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 No.73454[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you been working on anything? Art, programming, etc.
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 No.140991

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>>140982
Another box. They've been coming out less and less wonky, although they're still far from perfect.

 No.141358

I've gotten into collecting encyclopedias and reference sets. With how suggestible LLMs are, I'm wary of the truth of things becoming increasingly murky and want to have something I can rely on as being authoritative and truthful. I've gotten quite a few so far. The plan is to digitize all of them into searchable PDFs so that I can essentially have one big reference set, encompassing multiple viewpoints. Having one of those RAG LLMs that can only pull info from files might also be neat.

My collection currently consists of:
- Encyclopedia Britannica (1989)
- Collier's Encyclopedia (1965)
- Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia (1989)
- The Volume Library (1911)
- World Book Encyclopedia (1963)
- World Book Encyclopedia (1976)

I'd like to be able to get a few more. The one's I'm looking at adding to the collection are:
- The Volume Library (~1960 - 2010)
- The Young Students Encyclopedia (1985)
- World Book Encyclopedia (1940)
- World Book Encyclopedia (2017)
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>>141358
hmmm well one problem with this is that you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past, and tons of books and papers from the last thirty years have had to argue against the popular conception that's come down from 18th-19th century myths which are still treated as fact outside of specialized literature
i think it's a solid idea but you should definitely watch out, especially with those that are more than 4-5 decades old

 No.141361

>>141360
>you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
That's certainly true, but it's also desirable in some circumstances. For example, an encyclopedia from 1989 is in theory going to have more information on the Soviet Union than an encyclopedia from the last 20 years simply by virtue of the Soviet Union being extant at the time of writing. I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.

>in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past
What topic is that?

 No.141362

>>141361
>I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.
valid point
>What topic is that?
16th-17th century astronomy




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 No.129768[Reply][Last50 Posts]

General video games thread. What are you playing? What are you looking forward to?
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>>140934
>DJMAX
I've tried some of these games in the past on PSP and found them incredibly hard, as someone who is decent at other rhythm games like Taiko and Project Diva and always plays them on the highest difficulty. Maybe the learning curve is just steeper. But this doesn't seem like a good choice for a beginner to the genre.

>Etrian Odyssey
They're pretty good, would definitely recommend. I don't think these games are particularly hard, it's just that they offer you a huge amount of freedom in character building, and as a consequence it's possible to screw yourself over, so you need to be somewhat meticulous with skill point allocation and all that. You can read up on different classes and skills on wikis or GameFAQs, or if you ask here I can also give you some general pointers.

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 No.141154

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Banner of the maid is really good. I heard about it years ago but only bought it on sale recently. As far as srpgs go, I think its one of the better ones I've played. Usually indie srpgs are too easy and braindead but that's not the case here. General mode is very difficult and almost too strict at times, which makes it feel satisfying to play. (atleast if you're doing a no death run) The characters also have their own skills which makes each one feel unique in their own way. (for example the girl holding a bird has the ability to move another turn after using her heroic action, very broken)

Only gripe is that you can't play as the british or the prussians. The girl in pic related is very cute, probably the cutest, but I can't recruit her. Also apparently she is based off a real woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the prussian army. She fought and died in the line of battle, I would have saved her.

 No.141356

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Playing Sanabi and so far it's been pretty great. Not the hardest thing ever in terms of platforming, but it keeps you on your toes for some sections, and the pace of it is quite speedy. Think about it a really good hookshot in a 2D game you've played and then based the entirety of the game around the physics and combat with that. You grapple towards enemies to kill them, and you avoid them with propelled grapples that phase you through harmful objects. It may sound simple but it's got a good variety of boss fights that actually are pretty fun and gave me a bit of a challenge.

The story so far from what I've seen is one of revenge and corporate conspiracy, fitting for a game coming out of South Korea. The main city that this game takes place in is Mago City which has come under attack by the terrorist Sanabi, and whilst inside of the city looking for the terrorist several oddities pile up as the city's not what it seems at first glance. I'd get into more spoiler territory but I'm not really done with the game yet. There could be a bit more but I think I'm at or right next to the final area since there's not much left to climb. My prediction right now entering upper Mago city is that with the light theme of personality digitization and talk about human mimics, alongside the main sidekick girl supposedly avenging her father who was working against Mago city, that the MC is actually a robot mimic of her dad. And that with the false memory manipulation he's been given a vision of the roles reversed in which his daughter actually died in a terrorist attack by Sanabi and he survived. Which is probably the reason for Mari wanting us to play the harmonica so much. The MC being a robot would also make sense since he's not able to pass through anti-robot zones, having too much robotic content in his body. So far I think the story has been pretty well written with a bit of ugh's with the localization in the EN subs. Not too sure about what I think about what Mago corp is doing yet though.

