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I'm super hyped for this series because it was one of the few manga that I just sort of picked up on a whim based on the premise and cover and it was an absolute delight. Not long after reading a few chapters I found out an anime was coming so for once I'm ahead of the curve! No need for me to wait for Grant or Mommy'sbasement to put out a video this season!

Overall this absolutely blew my expectations away. They rearranged the first few chapters a bit to make it more actiony, but they did it to help with on screen pacing and that's the kind of adaptation I think more anime should do when transitioning. Then there is the animation. It looks great, things are fairly fluid, dynamic, and best of all was that surprise use of color for the blood.

The story is mostly the same as what I've already read and I just love the premise. The idea that our hero worked for a company that was so toxic and soul crushing that the end of the world feels like a vacation to him is such a fun premise.

One warning though is that the series definitely takes inspiration from the schlocky zombie movies of the past. So while the hero is light and bubbly and there are fun cartoony antics, there is a good amount of death, sexy nudity, and violence. Like there is some stuff that could easily be framed as edgy or genuinely gruesome and depressing stuff if it didnt just roll of the main characters shoulders like water off a ducks back.

Overall this is a series that is going to get a lot of attention and hype especially since there arent a lot of non-sequel big names this summer season.

Custom roms arent a bandaid for poor support and at best they will only give you maybe a release or two more of quality support and thats IF the phone is popular to warrant an expansive and active developer community.

My experience with Rom support after the official releases dried up the remaining developers had a harder time porting over the new release and features. I know project treble and mainline have made this a lot easier for the rom community, but it still requires there be someone who cares about supporting your phone and a lot of times unless its a pixel, that someone is a college or high school student practicing coding in their spare time.

Authors profiteering from arcane copyright laws

I get this argument from the film, movie, television, videogame industry, and other more modern ones out there. But outside a handful of actual big name authors the average writer isnt exactly raking it in.

Also thanks to being a relic of the past we do still have libraries which offer books for free to read with a subscription and not only is this common, but its a celebrated thing among most authors and the reading community.

A trend I see when hearing reports about modernizing electric companies across the country is that "profitability" and "cost savings" are often used as an excuse for why essential upgrades arent made, why modernizing is hard, why powerlines are let to fall into the forest and start fires in california.

More topically in NY state, during the Buffalo blizard last year there an unlucky number of individuals who lost power in parts of the area. Some of which were issues with power lines, but there was one power substation that got clogged up with snow because it wasnt designed to handle the combination wind and snow of a once in a century blizzard.

Now this is BUFFALO. Yes the amount of snow we get is exaggerated especially if you live north of the lake, but if there is a city in the north east who's infrastructure should be snow resilient it should be Buffalo.

And yet the power companies arent going to upgrade or modernize or enforce the maximum standard unless it makes them money, even though these companies have a monopoly over supplying power to large regions and are therefore guaranteed money!

So overall this is great. If the prospect of safe and modernized infrastructure is not profitable per their own admission, then a public entity can take the reigns since this is enough of a public good for that to not matter

That said the governor hand picking boards and ceo is a mixed bag since NY state has a long history of cronyism, but not like the private company wouldnt play favorites either.

Yeah that was a show that didnt really have an end game properly planned out and thanks to the production woes it had that caused it to get delayed and cut short, the ending really does hit the fan.

It's such a shame too because the animation was solid and the concept was fascinating. I feel like the biggest crime this series has is how they knew they were running out of time, money, episodes, and instead of wrapping things up they just kept adding more and more undercooked ideas. I think the series would be more fondly remembered if it just hastily fizzled out instead. It would still be disappointing but it really is one of those shows where the back half manages to retroactively make the front half worse.

I thing that was so frustrating about season 2 was that they were leaving breadcrumbs, clues, and hints that in fact things ARE different. Characters werent just conspicuously absent, there was scrawling on the walls stating that they left.

