Drako

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water that had somewhere to be.

A young woman walked between the cars taking orders on a small tablet, on foot, in the sun, smiling like the sun was her idea.

I said thank you.

She said, "My pleasure."

I did not think about it then. I should have.

At the window I thanked the young man for the food.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for the sauce.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for thanking me—

"My pleasure."

I want to be clear about what was happening.

This was a duel.

In Japan I trained in courtesy for forty years. Bowing angles. Seasonal greetings. The correct depth of apology for seventeen distinct situations.

I was a white belt in that drive-thru.

I escalated. I used my most formal English. I thanked him on behalf of my entire family line.

He said, "My pleasure," and gave me extra sauce.

Extra sauce. Unprovoked. A counterattack.

I returned the next day to reclaim my honor.

It was Sunday. The restaurant was closed.

All of them were closed. In the entire country. They close every Sunday, and they have closed every Sunday since the beginning, because the founder made a promise, and the promise did not expire when he did.

I stood in the empty parking lot and understood I had lost twice.

Once to a teenager with sauce.

Once to a man I will never meet, who kept his word so long it became a building.

In my country we say a samurai's word is his life.

I had never seen a restaurant say it back.

I returned Monday. I ordered. And this time I said it first, before she could.

"My pleasure."

She smiled and said, "It sure is."

America, I surrender.

It was my pleasure.

[ALGÉRIEN ✌ ☪ @so_mkb]

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[Martin Hansen @wunderlol]

Why does everyone seem to think they know how good a coach is including a bunch of circle jerking coaches that think just because they have been doing it for years that an ex pro player with no coaching experience cant come in and be 1000x more influencial to a teams success idgi

[Caedrel @Caedrel]

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[G2 League of Legends @G2League]

WHAT A FUCKING GAME

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[LEC @LEC]

IT'S STARTING TO FEEL LIKE 2019 AGAIN

[LoL Esports @lolesports]

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[CAMPEONES DEL MUSLO (kfc ESPAÑÑÑÑAAA) @KFC_ES]

Gracias por todas vuestras preguntas. Dejadme que os saque de dudas:

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4. 🌏 No se permitirán usar VPNs para acceder a menús de otros paises ni compartir los PNGs con amigos.

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BREAKING NEWS

[🜏 Edmund McMillen 🜏 @edmundmcmillen]

Isaac is about to beat mewgenics for active players on steam… unreal for a 15 year old game.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for the ‘THE ONE PIECE’ remake.

Releasing February 2027 on Netflix.

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

Reigning LEC Champions G2 Esports 🇩🇪 By Contract Length:

2026 — BrokenBlade, Labrov
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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Before they filmed a single scene of Dark, the two people who made it already knew how the whole story ended, three seasons away. They wrote the ending first and spent 26 episodes building back to it. Nothing feels like filler because almost nothing was invented along the way.

The show even runs on a single number: 33. Every time it jumps to a new year, it jumps exactly 33, from 1953 to 1986 to 2019 to 2052. The writers set that clock in the first hour and never broke it.

One man, Baran bo Odar, directed all 26 episodes, and his partner Jantje Friese has a writing credit on every one. A single director and one lead writer across a whole show is rare at this scale, and a big reason it never loses its grip. The story follows 72 characters across six different time periods. The same character is often played by three different actors at three different ages, picked to look like one face aging over a lifetime. Names get passed down the family tree on purpose, so you are never quite sure who is whose parent. The creators always knew where it had to end. They just kept moving the pieces until it got there.

The same care went into the look. The crew spent six months in the forests near Berlin through winter, in real cold and near-constant rain, so the cast stayed wet and shivering for most of it. They shot on the Alexa 65, a top-end movie camera usually saved for big films, because it can capture near-total darkness and still hold detail in the shadows, so the picture stays pitch black without becoming a muddy smear. The cave scenes were filmed in an actual cave in central Germany. In a town painted almost entirely grey, a single yellow raincoat became the one spot of real color your eye could lock onto in any era.

The final season went further still. To build a mirror version of the world, the crew flipped every set, so staircases curved the other way and doors moved to the opposite wall, and they reprinted the books on the shelves so the spines read backward. Then they had the actors do it all left-handed, reaching for handles with the wrong hand, which the director admitted was strange and clumsy to shoot.

They wrapped just before the pandemic and dropped the finale on June 27, 2020, the exact day the world ends inside the story. The reviews matched the ambition. Season two sits at a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the first and third at 90 and 97, and the series holds an 8.7 out of 10 on IMDb from more than half a million people. That unbroken wall of green in the screenshot comes from one choice made before filming began: lock the ending first, then build all 26 episodes to reach it.

[G2 League of Legends @G2League]

EUROPE DOMINATED, REIGN EXTENDED.

FOR THE 19TH TIME WE ARE YOUR LEC CHAMPS 🏆

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

THE BEST WESTERN PLAYER OF ALL-TIME 🐐

G2 Caps 🇩🇰 wins his 17th #LEC / EU LCS title!

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[ℝ𝕀ℤℤ ℂ𝕆𝕄𝔼𝕋 @Shr00msy]

Any minute now I'm going to wake up at 2 AM to this on TV and realize the last 20+ years was a dream…..any…minute….now…

[.. @puzlounewmain]

BREAKING 🚨: Neymar’s team have reportedly contacted SOSUKE AIZEN in the MUKEN (with permission from Kyoraku Shunsui).
Their goal is to use the HOGYOKU to METAMORPHOSE the Brazilian icon into a SOUL REAPER in hopes of removing the physical limitations his body holds against him.

[Diegones @Diegones00]

🚨 AGORA!

Ancelotti convoca Shion de Áries para banhar o sangue de Atena em Neymar Jr para renovar a sua armadura!

[Ilha das Lendas 🏝️ @ilhadaslendas]

🚨URGENTE: Carlo Ancelotti sugere dar o Feitiço de Invocador Curar para Neymar caso ele se lesione durante as partidas da Copa do Mundo. CBF estuda se o feitiço é permitido pela FIFA

[Bambuto @CanalBambuto]

🚨 AGORA!

Ancelotti e CBF buscam contato com a Divisão Zero para que Neymar possa tratar seu edema na panturrilha com Tenjiro Kirinji em suas fontes termais.