cerebralhawks

The first one is cute one time. When it starts to become a pattern, it’s laziness. Especially when it’s copypasta, which it usually is.

The search thing is less relevant to Google as Google pretty much relies on Reddit for that, but still a good point.

I will help where I can, for the same reason.

My wife's favorite anime series is My Hero Academia, which features teen superheroes. It's fine, but the fandom can be a bit... extra. Like the mangaka (author/artist) did not do relationships because they're focused on heroics and because they're kids. He actually got death threats because the main guy and the main girl didn't get together at the end. So he released a chapter that so far has only been released in Japan legally, where they're showing holding hands at the end. And it's more of a "team up" gesture than a romantic one. Still, it tipped off a wave of homophobia among some fans as some people had shipped the main guy with other male heroes, and the main girl with the villain girl. They believed that the mangaka had endorsed their bigotry.

It's a fucking mess. But you know what it looks like? Teen drama.

Meanwhile... mine's Bungo Stray Dogs. Same concept, only the heroes are older. Okay, tiger boy is like 17? And one girl is 14-15? But the rest of them are adults. They're in their 20s and some are older. The coolest thing? Their superhero names are the names of famous writers. Their super powers are named after that writer's famous work. Like the main guy goes by Osamu Dazai (we don't know his real name) and his power is called No Longer Human. That's a real Japanese author and his most famous book. None of them are named after anyone most Westerners commonly read. There's no Stephen King, no James Patterson. That's kind of the point, these guys are more anonymous, and less flashy. They aren't even super heroes, they're detectives, and the villains are just the Mafia (they're called the Port Mafia but I guess they're supposed to be Yakuza?) and other criminal organisations. Same good superhero fun, but none of the teen drama. Not as popular over here, but apparently it's real big in Japan? I dunno. It's good shit though.

As for Peter Parker/Spider-Man, I always thought the point was he was mature for his age but still a kid.

Link Click.

I think anime tends to get overlooked unless it's really good, and if it's not from Japan, it doesn't get looked at at all (as anime, not TV in general). Link Click is a Chinese anime, and it's as good as any "science fantasy" anime from the last 10-15 years, including Dr Stone (first season anyway), Steins;Gate, and others. Leaning more into fantasy, it's about a couple guys who can use time travel in creative ways together. The main guy can enter a photograph for 12 hours, typically taking on the role of the photographer. It's unclear on whether any changes he makes stick in the present when he comes back, but he's urged not to. His partner can see 12 hours in both directions from when the picture was taken, the timeline frozen when it was taken, and he can telepathically guide the main guy in his "dives."

All the music is on point. The first opening impressed us with the "hand dancing" (somewhat similar to the first Jujutsu Kaisen ending with the dancing), but the second one, with its backwards-spoken verse (and reversed subtitles!!) really stepped it up. We're rewatching the first two seasons to get ready for the third (which is out). The first season ends up revealing that they aren't the only ones with time manipulation powers (I mean they kinda had to introduce a villain at some point). And the second season has a different tone. Rather than doing odd jobs for people, they're kind of in an intellectual cat and mouse game with their adversary, kind of like the best parts of Death Note.

Link Click is already in a league with all those shows I've named, the question is not that but rather, if it will exceed them.

Link Click has been dubbed in English as well as its native Chinese, and there is a Japanese dub as well, so however you like your anime, they've got you covered. As for the names, they sound more foreign to my western ears than even Japanese names, but it's fine.

TL;DR they want to control the experience, they don't want you to feel like you have to "jump in" to CarPlay, and they don't want it to be the same as on every other vehicle.

My takeaway: they want to put ads in it. "Increase value to our consumers" or some other horseshit you use CarPlay to get away from. Oh, and never update it.

Cocks. I don't like to see them.

Anything that plays at being gross. Like ass eating. Talking about family members. Like this girl really doesn't want to mess with her father or her brother, but Game of Thrones was huge so everyone wants to play into it. Kills the mood instantly. Just not into it. Even if it's two chicks, if they're pretending to be sisters or mother/daughter, it just kills it. Most people aren't into that for real, but "I wouldn't want to bang my sister but I want to watch you bang yours... to me it's the same.

