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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan • Saikyou no Shien-shoku [Wajutsushi] Dearu Ore wa Sekai Saikyou Clan wo Shitagaeru - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Listening to Finocchio’s/Roswaal’s VA steal scenes is a pleasure as always…

  I think . . . [checks] Yep, that’s Koyasu Takehito, who’s been in the seiyuu business for ~35 years and has a very long and varied resume. I think I encountered him first as Rezo the Red Priest in the first season of The Slayers, from the early 1990s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Season 2 • Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the name for those were “dragoons”. I thought about it, but my understanding was they were armed with muskets. Since firing a rifle from horseback usually meant you missed, they would dismount before engaging. I suppose it’s not a stretch to have dragoons that only carried swords, but we also know that they had 5000 troops in that battle and even if they doubled up the riders that’s over 2000 horses. We saw, maybe 2 dozen in the retreat

  Dragoons were a more recent incarnation. I believe there were other earlier ones.

  Basically what went wrong with this scene in Reincarnated Aristocrat, though, is that they went for too much detail in a crowd scene that would have been much better off with less. If you look at older anime from the hand-drawn cell era, they didn’t try to individually animate every member of a large group like an army. Exaggerated atmosperic perspective and depth of field, plus judicious use of detail, reduced the parts of the army away from the main characters to a sort of dark mass with the occasional helmet or horse-leg movement—and that was okay, because we didn’t care enough about those people to focus on them individually. Currently there’s a fad for using computer animation to spam copies of the same model, often poorly animated, to make up the numbers, and it doesn’t work and tends to be very noticeable. Hopefully someone in Japan will eventually figure that out, and they’ll return to the more painterly approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Season 2 • Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And if they have horses why are they infantry and not cavalry

  Because they’re not trained to fight on the horses, and the horses may not be combat-trained either. Infantry throughout history has often used horses or mules for transport, then gotten off them for the actual fighting.

  To add to the list of criticisms: They knew what route they would be retreating along, so why were there no traps? Even if digging a concealed pit would have taken too long, a few chevaux de frise, tactically placed, could have done some damage. Or give the rearguard some caltrops to toss behind them. Horse archers could have helped a lot, but would probably have been too much to ask for.

  I get the impression that the person responsible for the source material for this series doesn’t have even my passing interest in the nuts and bolts of medieval warfare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 47]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Dan Da Dan and JJK are completely different types of shows.

  JJK’s main selling point is the quality of its combat animation. The fight scenes are really well-executed, so it gets high ratings from people who like that kind of thing. Plot and characters are bog-standard shounen fighter types whose names and backstories I forget half the time because they’re not all that memorable. If you swapped everyone but the MC out with characters from, say, Chainsaw Man, I doubt I would even notice.

  Dan Da Dan, on the other hand, is character-driven. The interaction and budding romance between the main characters is the point of the show, and the fighting has so far been subservient to that. It also doesn’t take itself at all seriously, unlike JJK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 • Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For an isekai, it’s amazing how many different games we see aside from the titular Shangri-La Frontier.

  Now you have me trying to count.

  • The trash game Sunraku is playing at the very beginning, where he gets to beat on the annoying princess for a few minutes as the end credits roll, after fighting the final boss while wearing a luchador mask and not much else
  • The fighter game where the users had collectively decided that exploiting bugs was the point
  • The realistic-to-the-point-of-not-being-fun fantasy game where he met Pencilgon
  • And now this mecha game.

  .

  Did I forget any?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 46]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the manga, but based on the show, the end is…alright.

  The Trigun Maximum manga wasn’t finished at the time the series aired, so their endings are unrelated. The last 4-5 episodes of the anime are complete originals. (There were two different manga series, and I think the original Trigun manga had more of the goofy-villain-of-the-week stuff, while Maximum, which picked up where the first series left off, was more serious.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 46]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It almost gives off the vibes of a 20th-century Western-made Saturday morning cartoon (except that for some reason the MC’s relationship with his mecha-ude reminds me of the one between the lead in Kill La Kill and her seifuku). I’m not quite sure why—maybe it’s the lack of any real moral ambiguity? Anyway, many of those could not do cool or edgy to save their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moose are technically deer (taxonomic family Cervidae, which also contains reindeer, red deer, roe deer, etc). And a big bull can weigh almost a (US conventional) ton. I don’t know whether that’s enough to trash a modern semi (based on an old memory of an apparently undamaged semi and a dead moose on the shoulder of an Ontario highway in the 1990s, I’d guess probably not, or at least not always), but I wouldn’t want to be the driver of the semi, either. Hitting them in an ordinary passenger vehicle—like any Tesla product—is something you really don’t want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of those things that needs careful handling and is unlikely to get it. I can see it having some value in therapy, but only if there is, y’know, an actual therapist involved who can make an informed call as to whether their patient will be helped or harmed by talking to a digital fake of a loved one. Instead, we’re likely to see a ham-fisted “allow all” or “forbid all” call by regulators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely.

  Geeky people, on the other hand, may either adopt a new OS while it’s still half-baked, or jump through hoops to keep an old one running long past the point where a non-geeky person would have given up. Some of us do both, just for the lulz. Windows 11 on unsupported systems offers a new and exciting(?) way to scratch the same “can I make this work, just for the hell of it?” itch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mean disable it in software, I meant physically disable it by stuffing the phone in a Faraday cage (you can buy them for phones in the form of pouches with metal worked into them), which blocks electromagnetic radiation and therefore prevents it from contacting towers or satellites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you can disable it from time to time at random when you’re doing something innocuous, and obscure the pattern that way. Which is probably easier for the average person than figuring out a second method of tampering with their phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thus, for the time being, if you’re in the US or some other nation that has issues with women’s health, do not take your phone to the abortion clinic with you, or turn it off and stuff it in a Faraday cage until you’re at least a block away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the storage were strictly local, there would still be some privacy concerns. Hackers can’t steal data that isn’t there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit>> Though if Baidu is investing in AI like all the rest, then maybe they just think they’ll be immune — in which case I’m sad again that I haven’t yet come across a CEO who calls bullshit on this nonsense.

