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- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
Sooo are centipedes like fruit flies and not engage in any real form of sexual selection, or is the female going around judging the fuck out of every jizz pile she encounters?
“Mmm-mm, look at that poor viscosity; a low-quality male clearly produced this. This one on the other hand: deep color, firm texture, nice and sticky… clearly produced by a male with the superior genes I want to pass along to my offspring.”
- Comment on Review: Train to the End of the World 4 months ago:
Ten or fifteen years ago I almost certainly would not have found the girls as bland and annoying as I do watching this today. I think a combination of having read/watched dozens of series with similar characters, as well as aging out of the teenage/young adult demographic, made me completely uninterested in these characters… to the point that watching TEW felt like I was unironically “watching it for the plot”: I’m just here for the trains, bizarre setting, and surreal vibe!
This is entirely a matter of opinion, of course. However of the people I know aged 30 and up who watch anime, I don’t think most of them would particularly enjoy the girls, and most likely would shy away from the series specifically because of their presence. That’s generally the type of audience I write reviews for; these reviews are posted to the “Animation and Comics after 30” community first and cross-posted here when relevant. Once upon a time I was into “cute girls find cute things series” (I re-watched Lucky Star at least once), but tastes change as you age, and while some older viewers may still enjoy these characters, I definitely did not.
One series I am really interested in this season is Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction, in part because the teenage girl cast don’t look or act like stereotypical anime girls. Compared to most anime girls, it’s almost as if the manga author pulled an Alien and wrote the characters to be gender neutral, since they often act more how I’d expect teenage boys in anime to act. Watching this series reminds me of watching the live action series Derry Girls: here’s a cast that compared to most media feels like a real-life group of teenagers, awkward and weird. I don’t think the manga quite translates to the animated format, but that’s a topic for a separate review.
- Comment on Review: Train to the End of the World 4 months ago:
I’ll add in that Kino’s Journey was originally a light novel series, キノの旅 (Kino no Tabi). I never actually saw the anime, but really enjoyed the light novels (I read them in Japanese; hopefully the English translation is equally good).
I think Kino is a great series for anyone who enjoys dystopias and social commentary. It’s a bit like The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror with its episodic premise of “imagine if there were a society that functioned like [concept of the week]; wouldn’t that be interesting/weird/fucked up?” Definitely not your standard anime/light novel!
- Comment on Review: Train to the End of the World 4 months ago:
Thanks, I’ll hop over and see what others said
- Submitted 4 months ago to anime@ani.social | 6 comments
- Comment on Considering the Heavy involvement of CGI in today's action films, shouldn't we consider them to be just hyper realistic cartoon films ? 4 months ago:
This is actually discussed on the live-action animated film Wikipedia page.
Since the late 1990s, some films have included large amounts of photorealistic computer animation alongside live-action filmmaking, such as the Star Wars prequels, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Avatar franchise. These films are generally not considered animated due to the realism of the animation and the use of motion-capture performances, which are extensively based on live-action performances by implementing actors’ movements and facial expressions into their characters. Roger Ebert said that “in my mind, it isn’t animation, unless it looks like animation.”
Related note: I’m quite nostalgic for the mid-20th century live-action animation trend (even more so than the late-20th century puppet trend). If the characters are going to look fake regardless, the animated ones are way more expressive and, well, animated.
- Comment on Kami 4 months ago:
It depends on what your likes/dislikes are when it comes to languages. I much preferred learning kanji to memorizing noun genders and verb conjugations of European languages.
- Comment on Kami 4 months ago:
Japanese has significantly fewer sounds than many languages, so homonyms are inevitable.
- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 4 months ago:
You might want to consider a priest for the damned lakes (which were presumably corrupted by the damned rain?)
- Comment on EUROBEE 5 months ago:
Yeah but people don’t make a big deal about “save the deer!” and then start a cattle ranch
- Comment on EUROBEE 5 months ago:
This is one reason why I love my native lupine plants. They occasionally get honeybee visitors, but I’ve noticed honeybees struggle with getting the flowers open to access the nectar. Bumblebee lands and his big fat body causes the flower to open right up. Gee it’s almost like they co-evolved!
