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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] SANDA - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t get more divine than by descending from on high while bare-ass naked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason is money. The reason is always money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There actually is a myth in circulation in some places that China’s electrical vehicle tech is somehow advanced over everyone else’s (my father got sucked in by that one). Tearing one apart is one way to counter that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] 7 Underrated 1980s Anime Nobody Ever Talks About⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The sequel was Adieu Galaxy Express, I believe. Been a long time since I saw either one, but if I recall correctly, the issue with the second movie was that the plot wasn’t all that different from the first one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] 7 Underrated 1980s Anime Nobody Ever Talks About⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of all of them and seen at least three: Locke (which I don’t remember at all, except that I think all that was translated was the last bit of an established universe, making it a bit difficult to follow), Night on the Galactic Railroad (an odd philosophical story about saying goodbye whose main characters are anthropomorphic cats), and Dagger of Kamui (an historical adventure taking place in the 19th century that I think the mangaka of Golden Kamui must have seen at some point, since the MC was Ainu if I recall correctly).

  Touch is a sports anime (basketball??) and so outside my area of interest. Area 88 is SF of some sort. I know nothing about the other two except the titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai • Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  At the rate they’re going, crab monsters are going to end up extinct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] These 10 Anime Masterpieces Are a Rite of Passage for Every Fan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too much lengthy shounen action stuff, some of which isn’t particularly good or original. A couple of those series aren’t even finished, and shouldn’t be evaluated until they are. Some stuff that maybe should be there and isn’t: Utena TV (or any other Ikuhara), Escaflowne TV, any classic Miyazaki movie, Trigun (original 1990s version), any of the better Gundam or Gundam-adjacent series, any of Leiji Matsumoto’s better works, a decent mahou shoujo series, and Grave of the Fireflies (which, whatever else you might say about it, does qualify as a rite of passage and an impressive demonstration of just how much emotion a bunch of drawings can evoke in a human being). And that’s just the older material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The question for me isn’t whether or not there’s a difference that I might be able to see if I were paying attention to the picture quality, it’s whether the video is sufficiently bad to distract me from what I’m watching. And only hypercompressed macroblocked-to-hell-and-back ancient MPEG1 files or multiply-recopied VHS tapes from the Dark Ages are ever that bad for me. In general, I’m perfectly happy with 480p. Of course, I might just have a higher-than-average immunity to bad video. (Similarly, I can spot tearing if I’m looking for it, but I do have to be looking for it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] To Your Eternity Season 3 • Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3 - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fushi obviously wasn’t born with a sense of gender, no, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t developed one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] To Your Eternity Season 3 • Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3 - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The interesting question to me is, is Fushi’s sense of gender fixed, or does it vary according to the brain-wiring of the form he’s wearing at that moment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re going purely on the last two eps, it looks like they want to do primarily the human-android romance, with the post-apocalyptic/travel/adventure parts reduced to B-plot status. Which, agree that it isn’t really what we signed up for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On top of that we shouldn’t distribute compiled binaries for the x86 and ia64 chipsets; instead program code should be distributed like .wasm, in a hardware-independent way, and compiled on the target device. That would enable that hardware can use any chipset it wants and there are no software incompatibilities because of it.

  You’re describing Gentoo Linux . . . which is not especially popular among Linux distributions even though it runs on just about anything. There may be a reason for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the possible plot hole for this episode is . . . why didn’t Gina just let Yuri drift away, or even push them further out while pretending to help? With Yuri out of the picture, she just has to do enough fast talking to avoid landing in cold sleep before the warp sequence. Then kill one of the survivors during the warp, and take out the last human standing afterwards. It’s pretty much a gnosia auto-win, without the uncertainty of the voting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 43]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact, I noticed this trend of many time travel stories: the male protagonist can go so far only because of a female character.

  The oldest example of the timeloop sub-sub-genre in anime that I can think of, the original Higurashi/When They Cry, gives the male protagonist around a half-dozen female helpers, and everything since seems to have provided at least one. (Higurashi did mix things up a bit by having the odd loop where one or the other of the girls ran violently off the rails.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that was the other thing. Maybe they don’t have the equipment needed to unfreeze someone safely aboard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thought of how the computer would react to me telling my cat to get down off the desk is . . . both amusing and disturbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I HAVE broken discs in similar sets (Mr. Robot, Planet of the Apes) taking them out of those awful cases

  So someone actually came up with something worse than the Scanavo DVD cases (on the grounds that I never actually broke a disc taking it out of a Scanavo case, just thought I was going to)? That’s . . . brutal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phone numbers are the equivalent of IP addresses. It’s just that the accompanying DNS solutions are pretty badly broken and the firewall options are all iffy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping this is going to end up more like Trigun—a series that also started out with mostly silly caricature villains and ended up getting quite serious by the end. Right now it’s hard to tell whether it’s going to pull itself together or flop, and since it’s an original there’s no source material we can check for future plot beats. It doesn’t seem to be trying to be as convoluted as Metallic Rouge was, and it’s already flashed its equivalent of Legato Bluesummers, both of which give me some hope for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude was everywhere during the late 1990s and is still everywhere, althought I can’t remember the last time I heard him in a leading role rather than a villain or other secondary part. Still, this is nothing on the time that he voiced a villainous starfish named Pista.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that the ship’s computer seems particularly suspicious. I mean, the rational thing to do in their situation would be to break out the ship’s EVA gear (presumably it has some), have each person leave the ship one at a time, and see which one is outside when the gnosia trace disappears. Either the gnosia will break before it’s their turn, or you move the ship away and leave them floating in the void until their air runs out. Anyway, the whole voting situation is bizarre and contrived (in a way that might have worked in the original game, where the setup was just an excuse for the game mechanics, but does not here) and the computer seems to be forcing it.

