I heard that. I wasn’t trying to correct you on the name, just saying it was funny because of the translation and what all that means. Language nerd and all that.

I’ve been watching anime for about 25 years, but I still don’t think of myself as an anime guy. What I like are good stories, and I don’t particularly care what country they’re from and if they’re animated or computer animated or live action or not. It’s all kind of the same to me. And now AI is starting to be a thing, I don’t think it should be telling stories (since it would just be plagiarising — it isn’t capable of original thought or inspiration), but it can certainly be used as a tool. I don’t particularly care for it, but the newer generations will accept and even embrace it.

So that’s my advice: look for the stories. Anime “as animation” is fine if you’re after pretty animation — Demon Slayer is good for this; so is virtually any film by Makoto Shinkai, in particular Garden of Words, your name., or Weathering With You. Garden of Words, which is only like 45 minutes long, was commonly referred to on Reddit as “Anime Wallpaper: The Movie” because it was so strikingly beautiful. (Another short film, about the same length, worth watching is Summer Ghost. Just saw that one recently. And, good story there too.)

No Hero Academia

That’s funny. It’s actually My Hero Academia, unless she told you the romanised Japanese title, which is “Boku no Hero Academia,” but “no” doesn’t mean like “zero” here, it means “of” or similar article; Boku is “My” but masculine, so “Boku no Hero Academia” means “my hero academy,” from a boy’s perspective. Because the main guy (also the narrator) is a guy. You could say “Watashi no Hero Academia” which would mean “My Hero Academy” from a feminine perspective, or you could say Watashitachi no Hero Academia, which would be “Our Hero Academy.” So ironically a girl saying “Boku no Hero Academia” only works as it’s a title; typically, a girl wouldn’t use Boku though, which makes the English name more inclusive. /languagenerd

Demon Slayer is a good one. If you like girl-empowering stories for her that lack fan service, The Promised Neverland is a good shonen (young men targeted) action series that stars an 11-year-old girl who is going up against adults to save her 36 adoptive brothers and sisters from something revealed at the end of the first episode. There’s some bad stuff here, but it would be PG-13 in the US, and not even a hard PG-13. Like PG-13 horror, people die, but it’s mostly off-camera and implied.

Not action, but I’m also a big fan of Erased and Your Lie in April. Sometimes it’s good to break up an action series with a slice-of-life series. When we talk about TV shows with the best endings, Six Feet Under is constantly brought up as it pretty much has, objectively, the best ending to a TV series, ever. Well, for live-action acted shows (as opposed to animation). For animation… it’s pretty much Your Lie in April. YLiA is the 6FU of anime. A deep emotional investment that leads to an awesome payoff. Awesome in its original definition, not necessarily the first definition you think of. Because that ending was certainly awe-inspiring… in kind of the same way a nuclear mushroom cloud inspires awe. Not so good for those caught in it though. But awe-inspiring from where you sit. Both of those shows ended like that. The kind of ending that makes you turn off the TV, get up, and go outside and touch grass.

One point: support local farmers by buying their food.

Another: not supporting businesses who pay overworked people below minimum wage (restaurants) while treating them like shit.

Beyond that: the pride of making something yourself.

A fourth one: usually you save money

And fifth, since we’re in a spectrum community: not having to go out and deal with people.

Not a makeup person but I feel like if she fits the meme and is on the spectrum, sure might not be thinking about how her makeup looks, especially if she’s home — and I think that’s part of the point. I can’t imagine being on the spectrum and female, with all the issues that entails.

Hugely flawed. Internet smart guys figured out his real name (it can be briefly seen in one of the flashback scenes). Not sure if that’s why but he tells it to you in the DLC.

There’s a lot wrong with Johnny but his memories have been tampered with. He also lived a lie for a while. I don’t think he’s necessarily a liar though.

What I love about Keanu Reeves’ portrayal of him is he uses his 90s surfer voice in the flashbacks. Like when he tells, I think Kerry, “Go. Fuck. Your. Self!” Our native he says it to Alt. It’s during the flashback with the sex scene with Alt. During the Voodoo Boys scene where you contact Alt. And attempt the Alt rescue. The whole gig actually. Great voice acting there. At least his part.

Cyberpunk has a few. If it’s just men as the topic and comments imply, you got a few good choices with Johnny and Solomon (DLC). Kerry and River if they’re your type. Maybe Jackie?

