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Anonymous 02/27/24 (Tue) 08:21:29 No.120408 [Reply]

What is your opinion of private trackers and the like? AB recently came back (yay) but people have mixed feelings about such things. It's easy to dismiss criticism as jealous resentment if someone isn't in them, but it's also easy to see that it's not an ideal situation for people that love certain media and want to also share that love with others.
Maybe if AB did die the nyaa admin would get off his butt and actually allow new account creation since they've been temporarily closed for like half a decade now. It's not unusual to see releases and uploads that don't actually belong to the uploader since the person has no account. How much stuff is nyaa missing because it doesn't allow people to actually share them? You can only get post-MoyaiSubs Mewkledreamy Mix subs on twitter right now and I only know that because it was mentioned in one of the 2 uploads on nyaa uploaded by a third party, with the remaining 25 episodes on twitter. Is nyaa considered semi-closed or something?

I think the problem with Japanese media in general is that there's really no middle ground. It's nyaa or nothing. There isn't a "oh, this isn't as great as AB but it has 70% of the content" place, it's either you're in the anime tracker or you're not. I'm not in BBT, but I hear it's closer to the nyaa side of the scale due to certain rules it has among other reasons. I worry that as Japanese media continues to overtake the Western world (even if the mainstream people watch the same 5 shows) the tendrils of corporate rights holders will be as zealous as Disney or Nintendo is, and that will further increase the reliance of private trackers. Not to imply that it doesn't already cause issues on stuff like youtube and the like. Youtube once had lots of full episodes and albums you could watch but they were stricken down by various companies doing the copyright strike thing to wipe out accounts hosting entire libraries. It also has algorithms and AIs to detect and delete stuff that gets uploaded, within minutes. But hey, if you subscribe to one of 15 services you might be able to watch it if it's currently on the service.

Oh yeah, I forgot that I wanted this thread was more about general private tracker stuff. I think they're unfortunately a necessity for most things due to how corporate the internet has become, but I don't think it's necessary for Japanese stuff yet in regards to user safety from lawyers. I think it's kind of sad how people under age 25 or Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Anonymous 04/18/24 (Thu) 21:44:14 No.123283

>>123277
Why do you need a VPN for nyaa?

Anonymous 04/18/24 (Thu) 23:17:32 No.123291

>>123283
I don't want loli hentai associated with my family's static home IP address, also you never know what company is going to suddenly start sending copyright letters

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 00:19:08 No.123295

>>123291
have you considered shelling out $5 a month for a good VPN?

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 00:21:31 No.123297

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>>123291

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 11:23:12 No.123323

>>123295
I'd rather torrent through Whonix

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Anonymous 03/13/21 (Sat) 06:35:55 No.68627 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

><Anonymous> like say someone starts a thread about mecha it's gonna take two years to reach 200 posts

Let's prove him wrong.
MECHA THREAD!

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Anonymous 07/11/23 (Tue) 20:52:36 No.110942

it's quite something that the franchise predicted the idea of AI assisted controls in complex systems to better the abilities of the pilot

Anonymous 08/07/23 (Mon) 20:45:26 No.112156

Grendizer is getting a reboot.

Anonymous 08/07/23 (Mon) 22:16:06 No.112157

>>112156
Interesting teaser trailer that didn't really show anything. Can't tell if it will be loaded with 3D or not

Anonymous 10/11/23 (Wed) 16:10:28 No.114968

https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-startup-develops-gundam-like-robot-with-3-mln-price-tag-2023-10-02/

Wish I was a billionaire so I could spend one one of these easily. It looks so cool.

Anonymous 04/16/24 (Tue) 18:44:23 No.123190

Will 3D mecha ever be able to look as good as 2D?

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/qa/nime: continued! Anonymous 12/27/21 (Mon) 02:52:44 No.82349 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

I was reminded that another year has passed since the last time the /qa/ anime chart was updated, so I thought it was as good a time as ever to bring it back, update it, and improve on it a bit in the process.

