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- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 43] 2 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed season 2. I was looking forward to the arc that’s the second half since it came out in the manga.
If you like the show in general, you should enjoy the movie just as much.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 43] 2 weeks ago:
Watched Spy X Family: Code White the other night, and was very pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t expecting much, and went in mostly blind other than knowing it wasn’t based on manga content.
Animation looked great, and for a plotline that centered around the family going out for dessert, it turned out to be a very compelling story. It fit in perfectly with the regular anime/manga, and you could watch it wherever you’re at in the series without being lost or it feeling out of place. All 3 MCs got a good amount of story time as well, and a lot of side characters had appearances, so it’s not just an Anya story or Loid, etc.
If you haven’t seen it, but enjoy the show, give it a watch. It was a lot of fun!
- Comment on Ranma 1/2 (2024) • Ranma1/2 (2024) - Episode 2 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I liked them playing a bit with the animation styles in some of the reaction shots. The show feels old and new at the same time, which I’m enjoying.
- Comment on Uzumaki - Episode 3 discussion 4 weeks ago:
The animation seemed somewhat improved from last week. I still feel this should have gotten 2 or 3 more episodes, as none of the tension has much time to build before we see the climatic moments.
I’ve been reading Ito’s other works, and I feel a lot is predictable in many of the tales, not necessarily that you always know what’s going to happen and certainly not what it will look like, but more a 1) meet nice character(s), 2) meet the obvious creeper, 3) nice characters discuss the creeper and say nah, they can’t be as creepy as they seem, 4) your anxiety rises as you wait for the reveal, 5) Lovecraftian horror is revealed, 6) the end.
Step 4 is the one that sucks you in, even if it’s formulaic. It gets you invested in what’s going to happen. Without that time for the creepiness to bloom, it just feels like you’re working through the checklist.
I feel there’s some old comment about the CSI type shows where it’s always suspect number 3. You get introduced to some possible people, but if they always went to the first guy and they’re all oh yeah, this is the killer, the end, what’s the point? That’s what this adaptation has felt like to me.
I love a lot of Ito’s ideas, and the art style is great for his stories, but I feel most of the narrative is just there to string the creepy drawings together. I’m cool with that. But with the anime, you’re just on to the next scene before you get time to get creeped by what you just saw.
- Comment on Uzumaki - Episode 2 discussion 5 weeks ago:
This was pretty rough. I was already iffy on the first episode, and this episode felt even more rushed and disjointed. It jumps around so much I feel there’s no building that sense of dread.
- Comment on US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years 1 month ago:
Thank you, this is some of what makes me uncertain as someone outside, I have no idea as to which parties are actually receiving new benefits since most sources lump everyone together. It makes it very difficult to tell what has or hasn’t been accomplished and both sides can spin it to what they wish and most will never know the truth.
I do remember reading about the work conditions and just the logistical issues of having the job, and it did sound rather nightmarish and I had no clue why anyone would do it if they had any other choice. Props to those who do it, I’m certain it’s a crucial job, but it is not something I’m cut out for!
- Comment on US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years 1 month ago:
You can correct me if I’m mistaken, but even though the strike was shut down, that was not the end of the admin’s efforts on the PTO issues. It took a few months, but they now have a much better deal than what they started off with.
From the IBEW:
“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
That pressure, plus the IBEW’s ongoing efforts, is paying off at last. The IBEW and BNSF Railway reached an agreement April 20 to grant members four short-notice, paid sick days, with the ability to also convert up to three personal days to sick days. The union reached similar understandings with CSX and Union Pacific on March 22, and with Norfolk Southern on March 10. Unused sick time at the end of a year can be paid out or rolled into a worker’s 401(k) retirement account.
Under the Railway Labor Act, national railroad labor agreements don’t expire. Instead, the parties enter a “status quo” position: Workers remain on the job with no changes to their pay and benefits until a replacement contract is approved. The current national pact was first reached last summer by negotiators from the railroad unions, the railroads, the Labor Department and the White House.
Since then [the blocking of the December strike], several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers.
“Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
Russo said talks are continuing toward reaching a sick-days agreements with Canadian Pacific and Kansas City, recently designated a Class I rail carrier by the Surface Transportation Board.
I saw in the other comments that @the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works is IBEW, so maybe they can confirm.
