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 No.73454[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you been working on anything? Art, programming, etc.
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 No.141360

>>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hmmm well one problem with this is that you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information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you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information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

 No.142371

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my youtube client can now load hdr video formats

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>>142371
Good job! I still like to use it on both Linux and Windows.




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 No.138798[Reply]

How important is it to /qa/ for your post's images to fit your intentions? To me, it's everything.
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>>138837 just bit >>138838 causing >>138835 to happen

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>>138798
I know this is probably a boy but he won't be by the time I'm done with him

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>>142415
Thankfully you're not gay.




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 No.117499[Reply]

Does /qa/ have any experience with ebook readers? I've been getting back into reading recently, and although I like the ebook reader app I have on my Android phone (ReadEra), it's not entirely pleasant; my phone is a bit weighty so it's tiring to hold, and it strains my eyes after reading for a while.

The most obvious choice seems to be a Kindle, but it seems kind of opaque what the differences are between models other than storage. I'm really not a fan of them seemingly being permanently tethered to the cloud and this "ad-supported" thing seems annoying as well. Ideally, I would have something that I can move my own ebooks onto just by plugging it into my PC. USB C is a hard requirement as well; I can't believe Amazon was selling Kindles with the worst charging connector of all time, micro USB, up until 2021.

Looking at the prices for the features that matter to me... I'm really wondering if it would be worth it buying one at all. From what I understand, I would probably be looking at buying some Android e-ink tablet, but those don't seem to have the best reputation online (?) and I can't imagine any are particularly lightweight. My phone is ~200g and that feels a bit too heavy for me. Anything tablet sized I'm sure would be too heavy for me.
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 No.123967

>>122907
Well, it has come out. It looks fairly okay all things considered, but it would appear to make any use of the color feature you really need to be using the glow light, which may negate some of the benefits of using e ink (namely the long battery life). Without the glow light it certainly looks muddy and poorly saturated as Kaleido tends to look. It's a bit darker than normal a normal e ink display without the glow light to compensate, as you can see here: https://youtu.be/UEGPFIpJz98?t=421 (Jump to 7:05, for reference). In a few reviews I noticed that you can see some diagonal lines in some of the up-close shots of the devices. After some thinking, I'm pretty sure this is because of the LCD layer being fairly low resolution... A cheap trick they use is marketing the resolution by stating the PPI. For color, that's 150 PPI, and for black and white it's 300 PPI. As the device has a black and white resolution of 1264 x 1680, that means the color resolution is a quarter of that at 683 x 840. I'm not sure how big of a deal that really is, not having seen the deivce myself in person to tell, but the lower resolution of the color layer doesn't appear to result in any weird aliasing in any reviews, so it's probably not an issue in reality.

 No.123971

Is there any ebook way to do OCR drag and select for looking up individual kanji, words, and sentences for reading Japanese manga?
I might be tempted to buy one if there is something like that since there'd be a lot less distractions available.

 No.124355

I should have bought the Libra 2 before it went out of stock.

 No.142025

>>117499
I have a kobo clara color, screen is very nice even putting aside the color, and its easier to sideload books onto it than kindle which has proprietary stuff. Also has usb c. Reviews said the colors were washed out but I disagree and think they pop pretty well.
>>117513
I installed KOreader last year and never looked back, its decisively better than stock firmware in every way except the lack of pocket integration

 No.142062

>>142025
I've been looking at upgrading from my Libra 2 to a Libra Color...

>Reviews said the colors were washed out but I disagree and think they pop pretty well.
Without the backlight turned on? Pretty much every review suggests you need to have it turned on. I'm a fan of >=40 hours of battery life, so it would be sad if the battery life is poor because of the backlight. Is that the case with the Clara Color?




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 No.141918[Reply]

Rayuko

 No.141919

wow thats ugly

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Eh?

 No.141960

is she sad heiling




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 No.141766[Reply]

Names are a funny thing. They’re just words, sometimes with no meaning behind them, yet convey so much importance in how we refer to ourselves and others. In fact remembering them is oftentimes seen as common decency. Or in the case of referencing media, crucial towards singling out characters.

With how crucial it is for us to remember names, one has to wonder, “Why the HELL is it so hard to remember them?”. I ask myself this all the flippin time. In the span of the same day I meet someone I can forget their name multiple times. In seasonals I often forget what characters are called and refer to them by ‘MC’ or their color. Which when you think about it, it’s weird. You can remember so much about a character or person that you can spit out all sorts of identifying traits, yet the one thing that classifies who they are gets forgotten. And then there’s names I can’t forget, like many 2hus, the EVA characters, DB characters, immediate family, etc. How come those ones stick around even when you don’t use them for ages but one you just heard can be forgotten minutes later?

