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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:

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)

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.

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:

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

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.

First pick a fake name, I use Jessica, then download the Google Voice app, hook it up to your email, pick a number, and set up a fake greeting with your fake name. You can set it to ring your actual phone like a normal call or text but they don’t have real info on you.

MAILING ADDRESS 

Town of Tusayan 

P.O. Box 709 | 845 Mustang Drive

Tusayan, AZ 86023 PHONE +1 (928) 638-9909 

EMAIL

Mayor Craig Sanderson 

[email protected] 

Vice-Mayor Becky Wirth 

[email protected]

Councilor | Brady Harris 

[email protected]

 Councilor  |  Al Montoya 

[email protected] 

Councilor  |  Robb Baldosky 

[email protected] 

if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA 

just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!

Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:

Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature

Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu

And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”

And then just refreshed the page

Impromptu commission!

Happy Pride Month!!!

To all of my LGBTQ+ siblings! I hope this June brings you happiness, health, safety, and comfort in who you are!

And for those of you who are closeted, I wish you all the best in staying safe, and, if you’re ready and able to, the courage to come out!

If your flag isn’t here, because I know I can’t cover every identity out there, please reblog and add it! Don’t be afraid to share your pride in your identity if it’s safe for you to do so!

Tales from Beyond the Fringe: Strain-ger Things

An art collaboration with @datela-vodenit of our characters Taren and Kaun! ( I did the lineart and they did the coloring.)

Obviously took inspiration from the Tales Beyond the Fringe series, and we wanted to make our own and sorta dedication to a great mmo. I suppose the summary of this story is that draken and aurin must put down their faction alliances aside, at least long enough to survive barrage of strain attacks, one after the other. 

Aang: I recall yes

Sokka: can I have it

Aang: …what?

Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes

Aang: what no

Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko

Aang:

Aang:

I’m just gonna go ahead and bullet our presidents’ train of thought while writing these two tweets:

•all these plane crashes are caused by technology

•therefore, airplanes are too complex to fly

•for example, we no longer need pilots

•because planes are basically flown by MIT engineers

•these MIT pilot engineers do too much technology

•they are wasting their time because we need pilots to fly these airplanes

•the best ever pilots

•these pilots have to be so good they are geniuses

•geniuses like Albert Einstein

•who, by the way, was a horrible pilot

•but he could figure out all this technology

•just like all these world-class pilots we have

Planes have become too reliant on technology rather than the trained gut instincts of a good pilot.

•technological advances have allowed the aviation industry to be literally the safest form of travel on the planet. You are thousands of times more likely to die in a car crash than an airplane crash

•anytime a plane crash happens, the entire industry learns from the mistakes, and changes them so it doesn’t happen again. For 50+ years, accidents have provided necessary changes to engineering, procedures, flight controllers, and ever other aspect of the industry. These changes improve the safety standard of the industry and prevent the same accidents from happening again.

•As I write this, Boeing and the NTSB are evaluating the causes of the two most recent crashes, and after their investigation is complete they will update their training procedures, their engineering faults, and whatever else necessary to make sure this type of crash never happens again

Not telling pilots about new automated systems kills people (Lion Air 610.)

Not giving pilots the training and capability to override these systems during the Machine Uprising kills people (MCAS activates without pilot input and has to be overridden by manual trim adjustments.)