Hi Otter,

This is super helpful, thank you so much! I know what I’ll be working on during the weekend.

arguing against a point that literally no one has brought up in this post

You’re not being downvoted here because you’re wrong. You’re being downvoted here because you’re bringing up this argument you had with other people outside of this thread in a way that provides zero context and in an accusatory tone.

Even your “Dry statement” was just uncalled for. We get it. You learned what monopoly means and you wanna share it with the world. You even go so far as to say Alan Wake took so long to make a profit because Valve is a monopoly. OK sure Valve is a monopoly. Maybe, it’s one reason AW took forever to turn a profit. But you know what else could cause that? Epic absolutely sucking.

This actually made me laugh. Thank you, I needed it.

It sounds exactly like the current “do your own research” bullshit.

He looks like he’s about to get assimilated into the fungal hivemind that is MAGA.

Are you guys taking about fusion? Aren’t all nuclear powerplants using fission reactions?

Yay! I’m glad you found this community. And thanks so much for helping me understand that French “joke” earlier.

Aw damn. I was hoping it was something more clever than that lol. Merci!

Ah I just saw your post. I’ll try to limit my Instagram posts. Or, at least, do my best in transcribing it.

Thanks!

A man is walking up to the cameraman and the cameraman says this:

«Eh mais, c’est pas ta veste ça ?» To which the man responds, « Ah si si. » And the punch line is « C’est pas la veste à carreaux ? »

Is the joke as dumb as I think it is? Like “it’s not yours, it’s the squares’”.

Yeah! Did that ever make it outside of Japan? My parents randomly got it for me before moving to Canada, but sadly, my Famicom never worked there.

Now that I’m back in Okinawa with a working Famicom-compatible third-party console, I bought a used copy (my original cart is still in Canada) so I can finally beat it!

Do you guys say “16 o’clock?” I’m used to the 24h tube since I live in Japan, but I find myself always going back to 12h like I did in Canada where I grew up. So saying 16 o’clock in English sounds a bit unnatural for me. But I also have no problem saying 16 heure in French. Old habits die hard I guess.

Oh sorry, I didn’t address that.

Think of it like this: 「懸賞に当たるコツは(なんですか)」と聞かれたら

They’re omitting “what is” from the question. I hope that makes sense. I can translate, but still learning when it comes to explaining.

Merci!

Can’t you? “Teach them how to say ‘we’re sorry.’”

Fuck off. Fix your own god damn problem. We’ll fend off what we can.

Yes? I’ve skipped on so many games last year.

See why nobody wants to come to your aid?

Oak because I had this massive desk to study in growing up. Also, bakeries remind me of working in my family business.

It’s also worth noting that it’s written in a tanka form so some shortcuts are taken to fit the artistic style.

It’s hard to translate line by line because if the nature of the language and how the lines are split up, but here goes.

When someone asks me what the trick is to win a sweepstakes, I try to say, “be without greed.” A pile of postcards sits next to me

From: mom

懸賞(けんしょう) is a sweepstakes where participants send in postcards to try to get their names drawn to win a prize.

Mom is saying she tries to act cool when someone asks what the secret to winning is by responding, “you can’t look desperate,” even though she has a pile of postcards with her name on it.

Hope that clears it up!

Also, check out Nasubi, a guy who lives off sweepstake winnings on a livestream about 30 years ago.