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Google News क्या है और कैसे काम करता है

आज के डिजिटल युग में, लोग तेजी से सूचनाओं तक पहुंच चाहते हैं और यह जानना चाहते हैं कि दुनिया में क्या हो रहा है। “Google News” एक ऐसा प्लेटफॉर्म है जो हमें हमारे इंटरेस्ट की खबरें आसानी से खोजने और पढ़ने में मदद करता है। Google News का मुख्य उद्देश्य है यूजर्स को सही, तेज़ और प्रासंगिक समाचार प्रदान करना। इस ब्लॉग में हम विस्तार से जानेंगे कि Google News कैसे काम करता है, इसमें क्या विशेषताएं…

[higgsbison]

What are your favorite non DND/world of darkness ttrpg systems?

What systems have fond adventures/memories with you?

I am a huge fan of Traveller and Stars Without Number for sci-fi stuff, they're way more mechanically lightweight, very sandboxy and the character set up is super nice.

Also in general love Powered by the Apocalype systems, experience from failure is such a good part of it and again it's lightweight mechanics, heavyweight sandbox compared to DnD, which is what I really enjoy in ttrpgs.

ALSO Fiasco - which is barely even a proper ttrpg in the most stereotypical minis and maps sense, it's basically just hallucinating together and ocassionally throwing a dice, but I can't reccomend it enough if you have a group that can handle on spot improvisation and storytelling.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST - I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO TRY LARP, GET RID OF THE TABLE, AND JUST GO AT IT, STAB YOUR BEST FRIENDS BASED ON NARRATIVE VIBES, NO DICE NO MASTERS STORY ONLY

[ghosts-and-glory]

Pls don’t use triple parenthesis—> (((___)))

It’s an antisemitic dog whistle

Oh my god what, I had to stop and google that for a second cause I had no idea. I edited that post now so it’s only single parenthesis, my sincere apologies, thank you for letting me know.

[softpine]

Maybe it's just a pnw thing but there are drive thru coffee stands with girl's in bikinis/lingerie

i...... have never heard of these until now.... as a feminist i'm appalled but as a lesbian i'm delighted etc etc

[recurring-polynya]

Izakaya Kamenoya

I am re-watching the Captain Amagai arc, which I love because it has just a shit-ton of Seireitei slice-of-life worldbuilding. Early in the arc, Kira goes to the bar with Renji and Iba to sob about how his new Third Seat is better than him, and it made me wonder-- do the lieutenants always go to the same bar, or does the anime just make up a new one every time? Episode 172 had a nice shot of the exterior:

I immediately went to Episode 355 (the second New Year's episode), because I'm always thinking about Rukia shotgunning that beer while Renji gazes on lovingly, and it certainly *looks* like same place, but again, maybe that's just a very standard-looking izakaya.

I decided that trying to translate the kanji might help. They're more visible in the first image. The ones on the paper lantern, 酒処 were easy, because they just say izakaya (literally, "alcohol" and "place"). That just supported the idea that this was just some generic bar. For the kanji on the wooden lantern, which appeared to be the same as the ones on the sign above the door, I managed to puzzle out the bottommost one, 屋, which means "shop" or "restaurant." Hmm.

At this point, I was feeling a little stumped, so I went looking for other screen shots.

Other bar scenes I could remember took place in: Episode 179 (Ukitake and Kyouraku try to angle Amagai into a threesome). This had a clearer shot of the sign, and it's definitely the same as the lantern.

Ep 305 (Kira and Hisagi go for drinks after work and run into Unohana having "Ladies' Night" with Soi Fon, the Kotetsu sisters, and Yachiru ????)

And finally, Episode 265 (the end of the Sword Beasts arc, Ladies' Night again, I guess, this time with zanpakutou)

and bingo, they actually translated it for me, this time!!

In, the only one that didn't turn out to take place at Izakaya Kamenoya was from Ep. 303, the first New Year's episode. The SWA holds their holiday luncheon here (the sign says 茶屋, or "tea house") .

It is also not the place where Rukia and Renji announce their engagement in WDKALY, that place is called Safflower, and it's fancier and it's specifically mentioned that it's way classier than everyone's usual digs.

That's neither here nor there, let's get back to Izakaya Kamenoya!

Later on, like when I was 90% of the way through writing this post, I realized there was an earlier shot of the sign in episode 172 that was also translated (which I thought I remembered and then assumed I had hallucinated when I couldn't find it, but it was from a separate trip to bar with Kibune and Kira's shitty subordinates). Conveniently, it's also probably the most readable out of all of them. EDIT: I didn't notice when I pasted this in here, but they translate it as Kamegameya here, which seems like a mistake? B3 suggests they might have read the second character as a repetition (with the k turning into a g, which I don't know all the details of, but I assume it's that thing that happens in Japanese when a word is in the interior of another word and it gets a harder consonant, the same way the s in "sakura" in Senbonzakura becomes a z). Google also tells me that the name of Yugi's grandfather's game shop in Yu-Gi-Oh is called Kame Game, so I wonder if the subtitler here was just working on muscle memory 😂. I'm sticking with Kamenoya, although Turtle Turtle Bar has its own charm)

The three characters in the upper left are 居酒屋, which is just a different way to spell izakaya.

"Kame" was easy to translate, it's the leftmost large character on the sign, 亀. It means "turtle", but the second meaning is "heavy drinker," so I'm guessing this might be a bit of a pun. Unfortunately, googling didn't turn up any further detail on this.

