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Counting! Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 04:04:58 No.123456 [Reply]

The most fundamental and useful math skill know, we do it every day (Hopefully)! /qa/ does know how to count, right? What about efficiently? Is there any base that /qa/ is particularly fond of counting in?

How about for a celebration of this wonderful tool we use every day we do a fun little counting problem to find all positive integers N that satisfy the following conditions!

(i) N is divisible by 2020.
(ii) N has at most 2020 decimal digits.
(iii) The decimal digits of N are a string of consecutive ones followed by a string of consecutive zeros.

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Anonymous 05/04/24 (Sat) 21:17:18 No.124036>>124039

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is math a social construct?

Anonymous 05/04/24 (Sat) 21:32:21 No.124038

Math uses circular logic

Anonymous 05/04/24 (Sat) 21:32:39 No.124039

>>124036
The tool of logic is not. It is rigid and objective.
But the things we explore with that tool, depend on what we are interested in.
The search for an odd perfect number, (or for ever higher even perfect numbers) is not reasonable. It's basically just a game.

Anonymous 05/05/24 (Sun) 04:54:47 No.124049>>124052

>>124030
Adding two to a natural number means going to the next number two times. The number after one is two and the number after two is three. We can express this all symbolically with something like

a+0 = a
a+S(b) = S(a+b)
1+1 = 1+S(0) = S(1+0) = S(1) = 2
1+2 = 1+S(1) = S(1+1) = S(2) = 3

but that's what the symbols are saying in plain English.

Anonymous 05/05/24 (Sun) 05:05:00 No.124052

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>>124049
Neat! I don't know what it means, but neat.

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Anonymous 04/25/24 (Thu) 06:32:39 No.123713 [Reply]

Do you have anything you could show your daughter and say "I made that"?

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Anonymous 04/26/24 (Fri) 03:11:18 No.123735>>123763 >>123852

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i made that

Anonymous 04/26/24 (Fri) 04:34:01 No.123736>>123737

I'll show her the over a thousand blades I have created.

Anonymous 04/26/24 (Fri) 04:41:40 No.123737

>>123736
Unknown to dad,
nor known to father

Anonymous 04/26/24 (Fri) 15:13:20 No.123763

>>123735
a pile of rocks?

Anonymous 04/29/24 (Mon) 05:44:23 No.123852

>>123735
so cool that we have a star entity that posts here

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Emotes and Streams Anonymous 04/27/24 (Sat) 02:35:04 No.123777 [Reply]

Are emotes a good form of casual engagement for streams that can quickly convey an emotion like a 'heh' or similar while also being visually witty and somewhat encompassing the history of the stream as well in what content it shows? I think they probably are more a benefit than a drain like people commonly think them to be on a stream's atmosphere but that's assuming a culture where they're used in conjunction with regular posts and not just the entirety of all posts. Do you agree and what kind of emotes could we potentially add to the kissu stream if so? I think that probably a good way to start would be maybe a site like banners, where the emote size has to fit within a certain limit because all the cytube streams I've seen where you have stuff taking up over half the screen is pretty annoying.

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Anonymous 04/27/24 (Sat) 13:49:57 No.123789>>123793 >>123794

I feel like we've had nearly this exact thread before.

Anonymous 04/27/24 (Sat) 14:57:09 No.123793

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>>123789
Recycling is good for the environment!

Anonymous 04/27/24 (Sat) 15:01:25 No.123794>>123795

>>123789
Nothing came out of the last one IIRC

Anonymous 04/27/24 (Sat) 17:14:51 No.123795>>123796

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>>123794
Generally speaking, anything that requires effort from people is going to fail. This emote thing would work best with people submitting images and icons and "sharing the burden" as it were. Unfortunately the reality of it is that it will be kissu staff doing all of it and I don't think I have the motivation for it. And it's less fun if it's not a shared experience.

Anonymous 04/27/24 (Sat) 17:16:02 No.123796

>>123795
Well yeah that's why I'm proposing to vermin maybe a way of doing a banners-type thing.

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Best time to build a PC? Anonymous 10/13/22 (Thu) 06:08:58 No.98115 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

Right now it seems to be a good time to build a PC:
CPUs and GPUs are coming back in stock.
GPU price dropped to MSRP, thanks to the end of GPU crypto mining.
New generation, low availability technologies are cropping up like PCIe 4, DDR5, RTX 4090, AM5 socket, diverting consumer attention away from previous gen.
M.2 SSDs are cheaper than ever, and will be even cheaper in the near future because of flash memory chip oversupply.

What does /qa/ think about building a PC now?

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Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 06:47:01 No.123611

WHAT THE FUCK MICROSOFT
WHY AM I GETTING 2X THE FRAMERATE ON WINDOWS10???

Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 07:02:42 No.123617

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test with furmark 1 since all my others have been on that

Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 07:04:23 No.123619

hm, there's AA on the win11 test for some reason

Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 07:13:52 No.123621

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I'm not sure why windows 11's benchmark is on AA4x but Win10's isn't. That accounts for the framerate weirdness.

