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 No.136274[Reply]

So with the new year coming what are your New Years Resolutions /qa/? Of course, you actually made some and they're of some actual significance, right?
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 No.136620

>>136619
¥ smug
more like slut

 No.136622

drats, he evaded my cunning trap

 No.137292

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My resolution has been to get more sleep and see if it improves anything for me since I don't really sleep a lot. So far I've been doing okayish, sleeping earlier than usual but still had a pretty bad week. I want to be sound asleep in bed before midnight ideally and it's already past midnight now.

 No.137296

>>137292
I hope you can manage to sleep, Anonymous. I struggle with the same.

I must say, though, this Yuno you've posted is quite intimidating! She looks determined to square up and knock the daylights out of whoever is looking down at her!

 No.137297

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>>137296
It's hard not to look down on Yuno when she's this small.




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 No.137259[Reply]

It used to come up a lot more when an anime came out, whether anime should try to be more faithful to the source material when adapting even if they weren't going to cover the rest of the story of a manga. I think back then I was more partial towards the faithful camp, because I had more hope for sequels to good series back then that'd continue the series towards its more intended end.

Now though, that wish has been more or less fulfilled with most adaptations sticking close to the source material whether they end on a more conclusive note or not. But at times it feels like that was a monkey paw of sorts. Since now series simply last forever, and there's an infinite amount of different LN/Manga adaptations flowing out the gates each season with zero hope of getting a sequel. They'll always end feeling half-finished (because they are) and plenty of buildup there could be that's packed into the adaptation that has no relevance til later arcs is also left untouched. This leading to the entire anime somewhat suffering for it because it feels more like you wasted your time watching a "Read more by buying the source!" ad than anything. And honestly, when it comes to what studios are adapting nowadays, I feel like scriptwriters in these anime studios could do a far better job with the source material given to them than the majority of LN authors could do with their work.
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 No.137279

>>137270
what was the piccy

 No.137281

>>137271
>The original is a series of actual novels.
Sorry, I meant LN. If I remember right, there is a PC game, but that's neither here nor there.

 No.137284

>>137281
Not LNs, actual novels.

 No.137285

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>>137284
Whatever you want to call them... I have them sitting on my bookshelf.

 No.137298

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>>137285
LN is light reading, nta but it's considered a novel because it isn't light reading.




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 No.137245[Reply]

¥ let's take all the bad parts of Pikmin 3
¥ then take all the bad parts of Pikmin 2
¥ replace all the good parts with pointless RPG elements and constant overly long dialogue
¥ and stick it all together with a completely nonsensical story
¥ oh, and make sure to include a post-game mode that shows what the game could have been with good design decisions
¥ but make sure to ruin that too a few days in
What were they thinking? It's like they couldn't figure out how to make a full-length game so they just split into five different teams and stuck all the resulting minigames together to pad things out. It's super frustrating because the core gameplay is still fun and they clearly proved they could have made a much better game, but they just didn't and covered all the good stuff in as much tedium and distraction as possible.

 No.137246

too purple
who are you paraphrasing

 No.137248

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 No.137249

>>137246
I'm going to kick your ass.

 No.137254

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The RPG-ification of gameplay elements is really weird, even though I like RPGs. I guess it's an easy way to pad out a game, and they even call it stuff like "gamification" now when they apply it to other things.

 No.137265

>>137254
I think it's because it's something you can add to make it seem like there's more to any game and it gives a sense of progression, but it seems like it takes away more than it adds. Half the upgrades in this game are completely pointless, like a bunch of HP increases and making the stupid dog marginally better at things he's never going to be doing, a few are critical to the core gameplay and make the first bit of the game feel really awkward until you can get them, and then the rest are OP shit that negates the strategy and technique you spent the earlier bits learning. Maybe they want to have that dopamine hit from a big "side quest complete" and need a spendable resource to enable that, but when the gameplay itself is fun you don't need to encourage players to interact with it.




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 No.113881[Reply]

Finally started my "buyfag" life; albeit not anywhere near the level I've dreamt of, with only second hand stuff so far.
What anime goods have you bought /qa/?
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 No.134947

post stealing sager

 No.136715

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I just ordered an Arisu figure.

 No.136887

>>134915
nice butt

 No.137219

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Man fuck customs and their gay ass 25% duties. I had to cough up another $10 for them to deliver my figure, and I have some onaholes on the way too which costs way more and will undoubtedly be taxed as well. There used to be a $30 tax free limit on imported goods here but they scrapped that last year.

It ain't easy being a NEET.

 No.137223

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I got a bishonen(blue lock) mug for Christmas but I would have strongly preferred to get a Bishoujo (Senshi Sailor Moon) mug.