The format for deciding on picks this year will be the same as the last with the addition of maybe singling out a specific anime of each year to be the most /qa/ anime of the year. For the current candidates that should be easy since there's only 4 of them, but for this year we'll have to conclude all the seasonal polls first and then afterwards decide.

The polls will be made separately and then linked in the thread with at least 3 days allotted for people to decide on winners, and I'll make a new poll for each season every day, starting with Winter 2021 today. To not make cheating so easy I'll make it so an IP needs at least 3 posts to vote, which shouldn't really be hard for anyone I hope. Also the AOTY polls will probably all be at the end or sometime in-between since they shouldn't be as hard of a decision.

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 19:56:32 No.122264

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And with that we're finished with 2023! Now it's time to move on with a season more fresh in people's memory, this one! Everything's ending in about a week or less, so I'll give it about 2 weeks for decision making.

>>>/poll/3943

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 04:03:19 No.122291

>>120620
I voted for all the ones I watched and liked

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 07:36:14 No.122293

>>82349
>>122264
look at how much the format of the image has improved over the years good job

Anonymous 04/16/24 (Tue) 01:33:08 No.123176

File:qanime-winter-2024.png (3.88 MB,1218x2628)

AND THAT'S IT FOR WINTER 2024!

>>122293
Yeah, going with the format change was a tough pill to swallow at first and took a while but I really ended up liking this new format. It's super easy to make additions to as well, I already have entries cropped out for years all the way up to 2030.

Anonymous 04/16/24 (Tue) 07:26:10 No.123182

>>123176
So, who's going to win next year?

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Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 07:48:09 No.123132 [Reply]

Time for some spring cleaning!

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Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 12:16:09 No.123145

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cute as HELL stop motion

Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 12:53:06 No.123146

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>>123144
Sehet! Es ist alles verrückt!
Ich sage euch, der Stuhl ist besessen!
Zweifellos das Werk des Wesens X, dem alten Puppenspieler.

Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 12:59:42 No.123147

>>123146
People keep saying my dolls are haunted but it turns out it was the chair all along.

Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 15:40:15 No.123153

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>>123132
Thats a good stop-motion animation anon!

Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 15:45:20 No.123154

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>>123144
I can relate.

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Anonymous 05/15/23 (Mon) 15:56:10 No.108338 [Reply]

https://www.pcgamer.com/wow-classic-is-getting-official-hardcore-mode-servers/

What does /qa/ think about the idea of hardcore MMOs? Having seen a bit about this in my Youtube recommends, it looks kinda fun and engaing. Classic wow is by no means the hardest, or even that challenging an MMO, but I think that just lends itself very nicely to a hardcore mode. It encourages a bit more social interaction during questing to not die trying to solo along with encouraging better communication during dungeons/raids since nobody wants to lose their character. Also I'm a bit of a fan of hardcore modes myself, so I was wondering if kissu might be interested in giving it a shot once the servers come out?

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Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 18:46:49 No.122635

>>122611
also he NEVER said it was ds2 tier

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 08:31:41 No.122767

Phase 3 of WoW SoD launched with Nightmare Incursions, a new mechanic that just so happened to turn into the most profitable gold and xp source in the game. Blizz noticed and changes are already planned like a gold reward hotfix that came 8 hours after the patch launched, and an exp nerf to the incursion quests that'll come later today. Figuring this out, I decided to use it as an opportunity to easily level 2 of my chars to 50, and I spent all day today just running incursions over and over. Now my warrior is 50 alongside my rogue.

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 08:33:50 No.122768

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>>122767
>Nightmare Incursion
What is that exactly?