It felt like the series was going to dive into some multiverse/time travel/alternate reality/reality warping shenanigans and do things a little differently than the manga while still tying into the original . Then the anime wasted a lot of time, skipped ahead a bit and resolved the majority of the manga in the form of a slideshow.

I really wonder what happened during production to lead to this change and issue and why the series just ended the way it did.

From a lemmy perspective I dont really see much value in being connected to microblogs and vise versa since they offer two different types of services. So on this end I dont mind servers on lemmy defederating.

Yeah this is the thing that I dont understand. If facebook and google were a whole different system from the get go the problem would be the same. A small niche group of xmpp servers and if you wanna facebook chat you have to go to facebook.

I dont remember using xmpp much in those days either personally. Mid 00s to early 10s I used AIM, YIM, MSN, and IRC. The transition to services like facebook chat, imessenger, whatsapp, and the next wave of services like Telegram and signal came from a shift in in how chatting was done. In the case of facebook chat they had more users from Facebook than they did just the XMPP network and it's not like XMPP was a big part of that growth. For Google they just got tired and started a long trend of rebuilding the messaging wheel.

Hangougs got big because google was still the quirky up and comer, and also it was more like a modern persistent groupchat. Also it was installed by default on a lot of phones.

But yeah that one blog is getting linked around a lot and I dont agree with the assessment. Threads is already bigger than mastodon and they dont really care all that much. They probably adopted the protocol because someone on the team was either a nerd who liked the technology, or they figured it would be easy to just use an existing standard instead of building their own from scratch

When I was a kid I had a few VHS cassettes with various shows and movies on them that were often recorded from TV. This was before the mid 90s Toonami era made anime popular stateside I was like maybe 2-5 with these tapes I'd watch and I didnt even know they were anime.

One of them was the Little Nemo Movie and the other one was a several episodes of a series called Serendipity The Pink Dinosaur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity_the_Pink_Dragon

Apparently it's on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZWuTSp9NgM&t

As for first anime I knew was anime thats harder to say but probably Voltron? If not Sailor moon/dbz

yeah especially as I imagine these ai and image searches may also start getting used as part of screening services. So that job may run your id through a face search and because a service you uploaded a photo to was used to train ai faces there may be some content that bears more than a striking resemblance to you

If you're in the US a lot of public libraries connect with hoopla which you should be able to access for free with a library card. It gives you a set number of things you can "check out" a month depending on your library(usually around 5 or 6). This includes books, audiobooks, comics(single issues and volumes both count as a 1), and of course a week of some subscription services like nebula oddly enough. Worth checking out especially since nebula is more for independent creators to actually get paid and not big name media studio.

edit: Just double checked it isnt there. I feel like there was more last time I checked but I may have also just gotten confused with great courses plus and curiositystream which do seem to be there

I agree that I absolutely do not want a chat bot and that getting in touch with a human who knows what theyre doing is more important.

That said I've also worked a job where I manned the little chat box on a website by myself and I was consecutively talking to like 13 people at the same time for 8 hours. It was not fun, and while I did what I could to help people there were times I wasnt as fast to respond and that I didnt give people as much help as I could. There were also times when the the question was super simple and it saved the customer time on hold for nothing.

I've also seen chat windows on websites that are pushed out to underpaid overworked people in third world countries where they are so stuck to the script that it might as well be a robot. Overall I think chat windows on websites for anything serious arent great, human or otherwise, though they should be better. In some cases the bots may improve experience, but I dont like that it'll just lead to cutting their customer service crew further.

Just started house hunting and I really feel this question.

I feel like intellectually I can say that the housing stock in my area is older(for the US anyway) and as a result theres a strong chance somebody died in the house I buy. This whole country is built on native american land which was depopulated with either violence or disease, and gun violence is a plague in this country. Even in nicer "low crime" areas you have murders and shootings and you just have to live with it. Ive bought food at places where someone was shot in the head due to some personal grudge.

If it was a good enough deal in a good enough neighborhood and the ghost story was keeping buyers away then I'm a lucky duck and after a few years the murder will be forgotten and when I inevitably move I'll sell it for a good profit when(and if) I need to move.

