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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Teaser Visual .Season 3 to Broadcast This July⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because the third season will handle at least the volumes 13 to 17 of the light novel, and there’s a lot of content in those. But if anything, I’m predicting it’ll cover only five chapters (while s1 and s2 covered six chapters each).

  I’m saying this because I’m predicting they’ll try to give an anime version for the whole series, since it’s extremely popular in Japan. However, it has 26 volumes, and that doesn’t split evenly into sixes.

  There are two solutions for that:

  • make s3 and s4 seven volumes each. But then s3 will feel rushed.
  • make s3 five volumes, s4 six volumes, then release a s5 with a single cour.

  I’m predicting they’ll do the later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Teaser Visual .Season 3 to Broadcast This July⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And here’s the trailer, from six months ago. Season 3 seems to focus rather heavily on Eris’ comeback, and events around it.

  Spoilers containing light novel content

  Major points based on the trailer: * Zanoba, Cliff, Julie, the development of Rudeus’ prosthetic left arm, and the battle armour * Cat mama and dog mama Pursena and Rinia fight over who’s going back, and who’s free * Bananahoshi and the research in Perugius’ castle * The fights against the demon lord * Rudeus and Eris x Orsted * The diary hints the old!Rudeus arc?

  For those who didn’t read the novel: all you need to know is that the events are way more fun than the ones that popped up in the second season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both this and the “Final Chapter” you shared in another comment are genuinely interesting. I love how you actually gave her some personality, since my prompt had nothing in this direction. She sounds stubborn, serious, meticulous. And no, they don’t sound like Twilight at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Modest Skill “Tidying Up” is the Strongest! ~ Corporate Slave Office Lady Started An Accidental Isekai Revolution, and is Now Adored by the Head Knight and His Majesty the Emperor

  Wow. Let me try to fix this:

  The Revolution of the Office Janitor ~ She Got the Weakest Skills and Now She’s Adored by Everyone in Another World

  I didn’t read the slop (nor I will), but lemme build some simple setup:

  Saitou Kiyomi is a 44yo office janitor of a black company in Tokyo. She likes her job, but hates everything around it: the lack of proper working conditions, the ungratefulness of other workers there, the messy working hours, the boss dumping into her odd jobs she was not supposed to (like paperwork, bringing him coffee, taking care of children)…

  Then one day, going back from work 2AM, she finds a kitty. Craving for some company, she brings it home. Then she drinks a few too many cans of beer, and tells it her sorry story, without knowing the cat is actually a spirit in disguise. The spirit feels sorry for her and offers to reincarnate her into the magic world of Gahaski, where your experiences are crystallised into skills. And since she worked as a janitor for her whole life, she gets two skills:

  1. Clean - magically removes dirt
  2. Tidy - magically places something into its proper place.

  Those skills rely on what she considers as “dirt” or the “proper place” of something, so they’re extremely overpowered. One of the first things she does in the new world is to look herself at the mirror, and notice how old she was… when she said “damn, I wish I could clean some years off my face”, the cleaning magic activated and she became a 18yo. “Tidy” could be used to disarm opponents, by sending their weapons to the “proper place”; or even to jail criminals automatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Chained Soldier Season 2 • Mato Seihei no Slave 2 - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the internal power struggle begins!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] The Holy Grail of Eris • Eris no Seihai - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooh, I remember enjoying the manga quite a bit. Until it drags a bit too long.

  The setup (the ghost of the akuyaku reijou wants to discover why she was killed) is fun, and also the contrast between Scarlet and Colette, they’re like night and day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord • Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So far I liked it. It isn’t stellar, but good enough. Like NineSwords said now the setup is out of the way, and the fun begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a better idea: asking medical advice from 4chan. It’s typically “you got AIDS, chop your dick off”.

  …of course I’m joking. Serious now, even if everything goes well (and you don’t die because of the medical “advice” from the bot output), this is still a shitty idea. Medical records are private matter, “Open” “A” “I” gives no fucks about your privacy, they will sell your data to advertisers and governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this curve will need to be refitted, it looks more parabolic than they’re fitting it. A good thing IMO, it doesn’t just mean Linux marketshare is growing, but it’s growing faster.

  And, like, it makes sense. Network effect plays a huge role on this. One more user means some dev saying “…fine, native Linux version”, in turn that means other users saying “yay, $game has a Linux version!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter 2026 Anime Release Calendar (livechart.me Anime Sama)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently planning to watch / watching the following:

  Sousou no Frieren s2
  Chained Soldier s2 The Holy Grail of Eris
  Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling

  All four manga series are great. Frieren and Chained Soldier had great s1, and IMO need no introduction.

