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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 Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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’ 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I’ll probably watch it but it lost the shine from s1.
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 11 discussion 1 week ago:
Senku was petrified for seven years.
The wiki says Suika was 12 when everyone was petrified, 18 afterwards, so it took her six years. Based on vegetation growth and my eyeballed estimates it would be four instead; the tower looks ~8m tall and lianas grow ~3m/year, so it would take them at least three years to reach the top.
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 11 discussion 1 week ago:
We got it. We’re roughly at chapter 196.
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 11 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I liked it. It was obvious for the viewers, but Suika was still a child, and it’s how children think - they want easy and fast solutions. It also shows well that with science you don’t get ir right the first time, you need to be a bit stubborn.
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 11 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Also, all the screenshots are done by hand, so as long as you indicate which one you want clearly enough for a human to understand, it should be ok.
Good to know! Thank you!
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 11 discussion 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Episode] Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Cour 2 • Dr. STONE: SCIENCE FUTURE Part 2 - Episode 11 discussion 2 weeks ago:
The anime expanded the time Suika is alone in the world; it was just three chapters (194~196), but we got a full episode out of it.
And I’m glad it did. It doesn’t change the plot at all, but it gives Suika’s time alone a well-deserved depth.
Sure, she woke up all alone, just like Senku did seven years earlier. But unlike Senku she was still a child, and the episode showed well how lonely and vulnerable she felt. (Specially the part where she hugs Kohaku’s statue.) And Suika was never shown to be a talented scientist or anything similar; she wasn’t even undergo modern education. And yet she was able to make the revival fluid. It plays really well with the theme of the anime, on science being not quite the result of a few talented individuals, but of knowledge accumulated over time: previous knowledge (Senku notes), failures (the rain over the nitrate crystals), and eventually success.
By far one of the best episodes I watched this season.
- Comment on Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footage 2 weeks ago:
The article is a bit sensationalist, but I think it’s the first time for this species.
- Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footagewww.livescience.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂ - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Dunno, weed on steroids being even more proficient at outcompeting local florae?
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 2 weeks ago:
I can see why we primates* would have a taste for alcohol: boozy = fermenting = full of sugars = nutritious. It works fine if all alcohol we see is “in the wild”. But once you learn to farm and ferment, everything goes downhill, because you’ll have a lot more alcohol available than just a bunch of overripe berries.
So it’s a lot like a sedentary lifestyle, junk food, attention economy, etc. Our instincts working against us, because they were shaped by a different environment.
*I’m not even sure if it’s something as recent as primates. Other tetrapods seem to really like booze too, as this rather cute video shows. Elephant, birds, hogs, everyone gets drunk.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I feel like, if you aren’t powertripping, moderating lots of subs feels like a bother; and there’s a limit on how much abuse you go through before you say “fuck this, I’m out”.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
The power matters for the sort of bootlicker still moderating Reddit because it’s what gives their lives meaning. And it matters for Reddit Inc. because it enables it to profit more from the site.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
A few of those decisions would be sensible in another context, or if done in a different way.
Mod limits: it would be great if it wasn’t just part of a petty power janny mods vs. “waaah we need to wrestle control of the site back from this filthy landed gentry!” admins. And the way it’s being done I expect lots and lots of meat/sock puppets.
Also note that, while the number of mods might be relatively small, the number of subreddits affected will be way larger. We all know about the power concentration in that shithole.
Number of visitors and contributions: the idea here is to simply cook the numbers; larger numbers = better advertisement. Specially because they could show the old metric alongside the new ones, but they didn’t.
[Reddit] made a mountain out of a molehill. This was a combo of punishment for the few abusive mods who moderated hundreds of subreddits and would squat on them, performing no actions but lording over the users and other mods … and the few mods that took their [subreddits] private and held them hostage every so often when [Reddit] enacted an insanely boneheaded policy decision.
Emphasis mine. If you’re too eager to accept shit from the above, and complain when people don’t do the same, you are a toilet and deserve to be treated as such.
And no, odds are it isn’t “punishment”. Reddit Inc. doesn’t care about you enough to “punish” you. You’re simply some collateral in the power struggle, “landed gentry”.
Gregory_K_Zhukov also questioned whether Reddit automatically deletes mod-removed comments from profiles. They argued that this makes modding harder by limiting the amount of information available, including whether or not Reddit has previously punished a user for similar behavior.
I also criticise the decision on the same grounds this mod is doing.
I’m glad I left that shithole.
