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 No.113909[Reply]

Does /qa/ have any more fun facts to share?

I learned recently that prior WWI, many towns in the US spoke the language of the immigrants who moved there, but due to intense Germanophobia, schools began teaching in English exclusively and gradually the US became a de facto English-first speaking country despite having no official language.
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 No.125123

https://www.npr.org/2010/08/08/129024911/candied-corpses-and-87-other-ancient-innovations

>mellification
>mad honey

 No.126315

I miss typed this site's URL and this came up:
https://kisu.moe/profile/kisuchama
Someones blog site kinda cute.

 No.126316

>>126315
Seems like a nice guy. We must assimilate him into the kissu collective

 No.126319

>>126315
reminds me of the guy who owns verniy.xyz... yet his site is down. Maybe I can reacquire it soon

 No.126323

He hasn't used the site in 2 years.



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 No.100351[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Gone from Ubuntu to Debian, but Debian kind of sucks as a desktop environment (constant freezes, poor drivers and performance issues. Also issues with Steam's client)

Where do I go next?
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 No.121547

it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up

 No.121548

Yeah, I concur that it's relatively seamless, except I do feel a bit of a performance increasing using wayland. It even kept my graphical configuration without issue! If this is on a rolling distro this should be a fantastic release on fixed release distros.
It even looks like Plastik was ported over as a wm if you don't like the more rounded corners of Breeze.
It looks like KDE will be getting a donation for my tax return.
With OpenSUSE's YaST and Plasma it feels like I'm using Windows 7 forever, now I just have to hope KDE doesn't go insane like they did with 4 and I think tumbleweed should be fine for the long haul unless suse goes under

 No.126309

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I suppose I have about a year and a half before I'm forced to use Linux. How much longer can I put off learning programming in the meantime before I have to start learning to use Linux...

 No.126311

saw

 No.126312

>>126309
how to try linux easily

option 1 (safe option):
https://www.howtogeek.com/796988/how-to-install-linux-in-virtualbox/

option 2 (easy option):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi
https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi/releases/tag/20044r344
(should link to an .exe file)



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 No.122423[Reply]

Greetings and rabbit rabbit (you didn't remember to say it, right?)

For a bunch of reasons I can't get into this is my favorite month of the year. One of those reasons is I get more free time to work on things I enjoy.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been re-watching Moon Phase for the first time in over a decade. I grabbed the best version I could find from the usual trackers. The release I got seems to be the most popular and all of the others seem to be using the same subtitles for the English translation. I was disappointed see that the scripts being used are filled with both spelling and grammar errors. One of two per episode I can forgive. A typo that's one letter off on standard QWERTY keyboard I can forgive. But I hit a string of 3-4 episodes in a row filled with horrible errors and it was obvious to me that no one bothered to even quality check the work before pushing it out to the public. This is in addition to several other errors I've noticed in the video/audio portion along with some pacing issues in the scripts themselves.

I posted all that to propose the following;

I've been slowly working on a handful of old series (and one new one) thanks to various people from here and elsewhere that so graciously provided me with good raws for a couple of shows or volunteered to do quality checking. I haven't been able to put out much in the last few months but now that I'll have more free time I'll be pushing some stuff out soon. But I'm one man and can only do so much so quickly.

So I was curious if anywhere here would be interested in helping out with things like correcting spelling errors in scripts or watching pre-release encodes. I need people to do stuff like the following;
1) Test encodes on various set-top devices (video game consoles, firesticks, AppleTV etc)
2) Double check spelling/grammar in English subtitle scripts
3) Watch test encodes on various different software/hardware players and tell me how things work on their local mpv/mpc-hc+mad configs
4) Help track down raws (DVD, LD, BDs and VHS) that aren't as common on public sources for some older content
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 No.125132

>>125130
I test on 5 monitors. Which I know is over kill but it's easy since my workstation is set-up like that anyway. On one of them it's _very_ evident because it's designed to seeing such things (it's a high end 144hz studio monitor). On all my other monitors you can barely notice it or don't see it at all. They're all consumer grade stuff. Some high end. One low end. Another an old CRT. I work with a variety of content so I need them all.

What's funny is a lot of things people obsess over now like grain in old 80s-2000s shows aren't even visible on an old school CRT. Since CRTs act as a kind of low pass filter for grain. So a lot of people are throwing a lot of bits at something that wasn't even the artist's intention. Since such shows were mastered on studio CRTs/PVMs.