  The Holy Grail of Eris is about a ghost akuyaku reijou trying to untangle the mystery of her own death, and Reincarnanated as a Dragon Hatchling is a lot like I’m a Spider, So What?.

  Sentenced to be a Hero

  I picked this series to watch on a whim, and I really liked the first episode, from the premise (hero as a criminal sentence, instead of a glory) to the design of the monsters and the bitter MC.

  Noble Reincarnation
  Hell Mode
  There was a Cute Girl in the Hero’s Party, so I Tried Confessing to Her

  …yes, I’m a sucker for isekai and reincarnation. Based on the associated manga series I don’t expect those anime series to be great but at least enjoyable. The sort of stuff you watch, enjoy, and then forget about.

  Jack of All Trades, Master of None
  An Adventurer’s Daily Grind at Age 29
  Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord

  Picked on a whim. Let’s hope they’re fun. If not, I can always dump them later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, OpenTTD gets some big new features in v15⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, they had to remember me OpenTTD. My working day is ruined.

  Seriously, this game is fucking amazing. I can’t recommend it enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think UnfortunateShort phrased it well; what’s bugging me is not the present assessment, but the “doomsaying”.

  Fairly certain we will be just fine in the long run.

  I do think so, too. I’m way more worried about Latin America in this regard, because 1) it’s my turf, and 2) we’ve been consistently backwards, and local governments love to play along the three stooges, the only difference is which one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclaimer: I’m neither from the EU nor USA. I’m commenting on this as a random observer.

  Europe is so far behind the US in digital infrastructure it has “lost the internet”, a top European cyber enforcer has warned. // […] it was “currently impossible” to store data fully in Europe […] // “We’ve lost the whole cloud. We have lost the internet, let’s be honest,” De Bruycker said. “If I want my information 100 per cent in the EU . . . keep on dreaming,” he added. “You’re setting an objective that is not realistic.”

  There’s an implicit nirvana fallacy there: that you either need to keep the data 100% within the EU, or it’s pointless to even try (“we’ve lost”). That’s far from true; the more of your data is kept locally, the safer you are against rogue states (like China, USA, or Russia). A small victory might not be enough, but it’s certainly not a loss.

  Also note “currently impossible” does not mean “impossible forever”.

  The Belgian official warned that Europe’s cyber defences depended on the co-operation of private companies, most of which are American. “In cyber space, everything is commercial. Everything is privately owned,” he said.

  I genuinely do not see why this couldn’t change; in other words, why EU-based cybersec organisations could not be founded and funded by the local governments.

  But Europe was missing out on crucial new technologies, which are being spearheaded in the US and elsewhere, he said. These include cloud computing and artificial intelligence — both vital for defending European countries against cyber attacks.

  This argument is so shitty that I’m now wondering if Bruycker has vested interests.

  I’d really, really like to see him exploring 1) why those two things are vital, and 2) why the EU countries could not develop them at home.

  Europe needed to build its own capabilities to strengthen innovation and security, said De Bruycker, adding that legislation such as the EU’s AI Act, which regulates the development of the fast-developing technology, was “blocking” innovation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent a whole weekend in 2025 with no internet. Optical fibre connector broke Saturday morning, repair person would only come Monday at noon. It wasn’t a big deal; my work is mostly offline, and I got a bunch of anime seasons, music, and games in my hard disk.

  It wasn’t a big deal because I don’t use Windows 11. My login is offline. My login was not made by assumptive codemonkeys who bullshit the user is always online, because their boss sees users as cattle and wants to herd them into a new pen called “cloud services”.

  And it isn’t just that. This is an unnecessary security risk; if MS login servers get compromised (and MS is damn sloppy regarding security), then your machine gets compromised too. Then there’s chicken-and-egg problems like HakFoo mentioned. And weird issues like this user experienced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Case for Blogging in the Ruins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Related question: does anyone know a good and free (costless; preferably libre, but I’m not picky) blogging platform? It doesn’t need to be fancy, just let me write stuff so others can read for free.

  I’m asking this because I’m moving my blog out of a Nazi bar called Substack. And I tried Bear, but without paying I can’t get others to see my posts, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “they” using Grok to morph photos and the “they” outraging at it are likely different groups of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It says hotlinking images is not allowed. You might want to save the pic you want to share, then host it elsewhere, like imgbb or imgur, then link it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feliz nuevo jueves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grammar of broken is funny part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feliz nuevo jueves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Title: Happy New Thursday
  [Powerpuff Shinji] Hello?
  [Misato] Shinji, you must pilot the EVA
  [Powerpuff Shinji turns phone off]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snitches get switches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The nomenclature is really messy across countries and even sub-country entities. The Portuguese language Wikipedia even highlights the mess:

  Nomenclature diversity across countries. // Some surveys estimate protected areas in different countries and regions are called by at least a hundred names, and not uncommonly countries have their own categories of protected spaces, roughly similar to the protected space concept defined by the IUCN.

