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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you consider the saddest anime?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My kneejerk reaction to the question is “Grave of the Fireflies”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you watched/read/played anything in the Fate franchise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen most of the older shows from the Studio Deen stuff up through the 13 episode Rail Zeppelin spin-off or thereabouts. Never got to most of the movies other than the old UBW adaptation. I’m aware of FGO, but my opinion of gacha can be summarized as “fuck that” so I’ve ignored it beyond what’s occasionally popped up via fan art posts.

  If there’s something about the shows you want to talk about, I’d rather you just post threads here than start a new community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just checked back through copies of stuff I physically have and somehow I never got around to watching Your Name or Perfect Blue in the last ~7 years I’ve had them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched Aria the Animation back when I was having panic attacks. It’s too slow for me to find interesting when I’m feeling OK, but was just about right when my body was freaking out and I needed something calming to distract myself with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That kind of thing just doesn’t work when you try to do things in a browser without making you constantly think that things are broken.

  There’s some things you can’t really avoid dealing with that stuff for, but if it doesn’t really need to be a dynamic interaction with the service, you may be able to just write a script that runs on your server (either once or periodically) to download what you need as a batch, and then serve static results based on that to your users. It’s not only easier to implement when you can use that technique, but the UX is often better that way too…

  the async nature of web stuff is really breaking my brain

  I am being forced to learn async stuff and I kind of hate it…

  I remember beating my head against the wall working through the details of Promises in JS a couple years ago when I needed to figure out how to trigger certain pieces of logic only after all of a large batch of slow, dynamic results were fetched – which the user would often want to interrupt and adjust as partial results came in… so, I know what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny ramen shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the first one (looking top-to-bottom in the image) appears to be a sink for doing dishes. The second faucet seems to be above boiling water for cooking the noodles, and the third’s above a big pot filled with the soup stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fanart concepts to you have in mind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking back at my notes from the last several years, here’s some of the ideas I wrote down:

  • Kray-On (K-On/Crayon)
  • “The power of memes compels you!” (someone’s probably already done this one – seems obvious enough – but haven’t seen it if so)
  • “Ani, are you OK? Are you OK, Ani?” – FMA meets Michael Jackson, maybe?
  • Konata face on flatbed scanner (animation + output of scanner)
  • “Space and Wolf"
  • Azunyan-ga Daioh
  • (For FangMoe) “OnlyFangs” (note the ‘g’), Fangsgiving, … other silly puns
  • "Guns & Nurses: Your one stop shop for shots!” (DRIVE THRU) / Kino and Hermes: “What a strange country we’ve come to…”
  • “Hatsune Mikau” – Miku/Zelda Majora’s Mask cross-over
  • Ghost in the Shellfish
  • "Flan"-dre Scarlet
  • Weebdeluxe interviewing Shredder (Foot Clan) on his preferences about anime

  I’ve also got several others – including one with a terrible pun related to Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, and another with a Lain + Futaba (P5) crossover – that I’m still thinking of trying someday, but definitely don’t have the skill for yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule Clarification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably not going to watch anything hosted on YouTube (I blocked it completely a while back), but I don’t think it’s a big deal if someone links the first episode of something that’s legit freely available (i.e. not pirated) as long as they’re not being spammy about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes producer knows characters better than creator...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re from Nier: Automata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. There are virus vector vaccines already in existence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine

  For example, adenovirus vector vaccines were created for COVID-19: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Adenovirus…

  Those are non-replicating though.

  Live attenuated vaccines also exist – which can replicate – but those work by using a weakened/modified version of the original harmful live virus the vaccine is intended to protect against: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine

  Oral polio vaccine is a well-known example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back before kbin fell off the internet it had a really neat experimental “collections” feature that would let you make named groups of communities. Collections could be used either privately or made public so other people could subscribe to your curated feed on a topic. The owner could update the collection as needed (e.g. adding or removing communities/magazines as they changed over time).

  It’s one of the kbin features I miss most on lemmy.

  Does anyone know if mbin ever got a copy of that? I know they forked off before it was added to kbin, but I don’t know if it ever got integrated later. (I don’t see it from a quick glance at moist and fedia, but I haven’t dug into the dev history.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cake (by hectyne)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was marked sensitive on danbooru (which I’m not quite sure how to interpret) and there’s a panty peak. I thought it was probably fine, but I didn’t really want to get into arguments on my day off or get the instance in trouble if people were offended, so tagged it pre-emptively. (The sidebar recommends tagging if unsure.)

• Cake (by hectyne)files.catbox.moe ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨animepics@reddthat.com⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are good harddrives to use with serves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a few of those, and while the ones I bought have worked out fine so far, I think it’s worth cautioning people that they are annoyingly loud doing basic operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tsunday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s Kirino from Oreimo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iji, a surprisingly complex action-platformer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I remember playing Iji! I think that was the first game I played that noticed and reacted if you tried to play as a pacifist. There was at least one unavoidable boss fight when I played it though, as I recall.

  Digging back through my old disks, it looks like I actually still have my copy from 2008 (version 1.2, according to the manual.txt file) as well as a saved game from much later when I replayed it in February 2013. That was a while ago!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime related active communities promotion post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  !animepics@reddthat.com – people mostly post fan art these days, but discussion of anything anime-adjacent (anime/manga/VN/hentai/etc.) is explicitly allowed too. In the past I’ve posted amusing/interesting stills from shows I was watching, custom image composites, screenshot comics, and things like that.

