lvxferre
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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 1 day ago:
For those that aren’t sure if you have fiber, the fiber will literally run into your “modem” (your Optical Network Terminal or ONT) and it will be incredibly clear that you have fiber. The wire is incredibly thin and they will warn you about bending it too much.
And if the connector breaks, you can’t simply fix it at home like you would do with copper. You’ll spend an internet-less weekend until the technician fixes it.
Source: got this shit happening with me this month. On a lighter side the work piled up disappeared real fast!
- Comment on [Episode] Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill Season 2 • Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2 - Episode 3 discussion 1 day ago:
Fenrir: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Nope!”
Dora-chan: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Nope!”
Sui: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Yes, yes. Dungeon now.”That’s blatantly preferential treatment!
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 6 days ago:
I’m surprised the best strategy wasn’t the neutral prompt, due to removal of any fluff.
- Comment on ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know 1 week ago:
At least you got a nice example of the third paragraph.
- Comment on Nobody Has Ever Wanted Your Website to Do This 1 week ago:
They sell their soul to Satan.
Just kidding. They sell something that exists (their data) to something worse (megacorporations) - by installing one “lol app lmao haha” after another.
- Comment on ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know 1 week ago:
Being pedantic, a sycophant, 2deep4u and bird-brained annoy me. But the one that hits me the hardest is that it makes shit up. I call people like this “assumers”, and I genuinely think they’re worse than malicious but smart people; I actively try to remove them from my life.
ChatGPT’s output is the same - you can’t simply trust it for anything you won’t either review manually, or where mistakes wouldn’t matter that much.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 1 week ago:
Like others, I don’t know about a comm but I’ll rec a few series. Biased towards isekai because it’s what I often watch.
You’re likely to enjoy:
- Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
- Mairimashita! Iruma-kun (Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun!)
- Saihate no Paladin (The Paladin of the End)
If bored, check those:
- Rozen Maiden
- Spy x Family note there is some fanservice for the assassin, but she’s adult, adult-looking, and it’s mostly legs
- Log Horizon
- Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!)
- Youjo Senki (The Saga of Tanya the Evil)
- Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta… (IDR the English name, people call it “Bakarina” or “Hamefura” anyway)
- Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra (note: Atou dresses in a rather showy way, but that’s it.)
- Comment on We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why | PBS Eons [13:46] 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much, but what is being selected for is also interesting. Perhaps it isn’t the chin itself, but the resonance and its effect on our voices.
- Comment on Punch Time 2 weeks ago:
One of my favourite instances of adaptation got to be Ted Woolsey’s “son of a submariner! They’ll pay for this…”, for the English localisation of Final Fantasy III / VI.
In the game, Kefka (the villain) is saying this as the heroes escape him, but the original only says “ヒーーー くっそー！このかりは必ず返しますよ!”; literally “heeee shit! I will definitively return this debt” or similar. However:
- That “ヒーーー” interjection has no meaning on its own. It’s only there to highlight the character’s emotional state. It could be safely removed, without loss of meaning.
- くそ / 糞 kuso “crap! shit!” is vulgar, but by no means as vulgar as English “shit”. Specially given the 90s, and this game being marketed to kids. But it means the villain is being rude towards the heroes (makes sense, right).
So, translating it as simply “hey you!” or similar would mutilate the original, by removing the rudeness. But at the same time, Woolsey couldn’t use “shit” or “crap” or similar. So he looked at the context:
- Kefka is crazy, and the way he uses Japanese in the original is odd. For example, he uses the pronoun “ぼくちん” bokuchin to refer to himself, as if he was a kid - and yet he’s a court mage of an empire dammit. (It’s a bit deeper than that, but let’s focus.)
- a bit before Kefka says this, there’s a city in the desert also fleeing Kefka - by going underground instead, as if it was some sort of “sand submarine”.
So Woolsey went with “son of a submariner!”, something he likely made up on the spot. And you know what? It’s perfect - it’s completely on-character for Kefka to insult people in such a weird way.
- Comment on Punch Time 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit more complicated: if you’re dealing with the sounds it’s transcription, if you’re converting from writing system into another it’s transliteration.
So for example, what you did is transliteration. But if you were to record some Japanese guy speaking and wrote it down (in kanji+kana, Latin, or even IPA), it would be transcription.
- Comment on We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why | PBS Eons [13:46] 2 weeks ago:
My guess is that it has to do with language. More specifically, it helps higher pitched sounds to resonate louder and more distinctively from other sounds.
- Comment on It definitely wasn't me 😶 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 1 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah. The manga series is awesome, and at least the first ep did it justice.
The “dance” scene was beautiful.
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 2 weeks ago:
I think I get it. For a lot of people, the situation is probably like this:
Basically “since both W7 and W10 are now unsupported, might as well stick to W7, I like it better.”
