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The story
A thread appeared on 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (“Geha”) board about a poster who meant to type “ephemeral” (泡沫, houmatsu) but had it autocorrect to “splash” (飛沫, himatsu) instead — then, trying to fix the mistake, mistyped it again into the nonsense word “millet pine” (粟松, awamatsu). Adding insult to injury, another user misread that “粟松” as “chestnut pine” (栗松, kurimatsu), triggering a chain of three separate typos in a row. While the thread erupted in laughter with comments like “this is basically a comedy skit at this point,” some posters singled out the original poster for ridicule, others speculated the errors came from voice-to-text input, and the back-and-forth mockery kept going for a while.
What people said
Someone's bound to report this, so they're probably already flagged. Honestly I'd love the fun scenario where Nintendo sues them directly, but there's no point going after some "splash" (飛沫) trash like this.
Messed it up — a conversion typo.
Googled it and still couldn't figure it out — even the AI threw in the towel.
Hey, calm down
150 Anonymous Desperado 2026/09/29 (Tue) 17:31:11.30 ID:SBGIydaS0NIKU
Re: #143
S-splash lol
Did you mean "ephemeral" and "Tanaka'd" it? (書き田中った — joke slang for "typo'd it," swapping in the surname "Tanaka" for "mistake") wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
151 Anonymous Desperado 2026/09/29 (Tue) 17:31:12.62 ID:SBGIydaS0NIKU
Re: #143
S-splash lol
Did you mean "ephemeral" and "Tanaka'd" it? wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> "Tanaka'd it" (書き田中った)
What even is that?
I don't even do that anymore.
Fire Emblem first-week sales
262,399 — Awakening
353,201 — Fates (if)
143,130 — Three Houses (風花雪月)
144,558 — Engage
127,131 — Banshi Senkou (万紫千紅, "myriad hues")
Dead franchise, total flop! 😂
BWAHAHAHAHAHA lolwww🤣🤣🤣
Down by one Wolverine, too…
Hey, don't tell me you're the one behind this copypasta too, "Distribution Geezer" (a nickname for a poster infamous for spamming sales-figure copypasta)?
If you don't nail this down, you'll plunge straight into abyss mode.
They don't even know it's "houmatsu," lmao.
Oh no, you just admitted you were replying to yourself under a different name.
It's already chestnut season, so just make it "chestnut pine" already.
before you post, you should really double-check whether you've gotten something wrong or are
using the wrong term. I find myself thinking that more and more lately.
If you're posting on social media, that means you're at least connected to the internet, right?
You can just look it up right then and there.
That's probably part of why Europe brought in regulations targeting minors (girls) too.
Use this to restart the thread.
Stop making weird threads, it's making me lose my mind too.
Damn, how hard did that hit you lol
I was wondering why nobody posted the original thread's URL — turns out it's a thread that crossed the line, lmao.
150 Anonymous Desperado 2026/09/29 (Tue) 17:31:11.30 ID:SBGIydaS0NIKU
Re: #143
S-splash lol
Did you mean "ephemeral" and "Tanaka'd" it? wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
151 Anonymous Desperado 2026/09/29 (Tue) 17:31:12.62 ID:SBGIydaS0NIKU
Re: #143
S-splash lol
Did you mean "ephemeral" and "Tanaka'd" it? wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
But mixing up "ephemeral" with "chestnut pine" — what is that about?
houmatsu
awamatsu
millet → chestnut
Background and Key Points of This Topic
“泡沫” is properly read as “houmatsu” — the reading “awamatsu” doesn’t actually exist. It appears the original poster attempted the conversion without knowing the correct reading, mistyping what should have been “himatsu” as “飛沫” (splash), then, while trying to correct it, mis-converted “awamatsu” into “粟松” (millet pine) as well. On the Gaming Hardware board, minor typos and conversion errors like this are frequently mocked as evidence of the poster’s own ignorance, and this thread is a textbook example of that pattern. It’s also worth noting that the phrase “書き田中った” (“wrote-it-Tanaka’d”) isn’t a reference to any specific person — it’s simply wordplay poking fun at the mis-conversion itself.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Sad News] Nintendo Fanboy (“Ninty Pig”) Meant to Write “Millet Pine” But Wrote “Splash” Instead lol.”
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