I still see this story popping up, but though it is true Biden blocked the strike, that things were handled satisfactorily a few months afterward.
- Comment on US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years 1 month ago:
What the union asking for sounds fair, given the circumstances.
I feel it’s more important to support the workers in this case, as it usually seems to be. They’ll be impacted by their own actions as much as the rest of us, so I’m willing to deal with some modest disruption potentially if it ends up with them getting fair treatment.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 39] 1 month ago:
Not too much up my alley this season, so I watched Shikanoko and Plus Sized Elf.
I have one episode left of Shikanoko. It was unique, and fun for what it is. The songs were great. I enjoyed the antagonism of the whole thing. Would I watch another season? Not sure, but I don’t regret watching this one.
Two episodes of Plus Sized Elf left, but I’ve read the manga. Read it and watched it mainly to see what they’d do with it. At first, it seemed like they were going to actually put more health and fitness stuff in it, but it really fell back to drawn out scenes of slapstick nudity. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I feel they could have done more with it. Also, many potato puns weren’t translated, so most will miss out on half the jokes. The translation I read had them all, and they were one of my favorite parts.
I will say, I really enjoyed the cast though. They all made the characters as likeable as they were in my head reading the manga. If you’re checking it out more for the curiosity than the nudity, it really isn’t terrible.
Somewhat off topic, but this season being light for me had me repeatedly going back to Delicious in Dungeon even though I was not really enjoying it. The characters were likeable again, but it felt pointless to me watching people eat fake food, though some monsters were really creative. I kept hearing wait until they get back to the red dragon, so I persisted.
Holy heck, did this show flip a switch to awesomeness! The back half of the season was great and I was left wanting more. The plot twists and the surprising backgrounds of the characters and new characters really made things come alive and give a much deeper sense of urgency and delivered much more than the episodic snack of the week format was doing for me.
If I had anything else even remotely exciting, I would not have stuck it out that long.
Looking forward to see what they do with Uzumaki and Ranma. Also see they have a Gintama special movie thing of the Kintama arc coming out, so that should be fun as well.
- Comment on What have your favorite underrated anime of the 2020's been so far? 1 month ago:
I haven’t read the manga, which my understanding is what the reboot was following. I watched it now out of curiosity, due to the original anime being one of my main gateways to anime as a whole.
If I hadn’t seen the original multiple times, I probably would have been lost at multiple points in the reboot. Characters seemed to pop up out of nowhere for unknown reasons.
My girlfriend had never seen the original, and she originally wasn’t paying attention as I watched this on my own, but after a few episodes she got pulled into it as well, so it seemed to make enough sense to someone unfamiliar that they’d at least be curious.
I enjoyed it mainly because it got me to think so many new things about one of my early favorite anime universes. It filled in a few gaps I had, such as I liked how we got to spend more time with Project Seeds and learned more about the Plants species and Knives’ overall goals.
It made my list because it exceeded my expectations as I was not looking forward to CGI animation and I was concerned about them “ruining” the story I had in my head, but the animation was beautiful, VA was great, and I think about the universe of the story more than I have in years.
It’s totally subjective what anyone else will take away, but everything else on the list I went into blind, with no expectations. Trigun I came into very biased due to my love for the original, and expected eww to meh, but as a whole, it gave me a great time.
- Comment on What have your favorite underrated anime of the 2020's been so far? 1 month ago:
Supercub Cestvs Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated Aharen Is Indecipherable The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting Do It Yourself Tomo-chan Is a Girl Trigun Stampede Insomniacs After School (read it but havent watched the anime)
Love/Hate: Farming Life in Another World
If we’re counting continued in the 20s: Golden Kamuy Ancient Magus Bride
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 36] 2 months ago:
I saw you had all the Trigun stuff, but not the recent reboot, Trigun Stampede.
Aharen is Indecipherable and Tomo-chan is a Girl are fun RomCom shows.
Golden Kamuy isn’t on your list, but it’s one of my all time favorites that I’ll always recommend.
- Comment on Pirate Streaming Giants Fboxz, AniWave, Zoroxtv & Others Dead in Major Collapse 2 months ago:
Goodbye 9anime. We’ve had a lot of great times together.
I await the coming of 10anime.