 No.141357

Playing Yes Woman's Land right now, and it's okay.




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 No.116690[Reply][Last50 Posts]

New feature just landed.
https://github.com/desuwa/tegaki
Better than paint, allows you to add another layer on top for a simple CSP style image editor.
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Decided to try this out too. It worked just fine. It was pretty fun doodle with for a little bit, but now i guess i gotta go back to work...

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>>141205
Cute!

Also, did i get the message correctly? (I ended up doodling them in google translate's handwriting thingy to try and figure them out, funnily enough)

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 No.141355

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>>141272
Thaaank~




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 No.4165[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Post interesting or unusual stuff concerning imageboards, textboards or related stuff here. This thread is for a more centralized place of limited discussion, but please feel free to make new threads if you want something more thoroughly discussed.
Imageboard Happening Archives

This thread is cyclical with old replies removed as new posts are made.
Last Archived: February 3rd, 2025
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>>141336
Strong bond to waifu.

 No.141347

>>141336
Bold to assume we are sane.

 No.141348

>>141336
My favorite anime girls would be very disappointed in me if I became a delinquent.

 No.141351

>>141348
a practitioner of the ideal observer theory of ethics

 No.141354

>>141336
I'm too lazy to use drugs or do crime.




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 No.140993[Reply]

Going to Japan this summer, and I really want to avoid sticking out as some obnoxious foreigner. I was wondering if there's any helpful tips for how to conduct oneself or what'd really stick out to wear around so I can avoid packing it. It seems like a country that's pretty tolerant so it's not like I'll get beat up for just being a normal tourist, but I also don't want to come off as some unkempt freak who gets judged everywhere I go. To maximize my enjoyment of the trip I've been looking to find out what is and isn't acceptable and what's social faux pas or things to avoid.

For example, I was reading up on Japanese law recently and learned that under Act No. 52 of 1999 it's actually illegal to buy JCs off the streets. Which is just an important reminder to /qajp/ that you should always check the laws of where you're going to!
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>>141161
That would be cool!
But isn't it supposed to be isolated and protected or something? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.

 No.141201

>>141200
that's sentinel island

 No.141202

Apparently they sterilized all the cats too because the human population on the island dropped to about 2 after they ran out of fish populations

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>>141202
arekusa, play komm susser tod...

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 No.102927[Reply][Last50 Posts]

I tend to nag people to post their cat pictures here so it's only fair that I post some of my own. Here is the (late) kitty I had when I lived with my parents. I had her since I was eight years old and she lived to around 15 years.
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>>141258
did she pull the food tray out

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>>141259
looking for any potentially missing kibble

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Caaaaaaaaaaaaat

 No.141266

the problem is that I taught her, through observation, that if you hit the feeder hard enough it lets out kibble. So she's probably trying to hit it to knock out free food...

 No.141352

dumb let outard




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 No.141289[Reply]

Calamitous weather events are happening which means it's time for the SPRING anime season! What are you going to watch?

https://www.livechart.me/spring-2025/tv
https://anilist.co/search/anime?season=SPRING
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 No.141322

Japan's been going through a sorta mini-remake era, but they're not really all that popular compared to what's actually mainstream so I think it's sorta fine. Only issue is when you stop with new ideas completely like Hollywood sorta did, but with the LN and manga industry still going strong Japan probably won't suffer the same fate.

Although I have to say it's a bit disappointing that none of the remakes that I've seen so far have really completely transformed their initial iteration. Mostly just shiny coats of paint on an old IP. Which I guess is better than bastardization but wouldn't be bad to have a The Thing or two.

 No.141325

>>141322
There's lots of great anime that are incomplete adaptations so I'd be happy with a full-blown remake era if they focus on those.

 No.141326

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BYE BYE EARTH SEASON TWO, BABY! I wonder if it will have more than 10 episodes this time. First season was great. Unique show with fantastic style and one of the best soundtracks of recent memory. Yes it had silly titles pop up on the screen, but it was a pretty serious show with some nice, albeit confusing worldbuilding.
Looking forward to it! [Kissu Poster - The one Who Posts on Kissu]

 No.141330

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>>141326
Ohhh, Kevin Penken the MiA guy did the soundtrack. Now it makes sense.
Just downloaded the BD and it's working in surround and it's very good! Practically orgasmic when the songs climax. Such atmospheric music really immerses you in the moment and I hope kissu people give it a chance if you didn't when it aired! Go download and binge it before S2 starts!
Or if you won't, at least give this clip a chance to hear the sound design. It's just episode 1 so not a major spoiler. There's so many fantastic songs that give the show such an ethereal feel, it's truly something that everyone should hear.
It's a show with a heavy emphasis on music in the story and I suppose it makes sense to go the extra mile (or dozen) for it.