But I digress...

My philosophy with this has always been if you're going to take the time you might as well do it right. The video is the least important part of the package anyway after translation and next sound. Sound is what you pay for when it comes to content. They've always been happy to let you watch for free. Plus you can always pair the translation with another person's encode anyway and anyone can learn to encode video/audio in a weekend. But getting better quality than others with less file size has always been a fun goal. I should probably not obsess over it too much. Since I've murdered many a CPU and HDD in pursuit of smaller file sizes over the years. All for something that's going to be re-encoded by someone else when the next new shiny codec comes out in 5-10 years anyway.

 No.125133

>>125131
That's true as well. I can't watch broadcast television anymore because the quality is so awful. People brag about their new TV and 4k cable package to me but all I can see are macroblocks from the company cheaping out and trying to squeeze another channel or two into their limited bandwidth. Satellite TV is particularly bad these days but cable is usually worse because cable companies are evil manifested.

The truth is they get away with it because 99% of people either can't tell or don't care.

 No.125134

>>125133
>I can't watch broadcast television anymore because the quality is so awful.
yeah its fucked up. when I was a kid I stood next to a big TV playing some stuff for normal people and I thought to myself that every frame looks like if you saved a jpg at a quality level of 40 and after saving, tortured it with the sharpen tool. that really put me off TV

 No.125136

>>125134
Digital has been pretty bad from the start. I'm old enough to remember C-band, analog cable and analog OTA TV. The quality was much better back in those days even with the limited bandwidth because each channel got the entire channel's bandwidth. When they switched to digital/DBS the entire point was being able to cram multiple channels into the same bandwidth that used to be occupied by just one.

Analog also degraded much better. When OTA was still analog I could pick up about 8-12 channels locally on bunny ears here. They might not have all looked perfect but they were all watchable for the most part. Worst case you might have to move the antenna a bit for certain channels coming from further away or a different direction. Very rarely the environment would be just right and you could pick up some far away channel for a few hours and everything local would come in perfect.

When they did the digital switch over they pretty much ruined OTA TV here. I can't pick up maybe 2 channels now that are watchable. The rest are a constant sea of macroblocks and freezing as the signal drops below the level where the decoder can gracefully fail. 9 times out of 10 it does it during the actual content but commercials will come in clear for 30-60 seconds. But it probably only feels that way because commercials are shorter than content and make up the bulk of run time now.

The best thing ever was C-band. Which was analog satellite service. For the first 10 years or so you could pull the back feeds down directly. Which were basically the feeds cable companies and local stations got before commercial were inserted and they were edited for public viewing. You not only got the content commercial free you could listen to what was being said while the program was at commercial if it was live. It was also extremely high quality because they wanted to deliver the highest quality possible for production. Truly the Golden era of television.

Of course we can't have nice things so it was shut down. First by scrambling then later with encryption. Which only became possible with the switch over to digital/mpeg2.

C-band was also really cool because the dish was massive. We used to set the receiver to lock-in on another satellite then run outside to watch that massive dish turn and tilt. It was the coolest thing when I was a kid. TV from spacPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.125137

>>125136
>We saw so many respected television people snort drugs and yell at their staff during pre/post-show and commercial breaks.

I know I'm way off-topic but I just remembered something from my childhood that will be burned into my mind forever;

When the first George Bush was president he went on Larry King's show which was pretty popular at the time. During a commercial break they started discussing Halcion. Which was an old school benzo drug for sleep that had been pulled from the market for causing a lot of deaths. The president said
>I don't really think it's that bad
and Larry King replies with something along the lines of
>My cousin is in the pharmaceutical industry. He told me a new drug is coming out of Israel soon. It's better than Halcion!
then he shushes the president because he's got to deliver a line between commercials. After that he starts laughing and bragging about his cousin being in the know. He was basically telling Bush to short the companies stock because it was going to go up soon (aka insider trading). They're just sitting there carrying on like they're having a private conversation. Openly discussing the fact that they're making money off drugs that killed people and had been a big scandal in the news at the time. The way they talked "in private" was totally different from the persona they put on for prepared statements and during the actual interview segments being broadcasted to most people.