This year feels especially brutal for media liberation. 😮💨
- Comment on Cherimoya Fruit! 2 months ago:
I have some plants that have gone through similar phases of love too. Most of the ones I had been really excited to buy have turned out to be very particular and short lived, but then I have some plain janes that have been so drama free they’ve become my favorites since I got plants to have fun enjoying them, not to continuously nurse a bunch of sickly patients!
- Comment on Cherimoya Fruit! 2 months ago:
No problem, I was mainly curious if it was a tree, shrub, etc.
I looked it up and it seems to be a lowish tree.
Is it a difficult plant or does it need anything special?
- Comment on Cherimoya Fruit! 2 months ago:
That is amazing about the pollination!
I had a cherimoya once and it was tasty. I saved the seeds somewhere but never did anything with them, it is neat to hear it is an interesting plant. Any picks of the full plant?
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
Totally agree with you. I feel bad for the young people that didn’t get to experience the Internet before business started to take it seriously. The Fediverse is a nice taste of those days though!
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what to make of your “helped me get through feeling much like OP”.
I’ve talked extensively with Blaze and others on the Fedigrow community about pretty much your exact set of bullet points over the past few months and the shine started to wear off Lemmy for a bit. You’re far from alone in feeling how you described in your post, as can be seen in most of the replies here.
I think it’s just taking a step back and being able to appreciate what we do have. We haven’t turned into some complete right/left hellhole, the top posts everyday add up to thousands of comments, we have some quality content providers, and some really fun commenters. I certainly wouldn’t be ashamed to show someone my Lemmy feed.
It’s good that you still have the drive to want to keep improving things around here in the ways you feel comfortable contributing to. Many initial hurdles to getting on Lemmy feel resolved, and so many in apps are equal to the Reddit apps for most use cases. Many initial accounts were probably from people trying to figure things out. I know I had like 5 accounts and only really use 1 now.
I think we’ve just hit a plateau for now. My personal feeling is working on the culture is our best way forward to be different than Reddit and to pick up more people looking to escape the toxicity. The time to set our tolerance levels for certain behaviors is now before we get too big to reign it in. We’re a pretty good group now, and I hope it stays this way or gets a little better like last summer.
I’m glad when I see people speak up like this though. It makes us all reflect on the guys and bad we see here and to think about where we stand ourselves in all of it.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
You and the Fedigrow crew helped me get through feeling much like OP a while back. I think that was a really good idea, because it is tough and emotional at times doing what we do. It can be easy to feel alone when you put yourself out there every day and feel like nobody is around or like you’re doing something wrong and people are falling off.
I never set out to be anybody here, but I was done with Reddit, and wanted to keep something that made me smile continue on, so I just sucked it up and did what needed to be done. You guys make it worth it, and as long as the people that do show up are having a good time, I’ll do my part to keep the party going. I get old, pre commercialized web vibes from Lemmy, so I’m gonna stick it out here as long as I can, because this is the kind of thing you don’t just get anywhere anymore.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
Appreciate the shout out as always! We have a great set of people here, and we should all be happy with this place we’ve built together, even if it’s still a humble, cozy place. I feel we have organic growth, and it will come in waves as Lemmy builds and improves. Just keep doing what we’re doing and we’ll be good!
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 2 months ago:
I feel it is pretty stable here. I post every day, and it’s been a tad slower lately, much like I believe Blaze said, feels due to people going away for trips. Weekends are a decent bit slower, where usually they have been busy. That’s where I notice it the most. My subs are lower than at the start of the year, but they’re still going up slow but steady. Interactions are still steady, which is my main concern. As you’ve mentioned, people want to see that interaction. I don’t want to say my content is useless, because people don’t need owl pics and animal rescue facts every day, but I typically get 100+ likes per post, and a handful of comments.
The key I feel though, is I have the same people coming in regularly every day, or every other day, and they are also participating. They make the place look alive more than me just throwing things out there. But that is a specific thing I work on, as much as the post content itself. When people come and make comments, I give them my full attention. I talk back to them, I laugh at their jokes and puns, I take time to answer their questions, I pay attention to what content they like or don’t like, how I post links. I treat them like they were clients. And now in return, they see that the community is a fun place to hang, and they come back regularly, even though I’m not giving them anything they couldn’t find, but I am adding value to their days. I make them smile, I make them feel like their effort commenting matters, I make them feel like they motivate me to keep posting (because they do!), and I teach them about things they never expected to care about.
