These two communication disasters amuse me far more than they should.

I mean Tortellini and Penniless did have pretty good chemistry during the Liyue arc... (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)

On a very tangentially related note the probably baseless rumour that Ningguang wanted to eventually expand her flying pimp mansionthe Jade Chamber RIP to cover the skies of the whole continent amusingly reminded me of the alien "Planet Eater" siege platform in Earth Defense Force 4.1 :P

Why yes her certain latent potential to go full Lex Luthor does entertain me.

You have activated my trap card!

Weird food-related taboos are dime a dozen in belief systems and folk practices the world over, of course.

Cherokee tradition says that it is unhealthy meat which may make you weak & sick.

QED. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

These puns are on point.

^...did you miss the Tres getting back onto screen last chapter or something?

^^TBF those two first met, and had their arguably most intense Belligerent Sexual Tension, during A's at which time FEITO indeed was still a kid.

Hmmm 'rival'.

TBF they're mostly just commiserating over their respective crushes on Asahi since she's, well, Asahi and Fuuka doesn't sound like she much intends to actually get in the way or has any delusions about how well such an attempt would likely end. Doesn't hurt that by all indications she quite likes Hinako personally.

Seems more like a sort of courtesy declaration of latent competing interest with a certain undertone of "if you guys don't work out I'll know it's worth a shot at least"...

^ZUN ART BEST ART

Speaking of Christmas and stupid traditions (I could have entire rant about bastardization of idea of Christmas), it was always funny to me that for Christians fish meat doesn't count as a meat. Like they forbid from eating meat during Eve, but somehow fish meat doesn't count as meat? I always figured it was because actually not eating any meat would be a pain, especially since it's supposed to be a celebration, that's why they arbitrary decided to say that fish meat doesn't count and is fine to eat. Thanks to it whenever meat is mentioned, I don't immediately think about fishes and fish meat to me feels like some separate kind of meat.

Pretty sure you can thank the ancient Israelites for that - those guys notoriously thought bats are birds (Leviticus 11:19 and Deuteronomy 14:18) so... yeah. Weird food-related taboos are dime a dozen in belief systems and folk practices the world over, of course.

But then again Moby Dick stubbornly keeps talking about whales as fish too. Melville had himself been a sailor on a whaler and you'd think people who dismembered those critters for a living had sort of noticed the very obvious anatomical differences buuuuut...

would koko share the same cage in jail as miyako?

At least 'round here pedophiles and similar are sequestered in a separate wing from the general prison population (for their own safety) so probably not.

^I'm not sure we're looking at the same Wiki and game series here.

Personal highlights: the faces throughout this page and Subaru going full trollmode before realizing she actually said a bit too much and hastily evading :D

^you were talking like ole Wikipedia was the only readily available source in English.

And D E E P L O R E is a tad inevitable with any franchise quarter-century old so eh.

So those meh pulls earlier? Well now I pulled twice on the newest banner and suddenly had Hellagur.
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^I mean Touhouwiki exists and should turn up very readily in any halfway relevant search...

oh god she's making the Excalibur Face I can't even

Always the quiet ones huh.

^wyvern, technically.

I mean the "reality" of Jesus's birth is a thing headaches are made of, since obviously nobody important actually took notice at the time and the relevant parts of New Testament canon (Luke and Matthew) were written seventy-plus years later, but the basic outlines of the family's travel narrative are plausible and details check out against recorded events.

So I guess you could say that the details aren't very... stable?
Gets struck by lightning

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Every time the Christmas special would come on, it would pain me to see my mom choke up when Linus spews the church-sanctioned "Christmas story" that has nothing to do with reality. I'm glad Apple's continued quest in the name of greed prevented both of them from poisoning more children's minds this year on broadcast TV.

I mean the "reality" of Jesus's birth is a thing headaches are made of, since obviously nobody important actually took notice at the time and the relevant parts of New Testament canon (Luke and Matthew) were written seventy-plus years later, but the basic outlines of the family's travel narrative are plausible and details check out against recorded events. Notably Herod the Great who died in 4 BCE - the Census of Quirinus only happened 9 years later so Luke dun goofed, though that sort of gaffe can be excused given the temporal distance and having to rely pretty heavily on oral tradition.

The history of the actual celebration actually starts fairly late (it's first recorded in 336 CE) and is... pretty complicated which really shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Nor that Everyone & Dog, Inc. put their own spin on it not at all coincidentially usually drawing heavily on local pagan traditions of winter solstice celebration.

That's why Mostima can still be useful despite having crappy dps and just not being as good as other 6 star casters because her skill 2 and 3 are both CC skills.

[ZA WARUDO intensifies]

^*apparent* age you mean. God only knows how old the twins actually are in objective chronological terms.

Turkeys sure aren't pretty birds huh.