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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
ladyyatexel love-lays-bleeding
scootsenshi

Old people can"t understand when younger people are willing to cut a whole relative off. They have lived their entire lives in guilt or based on some sense of loyalty to someone based on blood. People will abuse you betting on that fact, just because ya’ll are blood that means you have to accept it. No, you don’t.

your-future-robot-overlord

Person: I know it’s hard because he’s your dad-

Me: It’s not

Person: But you love him deep down-

Me: I don’t

ladyyatexel zephuckyr
treasures-and-beauty: “Futuristic Spider-shaped Clock ca. 2015. L’Epée in-house designed and manufactured movement, 11 jewels • black central dome with Arabic numerals and minute division, stylized and curved painted hands • 18k yellow gold-plated...
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Futuristic Spider-shaped Clock ca. 2015. L’Epée in-house designed and manufactured movement, 11 jewels • black central dome with Arabic numerals and minute division, stylized and curved painted hands • 18k yellow gold-plated brass body and limbs in the shape of spider, with the regulator and oscillating balance wheel posing as head, and the other end housing the mainspring barrel, eight articulated legs • Eight day power reserve.

Source: sothebys.com
ladyyatexel zephuckyr
thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis

“There is a copy of the NES game Golf in the firmware of every Switch system”

Me: Oh haha, what a weird thing, probably some remnant from the debugging process -

“Since that was a game that Satoru Iwata programmed himself, this could have been intended as a way of saying that Iwata is spiritually a part of every Switch and is watching over and protecting every system.”

Me:

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thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis

Oh my God, so hackers have found out the way to enable you to play the game. You know how?

On July 11th*, the date of Iwata’s passing, doing Iwata’s “directly to you” motion with the Joy-Cons on the home screen will play a sound clip of Iwata and launch the game.

(* Before you try this yourself, note that simply changing the date on your system will not work, as this runs off the Switch’s internal internet-synced clock, meaning that changing the date manually will only work if the system has never been connected to the internet)

I… I can’t…

lunarhalo24

It goes even further than that.

Firstly, opening the game like this person is in the video is only possible with a brand new unit on system version 1.0.0 that has never been connected to the Internet. Because of this, opening it is pretty hard to replicate, unless if you have a completely brand new Switch. So, even if the system’s internal date is on July 11, it still won’t open if the system version is up to date.

The thing is, it’s not supposed to be opened.

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The hidden Golf game has been described as an omamori, which, in Japanese culture, is a charm usually bought at shrines that offers spiritual protection and good luck if you keep it close to you. Sometimes they’re made of cloth, and look like a tiny bag, which can contain a written prayer. People often tie them to something like a purse or a backpack, so that it’s always with them. Here are a bunch of different ones:

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Omamori are not supposed to be opened, as doing so is said to remove its blessing.

Seeing as the hidden Golf game on the Switch is so difficult to run under normal circumstances, it’s probably not supposed to be opened in the first place. It’s likely meant to represent an omamori in Iwata’s honor. Its very fitting, because of how portable the Switch is, since people are likely to take it with them like they would with an omamori strapped to a purse or backpack.

thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis

Hey, everyone. Since we’re now in July and this post is still making the rounds, I’m sure there are people who are going to want to try to activate the Golf game on their Switch on the 11th. So I wanted to provide an update to this:

All of the files of Golf in the Switch system were removed in an update back in late December.

As @lunarhalo24 helpfully pointed out, this inclusion of Golf in the Switch system was meant to be an omamori, a blessing from Iwata. And there’s another important cultural thing about omamori to note here:

An omamori’s blessing is only good until the end of the year, after which it expires and the omamori is traditionally disposed of in a sacred fire. So the files being deleted at the end of last year seems as though it was symbolic of the blessing’s time expiring.

So yes, there is now almost no way to actually access it. Because it was never meant to be accessed.

diversegaminglists

Reblogging because this is a really interesting way of combining tradition and technology in someone’s memory and as a good luck charm.

You can read more about the different kinds of omamori here.

neil-gaiman xupz

miellez asked:

From a non-native english speaker, I'm asking you, is there really a difference of pronunciation between "Crawly" and "Crowley" ?

neil-gaiman answered:

Yes. Craw and Crow is the difference between Law and Lo, or raw and Rho, or four and foe.

xupz

For more reference and possibly the ability to compare with sounds in your own native language: 

- Crawly contains the /ɔː/ sound (it’s an “o” sound pronounced at the back of the mouth; sounds differently depending on whether the speaker is American or British, the latter rounding the lips, the former not). NB: it’s the fond sound found in the onomatopoeia “awwww!”

- Crowley contains the o diphthong, written /əʊ/ in British English and /oʊ/ in American English. A diphthong is a combination of two vowel sounds, the first being closer to “o” in American English, closer to “uh” in British English, the second being a short “ooh” sound. Both diphthongs are pronounced close to the lips. NB: a simple word that contains that diphthong is the word “no” or the onomatopoeia “oh!”

neil-gaiman

Much more helpful than I was!

Dipthong in your heart