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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy so damn small??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It does make sense: the alternatives are newer than Reddit, with relatively small dev teams, so the devs are still implementing core functionality and there’s no dev time for the gimmicks.

  That said, r/place has a Fediverse equivalent: !canvas@toast.ooo , it’s annual and around July. It’s in a Lemmy instance but people can join it even from PieFed, Mastodon, and others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Sentenced to Be a Hero • Yuusha Kei ni Shosu: Choubatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad I picked this series on a whim. It has been a banger from the start to the end. I would never guess Kivia would become a penal hero, like Xylo and the others. But it makes sense, it doesn’t feel like an arse pull.

  …second season, please!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chainsaw Man Is Over :) - Aftermath Manga Ending Opinion (Isaiah Colbert)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. If the series ended there, people might’ve complained it was too short, but it would be hard to argue it was inconclusive.

  [Ending of Part 1]

  It would be like book ends: the series starts and ends with Denji meeting different incarnations of the demon of control. First as his first love, then as some weird kid combining traits of his first love and himself, almost like Nayuta was Makima and Denji’s child. His friends and love interests are both dead, but he keeps dreaming, as he needs to take care of her.

  I wouldn’t even call the rest “life support”. It’s more like a zombie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chainsaw Man Is Over :) - Aftermath Manga Ending Opinion (Isaiah Colbert)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This ending left me really unsatisfied. Not like a bitter ending (I like those); but like plenty run-of-the-mill isekai series end. Suddenly the plot of some boring arc gets rushed, bigger dangling threads get clipped, smaller ones get hidden, and the last words are something like “this story is over, but the adventures of $protagonist and his friends go on! Thanks for reading!”.

  In other words, this ending feels like the series has been axed. I don’t know by whom; perhaps even the author himself, dunno. Frankly the part 2 has been rather boring in comparison with part 1, I feel like the series could’ve ended with Makima’s death just fine.

  Just my two cents. I apologise this comment not talking about the article itself, and if it sounds like rambling, but I had to get it off my chest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods to ensure there's human behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pigboy really doesn’t understand what used to attract people to his platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Troll has a point.

  Disregard for a moment it’s 4chan doing it. Once I do so, I feel like their approach to this matter is close to ideal: they’re highlighting that the entity in question is stepping over its legal boundaries, they’re taunting the lawyers trying to bully them into submission, and they’re ridiculing both the entity in charge of the bullying and the law being used to do so. A shitty law that we know to not be about protecting children, it’s using children as hostages to kill internet anonymity.

  I wish more sites did the same.

  [BTW there’s a similar law here in Brazil, the “lei Felca”. Equally ridiculous. But given this is Latin America, and law enforcement in LatAm is notoriously sloppy… so far it changed absolutely nothing for me.]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] YouTube Is Asking People Whether What They're Watching Feels Like "AI Slop"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two schools of thought. There’s the glass-half-full outlook where YouTube is asking us if its videos feel like AI slop because it wants to make the platform slop-free. Then there’s the more pessimistic takeaway that YouTube is asking humans what does and doesn’t feel like AI slop so that it can move closer to AI-generated videos being indiscernible from the real thing.

  Likely the later, given the Rick Beato scandal. (TL;DR: YT sloppified his videos without asking him permission, and everyone raged.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m retranslating the English subtitles into Portuguese (done) and Venetian (WIP).

  I know this is dirty, and there’s no way I’d do it professionally (I’d simply refuse the job), or if this was some actual release. But given my goal is to allow my family to enjoy the series, that’s good enough. And context helps a lot, the series in question is Yoru wa Neko to Issho, you can get 90% of each episode by the animation alone.

  Plus, well… weeb vocab helps a lot too. For example, you don’t need to speak Japanese to know what a “yame— ah!” means, as the cat drops a glass of water on the floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Frontier Lord Begins With Zero Subjects' Anime Officially Announced for July 2026!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tents remind me of Lyn from fire emblem on the GBA

  The similarity is not a coincidence: both Dias’ feud and the Sacae region of Fire Emblem were clearly modelled after the steppes in Inner Asia, where nomadic peoples use this sort of tent (known as “yurt”, “ger”, and by other names; it depends on the language) fairly often.

  The main appeal of this sort of tent is that it’s large enough to be a home (unlike a camping tent) but can be reassembled relatively fast, if you want to pack and leave and stay elsewhere. A competent group can assemble it in a single hour, as in the video; but you could do it even on your own if necessary/desired, it’s just that it’d take longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And people still wonder why I pirate my series and keep my favs all in my hard disk, instead of “y bother lol? just subscribe to crânchi rou lmao”. It’s because of this sort of shit, or rather enshittification; I don’t want to deal with it at all, I trust streaming services as much as I trust cable TV (zero).

