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 No.115112[Reply]

I've taken the time to categorize what is a good and bad fantasy series based on >>>/jp/62468 's findings.
Please take this list very seriously.
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 No.115303

>>115294
There's a level of subjectivity to it but you've kinda got the idea. You subjectively determine the curves you want to lie on and then follow the curve to determine shows that lie on your quality curve. My thoughts on finding the most general applicable quality curve is that stories that draw too much from the super natural and existential drama, without fully commiting to it are "bad". You could call this the chuuni zone, it's where the delusions of grandeur and bad character writing intersect. And you can identify this in the stories themselves as plot points that jump too much between the realm of Mythology and the lower realm of Legend; they focus too much on gods and heros battling in the average persons life. An easy example is most isekai; You start in the realm of Legend, some salary man or neet gets killed in a freak accident, and then immediately jump to the realm of Mythology, the neet now has god-like powers in another world and begins to reshape said world. Most isekai is trashy because it jumps over intermediary realms; or in terms of the graph it lies in specific regions of the supernatural-exestensial drama space. This isn't to say good stories can't live in this region though, just that it's harder to write good stories in the region.

 No.115304

Existential drama isn't correct. It pushes an idea of narative when the chart was supposed to just be characters x settings

 No.115305

I don't think I worded >>115194 well but I think the alternative is something else than my intent. But if you're fine withthat then that's fine

 No.115306

>>115304
I wasn't thinking of the terms sorta flip-flopped, then. The mundane-supernatural divide refers more to the setting and the interpersonal-existensial referring more to the narrative. Maybe it needs to be a 3D space that accounts for characters, setting, and narrative. But in the discussion of realms I'm not sure the characters are that relevant. The realm of Myth is supernatural and deal with existential questions. The realm of Folklore is supernatural and deals with moral questions. The realm of Legend is supernatural and focuses characters. The realm of Reality deals with the mundane events and focuses on characters.

 No.115310

>>115294
>How do we determine quality from this though?
I reckon it's orthogonal and I wouldn't even try. Reason is it's all in the execution.




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 No.109873[Reply][Last50 Posts]

There's a whole lot less this season, what does /qa/ plan to watch?

https://www.livechart.me/summer-2023/tv?sortby=airdate
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 No.113857

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But I do like how mob some of the faces look

 No.114210

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Lv1 Maou had an odd sort of mundane down-to-earth feeling, where Fred the cleric becomes a bureaucrat but even in his post-adventuring days is still able to effortlessly nuke Ganma's walls without needing to whip out any special moves or transformations. He just goes and does it, no speeches or anything. Leo stands parallel as the leader of a breakaway ~something~ and is also able to clear the forest in the same manner. They're in a league of their own, they're powerful in more than one way, but they're not kings or emperors. It's got just the right scale. The same goes for Max's and Maou's escalating sports matches, it's silly but it shows they're still damn strong.

I think that's important because it shows that these people are not a joke and don't stereotypically hold back either, they know what they're doing and so should Max. It provides a nice contrast, and it makes sense that if anything would've gotten him out of his slump it'd be going out and proving his worth in a fight once more. So, although I think the serious and action parts had their place and moments like Maou going out to fight just to get Max motivated I liked quite a bit, it REALLY didn't need to spend close to four episodes on the fight, and the flashbacks were indeed kinda pointless (especially the ones focusing on Yulia, since she wasn't present at all).

Probably the only one I'm going to vaguely remember.

>>>/jp/61377
>Basically just reset everything to the status quo
Hard disagree. The minister was ousted, Fred took his place, Leo became mayor of the now integrated Ganma province, and Max fixed his public image. It's not a reset, and it's much more of a resolution than your regular open ending.

 No.115006

Are there any hidden, or non hidden, gems that I could've missed? I barely watched anything.

 No.115009

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>>114210
That's a nice write-up. It's true that there was some good development, but I still feel that it failed to focus properly on its strengths. The unmotivated hero coached by a reincarnated former enemy and a relationship beginning to blossom was really nice. Well, I think I already said this stuff already. I just didn't feel invested in all the politics and fighting.