  From that I guess the restrictions associated with those spaces also change, and in some you aren’t supposed to remove local fauna and/or flora.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breed back better, or whatever Biden said⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes me lose my sleep:

  Trees are extremely iconic and we see a lot of similarities between them, but they’re mostly due to convergent evolution. Plants have been growing that stalk independently over and over and over. Crustaceans become crab-like, mammals become ant eaters, and plants become trees. *carcinisation intensifies*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s as weird, inaccurate, silly and misleading as saying “ALON is oxygen”. Or that table salt is a chemical weapon (bertholite). We (people in general) shouldn’t be saying a compound “is” one of its constituent elements.

  BTW I’m old enough that I watched that movie

  Just like I didn’t pick the media reference up, I expect at least some other people to not to, either. People will however gather stuff from the context: OP talking about a metallic alloy, sorghum’s “it” gets interpreted as “now make that metallic alloy transparent”, and then yours as talking about alloys, at most a metal.

  I know I’m being an arse hat with this. I’m doing it because it’s a big deal: if you say “ALON is transparent aluminium”, people expect at least some properties to be similar to a soft metal good at conducting electricity. Except now transparent, because Chemistry is wizardry /s.

  The title in the OP is also slightly misleading, but that’s journalism. We should do better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We won’t be governed by artificial intelligence, at least not in the near future. We’ll instead be ruled by the same elites as before, except they’ll use “I did nothing! The AI did it!” as excuse. Like a RL equivalent of Reddit powerjannies blaming Automod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ALON is a fully covalent ceramic*, not metallic aluminium. They’re as different from each other as table salt and metallic sodium are.

  *formula (AlN)·(Al₂O₃)ₓ, where 1.7<x<2.3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 broadcast starts April 2026 with 5 split cours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it’ll be like this, except the first two cours will be one after the other. Like:

  • 2026 - Spring, Summer, Winter. Nothing in Autumn.
  • 2027 - Summer, Winter. Nothing in Spring or Autumn.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brand identity.

  Corporations, and even some open source groups, hate highly visible customisation; they behave as if your computer shouldn’t look like your computer, it should look like their software’s computer.

  Of course, this conflicts with what users want. So sometimes they’re forced to provide you at least some highly visible customisation. More at the start, as they advertise their software as “flexible”, “powerful”, “customisable”, whatever. Then they remove it later, when they believe the loss of the customisation won’t make users leave.

  But then people ask why. And they can’t simply say “it damages our brand identity”, or “you computer is not yours; it’s our billboard for our software, that you paid for”. And sometimes they can’t ignore the question either, because that would make them look distant and uncommunicative and user-hostile.

  The solution is bullshit galore. You disguise the removal as necessary, telling users things like:

  • “We had to redo it from the scratch, and we couldn’t readd the feature”
  • “The feature gets in the way of another feature we’re planning to add”
  • "The feature wasn’t popular, so it was bloating our code"
  • etc.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frefox? Freefox? Wait, that’s actually a good name (unlike, say… Clbri).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, nah.

  It’s already bad enough that they waste dev time with this shite instead of, you know… improving the browser for the users. Bloody slopbrowser, your only redeeming quality is to not be Chromium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone Autocorrect is seriously broken and it's pissing me off.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, the rant already starts with autocorrect.

  I can’t overstate how much I fucking hate autocorrect, automatic text prediction, “showing results for $word” and similar systems. All of them boil down to the same thing: they butcher what I write because the software behaves like an assumptive piece of trash. And if I can’t turn this filth off, from whatever software I’m supposed to use, then I am not using it.

  It gets worse. I’m a translator, so I’m often writing shit in three languages. Sometimes two within the same conversation. No matter how you configure your language preferences, autocorrect will “correct” words from one language into another.

  You know, what works fine though? The squiggly red line below words not recognised by the dictionary. Or showing me potential words to complete what I’m writing, but not automatically selecting any of them. Both work fine; one shows me things I might have misspelled, another that I might want to type, but neither assumes what I want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Game About Feeding A Black Hole, out today, is exactly what it proclaims to be, and surprisingly tranquil⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone is interested there’s a demo here.