e0qdk
@e0qdk@reddthat.com
Main account: e0qdk@kbin.social
This is my alt for when kbin is down or when I need to do something Lemmy-specific.
- Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. 2 days ago:
Bill’s PC. As in Bill Gates, probably. You’re lucky it didn’t get overrun with malware.
(No idea who/what inspired the Japanese name マサキ though.)
- Comment on An article on HiAnime's death and anime piracy in general, from a former industry insider 6 days ago:
whenever the top pirate site goes down, a decent chunk of its users switch to legal services.
[X] Doubt
- Comment on Tamagoyaki… Don't Expect It to Be Good, or Anything! [Original] 1 week ago:
- Comment on 'More Than 400 Piracy Domains Completely Wiped': Top 10 Anime Streaming Sites Targeted in New U.S. Government Report 1 week ago:
They would probably make more money if they’d just put the shows up for sale for direct download as soon as they air.
Seriously, it’s 2026 for fucks sake. Why can’t I just go to the studio’s website and pay them a dollar (or whatever) to download an MP4?! I can understand the old conservative idiots running old studios with old stupid practices, but why is NO ONE doing this? Especially as studios keep going out of business and reforming? Have they never seen Steam and GOG for game sales? Bandcamp for music?
…rant rant rant…
- Comment on [Discussion] Steins;Gate Is Still Influencing Sci-Fi Anime 15 Years Later 1 week ago:
minimal inaccuracies
I (mostly) liked the show, but conflating the physical compression of a blackhole with data compression really grated on me.
- Comment on Wanted: Printed Mug Handle 2 weeks ago:
For ceramic, maybe see if someone can do a kintsugi fix for it instead of 3D printing?
- Comment on Announcing Winners of the 2025 Fediverse Anime Awards 2 weeks ago:
CITY is not on CR – or, at least, it wasn’t when I was looking for it last year.
Wikipedia has it listed as licensed by Amazon Prime Video. (I expect most people just raised the Jolly Roger though…)
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.
That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven’t already…
No ghosts IRL? No problem! We’ll make ghosts!
Thanks Humanity. 🙄️
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 3 weeks ago:
I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.
Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 4 weeks ago:
Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️
- Comment on What was your social media path? 4 weeks ago:
IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc… -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)
Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy
- Comment on she also happens to be best girl 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t played it personally, but discussions on VNDB suggest it’s an average to good nukige.
- Comment on Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning? 5 weeks ago:
I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.
- Comment on Our memes 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ghost of Lemm.ee? 1 month ago:
Looking back through your history, that’s a post by a user local to your instance. You can see it because you’re on the same instance.
If I understand how federation works correctly, posts don’t go directly to the instance a community is on when they are made. They are created locally on your own instance, and then federate out if/when they can. Since you’re both on the same instance, you can see the post and interact with it, but the post and your comments are (presumably) stuck in a queue trying to federate to the now defunct instance. Since lemm.ee is gone, it can’t federate out, so other people don’t see the post/comment on their instance.
I think that’s what’s going on.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You put works like Mushoku Tensei, Steins;Gate 0, 5cm Per Second, Re:Zero in your Good to Great tiers. Frieren has some similar aspects and might land in a similar range for you. Seems a bit odd to reject it without even trying it just because it’s popular.
- Comment on How on earth do I fix my trackpad? 1 month ago:
if anyone knows a better solution to sharing videos that doesn’t involve making accounts, please let me know!
You can upload small files (under 200MB) to catbox.moe
I don’t know how to fix your trackpad issue though. Sorry.
- Comment on theoretical considerations on identity management 1 month ago:
BlueSky uses AT Protocol which is similar to how you break things down: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 06] 1 month ago:
I recently managed to get a physical copy of Evangelion. Most of the discs work, so I’m watching through the series now for the first time. The only disc that didn’t work when I tested them is the one that has something called “Evangelion:Death(True)2” and the End of Evangelion movie plus some bonus content – this is an AACS issue rather than physical damage so there’s hope that I can watch it eventually, just… not now.
I was told that the ending theme has been changed. The copy I have has an instrumental piano piece instead of the various “Fly Me To The Moon” versions on animethemes. It’s not clear to me what the title of the ending piece on my copy is, and the version on my discs isn’t listed there.
I was expecting some weird stuff from this show, naturally – the later parts of it are infamous for that, even though I don’t know exactly what I’ll encounter yet – but, even still, the casual presence of the penguin was a surprise.