>>115006
I didn't watch much, but I think a lot of people overlooked the vending machine show and dismissed it as a shallow gimmick. It has good characters, although they are able to insinuate a bit too much from the isekai'd vending machine guy's preset vending machine stock phrases. It doesn't feel like he's overpowered, but simply knowledgeable and using the tools available to him.
His obsessive level of knowledge of real life vending machines allows him to morph into the right machine for the situation which is something I found far more interesting than the usual isekai stuff.
Also it's getting a season two!

 No.115293

>>115009
Thank your for your reccomendation however if it's getting a second season then I am going to wait until it's out.




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 No.115286[Reply]

I've never understood why so many independent creators, particularly Western ones, use the artistic freedom being an indie provides to create imitations of corporate commercial media they grew up with.

Like, it's fine if you like and are influenced by that sort of thing. What bothers me is that they don't do anything with that influence beyond emulating it. You're free to make whatever you want. Why restrict yourself to dumbed-down copies of corporate product?

 No.115287

>Why restrict yourself to dumbed-down copies of corporate product?
What are you referring to?... This is way too vague for to understand without any examples.

 No.115288

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>>115286
Ehhh? Everyone on the planet does that. Heck, it's even why people say things like Japanese people are innately better at drawing 'anime' style- it's what they're surrounded with.
Although, Japan has the benefit of doujin culture so they can actually profit from it, so that's a pretty big difference




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 No.114960[Reply]

This Friday at 6PM EST we'll be streaming Goblin Slayer!

Since it's a 12 episode series with a movie we'll have to break it down somehow.
Vote on this poll to decide how we'll divide it up.
>>>/poll/3405

We'll be on https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/yukkuri
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 No.115180

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caught up with the manga. Now time to wait until season3.

 No.115182

>>115155
>That was no adventure. And someone who chose to go down that path—they were no adventurer. They were him.
>A man in grimy leather armor and a dirty helmet, carrying a sword that seemed almost too long to wield.
>“Goblin Slayer…”
Huh, yeah, that's the official translation... by Yen Press. The ones with the worst press.
I'd like to check the raw, but the only ones alive on nyaa are all for the manga. Zannen.

 No.115183

>I'd like to check the raw
Found it on itazuraneko.

>>115155
 一人の冒険者が突進に負けて押し倒され、喉笛(のどぶえ)を嚙(か)まれる。

>>115182
 それは決して冒険ではない。

 自ら選んで、その道を突き進む。

 そんな存在は、もはや冒険者でさえない。

 彼だ。

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 No.115184

>>115183
>あまりにも中途(ちゅうと)半端(はんぱ)な長さ
length that's too... not quite there?
alongside the cheapness that makes it sound like it's not long enough to be a proper longsword, being negative, but i'm not sure i'm getting that right
i just can't see where the "seemed too long to wield" would come from

 No.115186

there's eight hits of 中途 and 半端, it's always the full compound and only as 中途半端な剣 or 中途半端な長さ
>右手には中途半端な長さの剣。
>中途半端な長さの剣を持ち
>中途半端な剣と盾を持った男。
>腰に中途半端な剣を帯びた男。
yeah it just seems to be a short sword no problem carrying it hmm weird




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 No.109989[Reply]

I love the way in which the world of magic is presented in this anime. There's not really much power scaling shounen stuff that typically accompanies the setting and neither Chise nor Elias are so powerful that they aren't beholden to the rules of the world. It allows the world feel so much more vast because of how much out there is on the same footing as the main cast instead of only a select few being even capable of harming them. It also makes the tension feel more real in that the threats of the neighbors are in no way empty, and a mistake could cause irreparable harm. Take Ashen Eyes for instance, his presence makes any scene more tense from the fact that his whims are all that protect Chise.
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 No.110710

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Problem, /qa/?

 No.110715

>>110710
who's this master japester? this beguiling flim-flammer?

 No.114998

Now there's a "whodunnit" sort of theme to the 2nd part after the conclusion of the first. With some promise to flesh out the students of the college more, and a really nice opening for it all. Although I wonder just how spoilery it is.

