cerebralhawks

RADWIMPS - 君の名は。 and 天気の子. (Your Name and Weathering With You)

Yep. Specifically the bathtub scene.

Inuyashiki. That isn’t a typo — I’m not talking about the canine ninja dude, I’m talking about the old man and the young man who get replaced with killer androids. That second episode…

Fair. But, in your/their world, how does one seek the information? If they aren’t allowed to ask, should they then just ask AI, or read an article otherwise written from Reddit/forum posts?

To ask it another way: How do you justify a person being curious and asking in good faith if an AI could just farm the post later? I think, but I’m not sure, that Lemmy has some kinds of safeguards against that? I know with Reddit it was wide open. I used it for the better part of a decade, wrote long-winded posts full of information; I know AI was trained in part based on my posts (among millions of others).

Thanks. The more I see, the more I realise I should just leave the AI stuff out. AI and gaming were outlier possibilities anyway, though I’m way more interested in gaming than AI. Right there with you on AI ethics. I don’t like seeing them steal art and rip off artists, but they can be good at tracking down solutions on various forums. At least, they do it faster. But it sounds like running one might be outside my budget, so I’m more interested in running services, and light/classic gaming, since I have an Xbox (Series X).

If I was looking for content for a blog or a video, would it be such a bad thing? Getting a lot of good information. Not sure what’s wrong with that.

Thanks. I took note the first time I read that, but I appreciate the emphasis.

Heard good things about proxmox. What do you mean it’s Debian? It’s an OS? I thought it was some kind of VPN thing that gets your services out onto the web so you can access them remotely or something like that.

I’m inclined to agree I don’t need a DE (desktop environment, though I suppose I’m the only one who had to think about that for a second as the new guy) but I was also interested in checking out some Steam games. Would that be something I could spin up separately (Steam via Proton) or would that be better as its own project with its own goals?

14th gen is kind of a price jump, but if I’m only targeting 16GB RAM (per another reply), it might be doable. Having my Mac just convert the AV1 to HEVC (or just avoiding AV1 entirely) sounds like it would make more sense. I’m seeing a lot of refurb deals on 11th gen i5s and that’s what I was thinking.

What are LXCs?

I vaguely understand what docker is. I’ve tried to set it up on my Mac and had no luck getting it going. My understanding is that if you want to move your jellyfin install to another machine, it’s easy to just grab the whole container rather than hunting down jellyfin’s settings spread throughout the disk. I’ve moved a Plex installation and it’s not fun. It’s not hard but it’s not fun. So yes, it would be beneficial to be able to just move a container from machine to machine if need be.

I’m not new, but I shouldn’t consider myself any more advanced than a new/beginner level user. I remember liking Red Hat back when that was a home user distro. I didn’t much like Fedora. I have used Mint and I like it well enough. I also like Ubuntu. Heard good things about one called Cachy.

Mac user, but hey, as long as it can rip to a raw, uncompressed file, I’m just gonna do my compression with fre:ac. It’s on Mac and Windows, so maybe it’s on Linux too? If not, I’m sure you know of an encoder you love (I mean ffmpeg can be used in the command line, don’t Linux guys love the command line? I love using the terminal on my Mac. Using it to write this post. Kidding, but I do use homebrew.)

Reverse? Gotta be Ouran High School Host Club. Regular? Sword Art Online because real ones know it isn’t one at all. Kirito is just a ladies man. There’s his fiancé, her best friend, his sister, his friend who he sees as a sister and an equal, and his AI daughter. Then there’s his best friend, and his boyfriend.

Are we talking the OPs or like, the score?

For the former, Bungo Stray Dogs and Sword Art Online are easy picks, though they both only used a couple/few artists. Fullmetal Alchemist (both of them) had more variety and a good range. My Hero Academia, too.

I consider it double dipping to charge 2026 prices on 2019 performance. They’re saving the money not using performant parts and they’re still charging full price. The old Nexus phones were the same way, except they were cheaper than flagships.

Used is a thing but it’s kind of sketchy. And an older phone isn’t going to be supported as long.

I never said I needed the latest phone, and I’m not going to argue a point I don’t believe in. I have a 7 year old Android phone that still rocks. I also have a 2 year old iPhone. Guess which one has better typing? And a few other things better?

All newer phones are good for is AI.

Linux, yes. GrapheneOS requires you to pay the piper. You have to buy a Google phone (i.e. pay iPhone 17 Pro money for an iPhone 11-powered phone), so Google already double dipped. You’re just preventing them from triple dipping by selling your data. You still have to contribute to their bullshit.

They are coming out with Motorola phones that run GrapheneOS. Word is, they won’t be cheap.

I’m curious about Linux. I’m hearing you can install it on any Android phone without root, but I fear I may be seeing AI slop in my YouTube feed. I don’t trust it.

And yet still, PlayStation loyalists will say “never Xbox” even as Sony continues to stab them in their backs.