- Comment on Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it 2 weeks ago:
This: gentle support and help works way better than soapboxing.
- Comment on Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name 3 weeks ago:
Even then. I bet the first thing you see is those portraits in a weird mix of corporate “art” and realistic style.
- Comment on Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name 3 weeks ago:
Making bloody Clippy the Copilot avatar would be less of a blunder - the uncanny valley is real, and it causes instinctual repulse.
- Comment on [Episode] A Wild Last Boss Appeared! • Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta! - Episode 1 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Oh, this made me check the manga series. Fun stuff. And I think I know exactly what you’re talking about.
- Comment on [Episode] A Wild Last Boss Appeared! • Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta! - Episode 1 discussion 3 weeks ago:
As I mentioned in another thread I watched the first episode and it was okay. If it turns out boring later on I’ll drop it, but so far I’m following it.
Apparently the memories of the player and character are getting merged together? Lufas mentions adventuring is nostalgic, but then gets surprised with it.
- Comment on [Episode] Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 13 discussion 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think we’ll get a s2 but I’d be really glad if we did. It feels unfinished.
Atou accidentally defending the RPG earthling was kind of fun.
I don’t blame Takuto for not realising his own unit abilities, after being bedridden for so long.
- Comment on Fall 2025 Anime Chart 3 weeks ago:
The ones I’m planning to watch:
- OPM 3
- Spy x Family 3
- Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2
- Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari 2
- Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status […] (might drop it later, dunno, but I liked the description)
- Shinjiteita Nakamatachi ni Dungeon […] (ditto as above)
- Mikata ga Yowa Sugite Hojo Mahou […]
- Akujiki Reijou to Kyouketsu Koushaku
- Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi
- Isekai Quartet 3
- Mushoku no Eiyuu (watching it already. I read the manga a long time ago, it was okay.)
- Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta! (I watched the first episode and it seemed okay.)
I might watch Uma Musume: Cinderella Grey part 2 too. That depends on my pace watching the previous seasons, I’m at Pretty Derby s3.
And I absolutely refuse to watch Chichi wa Eiyuu, Haha wa Seirei. The manga made me cringe that bad. It was almost as bad as Isekai Cheat Magician.
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 3 weeks ago:
Because she’s a con[ifers] woman.
- Comment on Are vertical farms really the answer? A new study reveals their surprisingly large footprint | ironically, vertical farming even uses twice as much *land*, by using farmed jute fibers as root casings 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’re the answer now, but they might become one among many answers in the future, as they improve.
I feel like a lot of the issues pointed out are a result of inefficiency. You’d need better designed systems, but for example:
- heating - solar panels pretty much waste Sun heating. This should be redirected towards plants.
- cooling - instead of cooling the farm, design it so you can reflect heat in hot days
- lighting - instead of converting blue/red lights into electricity and back into light, couldn’t the light be redirected towards the plants?
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 12 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Not as much of a banger as ep11, but I really liked it. A nice ending for part 2, while we wait for part 3.
The thing with resurrection is… nasty. And amazing. And at those times you remember Tsukasa isn’t some dumb brute, he immediately understood what would happen.
Suika telling Kohaku they’re the same age now, so Kohaku can’t squeeze her, was bittersweet.
@rikka@ani.social - here’s some cover pic, thank you in advance!
- Comment on Recommendations for a noob plz? 4 weeks ago:
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. (The Brotherhood series, not the 2003 one!). There are some fight scenes, but they aren’t just for the sake of fighting, and I think it fits well what you said you like.
- Comment on [Episode] My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 • Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 12 discussion 4 weeks ago:
At least in the manga there is progress in their relationship; the story has beginning, middle, and end. However the middle was specially slow, because it was more about the evolution of Marin’s feelings towards Wakana. And, well, the middle is basically what was adapted as season 2.
If there is a season 3 (I hope and predict so), it’ll be probably better in this aspect.
- Comment on [Episode] Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 12 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I read the LN but I wasn’t expecting the episode to be that good. Seeing Caria and Maria devouring Isla’s heart - knowing they were forced to cannibalise their biological mother, too - was heavy.
I just wish they worked better on that “the moon is pretty” scene. It’s too obvious why it’s there (for contrast, so the following events cause more emotional impact), and it feels a bit cringey. That’s perhaps just me, though.
- Comment on Nintendo Doubles Down on Palworld vs Pokémon Patent Lawsuit ‘Mods Don’t Count as Real Games’ 4 weeks ago:
It’s such a clearly bad faith argument that I’d like to see the lawyers being called out for that in the court.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 4 weeks ago:
Nor in the pic: the lab technician going to jail for murder. Or the broken centrifuge.
- Comment on "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon" Season 3 Announced with New Visual 4 weeks ago:
I’ll probably watch it but it lost the shine from s1.
