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In celebration of SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered, a repost from Twitter. Originally 2020, I think.
store.steampowered.com/app/2452080/...
Can't wait to play!
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But in Japanese the traditional frog sound is "kerokero".
I have no idea what frog makes a sound like that. To me, Japanese tree frogs sound like "waka waka waka".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8SP...
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But most frogs don't sound like that at all. I found this large collection:
earth.fm/playlists/fr...
Sounds range from groans to throat-clearing to barks to wood flutes. Most of them could appropriately be called croaks, but you wouldn't transcribe them as "ribbit".
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I find frogs an interesting example because our English sound, "ribbit", is a decent onomatopoeia for the pacific tree frog.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gewb...
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Typo: It's Yomitan, not Yamichan. (The old version was called Yomichan but I had to switch to this fork.)
yomitan.wiki
I love this extension so much.
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Compared to a computer, you gain one convenience (mobility) for everything else being more inconvenient.
The mobility is great, smartphones are amazing inventions! It's not like I hate them.
But I can't understand why people find them so addictive compared to PCs.
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I can type 15 wpm on my phone and 96 wpm on my keyboard.
With a mouse, I can use the Yamichan browser plugin to hover over Japanese words and get an automatic translation. 有用！Not to mention all the other hover-over functions that are broken or unavailable on mobile.
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Do you use special characters in your passwords? Are they long passwords? Yeah, might take 2 seconds on your keyboard, but on smartphones it takes 2 minutes as you navigate the terrible touch keyboards back and forth between symbols and text.
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Something as simple as highlighting some text, copying, and pasting it is an exercise in frustration. Terrible file organization, impossible to keep anything structured without the help of a computer. Even performing simple web searches is painful.
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Yes, they're with you everywhere. That's convenient.
But everything I can do on my computer is enshitified within my phone.
Shitty, unusable versions of web pages. Screens that can hardly hold any text, terrible for reading large amounts. 70+% of apps are buggy as hell.
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I know people are addicted to their phones. You can watch people and see, it's a thing.
But, uh...
Smartphones are inconvenient and shitty and I don't understand how y'all can stand to play on them all day.
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If you really don't want to be misunderstood, there are ways to make it clear you're talking about the future.
But none of them are obligatory, and it's perfectly normal to speak without using them. People will understand your meaning through context alone.
Is Mandarin like that?
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Are they obligatory?
I don't know anything about Mandarin, but I can say that Japanese doesn't have what we would think of as a future tense. You can mark something as future with time words ("tomorrow, eats" means "tomorrow, I will eat"). Or by saying you plan to do something...
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Well, what other lesson should one draw from the fact that Trump was reelected?
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Yeah. It's an intransitive verb of occurrence, one of the classes of verbs that can't be passive voice.
Passive would be "[Subject] has been passed by the deadline," but there's no subject available because it's intransitive.
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Yeah, I regularly forget to eat.
www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
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Sorry, don't know who to credit for this.
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If anyone wants to research further, you can rule out any explanations of an origin from after March 2013. It has to be early 2013 at the absolute latest.
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And that's where I've hit a dead end. I couldn't find any recorded SMW speedruns from earlier than March 2013 that include the orb tradition. I couldn't find any older discussion of the meme's origin. For all I know, the meme didn't even originate from an English-speaking player.
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Here is the oldest video I could find on Go1den's channel in which he does the orb tradition, with timestamp: youtu.be/Q0gruaRpaBg?...
It was uploaded in March 2013, therefore predating that SGDQ moment.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7nC...
Here's the moment in question. What actually happened is that the runner and couch commentators started saying "Orb" a bunch, and Duckfist woke up a bit and joined in.
This is the oldest example I can find of anyone doing the orb meme at a GDQ event.
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So there's the proof that it didn't start with grandPOObear--he himself says it didn't.
Unfortunately, the story as told is definitely false. The run in question was Go1den's SGDQ2013 All Dragon Coins run, and video was preserved.
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If you can't be bothered to watch, the claim is that there was a GDQ event where one of the couch commentators, Duckfist, was falling asleep on the couch. When the runner collected the Sunken Ship orb in SMW, Duckfist woke up, said "orb," and fell right back asleep.
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In 2023, grandPOObear uploaded a video to tiktok where he explains the "TRUE origin" (according to the video description): www.tiktok.com/@grandpoobea...
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Still... if IsoFrieze were the true origin, I'd expect more pre-2014 speedrun videos.
Again, not disproven, but no real evidence to back it up.
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But "orb" is from 2013 or earlier, as you'll soon see. Again, the claim isn't disproven. That runner joined Twitch in April of 2013 as profile IsoFrieze, but profile dotsarecool has been deleted. The event could have happened on the other account, or before he got any upload-worthy runs.
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This is his oldest video on YouTube, from 2015: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtVD...
He has some comments on Reddit about SMW glitch chasing from 2014. Comments from before that are not SMW related.
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We need more than a funny example of someone saying "Orb," because that could have been done as part of the tradition.
When I search for this runner's speedruns, all of the oldest ones were done in 2015. That's also when he joined speedrun.com (profile IsoFrieze).
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I don't disbelieve that this event happened, but when we're trying to verify the origin of people saying a catchphrase, pointing to a single example of someone saying it is poor evidence, even if it was a notable or especially funny example.
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I can't disprove it, but I'm skeptical. There's no date or time given, and no link to any video, so it's impossible to verify...
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This comment is copy/pasted in a couple of Reddit threads, claiming that the runner dotsarecool (aka IsoFrieze) started it by surprising his audience when he suddenly went on mic and yelled "ORB!"
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Some people think that grandPOObear started it. (Screenshots from Reddit and the GDQ fandom wiki.) This can't be right, because poobear has given another explanation for the origin. I'll get to that later.
(Technically one of these say he "made it big," which might be true.)