 No.114999

I might get around to watching it eventually. Maybe. the school setting, though, bleh. That's like turning Precure into a bunch of divorced adults.

 No.115000

>>114999
The most disappointing thing about that show is that Nagisa and Honoka were not married!




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 No.114866[Reply]

How would someone even go about learning about music history and becoming knowledgeable about theory without attending courses? I'd assume that unlike math or any science the online knowledge is all a jumble.
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 No.114869

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Learning about "music history" sounds too vague, I would suggest learning about particular genres or movements you're interested in. In particular I recommend the "33 1/3" book series, which are shorter books of 100 or so pages each that go in depth about one particular album per book.

 No.114870

also art theory blends into history. Artists don't need theory, but historians do to describe sound in literature

 No.114900

>>114867
>then you start getting interested in the history of japan and the settings they're based on

You always get blocked by the language barriers doing this

 No.114916

I only took a course on it, but the evolution of styles, techniques, and trends is way more interesting than most of the old music itself. Gregorian chant isn't particularly fun to listen to, but I can still appreciate the contributions it made to music.

You can probably just download a textbook for it. It's not going to be as good as a course, but it'll still give you the basic foundation before moving into the specific parts that interest you.

 No.114918

Come to think of it, the first website I made(before I was a programmer) was about music theory and trying to make big bucks off of it. Would tell you the site, but I've forgotten it.

Gregorian chant is basically science. All the rules of what you can and can't do to create a perfectly crafted chant.




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 No.114356[Reply]

Is a digitalized personality put into a robotic shell a zombie?
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 No.114462

>>114407
Entropy is a bitch kissu friend.

 No.114471

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You know if we ever figure out a way to fix brain damage then we'll be essentially immortal, since most of death is just permanent brain damage that causes the brain's functions to cease. I'd imagine that we can probably find a way to preserve people's brains so they don't decay and then if we do figure out a way to cure brain damage then we can just jump start those brains once more and have the person once again alive.

 No.114473

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>>114408
>>114462
I'm talking about BILLIONS of years of new knowledge gleamed and technological advancements to match it compared to our current ~5000 years. And it's silly to think we already know the absolute truth of the universe when we have so many lame bandages like "dark ___" so our current theories don't evaporate. Implying that nothing will change is pretty foolish to me.

 No.114477

>>114473
Well hell, with the current technology we could build a dyson swarm around the sun and harness the power from it, using cheap as fuck satellites too.
It'll be uber expensive sure but we can do it.

 No.114917

If a digitized person, without a backup--or a way to shift from one robotic shell to another, then no, they aren't a zombie but they are considered mortal.




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 No.114849[Reply]

Kroger had candles on the clearance shelf so I bought a couple. They smell quite nice. Wish they weren't so expensive normally or I'd buy them a lot more. They give off a nice vibe, especially the wood wick ones.

 No.114850

Oh did you buy the Virgin Mary candles? Those are always really nice.

 No.114851

>>114850
They were Yankee Candles. They were half off, so I got a vanilla creme brulee scent and Lavender scent. This vanilla one smells really good.

 No.114852

>>114851
Oh that's nice. I always love lavender, it's a really calming scent for me.
Vanilla must be smelling really well.




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 No.112443[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Hey Kissu Kissu! Would you like to play Sonic Karts sometime? I have created an addon pack with some fun stuff included! If someone else is willing to host it, that would be cool, but if not, I can always do it myself.

The download includes everything needed to host and play the game, plus a custom client created by 4/vm/ that adds new features to the game.

Game plus addons download: https://mega.nz/file/mJYUhJBR#UmY_51jm0gQkjk3uZa512Z09T75V8GujKVscg7clX0s

4/vm/ client source code: https://gitlab.com/c3851/srb-2-k-cep

Stuff added via addons:- Custom characters! https://files.catbox.moe/v72z70.webm If you have characters you want, feel free to suggest more!
- Wide variety of tracks. About 42 map packs worth of maps!
- A Kissu theme pack with custom music and graphics on the voting screen.
- The in-game HUD is colorized to your chosen color, including the new speedometer and drift gauge.
- A hitfeed that shows when people hit each other or fall off the map.
- Timers on the bottom of the screen that shows how long your sneakers, your mini-turbos, or you being spun-out lasts
- A simple trick system. Tap brake after a jump to get a small speed boost when landing. It is on a cool down timer after you do it.
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 No.114834

>>114829
Just eating dinner and finishing reps so soon.

