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It takes a special kind of perfection

Guess what? I'm doing more pointless trivia about Undertale. Hey, no one reads this blog anyway, I can post what I like. Naming yourself Chara only disables your ability to reset the game (aside from True Reset). It does not disable your ability to rename after a reset - you don't have that ability in the first place, unless you name yourself Frisk, and that's just to prevent you from being stuck in Hard Mode. In the battle against Asriel, choosing the ACT command "Dream" fills up your inventory with items called LastDream. If you finish the battle with one still in your inventory, then you can examine them to see that they have a description, and can sell them for a high price at Temmie Village. In beta versions of Undertale, the ACT and MERCY buttons were originally labelled TALK and SPARE respectively. Early screenshots also show a SPELL button, indicating that you might have originally been able to learn magic spells. There was originally going to be a...

The land of ice and snow

Time for more pointless trivia. This time, I'll be talking about the country of Finland. The patron saint of Finland is neither Finnish, nor a saint. His name is Henry, and he's English. His feast day is January 19, though not many Finns actually celebrate it. The most important day of the year to Finns is Independence Day, or "Itsenäisyyspäivä" in Finnish. It's on December 6 and marks Finland's declaration of independence from Russia in 1917. Finnish flags are hung out of windows and everywhere around the towns and cities, shops decorate their windows in the flag's colours, candles are lit and displayed in windows, and the Presidential Independence Day reception is watched on TV in the evening. Since Finland only fairly recently became independent, having originated under Swedish rule until Sweden lost the country to Russia, they still take their independence very seriously and are very proud of it. Despite the above, Finland is still a bilingual co...