintendo not dubbing it in English??#it's actually way more fitting in the English vers cause in Japanese she's like yay I wanna make friends:]#meanwhile in English she talks about how she turned her teacher into a spoon cause she didn't do homework#or how's she's gonna cast a spell on you with combining idk kitten spit and grandmas wig in a pot like??#missed potential much#also yea I needed to like really ramble about thsi I remember like info dumping this on a server years ago but nobody really looked at it#which fair JEJDJDJ two popular yet obscure media in one? I barely met anyone from either fandom that knows/intrested the other JEJDRJRJ#please would be awesome to have moots who like both it would be awesome 🙏#Youtube
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as there's now an increase in people interested in languages in mcyt- does anybody want to join a language learning minecraft server? It's not limited to just english and spanish, but any language!!
The server has 2 maps: The Earth map and The Resource world
Everyone is so nice and friendly to new people :D (I would know I've been playing since Jan 2021) also queer and ND friendly (as many members are both lmao)
Some cool pictures from around the server:
(Details about joining the server below as well)
IP is: play.aroundtheworldmc.net
minecraft version: 1.19.3
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/Gar9Q8Ds
Map Link: https://map.aroundtheworldmc.net/
Server Lore Wiki Link: https://atwmc.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
#minecraft#minecraft servers#langblr#lingblr#language learning#mineblr#minecraft builds#gonna list all the counties' languages that appear in order of appearance now#french#welsh#german#polish#esperanto#korean#japanese#italian#if you're learning a new language from the qsmp and love minecraft#i highly recommend the server#lovely people#all of them are nerds#atwmc has been around since 2017 but it is still a very small server
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there's more aquariums on na servers and i'm like... technically nothing is stopping me from making a character on one of them to check them out.........
#also japanese servers apparently so that is an option too if the connection holds up i guess#but the other one from the spriggan aquarium people is on malboro so i'm more interested in that rn
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Man, imagine being a company whose mobile game shut down stateside a year and a half ago, setting up a discord server for said mobile game, and a day later making an English chat in said server because overseas fans are still SO passionate about it. I’d consider that a compliment of the highest caliber!
#I’m not personally in the server because I got worried about being a non-Japanese speaker in a Japanese-speaking environment#but I’ve heard this from a LOT of folks
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oh how i hate the american origins of modern computers and modern coding and modern internet. i should be able to use my name in my own alphabet as a username on a website if i so wish, and it's fucked that we havent progressed beyond the english 26 letters in that regard. why does only english get to be "alphanumeric" and not a single other alphabet
#ling#thought prompted by someone on our little server with a japanese display name#convenience? yes its convenient NOW. if the outset had been different we would have a different convenient status quo#i dont care if a japanese or ukrainian username would be too hard to parse - everyone using the internet had to learn english for it#like. im so fucking mad about the definition of 'alphanumeric' in code STILL being 'ANGLOalphanumeric'. fuck.#something americans / english speakers (/ many latin alphabet enjoyers) dont have to think about: they can type their name directly always#(thoughts and prayers to diacritics and non-english characters of course 🙃 better hope your alphabet is close to English)#and this privilege is hardcoded into the foundation of every single piece of software out there so its never going to change#too many potential bugs from a blanket fix like 'treat all these unicode codepoints as alphanum' so under the hood the distinction will sta#anglocentrism at its best & most pervasive the world revolves around the english alphabet specifically. this is my hill and im dying on it#personal
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everyday i visit pixiv and it just reminds me of what a shithole tumblr is for artists
#sals-soda#seriously if i had a firmer grasp on japanese i would move to the JP-hosted social medias#from my experience they're more tolerable and tbh more interactive#like sure. mastodon-hosted servers exist. but like. they along with tumblr now are pretty much just Twitter Lite(TM)#and i'm. kinda tired of twt.#idk
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A underrated moral panic is the UK government's deep and enduring hatred of ninjitsu. From the days of video nastys banning nunchucks and shuriken from the media but not touching depictions of any type of weapon people actually have or use to Keir Starmer promising to ban ninja swords to solve knife crime, famously committed primarily with replica Japanese swords, forever. There are still presumably people with ASBOs for pretending to be Naruto in 2004, when Tony Blair executed a raid on the servers hosting Real Ultimate Power and declared once and for all that Britain will not stand for dishonorable stealth combat no matter how many shadow warriors are sent by Brussels
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Project Sekai posters be WILD they're saying shit like "This Event HURT me!" or "This song goes so hard," and I am just sitting there like???? ???? Which one?? And there are never any tags.
#I didn't realize villain was a song until like#something like a week or two after seeing a drawing/post about it#wtf do you mean why is An beside of a SKELETON??#'this song is my fave!!' you drew a headshot#am I just?? supposed to know??#I can't tell Japanese Server spoilers from stuff that was on the English Server#it took me MONTHS to realize that the English servers were BEHIND in terms of Events and gameplay#because I was on YouTube looking at sekai song collections and shit and going????#when I knew like. two. of the songs.#then someone was like 'oh yeah the Engish Server is a YEAR behind the Japanese Server'#there's no distinction between English only and Co-Ed users T0T
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