Anyway, not long after that Larry King had Bill Clinton on his show. I think it was the lead up to the 1992 election. Anyway he said something to Clinton that always bothered me and even back then I knew it was strange. Larry starts talking about Ted Turner and how he's a great guy to work for. Then he tells Bill Clinton;
>You should call Ted after you win. He'd be willing to uh...serve you. If you know what I mean

Even as a kid I wondered what he meant by "serve you". You could tell he wasn't talking about "serving the president" and it was more like Ted Turner was offering some service. What kind of service I don't know. But the mind goes to horrible places. It was just the way he said it. They started discussing it in a hushed tone and you could tell both of them werePost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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 No.125026[Reply]

Was thinking about reading all of Go Nagai's works but then realized it'd probably be impossible given just how much he wrote. It's pretty insane compared to almost any other mangaka out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Nagai_bibliography

What are the most notable ones to check out though? I've read Devilman, some Harenchi Gakuen, some Mazinger, Cutie Honey, and all of Getter (although does that really count?) Was considering watching and maybe reading Dororon Enma-kun next (OVA/Remake TV) since the OP was cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIsQqRoyKqo
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 No.125041

>>125035
>>125036
Now that's some effective marketing.

 No.125047

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>>125035
>It's only 13 chapters long.
Yeah, but most chapters have between 50 and 90 pages, so it's still fairly long. According to Kodansha's site, the official total is 912 pages:
https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/title?code=1000002347
You can see it if you select a volume and check out the ページ数 part, they're each of average length. Really though, my point is that with these three alone you already end up with 19 volumes, that's pretty sizeable already. But add Abashiri Family's further 15 volumes (where a molester is accidentally swallowed up by a giantess so to rescue him they make her shit him out? wtf), 9 more from Guerrilla High, Maboroshi Panty and Kekkou Kamen, then 7 from Oira Sukeban, 9 from Susano Oh, and then you end up with a total of fifty nine volumes, which is "shonen running weekly for ten years" territory, longer than Dragon Ball but not quite as long as Naruto or Bleach.

It's interesting, I get the impression that originally he liked to work more with (relatively) shorter stories, since the first runs of those mentioned in >>125029 are actually in line with the ones listed above, in the 4-7 range for Devilman, Mazinger, Getter, and Jack. It's in its second part that Jack goes way higher, for example.

 No.125050

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>>125047
A lot of this untranslated stuff like Samurai World though. There's also Hanappe Bazooka which has 10 vols but was only translated up to chapter 4 (less than 10% since it has 41 chapters). Also has a 45 min OVA.

All hail the father of mecha and pervy shit in anime/manga.

 No.125082

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A cool thing about Devilman is that you can see the influence it had on Berserk right in the first chapter (it's not present in certain editions however). The demons in the Great War of Gods are obviously reminiscent of the Eclipse demons in Berserk. And also the obvious parallels between Akira/Ryo and Guts/Griffith.

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 No.124495[Reply]

I am considering going on a carnivore diet. Nothing fancy, prolly just ground beef, eggs, and dairy products every day. I've tried more "balanced" diets before and I never felt any better. Lately I've been very depressed and started putting on weight, so I'm interested in seeing what life will be like cutting out carbs almost completely. I understand there are some risks because there hasn't been much research on these types of diets, but I don't really care about anything right now.

/blog
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 No.124852

being defensive over someone challenging you, hmmmmmm

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 No.124860

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>>124851
>how am I promoting a "conspiracy"?
NTA, but in arguing that the aluminum industry "started advocating that it was good for children's teeth" in order to cut costs, you are saying that they had an "agreement for perform together a []wrongful[] act."
Pic related.

Also, I don't think you are paranoid, but
>when I read about how fluoride used to be considered toxic waste which required paying big money to dump I understood what happened.
made me pause and ponder whether to continue reading or dismiss your post as paranoid nonsense. I agree with the other guy on this: This sentence sounds paranoid.

