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- Comment on New Gen Iseksai Title 4 weeks ago:
I feel like isekai is an interesting concept, but it is very poorly explored by the countless attempts at it (mostly because most of those attempts are low quality).
Why does the MC rarely miss anything important from the previous world? I mean, even if the MC was such a loner as they always are, wouldn’t they miss a parent, a sibling, an old friend they no longer talked much with? If you reincarnated in another world, would you immediately forget everything that came before that? And wouldn’t the thoughts about the world you came from come back, even if you tried avoiding them?
Also, why does the MC always become immediately overpowered? Like, other than being an overused comedy trope that is barely funny anymore, I know it’s fun to see a character hiding their own trump cards from everyone else and carefully choosing when to reveal them, but why would we root for a generic-ass stranger that got immediately cool because of some abilities they gained out of nowhere?
I now understand why so many people like Solo Leveling, which I’m bringing to this conversation because I feel like has an isekai-esque setting. Other than being a really good story, it does a better job than most isekai at making you care about the protagonist, because the main character actually struggles to get the OP abilities, putting his everything on the line to become stronger, even in situations in which he wasn’t supposed to, and not just for himself, but for his family too. This means that the character walks down a path of trials and tribulation to become a hero, he doesn’t just arrive and say “hello, I’m OP now, dw I’ll singlehandedly destroy the villains, just did it, bye”, or instead say “sssh, I’m secretly OP and I want to siglehandedly defeat the bad guys without anyone thinking I did it because otherwise I get pestered by people who would want to use me for my OP abilities”. That makes him way more likable than most other MCs, you see him struggle. Not just that, but his job just becomes harder once he becomes OP, and there’s an actual good reason why he gets the abilities (won’t spoil much more, just read the manhwa or watch the anime, you won’t regret it). I think it should be tried to make an MC that doesn’t want to live forever in another world, but instead wants to come back to his world, and it should be possible for it to happen, but extremely hard. In Ascendance of a Bookworm, the MC wishes they could do that, but just can’t because they died and then reincarnated. But afaik there isn’t an anime/manga where the MC sets on a quest, or has the ultimate goal to go back to their world, and I think it would be interesting. lmk if there are already stories like that.
(Also, IseGure is a funny anti-isekai manga you might want to read)
- Comment on Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway 4 weeks ago:
But when Firebase gets that network/IP change report, what information does it get? Because if it only gets the public IP address, the reported IP will still be the VPN one, not the real one, right? So, if that were the only information reported to Firebase, wouldn’t you still be protected? Does Firebase block requests when you’re using a VPN (this could be detected, for example, if certain aspects of the network have changed but the IP hasn’t)? Is that what you mean with not getting push notifications when simulating a local IP with filters?
PS: From my research, the WiFi’s SSID can also be used to track someone’s whereabouts, but depending on where you are and how many networks have used the same SSID, it may work work well or badly. You can see that by going to wigle.net (which is a database on WiFi networks with some publicly-available information), go to the map, type in the SSID field, and click “Filter”.
- Comment on Please Look After the Dragon Volume 3 Cover 2 months ago:
I need to know more about this manga right now. This is too cool of a volume cover.
- Comment on [DISC] IseGure - Isekai Cheat Musou Ore TUEEE-kei Ikiri Tenseisha ni Kamaseinu ni sare Tsuzuketa Elite Kishi, Chou Gureru. - Chapter 3 2 months ago:
I take back a lot of the things I said in the Chapter 1 disscussion thread. This manga is simply beautiful in every sense of the word.
- Comment on [Discussion] IseGure: After Constantly Being Used as a Foil for OP Isekai Protagonists, The Elite Knight Has Finally Had It - Chapter 1 2 months ago:
Thank you for making this disscussion thread. I would never learn about this manga if it weren’t because of it.
As I see it, this chapter gives a compelling reason for a warrior that used to be so noble to go haywire over people isekai’ing to his world. I also enjoyed the fact that they made this chapter really long to explain the manga’s premise, instead of only giving it a few chapters in after introducing essential concepts of the story, as some stories do. Plus, the chapter was overall funny.
I really hope that the author is able to keep it up and not make the story turn bland. Joking with the oversaturation of the manga industry with isekais is funny, but things are prone to turn stale if that ever becomes the only running theme of the manga.
- Comment on Bluesky: eXodus continues as TERFS lose their brain-rotted minds 3 months ago:
I DISAGREE with you. YOU ARE NOW OBLIGATED TO ENTER AN EPIC DEBATE TO THE DEATH WITH ME BECAUSE REACHING A CONSENSUS IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THE INTERET!!!