 No.141350

The Yaiba remake is going to be epic, I can feel it.




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 No.141227[Reply]

Sometimes it’s beneficial to be able to come out and communicate a bit. For example, just today I held back vomiting when approaching a neighbor about picking up some brush on her curb. And she said it was fine to take! So I got myself a shitload of good firewood for no cost at all.

Now you may be thinking to yourself, “That’s impossible! I can’t do that!”, but trust me, you can. It’s pretty easy too, only took me a bit over a month to work up the resolve to ask!
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>>141338
A real human wants to be happy, not a servant of rich capitalists, rich communists or rich socialists. Being successful means enjoying your life, not working all day so you can pretend to be nobility with lots of expensive luxuries for the few hours a day that you're not working. The vast majority of the population are dumb masochistic normalfags that will choose to slave their lives away no matter what anyone like me tries to tell them, so civilization isn't going to fall apart just because some people choose to be NEETs and enjoy our lives. Even if it did somehow fall apart because of NEETs that's okay because it's shit.

 No.141343

>>141342
Retirement is earned, not given. People aren't that kind, no one will give you that using their dollars unless they're familly.

 No.141344

>>141343
There are many ways to live without getting a job and I'm not going to try to list them as it depends on where you live and what opportunities are available to you, but I agree that becoming a beggar is a bad choice.

 No.141345

>>141344
yeah. I'm not saying that what someone does has to be the best for society, and I think a certain youtube person said it best: You probably don't want to even be working with these people who don't want to work.
But in the context of NHK where the protagonist collects cash from his parents and watches all of his friend circle and their dreams fall apart... the idea is that having their financial needs fulfilled doesn't mean that things are solved.

 No.141346

actually, the more I think about it. NHKs message is that people's fulfillment isn't tied to their ability to earn money. The pyramid scheme arc reminds me of this messaging. You can debate if the arc was a happy end or not, but what I agree with from the author is that the happy end was not about the money




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 No.88567[Reply][Last50 Posts]

MONKEY PUMP
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>>141244
fooooooor wooork otyu meeeean? i haave... all dooone... noooooo neeeeed to thiiiink anymore nutiiiilll neeext weeeeeek noooow...

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https://www.lcbo.com/en/kim-crawford-pinot-gris-2019-369850?srsltid=AfmBOopIaylzzBklBixsPu4Ej8GHirG4nZ6Z5JwmqYD9-ABaFudKXW4M

Anyone tried this?
I'm gonna drink it tonight to see if it's a good gift for a red drinker who can't drink reds for a year

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 No.141295

>>141261
Wow! It's bubbly!

 No.141340

ok... that wine was really hard. I'm still feeling it




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 No.102559[Reply][Last50 Posts]

pouting at the fact that kissu has a bump limit
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pout

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show

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>>141332
oops meant to post this one, that's just the pout shape but is NOT a pout

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genkipout

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>>141332
she looks like a MONKEY




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 No.100566[Reply][Last50 Posts]

This is a thread for sharing general news about anime or video games or other entertainment that you don't feel like making a thread for.

I find myself not wanting to make a new thread for stuff and then I either forget about it or I put it in the blog thread as a last resort, which is quite awkward. Maybe other people feel that way, too. Well, here's an attempt to fix that.
This is not a containment area for such news, rather it's just a more centralized thread to put it when you don't want to create a new thread to share some info before moving on to something else.
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 No.137915

ahem.... *cough*
alright....



RAILGUN SEASON FOUR
The anniversery last year passed without any announcement, so better late than never.

 No.140972

New-ish trailer for Silent Hill furude rika.

Sasuga Ryukishi07.

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>>140972
Not a huge fan of realism, but the realism does look very... realistic. I don't like horror much so I don't know if realism is considered good or not. Very impressive technology-wise.

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 No.136191[Reply][Last50 Posts]

It's time to FREEZE with the 2025 Winter season!
Does anything catch your eye? Do you think you'll fall in love with a show? Do we need more isekai?
https://www.livechart.me/winter-2025/tv
https://anilist.co/search/anime?year=2025&season=WINTER
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>>138208
They did a thing with Gnu-ome for the first couple of episodes. And she had the side story with the rat-japs. I figure she's now being sidelined for not showing enough skin.

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that feel when every Japanese illness is related to murder

 No.138585

thought about it a bit and sakamoto is really just a low budget Spy Family with no stakes

 No.141279

If Medalist were real, it would be shocking for Inori to become that good in a year.
Somehow they make it seem believable because of the good writting and direction, so it comes off as scary how good she is.