Just like Android users who say they want to get away from Google, all the while shouting “never Apple” despite Apple claiming to stand for privacy while Google does not hide the fact that they sell your data to the highest bidder.

Some people really are their own worst enemies.

Not that “the other company” is always better. But still, it’s fine to switch sides when the company you’re with does you dirty. I was a PlayStation guy. I’m with Xbox now because Xbox had the All Access programme that let me get an Xbox for $35 a month (with GamePass). Yes I paid like $900 and was locked into GamePass for 2 years, but I was “locked in” at the original price when month-to-month payers were paying twice what I was paying. And I ultimately saved $20 overall. I would have a PS5 if Sony offered the same deal. At times I thought I was going PS6 next gen. Microsoft got my business this generation. I was willing to switch. I also switched to iPhone when Android phones all sucked one year and I needed one because the one I had needed to be factory reset every couple weeks. The carrier told me not to do it, that people stick with one or the other for a reason. I said nah, fuck that, look at my choices and tell me what you’d do. Right, the iPhone. No regrets. If I needed a phone right now, I’d grab a Fairphone 6+. Actually kind of want it, but I don’t need one right now (and can’t afford one right now either).

Don’t be loyal to one camp when the other is doing better. Be willing to switch sides. But not just that. These companies have to know people are willing to switch. That they aren’t locked in. That they have a choice and have the stones to make it.

I always wondered what GKIDS stands for. Apparently it’s, according to Wikipedia, Guerrilla — it stands for Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate.

That’s weird AF. I also hate the implication that anime is for kids. It’s not, even if GKIDS sticks to PG material (I’m not sure they do, but I’m also not sure they don’t).

Then again, a lot of names don’t really mean much. I mean, I’m not a hawk, let alone a plural of hawks, so do I have any room to speak?

I’d say Your Lie in April qualifies. Yes, they telegraph the ending from very early on. You know it’s gonna happen. They swerve a couple times. You think maybe it won’t. Then it does. “Ah, that sucks, but I called it from the very beginning,” you say. Then the story keeps going, and just when you think “oh yeah what’s with the title? It never made any sense,” they explain the title.

Angel Beats! is another good one. It’s about a purgatory school. They tell you the girl called “Angel” is trying to get people to move on. She kind of is, and eventually those opposing her realise that’s the right move, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Ask yourself why she’s trying to help others when everyone else is just out for themselves.

Then there’s Sword Art Online II (the second season). The first part, with the gun game, kind of has a twist — how a guy in a video game that should be harmless is killing people IRL by shooting them in a video game. It’s pretty lame, though. The second part, the last seven episodes, if it were a standalone anime, it would be my favourite anime. The adaptation of book 7, Mother’s Rosary. The secret behind the undefeated duelist.

I dunno, I mostly try to consume new content. There’s a lot of stuff I’d like to go back and watch in Japanese, from when I had to watch in English because my eyesight was bad, subtitles didn’t work for me. So that is to say, if I were to revisit anime, it would be for the purpose of hearing it in the country’s native language and experiencing a whole new cast. I quite like Japanese, but I don’t know enough of it to not need subtitles.

I’ve recently-ish rewatched Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (Erased but I hate the English name of it) and Angel Beats!… oh, and Your Lie in April. I love a good sad story, to a point.

They don’t. They understand profit, which must increase year after year. Every business understands this. Every game company which started out small and passionate about art and gaming eventually got big and started putting profits ahead of the love of the game. Look at Valve, everyone likes to glaze them, but their company’s story is that they stopped making games once they realised they could just sell those of other companies. It’s not that Half-Life 3 and Portal 3 wouldn’t sell boatloads, it’s that the return on investment wouldn’t be as great as simply sitting back and selling stuff other people made. So why should they?

Make a game, lay off the staff. Hire them back when you want to make another game. It’s like people with Netflix, what they should do anyway. Pay for a month, binge a series, then cancel. You don’t need to keep the streaming service month after month. Same with GamePass, it isn’t adding any new games that are worth the price of the subscription. Watch the sales, buy games on deep discount (e.g. I got The Witcher 3 complete edition for about $10, and Saints Row IV + Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell for about $4… and Mass Effect Trilogy: Legendary Edition for $6 and Mass Effect: Andromeda for $4 — all of which totals the cost of one month of GamePass Ultimate, but provides many months of gaming), drop GamePass every now and then. Xbox is doing it to developers. Gamers need to do it to them. It’s gotta go both ways.

“Things rich people do that poor/working people have no idea of. Number four will shock you!”

Anything with elves and non-elves. “Oh you’re gonna do the thing where the elf outlives the non-elf and is sad at the non-elf’s mortality.” The Lord of the Rings kind of established this with elves like Elrond outliving non-elves by thousands of years. Elrond was there when Sauron forged the rings. He’s kind of always been there. He knows Aragorn is just a man who will die in what would be a mere sliver of his own life, but he respects the man. So when his daughter wants to marry Aragorn, and give up her immortality (IIRC other elven media hasn’t really done this), it’s a huge loss for him, but he gets it.