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 No.90430[Reply]

Thanks to a link from a guy that lead to discussion and a link from another guy, we have links to software that makes cute voices!
https://voicevox.hiroshiba.jp/
https://zunko.jp/con_voice.html

I'm using the first link personally because it has Zundamon, which is the absolute cutest artificial voice. I'm making a thread here on /qa/ because the original thread is on /jp/ and /jp/ threads can fall off after a couple weeks and this is too cool to lose that quickly.
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 No.120622

Anyone tried using this for english? Just copy/pasting the text doesn't work too well, but converting it to katakana first works a lot better. Haven't found a way to do it locally, though.

 No.120623

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>>120622
I tried, but it's an exercise in frustration. I think I did try the katakana thing, but it was still hard to do the pitches and such. I think I also tried general TTS tricks, which I can't quite remember. (I think it was like typing "hoo" instead of "who". I didn't fully understand the UI either, but I guess part of the whole "unable to understand Japanese" thing.
After seeing all the AI cover stuff I don't know if this has any chance to gain traction outside Japanese; it's just too much work.

 No.137209

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>>120622
i have better lucks with voice cloning tools and 10 seconds of reference audio
it's not perfect but really sounds like how japanese speak english

 No.137210

Ohh, I forgot about this thread.

>>137209
By voice cloning you mean the AI stuff, right? Yeah, it's made vocaloid stuff seem like backbreaking labor by comparison, but vocaloid still has superior charm and special sounds I think.

 No.137217

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>>137210
yes, i generated the audio with https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech
ai is progressing so fast, now the large language models are being integrated for text to speech so i don't have to care about language-specific models and preprocessing anymore, i can enter text in any language and it just works




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 No.137155[Reply]

Say you're interested in researching an old mummy that's "cursing" people. Wouldn't you want to, you know, take some more safety precautions there's something in the grave you can't account for like old pathogens or viruses? Wasn't there something in King Tut's tomb killing people that they weren't able to cure? It just seems unwise to be going into this naked.

 No.137162

One of my favorite fabricated screenshots is from a guy talking about people unearthing a mummy in 2020 and the guy was saying stuff like "PUT THAT NIGGA BACK IN WE"RE DEALING WITH ENOUGH ALREADY".
Good stuff.




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 No.137085[Reply]

Have you ever gotten any money from class action settlements? Even though most of them would be pocket changes, it would still be free money to buy a new game or figure for the many hikineets here.

I have found $43 from current opening settlements just in the food category alone which don't require any proof of payment.
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 No.137127

>>137126
¥ underdeveloped
Yes
¥ third world
That's not how this works. America is the paramount, the hegemon, the big bad booty daddy. First world means its part of NATO.

Fucking retard. Neck la neck yourself.

 No.137128

Take it easy, Mr. Freeedom.

 No.137129

>>137126
>NTA
Never thought you were. That anon understood how stupid such a claim was and only said it to emphasize the ridiculousness of using free housing as a metric for first-world membership since THE first-world country doesn't do that commie shit.

 No.137130

a free country does do that because it provides upwards mobility for people at the bottom to take jobs from those above them. A totalitarian country does not

 No.137134

>>137129
but america does do section 8 housing




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 No.67883[Reply][Last50 Posts]

I want to nakadashi *girl* has become a popular phrase on imageboards (mostly 4chan). But it's a mix of Japanese and English. If I was going to say "I want to cum inside Holo" fully in Japanese, how would I go about doing that? In the English sentence, nakadashi is a loan word and it is the action being done, but in Japanese I don't think 中出し is a verb. Can it be verbified by adding する to it? And then you conjugate it to say you "want" to do it. So the end result would be 私はホロで中出ししたい which would translate to I want to cum inside Holo. Am I correct?

Japanese is fun to learn.
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 No.134059

>>134058
https://www.wordnik.com/words/bill
English isn't that much easier apart from the writing system.
As a generic advice, consume more Japanese and contexts will make sense and patterns emerge.

 No.134432

dekinai

 No.134441

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>>134432
¥ 2:56
>Later hiragana took over katakana's function in mixed writing, and by later I mean less than a hundred years ago
>1946
>and katakana was repurposed to encode loanwords.
There were already instances prior to then of hiragana being used in mixed writing and katakana being used for loanwords.

But overall, this seems like an okay overview.

 No.134453

>>134432
solid vid

 No.137113

I'm going to be taking a Chinese class this spring. It seemed like a fun idea, but I will probably suffer.




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 No.136930[Reply]

what romance anime should i watch next /qa/?
i loved quintessential quintuplets recently.

 No.136932

imouto likes Kimi ni Todoke

 No.136973

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I don't really watch much romance stuff since it's usually high school setting stuff that bores me. The Madome show that aired about a year ago was quite nice, although its atmosphere is more relaxed and silly instead of heavy.