I’m only interested in women though, so Judy, Panam, a couple others. V, too, though it really depends on your choices. Still getting used to hearing Cherami Leigh curse! (She’s known for playing good girls in anime. Her personal motto is “Love and light.”) Default V is not that hot though.

I expect a person wearing a shirt like this to react in an interesting way if someone plays the song on their phone around them. Because we all can do it. It’s downloaded on mine (well, it’s on my 90s playlist and that’s cached offline).

Oh yeah, there are a metric fuck ton of cool and fun websites.

One of my favorite is Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/ — it’s a… mosaic? I dunno. There’s a word for what it is. An image with tons of references to other things just packed in. Things are being added all the time, and they have a changelog. This is better opened on a device with a big screen, like a tablet or a computer.

Then there’s the Neal.fun website — https://neal.fun/ — which has a ton of things to do.

So that’s a start!

P.S. Oh yeah, this too — https://www.dearnextvisitor.com/

That’s the point.

Conservatives got tired of progressives attacking the Second Amendment. Now they’re coming for the First. They’re already trying to get people fired who criticize the current administration.

Shield Hero kinda did this, so maybe it’s a trope? Become powerful, buy cute slave, free said slave, she’s now your ally.

It’s a wonderful idea, except you had to buy the slave, so the slaver will use your money to buy more. That’s not what we’re seeing here, but the idea in general (“I’ll just buy one but I’ll be nice to them”) is fundamentally flawed. So yes, ideally you would win the slaver’s trust, gain a private audience with them, get them to show off their best wares, take their life quietly, and free the slaves. But, one, who’s going to provide for all of them? You? Some people backing you? You need to plan for that. And two, the slaver is likely state backed, so you’re going to have legal issues by taking out the slaver.

I’m not familiar with this anime/manga being posted, but those are factors a writer would need to consider before employing this trope.

I’m wondering what anime they’re actually talking about? Redo of Healer? Nukitashi? There’s certainly some “provocative” anime out there. For everything else (and even those) there are age ratings.

Bad enough animation awards just go to Disney by default even when their stories are plagiarized and their movies are forgotten the next year when the next one comes out. Okay, Frozen stayed around for a few years but most are soon forgotten.

I’m glad Sony Animation is starting to get credit (Spider-Verse, KPop Demon Hunters) but it’s still “safe” animation.

I think it’s like the trolley problem: a trolley (like a train) is barreling down the tracks to a fork in the tracks. You have a lever that will divert the train. Tied to the tracks dead ahead are five innocent people who will all certainly die if you don’t throw the lever. However, one innocent person is tied to the tracks that you would divert the trolley to. Assume the trolley has no passengers and all five (or the one) will certainly be killed by the trolley.

The dilemma here is that by doing nothing, you could say you have nothing to do with the five people dying. You didn’t put them there. You can blame the person who did put them there, but by doing nothing, you can say you have no blood on your hands. Or you can pull the lever, but then the blood of the one person is absolutely on your hands, but you can say you saved the other five.

Diverting the trolley is the lesser of two evils. But is it the right call? Depends on the situation.

That stupid song about the Windows registry. Don’t look it up, or at least don’t come crying to me after listening to it 50 times. It has no right being as catchy as it is. I fear for younger people and how God generated music will sound in a year or two.

I used to ask why classical music wasn’t performed by Metal bands. Now I can have AI make it for me and it shouldn’t even be that hard given the songs are already written. Now if I were to say “compose a new symphony in the style of Beethoven and make it sound like Iron Maiden are playing it… that would be different.

I hope we can elevate the discourse in the Android world to accept that Android isn’t about FOSS. It is, at its core, about making Google more money by getting Google more of your personal data.

Ad blockers and apps with ad blockers are hurting Google’s revenue and they’re going to go after it.

Honestly it’s not that much better (some argue it’s worse) on my side, being an iPhone user. Like yeah, we can’t sideload, but I’ve never really felt the need to. I think both platforms should have the option though. And screw these Apple guys who say “well you should buy Android if you want that,” doubly so now that it’s not guaranteed in the future.

The funny thing is, if her family is wealthy, they’ll just take care of it. It’s poor and brown/Black girls they want to keep barefoot and pregnant. It’s not about oppressing girls — that’s just a side effect they’re glad for. It’s about maintaining the class divide.

As an Animal Crossing (New Horizons) player, this is interesting. I wonder if you could do it with New Horizons (via a Switch emulator) since that game does have networking capabilities.