The loss part is the very plot of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and they smack you with it in the first episode. Frieren had a crush on this blue-haired boy, Himmel (German for “heaven”, no less), and he just up and died after their adventure, and she never really breaks down in tears, but over the next two seasons, she just begins to mourn this guy. The flood is coming, but it may be centuries away. Peak best girl might start to look 13 or maybe even 14 before she starts to really miss Himmel the Hero.

Then there’s Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. You know what’s coming at the end. When it does, when she breaks her promise… it still hits like a tonne of bricks.

Oh, and that .hack//SIGN remake… what was it called? Oh yeah, Sword Art Online. Anybody hear of that one? Yeah, figuring out what part of .hack//SIGN they were ripping off was fun. Mostly the first two seasons. And when they paraded out the undefeated duelist, I said “yeah I remember this OVA.” Except it wasn’t three best friends sharing a character and playing in shifts. It was MUCH worse than that. I joke, I kid, but SAO is actually one of my favourite series. I’ve read the books as well as watched the anime, and Mother’s Rosary (book 7, and the part I’m referring to) is by far my favourite part, but it did come from a .hack//SIGN OVA… though, it’s more fair to say both came from MMO tropes. It’s like when Deep Impact and Armageddon were both accused of copying each other, until the producers came out and said they both attended a scientific seminar on what would happen if an asteroid threatened to extinguish all life on Earth. (I wonder if Makoto Shinkai attended as well, considering that’s what his magnum opus is about.)

But no, it doesn’t kill the anime for me if I see what it’s doing.

…in the EU where they were forced to do it.

As a Mac+iPhone user, Universal Clipboard is awesome, but not having it isn’t a deal breaker. Or rather, wouldn’t be… since I do have it. The deal breaker would be *gestures wildly at all the bad press around Windows 11*

Movies: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, A Silent Voice

Series: Your Lie in April, Angel Beats!, Sword Art Online: Mother’s Rosary (last 7 episodes of season 2), Clannad

It’s ironic because the first time around, I would have had to drive 8 hours to see it. Now it’s playing 2 hours away, but only the English dub. And I’ve seen it over 50 times. What my youngest niece did with Frozen and Kpop Demon Hunters, I did with 君の名は。. So I really don’t need to see it again.

Also, it was filmed in 1080p. The 4K version is an upscale.

Lastly, I don’t hate the English dub, it’s just such a quintessentially Japanese story… I prefer the Japanese dub with no subs. They get in the way. Though I have some really good fansubs I quite like.

I remember back in the day, you could edit the context menu. They should bring that back.

I just use Plex. It shows me the next episode on the top. If I stop watching for (I think) 60 days, it drops off Now Playing, but it still remembers if I go back to it, jumping automatically to the next episode.

If you’re on Android, I used to like SeriesGuide. I haven’t used it in over a decade, though, but it came up in conversation and I looked it up, and it still exists. Hasn’t been ported to iOS yet, though, but IIRC it was completely offline.

The MAL stuff is hit or miss because MAL itself is hit or miss.

When you get into online stuff, you tend to run into online problems. Like I know some Sword Art Online fans want the fourth season merged in with the third season. They don’t dislike the fourth season, they just don’t think it should be called the fourth season. They hashed this out on The TVDB, the site that all these other sites pull from, and they lost. Then you have issues like with Bungo Stray Dogs where the first two seasons are put together for some reason — so they’re not always right. But, if you use an online service, you kinda gotta play by their rules, so if those rules become an issue… well… their way or the highway.

You could always just use a note in your phone. I have this app called Hindsight that is kind of a habit tracker. Just for fun, whenever I watch a movie, or finish a video game, or finish a show/season, I log it there. It’s not connected to any metadata provider, it’s just a dumb app that tracks how many times you do something. This is on iOS, but there are tons of these habit tracker apps out there. You can even vibe code them — I don’t endorse vibe coding, but I fell for one first. Apparently whatever AI made them the app couldn’t figure out things like dark mode or other stuff people were requesting and finally they just admitted they vibe coded the thing to make some money. So that is an option, I suppose.

Looked into this, it looks awesome. Plex is meeting my needs and I own a Plex Pass, but if I didn’t, I’d probably be running this. The server works on Macs, too. Not all of them do.

Unnecessary. It adds compatibility with another service. I looked into it a few weeks ago. I forget the details, but I looked into this and thought, oh I’ll never need that. The $5.99 gives you all the features you need for all devices.

Somebody did and I have it saved in my notes. It’s not the same questions you’re asking. But I got a good explanation. This was after the first or second season. Before the last one, where Gojo fought in the subway. It gave me a rough understanding of the basis of the show’s universe and rules.