  They may just have kept their AI investments responsible—that is, not put more money into it than they can afford to lose. Keep in mind, Baidu is the Chinese equivalent of Google. They have a large, diversified business with many income streams. I expect they’ll still be around after the bubble bursts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once the apocalypse comes, you can at least use a gold brick to brain the zombies, whereas your crypto will vanish along with the Internet and electrical grid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm. I wonder who is making so much money off this that the project is willing to push them into forking it . . . ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing the word “smart” in a device description has become a warning flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Wajutsushi strikes me as more like Solo Leveling, except much lighter in tone and with a purely fantasy setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naruzo • I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s face it, an age gap of 5-6 years would be unremarkable if they were in their 30s. The problem is anyone, of any age, making the moves on a prepubescent girl. That’s where the ick is coming from. I was willing to tolerate it as long as it was just infatuation from a distrance, but the let’s-pretend-this-isn’t-a-kiss was a bridge too far. I don’t think I would be comfortable with it even if they were both 10 or whatever age she said she was.

  Overprotective male relatives are doing a piss-poor job of actually protecting her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 41]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some series that no one else has mentioned yet:

  Demon Lord, Retry! R: Somehow the artwork animation is managing to be even worse than that from the 2019 series—guys, at least try to keep the main character’s hair length consistent, okay? Plus, 95% of what’s been shown so far has been a recap of the earlier version. As of the end of the second episode, they are finally caught up. The bizarrely chosen ecchi material, while it doesn’t make up any significant fraction of the runtime, is even more grating in the recap than the original. I found the original series amusing despite its many faults, so I’ll stick with this one for a while, but in general I don’t recommend it.

  The Healer who was Banished from his Party etc.: Bog-standard protagonist-that-no-one-has-noticed-is-overpowered fantasy light novel schlock. Okay for turning your brain off, but otherwise don’t bother.

  Good-bye, Dragon Life: Bog-standard protagonist-hides-his-power fantasy light novel schlock so far. Another one suitable for turning one’s brain off.

  The Most Notorious “Talker” etc.: And for the hat trick, we have protagonist-wants-to-get-stronger fantasy light novel schlock. This one managed to get my attention slightly more than the others by ending the first ep. on a weak cliffhanger. I doubt it’ll come to anything, but we’ll see.

  Trillion Game: Mixed feelings about this one, probably because I empathize a little too much with Gaku. Haru, on the other hand, seems like a slimeball despite attempts to depict him sympathetically. Haven’t watched the second episode yet.

  I’m still waiting on several other series. There seem to be an awful lot of late premieres this season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Separate remote code execution vulnerability in unupdated versions of RocketMQ, a Chinese-developed messaging/streaming server, in the case of the infection described in the article. It’s possible that there are a few other RCE vulns it can make use of, but 20000 of them seems unlikely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School cell phone bans have hit most states. Not everyone is on board.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You consider school shootings to be be progress? (Seriously, that’s a topic that should never be brought up with respect to the presence or absence of cell phones in schools. Fix your damned gun control laws, or rather the lack thereof.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trillion Game - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  what, substantially, is even the difference between that and having a billion dollars, other than being top of the wealth leaderboard?

  Well, a billion won’t buy out Apple or another really wealthy corporation. And it can’t cover the entire debt of a large, developed nation-state. A trillion could likely do those things. Other than that, I can’t think of any real difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School cell phone bans have hit most states. Not everyone is on board.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have mixed feelings about the necessity of this.

  On the one hand, I know they don’t really need the cell phones, because they didn’t exist when I was in school.

  On the other hand, the kids who are paying attention to their cell phone rather than the teacher probably wouldn’t listen to the teacher if the cell phone wasn’t present, either, and some of them would be far more disruptive toward other students who are trying to listen.

  On the third hand, expecting the kids to pay attention all the time even if they’ve already mastered the subject and are bored out of their skulls by the repetition needed for the kids below the class median to have a chance of understanding too is a problem in and of itself.

  Fortunately, I am not a teacher, a student, or the parent of a student, so I have no horse in this race and am not required to make a decision on whether the bans are useful or just obnoxious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a buried reference to using a several-years-patched gpac bug to gain root access before this thing can do most of its stealth stuff.

  Basically, it needs your system to already have a known, unpatched RCE bug before it can get a foothold, and if you’ve got one of those you have problems that go way beyond stealth crypto miners stealing electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of an iffy assertion. That’s maybe the number of files it scans looking for misconfigurations it can exploit, but I’d bet there’s a lot of overlap in the potential contents of those files (either because of cascading configurations, or because they’re looking for the same file in slightly different places to mitigate distro differences). So the number of possible exploits is likely far fewer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Record Number of Scientific Papers Were Retracted in 2023 For Being Fraudulent or a Having Conflicts of Interest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. So is it actually the number of fraudullent papers that’s up, or is it the number of frauds that get caught?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TASUKETSU -Fate of the Majority- New Visual⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they continue with the attrition rate in the last episode, all of these people will be gone by halfway through the cours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ryujinx Switch Emulator Project Shuts Down Under Nintendo Pressure.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason why most other groups on the emulation scene wait for a given console to be a couple of generations dead before they’ll touch it. And Nintendo has always been touchy about their property (intellectual and otherwise) I’m not going to argue about who has the moral high ground here, but this result isn’t unexpected.