- Comment on Digital picture frame from a monitor or TV? 1 month ago:
Should be trivial to set up something like that if you’ve got parts you want to work with. Any desktop with an automatic background switcher should be able to cycle through images in a directory you specify on a timer. Set up your favorite remote access software (SSH, Samba, NFS …) and you’re done. If you want more control over the behavior, you could script up something custom with a little more effort – but it’s still not particularly hard to implement something like that.
Watch out for burn in on the screen if you’re leaving it on all the time.
- Comment on Can we make federation less dependent on domain names? 1 month ago:
Instances go down a lot – often permanently. e.g. kbin.social, lemm.ee, etc.
When an instance goes down, it takes out all the user accounts and communities on it, and it’s hit or miss if you can find copies of the posts on other instances.
- Comment on Year refund 1 month ago:
- Comment on LE TITS NOW 1 month ago:
“Colder than a witch’s tits!”, as some of my relatives are fond of saying.
- Comment on What are your favorite RPG maker games? 1 month ago:
Demons Roots is probably the best RPG Maker game I’ve played that was actually playable as an RPG. (So, not counting things like To The Moon which other people have already mentioned.)
I wasn’t a fan of most of the sexual content in Demons Roots, but taking the whole thing as basically a giant love letter to fucked up doujinshi stories – i.e. to unpolished indie writing with wild genre bending plot twists in addition to the hentai stuff – I can accept it for what it is. The game has that RPGMaker wabi-sabi; it’s not especially well-crafted software… but the combat was OK (unlike a lot of indie RPGs), the music was good – a mix of original and mostly well chosen asset packs (I still listen to some of it occasionally!), and, without getting into spoilers, it did a couple of very memorable things…
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 month ago:
Most games have trophies designed by some corporate drone and consist of a handful of trophies giving for completing the storyline and the rest for token actions that you’ll inevitably do while playing.
Those are basically just publicly accessible analytics for how far people typically get in a game.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 2 months ago:
As others have noted, you can use the
mountcommand from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you’d prefer to use a GUI. - Comment on Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees 2 months ago:
Bee-kake
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 03] 2 months ago:
So, I dug back into physical media a bit at the end of the year and managed to scrounge up some copies of older works that I either hadn’t seen or where my copy had issues (like parts of a few episodes skipping due to physical defects on the discs).
One of those I haven’t seen before is To-LOVE-Ru. I don’t know how the hell I never realized this – having seen it pop up in fanart and such for a decade or so… – but the name とらぶる is obviously a transliteration of “trouble” into Japanese. So far, the writing is wonderfully stupid; I’m not expecting much out of this in the story department, but a lighthearted distraction from our extremely depressing reality is not unwelcome right now… I’ve heard the show described as “thinly veiled hentai” before, but even with that description I was still a bit surprised they actually put unobscured female nipples in the first episode. This kind of episodic ecchi harem comedy isn’t something I find bingeable, so I’ll probably be chipping away at it episode by episode for a while when I’m in the right mood for it. Hopefully I get a few good reaction shots out of it.
For upcoming releases, I am planning to watch S2 of Frieren, but given that that’s the kind of thing I expect I’d rather want to binge, I will probably be waiting towards the end of the season to start it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Thanks. I finally managed to get him this morning! Just barely won though. 23 HP left, Estus flask empty and used an Ember for healing late in the fight… One Ashen flask left. Used the Pestilent Mist strategy in combination with Sunlight Spears and Tears of Denial (which triggered twice, I think, during the fight) – cast using Crystal Chime+5 and unequipped my sword to stay under the 70% weight threshold. 8 Estus / 7 Ashen Estus split. SL143. Ring of the Sun’s First Born, Morne’s Ring, Sage Ring, Estus Ring. Dragoncrest shield (for fire defense) + Crest shield (for Dark defense) that I meant to switch to for the second phase, but didn’t. Armor was a random collection of whatever seemed like it might help – most significant piece was the Winged Knight Armor; I look really goofy. Started game as Deprived and played early game as Dex fighter before switching to mostly pyromancy mid-game. Highest stat is currently 40 Faith – I did some grinding to get there from 35 to free up a ring slot for an earlier strategy that didn’t work. (The 3 guys on top of the Archive are worth about ~21K souls each with my best grinding gear equipped and are vulnerable to Rapport – best grinding location I’ve found so far.)
I’m sure the guys who live and breath this game will be like “Lol, git gud scrub” but it’s my first playthrough and I’m just happy I managed to pull it off at all. :p
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Still getting my butt kicked by Dark Souls 3. The end is in sight though. I’ve already beaten the final boss of the base game, but I’m going through the DLCs. Finished Ashes, but still stuck on the M. boss fight in the Ringed City DLC. (I’m too stubborn to just skip it – or, well, I have been so far, at least…)