 No.124861

>>124851
it sounds paranoid because you treat fluoride like a wholly negative thing, a poison that was put there for nefarious purposes rather than the more complex process of some scientists using the evidence they had to fight a health crisis, which they rushed out while overstating its positive effects
you don't distinguish it from any sort of toxic waste and talk about it in the same context as mutant fish, that's a problem too

here's people from harvard quoting other studies concerned that past records came from bad practices:
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/
and they sound as normal as ever, even the PHS lowered its recommended levels by a good amount
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547570/
>It is expected that implementation of the new recommendation will lead to a reduction of approximately 25% (range: 12%–42%) in fluoride intake from drinking water alone and a reduction of approximately 14% (range: 5%–29%) in total fluoride intake.
but then you compare it to the previous post
>"They" say a lot of things. The toothpaste you use everyday will kill your dog. So "they" say. But it's also super healthy for _you_ even though it's proven to contain something that lowers your IQ.
not only is it something the above two links tackle, they can do it without needing to invoke the shadow cabal of "they"

 No.125066

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OP, can you give us an update? Did you start doing the carnivore/keto diet or not? And if not then what diet are you doing right now?



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 No.124881[Reply]

Somebody told me that digitization will let us preserve things forever, but I feel like it's the opposite because of how complicated accessing digital data is and how fast technological systems evolve. Old formats get superseded by updated ones and niche platform-specific ones get abandoned when that platform does. We can look at a wall relief from 5000 years ago and work out an approximation of what it was saying just by looking at it, but how would you get any data out of a floppy filled with files for a program that hasn't been updated in 100 years?

Eventually the effort of maintaining compatibility with old things is going to cause data to be effectively lost, but some formats will obviously last longer than others. Personally, I think the humble .txt file will outlast most others because its simple, yet vitally important to many basic computing tasks so you can't easily get rid of it and there's not much incentive to improve the format. That said, I could also see a specialized format that is used for something like .nes which is used pretty much just to preserve old data being maintained by enthusiasts while more general-purpose formats get killed off to force people to adopt newer ones. Which ones do you think will pass the test of time and which will be be the quickest to die out?
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 No.124985

>>124881
notepad is so cute...

 No.124990

>>124942
>It's funny to think a few random images on somebody's drive could be the format equivalent of the rosetta stone
finally, all the TBs of manga porn I have will be put to good use

 No.124991

>>124885
very optimistic in the face of tradion

 No.124992

>>124942
>Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced /pɪŋ/[2][3] PING
always pronounced it as PEE-en-JEE

 No.125014

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>>124990
So before that u wasnut curtain about "good use"



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 No.66481[Reply][Last50 Posts]

i've seen dedicated drawthreads and writethreads here, but never once saw a music creation thread. considering you can post sound files here i wonder why it happens, because i did see several posters here said they made music. is it because many consider the stuffs they make have no merit to be posted? or because many have some musician profiles that they want no connection to this place...?
anyway, post some musics you made!
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 No.123289

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Audio AI will likely go through the same process the image and text stuff went through. Absolutely amazing sky-is-the-limit thinking and then people notice all the flaws and patterns and it becomes a lot less interesting over time while the crypto people and investors and CEOs hype it up so they can make money.
Anyway, I don't consider it to be music creation just like prompting images isn't drawing.

 No.123290

>>123289
the on topic sagey

 No.123685

I wonder if composition can actually be done by AI... as with all AI tools I've used so far I find them more of assistants to get you up to speed with the formulas and basic design of art faster than what you'd get without a mentor.

Can it imitate something weird blending 3 art styles into one like this...

 No.123686

Cosmograph's sound is too good

 No.124956

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ktP-judV7-8?t=15&feature=share good advice. Really is easy in creating audio maximalizsm



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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.124467

This game looks fun. I want to play next time. I'll even use the crappy controller reserved for little brothers.

 No.124870

>>124396
Thanks, I found the thread. They seem to use yet another fork of the client.
https://github.com/NepDisk/srb2k-neptune

 No.124919

Can't get it to run ...

./srb2kart-saturn: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by ./srb2kart-saturn)


Sucks to be me I guess. Is there a flatpak or appimage somewhere?

 No.124922

that makes me sigh too its depressingly common for people to distribute artifacts built on new machines/OSes
you will have to compile it from source yourself...

 No.124926

>>124922
Thank you, I managed to compile it from this
https://github.com/Indev450/SRB2Kart-Saturn
With make -j8

Now we wait for the server to be up.



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 No.124391[Reply]

Opinions on AI music?

https://suno.com/song/b0a9e912-cc0f-499b-9375-82dbd2d5ff75
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 No.124587

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As 'primitive' as it is, I've been a fan of this song for years. There's plenty enough generic music made by humans, that I see little point making more just like it with AI - the bigger potential IMO is for using it to make music that sounds inhuman, just as how Vocaloid is at its best when treated as its own style, not as a poor imitation of human vocals.

