Hey no need to apologize for that. Lately I neither have been active on MAL, I haven't had recently any interest in anime nor manga so I didn't see a reason to log in. Anyway how have you been?
Yeah definitely. Finland wasn't from the get go rich country and wars after independence slowed development, but civil war had positive effects too. It's also important to recognize that the country's regions developed at different times. You can still roughly divine country by Treaty of Nöteborg border east vs west. West generally doing better in every way from employment to people's average health.
It was some circle dance and later people going into pairs or smaller groups. Yep, went with one of my friend to dance with group of young girls and later danced along with older couple, who turned out to be bride's aunt and her husband so that happened. Also I danced with some older drunk man who only spoke albanian to me.
I did saw some news about that, it was enough big deal that our local thrash tabloids also caught up on it. I didn't follow the tournament but saw enough younger people and some older going mad over it. Lmao at that document's start, but that's 100% how Finns behave while playing video games.
I have a feeling majority of Finns also know Kalevala and mythology through Don Rosa and Mauri Kunnas' Koirien Kalevala haha. Most don't even know there were actually many people collecting poems, songs and stories from Finns and other Finnic people when Finland was part of Russia, not just Lönnrot. Honestly I read Divine comedy to fell asleep at night. It does have it's own humor and in no way I could say the idea is boring, but reading it feels like a job. Speaking of Divine comedy I liked how they used it in the The house that Jack build movie. I'm reading currently USA poesi från 1010-1983, I found it interesting because it includes native American poems and few poems about Vinland.
I can usually recognize insect pests in garden and in house and have some basic knowledge of them. But around here we don't have any really harmful pests. Common furniture beetle does worst damage to house and in green house coccidae and red spider mite are worst. Longhorn beetles do most damage in forest. I have had to deal with some pests, scarlet lily beetle and aphids doing worst damage, but I think plant diseases do a lot more harm.
We had snow here yesterday. I hope it didn't do any damage to queen bumblebees, they're going around finding nest place. Bees and common wasps I haven't seen yet.
Honestly, you don't have to worry about belated replies with me. Especially when I can get stuck and not in the mood for a particular conversation for several weeks or even months. I once replied to a message directed to me only after one year... That being, said: thanks and I hope, you have had a good start in the new year! :)
btw.: it's "frohe Weihnachten" and "frohes neues Jahr" (or "prosit Neujahr"). "früh" is "early", so wishing for a belated, early Christmas is quite amusing. :p But at least, you were or still are (?) learning German, which if it goes on like this, the language skills in German will deteriorate much further with the future generations.
In the case of the weeaboo German, the grammar was fine, but the vocabulary was odd (though at least not as odd as your hilarious example). Yousei Teikoku sing in (pseudo) German? I only really have the song "Destrudo" in mind, though I have a few other songs including "Wahrheit" in my music collection, but I've never really noticed it being German. If anything, when I think of Japanese bands singing in (pseudo) German, I think first of βios from "Guilty Crown" with "Regentropfen".
Agreed, once you grow up you kinda lose the energy for gaming too much.
And here I am again re-playing Akiba's Trip. At least, it has helped me fill the void a little, since I have been tired of socializing in general. Also of forums, but I will still stick around for now, even if I may not log in every day.
Our mags are called Donald Duck magazines. He's named Onkel Joakim, i don't know why. Gyro is called Georg Gearløs, so taken pretty straight from the source material. Barks and Rosa are some of the best authors of the 20th century, and everuone should read their stories IMO.
Joakim sounds so Jewish, errm Hebraic. But maybe, they just wanted to make a pun on stereotypes. Georg Gearløs sounds so uninspiring. Are Barks and Rosa really that good? I mean, their comics were certainly entertaining as a kid, but the writing was nothing special, though it might be that the translation was simply not special. If I'm not mistaken, then lots of the creators for the stories were/are Italians.
I'm not in a rush to reply, but I still can't think of anything to continue the civilization topic. I hope, you have managed to be in time for when you were in a rush. Also, you have hit a time when I had my mind occupied with stuff, so even if you had been two weeks later, I would still have only now replied, because I made the transition to where I would at least have some more elaborate and/or frequent conversations again only recently. Therefore, it's all water under the bridge now :)
Lmao, writing a paper about Svalbard in the 1600s, I really like people who snow themselves into specific places during specific times. Claiming ancestral right was something they were very alert on doing, I think some Swedish kings claimed ancestral right to Norway for some unclear reasons.
We should take into consideration that it isn't sure that America would have taken the same path in history as it now did, if New Sweden would have survived and eventually become an independent country. It's not sure they would have been able to take over New England and New Netherlands, but it would probably have expanded and been taking in more colonists, that we can be sure of. Maybe Sweden today and an independent New Sweden would have the same kind of relations as the UK and Australia today.
Scandinavians have left a mark in America. Minnesota is known for "Minnesota nice" today, which is believed to come from all Scandinavians and their jantelag mentality. They also say "yeah" more like "yah", as in "ja". In Seattle you have the 'freeze", which is also said to come from all Scandinavians and Japanese people in the city, because they are perceived as reserved and more stoic than those from the South, East coast or California.
I agree with you there, when I read about the Kalmar union and all the internal conflicts, I don't understand it as a conflict Swedes against "Dansken", but rather "unionists" against "seperarists". There were rebellions after that Sweden left the union, against Gustav Vasa. The difference is that those didn't succeed because Gustav Vasa had a sense for propaganda. During the Dacke rebellion for example, which definitely could have succeeded, Gustav Vasa sent messages to other provinces saying that this man was evil and he cruel to the local population (even though Gustav Vasa was the real tyrant).
I think he has some points when it comes to geopolitics and strategic interests. We're much more afraid of the Russians than you are for instance, since gou're threat has rather been from the south. Finland and Denmark might not have the same strategic interests, but does Sweden and Denmark have that? Yes. Does Norway and Sweden? Yes. Does Denmark and Norway? Yes. Sweden and Finland has also the same strategic interests, but it's more unclear though when it comes to Finland and Norway + Denmark. So I think the three Scandinavian kingdoms can unite, which I think will happen in some form the day the EU collapses. It would today have a population of 21, 345 198 inhabitants, which is pretty good, around 17, 500 000 of those are Scandinavians. I heard that here in Sweden we had a "right to return" law for Swedish emigrants and their descendants, but that law was taken away when we were going to join the EU. In 2001 we allowed dual citizenship, which makes me wonder how many say Swedish Americans would have made use of this right to return law after 2001 if we had not joined the EU. France and Ireland had also this.
