baltakatei
@baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user. Owner of reboil.com .
- Comment on Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 22 discussion 2 months ago:
Thanks for the info!
I’m looking forward to seeing the explanation connecting Diablo, Rimuru, and the mask.
- Comment on Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 22 discussion 2 months ago:
Is Elmesia (?), the elf monarch, the head of state of the Sorcerous Kingdom? If so, shouldn’t it be Queendom? Also, besides the really short fights with Razen and some of the religious zealots, as well a Elmesia’s wariness, I still don’t have a good idea of Diablo’s capabilities nor the reason why he’s so interested in Rimuru. I recall Diablo was very interested in the mask Rimuru’s body’s previous owner used, but I fail to see what that has to do with Rimuru since he wasn’t around yet.
- Comment on Wishes 2 months ago:
“That all life beyond this planet never existed, no matter how irrationally improbable that may be.”
- Comment on Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 18 discussion 2 months ago:
Luckily it’s been so long since I’ve read this part that I can enjoy what happens since I’ve forgotten this arc.
- Comment on Microsoft pauses Windows 11 full-screen alerts on Windows 10 after feedback 2 months ago:
Time to rip off the bandage. linuxmint.com www.debian.org
- Comment on KyoAni produced a 6:30m short promotion for their hometown Uji. It's beautiful. 3 months ago:
Imagine the water damage from rabbit stomach acid.
- Comment on Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai • Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools - Episode 5 discussion 3 months ago:
Also, is that meat-wrapped fruit that I spot?
Some kind of ceviche?
Dahlia must have some passive ability that summons perfect bishis to her if she ever feels sad.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Can’t wait for the day when Uncle Sam to turns brown.
- Comment on Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 17 discussion 3 months ago:
Masayuki seems like the most relatable Otherworlder so far. All the others, including MC, seen to have been suffering from big red flags or depression. Masayuki seems like he’s genuinely a decent caring person who is just pleased to be here. Like a confused golden retriever.
Future events
I had forgotten that we’re introduced to Masayuki before we ses Emperor Ludora or even the money girl arc play out. Can’t wait to see how far season 3 will take us.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Just, buy a new iPhone and Mac every two years.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Termux, rsync and SSH.
Worked okay until I got overzealous and killed my battery from leaving Termux on for convenience.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
The USB Type-C is useful for sharing files offline between smartphones while the USB Type-A is useful when you want to backup files to a PC at some point.
- Comment on THE NEW GATE - Episode 4 discussion 3 months ago:
I am glad the author of the original light novel got their story animated. If this story had been published before either Overlord (2010) or Sword Art Online (2002), then the story would have been groundbreaking. However, the only main advantages this show has over other isekai is the lack of any spiciness, beyond the usual smattering of damsels in distress and a blushing pair of twins. Everyone seems chaste, honorable, and hard-working. No sign of any harem development in sight. There does not even seem to be any political antagonist or obvious grievances against the status quo. The most likely source of conflict seems to be MCʼs overpowered state, yet the author has made him successful in keeping that off the plot table for now. Instead of Overlord’s murderous menagerie of a sexually frustrated succubus, underage loli vampire, skin-harvesting demon, etc., we have an elf maid, an elf, and a fox. Nothing complicated.
It feels like a television program designed by a public morals committee that I would show my conservative grandmother to fool her into allowing me to see more interesting shows.
- Comment on Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai - Episode 1 discussion 4 months ago:
Damn. Now I want a solarpunk isekai.
Recommendation: I just finished The Terraformers (2023) which basically has all the bullet points. It opens with a rich kid being executed by a forest ranger for LARPing a carbon negative campsite on a private planet to eat some skewed rabbit. Wealth inequality is still an issue, but technology is crazy; people figured out Earth animals were people the whole time, and baseline Homo sapiens are treated as animals if commercial interests are not restrained by government. I would be a miserable monster living in that arguably better future simply because of my upbringing: I love me a good burger and feel squeamish about people being born from bioprinters. It really humbled me, making me realize the current status quo must change if we want to improve society for everyone.
- Comment on Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai - Episode 1 discussion 4 months ago:
At least it wasn’t mayo or soy sauce.
Someday I hope to see an isekai that acts to humble the audience instead of cheerleading Earth culture. Imagine a Japanese high schooler MC waking up, ready to wow the world with Japanese cuisine, smartphone technology, and knowledge of modern medicine… only to realize:
- Most people are vegan and think MC is a monster for wanting to enslave and eat people (e.g. industrial farm cattle)
- Earth technology is inefficient and wasteful.
- 21st century medicine is their equivalent of bloodletting
I am sure it would not sit well with test audiences since no one likes being told their culture is bad, but even Earth cultures are incompatible across sufficient geographic distances and spans of history.
- Comment on Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai • Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools - Episode 2 discussion 4 months ago:
I actually hope he stays for the drama and character growth.
- Comment on Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai • Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools - Episode 2 discussion 4 months ago:
Without Carlo’s guidance, what will Dahlia do?
I also was thinking the same thing with the “trying to run from the oncoming rainstorm” metaphor for “You cannot run from the inevitability of death”. Dahliaʼs sudden desire to create raincoats felt like foreboding that she will want to create immortality-granting magic tools to help people like her father outrun mortality.
- Comment on Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai • Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools - Episode 2 discussion 4 months ago:
I think the author is communicating their dislike of senior coworkers trying to play matchmaker with their kōhais.
- Comment on After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad 4 months ago:
“It looks like youʼre copying text from a copyrighted source. Would you like me to get a quote from the Microsoft Store for a license?”
- Comment on Crunchyroll Deletes and Disables Comments on Entire Platform, Including Episodes and News Articles 4 months ago:
This is like your favorite bar removing all seating and converting itself into a vending machine with “NO LOITERING” signs plastered everywhere.
- Comment on "The Apothecary Diaries" Season 2 New Visual, PV 4 months ago:
Premieres sometime in 2025
Given the Tanabata 🎋 tanzaku, I would guess sometime around 2025-07-07 or 2025-08-25?
- Comment on Beastars Final Season New Visual 4 months ago:
Did the author finally get tired of her PS4? Or was it a PS5…
- Comment on Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 14 discussion 4 months ago:
Veldora is a perpetual motion machine?
- Comment on Crunchyroll Deletes and Disables Comments on Entire Platform, Including Episodes and News Articles 4 months ago:
“This show is hot garbage. See you all here next week!”
- Comment on Crunchyroll Deletes and Disables Comments on Entire Platform, Including Episodes and News Articles 4 months ago:
That would explain the lack of pun explanations. Fansubs wouldnʼt be so lax.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Banks will use progressively less energy per capita as bulk data processing becomes more energy efficient, assuming they donʼt transition to using proof-of-work.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Ultimately, mining should be banned from the surface of Earth. Let miners build orbital solar panel infrastructure close to the Sun where power is plentiful. See Bitcoin developer Peter Todd’s 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject.
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 9 months ago:
See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with:
- Nest Labs (home automation)
- DropCam (home automation)
- DoubleClick (advertisement)
- FitBit (wearables)
- Waze (GPS navigation)
- Skybox Imaging (satellite mapping)
- Like.com (shopping)
- Meebo (social network)
- GrandCentral (VOIP)
- Picasa (photographry)
- Tenor (GIF search)
- PhotoMath (LLM; became Bard)
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 9 months ago:
I can’t pinpoint exactly when the fall started.
In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn’t compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
Donate to Mozilla Thunderbird. Free software isn’t free.