But it’s a lot of hard work! I try not to think about the time I put into this just for fun. Many of us have been here before the API exodus or before and have put in hours posting to nobody or a dozen people until we’ve built up momentum. Most people won’t even upvote, let alone comment or post, so it’s going to come in waves building up this place. You’re still in the wilderness here. We’re still pretty much the first wave of Fediverse settlers. We’re here while it is rough, setting the foundations of what will hopefully come, keeping us from fading to nothing. I don’t think new people appreciate that point. It’s not like 25% of Reddit broke off and came here with all the posters and the audience, we’re starting from scratch. I think what we have is amazing for a bunch of nobodies with no corporate cash. We’re all volunteers, building the social media we want to have. We should be proud of it, no matter what stage it’s at.
Moderation is an area I feel could be stronger. Most threads are pretty good, but some could use a bit more reigning in. Part of the problem I see with that though, is the vocal part of the community is already hating on “heavy handed mods”, and you missed all the trashing of Beehaw for doing what I considered to be appropriate moderation. The Fed is full of a pretty diverse group of people. I talk to people from multiple countries, and the amount of LGBT I’ve gotten to get insight from has been amazing. It’s really helped me grow in my understanding of some things just being around all these people. But we need to ensure everyone is treated equally and respectfully, and there are many that want to bring Reddit behavior over here, and it’s up to the mods and commenters to decide if that’s what we want or not. I don’t want it, but many see no issue. I’m glad when people comment on it, because if people just accept it without speaking up, no one will know.
There is a lot of good here, and even with 50k users, there’s going to be much more mid and crap than gold, but it’s here. Your comments look good, and you seem to stick to things you enjoy and avoid some that drag you down, and it’s important to notice your own behavior if you click stuff that is going to annoy you. I hit delete on a lot of comments when I wade into some of these topics. Some stuff I just don’t want to get involved in, especially as someone that is at least somewhat “known” around here now and is too lazy to make an alt. But I remind myself I’m here to have fun, and if I want news without the potential drama, I’ll leave here and go to AP or whatever. I’d hope posters would make stuff to help you have a good time, but it’s our job to cultivate our own experience ultimately.
I could go on forever talking about this stuff, but I’ll stop for now. Just give it time and explore more, and since you seem to comment, keep doing that. It’s the best thing for this place. Post, comment, give feedback, repeat.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 34] 2 months ago:
Finished up Isekai Suicide Squad. Overall, I’m glad I stuck it out with this show through my general malaise, as I don’t think I would have came back to it, but the last couple episodes were pretty great with a lot of cool fights and some hilarious surprises.
The big bad having shrimp cocktail horns was still a bit distracting, but we weren’t supposed to like her anyway. There was a big twist ending that sets up a season 2, and is check that out. The series as a whole may be worth a rewatch for me when I’m in a more receptive mood.
Gave the Rick and Morty Anime a go out of morbid curiosity. I have no idea what the hell I watched. It was just odd in general, and it felt like some kind of prank on the fans.
Rewatched a few more Gintama episodes, and those were still great. It was the handful were Kagura’s Dad came to try to take her back home, and the ones where Sadaharu got massive. Also the Dom Peri contest with the hostess club. Odd Jobs and friends can still get me laughing consistently!
I was happy to hear Sakamoto Days is getting a show. I felt they would get one due to having a similar vibe with SpyxFamily and a bit of MHA/JJK.
- Comment on TV anime "Sakamoto Days" reveals a close-up visual of Taro Sakamoto 2 months ago:
Oh cool, I was wondering if this was going to get its own anime.
I picked up the manga after seeing it on the popular reading list. At first it seemed like a Spy x Family clone, but it has become its own thing. It is more like someone had all the characters from SxF, but wanted to make a series more like MHA or JJK. There’s more emphasis on the fights and special superhuman skills of the assassins, there’s assassin school, all kinds of crazy weapons and gear, but still a good bit of silliness. There’s some solid characters, good and bad, and a few good family moments.
With a lot of familiar elements but its own twist on them, it seemed like a good time for this to be picked up.