Hah good luck then to Trump trying to get nations still affected by last economic crisis pay more.
Maybe we can get Kyösti Kosloff to convince Putin we need special treatment, according to him all the racism he has faced must be 'cause russophobia is in Finnish genes. At least he has balls enough to complain in public Finns focus on Winter and Continuation War. That's a tough question there. I'd say because Finland is unable to compete with the rest of World in production and change from the traditional economy where we still struggle to find a new way causing problems. But as it is I think the global economy as we know won't last that long and we're just waiting for new economy crisis.
Lmao luckily in Kosovo they didn't do that, but fuck I needed to participate in a traditional dance in the goddamn wedding and they filmed the whole thing. Thank god I had alcohol to survive that.
Cheap chocolate milk calendars always taste nasty, one time I spend more money to get KarlFazer calendar, it was worth it. King's translated works are for some bizarre reason expensive collector stuff, like Children of the Corn you'd be able to buy used in 50€. I know really little about Danish literature, H C Andersen and modern deckare but they're over shadowed by Swedish and Norwegian ones.
Never watched e-sports, they air them on national TV but I never found time to sit and watch it. Then again I watch twitch streams time to time so it's not like it'd take more time. Lol I tried just one time runescape but didn't get in to it.
Yes it is, Kreutzwald and Lönnrot were friends actually and Kalevala had great influence on Kalevipoeg. While there are differences like Kreutzwald needed to use creative freedom, as poems and stories he collected didn't create a complete story, while Lönnrot didn't need to do much to the poems, kalevala meter isn't always correct in Kalevipoeg and actually finnish translation follows it better. I have in my book shelve collection of Mordovian poems and Divine Comedy, beside them I have Kanteletar, Ingrian laments collection, The Saami a cultural encyclopedia that has pre-Christian deities included.
In those two places Finnish communities still have strong roots to their origin culture what I know. I supposedly have distant relatives living in California but I have no knowledge what they're doing. Yes that makes sense as it would be Finns and Swedes who would know how to cultivate that land.
I understood some sentenced and got what the news was about, also lol google translator is my good old friend since middle school. Can we now remove Sweden from Nordics and label it as our own little Eastern Europe.
Stateless societies don't have "hard" borders like our states have, they're more defined by ancestry, language and overall culture. In Finland there are rural municipalities where 90% speak Swedish, and when you cross the border into another municipality 95% speak Finnish. There has obviously been direct contacts between these communities, but they have kept their own identity even so. They haven't had a reason to change the other, that came later when Finland became nation state with a strong central government, when these communities all of the sudden were going to share authority.
I have myself plenty of relatives in the American Midwest and the Northwest. This is somewhat unknown for us today, but they have actually preserved their Scandinavian identity, even though they speak English now. They still see themselves as Scandinavians, which I have found very interesting. I've also met some, and I didn't think of them as too strange and foreign from us. Minnesota and the Dakotas are the centre of Scandinavian America today. In a way I think it was perhaps for the best that we didn't end up conquering in North America and elsewhere, like England did, it seems to be a heavy burden to carry today. Maybe they would have done it differently, treating the native Americans more like the Sami people, which wasn't ideal but still they didn't end up gone. More interesting would have been if Norse settlements in North America, Vinland, would have survived and then there would have been a heathen Nordic kingdom in the Americas by the time West Europeans would show up in the 1500s.
Sweden was surprisingly uninterested in navy and the open seas even though it's like an island. We were more interested in armies. Denmark-Norway was more sea-based.
Oh, I know that Norway was basically the Nordic equivalent of Vietnam. The Caroleans hated to be in Norway, if you read the letters home from the front. The hilly landscapes and the forests were as made for guerilla warfare with successful ambushes. But I think they should have occupied Norway during an initial phase of the war and/or stayed in the Baltics, instead of spending several years stubbornly roaming around in Poland. Cool battles for sure, but you must win the war in the end.
Lol, my uncle worked in Norway in his youth and he says that "they are lazy" about Norwegians.
Yes, that's more than fine with me. In fact, I welcome it, since I don't really have the mind for lengthy conversations that don't deal with stuff concerning the heart.
1) If you call the "Western" civilization with their different forms (e.g.: in Japan) as the global one when it comes to clothing style, technology and partially: food plus way of life, then I can agree with that. But not when it comes to spiritual belief, culture, history and mentality. That's where the societies differ from each other, even if the differences may not appear as huge as the example you gave with a bushman compared to someone from a modern civilization. Actually, I've found it a huge mistake to bring that many people(s) from Africa and other parts of the world into modern civilization. We would have had much less troubles nowadays if we simply left the peoples alone. When do people learn?
2) I thought that was a hyperbole. Anyone with some common sense knows that the iPhone cannot be the greatest invention ever.
I didn't know there exists a pocket beech tree, lol (it's "Lustige Taschenbücher" in the plural). Do so many Danes know German?
Also, you only get the Donald Duck stories from the Mickey Mouse comic mags?
Yes, he's Onkel Dagobert. What's his name in Danish and what about Gyro Gearloose (or Daniel Düsentrieb)?
I've read the names of Carl Barks and Don Rosa quite often as the names of the authors on most stories.
Nah, it's okay. Actually, we haven't played much CS in school and I myself haven't played it since over a month. I also haven't really played any games other than Project Diva on my PSP on school days and here and there very shortly some mobile games, since I don't have the mind for games any longer.
Harem endings where everything ends in friendship can be nice, too. There's also a Harem route in the Majikoi VN with the 18+ variant which was quite entertaining to read. But aside from those, if they go into romance, I prefer a clear romance.
Ore Monogatari was really sweet. You should give it a try.
That sounds enticing, then, though it should have been "Sie sind die Beute" ("They are the prey"), since "They are the meal" sounds somewhat wrong.
Yes, I'm supposed to have some Forest Finnish ancestry, but it's a little. I believe it wasn't meant for them to cross the border into Norway but they didn't care, and it wasn't much the central authority could do about that.
Wow, thanks, that was a great documentary. I've actually been trying to read up on the Baltic Finns and Finland's prehistory, but it's really hard to find a lot of information. I think it all makes perfect sense, this shows how natural it was for Finland to become an integrated part of the Kingdom of Sweden.
There are some traces of Nordic iron age, if it wasn't even Nordic bronze age on Dagö and the northwestern edge of the Estonian mainland, as well as in southeastern Finland.
