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- Comment on [Episode] Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 10 discussion 15 hours ago:
Reborn as a what? These mutherfuckin mangaka…
Based on a light novel, not a manga. It’s a pretty common motif in those—in addition to the vending machine, we’ve had a slime, a spider, a goblin, and a sword, and those are just the ones that got made into anime. “Reborn as a Dragon’s Egg” is coming up in a couple of seasons. Pretty sure I’ve run across a summary for a light novel about being reborn as a stick, which probably takes the prize.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 1 day ago:
There was such a limited number of anime released on VHS that all of us that were fans then tended to have seen the same things, so conversations naturally went to Akira and Vampire Hunter D and Bubblegum Crisis and Ninja Scroll and Hellsing and so on.
Unless you had connections to the VHS fansub scene, in which case you were able to get your hands on stuff no one you talked to had ever heard of. Except that it could take years for anyone to sub the next four episodes, because sub groups back then actually had to do their own translations from scratch, by ear, and then use an Amiga to burn the subtitles into the video.
(Also, Hellsing was DVD era—I’m not sure it was officially released on VHS, but I still have the DVDs.)
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 2 days ago:
I would say the third OP (“Hikari to Kage wo Dakishimeta Mama”) was superior to the first one. (The second OP, on the other hand, was so terrible that it was excluded from the dubs for the first English release.)
The plot twist at the end of the first season is classic CLAMP, though, from before they got so obsessed with linking every manga they ever wrote together.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 4 days ago:
There will be a lot of cases where the data gets accidentally encapsulated (then fragmented due to incompatible protocols) in a cat.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 days ago:
No effort could have evacuated the entire population of Gaza without free movement across land borders. It was never a practical option.
Even if it had been, parents making a dumbass decision doesn’t justify killing their kids.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
For those curious, the characters are katakana (the syllabary often used in Japan for foreign words, onomatopoeia, etc) and the characters read “ma-ri-u-su”, which is possibly intended to represent “Marius” under Japanese spelling conventions.
- Comment on Are we truly on the verge of the humanoid robot revolution? 1 week ago:
Betteridge strikes again.
- Comment on [Episode] Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 9 discussion 1 week ago:
Guildmaster Smoky the Bear says, “Only you can prevent forest fires!”
Or, er, fail to do so and burn the entire stratum down. At least the only victims were the homicidal vegetables . . . 😅
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 1 week ago:
The very simple protector that keeps the cats from turning off my computer by stepping on the power button, while leaving the button itself accessible.
- Comment on Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day - Kyodo News 1 week ago:
If it were an enforced cap, I’d be wondering who it was that had the shares in a desktop/laptop/“real computer” manufacturer—forbidding smartphones ≠ forbidding screens or Internet access.
- Comment on [Episode] Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 8 discussion 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s an elf thing?
- Comment on [Episode] Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 8 discussion 1 week ago:
She might be a lot more picky than she lets on during the silly monologues. If she has minimum wealth or appearance thresholds, her dating pool could be quite small.
- Comment on French streamers' broadcasted death prompts outcry while authorities investigate possible abuse 1 week ago:
Whether or not that’s a defense depends on the details of the French legal system. In most countries, there are rights you’re not allowed to sign away. No idea whether security of the person is one of those rights in France.
- Comment on [Discussion] 10 More Great Horror Anime That Are Worth Watching 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I would categorize it as drama/thriller. I mean, the basic plotline is pretty much The Fugitive with added Cold War politics . . .
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t put it past them.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 2 weeks ago:
The result would have been the same if there had been a human behind the catfishing instead of an LLM, and events could have played out in a similar fashion if they’d been snail mail pen pals. The outcome of this story is tragic, but it doesn’t have much to do with technology when you stop and think about it for a moment.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen? 3 weeks ago:
While the show isn’t in general all that gory, there’s this one scene in the old Bastard!! OAV (the 1990s one) where the MC (as a friend of mine put it) juices a hydra, which has got to have the highest blood-produced-to-creatures-killed ratio of any anime I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors 3 weeks ago:
If necessary, you go full circle by 3D-printing the parts that will be exposed to the liquid out of PLA (or ABS or PETG), which can handle limonene.
- Comment on DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors 3 weeks ago:
Amazon will sell it to you in 55-gallon drums (that’s >200 litres) if you’re willing to pay. That’ll fill plenty of super soakers. So it depends on how serious you are about your anti-robot-uprising prep.
- Comment on DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if you could use HIPS instead of PVA. Still dissolves, but in limonene rather than water, so inadvertant exposure on a rainy day wouldn’t ruin your circuit board. At the same time, the metal should still be recoverable unless there’s some chemical reaction between gallium and citrus oil that I don’t know about.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 3 weeks ago:
For the same reason that “send me your advertising” ticky-boxes on website sign-ups should not be ticked by default: because the “feature” is detrimental to many (if not most) users and you have to spot the control before you can disable it. Worse, in this case many ignorant users won’t make the connection between this misfeature and the fact that their laptop is suddenly burning through its battery in double-time—they’ll just assume Firefox is now broken.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that it’s opt-out and not opt-in, and it should be opt-in.
- Comment on Remote Learning Accidentally Introduced a New Danger for LGBTQ Students 3 weeks ago:
If it’s your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we’re talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don’t buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 4 weeks ago:
He’s probablly talking about shareholder “value”, AKA inflated stock prices, rather than actual value.
- Comment on DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 5 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t catch the song, but the thought passed through my head that one should absolutely not fall into the Spring of Drowned Evil Eye. 😅
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 4 weeks ago:
Current US administration stopped funding it as part of their slide towards corporate-driven dystopia, I believe. Tor itself is still out there, just a little more strapped for cash than it used to be.
- Comment on Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 5 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I suppose anime did eventually have to produce a pacifist more dangerous than Prince Phil of Seyruun . . .
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 weeks ago:
Providing a package, if he did so, was his choice. No one at the distro asked him to (some users may have, but that has nothing to do with the distro or its other users). If you provide the package of your own volition, you should expect that there will be complaints if it doesn’t work as expected. You need a procedure (and a certain amount of saved-up mental fortitude) to deal with them.
If someone complains to you about someone else’s buggered-up packaging job, the correct thing to do is have a prewritten reply set up saying, “Nothing to do with me, complain to the other guy.” Then close the bugs as WONTFIX and get on with your life. And see if the package host has a removal policy for broken packages, if it is genuinely broken and not just clueless users messing up.
To me, this specific case seems like the dev wasn’t prepared for what the open Internet is like, couldn’t handle it, and imploded messily. Are the users that got on his nerves at fault? Yes, on one level, but their existence was also entirely predictable. If you know what you’re doing, you factor the existence of these people in when you decide whether you’re willing to release your software to the public or not and what communication channels you should leave open.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think you quite understand how this works. No distro ever asks third party programmers to create packages for them—that’s the job of the distro’s own team, or of enthusiasts using the distro. All the distro packagers want or need from the original programmer is the source code and enough documentation to get it to compile. They take it from there.
The problem here appears to be that some people with disagreeable personalities chose to complain to upstream instead of (or in addition) to their distro or whoever provided the package. There’s nothing the distro can do to prevent that. And if you’ve been in the game for a bit, you know that, if your software gains any traction, you’re going to run into obnoxious users with entitlement issues and you need to have some way of dealing with that (mentally and procedurally). The programmer here apparently didn’t have the mental stamina to deal with obnoxious users, and threw a fit.
- Comment on Betrothed to My Sister's Ex • Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru - Episode 4 discussion 5 weeks ago:
You can just about see Marie wondering when the carriage is going to turn back into a pumpkin in that one scene.