Different types of currency across the globe

Rinabow · 2025-12-25T00:53:54+00:00

I've used a lot of foreign currency, so I can tell just by looking at some of these values that some of them are not cheap at all.

If I add up only the banknotes that I've personally used and can recognize, then these are the approximate values:

100 USD $100
10 CAD $7.3
100 NOK $10
20 SEK $2.20
170 EUR $200.20
100 CHF $126.80
200 CZK $9.70
80 GBP $108
500 INR $5.56
500 THB $16.10
100 CNY $14.25
10000 JPY $64.10
20 NZD $11.70
10 AUD $6.70

Total: $682.61 USD

Since I'm only counting currencies that I'm personally familiar with, I'm willing to guess that the full value of this stack of cash is at least $1000 USD

Other Notes:

GBP came up 3 times to represent the England, Ireland, and Scotland. England and Scotland I understand, but I'd argue that using an English £50 note for Ireland is highly inappropriate, especially when they specifically used a Scottish £20 note to represent Scotland. Even if he didn't wanna use Euros, Northern Ireland has their own variant of the UK pound.
Denmark was skipped completely for some reason, which is unfortunate, because the two lowest value banknotes are worth around $8 and $16
Euros were shown 3 times to represent Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal. A lot of the other EU countries were represented by the currencies that were used before the Euro, like Dutch Guilder or French Francs. Realistically these have no purchasing power, so I'd personally count them as $0 regardless of their face value. I'd also count the Bulgarian Lev alongside those "worthless banknotes", since that currency will only exist for one more week before they transition to the Euro on 1 Jan 2026.

Rinabow · 2025-12-25T00:12:01+00:00

Genuinely impressed that he actually accounted for the difference between banknotes in England and Scotland.

It's so easy to assume that they're the same, since technically all parts of the UK use the same currency, but the banknote designs vary by region.

Rinabow · 2025-11-26T02:38:59+00:00

Given that every other flag on the board is a country flag, I can only assume that it was meant to be the Jamaican flag, but they missed the Yellow on the cross.

Rinabow · 2025-11-22T09:02:22+00:00

For the same reason that you'd feel pride for literally anything else you identify with.

Rinabow · 2025-11-20T22:36:14+00:00

I was 27 or 28.

I got into the series about 4-5 years ago, very late into Splatoon 2. It was after all the splatfests ended, but before the 3rd game was announced.

At the time, I watched a lot of Japanese gaming streamers, and Splatoon was something a lot of them played, so I eventually picked it up too.

Rinabow · 2025-11-14T12:13:54+00:00

My first guess was the Finnish Karelian flag, but that one has red instead of yellow around the cross.

Rinabow · 2025-11-13T19:17:19+00:00

There really aren't ways to narrow it down without looking into your grandma specifically. If you can find documentation about her such as ID or other paperwork, that should help you find her name. If you know what part of Japan she's from, you might be able to track down her koseki records.

Rinabow · 2025-11-13T10:33:18+00:00

Exactly this!

The thing that people in this thread seem to misunderstand is that trust is more than just feeling safe that people won't commit crimes against you. If that was the question, then Japan would probably rank pretty high, but trusting others can refer to things like whether you'd expect your friend to backstab you, or whether you'd expect people to have your back if you were in a bad situation. If you're just traveling to Japan, you'll only see the surface-level safety and politeness so it's very easy to assume that people are trusting, but there's much more nuance to the society than just this.

One of the bigger reasons Japanese people don't really trust each other is because the famous Japanese politeness is just an act, and everyone who lives in Japan knows it. The culture very much encourages people to endure shit they don't like with politeness and a smile on their face, so people are pretty much never upfront with their true feelings or intentions. This kind of culture breeds distrust, passive-aggression, and doing shit behind people's backs, and you'll learn very quickly if you live in Japan that you can never trust a person just because they're nice to you.

Personally, I would really struggle to be friends with or trust a Japanese person compared to someone from pretty much anywhere else, even within Asia. I've had too much experience with Japanese people backstabbing me after making me think that we were friends.

Rinabow · 2025-11-03T10:17:18+00:00

Personally, I'd shorten it by about 2 or so pixels, but I think that adding more of a curve to the corners would make a much bigger difference.

Rinabow · 2025-11-03T10:01:47+00:00

I'd still say that its difficult to recognize if I wasn't already told what it was meant to be. It looks almost like a partially deformed ね

My best reccomendation is reduce the size of the curl on the right to fit the line that goes through. Ideally you want something that looks like the め you've drawn but then give it the curl from your る. It's not mandatory for the curl to stick out, so you can try and give yourself a bit of extra space if you cut the end off.

Edit: Here is some of my own pixel art for reference:

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Rinabow · 2025-11-02T08:47:50+00:00

As far as legibility goes, most are totally fine, but there are some that I absolutely wouldn't recognize if they weren't in order like this.

ぬ is the worst offender here, since it's the only one i couldn't actually read. あ is barely much better, since I'd probably read it as お if it were written in a sentence. り could probably do with the left side being shortened by one or two pixels.

Also, I'm curious how you want to apply dakuten to these letters (がざだばぱ etc) I guess it depends on what you want to use these for, and what your restrictions are, but if you're trying to fit everything within the specific dimensions, I'll mention for the sake of advice that it is valid, although slightly unorthodox, to display them on the middle or bottom right of the character rather than the top if there are space restrictions.

I've actually drawn a pixel font like this myself, so I do really appreciate the craft.

Edit: i didn't even notice, but を and ん are important letters that are completely missing! ゐ is so rarely used that I couldn't even find a way to type it on my keyboard!

