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longcrierkittyarcade:

I swear if Toy Story 4 isn’t a Buzz Lightyear of Star Command movie/Woody’s Round Up Film, I’ll be pretty irritated. 

Toy Story already ended, if you’re keeping it going then let’s see Woody and Buzz’s stories as cultural icons. 

Everyone keeps saying Toy Story ended, and I don’t get it. Sure, Andy’s story ended, but the toys themselves (you know, the main characters of the film?) are still having adventures.

Didn’t anyone watch the excellent Halloween special? Honestly I think Toy Story could go on forever like any other timeless Disney characters. Sure, they might ruin the next movie, but if they don’t, the payoff is enormous - another great Toy Story.

finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
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finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
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finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
Zoom
finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
Zoom
finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
Zoom
finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
Zoom
finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
Zoom
finalfantasyvi: Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters  You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.
Zoom

finalfantasyvi:

Yoshitaka Amano’s chibi art for FFVI characters 

You know, I like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 we got well enough, but I can’t help but wonder what they might have been like if they’d kept using this kind of style instead of exchanging it for the prerenderered look the minute large storage capacity and higher resolution were possible. At any rate, I’d like to see Square return to it for a new game someday.

allthingslinguistic:

October 9 was Hangul Day, a day celebrating the invention of the Korean alphabet. All writing systems are cool, but the Korean alphabet is a special favourite of linguists because the symbols are designed based on the phonetic features of their sounds. For example, from Wikipedia: 

ㄱ g [k], ㅋ k [kʰ]
Basic shape: ㄱ is a side view of the back of the tongue raised toward the velum (soft palate). (For illustration, access the external link below.) ㅋ is derived from ㄱ with a stroke for the burst of aspiration.
ㄴ n [n], ㄷ d [t], ㅌ t [tʰ], ㄹ r [ɾ, l]
Basic shape: ㄴ is a side view of the tip of the tongue raised toward the alveolar ridge (gum ridge). The letters derived from ㄴ are pronounced with the same basic articulation. The line topping ㄷ represents firm contact with the roof of the mouth. The middle stroke of ㅌ represents the burst of aspiration. The top of ㄹ represents a flap of the tongue.

As this video from the late linguist Jim McCawley points out, this means that King Sejong and his scholars had a very modern understanding of articulatory phonetics and the phonology of Korean way back in the 1400s, and a sense of how important it was to design a system that was easy to learn so that everyone could be literate. 

The individual sounds are then combined into syllable blocks. For example, here’s the word “hangul” itself: 

For more information, Wikipedia is a good place to start, and there’s also a video series about learning Hangul. 

I never knew this. This is so cool.

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