Kirby Explains Fanservice

There is nothing wrong with female characters in lingerie, leotards, or female swimwear. Fanservice is not unwholesome when it's "Safe For Work", as long as private parts are covered.

In this comic, Kirby is informing us that female swimsuits, while looking similar in appearance to lingerie and leotards, are more water durable than lingerie and leotards. This could explain why females have no problems being in bikinis but feel more exposed when in lingerie. Given that bikini bottoms look like panties, perhaps it's time we started using swimies, a portmanteau of swimsuit and panties, as a new slang term for bikini bottoms. On top of that, there are long-sleeved one-piece swimsuits that look like water durable versions of gymnastics leotards, and females do not mind being in leotards. Therefore, fanservice can be "Safe For Work" if "Not Safe For Work" elements are completely omitted.

Kirby © Nintendo.

Long Way to Doha

Let's face it. The decision to let Qatar host the World Cup was a terrible mistake. Although Qatar is one of the richest countries on Earth, the expenditure for the 2022 World Cup is way more than the combined expenditure for all the World Cup tournaments from 1990 to 2018. Pestilence or no pestilence, there are people who will totally abstain from Qatar's World Cup, just like those who opposed Tokyo's Olympic Games before the pandemic began.

Unless you choose to fly Qatar Airways to Doha, travelling there will be a long journey in the desert, and directional signs will be hard to find. In other words, it sure is a long way to Doha...

Prelude to Tribulation

Amid all of the Internet drama, one thing is for certain. The day will come when God's Word is no longer permitted on the World Wide Web, and when that happens, the 45-day final countdown to the Great Tribulation begins, followed by a 30-day period when Jerusalem gets surrounded by armies bent on the city's total destruction. All of this is in accordance to Amos 8:11, which speaks about a famine of God's Word, and when this famine happens, it will be worse than all of the food and water shortages throughout history combined...

Uniquely Weird

In the South Korean version of Wii Party, Globe Trot features South Korea, the area circled in red, as the starting space, replacing the Japan Hot Spot in that game mode. Another feature unique to the South Korean version of Wii Party is Spin-Off having stars instead of medals. The changes in Globe Trot are possibly related to the unresolved issues between South Korea and Japan, although the lack of South Korea as a Hot Spot in all the other versions could be the real reason for the map changes, while the changes in Spin-Off are due to a gambling ban in South Korea.

Wii Party © Nintendo.

#AshKetchumForSmash

On the 11th of November, 2022, Ash Ketchum defeated Galar's Regional Champion Leon, potentially bringing a 25-year odyssey to a possible poetic end. With the anime industry in turmoil in recent years, there has been nothing of an anime followup focusing on the Paldea Region because Studio OLM, the studio behind the Pokemon anime from the very beginning, was not spared from the turmoil either. This could mean the Pokemon anime is reaching the end of the road. If that is true, the theories of Pokemon being all just a dream from a dying Ash Ketchum, as well as becoming a Pokemon Master is the moment right before you die, will possibly be proven correct. Let's just hope Ash Ketchum does not have a Death Seal similar to the one placed inside Princess Sakura by Fei Wong Reed...

If there was anybody who said that Ash Ketchum will become Pokemon World Champion before Waluigi becomes a playable character in a Super Smash Bros title, that person just got proven correct...

With all that said, Ash Ketchum being playable in Super Smash Bros might not become a reality, much to my disappointment, because I wanted him to go toe to toe against Nintendo's other characters, including Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby and perhaps third-party characters such as the Street Fighter duo of Ryu and Ken. But the biggest disappointment in my opinion will be that Ash Ketchum will never be able to go toe to toe against Sakura Kinomoto because that was what I was wishing for back in 2001.

All in all, Congratulations, Ash Ketchum! You have finally become the very best that no one ever was!

Update: The Ash Ketchum Arc has officially ended, and it ended with "Next Time, A New Beginning". We do not know if he will reappear in Pokemon Horizons in any way possible, nor will he ever appear in a future Super Smash Bros title. At least he did not possess a Death Seal. In other words, Pokemon Horizons will be a new beginning indeed...

The Duality of the Norwegian Language

I can never truly understand why there are two official variations of the Norwegian language. Bokmål was basically a Norwegianised version of Danish, while Nynorsk is based on Norwegian dialects. There was an attempt to merge the two versions of Norwegian into one common language, but the Samnorsk Language Project was eventually abandoned. Nowadays, Bokmål is the dominant version of Norwegian. But Norwegian television broadcasts in both Bokmål and Nynorsk, and all government agencies in Norway are required to support both written languages. This means whoever wants to visit Norway must be able to understand both the Bokmål and Nynorsk variations of the Norwegian language before going there. Otherwise, you could end up being lost in translation.