It makes me feel like there has to be some trick behind it. Some special method people use to remember names since some people out there can remember every person they meet. Tell me your secrets, norms. I want to know how you’re all doing it while making me look like captain retardo. I want to be able to talk about an anime I just watched without having to go to the MAL page to get their names.
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 No.141778

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I generally need about 20 episodes of a show before the names start to stick, so that means I can't remember most character names.
I think the main thing about memory is you need to subconsciously feel that the information will be useful in the future, and for the most part names in fiction won't be brought up again unless you're an avid fan of discussing it many times. Just going by hair color is functional enough so my brain can't justify the neuron rewiring to attribute names to it.
Personally, my memory is heavily tuned towards stuff that's interesting or novel to me, and names just don't fit that pattern.

 No.141784

Not sure if it's true or not, but I've heard people can only really keep track of like ~200 names. The hypothesis being that's roughly the size of your complete extended family (or clan) back during early human history when people congregated into tribes.

 No.141789

You have to remember that a name, as a label, is a mix between a socially convened shortcut and a mnemonic device. As >>141773 said, if you can get away with calling a shab "blue" because that's her most striking characteristic and everyone understands, then there's no real need to remember her actual name, in the same way that you can get away with casually calling someone "dude" as a vocative. But if you want to call out to him while in the middle of a crowd, yeah, you'll need to ask his name, and likewise if you're spending time discussing and thinking about a person or character you'll come to learn theirs by heart.
In terms of personal names and their value (or lack thereof), the Romans had a pretty interesting system: they only regularly used some twenty or so first names, called praenomen, and several of them were literally ordinal numberals devoid of deeper meaning, so there were a lot of Quintus and Sextus and Octavius going around. (Like Ichirou, Jirou, Saburou, or Gorou.) If you wanted to refer to a specific person and disambiguate them from the tens of thousands with the same name you'd need to use their nomen and cognomen as well, sometimes even their nickname, approaching something closer to the "Jack son-of-Mike from-Greenwood" that a lot of naming conventions have used throughout history. Look up Arabic naming conventions.
>>141773
>They are a link between the subject and meaning.
An interesting topic in philosophy is the nature of names assigned to things that do not exist, the standard example being Pegasus. Not necessarily a winged horse but the winged horse. If nobody has seen Pegasus, if its name points towards toward a certain subject that not only doesn't exist but never existed, and yet we can still perfectly communicate information about it, what does that imply for language and knowledge as a whole? There's a lot to it:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonexistent-objects/
>>141784
I believe you are referring to Dunbar's number, which is about the amount of soPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.141792

I just don't remember people's names deliberately. There are people I've worked with who I could not possibly tell you their name. It almost never comes up that I actually need to refer to anyone by name.

that being said, I can name most of the Precure girls, but they absolutely matter more than most of the people around me lol
sometimes it's hard to remember their civilian name though and I feel like I'm an old man when I spend like ten seconds trying to remember it

 No.141793

I think it's mostly to do with how important you feel the name is. When someone introduces themselves who I expect to never meet again the name goes in one ear and out the other. Why bother remembering a name of a stranger?




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 No.137321[Reply]

Since someone posed the idea to me after the Lost Highway stream, and I liked the idea myself, I'll be holding more streams on the rest of David Lynch's films until we've made it through them all. I've got no set time for any of this and when I start will be based on a whim, but I'll make sure to give at least 2 days notice for anything I do decide to stream.

I may stream Fire Walk With me as well, but if I do please be prepared for heavy spoilers concerning anything Twin Peaks. Unless there turns out to be a large enough gathering of people interested in watching it I don't know if I'm prepared to rewatch the entire first two seasons yet.
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 No.138671

inland empire stream in 45 minutes!
https://gikopoipoi.net/ in the admin's bar, probably not going to be doing a prestream but instead running on the treadmill for a bit before it starts

>>138670
vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies (vegan because my brother can't eat meat right now), not sure what my verdict on them is yet I'm still figuring it out

 No.138672

my pc crashed while i had the file downloading and corrupted it...
7:30 start now so 25 minutes

 No.138673

starting in 8 minutes! nothing stopping me this time

 No.138674

starting now!

 No.141764

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When the fuck are we doing a Twin Peaks stream goddammit




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 No.141163[Reply]

A clip got recommended to me on youtube and reminded me that I absolutely love this anime. In terms of the typical shoujo today despite its influence I'd say it still stands out, and Anno's influence on the presentation through his direction (before the budget kinda goes kaput like EVA near the end) is strikingly impactful in conveying the mood of each scene and allowing the highs to reach further than manga ever could. Miyazawa's probably still my favorite Shoujo protagonist of any romance series, her smarts and unbreakable character make her extremely endearing to watch as situations arise throughout her and Arima's school life as a result of their relationship. It's a great exploration of two quite different characters who take interest with and build each other up as they go about life and maturing.

So with that in mind I'm going to be streaming the first 10 episodes of KareKano April 6th, or next Sunday, at 7:00PM EST. Only the first 10 because I feel like that's the most crucial portion of the story that sets into motion everything else. The setup, main cast, and character relations for the most part are established after that and it's more digging deeper into them that we can stream maybe some other time if people want me to. Be sure you're there for it!