I have read quite a bit about Nya Sverige. It provokes ideas of how it could have went if the colony would have been successful. The Swedish and Finnish colonists kept their culture though into the 1700s. I think New Sweden became it's own county for a while, or at least a part of it under the name "Upland". In the 1690s colonists wrote home to the king Karl XI and asked him to send over Swedish bibles and Lutheran priests. When the American revolution took place I think there were ~20 000 Fenno-Swedish colonists on the American East Coast, which would be like 1% of the population there, but those estimates are somewhat speculative.
It was a bad card to play on, to build the empire around the Baltic sea. They should have realized that it would be impossible to protect the possessions in the Baltics eventually. It would have made more sense to incorporate Norway so that you would have "natural borders". The Swedish nobility however wanted more land and wealth which they could get from the Continent. In Norway there were no manorial estates and the peasantry was free, in the Baltics they had serfdom. Karl XI freed some peasants in Livonia actually, and he had plans to abolish serfdom formally, but those plans were ruined when the Great Northern war started. Livonian nobility had a major role in the starting if the war.
Was there given deadline to that change? Estonia and Poland I can understand, UK is news for me. If I remember correct there was Finnish troop too in Middle East due to UN but it wasn't anything big, and we have sold weapons to Middle East countries like Saudi-Arabia so there's that. I generally don't favor any ideas of huge armies, rather just co-operations, it is comforting Finland has it's own army that isn't just forgotten to dust tho.
The Nordic military would definitely make Finland's and Russia's relationship cold and damage market more than what it is now due to trade war, our economy is more shit than other Nordic countries so far so for now we wouldn't get anything major out of it. Add we have bigger Russian speaking minority where some are quite in favor of Putin so there would be risks.
Ah yes and the amount of people is manageable. Fuck I would be dead if we had as many people here like in Southern European countries, and more fights so we prob would kill each others because we need space to tolerate anything.
I got into fictional reading few years ago, Stephen King might have been author that caused it. I'm a bit annoyed any popular book here is either deckare or war novel and many foreign classics aren't translated so I need to choose between English or Swedish version. Some danish tradition? I don't have any advent calendar this year, there was a beer one but that was over 100€ and only sold in Helsinki so nope.
1995 might be one of the most important years in our history beside 1917. I think 'finnjävla' is something like 'hurri' here. Generally if you search anything 'finnjävlar' you just get depressing stories of Sweden Finns struggling to get by. Not that long ago I read one Finn's experience living in Sweden around middle 2000's, apparently people's attitude changed when told he was from Finland and even someone asked does he carry around 'family knife' during his first years living there lol. Not to say we don't have bizarre bias towards Swedes and Finnish Swedes because we do.
Weird to think people actually play e-sports and earn money by that, like I'm not big on video games beside few franchises but I see more people trashing it. Video games in general have been up in news because many young adults earn shit-ton by it and it's close to what professional athletes earn, last year no one gave fuck but now two e-sports players got invitation to Independence Day reception. Don't know what happened to CS;GO, back in the day everyone was playing it and Runescape.
Yeah sadly, there are Izhorians, Ludic people that are counted as Karelians and Votes have under 500 speakers currently in Russia. I read some epic poetry from time to time, Kalevipoeg recently and in library I have eyed Gilgamesh as my next read. Poems are important part of Finnic cultures and helps separating them from each other so they're unavoidable when reading their history.
I haven't read anything about New Sweden even tho there exist good literature of it and in general of American Finns, while those that have any ancestors to 1600's Forest Finn settlers can't be called that really. I think New Sweden was mentioned in middle school history class but I can't remember anything of that expect it didn't work out.
When two peoples live so interconnected with each other over such a long period of time, especially in the case for Norwegians and Swedes, it's not strange that Finns would leave some genetically mark on our gene pool. We have so called Finnmarker here, where Finns settled in the 1500s and the 1600s. In the province of Värmland I think like 20% of the population was Finnish around the year 1800.
They have a very different modern history from other Nordic countries, with the civil war and the wars against Soviet Union which was an existential threat to them. When you talk to Finns you notice that they have a more survivalist mentality than Scandinavians, particularly the Swedes. Here's a great documentary you should watch, sadly there's no subtitles. It's about Finland in the years 1944 to 1952, a part of the nation's history that I was unaware of before actually, I thought they were "safe" after the war but apparently there was still concerns that Finland might have ended up as a Soviet state.
I didn't know about that, but I was listening to a podcast episode the other day when they talked about the Estonia-Swedes, a Swedish minority that lived on the islands of Estonia up until Soviet occupation. They said that the Danish king used Swedish peasants from Öland as colonizers in order to speed-up Christianization of Estonia. This was in the early Medieval period in Nordic history, so in the 1100 - 1200s.
It caused quite a storm between opposition and government that Finland is part of European Intervention Initiative project, mostly how current government pushed us to military alliance and breaking our long going neutral stand, also how government favors NATO. I haven't been up on what exactly money yankees want, most wars NATO has entered were also/mostly a part of USA interest, only war that wasn't in interest of USA was Kosovo War, but they still got what they wanted and that was more bases in Europe. It all just looks USA wants other countries to pay for it's own war games. Macron has out loud said wanting other EU countries to help frenchies in Africa, so yeah his intents are pretty clear. Hiding behind Finns wouldn't change anything to Swedes, but I think no one here is rooting for Nordic military.
Lol what in me screams hermit of Lapland? But to be fair my family did have cottage in Muonio so when I was kid I did spend time there in middle of woods watching reindeers, we actually still have small area of land there. Turku has been bombed and burned too many times you won't find any cool old city like you would in Tallinna, just gray Finnish city for most part. But I'm not non-biased as I loathe cities in general, it's okay to just chill in Kupittaa's park, visit Ruissalo and also drink in riverboat during summer, during winter you're fucked. There aren't any grill kiosks so that's a big minus also.
Yep, they're more like junk food of horror, far from slasher starters of the 60's. I watch them for kills, like pretty much everyone else, not any huge fan overall, giallo films are more entertaining than teen slashers. As far as books go I'm planning reading Cruising by Gerald Walker and American Psycho by B.E. Ellis when i have time.
Joblessness and money problems are a good excuse for drinking.
You Danes gotta step up your game, we have Finland-Sweden Athletics International hold every year just so we can beat each other. Motorsports are only sports we are succeeding anymore, also e-sport for some reason.
