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Also even if there is a decent overlap, appearing as 55th biggest in MAU among all softwares on FediDB, not being the immediate result in most searches should be good. I'd expect people to choose if not the first, then at least one of the first instances they find, so other instances appearing in searches helps spreading out, and thus not making a specific one disproportionally big.

Sauce according to SauceNAO:
https://x.com/pacpoi/status/2049540272607166707

No Nitter because of the C&D letter sadly =/

The author is also on Bluesky though it doesn't seem to have been posted there:
https://bsky.app/profile/pacpoi.bsky.social

Missing in both entries if also appearing in the anime.

Also, any place to report missing entries? I play more games than I watch anime, and I can remember a few games missing from your entries.

In Persona 5, at least in the game, there's a short section in Hawaii. Does it also appear in the anime?

Sorry for the late reply!

About genres, I don't mind whichever it may be usually, so long as the end result seems well made.

An exception might be mecha animes. Not a big fan of a humanoid robot fights being a series of slideshows. Only exceptions might be Pacific Rim and specially The Big O, since those give a better feeling of giant machines moving around.

About the ones you mentioned, will be checking them!

Also from what I have read, between France being liberated and the government was reinstated, the French people also persecuted the French traitors that aided the nazi during the occupation.

Any recommendations for animes on Crunchyroll?

Thinking about cancelling my Crunchyroll subscription, and wondering if there's any to still justify subscribing to.

Some rambling explaining:

Most animes I find there are either same-y or bland, either on story, pacing and/or animation, when it's also not an isekai.

Even One Piece feels to be going generic, since animation is starting to feel standardized with others and it seems to be using from the same audio libraries (I am tired of that electricity/crackling sound), and watching the first few seasons making the quality drop even more glaring to me.

Also it's streaming with no DRM-free option to add value even to the blander ones, and the subscribers' store isn't available to my region either.

Some of nice finds I had over recent years were With You And The Rain and My Dress-Up Darling, which are over, Suzume which is a movie so not much to extend, Frieren and MHA Vigilantes which both were enjoyable but neither got new seasons yet, and Demon Slayer which I already read the manga out of impatience.

You could poke the author of the project to have it done. Remember to be polite though.

Would "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" count as underrated? I rarely see people commenting about it at least.

That sounds even worse imo, like Vulcanus wanting to make a little trolling against the poor fellow’s legacy. 😬

Not directly related to anime but to representations of magic in general, but this reminds me of the speed up spell "haste" in Final Fantasy II (PSP) and Final Fantasy X. In FFII, iirc no gliph appears, and the character gets so fast that in the initial peak, he/she runs off to one side of the screen and come back at the other. In X, a gliph appears, but it is a spherical clockwork-like gliph instead.

In a more recent work, now back at anime, magic used by humans in Dragon Raja has audio and visual representations, the voice of the caster distorting, a mist coming out of the caster's moth iirc, and both this mist and the eyes of the caster glowing.

Dragon Raja, apparently making 2D animation in a 3D software, probably is what allows this non-gliph type of representation. By extension, FFX using a 3D engine probably is what allows and even facilitates this type of 3D gliph instead. And FFII, though 2D, is from before the glyph trend, thus preserving the old style.

And this makes me think, maybe the 2D glyphs are used in manga as a way to make easier to represent magic in a purely 2D and static medium, and this ends up causing a habit which evolves to a culture over time.

Curious Archive has a recent video on representation of magic btw, though iirc it's a Nebula exclusive. =/

In the movie, the natives understand Miguel and Tulio, so either the movie's also very inaccurate, or they understand Spanish too. =)

Starbound maybe?

Might not match the hardware and controller requirements since its optimization changes depending on the machine, and the commands are keyboard and mouse-centric so adapting to a 24-keys controller can be hard.

Watching Crunchyroll's releases through Grayjay, if I follow a series as I would subscribe to an Youtube channel (they're treated as the same by Grayjay), they appear in the subscriptions and can be hidden by toggling off the default filter "watched". Also, you can generate a playlist of a series' episodes, and remove each episode as you watch them.