- Comment on rollin' coal 6 months ago:
Fukisima
- Comment on Forams 6 months ago:
“Hoshi-zuna no Hama” (星砂の浜) literally means “Star-sand Beach”
- Comment on epidemiology 6 months ago:
Oh shit, is that why nobody attended the 2009 Time Travelers party? No one wanted to be the person who killed the great Steven Hawking
- Comment on Review: Heaven's Design Team (Anime TV) 6 months ago:
I think it slipped under a lot of folks’ radars! “Delightfully silly and educational” is a pretty good summary. It’s also one of the very few “family TV” anime out there: nothing questionable for the kids, nothing obnoxious for the adults, hopefully interesting and engaging all around.
- Submitted 6 months ago to anime@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on 'They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families as millions struggle to feed their children, researcher says 7 months ago:
The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed
Has it?
- Submitted 7 months ago to anime@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Dog Trap 7 months ago:
This is just a shitty version of an old Stupid Fox comic.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing is coming to grocery stores 8 months ago:
Like, customers do not want the price of their Kvikk Lunsj to go up while they’re shopping. So while the supermarket is open, prices shall only go down. Price increases happen overnight
Okay, so how do you deal with having all your customers shop exclusively during the last hour of business because that’s when prices are guaranteed to be at their lowest?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Holy crap that’s complex. And for what? We know that the more complicated a system is the more prone it is to loopholes and abuse. If you’re a single parent working three jobs, or a foster kid who just aged out of the system and are newly on your own, or mentally disabled, or undereducated, or simply trying to keep your shit together while trying to deal with something like addiction or mental illness or recent homelessness or what have you, you’re undoubtedly going to be leaving a shitload of money on the table by not having the time/energy/wherewithal to fully take advantage of this convoluted system, even though you’re part of the exact population that needs the most assistance. UBI experiments (and similar examples from the charity world) have been pretty clear: just give people the fucking cash, no strings, no fine print, no hoops, and that will have the best result for the recipients, and the least overhead for the givers.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 8 months ago:
You shouldn’t really use metal on stainless steel; stick with wood or silicone.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 8 months ago:
At least upgrade to silicone. I’m baffled that cooking utensils even come in nylon. Options should only be metal, wood, silicone if intended to use near heat.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 8 months ago:
Firewatch is more in the visual novel category. I did in fact give it a replay with completely different choices to see how it changed things, and was disappointed to find that all choices are merely for aesthetics and make zero difference in the plot. However it’s a well-made enough game (especially dialogue and voice acting) that it was still kinda fun to play again.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 8 months ago:
I would somewhat disagree with Subnautica. There are lots of different settings you can try to make the game harder or more survival-oriented that might be worth a try if your first play-through was on a simpler/easier mode. Plus there are the creation modes where you can create your own base without restrictions. However as a story-oriented game I’d agree it has lower-than-average replay value.
- Comment on Knock-off pokemon was wild 8 months ago:
Wait till you find out about Yu-Gi-Oh
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I still struggle with reading it quickly and fluently compared to hiragana (although that’s often because the words are clunky af loanwords), but I’d still much rather it exist than not. かれはぼうなすをもらったらおうすとらりあに行くつもり is a bugger to read without katakana.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I leaned Japanese in a mixed-nationality school where I was one of the only English-native students. I did not envy their struggles with katakana, as I’m sure the Chinese-native students did not envy my struggles with kanji! (Meanwhile everyone else just struggled lol.)
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
As a Japanese learner, katakana is a godsend. It’s like reading a scientific paper in English and having all the Latin in italics, as an indicator that “don’t worry this is a foreign word, you’re not an idiot for not recognizing it.” Especially because most katakana words are derived from English (or words you’d recognize as an English speaker) so it’s just a matter of saying it over and over until the pieces click into place. Example: オーストラリア = Oosutoraria = Oh-s-t-rah-ree-uh = Australia.
Also outside of picture books for young children, Japanese doesn’t use spaces and has way fewer sounds than most languages which results in a LOT of homonyms and similar words that all blends together (see other comment YouTube link). So having three writing systems in one really helps convey meaning and makes reading much faster.
- Comment on If I put a gallon of 10% cider vinegar in a shallow pan and let 1/2 gallon evaporate, will that make it double its strength? 9 months ago:
I would try Bon Ami first. Less toxic (don’t need to wear gloves or worry so much about inhalation) and less abrasive (I’m assuming the plant trays are plastic). But I’m not sure if either would work great on lime buildup; maybe after some vinegar application to soften things up first?