At least we have Swamp football still. I think oldest Hetemaj brother doesn't play anymore due to injury and works as coach, youngest plays in Russia Mari El republic I think or at least has played.
Btw I'm reading a book about Vepsians, for curiosity in folklore, it consist of mostly Russian studies translated to Finnish by Lassi Saressalo. It includes stuff about possibly bargain with Vikings and Bolghar people, and tumulus research around Ladoga. Not stuff I commonly read lol and even now I'd just want to skip to read vepsian folk poetry part, but ey now I know quite many Ladoga regions name come from Sami language that can be seen even in Russian names.
I've recently been reading in the book "Svenskar och deras fäder", which is more or less about the paternal lineages among Scandinavians.
I wonder though how the Huns would have been able to get here, since during the time when they raided Europe North Germanic tribes lived on the Scandinavian penninsula, Zealand and on islands in the Baltic sea. They had no ships or boats what so ever as far as I'm aware. They were in contact with Fenno-Ugric tribes in the far north, and over sea, that we can be sure of. Quite many Swedish men have haplogroup N1c.
The irony is that Finns are the most European people there is, they have a lot of hunter-gatherer admixture. They even have more Indo-European admixture than many peoples who speak an Indo-European language today, like Greeks, Italians, Kurds, etc. They have a minor genetic link to the east, however. Their folklore and mythology is quite different from Indo-European traditions, even though they have over the centuries been quite influenced by Scandinavian folklore.
Not even mainly German speaking towns close to border? I guess because moving to another community wasn't common especially between different language regions Finland-Swedes had their own communities develop in peace.
Ah yes Russia has made it clear if Finland joins NATO we're enemies to Russia, reason why our military stand after WWII has been not to join any such organization not to push our dear old neighbor. Too bad for them is because we still need to co-operate with Nordic and Baltic countries, so they can keep complaining about NATO all they want. I'm not for joining NATO because being dependent on USA isn't to my liking and I just don't see any benefits for us currently. Russia wouldn't militarily attack any European (nor Asian) country because their economy is shit and they'd just cause more damge to that, Putin and DUMA just needs to flex from time to time.
Once a year maybe, went there like a week ago because friend moved there. I honestly hate Helsinki, too many people and expensive kebab if you're able to find one instead of chinese restaurant. Sure, I live in Varsinais-Suomi so Turku is closest to me, but that's a shit place too. I basically live in small village in between Finnish speaking town and Swedish speaking town.
Castlevania was good, fit my exception of vampire story and adult animation.
Hell fest, saw it and I liked its use of many different killing weapons, some deaths were nicely brutal. It's typical slasher movie with annoying teenage characters, final girl set up and only moment that makes it rise a bit higher is the ending scene. I think few years and it's pretty forgotten.
Correction alcoholism is a cure for other problems.
F1 is good because I love watching Sweden lose, Ericsson ranked 17 this year. Räikkönen is worldwide known and has quite a lot of fans in Asia for some reason, he became third with his points this year but Hamilton won the whole race. There's also Finnish Valtteri Bottas who ranks also well year after year.
Lmao I don't recognize any of those names. Litmanen Jari is only Finn player I know and Hetemaj brothers because their sister is a politician.
I see that when people take DNA tests they usually get 1 - 2%, sometimes up to 4% East Asian/Native American admixture as a result, and that must come from somewhere far east. Much of that could come from Fenno-Ugric peoples though, since modern day Finns have higher far eastern admixture in their genome.
There can't have been a big migration though of huns, I would suspect that a few came and managed to become some sort of local elite here and there, specifically on Gotland and in places in Denmark. Even on the continent I think it was mostly Goths among the huns, a clear minority were actually ethnic huns.
Norse religion had certain aspects that was unique in comparison to other Indo-European religions. I don't think shamanism was a thing in the Greco-Roman world at least. Nordic ornamentation also reminds you of more far eastern artwork with all the dragons.
Hi Fijure, I was wondering if you have heard about archeologist Lotte Hedeager and her argument that the huns would have had a strong influence on Norse religion c. 400 AD. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248980566_Scandinavia_and_the_Huns_An_Interdisciplinary_Approach_to_the_Migration_Era
I've read that one argument for a strong presence of huns in ancient Scandinavia is that images of deities kind of look Asian, and that male haplogroup Q (which is otherwise found in northern/eastern Asia and among native Americans) is found in 4 - 5% of Scandinavian men.
I've never used desktop computers with WiFi in my whole life. Don't see the point when Ethernet cables are laid in every relevant room. Why do you need to access the game through WiFi? It seems very odd to me, since firstly, wired is always better when it comes to speed, stability and delay, and secondly, I don't see what would be different, unless the WiFi is less secured and you need to bypass school filters or something.
1) Yeah, I know that from your description. I was just pointing out that even that shows differences between different peoples compared to your description of one big global civilization. However, even the Huntington view seems a bit too inaccurate imho. Also, since you recognize the differences between the various sub-cultures, I wonder what makes you oppose that view.
The exchange of those things certainly helped with growing together, but I would say that the most important points are economic reasons. It's because there was a need for economic co-operation that we can enjoy the relatively good peace and prosperity we have now.
2) It's sometimes the little things like Insulin or the programming languages that significantly improve things, but don't get credited enough, because they don't seem like something big and were discovered/invented by people from smaller cultures. lol, "Ole Rømer" sounds like "der olle Römer" (the ol' Roman).
3) Ah, so that's what you meant. I have a completely different notion of the term "asocial". By that, I usually imagine doing things to piss people off and/or acting crazy. I don't socialize too much with my colleagues, either, especially not at work. Good enough to get along, but after work or school, I often feel too tired or listless to do things with others. In any case: it's good that you still have people, you can meet up with, even if it's just once a month. At least when you meet up only around a dozen time a year, you will have more stuff to talk about to keep each other updated about what has happened since the last time you have met.
Thanks; I'm fairly open to most genres, but I do listen more intently to the stuff I really enjoy. A lot of songs that I like are one-hit-wonders, though sometimes, I like more songs of an artist or a band. Most of the stuff I hear is pop. Used to be more into rap and hip-hop, but over the last decade, I've been preferring electro/synth pop or something mixed with punk rock or normal rock or just classic songs from around the 1970s to 2010+ with older folk songs. Hmm, when it comes to bands, I like Linking Park, Die Ärzte, Rammstein, fripSide and possibly lots more, but those come to mind right now with the most songs. Genesis is also a good band. As for Sabaton, only the "Gott mit uns" song feels noteworthy to me. Oh and speaking of bands: Camouflage is probably the most famous band that has originated the closest from where I live.