  !anime_irl@ani.social – “A community for sharing relatable real-life situations depicted in anime.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which anime do you enjoy with a mostly adult cast of characters?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few off the top of my head: Shirobako. Space Dandy. Samurai Champloo. Ghost in the Shell: SAC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 36]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mawaru Penguindrum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Active communities promotion thread⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don’t think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Otome Games [not mine]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kbin.social’s been down for a while, and having serious problems for months.

  There is a general visual novel community at !visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space which might be a better place to post to. It’s not very active, but I know there are at least a few people around paying attention to it. I might chime in on some threads occasionally if you post there. My tastes are more in line with VNs aimed at the straight-male demographic, but I’m willing to try other VNs beyond that if there is a really good story or novel mechanics or some other non-sexual factor that makes it interesting.

  If that community doesn’t fit your needs, I think there is also !otome_games@lemmy.world – but it seemed completely dead the last time I looked. You might be able to revive it though if you want to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100%⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recognize some of the characters:

  • Akiyama Yukari from Girls und Panzer (top left corner)
  • Oumae Kumiko from Hibike! Euphonium (center – brown hair and yellow eyes)
  • Kuriyama Mirai from Beyond the Boundary (right – with glasses)

  but I don’t recognize the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran into an example of the thumbnail issue again today – this time on a post from kbin: old.reddthat.com/post/19193476

  The thumbnail looks like this in the HTML:

  <div class="thumb">
    <a class="url"
       href="https://media.kbin.social/media/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg"
       >
      <div  style="background-image: url(https://media.kbin.social/media/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg?format=jpg&amp;thumbnail=96)"></div>
    </a>
  </div>
  

  Note that it’s making a request to kbin.social with ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96 parameters in the CSS – which results in the full image being loaded since kbin doesn’t run pictrs.

  The versions in use (according to the settings page) are:

  lemmy: 0.19.4-beta.7 mlmym: 0.0.44

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't more filtering systems enable sorting by least viewed/visited, including for older pages/material?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That requires turning every read into a write – which is slow/expensive generally. (That might not matter much for Google – who try to record everything you ever do already, basically – but it matters for everyone else.)

  Also, it tends to promote spam and offensive niche content. kbin’s got a sidebar that tries to promote random low activity communities and posts, for example, and it’s almost uncanny how much crap it pushes up…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Clip] Mecha Battles in a (Mostly) Pre-CG World - Vision of Escaflowne⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After I finished watching the series, I discovered that there is a movie version of the story that condenses it down to <2 hours. I haven’t watched it, but that might be a more approachable way for modern viewers to digest the story.

  I have seen both (a long time ago), and from what I remember the movie was REALLY different – like, almost unrecognizably different. I do not recommend substituting one for the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having trouble finding an example of the thumbnail issue again right now but I was seeing the pictrs conversion parameters passed to URLs from catbox.moe, i.postimg.cc, and other sources in the CSS for the thumbnail when I reported the issue to Tiff ~3 weeks ago. It’s possible that it got fixed/suppressed by another change since then though. (0.0.44 was deployed a few hours ago and I think there may have also been a beta patch bump for the lemmy backend at some point since I reported the issue originally in our local support community.)

  I’ll let you know if I see it pop up again.

  For the text handling issue, I was seeing text like “<thread title> by <username> in <community>” (i.e. “<thread title> by <username> in <community>” if it still happens) getting misinterpreted as raw HTML instead of being escaped. (i.e. <!-- raw HTML omitted --> was showing up in the HTML output for the page.)

  You may recognize that text as the pattern for a recently fixed bug in the user profiles; I found the text handling issue while trying to explain the other issue to Tiff a few weeks ago.

  Will edit this comment immediately after posting to let you know if I still see the text issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I’ll go ask Tiff about getting reddthat updated later.

  BTW, is there a community for discussion of mlmym itself somewhere on lemmy? I can’t participate on GitHub, but those aren’t the only issues I’ve found. (e.g. there’s also ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96 on non-pictrs links and a text handling issue with angle brackets…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s great to hear!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can open any profile with multiple pages worth of posts or comments on old.reddthat.com and it’s jumbled. Even my own profile is jumbled: old.reddthat.com/u/e0qdk

  The first page is mostly comments I made two weeks ago plus a thread from today and some very old threads. The second page has comments I made earlier today and during the past week. The third page starts with my most recent comment and then has a bunch of older comments.

  The exact order might change after posting this, but my own recent comments mostly being on page two has been pretty consistent for a while.

  If I look at a very active user’s profile (like MentalEdge’s), I see threads from today show up on page three(!) while there are threads from a week or more ago on pages one and two.

  I’m not sure what’s going on exactly, but it basically makes user profiles pretty useless right now through mlmym.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t had much issue with lag, generally, but I don’t get notifications any more – which is probably the most pressing issue. (I have to remember to manually check once in a while after I post since the envelope doesn’t light up.) That might be an issue with reddthat being on a recent beta version of lemmy – I don’t know.

  We do have lemmy-ui-next over here too. Thanks for reminding me about that. I’ve been meaning to poke at it a bit.