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My rankings for the season from what I watched, excluding Precure because it's year-long.

1. Tasokare Hotel - We've said elsewhere why it's good
2. Medalist - Likewise.
3. Fugukan - It's a good escapism show with cute and sexy girls. Nice crazy faces but unfortunately I don't really have the opportunity to attach them to posts. Very much a "to be continued" end with no S2 announced. Juggles endearing SoL with a violent main plot. You know, people having their eyes sliced apart in addition to the usual decapitations.
4. Okinawa Girls - Cute and relaxing ad campaign for Okinawa.
5. Hanako-kun. Great show with a fantastic style, but I lose interest when something switches from its premise of weekly novel stories into an overarching plot.




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 No.89870[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Whenever you see this thread go and get some exercise! You can't just laze around all day as a NEET!
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>>137413
pokes
him
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 No.140984

Stepped up my daily walk today to a run for a portion of it. I did a little extra walk first and then on the return for the normal walk I jogged 1/3rd of it, walked the second third, and then jogged the final third. (2.4 mile round trail)

I didn't realize how much my endurance has been diminished for running. Felt light headed and winded afterwards. If I'm going to be hiking mountains in Japan I probably need to really boost my endurance, so I guess I'll be doing this more regularly until I can do the full lap in a jog.

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I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful I feel awful

 No.141116

Got taken around on a hike yesterday and I am still feeling it. We always get lost and waste like an hour.

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Probably like 1.75 miles this time. I tried pushing myself a bit further to run instead of immediately walking when I got tired. I could probably push myself a bit harder though. Not coughing up blood yet.




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 No.137851[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Thread detailing our intention to subtitle episodes of the anime Medalist. This thread will be edited as required or abandoned if there's no interest

Requirements:
Unless we are able to do the entire tasks in 4 hours we will always be one episode behind current. Going further beyond one episode is not allowed. Quality is not as important as getting things completed.
Enter your subtitles using https://aegisub.org/downloads/ or into a text file with whatever formatting you want.
Translations take priority over all other work.


Tasks(fulfillment):
- Managers/Logo designers/PR People
No idea guys allowed.
- Translations
- Timing
- Typesetters

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 No.141199

https://nyaa.si/view/1952634
And done. Will try to handle things faster this week.

>>141192
Well, that's fortuitous timing. Really makes it seem like I was waiting to steal from them, though.

 No.141207

Another update while I meander about. TS will probably be hard for this section too.

 No.141223

done

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Any partial progress I can use for the stream? Not too keen on having two episodes next week since it'll be mainly new shows.

 No.141264

https://nyaa.si/view/1953712
And done. One more to go.

>>141254
Take the finished thing. TS is pretty low-effort but it's there.




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 No.137260[Reply]

I was not expecting this from Tasokare Hotel at all. Thought it was going to be a fun mystery show, all the guests solve their mysteries and go back to their respective worlds; but the latest episode turned pretty dark...
A serial killer manipulating one JK to kill her BFF by telling her her death wasn't an accident but her BFF's ploy to kill her. Only for the BFF to commit seppuku from the guilt of having accidentally killed the JK. Which then leads the JK to go to HELL for killing someone in the hotel... very much unexpected turn of events.
Might be the best anime this season.
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 No.138771

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The voice of the season

 No.140932

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Episode 11 was... something...
How does this anime end in the next episode.

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The ending was nice. A stack of conveniences, but nice.
The work at Tasokare Hotel buys you time to revert back IRL?
They conveniently had just enough time to go back to save Atri?
"Oh you don't have your memory of the Tasokare Hotel if you go out the door, but if you use this elevator you can keep your memory intact!"
Monkey demon had a box that opens the gates to hell, which he didn't use to take a glimpse at it for some reason, and opted to having someone get killed for the gates of hell to open


But, in the end, Neko even gets to go on a date with Ruri IRL!

 No.141179

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Finished it. Yep, it's the show of the season. Medalist is cute, but a show with a great story and characters really puts Tasokare at the top.
The end was a bit too convenient to see time travel pop up, but I guess it was mentioned early on. It was just my assumption that the "time" mentioned was something added to their lifespan. But, it was still a very satisfying ending. Episode titles really should be less direct. Episode 11 named something like "Pistol and Hell" and 12 was "Revenge". That's not something people should see in the opening of the episode.
It really makes me wonder what the phone game was like, but it's not translated, so meh. It's not going to be as good if you already know how everything ends.
I hope we see more from Neko's VA as her anime career is fairly old but bare.

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