I apparently missed that because it's in my older screenshots too >>118626 >>119842

Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 07:16:07 No.123623

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passmark ratings are nominally better in 2D rendering but roughly equal in 3D. Win11's layout system might be messing with it for being too much bloat
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Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 13:30:50 No.123498 [Reply]>>123512

Are advertisements inherently evil?
They are deceptive and manipulative, and arguably dehumanizing.
Is there an ethical justification for advertising beyond "but everybody else is doing it too"?

Note, I am not talking about notifying people of your product. But perhaps the distinction between these two things will have to be drawn (and redrawn) for the purpose of this discussion. We'll see.

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Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 17:30:38 No.123509>>123511

>But perhaps the distinction between these two things will have to be drawn
yeah I'd love to see that. Because I'm not convinced that this can be done in a manner that is at all useful.
Anyway, I think advertising is awesome :D

Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 18:10:23 No.123510

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¥unethically collecting user data with no regards for their privacy to better targets ads to them
Das evil
¥ads by themselves
Not evil unless they're really kuso deceptive ones or malware (like in the case of 4chan, not sure what they're like these days though).

Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 18:20:56 No.123511

>>123509
To me, if you are unobtrusive and descriptive of your product, that's information.
Aggressively seeking the attention of people and organizing your argument around what your customers are looking for rather than what you're selling, that's advertising.
The first one of these two things can probably be objectively measured. For the latter, in edge cases, it may come down to an accusation of a predatory mindset. "What do you mean, you're selling tasty pizza? Clearly you are trying to manipulate me!"
But then, evil is malicious intent, as far as I understand the term. So you can't not have this level of uncertainty.
>>123502
>I wonder if that's true actually.
Even if a person's actions are completely ineffectual, the fact that they have taken steps toward that goal, makes them guilty of the attempt.

Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 18:23:28 No.123512>>123513

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>>123498
No, not at all unless they're doing things that are unrelated to advertising itself which are evil, such as lying or manipulation. Ads are how a lot of free stuff I like operate, and since I block ads I think it's a win-win.

Anonymous 04/20/24 (Sat) 18:54:56 No.123513

>>123512
But don't you know, not watching the ads is the same as piracy.

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Identifiable Posters Ocelot 01/22/23 (Sun) 01:45:58 No.102706 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

What are /qa/'s opinions on avatarfags, namefags, and tripfags? Are they helpful or harmful towards an imageboard, and to what degree for each?

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5 YEARS! 12/01/23 (Fri) 21:45:54 No.116786

the friki anon

5 YEARS! 12/01/23 (Fri) 21:46:12 No.116787

>>116785
If it makes you feel any better jim2ch users thought I was korean dog because of my middling japanese

5 YEARS! 12/01/23 (Fri) 22:10:16 No.116790

>>116785
i don't find it to be much of a problem honestly

5 YEARS! 12/01/23 (Fri) 22:22:30 No.116793

>>116785
Saying you're from the USA barely counts as saying where you're from. Even giving your timezone means a bigger region than most countries. The equivalent to your country is probably something like saying you're from South Dakota.

Either way, as long as you only mention it when it's relevant it won't stick to you when you're anon. Just don't narrow it down so much that it counts as personally identifiable information.

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 20:38:04 No.123398

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I like figuring out who posters are so that I can make better targeted funposts at them when the necessary time comes.

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Video Games Anonymous 09/15/23 (Fri) 00:22:52 No.113785 [Reply][Last50 Posts]

General video games thread since the other one hit the bump limit. What are you playing? What are you looking forward to?

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Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 17:05:06 No.123353>>123354

Palworld updates seem quite good. I think I'm going to aim for a replay of it sometime in the summer which is the planned released of a new island with new Pals on it and other stuff. Since we played together they've added various fixes, but also some new stuff like a raid boss and it looks like there's a PvP arena in the work as well.
Who's up for playing it together again whenever that big patch hits sometime in summer? (Northern hemisphere summer)

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 17:10:42 No.123354

>>123353
I completely lost interest when I learned it was just arena style pvp. I wanted actual pvp like storming someone's base and capturing their pals.

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 19:19:40 No.123378>>123384 >>123386

I've been looking to play Elder Ring
Missed the hype

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 19:46:26 No.123384

>>123378
elden ring is still really good the multiplayer is just less active nowadays

Anonymous 04/19/24 (Fri) 19:51:19 No.123386

>>123378
If you want to get in on all the excitement there's still going to be time soon when the DLC comes out and everyone's playing that. Also I'm pretty sure they confirmed there'll be nothing for ER after this so in effect people won't be holding off playing because they're waiting for DLC after this.

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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>>123291

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

Anonymous 04/18/24 (Thu) 23:17:32 No.123291>>123295 >>123297

>>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>>123323

>>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>>112157

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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Anonymous 04/15/24 (Mon) 07:48:09 No.123132 [Reply]>>123153

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>>123147

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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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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>>123003

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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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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>>122841

>>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>>122765

>>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>>122763

>>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>>122766

>>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 12/15/23 (Fri) 01:15:41 No.117329 [Reply]>>122697

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>>122697

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 news through RSS feeds. Small-ish circle of online activity but it seems there's neverPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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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>>122680

>>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.

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