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 15:21:28 No.122771

>>122768
Sort of like an instance thing that everyone takes part in, they're inside of the portals that the world boss dragons come out of. Inside you do quests and get mission letters from them that you then use to get another quest and an item that lets you share the quest with other party members. There's kill quests, pick up quests, boss quests, and profession-based quests. It's pretty fun to do as a one off event and feels very MMO-y with how many people are doing it at the same time and killing bosses and such. However, the issue is that it's much easier to just do bosses and pick up quests than it is to do any kill quests or profession ones, so people run them in loops of 5-man groups and refresh all the quests after turning them in by sharing with each other then do it again and again and again because it's the most efficient way to get both gold and xp. You do this from 40 to 50 unless you want to be left behind, and right now there's a rush to do them since it's getting nerfed hard in the next patch so it's super easy to get groups.

Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 06:44:51 No.123128

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No group for Blood Moon? No problem! Just play a rogue.

Heavy metal may/may not improve performance

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Projects Anonymous 06/15/21 (Tue) 23:19:32 No.73454 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you been working on anything? Art, programming, etc.

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Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 02:55:42 No.123011

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>>122992
>ikafb+pwm-xft
It could be this, but make sure mpv (or vlc) is properly configured in your $PATH too. That's the problem I had on my machine when first configuring the program.

Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 02:58:27 No.123012

File:spectrogram.mp4 (819.18 KB,450x450)

just released a new version of ikamp with spectrogram support!

>>122961
for ikatube you can use the same theme file included with the ikachan distribution (ikachan_colortheme_bocchi.json), you can use that as a template
i actually have worked on a gui theme editor for my programs, so you can use it once it is released, just need some polish
>>122992
>as far as I could see it unfortunately omits the tag categories like Artist, Character, and Copyright
this is unfortunately a limitation of some other boorus ikachan supports, like gelbooru, so they're not always available
>I got ikatube to browse, but somehow couldn't get it to play.
do you have mpv in your path? it should work with that
>I likely don't have whatever compositor (probably ikafb+pwm-xft) is needed to draw border around the window
are you using the native wayland version? window border is not supported on gnome in this case

Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 03:06:12 No.123014

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>>122992
>>123011
>ikafb+pwm-xft
ikafb is a library that my programs use to draw ui and is already bundled in, and pwm-xft is an old window manager that i used previously
so they should'nt have any effect on the operation of the ika* programs

Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 07:12:07 No.123020

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>>123012
Wonderful. Looks great, thanks for that ikamp update! I got the spectrogram working on my end and did some other small tweaks in the UI file to make it look pretty without being too cluttered. Took a while, but I finally understand how to use it properly now.

>>123011 >>123014
I actually figured out what my issue with ikatube was. It was in the .json file where I overlooked the default program was mpv! My $PATH was all correct, but ikatube was looking for a program that just wasn't there. I've used VLC exclusively for everything for the past 15+ years. I didn't even consider that it'd default to another program that I've never used haha
I usually use FreeTube on desktop and NewPipe on Android since they're privacy-focused YT front-ends, but this one works fine now. Nice to have some more fun tools~

Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 07:19:10 No.123021

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>>123020 >>123012 >>123014
I also forgot to mention that I'm on GNOME yep. I got a new laptop recently and can't be arsed to do any ricing lol. Pop!_OS does exactly what I need for daily tasks and it's been good for many years ^^
Cheers!

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I hope you're paying attention! Anonymous 04/12/24 (Fri) 22:01:38 No.122977 [Reply]

There's going to be a spontaneous GuPz stream in 1 hour!!!(or maybe two if people want it at 8EST)!!

This the 4th movie in the final GuPz series and lasts for 60minute

@ https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/yukkuri !!!!

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Anonymous 04/12/24 (Fri) 23:48:29 No.122999

>>122998
oh wait that's probably "alcohol free"

Anonymous 04/12/24 (Fri) 23:58:11 No.123000

Definitely the most exciting tank action of the series so far on the mountain. What an intense and fast-paced scene, so much going on at once spread across a variety of different shots. I loved it.

Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 00:01:56 No.123001

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Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 00:05:11 No.123002

>>122998
Kugel Bier
Bullet Beer
Alkoholfreies Bier
Non-alcoholic Beer

I can't read the pink script.

Anonymous 04/13/24 (Sat) 00:11:13 No.123003

>>123001
if only that wasn't alcohol free i'd buy the HELL out of this beer with that logo

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Anonymous 03/22/24 (Fri) 06:18:05 No.121911 [Reply]

Played DD2. Some fps issues in the main city, and at infrequent moments out in the world, but aside from that was at a frequent 60+ with RTX on. From what I can see the whole "Mostly Negative" thing on steam is from people getting outraged over mtx that are basically the same thing that Capcom's done in all their other games and people that have more major performance issues. Aside from that I've been having a lot of fun, the game's good. Opening isn't as bombastic as the first though so some people may take issue with that, and there's a bit of minor nitpicks that people may have, but on the whole it's still the same good DD gameplay that people know and love. Supposedly with a much longer story and bigger map if leaks are to be believed.

I made a Fern pawn as you can't make loli ones anymore so Schierke wasn't possible. She got a fair bit of usage so far.

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Anonymous 04/05/24 (Fri) 16:33:33 No.122656

>>122655
Wearing armor is not cute.

Anonymous 04/05/24 (Fri) 16:53:24 No.122657

>>122655
That warfarer vocation looks so cool... Think I might have to max out everything to achieve the most of it

Anonymous 04/05/24 (Fri) 17:42:51 No.122659

>>122656
I see, you are the one my pawns spoke of, the arisen who sprints through the woods in naught but their undergarments

Anonymous 04/05/24 (Fri) 17:52:51 No.122660

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>>122659
They are not undergarments, if I am not wearing anything over them.

Anonymous 04/10/24 (Wed) 20:01:24 No.122885

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Finally, some good apocalypse! (Ending Screenshot)

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 20:47:17 No.122265 [Reply]

Does /qa/ have any favorite cartoons? I've never really stopped to think about this since I always despised /co/ as a board and they never discussed any of the cool European comics I was into. So, as usual, I thought of some stuff off the top of my head and made a 3x3 based on it. I think it's pretty obvious that I was an MTV/Cartoon Network kid if you look at my picks. MTV used to be a pretty cool channel and had a lot of cartoons that were aimed at the teen demographic that is so common in anime/manga. I also watched a lot of dubbed anime on CN back then. Avatar would probably be in this since everyone sucks it off so much and lauds it as the best cartoon ever, but I've never finished. I thought it was kinda boring back then and it did not help that Nickelodeon was already declining in quality during the time it aired.

By the way, did you know that there were two new seasons of Beavis and Butthead released in 2022-2023? I had no idea about this until recently. I might check it out sometime.

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Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 03:26:40 No.122288

>>122287
yeah, that's a nostalgic one

Anonymous 03/28/24 (Thu) 04:02:20 No.122290

cyberchase

Anonymous 03/29/24 (Fri) 00:13:26 No.122333

I think I've forgotten most of this stuff. Old Simpsons of course, uhh... children's stuff from the 90s I guess? Stuff like Rupert, David the Gnome, uhh, what else was there?
I really liked the old cartoons that wrote about magic and imagination and good things happening if you just believed in yourself. Good ol' sappy stuff is inspiring and really what kids need to hear if you ask me. Maybe the David the Gnome theme itself is emblematic of this kind of feeling. (video related)
Maybe I need to think more about this, because this is really deep in my memory somewhere...

Anonymous 04/09/24 (Tue) 22:24:19 No.122822

>>122287
I loved this show so much I became a bit obsessed with it. I'd daydream all the time about being part of the group and how things would play out if I were there. Being stuck at a boarding school but having the freedom to go wherever you wanted outside and actually doing things that mattered was so enticing to the imagination. Especially the whole conflict and interaction between the virtual world and real world, whatever happened in the virtual world had visible effects on the real world. And a lot of times they had to use guile and deception to keep a secret.