 No.137083

>>136973
romance is filled with an abundance of lazy cliche writing but i think a good romance anime, crushes me after.

 No.137084

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Kaichou wa Maid-sama! It's funny and makes my heart flutter.
My Little Monster is also good.

>>137083
>romance is filled with an abundance of lazy cliche writing
I like this.




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 No.137048[Reply]

Words of "native" or "germanic" origin in Modern English that start with a "g" all use the hard-g sound as in "gift". While "foreign" words of "latin" origin use the soft-g as in "giraffe". The debate between "gif" or "jif" should be seen as an extension of the French linguistic imperialism, imposed upon the common English people since 1066.

"gif" is pronounces with a hard-g, unless you are French sympathizer; in which you deserve to be shot.
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 No.137068

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It's definitely a J sound. I don't really know why I know it, but it's been that way for as long as I can remember it. It sounds much more pleasant, too.

 No.137070

Oh noo! I forgot how I pronounce it. I think it's gif but I might say jif as well.

 No.137073

Hard G. Soft G is foolishness beyond compare!

honestly, I've never met anyone in real life who used soft G GIF, not even people who are actually technologically literate

 No.137077

>>137048
Wasn't it confirmed it was gif that sounded like "jiff"?

 No.137078

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Hard G as in gif that keeps on gifing.




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 No.136997[Reply]

I can barely use 4chan these days because of all the captcha fuckery. But even when I still lurk it, from time to time, I find the place just as mentally draining as any big social media site. How do people put up with the constant aggro and bickering over whatever the latest big culture war thing is? Don’t they ever get tired of that? Or making every single piece of media fit into some console war style faggotry with another?

It’s honestly begun to stress me out looking at the place more than ever. I don’t get how people are able to stick to this loop every day.
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 No.137058

It's a mix of boredom and constant gratification. Not instant, constant. If you don't notice it early enough and cut it out, you might get caught in this spiral where you check several pages and sites on a loop of sorts where you switch tabs or apps until something catches your eye where you suck it up and move to the next thing the instant your interest in it wanes. Anger is just something that catches interest very easily and if you've browsed 4chan for long enough you might've on more than one occasion started writing a reply falseflagging as the type of response you yourself would hate the most, as an extreme version of what you're stealth mocking in hopes that other people call you out, only to then double down yourself on the message you hate.
It's really weird how things turn out this way, but the average twitter user could spend all day scrolling increasingly faster down some hashtag about a thing they never even heard of just to catch some post they dislike and spend more time getting angry at it.

I don't think people can stay in this state for particularly long though. I didn't bite this cycle too hard myself but I got burnt out on being angry at nobodies online and just stopped going to places full of people being angry on their free time, though it might have something to do with my free time being limited because i'm a filthy wageslave. There's probably a ton of people who burnt out as well and quietly disappeared, only to be replaced with 10 more anger addicts. Whether this effect plateaus on a grand scale or not is yet to be seen, though so far its only been getting worse and more common.

 No.137059

>>137010
>but those topics are just a part of the world now
But I don't care about the world or politics or whatever. I just want to talk about anime without ever discussion devolving into political shitflinging.

 No.137062

personally I only seek out political opinions I agree with, life's too short to listen to [outgroup elided for Kissu harmony]

 No.137063

I think everyone can agree that renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America was the right call, but the question remains of what the state of New Mexico should be renamed to?

 No.137066

>>137059
Join a monastery if you want to be an island. Getting mad and doomposting every time someone uses an offensive term for a group of sexual ideologues currently in the social spotlight just spurs on the negativity you're complaining about. It never should have received the attention it has, but it's too late to stop that now and the sooner we accept it's just a generic buzzword insult the sooner we can all stop pretending like the issue matters.




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 No.105227[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Do you have any experience gardening?
I decided that I'm going to attempt gardening this year. My dad grew up on a farm and we had crops in the backyard when I was a kid. I still have the old tilling machine that's in good shape and some other rusty tools, but I don't have a hammer to mine silver from nearby rocks so I won't be able to upgrade the stuff.
I think it's too late for my geographic location to start growing early Spring stuff from seeds, so I need to buy some that are already a few weeks old from a local nursery, or maybe online? This stuff sounds kind of fun as long as your expectations are reasonable.
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 No.137038

>>137037
passionfruit vines seem like theyd get you fruit fairly quickly my older brother had some
i thought about saffron for when i get my garden but the climate in australia's all wrong. saffron wants frost during winter. also the bulbs are still pretty expensive it doesnt seem like you get much of a return on investment unless you do it at scale for a long time

 No.137039

an apricot tree my parents planted some time ago is taller than me and produces like 200 apricots each season
some time ago means.... fuck, probably 10 years ago at this point

 No.137040

>>137038
Oh, I thought about saffron briefly when I noticed the price of it at the store. I've never actually eaten it, I was just curious about it. I assume there must be some complex process to it that makes it annoying, like vanilla. It must be expensive for areason.
One of the youtubers I watch about gardening is Australian and I'm quite envious of all the stuff he's got going on. I think I linked him in the thread somewhere. My area gets really hot in the summer but we still have weeks of freezing temperatures so anything tropical is out of the question. Oh, and lavender, which I really like, dies here because of the humidity.

