[–] 3 points 3 days ago

I cried when the clown beckoned for the student clown to come closer, expertly keeping the pie hidden behind his back. I tore my clothes and threw ash over my head when the student clown crafted a second pie unbeknownst to the head clown. Woe humanity, will this cycle of violence never end?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Haibane Renmei sets up a lot of questions, but I don't think it would have any satisfying answers. The world is a backdrop for the character arcs. Why did Kuu fly? It isn't explained, not to us or to Rakka, and the question eats at Rakka, which is the whole point. Death does not give reasons, it just is.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    I don't really get this criticism. Doesn't the murder and the time travel happen in episode 1? From there until they get their hands on the IBN is kinda slow, but it's also building the mystery side of the story and introducing all the characters. I recently rewatched and there's so much foreshadowing, you could actually piece together the whole story before any of the action starts. So I'll defend the opinion that Steins;Gate is perfect and has no bad episodes or even wasted moments.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    It's a general approach to names with numbers at the end, the list is full of those. I'm almost more interested in the more specific patterns like name(69)+, because was there an alt name6969 he wanted to block but an unrelated name67 he wanted to avoid?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I'm staunchly sub-over-dub, but I'm not anti-dub. A good dub is a piece of art, it's just a different piece of art than the original work. Dubbing is very difficult to do right, especially for live action. It takes good writing to match the lip flaps, good acting to match the facial expressions, and good sound design to match the scene. Anyone can stick a couple bored actors in a studio and record a terrible audio track that sorta conveys the necessary information, but I wouldn't call that dubbing.

    I really dislike dubs with celebrity film actors. Film acting is much more focused on screen presence, but there's nothing to see with a dub. A stage actor is generally a much better voice actor, because on stage you have to act so the people in the back can hear your emotions. Picking a big name just shows a lack of respect for the art of dubbing in my opinion, and it doesn't bode well for every other facet of the quality.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The author of Twokinds is the brother of Markiplier!? Unexpected crossover event.

    And how is it possible that Twokinds doesn't have a Wikipedia article. It should be high profile enough, even ignoring that he is Markiplier's brother. I want to speak to Wikipedia's manager.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    It's not just the graphics that improved in the last 20 years. Modern game engines created a floor of quality where input just works, basic configuration just works, autosave just works. All these little conveniences around the game itself that you barely think about, until you play a shooter from 20 years ago and the buttons are mapped weirdly and there's no way to remap.

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    Yesterday I noticed that one of my drives was acting up, it responded very slowly. It isn't my main drive and there was very little data on there, so I wasn't immediately worried, but I did copy some of the most important data to a different drive, just in case. I saved 2 folders and was copying a third, and that was when it stopped responding entirely.

    I ran lsblk and it listed the device (/dev/sda), but no partitions (used to be sda1) and also no available space on the drive. That was when I figured I was in trouble and shut off the pc. I haven't turned it back on yet, will probably disconnect it physically first.

    There is still some data on there that I would like to recover, but it's not really worth paying for professional recovery. Is there anything I can do? Even if it's a single-shot rescue mission and I trash the drive afterwards.

     

    I'm interested to hear about anime that give a different experience when putting the episodes in a different order. They can be official orders (broadcast vs dvd) or fan orders (moving arcs around, putting seasons in chronological vs release order). Maybe you can even think of examples where a companion movie is inserted in the middle of a season? Two separate projects by the same author or studio that can be weaved together to form a consistent whole?

     

    Getting +18 mult from Ride the Bus, +24 mult from Blueprint (looking at Erosion), +24 mult from Erosion, x1.5 mult from holographic Scholar and another x1.5 mult from a copied holographic Scholar for a total of nearly 19000 points. If I play an ace, it's not even that much more, only 8 mult from the Scholars? Trying to whittle my deck down to only aces so I can play four of a kind, but even then most of the mult will be Erosion.

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