  And this topic is specially relevant for me because I’m currently translating anime. And I can only do it because the video and subtitles can be separated; I don’t speak Japanese, so gotta work based on another subtitle, plus nobody wants to watch stuff with superimposed layers of subtitles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. The example picture alone already shows what’s wrong.

  DLSS off: the background is rainy, the “cigare[ttes]” thing and the delicatessens sign are weathered, there’s some blue plastic in the background, she’s wearing brown, her eyes and lips lack any shine. This scene is clearly representing a tired, weary, “soulless” reality; one you survive but not live, that makes you whisper to yourself “…I’m so bloody tired”…

  DLSS on: throws the mood out of the window by adding OH-SO-SHINY!!! everywhere.

  This is not a breakthrough. This is not fidelity. It’s butchering artistic intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Frontier Lord Begins With Zero Subjects' Anime Officially Announced for July 2026!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked the voice actors (source, Anilist):

  • Alna - Shion Wakayama. She also voiced Momo (Dandadan) and Nanahoshi (Mushoku Tensei), and currently she’s voicing Arte (Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei)
  • Dias - Kenichirou Matsuda. He also voiced Glen Garia (Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga) and the narrator in Spy x Family (…and Bond. Woof.)

  Both are perfect fits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The One Within The Villainess | Teaser Visual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it.

  Well, good news then: if they handle the adaptation right, there’s a good chance they’ll expand on things that plenty readers found unfinished. I’m saying this because the typical conversion ratio between manga chapters and anime episodes is around 3:1, and the manga series has 28 chapters, so there’s spare room for a bit more stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The One Within The Villainess | Teaser Visual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the length. Sure, it left me craving for more, but the story was complete and there was no filler. And we’ll see it being completely adapted into anime!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The One Within The Villainess | Teaser Visual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, I’m excited for this one, since the manga series is amazing, even if short (26 chapters). A shame it’s only airing in '27.

  (Small intro on the story: otome game villainess takes the side of the good-natured Earthling who took over her body in childhood. And she wants revenge.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spring Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2026, Week 12]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, it’s that time already?

  Picking for sure:

  • Re:Zero s4
  • TenSura s4
  • Mairimashita! Iruma-kun s4
  • Dr. Stone: Science Future p3

  Picking for sure, but might as well say something about them:

  • The Barbarians’ Bride (Hime Kishi wa Barbaroi no Yome) - I used to follow this manga, but I grew a bit bored with it. Basically: empire fights barbarians, barbarians imprison female knight, the leader of the barbarians ask the knight’s hand in marriage. He gets to slowly gain her trust, and she gets to slowly learn about the barbarians, their living style, and the world as a whole.
  • Bertia (Jishou Akuyaku Reijou na Konyakusha) - Bakarina plus more baka minus harem. The manga series is rather short, but the main character is lovable and there are surprisingly touching moments. If they animate it properly, I can see it becoming really popular.
  • Pride (Higeki no Genkyou) s2 - animation of s1 was poor, but… the manga is fun, so I’m giving it another try. It’s another “reincarnated as a villainess” story, like the above; but instead of the villainess being dumb, she’s guilt-ridden to the point of being silly. I like in special the moments where it shows how the current timeline diverged from the one of the otome game, they’re often full of emotion.
  • Saikyou no Ousama s2 - Frankly I don’t remember where s1 ends, because it made me follow the manga. The premise is someone who reached the top in a past life at a fantasy world, got killed, reincarnated into another fantasy world, and now tries to both fix his mistakes and save the new world. A good mix of fantasy and adventure.
  • Isekai Nonbiri Nouka s2 - it’s also city-building like TenSura, but way more slice of life. Fun to watch.

  Probably picking:

  • Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo) - the LN series is amazing, but I need to admit I didn’t watch the earlier anime seasons, so I’ll need to binge watch them before this one. Another isekai series; this one about a book-addicted woman reincarnated into a world where there’s barely any book, so she needs to leverage her knowledge of a more advanced society to become again the nerdy librarian she used to be.
  • Reincarnation no Kaben - I don’t know the series, but “slit your throat to get powers from your past life” sounds fun, so why not?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A sarcastic meme showing a shocked Pikachu face.
  I don’t typically use this meme because Pokémon deserves no advertisement, but here it’s fitting.

  …I fucking hate how modern tech is all about using you, instead of you using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨owo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Red has dohminatrix vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? Manga Gets TV Anime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a typo, they live a single week.