(((((((((((((((((/s (in case it wasn’t obvious))))))))))))))))))
- Comment on A new way to support open-source: OpenPledge 4 months ago:
OK, sounds good to me. Thanks for the quick reply.
- Comment on A new way to support open-source: OpenPledge 4 months ago:
So it’s like a bounty system then? Wouldn’t that contribute to low-quality PRs that are rushed to get the money ASAP? And what if the company tries to cancel the bounty right before the commit is pushed, when all the work is done?
- Comment on The Catholic Church Unveils Anime Inspired Official Mascot Of The Holy Year 2025 4 months ago:
I don’t like it that much…
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 4 months ago:
What a great way to build trust in a newly born platform! And how respecting to the people that are using the platform! Way to go!
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 5 months ago:
I loved that the VP of Content added that mods will still be able to protest when Reddit is literally is getting rid of major tools for mods to do an effective protest. Like, I get that Reddit is a company, and that it’s a platform they own, and that they lose profit whenever a big subreddits get privated, but they keep giving mods middle finger after middle finger.
- Comment on Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking 5 months ago:
Mozilla is corrupt? How so?
- Comment on "Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II" New Key Visual, PV 5 months ago:
I liked the first season, but this feels a bit out of the blue, so I’m really hoping that they don’t screw this up.
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 6 months ago:
The BBC contacted Telegram for comment about its refusal to join the child protection schemes and received a response after publication which has been included.
Where is it? I didn’t find it anywhere in the article.
- Comment on One Piece Anime Breaks Guinness World Record For Most DVDs Released 6 months ago:
They probably did, but you pretty much need to pay the guys behind the Guiness book for them to give you the record (there’s a form where you can apply for certain records for free, but it’s commonly disregarded by the Guiness guys afaik)
- Comment on "Turkey!" Original Anime New Key Visual 8 months ago:
They look like magic balls
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 10 months ago:
For those wondering what’s different with GoToSocial:
This project sprang up in February/March 2021 out of a dissatisfaction with the safety + privacy features of other Federated microblogging/social media applications, and a desire to implement something a little different.
- Comment on Some of the Anime's releasing in the summer 11 months ago:
No, it’s a new story where Goku and friends turn small
- Comment on Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back 11 months ago:
Now I’m curious too
- Comment on How This Anime Company Lied To You | It wasn't just JelloApocalypse 11 months ago:
Thanks a lot
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 11 months ago:
my Dad is bad at computers
Have you looked at Endless OS? It depends on what your father uses his computer for, but if it’s mostly web browsing, it could be nice for him.
- Comment on A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning 1 year ago:
The recordings immediately went viral on social media, and the candidate, who is pro-NATO and aligned with Western interests, was defeated in September by an opponent who supported closer ties to Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Why is it always the Russian hackers? /s
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 1 year ago:
Litterally this. I won’t (and most people won’t) feel morally wrong once I stop paying for Disney’s content.
- Comment on How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced? 1 year ago:
For reference: …ccc.de/…/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_train…
- Comment on "How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst 1 year ago:
Boo, what a blatant copy of the motherfuckingwebsite.com /s
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 1 year ago:
For anyone wondering:
- There was a plugin on Unity Store that acted a bridge between Unity and libVLC, which allowed developers to make video players inside the game engine. As the post says, it got removed.
- This plugin isn’t made by VideoLAN, it’s made by a company named Videolabs that includes several people who supposedly have contributed a lot on VLC and FFMPEG.
- The Videolan team made a blog post about this, if you want to know more: mfkl.github.io/…/unity-double-oss-standards.html
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 1 year ago:
Can’t wait for the tech reviews on this thing.
- Comment on How to Use Social Media as an Artist Without Destroying Your Soul - StayGrounded.online 1 year ago:
You missed the whole point of the article. If you don’t have social media, you pretty much aren’t advertising yourself. (What will you do instead? Ask people who like your art to show it to friends and family? Putting up posters in the streets saying “Please look at my art”?) No advertisement, no new fans of yours. No new fans of yours, no money from your art.
- Comment on Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉 Like YouTube, ... 1 year ago:
As far as I can tell, content published via the Nostr protocol cannot be deleted, and this seems to be using it, so there’s that. Also, it seems like it allows you to easily send crypto to the video creator…? There’s also the fact that, whenever multiple are watching the same video at the same time, Peertube can pretty much create a P2P network to speed up download speeds, which I think no other video platform does.
- Comment on Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century 1 year ago:
Thank you for bringing up nushell, had never heard of it