I really liked Kids Next Door too. The whole premise of kids leading double lives as spies/commandos was really fun.

There's just something so alluring about alteregos/personas. The ability to put on a mask and slip through the chains that bind. Deception, lies, trickery. Not knowing who you really are yet knowing all the same. Mutability, vague, indescript, undefined, outside the box.

Anonymous 04/10/24 (Wed) 02:36:23 No.122841

>>122822
Same, my friends and I had a field day with CL. Rewatching some episodes recently reminded me how dark it could get for a kid's show.
Shame about the reboot.

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Anonymous 04/07/24 (Sun) 05:03:12 No.122723 [Reply]

(MASSIVE SHINSEKAI YORI SPOILERS AHEAD)

How the fuck is SSY so highly rated????? It's built on nothing but endless retardation.

What other setting have you heard of where randos suddenly getting powers led to humanity's near extinction simply because they felt like it? The entire backstory is built on first-wave rando retardation on top of a thousand years of emperor retardation on top of scientist retardation all to deal with the absolutely irredeemable walking nukes that are cantus users. Sheer stupidity from everyone involved over a near geological timeframe but what's even stupider is its incredibly abysmal take on totalitarianism.

All across the story the kids have to deal with the blatantly sinister actions of their superiors in a way that almost seems to say "hey, maybe surveillance states are bad" (NO SHIT!) but then you learn that ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, it was all justified and this is the only societal configuration that makes a shred of sense in this world, otherwise everyone would've died by now. The ending is supposed to be hopeful, but they haven't changed SHIT. FUCK ALL. It goes against everything it has built so far with how it's gone so out of its way to set up the world as stupidly grimdark and then ends with absolutely no answer to all the problems it poses. Espers still can't keep each other under full control so you need the queerrats to continue acting as an underclass of assassins, and you NEED them to be an underclass because if they're not they'll logically rise up again like they just did a few years ago, because cantus users are a cancer that'll destroy the earth itself if you don't keep them in check. So they should all commit suicide somehow, jump off a fucking cliff and let the world heal by itself.

It's all fucked up beyond repair, the rats can't undo their genetic modifications, they can't un-fuck-up their queens, the espers can't stop being nukes, but they can't kill each other either due to the feedback loop, and they can't kill the rats because they need them, nor can they undo humanity's annihilation, it's all set up to fail. It's either the status quo of an obligatory surveillance state or oblivion and this surveillance state is consistently portrayed as bad, so what is the anime trying to say? That in this extremely specific and very stupid setting it turns out totalitarianism is good? How does this apply to anything? If Saki genuinely means well, as she's consistently painted as up to Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 04:45:54 No.122761

>>122760
But why does she kill him only after finding out definitively that queerrats are modified humans? If it was only because she was personally close to Squealer his death could have happened at a much earlier date or even during the trail. Notable it's Satoru's voice that says the rhetorical question about how they don't see queerrats as human. Saki's answer to Satoru's question is killing Squealer, she sees him as human. Why position the scene otherwise? The alternative you're proposing, is that Saki answers the question about seeing queerrats as human by mercy killing her non-human friend. It's an odd response to the question.

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 05:26:02 No.122762

>>122759
I thought I read somewhere that the mother's mean age at first birth in Japan was 29 but I could not find it again, however the mother's mean age at first birth for Australia is 28.7 for reference.

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 05:29:19 No.122763

>>122762
Ohh and the Australian statistic was from 2014, so it's 10 years old.

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 05:49:00 No.122765

>>122761
I'm fairly certain that was her first opportunity to do it. She's not in charge of the sentencing and the others wanted him to suffer. She had to wait until everybody was busy elsewhere and make it look like an accident. The point is that patiently going along with things gives you opportunities to make small changes that steer society towards something better.