Anything that plays at it being an ad. Teasing. Reference to commercial sites. "Only Fans." Back in the day, we kind of had a renaissance. Anyone with a camera could upload. Yeah occasionally you got teenagers doing dumb shit and if you suspected it, you didn't look at that. But a lot of college age couples were just having fun, fooling around, good times. A lot of those videos aren't in anything close to HD though, but are still worth watching from time to time.

I remember AOSPA! They had the cool pie control! I used it on a Galaxy S3.

Japanese is considered to be the most alien of languages to native English speakers, and vice versa. That said, it has been done, and it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to learn Japanese as a native English speaker. What it takes is time and dedication.

I actually know a few dozen words in Japanese, but I don't know Japanese.

As for dubs, I prefer some anime dubbed in Japanese and some anime dubbed in English. Generally English is more accessible in that I don't have to read as well as listen, but there are some animes I don't want to be distracted by subtitles.

Anyway, it's a common misconception in anime that "the language I don't understand has better voice acting." It's because you don't understand it. If you understood it, you'd likely come to the conclusion that some actors are just better than others, in either dub. The difference is, English dubs pay more and they have a wider pool of talent. But as you learn Japanese, you'll find the same is true in Japanese dubbing, some of the actors are actually good, and others are just phoning it in, same as anywhere.

I do feel like if you're familiar with Chinese languages, you probably know that Japanese evolved from Chinese (I'm not sure on the specifics here), like how they have the same numbers. So it's a good starting point. You can probably read the symbols, or at least know what they sound like. I can read romaji passably enough. But the symbols? Haha nope.

I like these things. Had no idea there was an organisation involved.

Fun fact: you can get them in Animal Crossing. You can buy them straight up, or make them — the availability of the crafting recipe, or the item being available in the shop, however, is completely random. And they don't "do" anything. They're just a decoration. I like having one on my island near my houses though, or maybe up by the museum, but my current character has neither the recipe nor the actual item. One of those things that, if I get the recipe/item, I'll definitely put one out.

I actually have the latest Audacity, for macOS if that matters. I don't see anything called openvino in the Effects menu.

I've only really ever used Audacity to shorten songs, like to make ringtones.

I agree with you about the lyrics. I think if it's a cover song, it's gonna be harder to tell, in a vacuum. I suppose I have my answer in how many songs this channel is churning out. What really did it for me was where the quality would dip. They act like they're actually doing these as performances in a studio, but there are lines being delivered that no reasonable person would sing that way and stamp with their approval. Because with a cover song, the lyrics have already been written and you have the song, you just change it in some way.

So you also like it? You disagree with everything I said... including the part where I said I don't like it? It sounds like you just want to be antagonistic. I'm not the future — being mean to me on social media won't stop the future from happening. It just makes you slightly less of a good person.

The reason streaming boxes are the future in gaming is the same reason they are in movies and music. In movies and music, the common players don't support physical media anymore — they're too small. How do you get a tape, CD, or vinyl record into an iPhone? You stream it. Same with games. Even now, vs 20 years ago, physical releases are getting rarer and rarer. This generation, Xbox and PlayStation have digital-only models, and a lot of games are digital-only.

The compression is a trade-off and it exists in movie and music streaming as well. Latency will be mitigated by more servers.

And it's actually already here. There are "Smart" TVs out there that play Xbox games. Via Cloud Gaming. I know guys out in the sticks who do cloud gaming. The myth that it's only going to work in NYC, LA, and Chicago hasn't ever been true. Seems like every town has servers now. And the fiber and cable running everywhere is good enough to solve most of the latency. Of course, there will always be latency... hell, I can't catch fish in Animal Crossing if I'm using a wired controller, I have to take the damn Switch out of the dock and play handheld, but if I do that, I can catch the 5-star rarity fish every time, first try.

You don't have to like it. I sure don't. But, how's refusing to accept things you don't like working out for you? You wish us a good president yet, or do you actually like the one we have (in the US)? Your wishes in tech are about as effective... same as mine.