 No.114835

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Come play mario cart!

 No.114837

Three of us playing now!

 No.114839

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Four now!

 No.114840

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good race




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 No.114642[Reply]

When you don't go outside it's easy to forget the basic hygiene you practice since much of the motivation for taking care of yourself can be perceived as a social thing. However some things are important to do even if you're not going outside for the sake of your long term health! Like brushing your teeth and flossing to keep them clean of plaque leads to healthier gums and reduced risk of brain disease! If you haven't brushed yet go do it!

What other health tips does /qa/ know to keep their body in peak condition?
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 No.114718

>>114717
Cold is synonymous with comfy in my book. But it really isn't cold where I live except for three petty months and even then there is no snow.
And more importantly, mold will accumulate on the walls if your room is dark with closed windows for 16h+ each day, condensation dew on the windows being an early sign of it.

 No.114722

>>114718
I moved from somewhere it's warm all year to somewhere that actually gets winters, but my building controls the heat and they make it way too hot in winter. I was robbed of my comfy.

 No.114757

>>114712
Can't open my window anymore since somehow I broke it so I can only open the inner window :( Now I just open my door whenever I get out of my room
>>114718
Here it's somewhat warm for 3 months and cold for most of the year. Which is depressing.

 No.114762

>>114757
It's only depressing if you look/hear what's outside. At night the air is fresher, less or no noise from people,cars,dogs, so my disappointment after opening a window without getting the expected refreshing effect doesn't hit as hard as at daylight.

 No.114836

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>>114711
gotta start small anon. you can't hide from your self. it'll start to know the small improvements too.




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 No.114765[Reply]

People say they're sick of irony, but what I think they're actually sick of is people using the guise of it as a shield for social and intellectual cowardice.

When someone says "awesome" to bad news, they obviously mean the opposite and are just being funny. A statement like "The Room is the greatest movie of all time" is a bit more ambiguous, but you can still infer that they're probably joking.

The problems come in when you start using the general shape of irony to make statements that aren't actually ironic. You're intentionally muddying your point to give yourself an easy out; you're joking, unless people start agreeing with you, at which point your 'ironic' statement starts revealing itself more and more as sincere, although it's still phrased kind of jokingly, because you want to maintain a level of plausible deniability in case you say something people don't like. It's an okay-ish way of making yourself look good in an argument, I suppose, at least in the short term, but it's anathema to any actual communication; to sharing ideas with others and seeing how they respond to them.

I was thinking about this because I myself use real irony all the time. When I hear bad news I'll say "wonderful"; when someone tells me an embarrassing story I'll say "that rocks". But I have, to my knowledge, never used pseudo-irony, and I couldn't quite articulate why it bothered me until now.
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 No.114772

Notto disu shitto agen....
Okay, so verbal irony is one of those odd human things where they say one thing but actually mean the opposite. You infer that it means the opposite of what it's literally saying via context, as you said, and often intonation is a big contributor. In something like socratic irony, the speaker pretends to be ignorant, but is actually knowledgeable and just feigns retardation to draw the other person out and rebuke them.
Sarcasm is specifically a form of negative language that overwhelmingly employs irony, but it's much more narrow in scope.

I know people don't like this kind of terminology, but this
>using the general shape of irony to make statements that aren't actually ironic
we can call post-irony. Why is it -post? Because it intentionally uses the cues that would normally mark something as ironic, while at the same time NOT meaning the opposite of what they're saying.
Irony is already often ambiguous, because you have to figure out if it matches the context or not, and so people with weaker social skills like autists tend to miss the point. But post-irony is designed to be ambiguous, everyone finds it harder to figure out, and that's on purpose. That's the term you're looking for.

