

I don’t know what technically constitutes the most troublesome username, but surely some of the kaomoji Japanese folks have come up with are up there. Good luck trying to type these.
ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚
I don’t know what technically constitutes the most troublesome username, but surely some of the kaomoji Japanese folks have come up with are up there. Good luck trying to type these.
ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚
I think the first person to use an obfuscated name like lIiḷ|ḷiIl was pretty clever.
Smullyan would be proud.
Thank you for introducing me to Your Name. I just finished watching it. Absolutely wonderful film.
They should have sent a poet.
Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone, though I think I heard it on NicoNico Douga before it became known as the NumaNuma Song.
Came here to say this. If you haven’t heard this remix yet do check it
As an origami fan I would be very interested to see how they managed to fold this thing up.
It’s super important in Japan where jam packed trains are common during rush hours. They typically announce in Japanese and English, and may even have a visual displayed.
Squid: “Nobody at home’s ever gonna believe this.”
Great. Now I’m unsure of how to pronounce database as well.
Somethin’ like a fish.
One time while reading on my phone in bed with the lights turned off a single solitary firefly-like point of light appeared and drifted across my field of vision. It had depth, so I know it wasn’t a phenomenon originating just in one eye, and wasn’t constrained to the screen. There is also a zero percent chance it was an actual firefly. My only explanation is that it might have been a hypnagogic hallucination, but I’ve never seen one as bright and clear as this was. Like an ember from a bonfire.
I was really intrigued by the idea of short “jury duty” sessions with 12 random strangers in which you have to debate and try to come to a consensus on an issue. Disappointed to see it’s just a one-click opinion poll instead.
“TREE(3)” likes got me.
It’s not round, but it’s not flat either!
The Sony Mavica FD91 was the first digital camera I ever owned! I used it the last couple years of high school and during a short homestay in Japan. You could pick up a giant box of 3.5" floppies for cheap, and as long as you fed it a stead supply of batteries it worked pretty well.
Here are some photos I took that are at, I believe, the highest quality setting (1024 x 768 and about 170kb each). Though I think Lemmy shows them shrunk down in the feed, if you open the image in a new tab you can see the full resolution.
Zoomed in.
And a closeup.
The 14x optical zoom was pretty amazing back then.
I’m really bad at arithmetic so it took me two years to do the calculations, but the math does check out.
Can they add a little speaker and have it play some smooth jazz when unzipping?
I think kaomoji have been a thing in Japan even before unicode was invented. The Japanese encodings and IME (input method esitors) allowed them to type a wide variety of characters, punctuation and symbols that aren’t available in most western encodings, so I feel like the Japanese folks had a head start on creative use of typography.
For example, if you want an eyeball you can just type “do” (degrees), and the IME will pull up °, and “omega” gives you ω, so it’s pretty easy to make (°ω°).