Ilixtze
@Ilixtze@lemm.ee
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 4 days ago:
I am lucky enough to NOT be from the US! 🎉
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 4 days ago:
germ-mans being germ-man =C
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 5 days ago:
I’m looking forward to getting a low cost Chinese GPU; Lets see how much time it takes for these to become competitive with Nvidia or AMD.
- Comment on A great disturbance in the Fediverse 5 days ago:
So today I made Vegan lentil hamburgers; then I added bacon to them.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
Thanks for the suggestion; I’ll download right away. =D
- Comment on A.I. Companies Believe They're Making God with Karen Hao [1:14:07] 1 week ago:
Americans can’t shake off Christianity. Not even the tech bros.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
pondering my uninstalling discord
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 22] 1 week ago:
I regret not watching it drunk with friends; It’s the kind of show that is fun to riff at
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 22] 1 week ago:
I felt a Little self conscious reading you there, because on one hand, My drive to reach out for something we might call “bad anime” responds to a need to see something that is rough around the edges, based around the experiences or obsessions of a single author; I feel there is an enjoyment on what I perceive as flaws. I feel so much media feels corporate-made and sanitized these days and Manga , Anime and some literature are the only places I find some unadulterated dirty, fallible, human voice.
On the other hand Kingdoms of ruin is bad in more ways than just the “technical” aspects and I would not recommend it to anyone without an encyclopedia of content warnings.
But yeah, I would not want to come off as excessively negative; I recently rekindled my love for Anime and a big part of it is that I enjoy it’s unapologetic roughness.
As for Gundam; It is really weird for me because until recently I have never been a big mecha fan; Gundam in particular was intimidating for me because it has such a monumental history. So I’m jumping in blind; Aside from a few Charr memes I am very unaware of the meme ecosystem; But I have been enjoying the show 5 episodes in; I am kind of surprised how “modern” the story telling feels for a show from back in the 70’s
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 22] 1 week ago:
These last two weeks “Listening to bad anime while I work”, turned into watching at “kingdoms of ruin with shocked pikachu face for self harm purposes” I wouldn’t know where to begin:
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Aside from all the grimdork edgyness the thing that stuck out the most is that it appeared to have a thematic thread? The bad guys were humans that wanted to defeat magic through technology and they all had smartphones. They carried out the most cartoonishly evil, poorly motivated witch genocide and just at the end of the season there were hints that these “kingdoms were ruined” by technology and industrialization? There was this side story where this high tech city collapsed because of… Sex bots! They did the “I dated a robot” futurama skit seriously! And i was all like: “Ok this has potential. Give me some magic users fighting mecha! Give me some witches false flag operations! Let the final boss be a super computer! The main character uses writing magic! It is the power of creativity against technology! Just imagine! After a long grueling fight against the automated forces of the evil super computer “totally not Kirito” MC pulls a fast one and says. “You know computer programs are a language as well and THE CAN BE REWRITTEN!” And he uses his writing magic quill to write a virus into the super computer code Fuck yeah!” No, the final baddie of the season was a cyborg guy that spawns hundreds of rocket flying fists, to punch stuff with. That is the level of creativity we are working with. There is a lot more to talk about that makes this Anime terrible: like the editing continuously wanted to make every death as anticlimactic as possible and that is some commitment because this thing has a lot of death on it. There is a building romantic subplot between the cartoonishly psychopath genocidal Main character and a pink haired cartoonishly goody two shoes witch that acts like a 10 year old. she is all like: “I can change him!” There are scenes where my girl is getting the shit kicked out of her for following this idiot on his genocidal crusade and she’s all like: “Thank you for letting me walk beside you genocidal MC; uwu” I was sure this anime was made in 2010! Because all of the Cellphone-bad themes were screaming with this boomer “I am 14 and I’m so deep” subreddit energy; The mc has writing powers for crying out loud!!
I could go on, this thing is endless it is a non Euclidean construct of bad.
Now off I go to watch “Conception” (2018)
On the good side of anime I watched Code Geass and at first I was baffled at the aesthetic until I noticed everything was designed by CLAMP , once I settled down with the medieval knight mecha designs and Shojo sensibilities I enjoyed it quite a bit. As a matter of fact I learned something about myself: I am not inmune to power fantasies. It seems that to my particular neurosis Power fantasies of being an edgy Oc in another world with surrounded by a harem of girls doesn’t cut it. I’m not like other boys, What really floats my boat is the idea of:
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Being a French coded handsome fem-boy that is secretly royalty, buy he seems pretty chill with his classmates, that acquires the power to force anyone who listens to obey his will! And use overcomplicated 4d chess schemes to orchestrate a revolution that slowly topples the British empire (while getting good grades at school!) And having a group of rag tag rebels by my side that love me and listen to everything I have to say, and some of them could be romantic interests as well. And even my bestfriend/rival is in this weird love hate dynamic! Of fuck yes, I am zero.