It’s also (likely) not as well documented. Though it’s likely got some of the same code since the villagers are mostly the same and they say a lot of the same things.

I would rather they say more relevant things based on what you’ve done rather than talk about the same books or soap operas or music stuff they always do.

You should post this to the Animal Crossing communities.

You can download it now actually… you’ll just be offered the update sometime after that point (most people won’t be offered it the day of).

Liquid Ass is actually awesome on iPhone, Watch, and Mac. My wife’s iPad isn’t in the beta, but it’ll be interesting to see how it works there. It’s an Air 4, so not the latest, but still should be capable for a few more years (if not longer). It’s gotten snubbed on a few things though.

So my question is, do we want ISPs to be liable? If they are, they will be more likely to cut alleged pirates off. If they aren’t, then a legal door is open for the rights holders to go after individuals directly.

First, I don’t think EA — then, Electronic Arts — was ever cool. They were just not shit. Second, those album-style sleeves were the common floppy disk delivery system for the Amiga. Chessmaster and Lemmings came packaged the same way. Chessmaster in particular was awesome because when you opened it, it was this Gandalf looking MF who took up both sides of the inside, it was a vertical artwork/photo, and the disk was in like a pocket on his robe and he was inviting you to take it. Also, when that chess software was loaded, a synthesised voice said “I am the Chessmaster,” and it was so cool. It had PVP, but my father (a chess enthusiast) refused to use it. He only used the software to play against the computer. Playing against another person, he said the only way to do that was with a real chess board, face to face. Very principled player, and man in general. Oh, and third, EA didn’t make DPaint, they merely published it. I know OP isn’t saying they did, I’m just clarifying. Dan Silva was the developer.

Anyway, the Amiga (1000) was my father’s, and looking at the descriptions in the link, I’m sure we had the first version. I do remember copies of it, but I also remember the actual printed-label disk. I don’t remember the sleeve, but I remember we had it. I just don’t recall the cover. My father was not above copying disks for friends (or using copies), but he bought a lot of his stuff, too. He bought DPaint because my mother was an artist and she refused to touch a computer. He thought it would get her into computers. She dabbled in DPaint but not much more. She would not trade real pencils and brushes for a computer mouse, and after briefly trying DPaint, she would not touch another computer or electronic device for well over 20 years (basically until she got a flip phone… and then later one shitty Android tablet, “free with contract extension” at Verizon, whatever trash they offered for “free”). Oh, and I got her to try a PlayStation game once (Tomb Raider, I think) but she sucked at it (no hand-eye coordination) and gave up after a couple minutes. Much later, she tried VR, my brother had it, she gave up after a few seconds, said it made her sick (nauseated; motion sickness).

Anyway, my brother and I used DPaint extensively, though just for fun. I still have it, but only as an .adf file I can open in an Amiga emulator.

DPaint did a lot of stuff that art programs today don’t do. The color cycling. The brushes — the idea that you could have this “background” and put stickers (brushes) on it, it’s such a cool idea and I haven’t really seen it done since. When I was a kid, sticker books like that were popular. I was at a Japanese dollar store (I forget the name, they’re common in big cities) and they had a few, so I bought them for my niece and nephews. They don’t know Japanese but they know how to peel and place stickers. Or decals. The plastic-y ones you can move around. DPaint was that but software. The one I really remember was a Christmas tree (undecorated) by a fireplace and a window looking out to a snowy yard. And you could place these stickers (called brushes). Lights in different colors, ornaments, the stockings, presents… it was really cool, but felt like a proof of concept. Of course you could make your own brushes, but we never got into that. I was 7 or 8, my brother was younger.

My mother still remembers DPaint fondly though, oddly enough.

Joined. I cook. I was raised on bad spaghetti and I learned how to make it well (along with other pastas). Then I got bariatric surgery and I really can’t eat traditional spaghetti anymore, but I still do from time to time. I think I’d make a valuable, or at the very least interesting addition to your community.

Can I say, in that community, that spaghetti (the pasta type) is not the best pasta type for spaghetti (the dish)? Because it isn’t. And I think I could convince someone, not so much across the Internet, but if they sat at my table and ate my spaghetti (the dish). I would not expect them to swear off spaghetti (the pasta), but I would expect them to accept that other pasta shapes have their uses (and, more importantly, to think about which pasta shape to use and for what — my personal favorite being penne).