Not my taste to be honest, but if there will be a war, when can use Danish equipment and march to German songs :p
(though we could also create new wave/synthpop military songs, something like "This is Deutsch" by Eisbrecher)
The problem with parody songs is that if you don't understand them, you won't get much of it. Maybe I would understand more if I came from northern Germany and if I concentrated or at least had the text to read it while hearing it, but I'm too lazy for it. I do enjoy parody songs in my own language, though. From here on would be a good part. I liked the parody song about the failed coalition talks and the CSU very much. Also this song about Kim Jong Un.
Oh right; you've mentioned about the documentary in the "favorite dinosaurs" thread. I used to read the Donald Duck stories very much as a kid and have also bought lots of those "Donald Duck pocket books" (they are called "Lustiges Taschenbuch"/"Lustige Taschenbücher", short: LTB over here) and those names certainly ring a bell, since I've seen them under most stories. I also have lots of "Mickey Mouse" comic magazines, also with stories from Donald Duck and the others. Don't know how the little kids are called in other editions, but I enjoyed stories with them, with Donald and with Phantomias (Donald's super hero persona) the most.
I know about Half-Life, but the only "realistic" shooter I've played is Counter Strike. Other than that, only an Anime-like shooter like S4 League, though I had played only the "only swords mode" the last years I played the game and that was already over 5 years ago.
I have surely watched at least some James Bond movies, but I can't recall anything major from those. Also, there was a game on the PlayStation One that I used to play.
Love triangles seem to happen quite often in Anime that are based on Light Novels, since love triangles generate controversy and can be used to market things. The question is rather which Anime does feel like a finished work, because felt over 80% of all Anime titles seem to act like an advertising for the original work.
Kobayashi is an entertaining show, though the best aspect was the soothing Dragon Loli voice.
Then it's all the more reason for me to watch Shingeki no Kyojin; it's just that the "third season part 2" seems to air next year or so. Also, while we're at Anime: I'm enjoying "Ore Monogatari!! very much right now. Seems like a cute and heart-warming "pure love" story so far.
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Yeah definitely. Finland wasn't from the get go rich country and wars after independence slowed development, but civil war had positive effects too. It's also important to recognize that the country's regions developed at different times. You can still roughly divine country by Treaty of Nöteborg border east vs west. West generally doing better in every way from employment to people's average health.
It was some circle dance and later people going into pairs or smaller groups. Yep, went with one of my friend to dance with group of young girls and later danced along with older couple, who turned out to be bride's aunt and her husband so that happened. Also I danced with some older drunk man who only spoke albanian to me.
I did saw some news about that, it was enough big deal that our local thrash tabloids also caught up on it. I didn't follow the tournament but saw enough younger people and some older going mad over it. Lmao at that document's start, but that's 100% how Finns behave while playing video games.
I have a feeling majority of Finns also know Kalevala and mythology through Don Rosa and Mauri Kunnas' Koirien Kalevala haha. Most don't even know there were actually many people collecting poems, songs and stories from Finns and other Finnic people when Finland was part of Russia, not just Lönnrot. Honestly I read Divine comedy to fell asleep at night. It does have it's own humor and in no way I could say the idea is boring, but reading it feels like a job. Speaking of Divine comedy I liked how they used it in the The house that Jack build movie. I'm reading currently USA poesi från 1010-1983, I found it interesting because it includes native American poems and few poems about Vinland.
I can usually recognize insect pests in garden and in house and have some basic knowledge of them. But around here we don't have any really harmful pests. Common furniture beetle does worst damage to house and in green house coccidae and red spider mite are worst. Longhorn beetles do most damage in forest. I have had to deal with some pests, scarlet lily beetle and aphids doing worst damage, but I think plant diseases do a lot more harm.
We had snow here yesterday. I hope it didn't do any damage to queen bumblebees, they're going around finding nest place. Bees and common wasps I haven't seen yet.
btw.: it's "frohe Weihnachten" and "frohes neues Jahr" (or "prosit Neujahr"). "früh" is "early", so wishing for a belated, early Christmas is quite amusing. :p But at least, you were or still are (?) learning German, which if it goes on like this, the language skills in German will deteriorate much further with the future generations.
In the case of the weeaboo German, the grammar was fine, but the vocabulary was odd (though at least not as odd as your hilarious example). Yousei Teikoku sing in (pseudo) German? I only really have the song "Destrudo" in mind, though I have a few other songs including "Wahrheit" in my music collection, but I've never really noticed it being German. If anything, when I think of Japanese bands singing in (pseudo) German, I think first of βios from "Guilty Crown" with "Regentropfen".
I'm not in a rush to reply, but I still can't think of anything to continue the civilization topic. I hope, you have managed to be in time for when you were in a rush. Also, you have hit a time when I had my mind occupied with stuff, so even if you had been two weeks later, I would still have only now replied, because I made the transition to where I would at least have some more elaborate and/or frequent conversations again only recently. Therefore, it's all water under the bridge now :)
We should take into consideration that it isn't sure that America would have taken the same path in history as it now did, if New Sweden would have survived and eventually become an independent country. It's not sure they would have been able to take over New England and New Netherlands, but it would probably have expanded and been taking in more colonists, that we can be sure of. Maybe Sweden today and an independent New Sweden would have the same kind of relations as the UK and Australia today.
Scandinavians have left a mark in America. Minnesota is known for "Minnesota nice" today, which is believed to come from all Scandinavians and their jantelag mentality. They also say "yeah" more like "yah", as in "ja". In Seattle you have the 'freeze", which is also said to come from all Scandinavians and Japanese people in the city, because they are perceived as reserved and more stoic than those from the South, East coast or California.
I agree with you there, when I read about the Kalmar union and all the internal conflicts, I don't understand it as a conflict Swedes against "Dansken", but rather "unionists" against "seperarists". There were rebellions after that Sweden left the union, against Gustav Vasa. The difference is that those didn't succeed because Gustav Vasa had a sense for propaganda. During the Dacke rebellion for example, which definitely could have succeeded, Gustav Vasa sent messages to other provinces saying that this man was evil and he cruel to the local population (even though Gustav Vasa was the real tyrant).