Oh, and on https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/yukkuri of course
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 No.141666

If it were all 26 I certainly would've started earlier.

 No.141667

starting NOW

 No.141668

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I really think something that probably makes the style of KareKano so good, and more than that older and more standout anime in general. It's the experimentation with different styles without any assurance that it'll work or not. It's not following any layout for how you should animate, and that works towards its benefit because the director, Anno, knows how to be creative in the right way.

Trying to think of the last anime that I found to be pretty nice and experimental a bit in terms of animation. I think maybe Oshi no Ko could count for certain scenes, but in terms of having it be something pertaining to the whole, bocchi is probably more appropriate

 No.141673

>>141668
onk uses different styles in the same way that shonen does, for a whole scene or stretch and it does so with a lot of seriousness
bocchi is indeed closer to karekano in that it's a generally shorter and a lot more spread out, there's more instances of it throughout and with greater variation
nigewaka does have a fair bit of variety as well in its alternative styles

 No.141674

This is the kind of show I struggle to start watching on my own, but it was pretty good. Lots of funny faces between some genuinely good serious stuff. I can see why someone succeeded in forcing it on [s4s].




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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

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.141550

go team

 No.141575

And done. Let me know if there's anything that needs fixing and I'll release tomorrow morning.

 No.141579

Oh, and did you take the top text in the results scene from the manga? Because I couldn't hear a thing for a bunch of those lines.

 No.141580

>>141579
I just TL'd based off the JP script for what was being said there. It had subs, but I couldn't actually hear it myself.

 No.141611

https://nyaa.si/view/1956246

And that's the series. If TL anon wants to do anything with the BDs just post when they're out and I can help.




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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.

 No.141287

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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.141186[Reply]

Kissu, you're a worldly lot. Where've you spotted that Zundamon character lately? Let's put together a photo catalogue of Zundamon sightings!
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 No.141204

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Zundavermin where it belongs.

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Zundamon lacking human rights

 No.141214

>>141194
>>141204
>>141209
get back in your kennel and STAY there Zundamon

 No.141216

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saw a Zundamon in the cucumber patch

 No.141218

>>141216
a zunny in his initial life stages camouflaged to avoid predators




 No.86336[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Post something cool that youtube has recommended to you recently. Note: this is not meant to be a music thread, it can be any kind of video.
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 No.137087

mde never dies

 No.137410

What a fun channel. I never focused too hard on mathematics but the creator picks some fascinatingly novel concepts to explore.

 No.137411

>>137410
Surprised to see Zundamon blow up so much. It feels like yesterday we had those threads trying to find information on him, but I guess it's been a couple years now.

 No.137414

It was a while back but yt gifted me this, one of those things I probably wouldn't have ever seen if the algo wasn't putting 2 and 2 together.

 No.141206

Automatic candle extinguisher




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 No.141171[Reply]

In an era where rules are severely outdated and progress has been continually hampered by them. How would you fix Copyright Law? Or is it something that just needs to be killed completely.
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 No.141180

current copyright law is why we have the disney live action remakes
if that’s not as good a reason as any to kill it I don’t know what is

 No.141181

Make it so you can't stop anyone from copying, only demand fair compensation for it.

 No.141187

>>141181
Really, if someone isn't making money off of it, then there should be no issue.

 No.141193

>>141173
This is my ideal compromise, although I would rather it be 5 years. Things like sequels tend to take quite a bit longer than 2 years.

 No.141198

>>141193
I think "in use" could encompass more than just "releasing a sequel". Projects in active development could easily be counted and I think just producing copies of the work for distribution would count as "using" it. I wouldn't want to incentivize shitting out a sequel every couple years just to keep the rights (like with Sony and Spiderman), but I also don't want Disney locking something away in the vault for five years to build artificial scarcity for a rerelease. That's a really low bar now that digital distribution is the norm, but there are still plenty of cases where games go offline and I shouldn't have to wait decades to release my own version of Concord.




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 No.141032[Reply]

Every day we progress closer and closer to a catgirl civilization

https://youtu.be/xZDSqmOnnR0
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 No.141045

is this the first mainstream full kemono gacha character

 No.141047

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I wish I were a bird.

 No.141077

>>141032
I can't listen to this guy

 No.141078

>>141077
Holy shit I thought I was the only one.

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 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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 No.123182

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

 No.137773

Time to look back at spring! >>>/poll/5554

 No.138660

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>>>/poll/5644
Finally remembered! This time I will NOT forget after a week.

 No.138661

>>138660
I just bit this shab.

 No.138662

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>>138660
Wait a minute, Kukuri won AOTS for /qa/ and you guys STILL managed to forget her? For shame!




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 No.138600[Reply]

My enemies tremble,
for I have God on my side.
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 No.138606

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>She's about to break into a Monogatari monologue

 No.138607

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>>138606
Who quote?

 No.138610

>>138607
I used it to signify quotes from the image

 No.138612

monosegatari

 No.138625

greenies




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