Anyway, I can’t criticize this shit, I had a ball with it; It had the silliest political subplots, grandiose high stakes battles, the most convoluted schemes and machinations, load bearing suspensions of disbelief and an ending that had me both hollering at the screen and thinking: “yeah they can’t end it any other way.”
Now off to watch “Mobile suit Gundam” (1979)
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
I am putting it on my will that before I die all my social media has to be marked as being one of the first really stupid AI Agents.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
To be honest I don’t watch a lot of Netflix myself, I paid the service because my mom liked watching it, and stuff like stremio was a little too complicated for her to use; But eventually Netflix got so bad, she had to learn to use the small Media PC i setup for her and stremio as well!
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Aaaand I’m so glad I cancelled Netflix this year. All the new shows are kinda trash anyway.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 3 weeks ago:
The moment the Nazi stepped in I deleted my twitter account. screw Elon and his ilk.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
that’s gross.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
I will Avoid Audio books with AI voices. I prefer the warmth of a human voice instead. A lot of my favorite Audiobooks are elevated by the interpretation of the professional actor.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 3 weeks ago:
I Think I found it! and added it to the watchlist! thanks for the rec! =D
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the recommendations! Garzey’s wing and way of the husband sound just like I am looking for, I ended up being mesmerized by cipher simply because I have a soft spot for 80’s shojou aesthetics and 80’s music, the vibes are immaculate!
I think I just found crystal triangle on youtube so it’s added to my watchlist!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 3 weeks ago:
I think I’ve seen a lot of these recommendations; and I have liked them a lot! I don’t think I could “just listen to them” in good conscience because a lot of these shows and movies have good visual language and engaging stories; I need to put Spy X Familly in my watch list because it sounds like a good show!
My platonic ideal for a “bad anime” to listen while working is something like “King’s game” (in fact I think that was the one that got me down this road.) It is so consistently bad that I don’t mind missing anything visually; It is so consistently outrageous and bat chist crazy that listening to it keeps me entertained, and it has that weird quality in scripting where everything is expressed verbally. I got so much stuff done that week; I don’t know why it makes me super productive.
Then there is another category I have; The “so outrageous it’s good” anime: I tried “just listening” to Baki son of ogre And I just couldn’t do it. The moment Baki took a child to his basement to watch him train against an imaginary giant mantis, I was all like “Ok; I can’t ignore this shit.” I ended up binging the series :,)
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 3 weeks ago:
I continue on my quest to listen to bad Anime while I work; This week I listened to chaos;head and it was delightfully terrible. It was basically an audio novel, everything was expressed in dialog, I especially love the long pseudo science exposition dumps:
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“we are putting a delusion in the blank spot on your mind!” I had to glance at my second screen from time to time to make sure that the otaku guy and his harem of psychic girls were battling… Dudes with back packs.
The final fight was also funny in how anticlimactic it was. I noticed it’s based on a visual novel or something and tried listening to chaos;child what seemed to be an adaptation of an alternative route but I could not do it a second time. Then tried Heavenly Delusion and that one seemed good, so I’m putting it on hold to watch while paying attention next.
Currently looking for another bad Anime to listen to
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 3 weeks ago:
Me listening to sopor aeternus and the ensamble of shadows, followed by Control machete, followed by Devil doll, followed by Illya kuryaki and the valderramas.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 4 weeks ago:
From the metaverse to his new AI fueled drivel. Zuckerberg has been very busy trying to convince us to divest from the real world and submerge ourselves into his virtual worlds of delight. Up to this point his products have been pure shit. But I worry the time will come where better engineered “mirrors in our cages” will succeed where the Zuck is just flopping abount.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just X; American social media has been gradually turning into such a shit show for the last 10 years: censorship, misinformation, consensus manufacture and creeping enshitification. I jumped ship to the fediverse and never looked back!
- Comment on Is it time to stop? 5 weeks ago:
news memes and music!
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 5 weeks ago:
Washed up trend chaser monopolist wannabe millionaire! Of course your social platforms are over: YOU MADE THEM SHIT!
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 5 weeks ago:
Chinese factory working might be having and enjoying real sex
- Comment on It's time guys 1 month ago:
Steamy, un-pixelated hand holding! =D´´
- Comment on USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components From China 1 month ago:
Much obliged! 🤘
- Comment on USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components From China 1 month ago:
What supply chains need to be blocked so that they stop making bombs for Israel? Asking for a homework.
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 1 month ago:
I’m not wishing death upon Elon! I love him! Boy is so flammable!