I think he has some points when it comes to geopolitics and strategic interests. We're much more afraid of the Russians than you are for instance, since gou're threat has rather been from the south. Finland and Denmark might not have the same strategic interests, but does Sweden and Denmark have that? Yes. Does Norway and Sweden? Yes. Does Denmark and Norway? Yes. Sweden and Finland has also the same strategic interests, but it's more unclear though when it comes to Finland and Norway + Denmark. So I think the three Scandinavian kingdoms can unite, which I think will happen in some form the day the EU collapses. It would today have a population of 21, 345 198 inhabitants, which is pretty good, around 17, 500 000 of those are Scandinavians. I heard that here in Sweden we had a "right to return" law for Swedish emigrants and their descendants, but that law was taken away when we were going to join the EU. In 2001 we allowed dual citizenship, which makes me wonder how many say Swedish Americans would have made use of this right to return law after 2001 if we had not joined the EU. France and Ireland had also this.
Maybe we can get Kyösti Kosloff to convince Putin we need special treatment, according to him all the racism he has faced must be 'cause russophobia is in Finnish genes. At least he has balls enough to complain in public Finns focus on Winter and Continuation War. That's a tough question there. I'd say because Finland is unable to compete with the rest of World in production and change from the traditional economy where we still struggle to find a new way causing problems. But as it is I think the global economy as we know won't last that long and we're just waiting for new economy crisis.
Lmao luckily in Kosovo they didn't do that, but fuck I needed to participate in a traditional dance in the goddamn wedding and they filmed the whole thing. Thank god I had alcohol to survive that.
Cheap chocolate milk calendars always taste nasty, one time I spend more money to get KarlFazer calendar, it was worth it. King's translated works are for some bizarre reason expensive collector stuff, like Children of the Corn you'd be able to buy used in 50€. I know really little about Danish literature, H C Andersen and modern deckare but they're over shadowed by Swedish and Norwegian ones.
Never watched e-sports, they air them on national TV but I never found time to sit and watch it. Then again I watch twitch streams time to time so it's not like it'd take more time. Lol I tried just one time runescape but didn't get in to it.
Yes it is, Kreutzwald and Lönnrot were friends actually and Kalevala had great influence on Kalevipoeg. While there are differences like Kreutzwald needed to use creative freedom, as poems and stories he collected didn't create a complete story, while Lönnrot didn't need to do much to the poems, kalevala meter isn't always correct in Kalevipoeg and actually finnish translation follows it better. I have in my book shelve collection of Mordovian poems and Divine Comedy, beside them I have Kanteletar, Ingrian laments collection, The Saami a cultural encyclopedia that has pre-Christian deities included.
In those two places Finnish communities still have strong roots to their origin culture what I know. I supposedly have distant relatives living in California but I have no knowledge what they're doing. Yes that makes sense as it would be Finns and Swedes who would know how to cultivate that land.
I understood some sentenced and got what the news was about, also lol google translator is my good old friend since middle school. Can we now remove Sweden from Nordics and label it as our own little Eastern Europe.
I have myself plenty of relatives in the American Midwest and the Northwest. This is somewhat unknown for us today, but they have actually preserved their Scandinavian identity, even though they speak English now. They still see themselves as Scandinavians, which I have found very interesting. I've also met some, and I didn't think of them as too strange and foreign from us. Minnesota and the Dakotas are the centre of Scandinavian America today. In a way I think it was perhaps for the best that we didn't end up conquering in North America and elsewhere, like England did, it seems to be a heavy burden to carry today. Maybe they would have done it differently, treating the native Americans more like the Sami people, which wasn't ideal but still they didn't end up gone. More interesting would have been if Norse settlements in North America, Vinland, would have survived and then there would have been a heathen Nordic kingdom in the Americas by the time West Europeans would show up in the 1500s.
Sweden was surprisingly uninterested in navy and the open seas even though it's like an island. We were more interested in armies. Denmark-Norway was more sea-based.
Oh, I know that Norway was basically the Nordic equivalent of Vietnam. The Caroleans hated to be in Norway, if you read the letters home from the front. The hilly landscapes and the forests were as made for guerilla warfare with successful ambushes. But I think they should have occupied Norway during an initial phase of the war and/or stayed in the Baltics, instead of spending several years stubbornly roaming around in Poland. Cool battles for sure, but you must win the war in the end.
Lol, my uncle worked in Norway in his youth and he says that "they are lazy" about Norwegians.
What do you think of this Conservative posters (Strix) arguments against a Nordic union/unification?
https://www.flashback.org/t2998312p16
1) If you call the "Western" civilization with their different forms (e.g.: in Japan) as the global one when it comes to clothing style, technology and partially: food plus way of life, then I can agree with that. But not when it comes to spiritual belief, culture, history and mentality. That's where the societies differ from each other, even if the differences may not appear as huge as the example you gave with a bushman compared to someone from a modern civilization. Actually, I've found it a huge mistake to bring that many people(s) from Africa and other parts of the world into modern civilization. We would have had much less troubles nowadays if we simply left the peoples alone. When do people learn?
2) I thought that was a hyperbole. Anyone with some common sense knows that the iPhone cannot be the greatest invention ever.
I didn't know there exists a pocket beech tree, lol (it's "Lustige Taschenbücher" in the plural). Do so many Danes know German?
Also, you only get the Donald Duck stories from the Mickey Mouse comic mags?
Yes, he's Onkel Dagobert. What's his name in Danish and what about Gyro Gearloose (or Daniel Düsentrieb)?
I've read the names of Carl Barks and Don Rosa quite often as the names of the authors on most stories.
Nah, it's okay. Actually, we haven't played much CS in school and I myself haven't played it since over a month. I also haven't really played any games other than Project Diva on my PSP on school days and here and there very shortly some mobile games, since I don't have the mind for games any longer.
Harem endings where everything ends in friendship can be nice, too. There's also a Harem route in the Majikoi VN with the 18+ variant which was quite entertaining to read. But aside from those, if they go into romance, I prefer a clear romance.
Ore Monogatari was really sweet. You should give it a try.
That sounds enticing, then, though it should have been "Sie sind die Beute" ("They are the prey"), since "They are the meal" sounds somewhat wrong.
btw.: I wish you a merry Christmas
Wow, thanks, that was a great documentary. I've actually been trying to read up on the Baltic Finns and Finland's prehistory, but it's really hard to find a lot of information. I think it all makes perfect sense, this shows how natural it was for Finland to become an integrated part of the Kingdom of Sweden.