And he's not her friend, just someone she knows well enough to have developed some level of sympathy for.

Anonymous 04/08/24 (Mon) 06:18:39 No.122766

>>122765
>I'm fairly certain that was her first opportunity to do it.
Even if that is true, it is true by the construct of the author. The author could have chosen any number of ways to have Saki kill Squealer. The mere fact that the author chose to tell the story in this specific way reveals authorial intent behind the meaning of Saki's actions. The key here is why does Saki kill Squealer after discovering queerrats are part human? Why did the author not have Saki kill Squealer then discover queerrats are part human? Why does the author have Saki discover queerrats are human? Why does the author have Saki kill Squealer at all?
The last question can be answered by your explanation of sympathy but the other questions are answered by mere coincidence and the author felt like it. Which could be true but seems unlikely given the importance the end of a story has in laying out the "meaning".

Further reinforcing this view is the way in which the scenes played out in the show. Satoru asks Saki a rhetorical quesiton about seeing queerrats as human. Saki of course gives no verbal answer but the following scene is Saki killing Squealer. This can quite easily be seen as Saki "answering" Satoru. Again this didn't have to be the next scene or even be included in the adaptation but including it and including it in the way it was included goes to show how the director thought what the authors intent was, and of course what the director's intent is with the show and it's meaning.

>The point is that patiently going along with things gives you opportunities to make small changes that steer society towards something better.
I have no disagreement with that, but with the moral reasoning leading to a need for change being strictly a miscalculation about managing the lower classes and not about recognizing genetically modified, sentient humans as humans.

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Anonymous 09/03/22 (Sat) 04:48:49 No.96100 [Reply]

Do you have a game or show or anything else that you experienced when you were younger that has left a permanent impression on you? Not just nostalgia, but you feel as though it altered your way of thinking or what it is you desire.
I'm aging myself a bit with this one, but two prominent ones for me are the two Lunar games. They're JRPGs that I first played on the PSX. They originally came out on SegaCD, but it was wisely remastered for a console that more than 5 people had. I did go back and play the SegeaCD versions on emulator back in the day, though. I even had some Lunar avatars that I still have on my drive!

The main themes of the games are adventure and love. At its core the games are very simple both in gameplay and story scope, but its charm is the unmistakable purity of it. I think these two games gave me desire for the fairytale romance that you can only see in fiction, and of course the corny "defeating the bad guy with friendship and love" cliché. It's just so beautiful and pure. If someone were to ask me what paradise is like, I would point to this kind of thing. It is the pure idealization of human emotion.

Someone might have also noticed that the art looks familiar, and that's because the character designer eventually worked on Idolm@ster. Takane in particular really has the face, so she's a bit of a weakness of mine when it comes to 2D idols, even when I don't really partake in that culture.

Of course, the games do have issues. Today I can appreciate the fact that Working Designs went overboard with the localization process and should have been respectful to the source material. The main story is fine, but the random NPCs make jokes and references to pop culture that they really shouldn't.

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Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 20:23:56 No.121325

>>121324
It was Z, yeah.

Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 20:40:10 No.121326

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Combining this thread with a pre-existing one of the same subject matter since OP was looking for it

Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 20:41:39 No.121328

>>121326
Good idea

Anonymous 03/11/24 (Mon) 13:28:48 No.121391

The first Samurai Warriors game for the PS2 is what first got me into samurai and ninjas and eventually anime. I think what got me so hooked on this game was how exotic it was. I used to live out in the boonies and the only experience I had with Japanese media was through Pokemon and Moomins.