  It’s interesting that the initial group consists of two women, two enbies (apparently), and one undisclosed-probably-enby (Yuri). I’m still ruminating on why they made that choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Touring After the Apocalypse • Shuumatsu Touring - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So about 80% Girls’ Last Tour, 20% Heavenly Delusion for the first episode. Or something like that.

  It’s hard to tell how long is supposed to have passed since the end of civilization in that world. On the one hand, the fact that relatively delicate auxiliary structures like traffic signals are still standing and signage is still legible despite exposure to the weather suggests a gap measured in decades, not centuries (much less Dr. Stone). On the gripping hand, they had a large tree growing out of the center of a building, and I’m pretty sure Hakodate isn’t in the more tropical parts of Japan where trees continue growing year-round. On the third hand, the diner could have been abandoned before the end. On the fourth hand, the original mangaka may not have done the research necessary to realistically depict elapsed time. 🤷

  If I had to make a wild-assed guess about the intended timeline, I’d say 20-50 years since whatever-it-was happened. Not terribly long, in other words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s the point of taking art classes?

  The point is the same as taking classes for any other skill, from baseball to carpentry: you have to learn technique before you can engrain the skill through practice. Some people can pick it up on their own if they’re motivated enough, by studying other people’s art, watching artists working, reading books, etc., but it’s more difficullt and time-consuming without an instructor’s feedback. Sometimes they even figure it out wrong, and develop a very difficult and time-consuming method of doing something when a much simpler one exists.

  So it’s optimal to both have the classes and do extensive practice outside of them. One is not a substitute for the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI may soon make Nobel-level discovery, scientists predict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that you can find one researcher, somewhere, who will agree with anything you say, including that the weather is being affected by a war between Martians and the people living inside the hollow earth. Especially if you’re offering a large bribe to said researcher to make a statement about something outside their field while they’re somewhat drunk, and then mutilating their remark out of context via the process fondly known as journalism.

  In other words, “one researcher” predicting something is pretty much worthless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Shabake - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, livechart does have the “Mystery” tag attached to this show. I agree that the first ep wasn’t well set up to indicate that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] To Your Eternity Season 3 • Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3 - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor confused-fish!Fushi—the other fish just didn’t understand his art . . . 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’ve funded a couple of series, although not nearly as many as Netflix has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the only named antagonist we’ve seen so far is the equivalent of an RPG end-tutorial villain. I’m assuming that the people at the higher levels of his organization have actual motivations and backstory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly awards time!

  • Most pointless character introduction: Lord of Mysteries. Added a named character, after some build-up, at the end of an episode (was it 9 or 10?) and then never mentioned him again. I guess that was when they decided to drop anything that they didn’t absolutely need to reach the stopping point they’d intended. Well, it wasn’t like they were going to adapt all 1400+ chapters of the webnovel anyway.

  • Most over-the-top cat care advice: Nyaight of the Living Cat. No, your cat will not develop a complex if you laugh at them after a pratfall. Really.

  • Best Dragon Award: Water Magician . . . but the only competition was Clevatess, which didn’t include much dragon screen-time.

  • Scatology award: Gachiakuta. If you’ve seen that “fight” scene, you know exactly what I’m talking about. I would have been happier if they’d left that out, to be honest. Runner up would be Dr. Stone, but it had a much better reason for it.

  • Cognitive dissonance award: Clevatess. This may just be a me thing, but I seem to expect fantasy grimdark to use more realistic character designs than this does. Took me a little while to adapt.

  • Most unexpectedly entertaining: Probably Onmyo Kaiten Re-birth Verse. It wasn’t spectacularly good, but I went into it expecting utter clichéd shounen schlock, and it actually managed to surprise me by flipping everything on its head for a second time near the end. Plot held together, setting was a bit silly but overall consistent, characters were unoriginal but, again, consistent. So it went from an expected D to a C.

  • Most disappointing returning series: the vending machine. It wasn’t horrible, but while the first season was better than it should have been given the premise, the second was not.

  • Worst translation device: Nyaight of the Living Cat again. I honestly don’t know how the human characters were able to make any sense out of that mishmash of action movie quotes a lot of the time. Poor Jones would have been better off pointing to letters on a ouija board.

  • Most in need of another season ASAP: Kaijuu 8-gou. C’mon, guys, you can’t just leave us hanging in the early phases of the boss fight!

  • Most not in need of another season: Tate no Yuusha. Which, of course, means we’re going to have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suikoden: The Anime New Visual⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that they’re choosing to make an anime of this now, after so many years. I mean, the first two Suikoden games were released in the Playstation era. The summary on livechart indicates that they chose to work with the story of the second game—which probably had the best plot, but was flawed as a game. We’ll have to see how they deal with the issue of having over a hundred named characters to introduce.

  At least we know that the anime won’t require us to complete what amounts to a quicktime event with no feedback in order to get the best ending. 🫤