There are some traces of Nordic iron age, if it wasn't even Nordic bronze age on Dagö and the northwestern edge of the Estonian mainland, as well as in southeastern Finland.
I have read quite a bit about Nya Sverige. It provokes ideas of how it could have went if the colony would have been successful. The Swedish and Finnish colonists kept their culture though into the 1700s. I think New Sweden became it's own county for a while, or at least a part of it under the name "Upland". In the 1690s colonists wrote home to the king Karl XI and asked him to send over Swedish bibles and Lutheran priests. When the American revolution took place I think there were ~20 000 Fenno-Swedish colonists on the American East Coast, which would be like 1% of the population there, but those estimates are somewhat speculative.
It was a bad card to play on, to build the empire around the Baltic sea. They should have realized that it would be impossible to protect the possessions in the Baltics eventually. It would have made more sense to incorporate Norway so that you would have "natural borders". The Swedish nobility however wanted more land and wealth which they could get from the Continent. In Norway there were no manorial estates and the peasantry was free, in the Baltics they had serfdom. Karl XI freed some peasants in Livonia actually, and he had plans to abolish serfdom formally, but those plans were ruined when the Great Northern war started. Livonian nobility had a major role in the starting if the war.
The Nordic military would definitely make Finland's and Russia's relationship cold and damage market more than what it is now due to trade war, our economy is more shit than other Nordic countries so far so for now we wouldn't get anything major out of it. Add we have bigger Russian speaking minority where some are quite in favor of Putin so there would be risks.
Ah yes and the amount of people is manageable. Fuck I would be dead if we had as many people here like in Southern European countries, and more fights so we prob would kill each others because we need space to tolerate anything.
I got into fictional reading few years ago, Stephen King might have been author that caused it. I'm a bit annoyed any popular book here is either deckare or war novel and many foreign classics aren't translated so I need to choose between English or Swedish version. Some danish tradition? I don't have any advent calendar this year, there was a beer one but that was over 100€ and only sold in Helsinki so nope.
1995 might be one of the most important years in our history beside 1917. I think 'finnjävla' is something like 'hurri' here. Generally if you search anything 'finnjävlar' you just get depressing stories of Sweden Finns struggling to get by. Not that long ago I read one Finn's experience living in Sweden around middle 2000's, apparently people's attitude changed when told he was from Finland and even someone asked does he carry around 'family knife' during his first years living there lol. Not to say we don't have bizarre bias towards Swedes and Finnish Swedes because we do.
Weird to think people actually play e-sports and earn money by that, like I'm not big on video games beside few franchises but I see more people trashing it. Video games in general have been up in news because many young adults earn shit-ton by it and it's close to what professional athletes earn, last year no one gave fuck but now two e-sports players got invitation to Independence Day reception. Don't know what happened to CS;GO, back in the day everyone was playing it and Runescape.
Yeah sadly, there are Izhorians, Ludic people that are counted as Karelians and Votes have under 500 speakers currently in Russia. I read some epic poetry from time to time, Kalevipoeg recently and in library I have eyed Gilgamesh as my next read. Poems are important part of Finnic cultures and helps separating them from each other so they're unavoidable when reading their history.
I haven't read anything about New Sweden even tho there exist good literature of it and in general of American Finns, while those that have any ancestors to 1600's Forest Finn settlers can't be called that really. I think New Sweden was mentioned in middle school history class but I can't remember anything of that expect it didn't work out.
They have a very different modern history from other Nordic countries, with the civil war and the wars against Soviet Union which was an existential threat to them. When you talk to Finns you notice that they have a more survivalist mentality than Scandinavians, particularly the Swedes. Here's a great documentary you should watch, sadly there's no subtitles. It's about Finland in the years 1944 to 1952, a part of the nation's history that I was unaware of before actually, I thought they were "safe" after the war but apparently there was still concerns that Finland might have ended up as a Soviet state.
I didn't know about that, but I was listening to a podcast episode the other day when they talked about the Estonia-Swedes, a Swedish minority that lived on the islands of Estonia up until Soviet occupation. They said that the Danish king used Swedish peasants from Öland as colonizers in order to speed-up Christianization of Estonia. This was in the early Medieval period in Nordic history, so in the 1100 - 1200s.
Lol what in me screams hermit of Lapland? But to be fair my family did have cottage in Muonio so when I was kid I did spend time there in middle of woods watching reindeers, we actually still have small area of land there. Turku has been bombed and burned too many times you won't find any cool old city like you would in Tallinna, just gray Finnish city for most part. But I'm not non-biased as I loathe cities in general, it's okay to just chill in Kupittaa's park, visit Ruissalo and also drink in riverboat during summer, during winter you're fucked. There aren't any grill kiosks so that's a big minus also.
Yep, they're more like junk food of horror, far from slasher starters of the 60's. I watch them for kills, like pretty much everyone else, not any huge fan overall, giallo films are more entertaining than teen slashers. As far as books go I'm planning reading Cruising by Gerald Walker and American Psycho by B.E. Ellis when i have time.
Joblessness and money problems are a good excuse for drinking.
You Danes gotta step up your game, we have Finland-Sweden Athletics International hold every year just so we can beat each other. Motorsports are only sports we are succeeding anymore, also e-sport for some reason.
At least we have Swamp football still. I think oldest Hetemaj brother doesn't play anymore due to injury and works as coach, youngest plays in Russia Mari El republic I think or at least has played.
Btw I'm reading a book about Vepsians, for curiosity in folklore, it consist of mostly Russian studies translated to Finnish by Lassi Saressalo. It includes stuff about possibly bargain with Vikings and Bolghar people, and tumulus research around Ladoga. Not stuff I commonly read lol and even now I'd just want to skip to read vepsian folk poetry part, but ey now I know quite many Ladoga regions name come from Sami language that can be seen even in Russian names.
I wonder though how the Huns would have been able to get here, since during the time when they raided Europe North Germanic tribes lived on the Scandinavian penninsula, Zealand and on islands in the Baltic sea. They had no ships or boats what so ever as far as I'm aware. They were in contact with Fenno-Ugric tribes in the far north, and over sea, that we can be sure of. Quite many Swedish men have haplogroup N1c.
The irony is that Finns are the most European people there is, they have a lot of hunter-gatherer admixture. They even have more Indo-European admixture than many peoples who speak an Indo-European language today, like Greeks, Italians, Kurds, etc. They have a minor genetic link to the east, however. Their folklore and mythology is quite different from Indo-European traditions, even though they have over the centuries been quite influenced by Scandinavian folklore.