I puzzled a little over the middle character, until I realized that it might be 之, which is an older version of の. Oh, says me, who only speaks the Japanese I picked up from anime, it's Kame no ya, the way all the inns in Kakuriyo end in "ya." It just means "House of the Turtle", or "Turtle's Pub."

Turtle's Pub. Can we just take a moment to reflect on the fact that the lieutenants (and sometimes captains) like to hang out at someplace called Turtle's? I am so charmed by this. I have not been so excited since the time I realized that Renji was wearing the koi hoodie in the Bount Arc OP.

It's possible that it was just named by a guy who has "kame" as part of his name or who likes turtles, or as I said, maybe it's a pun, but there are two other possibilities I thought of:

In line with this post on the naming scheme for the Seireitei Gates, perhaps it's in the north part of the city, and named after Genbu the Black Tortoise-Snake

When I am making up business names in my fanfic, I often like to associate them with the squads they are near-- dragons for stuff near Squad 10, fish for 13, firebirds for things that are more city-wide. It's partially trying to tap into squad solidarity, and partially so people have a clue where your place is located in this stupid maze city. I love the idea of some former captain with a turtle-themed zanpakutou, whose is fondly remembered because someone happened to name a good bar after them.

I looked up that extremely questionable Blood War era Seireitei map, wondering if maybe Squad 3 was near the north gate:

It turns out it is not (assuming the unlabeled squads just go in order), but you know what is? Squad 10. So if Kamenoya is named after the North Gate, I assume everyone drinks there because it's close to Matsumoto.

(thank you very much to @kaicko for checking my work)

[13eyond13]

the funniest thing about having to report fraud on my credit card today was the girl on the phone listing all my transactions to me to see if i recognized them and literally 100% of them were all media purchases liiiiike wow I really have 1 hobby and 1 hobby only don't I

[pier-carlo-universe]

"Un neonato in un cassonetto". Un'ondata di neonati abbandonati sconvolge il Texas.

L’emergenza sociale che scuote gli Stati Uniti.

L’emergenza sociale che scuote gli Stati Uniti. Il Texas è al centro di una tragica emergenza che ha scosso l’opinione pubblica: un’ondata di neonati abbandonati in luoghi pubblici, tra cui cassonetti e aree isolate, ha acceso i riflettori su una questione di profonda rilevanza sociale. L’immagine straziante di un neonato ritrovato in un cassonetto è diventata simbolo di una crisi che richiede…

[carlocarrasco]

Philippines attracted more international visitors than last year but still behind 2024 target

When it comes to attracting visitors from overseas, the Philippines improved over the 5.45 million international visitors of 2023 but they have yet to hit the declared 2024 target of 7.7 million international visitors and time is already running out, according to a BusinessWorld news report. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the BusinessWorld news report. Some parts…

[crime-scene-psychic]

Truly did not think I would be half drunk, explaining to my father how to work an Xbox 360 controller in the parking lot of a bar at midnight today but that is certainly how my life goes I suppose

[maranelho]

listen! a sebchal au set somewhere in italy.

sebastian has been living in this small, peaceful town for some years now. he left germany to escape a monotonous life and a painful breakup and he found his new home in the middle of nowhere. he’s known as il tedesco (the german) and he’s okay with that, he loves his job, the people, teresa’s bread in the morning, going to the osteria sometimes and meeting some german tourists that pass by.

one day his whole world is turned upside down. domenico goes to his little shop and drops him the news that there’s a young man that arrived earlier that morning, suitcase in hand and nothing more. he’s looking for a job and a place to sleep and he speaks broken italian just like seb. he doesn’t speak german, tho.

now there’s il tedesco and il monegasco. charles — that’s his name apparently — gets mad when people call him il francese, the french. seb shouldn’t be annoyed by him, he shouldn’t be jealous of the attention he’s receiving.

chaos ensues when seb connects the dots and wraps his brain around the fact that he’s jealous of the girls blushing and giggling around charles, who seems to even enjoy it. realizing that he might have a crush on him is seb’s last straw. he drops everything and walks away. three hours later, half-lost in the hills, he understands that this was a dumb idea, and goes back. he ignores the worried stares he’s met by and heads to his house to sleep it off.

one goes to a god-forbidden place to find some peace and it takes just one (1) hot monegasque to tear everything apart.

[storm-of-feathers]

i wish more people understood the concept of activism burnout and compassion fatigue. you do like genuinely have to pick your battles, and that usually means something local that you can make a real difference with. if you get overwhelmed with every problem nothing is going to change.

[corpsepng]

Niche complaint:

Listening to lovecrafts work as fan recorded podcasts on Spotify bc I don’t want to waste the audiobook hours OR buy the hard copies and. And. And I’m gritting my teeth to get through all the mispronounced New England town and landmark names let’s say that

[the-commonplace-book]

Curt/Owen From Spies Are Forever For The Shipping Chart

I'm sorry! I'm not at all familiar with this musical or these characters :(

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

When the post office told me I could call them if I needed to cancel my appointment, I thought that meant I could call their building. But here I am, on hold for 30 minutes, and when I finally get to speak to a person they are going to be at a call center

[severalowls]

When google maps hounds me like "you're in the top 10% of reviewers! Please review more!" All that tells me is that 99% of users probably literally do not review anything ever under any circumstances. I do not have a lot of reviews, the average is just spectacularly low.

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