 No.114773

>>114771
>When people say they're sick of irony, what they are referring to is how some communities get to the point where it seems they lose the ability to find anything fun in its own right, instead getting all their laughs via their disdain of how other people do. It's basically the evolution of cringe culture, in which people got entertainment from more directly mocking other people's forms of entertainment.
I think this is accurate, and I'd go a step further and say that a lot of the time, once it goes on long enough, communities end up getting mad at their own caricature of their "opponent" group rather than anything that group actually say or does.

 No.114774

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FURRY PATCHOULI WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 No.114800

>>114773
I always think of the 'le' meme, which existed in [s4s] ironic form for significantly longer than it did reddit sincerity.

 No.114822

>>114800
On topic sager...
Anyways yeah, [s4s] is weird when it comes to meme culture, like they'll hold onto a meme for so long.
Like "le jack ruselel"




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 No.114794[Reply]

It seems like CR decided to jump on the AI bandwagon by publishing a straight MTL that nobody bothered to look over. Probably their worst output since Gab Dropout, though in a completely different direction.

Obviously companies are itching to fire all their translators, but how good does the tech need to come before that becomes viable?
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 No.114803

>>114799
>Better than 0 translation at all
Not when it actually is making stuff up and passing it off as a translation or is so low-quality that it ruins the experience.

>>114802
You could get away with "Mr. Yuzuki" since that's the equivalent title structure teachers get in English (though -sensei is familiar enough that leaving it is fine), but "Sir" is flat-out wrong. He's not a knight.

 No.114804

>>114794
>but how good does the tech need to come before that becomes viable?
The extent to which accurate translation, especially between languages as different as Japanese and English, is reliant on context (eg. previously-established information, what is shown on screen, cultural references, etc.) makes me think it is effectively impossible, short of the development of something close to a Turing-test capable AI. There will certainly be improvements, likely to the extent that it will provide a tolerable-enough experience when there is no other choice (such as with untranslated VNs), but I highly doubt it will reach the level of quality expected of a paid product in the foreseeable future.

 No.114806

¥ Getting AI to remember context
heh

 No.114812

>>114801
Maybe they're already using it on all shows and the one guy fixing the output only had time for more popular shows.

 No.114814

I was just thinking that if it were possible CR would definetly jump on top of AI dubbing




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 No.114637[Reply]

死にたくなければ逃げろ
暴走が始る
月が赤い
も時間がない

 No.114638

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It's time.
It's motherfucking time.
Hell yeah.

 No.114643

cid is so flippin boson

 No.114646

Red moon, ree-ee-eeed moooon
cleanses the sinful and makes them anew
shining brightly in the night sky
waiting for the souls
Who will be born again tonight?
Who will be born again tonight?




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 No.110163[Reply]

Do you like classical music?
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 No.110175

It's great for background music, but if I am actively listening to music then I want something with lyrics instead.

 No.110176

>>110163
yes, all 500 years of it

 No.110178

>>110173
hell yeah kapustins great

ill bet you found it from the staffcirc remixes which are also great
https://soundcloud.com/sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle/sets/staffcirc-vol-4-switched-on

 No.113809

I'm not sure if it's really "classical", but I like orchestral music that Shiro Sagisu composes a lot, particularly the music of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Of course, the classics are great too. The soundtrack of Legend of the Galactic Heroes is almost entirely classical (barring the few narration tracks and original music for the show) and it is glorious. Dvorak's New World Symphony is probably my favorite classical work, followed by Gustav Holst's The Planets and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

 No.114622

The greatest




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 No.114603[Reply]

Streaming the 1988 USSR Tresure Island in 20 minute
https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/Treasure
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 No.114607

in a min

 No.114608

startin now!

 No.114609

funny didn't realize the kakariko village theme came from this

 No.114610

If anything watching this made me want to rewatch The Muppet's adaptation of this. Kind of hokey and you sort of get the idea that the USSR was trying to force health messages into it instead of make something entertaining.
But you can tell the animators and actors had fun making it so that's what counts

 No.114619

flippin was asleep




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