Ah yes Russia has made it clear if Finland joins NATO we're enemies to Russia, reason why our military stand after WWII has been not to join any such organization not to push our dear old neighbor. Too bad for them is because we still need to co-operate with Nordic and Baltic countries, so they can keep complaining about NATO all they want. I'm not for joining NATO because being dependent on USA isn't to my liking and I just don't see any benefits for us currently. Russia wouldn't militarily attack any European (nor Asian) country because their economy is shit and they'd just cause more damge to that, Putin and DUMA just needs to flex from time to time.
Once a year maybe, went there like a week ago because friend moved there. I honestly hate Helsinki, too many people and expensive kebab if you're able to find one instead of chinese restaurant. Sure, I live in Varsinais-Suomi so Turku is closest to me, but that's a shit place too. I basically live in small village in between Finnish speaking town and Swedish speaking town.
Castlevania was good, fit my exception of vampire story and adult animation.
Hell fest, saw it and I liked its use of many different killing weapons, some deaths were nicely brutal. It's typical slasher movie with annoying teenage characters, final girl set up and only moment that makes it rise a bit higher is the ending scene. I think few years and it's pretty forgotten.
Correction alcoholism is a cure for other problems.
F1 is good because I love watching Sweden lose, Ericsson ranked 17 this year. Räikkönen is worldwide known and has quite a lot of fans in Asia for some reason, he became third with his points this year but Hamilton won the whole race. There's also Finnish Valtteri Bottas who ranks also well year after year.
Lmao I don't recognize any of those names. Litmanen Jari is only Finn player I know and Hetemaj brothers because their sister is a politician.
There can't have been a big migration though of huns, I would suspect that a few came and managed to become some sort of local elite here and there, specifically on Gotland and in places in Denmark. Even on the continent I think it was mostly Goths among the huns, a clear minority were actually ethnic huns.
Norse religion had certain aspects that was unique in comparison to other Indo-European religions. I don't think shamanism was a thing in the Greco-Roman world at least. Nordic ornamentation also reminds you of more far eastern artwork with all the dragons.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248980566_Scandinavia_and_the_Huns_An_Interdisciplinary_Approach_to_the_Migration_Era
I've read that one argument for a strong presence of huns in ancient Scandinavia is that images of deities kind of look Asian, and that male haplogroup Q (which is otherwise found in northern/eastern Asia and among native Americans) is found in 4 - 5% of Scandinavian men.
1) Yeah, I know that from your description. I was just pointing out that even that shows differences between different peoples compared to your description of one big global civilization. However, even the Huntington view seems a bit too inaccurate imho. Also, since you recognize the differences between the various sub-cultures, I wonder what makes you oppose that view.
The exchange of those things certainly helped with growing together, but I would say that the most important points are economic reasons. It's because there was a need for economic co-operation that we can enjoy the relatively good peace and prosperity we have now.
2) It's sometimes the little things like Insulin or the programming languages that significantly improve things, but don't get credited enough, because they don't seem like something big and were discovered/invented by people from smaller cultures. lol, "Ole Rømer" sounds like "der olle Römer" (the ol' Roman).
3) Ah, so that's what you meant. I have a completely different notion of the term "asocial". By that, I usually imagine doing things to piss people off and/or acting crazy. I don't socialize too much with my colleagues, either, especially not at work. Good enough to get along, but after work or school, I often feel too tired or listless to do things with others. In any case: it's good that you still have people, you can meet up with, even if it's just once a month. At least when you meet up only around a dozen time a year, you will have more stuff to talk about to keep each other updated about what has happened since the last time you have met.
Thanks; I'm fairly open to most genres, but I do listen more intently to the stuff I really enjoy. A lot of songs that I like are one-hit-wonders, though sometimes, I like more songs of an artist or a band. Most of the stuff I hear is pop. Used to be more into rap and hip-hop, but over the last decade, I've been preferring electro/synth pop or something mixed with punk rock or normal rock or just classic songs from around the 1970s to 2010+ with older folk songs. Hmm, when it comes to bands, I like Linking Park, Die Ärzte, Rammstein, fripSide and possibly lots more, but those come to mind right now with the most songs. Genesis is also a good band. As for Sabaton, only the "Gott mit uns" song feels noteworthy to me. Oh and speaking of bands: Camouflage is probably the most famous band that has originated the closest from where I live.
Not my taste to be honest, but if there will be a war, when can use Danish equipment and march to German songs :p
(though we could also create new wave/synthpop military songs, something like "This is Deutsch" by Eisbrecher)
The problem with parody songs is that if you don't understand them, you won't get much of it. Maybe I would understand more if I came from northern Germany and if I concentrated or at least had the text to read it while hearing it, but I'm too lazy for it. I do enjoy parody songs in my own language, though. From here on would be a good part. I liked the parody song about the failed coalition talks and the CSU very much. Also this song about Kim Jong Un.
Oh right; you've mentioned about the documentary in the "favorite dinosaurs" thread. I used to read the Donald Duck stories very much as a kid and have also bought lots of those "Donald Duck pocket books" (they are called "Lustiges Taschenbuch"/"Lustige Taschenbücher", short: LTB over here) and those names certainly ring a bell, since I've seen them under most stories. I also have lots of "Mickey Mouse" comic magazines, also with stories from Donald Duck and the others. Don't know how the little kids are called in other editions, but I enjoyed stories with them, with Donald and with Phantomias (Donald's super hero persona) the most.
I know about Half-Life, but the only "realistic" shooter I've played is Counter Strike. Other than that, only an Anime-like shooter like S4 League, though I had played only the "only swords mode" the last years I played the game and that was already over 5 years ago.
I have surely watched at least some James Bond movies, but I can't recall anything major from those. Also, there was a game on the PlayStation One that I used to play.
Love triangles seem to happen quite often in Anime that are based on Light Novels, since love triangles generate controversy and can be used to market things. The question is rather which Anime does feel like a finished work, because felt over 80% of all Anime titles seem to act like an advertising for the original work.
Kobayashi is an entertaining show, though the best aspect was the soothing Dragon Loli voice.
Then it's all the more reason for me to watch Shingeki no Kyojin; it's just that the "third season part 2" seems to air next year or so. Also, while we're at Anime: I'm enjoying "Ore Monogatari!! very much right now. Seems like a cute and heart-warming "pure love" story so far.