Of course thats my brain. My gut says I dunno. I dont really believe in ghosts, and even if I did I wouldn't be bothered by like someone dying in their sleep or of old age etc. Still a murder suicide is dark. You know in the dead of the night when it's still and everybody else is asleep or if I'm alone my mind can get superstitious and uneasy. Likewise it's weird to live in a place where you can know exactly where something that horrible happened. To have my growing children playing with toys or running around on ground that someone was legit murdered in recently.

So I could be boisterous and say I'd jump on the deal, but I dunno. I might be able to push myself to go through with it(and regret it some nights) or I might decide I dont want a home with that kind of baggage.

One of the things I like about beehaw is that it's relatively chill and normal. The instance description puts a lot of emphasis on the "safe space" concept which can lead to an initial worry that things be overly moderated or perhaps have blanket rules that are enforced without nuance. So far it's so relatively normal and the only real rules are dont be a jackass, have discussion in good faith, and dont tolerate intolerance.

I see a few people try and pull the "oh yeah well what if my opinion deviates blablabla" and the mods handle it pretty well, they dont insta delete, and when it gets to a point where the person is clearly acting in bad faith they just put that individual into a time out.

I'd be a pickle.

You just have to visit the instance and then click block in the sidebar

Unfortunately the only way to block is to manually go in and block it. The good news is that the majority of it comes from a few communities so you dont have to manually go through and block EVERY community from them all at once.

From there much like weeding a garden you can block the porn communities as it comes

The mods have stated a few times that it's just a matter of having the right tools to better handle to influx in trolls that the instances bring in. The admins and mods are in communication with the other instances working on a solution.

As a whole even when we were still federated the majority of the shit.justworks and .world instances were fine. A little more typically abrasive internet guy but the majority of users are just people. The problem was due to their open registration process that a disproportionate amount of moderated and banned users came from these instances and with the current explosion in users and everything else on their plate the mods had to do what they had to do.

Refederation will happen eventually though.

I do love also how she's not some wisened genius race. She's just old. Like maybe her people were space faring at some point in time, but given how long they live getting fast high end tech isnt necessary so they probably werent as advanced as most species we encounter in star trek.

But also even if they were it's been a long time since they used their tech and even if they remember it it's not like she would know how to build it. Like I know how to drive a car, and can do some basic mechanic work, and I know the broad strokes of how an internal combustion engine works. If someone asked me to build them a car they'd be out of luck.

This is a common thread and question that I've seen pop up all over the internet since I first joined message boards in the early 00s. It's you and I dont mean that in a judgmental way, but it sounds like you're probably burned out or being brought down by other factors in your life.

I said it in 2002 on gamefaqs, I said it in 2005 on my small local game message board, I said it in 2010 on reddit, and I'll say it again. The best time for gaming is now. Because there are still good games coming out regardless of the bad contemporary trends, and the indy revolution of the 10s has only made that more true. On top of that all the classics you know and love are still behind us and playable.

I think you need to take a step back and try to figure out exactly what it is about gaming that you used to enjoy and try to figure out why you may not be enjoying games anymore. It could be the type of game youre playing, it could be that you're just burned out, and it could be external factors in life.

Did you used to play games with friends and family that have drifted apart as you got older? Does work leave you drained and with little time and energy to play your long playsession single player experience? Is the game that you're playing one with a toxic community? Do you feel unfulfilled in other parts of your life and feel guilty that instead of working on that you're engaging in your hobby? Are you experiencing other mental health issues like depression or anxiety that might be tinting your enjoyment of things?

There are a number of reasons you might fall into and out of gaming. I'm in my 30s and I personally go through seasons and times when I play a lot of games and when I focus my hobbys on something else. Ive felt like "maybe I'll never get that immersive feeling again like I did at 18" a bunch of times in my life and then picked up games I couldnt put down. Once you find out the why you can try and tackle the problem.