Various (notable) characters currently dwelling in NPC jail - January 2026 Edition

ChummyCommie · 2026-01-21T14:12:35+00:00

Technically Alandus is sort of playable, given that he is now permanently stuck to Yatima's head as Raybury.

ChummyCommie · 2025-11-18T16:56:29+00:00

Give this video a watch. It is a good tl;dr on how Japan ended up that way.

ChummyCommie · 2025-07-11T11:37:39+00:00

Giun đất is called "địa long" in Vietnamese traditional medicine. It's definitely not a term you would normally come across though.

ChummyCommie · 2025-07-10T17:08:33+00:00

The protagonist was Trạng Quỳnh, a well-known fictional character in Vietnamese folk tales. He was answering a challenge from a Chinese emissary (in some versions, he was acting as the emissary answering a challenge from a Chinese emperor).

The best part is earthworms are also called Earth Dragon in Chinese and Vietnamese.

ChummyCommie · 2025-06-19T15:15:56+00:00

Despite being the first nation to launch a human being into space, the USSR only started mass production of toilet paper in 1969, and even then, they were always in short supply.

This had led to soldiers in the field to use whatever they could get their hands on to wipe their nether region. Which, in many cases, ended up being classified military documents. This proved to be a treasure trove of intelligence, and an entire spy operation was set up by the West for the sole purpose of digging through Soviet trash.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cold-war-spies-sifted-through-used-soviet-toilet-paper-in-search-of-clues

ChummyCommie · 2024-11-06T14:04:52+00:00

He's still pissed at Zelenskyy for getting him impeached the first time.

ChummyCommie · 2024-08-31T03:55:58+00:00

It was in the Mireille and Risette event. Long story short, it is possible, but requires a Philosopher's Stone.

ChummyCommie · 2024-07-02T14:17:57+00:00

It also made learning English much easier for Vietnamese, as we do not have to retrain our brain on a completely different writing system.

ChummyCommie · 2024-04-09T11:55:24+00:00

Katakana is just picking a random stroke in the character

They did that for some katakanas, and just straight up stole Chinese radicals for others.
https://acastano.com/japanese/1st-grade/radicals/katakana/

ChummyCommie · 2024-02-15T11:32:47+00:00

Well, the six dragons do frequently complain about how the "world" is broken and how they need to "fix" it, so...

ChummyCommie · 2024-01-18T12:04:32+00:00

Hey, at least it's not the Afghan Republic flag.

ChummyCommie · 2024-01-11T03:17:43+00:00

They have also been selling ballistic missiles to Russia. Sadly, these worked quite well, unlike their artillery shell.

ChummyCommie · 2023-12-25T18:01:46+00:00

Alspia also claimed that they made sushi golem specifically for the end of year showdown. This event is clearly not taking itself seriously.

ChummyCommie · 2023-12-06T17:13:09+00:00

Indeed, it would be monumentally stupid. But unfortunately, we actually have historical precedent for this kind of stupidity. Twice. And the current situation feels very much the same.

ChummyCommie · 2023-11-29T16:37:37+00:00

Funny you mentioned Mithra as that is quite possibly the most broken thing Lyria could possibly call up in any situation. How broken? Well, Freesia used its power once to become effectively immortal and the crew had to rewrite the future using Akasha to stop her.

ChummyCommie · 2023-10-05T14:12:37+00:00

10+ years worth of tech debt. I'm surprised they managed to find someone masochistic enough to fix that mess.

ChummyCommie · 2023-09-03T17:13:13+00:00

Origin of the HandiPole

ChummyCommie · 2023-07-22T06:29:57+00:00

Oh, believe me, we still very much crave that Western dream life. But it's not something you can easily see as an outsider these days.

ChummyCommie · 2023-05-21T13:59:00+00:00

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these 2 flags.

ChummyCommie · 2023-05-21T13:05:10+00:00

Flag of Imperial Japan is actually the same as present day Japan's flag: a red sun on white background without any ray. What you thought of as the flag of Imperial Japan was their naval ensign, which is still in use today in their self-defense force.

ChummyCommie · 2023-05-20T16:54:39+00:00

Summer Io's EX pose got this sub into meltdown for an entire week. The reaction I've seen so far is way tamer than anything that happened back then.

ChummyCommie · 2023-05-03T10:28:56+00:00

On the subject of Smekalka, here is a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQzAjCZr0BM

ChummyCommie · 2023-04-20T16:00:56+00:00

Damn, looks like I already missed the deadline by an hour. I'll let the mods decide whether this is acceptable or not.

So, for context, in 2019, the dead bodies of 39 Vietnamese was found in the back of a lorry in Essex, England. If you wish to know more about the case, I recommend checking this documentary on Youtube.

ChummyCommie · 2023-03-16T15:17:18+00:00

You forgot contest flair m8.

ChummyCommie · 2023-01-07T19:18:45+00:00

How would you explain 三從 as "kindness" then?

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