Anonymous 04/07/24 (Sun) 21:09:17 No.122739

>>96100
>Do you have a game or show or anything else that you experienced when you were younger that has left a permanent impression on you? Not just nostalgia, but you feel as though it altered your way of thinking or what it is you desire.
The novel Blindsight by Peter Watts. The bleak outlook on life stuck with me. I don't mean the central idea of the novel the notion that consciousness is an evolutionary dead end because non-conscious beings are massively more efficient at thinking, it's more the way that every character in his novels is some variety of cynical asshole or another. You would not be surprised to learn after reading his books that he's the kind of guy who says "Life is an eternal struggle at the expense of other life". But it's a cynicism that comes from caring too much for his own good---one of the formative experiences of Peter Watts' life was when he was a boy, seeing some schoolboys torment a snake, and he tried to stop them because he felt bad for the snake, and the other boys ganged up on him for it. Anyway, the worldview articulated in his fiction dropped into me like a paving stone matching a gap in a paved path.

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Anonymous 12/15/23 (Fri) 01:15:41 No.117329 [Reply]

Which other websites on the World Wide Web does /qa/ use?

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Anonymous 03/07/24 (Thu) 17:21:56 No.120803

>>117348
i love how the sign up page for cohost looks similar to one of those sign up pages you see in mid 2000 roleplaying online social games, gave me nostalgia

Anonymous 03/08/24 (Fri) 03:03:13 No.120845

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shieeeeet

Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 05:50:50 No.121283

a common problem I have with invidious, aside from being painfully slow, is that it will randomly stop playing sound. it's nice that it exists. I just wish nsfwyoutube.com didn't randomly stop working (I can't click on any of the videos even though I can still search)

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 17:31:41 No.122697

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>>121283
I've been using FreeTube standalone program for a long time on PC. The settings (pic related) allow you to choose an instance or use the local api that comes with it. No sign-up, local subscriptions, SponsorBlock support, and the most recent update finally allowed for the creation of custom playlists for which I've been waiting forever.
https://freetubeapp.io/

If you use an Android phone, then I suggest NewPipe. You can find it in the F-Droid catalog of FOSS/FLOSS apps (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/) or straight from their website at https://newpipe.net/.
NewPipe can play stuff from YouTube, Peertube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc.
I use both nearly every day for years as YT front-ends and while sometimes updates might take a while to restore functionality when YouTube changes something to break it, a fix always comes.

Aside from those two, there's Kavin's services which includes Piped (https://kavin.rocks/services) for seeing YT videos. If you've ever used Nitter as front-end for Twitter, or Libreddit as a Reddit front-end, then those are also from Kavin. YT links in Nitter would be redirected into Piped for viewing (though it seems Nitter is recently dying, but Piped should be okay)
>>>119436

>>117329
To answer OP's question, I'm usually helping streamer friends on Twitch and talking with them+community on Discord, and maintaining a personal website on Neocities for the purpose of learning fun (exclusively HTML/CSS).
Currently taking a multi-month break from most internet for sanity reasons, but during the self-imposed downtime I'm lurking Kissu recently and a few other boards like Sushigirl, Tohno-chan, etc. Otherwise, usually browsing Danbooru/Gelbooru, filling up hard drives with stuff from IRC or Nyaa, and catching up on various Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 17:34:03 No.122699

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I wrote pic-related and forgot to add the relevant pic once I wrote everything.

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Japanese Mascots Anonymous 02/16/24 (Fri) 21:42:55 No.119875 [Reply]

Don't think I have ever seen a mascot thread here.

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Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 06:29:49 No.122677

>>122675 >>122676
Whoa, a buddhist is one of the last that I'd expect would have a moe mascot like her. But I ain't complaining, she's cute.
I was listening to the theme song and thought "This boppin' music is giving me IOSYS vibes somehow. Who made this?" Checked description:
>Composed by: ARM
Well, that explains everything!
Eyeballing that itasha too, I love creative itasha that aren't the usual generic decals or wraps. Vans are some prime candidates for amazing creativity inside too.
I'm also curious if that figure is a garage kit or not, but I quite like it. Tempted to do more searching on her later, good stuff.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 06:43:18 No.122680

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>>122677
Pre-painted assembly kit apparently.
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-008036

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 07:05:20 No.122681

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>>122680
Nice find, that gave a bunch of useful info. Thanks!