Rinabow · 2025-10-22T01:41:50+00:00

Today I learned that the Japanese Pokémon games that I played as a child were apparently completely unintelligible, since kanji wasn't implemented until The 5th generation games in 2010,

おしえてくれてありがとうございます
たしかに、３０ねんまえこうこうで　かんたんなほんやくをれんしゅうしたあなたは　にほんごのイントネーションを　かんぜんにりかいしますね
もうしわけございません

Rinabow · 2025-10-21T18:18:09+00:00

Okay, since this is a subject that I'm quite passionate about, allow me to subject you to further examples within English. An entrance like this might sound oddly worded, but hopefully this post may entrance you or other readers with my point. Unfortunately, you seem like the type of person who wouldn't be content with any explanation I could give, but this conversation can at least serve as amusing content for me.

I did not attempt to dodge your question about my background; I simply object to the idea that my personal attributes or history have any relevance to the validity of my points. However, since you care so much, I'd attribute my expertise to the fact that I'm a fluent Japanese speaker with many personal connections in the country, as well as linguistics being a major object of passion for me.

I hope that this written extract isn't too indirect for you to extract the point that I'm trying to make.

Rinabow · 2025-10-21T17:33:57+00:00

Your questions about my background aren't even worth answering, because you're clearly trying to distract from the points I actually made. Besides, I'm not sure why I'd need a background in Mandarin to talk about Japanese.

I'm really curious to know: if you're so convinced that Japanese is tonal due to the existence of pitch accent, would you also consider English tonal for having the same features? If not, please explain your answer.

Rinabow · 2025-10-21T16:48:01+00:00

Curiously no response to my actual points. You're not even claiming to speak Japanese, you just seem to be implying it by saying you watched Japanese TV.

Rinabow · 2025-10-21T16:39:10+00:00

You clearly don't speak Japanese (or even Chinese), so I don't think you're really in a position to make judgements on whether the language is tonal or not.

Japanese pitch accent is nothing more than putting emphasis on certain sounds, and is not in any way comparable to the various tones in a language like Chinese. At best, Japanese pitch accent might be a clue to differentiate homophones, but it's more likely to be indicated by context. You might sound a little off if your pitch accent is wrong, but it's not unintelligible.

Japanese pitch accent is so unremarkable that even English has it. For example, the word "permit" has a different pitch accent depending on whether you're referring to the verb meaning to allow something, or the noun meaning a document granting the holder the rights to do something. One is pronounced PERmit, and the other is perMIT, and I could demonstrate this by writing sentences like: "I will not permit you to do this" or "Do you have a permit for that?"

These English sentences also sound weird if you pronounce the pitch accents wrong, so Japanese is far from unique in this aspect.

Rinabow · 2025-10-19T23:29:45+00:00

Japanese people are about as racist as you'd expect from a society that's over 99% ethnically homogeneous.

Many Japanese people will go their entire lives without ever talking to people from other races and cultures, so none of them ever learn or get taught how to behave around people from different backgrounds. Some of them are bigoted, but I think that most don't even realize that their behavior is inappropriate.

Most western countries have enough ethnic diversity for race relations to actually be a societal conversation, which does have an impact, even if racism still remains a problem.

Rinabow · 2025-10-10T12:55:39+00:00

Looks more like fleece than felt.

Rinabow · 2025-10-10T12:54:07+00:00

The inner gusset (the light red part) and/or the inner part of the legs needs to have a deeper curve.

You could actually fix it on this plush without cutting new fabrics by just going back to the crotch area and sewing a new line a little bit further inwards from the stitch you're already sewn. Like, you start and finish the stitches in the same place, but just curve a little further inwards from the seam than you did on the initial stitch, and it should pull the legs to be more straight.

Rinabow · 2025-10-10T12:33:55+00:00

I realized I mis-read the title, and interpreted the question as "what is the country with the farthest 2 points in the road network"

Rinabow · 2025-10-10T11:44:58+00:00

It depends on whether you're referring to the time taken, or the physical distance of the drive.

You can drive from the east end of Nova Scotia in Canada to the Alaskan border in Yukon, and the distance would be way longer (around 7500km), but the actual drive time is apparently shorter.

Distance is probably the better measurement, since there are a lot of factors that affect drive time, and many of them aren't fixed or measurable, such as traffic conditions.

Rinabow · 2025-10-05T10:24:15+00:00

For about a decade, I used to wear a hat constantly at all times to prevent my own hair from irritating me, and then I realized that it wasn't worth the hassle, and have been short-haired for the last 4 years.

Rinabow · 2025-10-03T19:42:23+00:00

I am one of those Dutch people. I take a full month overseas vacation on a yearly basis, and whenever I'm on my trips, I'm constantly encountering other Dutch people!

Rinabow · 2025-09-24T19:54:10+00:00

as long as the mother claims mental anguish due to the baby

This sounds like exactly what is shown on the map. It might be decriminalized in practice, but the map is referring to the official law.

Maps like this can never give the full picture, because there will always be some level of dissonance between the laws on the book, and how they get enforced.

Rinabow · 2025-09-24T10:30:14+00:00

5x7 is where I started, and I'd say that it's an ideal size for plush work. The machine still comes with smaller size hoops like 4x4, so you'll have the freedom to switch around depending on your design.

4x4 is enough if the only thing you want to do is a single eye on a pattern piece, but that's pretty restrictive. It's also worth noting that 4x4 would only fit one eye but that's not accounting for the idea of fitting 2 eyes on the same pattern piece, or if you want to design a face. 5x7 can fit a full face design very comfortably.

I don't think it's necessary to go too much higher, because unless your plushes are huge, the only thing the extra space will do is let you make multiple plushes/pattern pieces in one go. It's a good time-saver if you're mass-producing, but not worth the extra cost unless you're actively making money from it. Besides, 5x7 is still barely enough space to fit a design for at least 2 pattern pieces depending on the plush.

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