Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 1 day ago:
I think there’s a difference between being able to understand and having all the information to understand. Randall has a very wide range of topics that he makes comics on and most readers won’t know enough about every topic to get every joke, even though he does his best to simplify it for a broad audience. That’s the reason ExplainXKCD exists. But his audience is generally nerds, people who like learning new information, which is also what Explain caters to. So it is both true that his audience can (and are willing to) understand and that Explain helps them understand. (I also think that nerds love explaining stuff, so it makes sense that the main fandom website is ExplainXKCD, even if there were no demand for explanations.)
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 6 days ago:
This is famously an impossible problem to solve. For example, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a Science Saru anime, but MAL sees it primarily as a Netflix production based on a Canadian story. And I have to agree: if the English dub isn’t trash, is it really anime?
I think when you’re studying the contracts between different multinationals to decide whether something is anime or not, it’s better to err on the side of community and friendly discussion, making anything anime-adjacent fair game for this instance.
Bait
I just want to see a King of the Hill community on ani.social
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
It could be a relatively small number of users all making a disproportionally large number of posts. Like a single Minecraft streamer with too much time on his hands.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 1 week ago:
Superman makes for great stories, as long as you don’t focus on his power. You can’t beat him with physical strength, so stop trying to write strong villains. Probably stop writing villains at all. What Superman struggles with isn’t physical embodiments of evil, it’s the good intentions paving the way to hell. You can’t punch a person with good intentions for their bad outcomes. It’s hard being the ultimate arbiter of good in a world of complex morality.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
I tried to find the hidden microtonal harmony, but no, it seems to be properly off key. Let’s hope they change it after 6 episodes and it turns out to be the vocals for a completely different song. (Now I got myself hyped for a 4d move that’s probably not even real.)
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
Was 16 in 2019, must be at least 21 now.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 week ago:
Could be lots of downtime, meaning lots of time to watch anime? But I also think there’s way more weebs than people think and it’s mainly in dangerous jobs like military that people lose their inhibitions, stop giving a fuck and just start bonding over whatever they like. Anime is just weird enough to be kept hidden initially, but also harmless enough to admit to your buddies.
See also:
WW2 airplane pinups
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I expected them to ask the full $60 for it, which would be completely unreasonable, but at least I understand why they wouldn’t give it away then. But 10? They could easily eat that, they just don’t want to.
Either way, I can’t imagine anyone paying for a “game” that’s nothing more than an instruction booklet. If it were free, maybe someone would open it while Mario Kart is downloading.
- Comment on Truth 2 weeks ago:
2007 was 18 years ago. I don’t know if your experience in starting a business and buying a house translates to the current economic situation. (Also… the regional/national situations of the other commenter, which they didn’t specify, making it very hard to write a relevant response.)
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 3 weeks ago:
Pisang goreng enters the chat…
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 3 weeks ago:
Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku
I didn’t really have high expectations of this, but the first episode did a good job with the animation supporting the poems, so I kept watching. Sadly, the entire series was setting up for a championship arch that didn’t actually appear. Instead, the climax/resolution of the last episodes introduced a bunch of new characters and some family drama that would have needed 5 episodes to properly explore, so it just fell flat. They introduced plenty of interesting characters for a cool qualifier event or something, I just wanted Hana to read more poems. That’s what hooked your viewers, it’s what sets you apart, so use it.Medalist
Really solid, punchy animation. Well choreographed action. Wormies.Blue Box
Love how it combines a sports story with a romance story without compromising on either. All likeable characters getting into believable drama and it never feels like the writing is stalling, every episode develops the characters and story in an interesting way. And outside of the romance, I love to see Taiki train hard, play good badminton and beat strong rivals. - Comment on Imagine It. 4 weeks ago:
Emojipedia has a copy of Emoji Mashup that can do exactly that. I don’t think there’s any emoji with feet though, so you can’t make that goatse like on the poster.
- Comment on LoisGriffinNakedMasturbatingUncensored.exe 5 weeks ago:
How do I link a community again?
!animemes@ani.social - Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #09 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner) 1 month ago:
Blue Box is dropping but it’s still so good though! Best romance I’ve watched in years and it’s also a really good sports anime.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
I just reply to things that show up my feed honestly and pretty randomly
No one asked you to and in fact temp banned you for it, so try to read the room next time
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
Why the hell would you go on a book community, open a discussion post that is clearly asking for personal opinions and go “I dunno lol go ask chatgpt”. I would’ve banned you too tbqh.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m just memeing. The first thought in my head when I read her name was “…and Zendaya?? Oh-ho damn…”
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 1 month ago:
The babies were introduced as a plot device in Shrek the Third in 2007 and no one really cared about them. They returned in Shrek Forever After, this time as characters instead of stakes, but not many people were interested to see another Shrek movie after Shrek the Third. Forever After was kinda decent though, from what I remember. Compared to 3 at least.
- Comment on In the jar you go 1 month ago:
You can find Friendship is Witchcraft on Youtube, it’s some of the best the fandom ever made. (Also, the show itself is pretty good, would recommend.)
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 1 month ago:
Zendaya is a former Disney Channel star who is best known for voicing Shrek’s daughter Felicia in the recently released teaser for Shrek 5.
- Comment on Anime with alternate orders 1 month ago:
The inspiration for the thread: I’m rewatching Tatami Galaxy and I remembered that I accidentally watched it in reverse order the last time. It worked surprisingly well, but I did watch episode 11 again at the end, after I realized what had gone wrong. There’s some time shenanigans anyway, and every episode contains about as many callbacks as callbacks-to-future-episodes and that doesn’t change in reverse order.
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- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
If that was the red-green distribution, no one would be arguing whether it was a greenish-red or a reddish-green, because we all know about yellow. OP’s color is teal.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
I did two runs, the first ended at 177 (three more greens than 76%of respondents), the second at 174 (the exact median). I think the methodology is flawed, there’s a little randomness at the threshold so you need to gather more data to be certain of a person’s perception. You’ll see that the same hue can seem bluer when it follows a strong green, or greener when it follows a weak green.
- Comment on Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water. 1 month ago:
Yes, I was born after Jewish Nazis murdered Israeli prime minister Rabin for daring to broker peace between Israel and the PLO.
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 1 month ago:
One anime that really is built differently, in structure, art style and themes:
Tatami Galaxy
Every episode is the main character making a different choice to try and fulfill his dream. It’s like Groundhog Day, but where Mr Groundhog eventually manages a perfect day, Mr Tatami learns to accept the imperfection of life.
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 1 month ago:
Shuumatsu Train isn’t difficult to watch! It is the most classic of classic plots: a band of heroes sets off to save their village and faces all kinds of trials along the way, making them stronger as individuals and as a group, before defeating the Great Evil and saving the princess. It also has trains.
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 1 month ago:
Seconding Penguindrum as “built different”. It’s a classic imo, but it isn’t discussed enough, probably because everyone (like me) is convinced it isn’t a real anime but a fever dream they had after watching too much anime.
- Comment on Not if Demons are hot 2 months ago:
Jerboa shows the link (and options of how to open it) when you long-press. It would be nice if we could set that as the default behavior though, I never open a link before seeing where it goes first.
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 2 months ago:
The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.
But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there’s not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.