- Comment on A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) 2 months ago:
I still think this is a near perfect movie. I will still watch it every now and then, and I feel it holds up perfectly. The soundtrack is 100% dated, but I think the songs are awesome and I listen to them occasionally too.
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 2 months ago:
Summit kicks so much butt! I’ve tried about a dozen apps, but this is the only one I use, though Connect was good too.
The dev is great, and I’ve gotten lots of help and same or next day fixes whenever I’ve reported issues.
It’s beautiful, versatile, and powerful, with a great person backing it up.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 33] 2 months ago:
Elf is better as half-length episodes
Agreed. It’s cute and goofy, but nothing really goes anywhere. It’s the classic sitcom formula where everything ends up back where it started every time, there’s no real plot, it’s just a bunch of jokes, and I just like watching everyone pick on each other.
Apothecary Diaries is on my list so I may have to check that out. The others sound like solid recommendations also.
My gf didn’t seem to get the humor of the old Trigun series. She did get interested in the new one after being in the room with me watching a few eps of that. I was very leary about the remake as the original is one of the first animes I got really into.
I’ve been watching some older 90s movies and revisiting early Gintama again a bit, and it’s been a nice break. I’ve played a bit with emulators recently too. I put Lemuroid on my phone and have been doing a little Tetris and Link’s Awakening. I figured out how to pair a PS4 controller, so maybe I should start bringing that with me. Being able to save anywhere takes out a lot of frustration for me.
I still look forward to the weekly check in here though. I’m surprised the anime scene here is as quiet as it is, so I like to participate to help keep what we do have going. I appreciate all the work you put in here!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 33] 2 months ago:
Back to watching One Piece for the first time after being burnt out. Started the arc with the Minks.
I just read the whole manga over the last year, so I’m looking forward to the next arc where they must rescue their lost crewmate.
Was ready to drop Bakemonogatari, but I’m starting to get into the strangeness of it. The strange cuts, text flashes, colors, weird framing, are all starting to add to the experience rather than detracting like earlier.
I got a bit of some of the creepy parts I’ve heard about with Araragi’s interactions with Snail, and while it was unnecessary, I didn’t find it worse than some things from Evangelion, etc.
Otherwise, watched the new eps of Plus Size Elf and Nakotan which were both entertaining for what they are.
I’ve been feeling a little burnt out on manga and anime lately, I think because my schedule has changed recently and I’ve been throwing myself pretty hard into my music lessons, so I’m just too low on mental energy.
- Comment on Top 20 most popular serialized manga series of r/manga 29 July - 4 August 2 months ago:
As another person who is annoyed at the amount of Reddit people bring over here, I feel this is an exception.
I don’t think we have a Fedi replacement for this. To me, this is the equivalent of the “audience score” on Rotten Tomatoes. We don’t seem to have the user base here or a way to tally up scores from multiple instances, especially as not everyone federates with everyone else.
The Reddit scores I see as a wider group of people from those that are casual fans to pretty hardcore, and also with English as a main language. I do feel it skews younger, which makes it less helpful to me, but I think it gives us something different than we’d get from MAL, etc.
I think someone was doing a set of 3 lists for a while that showed the differences, but I’m not sure when I saw it last.
I’m happy for whatever list gets put up here, since that means I don’t need to go somewhere else to get it. This gives us Reddit data without having to go to Reddit, and I think having this here can be enough to keep some from going back for the list and just staying there for the bigger set of posts and comments.
- Comment on Isekai Suicide Squad • Suicide Squad ISEKAI - Episode 9 discussion 2 months ago:
Was thinking about dropping this series, but just watched eps 8 and 9, and this is finally what I started watching this series for!
The world they’re in still isn’t exciting me too much, it seems rather plain for an isekai world. I’m here for the big, bad personalities and outrageous moments.
There was one part though that was too distracting for me to take seriously:
Odd character design
Image Her horns reminded me of shrimp every time I saw them! 😂
- Comment on Hey Reddit lurkers! my ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is on Android now 2 months ago:
Looks nice! I sent a link to the gf who’s on iPhone. She’s always complaining about ads, and I never know what’s out there for her as I’m on android. I installed it too so I can give it a look.
After not looking at Reddit’s front page in a year, it’s a bit of a shock seeing an unfiltered feed! 😮