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 13:14:40 No.122686

>>122675
>>122676
I don't see him credited, but the designs looks very Akio Watanabe.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 15:51:39 No.122691

>>122686
I had exactly the same thought

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Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 06:32:15 No.122678 [Reply]

Where do I go to watch seasonal shows with Japanese subtitles? I want to watch YuruCamp S3 but I'm at the point in my ninhongo studies where I feel like if I'm not watching anime with JP subs I'm wasting my time. I'm also not good enough to watch with no visual aid whatsoever.

Every torrent site I've found uses subs for every language except Japanese.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 06:36:51 No.122679

I've mentioned it before, but OpenAI's Whisper can generate subtitles automatically, in any language, and can even translate. But, I guess if you want official subtitles it's not really an option, certainly not if you don't have a newer GPU either.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 07:26:08 No.122682

>>122679
I don't really know how to use that stuff. Anyway for a change I actually found some jp subs on nyaa but it was listed as eng subs.

Still, feel free to post suggestions in this thread.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 07:31:40 No.122683

kitsuneko collects jp closed captions. Not every show has them, but it's probably your best bet.

Anonymous 04/06/24 (Sat) 08:42:26 No.122685

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For YuruCamp S3 in particular, the AT-X broadcast appears to contain Japanese subtitles (judging from kitsunekko and Wikipedia). However, they're out of sync with CR's web version due to the 提供クレジット and whatnot.
For other anime, TV Tokyo (TX) and Netflix (NF) may also include Japanese subtitles.
Sometimes the subtitles exist but haven't been uploaded to any public site I'm aware of, pic related. If you can't find any subtitles, you can try consulting https://anicobin.ldblog.jp/ because for the anime episodes that have a corresponding blog entry, usually almost every line is transcribed there.

>>122682
Judging from the corresponding file on kitsunekko those subtitles are poorly timed and are probably machine-generated; correct me if I'm wrong. The AT-X ones look usable.

>>122683
>kitsuneko
狐っ娘（きつねっこ）

Anonymous 05/03/24 (Fri) 06:36:44 No.123969

kitsunekko is currently down for me but most of the Japanese subs there should be on jimaku.cc

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Anonymous 03/08/24 (Fri) 22:54:06 No.121041 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

Now that there's a bunch of people that have at least seen it in the stream, Undead Unlock is pretty amazing, huh? Seems like a nice high budget production. I haven't been excited for an action-y anime in a while

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Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:49:27 No.122230

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>>122225
>I forget exactly how they did it in the anime

And that's a prompt for me to share more Undead Unluck anime footage!
Yes, here is how David Production did that page. This is at the very beginning of the first episode so by no means is it a spoiler.

Anonymous 03/27/24 (Wed) 06:58:18 No.122232

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>>122230
Also, damn, looking at this again knowing what I do after seeing the rest of the anime...
These single frames that flash on screen during the intro are quite interesting. So this is the something that will happen in future, huh? It does look sort of similar to the God in the visions. God has nice boobs.

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 03:05:28 No.122594

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I continue to be amazed at the quality of this art. The lines are beautiful and clean.
So many panels are directly seen in the anime because the quality is just so high and the presentation can't be improved upon. It's like the guy wrote it as a director of anime or something, or however you would say that.

Anonymous 04/04/24 (Thu) 04:30:54 No.122596

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I read one chapter or two after the part where the anime ended and I think I'll stop. I could finish this story in hours whereas waiting for the anime will give me months of experiencing things for the first time. But I have to say again how well choreographed everything is. Yoshifumi Yozuka is very talented. This thread should survive until August 1st, so until then!

Anonymous 04/05/24 (Fri) 14:22:14 No.122654

>>122594
>>122596
unsage

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