  As for conservation of matter and energy… well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? Manga Gets TV Anime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I like the manga series. It’s mostly the goblin out-playing a bunch of humans in politics, while trying to ensure his goblindom thrives through commerce and the likes.

  (Just don’t tell Orcbolg about it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reborn as a Vending Machine Season 3 Drops Main Trailer and Key Visual, Premieres on April 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those series with a silly premise, but actually fun implementation. I hope season 3 keeps it this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 11]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I joke this sort of work is like Neapolitan flavour: it’s vanilla, but it has one or two interesting twists (like you said, the vampire intrigue) to make it more interesting.

  And I fully agree with what you said about the characters. Specially their interactions! Like, Kotoyama improved by a lot in this aspect, you don’t see Hotaru or Kokonutsu changing meaningfully because of the other, but Nazuna and Kou do. They grow, a lot like the ones in Sono Bisque Doll. (…that had a better ending. Yeah, I also agree the ending is a bit unsatisfying.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 11]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned this across the Fediverse, but recently I’ve binge watched Yofukashi no Uta (Call of the Night). Both seasons, and then I read the manga, and frankly? I had a blast, I loved the series.

  The story is about a 14yo called Kou. He is a good student, or at least he was — eventually he got bored with school, and decided to sleep at day and roam the city at night. And one of those nights, Kou meets a vampire called Nazuna. He wants her to vampirise him, but for that Kou would need to fall in love with Nazuna, and yet he’s clueless about love.

  The soundtrack is filled with earworms from Creepy Nuts; in fact the story was inspired by one of them, that eventually because the ending song of the first season.

  The art style of Yofukashi no Uta looks like a refined version of Dagashi Kashi (from the same author, Kotoyama). But don’t expect the same gag humour as the later; it’s like they replaced the sugar with actual substance. And although it is a series about love, don’t expect all that emotional baggage and “woooosh” associated with romantic stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it — then they have agency, much like anyone else. So they should be able to consent, and to get that consent violated by the spell.

  Thanks for the info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the atronachs from atronachy and atromancy identical?

  If yes, I think consent applies to both. It would be like humans reproducing; a child still has their own agency, even if they were “created” by the parents.

  If not… it depends, really. Hypothetically speaking, if you create one through atronachy, and release [it? they?] free, would [it? they?] be able to take autonomous decisions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play Elder Scrolls so I had to dig this up.

  Flame atronachs are apparently elemental daedra (divine beings who are not ancestors of human beings, unlike the aedra), summoned through Atromancy. Apparently they are able to make their own decisions, so they have agency.

  But I couldn’t find how much the conjuration process removes their agency; if they’re forced to obey the conjurer’s orders to the letter, if they can creatively interpret those orders, or if it’s a single order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More than enough to falsify the hypothesis that those differences in behaviour are innate, and sex-based; otherwise they’d be more consistent across ethnic and racial groups.

  It also shows that what’s expected from gender roles varies wildly. This is kind of common sense, but it’s good to have studies showing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy so damn small??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  idk im just kinda upset and at a fuckin loss. What kinda website perma bans a user for life and logs all their info just to make sure they don’t come back?!

  The same sort of website that permabans all accounts from a user except the one he uses to moderate some small comm subreddit. Fuck Reddit and fuck everything Reddit.

  And, like, I get you didn’t like the Fediverse. Yes, it could use a bit more activity. …but to be frank, it’s probably the best alternative to Reddit you’ll find. And sorry for my uncalled advice, but: if that isn’t enough then at least don’t go back to Reddit, that place is a shithole and it’ll make you feel like shit.

  (I actually got a few specific questions answered here in the Fediverse. Orchid identification, spider identification, a bunch of Linux questions. In Reddit getting the actual info is always a chore, that place is too noisy for my tastes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure but I think the suffix in this case would yield “fuckard”. With “fucktard” being interpreted as “fuck [re]tard”. And given the later is nowadays interpreted as a slur, I’d discourage it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is with the "I personally" epidemic!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That “personally” emphasises some matter is subjective, that you are not treating it as incontestable truth.

  I’m not certain but I also think it’s increasing in usage. And I also think it’s part of a trend where people pre-emptively shield their statements against assumptions others might come up with. You know, people really love to screech at the others not because of what the others said, but because of their assumptions = lies = bullshits over what the others said.

  I also believe a few other ongoing trends are basically for the same reason: “though” at the end of sentences, “basically” (eh, self-demonstrating example), the modern usage of “literally”, etc.