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So, during the recent Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival, someone made two lanterns, one depicting Popuko and the other Pipimi, wich got quite the spotlight

Look at them go

Together

Unstoppable

And then, in a dramatic turn of events, one of the lamps combusted

smappybubbles

What Video Games Taught Me Better than School or Parents Ever Could

If you are facing new challenges/obstacles, then you’re going the right way.

No one blames you if you have to check the map.

Always come prepared.

Everyone is worth talking to.

Even if you don’t get money for something, you always get experience.

Explore!

The places that are hardest to get to always have the best rewards.

The best way to become someone’s friend is to actually talk to them.

If you want to be someone’s friend faster, also give them food.

Don’t hold on to too much crap, you’ll fill up your inventory.

Don’t be deterred if a challenge was too much for you; go back, level up, increase your skill, and try again.

You don’t learn anything if you get someone else to do it for you.

Don’t feel like you have to plow through the main story. The best content is sometimes in the side quests.

If you’ve tried and failed 30 times, you probably missed something. Go back and look around.

Never judge someone’s skill solely on their achievements; you don’t know how they got them.

When you succeed after multiple failures, you feel so much more accomplished.

Take full advantage of character customization.

Decisions rarely only affect you. Please choose wisely.

betterthankanyebitch

theersatzvegetarian

Pacific Rim has a Build-Your-Own-Jaeger feature on their website. Some folks haven’t taken it as seriously as I suspect the PR folks thought they would.

thisperspective

CANADA WE ARE ALWAYS SO SORRY

metallikato

HOLY SHIT I FOUND EVEN MORE.

butlerbookbinding

They just keep getting better..

multifand0mtrash

when I feel down, I look for this post

femboss

HOW CAN YOU FORGET THE BEST

jumpingjacktrash

zamboni rage is my favorite

dailybayonetta

Baoynetta 2 + a Mercenary

toalha

Poor girl, she needs to take pilates :(

thedemonsson

Psyduck is Love ❤ Psyduck is Life ❤

fawn-faire

[ #Overwatch ] Brigitte and Zarya instantly like each other - Brigitte is used to strong personalities. 😂

Zarya knows her polish game helps her win. 💅💪

thesleepypencil

I told this Joke to my extremely religious father and his first reply was “funny but don’t tell it to your mother”

earthshaker1217

APPROPRIATE!!

themyscrian

when a woman designs an outfit for women VS when men are allowed to do it

jin-broadshoulders

pidgeling

i’m so upset

I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb

they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!

I can’t

life-of-a-latin-student

present active boō, present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum

interretialia

Recte!

flightcub

if it comes from the latin word, they’re actually saying “I’M YELLING!” which is even cuter

grizzlyhills

do they speak latin because it’s a dead language

psychrophile

allthingslinguistic

I looked this up on Etymonline just in case it was actually true, and I found this pretty delightful etymology:

Boo - expression meant to startle, early 15c., boh, “A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound” [OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein “to cry aloud, roar, shout.”]; as an expression of disapproval, 1801 (n.), 1816 (v.); hence, the verb meaning “shower someone with boos” (1893).

Booing was common late 19c. among London theater audiences and at British political events; In Italy, Parma opera-goers were notorious boo-birds, but the custom seems to have been little-known in America till c. 1910.

To say boo “open one’s mouth, speak,” originally was to say boo to a goose.

To be able to say Bo! to a goose is to be not quite destitute of courage, to have an inkling of spirit, and was probably in the first instance used of children. A little boy who comes across some geese suddenly will find himself hissed at immediately, and a great demonstration of defiance made by them, but if he can pluck up heart to cry ‘bo!’ loudly and advance upon them, they will retire defeated. The word 'bo’ is clearly selected for the sake of the explosiveness of its first letter and the openness and loudness of its vowel. [Walter W. Skeat, “Cry Bo to a Goose, "Notes and Queries,” 4th series vi Sept. 10, 1870]

So if ghosts are anything like geese, perhaps this means that the correct thing to do is to say boo back to the ghost, to show you’re not afraid. (Or even that ghosts are really just plucking up their courage to face us.)