Well, no, but not every funny story ends with a near-death experience…

Ah, that makes more sense. I did remember it being a Dutch acquisition.

Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman’s discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand

I did find it quite weird that the most powerful stage for Digimon was often just a man. Always felt like the, uh, cartoonist(?) had a bit of a superiority complex. Like, what’s more powerful than an iron t-rex? An iron man, of course.

Although, thinking now, there was something about them merging with their humans. Was that just what that last stage is? Then I guess, I would allow it as some dramatic thingamabob.

Hmm, well, thanks for throwing that tidbit in either way. I’m certainly not deep into that whole artform, so probably just saw big eyes + cat ears and that was the end of my thought process. 🫠

It’s just a silly anime girl showing up on first page load. If you’re deathly afraid of seeming unprofessional, that’s gonna do your head in…

Retirement is more of a synchronized event, because folks generally retire around the same age…