>>137039
Yeah, you can get dwarf trees (my family had them when I was a kid) but they're more susceptible to diseases and it explains how we lost all 3 of them during one summer. There's grafting, too, which is kind of horrifying as a concept but it's how most people grow apples.

 No.137041

>>137040
>I assume there must be some complex process to it that makes it annoying,
think its literally just you cant automate picking the little threads out of the flower (yet...) and each thread weighs almost nothing

 No.137043

reading about it on wikipedia
saffron farms will have tens of thousands of flowers in a football field sized plot of land
the harvest takes place over just a few days because of the short bloom
so you have to employ many laborers on short notice to pick out the threads and take them to a drying kiln because they cant sit for too long
i feel like this industry is poised to become disrupted by fleets of cheap autonomous drones with AI and manipulator arms... short that saffron....




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 No.136957[Reply]

How would /qa/ revive the dying industry? Is there even any reason to, or has YouTube reviewing just completely killed it?
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 No.136966

we need to bring back ethics in gaming journalism for it to come back

 No.136967

Fuck game journalism, what are you a massive retard or something.

 No.136971

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I loved reading Nintendo Power and stuff like Gamepro or Game Informer as a kid/teen. The thing with Nintendo Power is that it was a massive marketing magazine for Nintendo games/consoles, but it was still enjoyable. I don't remember if it even reviewed anything, or just had guides and previews.
The other stuff, yeah it was more "neutral" and viewed a bunch of stuff and was informative. I'd never think of calling it journalism, but I guess it was. It's weird that "gaming journalism" is a term, as it seemed much more relaxed in the past. That's probably what needs to come back and why people prefer youtubers over most websites these days, it's too sterile and safe to keep various companies and interest groups happy.

Anyway, I think the way to do it is by doing niche stuff or specific categories or genres. Quite a few old RPG sites still exist, like rpgamer and rpgcodex. Something like gematsu is really valuable to people that prefer Japanese games, which should really be everyone by this point. In fact gematsu is pretty much the perfect example of a modern "gaming journalism" website that has stayed in its lane and still focuses on video game news and not cultural opinion pieces. There is still sadly a huge gap in how internet websites used to work when people were more free to be themselves and be awkward dorks making jokes intended for a specific audience. The only ones I'm aware of where people are less sterile are unfortunately culture warriors themselves so it sucks.

I'm also not sure if you can get anyone under 30 to start reading instead of watching videos, though. There's an entire industry where people make a living (sometimes becoming millionaires) by simply reading articles or papers other people have produced to an audience too unwilling to read or browse websites themselves.

 No.136976

>>136971
>There's an entire industry where people make a living (sometimes becoming millionaires) by simply reading articles or papers other people have produced to an audience too unwilling to read or browse websites themselves.
(think ive said this on kissu before...) my former coworker listened to those videos while eating at his desk with both hands occupied holding his sandwicchy so he couldnt scroll. so thats one target audience

 No.137005

No, because everyone already knows the industry is corrupt by design and can't be trusted as an impartial third-party, so it's both cheaper and more effective for companies to astroturf with "influencers" who all convince their audience that they're the exception to the rule. And if you just want news, everyone has access to the source delivery so having it all aggregated a month later doesn't serve much purpose. Even the guides aspect was obsoleted by wikis.

>>136959
>an hour plus long reviews
Might as well just play the thing if you're investing that much time into it.

>>136971
Audiobooks have been a thing for longer than actual books.




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 No.136995[Reply]

Mai-Hime is one of the rare anime in which it kept its original OP and ED throughout the whole thing, but actually would've benefited from having a 2nd set for the tonal shift in the 2nd half.

 No.136996

It can't be that rare, can it?




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 No.136936[Reply]

Anime characters trying (or pretending) to speak English and other foreign languages.
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 No.136949

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Momoko probably throws her chopsticks on the floor in restaurants and demands a fork and spoon, then sharts and pisses on the floor in the restroom because she refuses to use the squat toilets.

 No.136950

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hehehe
Such a non-sequitur and the American letters. Some sort of 'Americans laugh loudly' thing I think

 No.136951

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can everyone's browsers play AV1 encodes now?

 No.136952

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>>136951
Works for me.

 No.136954

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