Grayjay's Crunchyroll integration only works if you log in to Crunchyroll and have access to the episodes, though.

Ever checked https://heroicgameslauncher.com/?

It's a launcher for GOG, EGS, Amazon Prime or whatever the name is these days, and still in beta, Zoom Platform. It has native Linux builds as AppImage, so you can run just by launching with the file, without installing anything.

They're also on the fediverse if you'd be interested: @heroiclauncher

Though about the instance itself doing backfilling, it could be pretty taxing on both the requesting and requested instances, so I worry communications may get timed-out or the requesting instance may inflate to the point storage becomes a big concern.

About backfilling, if @modem_down come across any yet unfederated links in the wild, maybe worth mentioning search links are standardized and hard-coded, making even redirect scripts efficient. Like e.g. https://thebrainbin.org/search?search[q]=https://mastodon.social/@artologica@chaos.social/116986639666818550 yielding https://thebrainbin.org/m/random/p/829840 (and using a remote link from a third instance to further make my point hehe).

A lot in Mbin can be improved with Ublock Origin's custom filters, by the way. Like auto-hiding posts you like/dislike, or hiding from the main feed and magazine feeds replies appearing as posts. But I'd suggest not using the infinite scrolling option if using custom filters as that's a massive load on the server and Ublock Origin after enough matches in a single page are done starts misbehaving.

Not an issue but a standard warning. Fediverse instances don't auto-populate, and the author of the original project¹ must have thought it was a good idea to raise awares of that by putting this warning. But if it bothers you and you use Ublock Origin, though no native option to dismiss it are availabe, you can put this in a new line of Ublock Origin's custom filters tab: `thebrainbin.org##.alert__info.alert` ¹Mbin's a fork, and the original software's no longer worked on

Checked how the JP dub was recently, and now I see the English dub as a major improvement 👌

To see only followed people's posts, without seeing subscribed communities' posts, I don't think there's a way.

However, since microblog posts on communities are still rare, one thing you can do is to browse the subscribed microblog feed, https://thebrainbin.org/sub/microblog, as then mostly the people you follow should appear on, and rarely posts to communities.

Also if that's what you seek, you can go to the general settings, https://thebrainbin.org/settings/general, and set "Homepage" as "Subscriptions", and "Front page default view" as "Microblog".

Still playing Mary Skelter Finale. I'm betting it's close to the previous games, 70+ hours for the true ending and most of the optionals.

I can't see such a question without this coming to mind... e.e"

https://tenor.com/view/senator-armstrong-source-i-made-it-up-sauce-take-that-gif-26625795

Also if I may add, having followed GOG for some 9 years now, it always seemed to me like their worst side is transparency/communications, only starting to change in recent years but weakly so. Having them share the information openly, even if by newsletter, is to me quite the improvement already.

Rotating between Mary Skelter Finale and Final Fantasy X-2 Last Mission.

For Mary Skelter, I was curious how to story would end, specially the previous two games being on the higher end of story quality for Idea Factory (bar's not very high but still work well). So far it's good, though gameplay feels more streamlined than the previous two games, likely given the multiple points of view mechanic not given much space for individual gimmicks.

For Last Mission, tbf I started playing as a pure test when I found a backup of my PS3 disc sitting on the PS3's HDD, and I was concerned it could have been corrupted (old HDD and all that). As I kept playing after confirming the disc works, to my surprise, the game is being more fun than I remembered, and for sure more imo than FFX-2 itself. However, it's a game that expects the player to lose a lot, being somewhere between roguelike and roguelite, and proceeding certain floors requiring a bit of moon logic testing randomly or following a guide. Also samurai job with white mage (for curaga/esuna) and alchemist (for item esuna) as secondary jobs ftw! Confuseproof is a good call too (personal experience saying e.e"), and remember to merge whatever job spheres you find for your primary one, so you become a walking tank.