 No.124636

>>124510
the irony is that if it wasn't good you wouldn't bother to make a video out of it, but it has obvious implications for cheaply producing the "sides" to your main product

 No.124651

it's soulless and i refuse to listen to it
I'd rather hear bad music some actually tried hard to make

 No.124653

I would rather listen to the lazy cashgrab of a professional than the futile efforts of an amateur.

 No.124674

I can't decide if this guy is using AI voice generation or is actually this good of a mimic. But he's producing content at an amazing rate and most of it is good. I don't listen to a lot of rap music anymore (mostly just K-rino) but this guy drops a new album every month or two and I always give them a listen.

I think AI music is like all AI-art. It can be a great tool in the hands of an actual artist. But a lot of people aren't the creative types and they produce mountains of garbage just because they now have the ability to pump it out.

I've noticed a ton of new youtube channels lately that do nothing but post AI generated click-bait. Some of them have millions of views and from the comments it's obvious most people can't tell. I've seen some other suspect stuff on youtube lately as well. A lot of "face reveals" lately that are obviously some kind of AI+face tracking and/or so-called "deepfakes".



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 No.123956[Reply]

It's been a while since Kissu's played any games together, and with the interests in agriculture becoming more relevant and Stardew having finally received its multiplayer update recently, I was thinking now is as good a time as ever to see if there's interest in cultivating together. I think in comparison to the upcoming Factorio expansion it should be a nice relaxing intermission people will enjoy. Also it's on sale right now so if anyone's interested I can buy it for them ( https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/NUIbnP7U )
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 No.123968

>>123962
>labor of love updates
Phrase it as euphemistically as you want, it still means the game isn't finished yet.

 No.124491

Will probably start up the server tomorrow as I find myself a bit busy with stuff today.

 No.124504

>>123968
What is your definition of a complete game? If it is fulfilling the original vision then it's a finished game, anything new is just extra free stuff. Would you rather devs take a paradox model and ship post launch updates as endless torrents of DLC? Or should they just drop it and never touch it again no matter what new ideas come to mind? Is anything ever really finished then?

 No.124525

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Invite Code:
SFQWVV0N74GF

Come and join if you want.

 No.124535

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>>124525
Dang, I never got around to playing it solo yet and doing it multiplayer as the first time would be a terrible experience. Oh, well. Have fun for me.
I tend to play these games so slowly (taking my time with events/etc) that it's a bad time for everyone involved anyway.



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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.123228

>>123194
Thank you for the response. Is it able to display manga from right to left?

 No.123242

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Yes, but there's a little bit of work you'll need to do. If your manga are in .CBZ files, you'll need to convert them to .EPUB. I personally use Kindle Comic Converter. You can technically load .CBZ files if you want, but they'll have no metadata other than the title, and page turning will typically be very slow. Converting to .EPUB let's you import those converted .CBZs into Calibre and add metadata to the files. You can technically just use Calibre to convert to .EPUB, but IIRC it's just not as granular as Kindle Comic Converter.

I should also add that for whatever reason if you add .KEPUB, before the .EPUB file extension, things will load faster and for normal text EPUBs you'll get access to things like changing the font. For regular ebooks it's fine to use Calibre to convert to .KEPUB, but you'll need to download a plug-in inside of Calibre to do that.

 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.



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 No.124166[Reply]

I've noticed that there's a bit of talk here and there at times about big named directors like Shinbo or Ikuhara in threads about there respective anime. Similarly there's "the /qa/ voice" and a few threads in the past made about favorite seiyuu's. With the more recent Seiyuu Radio thread I got a bit more interested in asking /qa/, how much do you pay attention to who's making the anime you enjoy and how conscious of their work are you while watching?

For myself I mostly know seiyuu, studios, composers, singers, and directors since those are more the big in your face part of anime, but I also can recognize a few character designers like Akio Watanabe/Amazuyu Tatsuki. I also know a few (non-director) animators by name, though I can't really tell who's who from just watching an anime like it's occasionally possible to do with directors/studios. Not even sure if it is possible.

Maybe it's a bit meta for some people, but I think it can be valuable and give you a greater appreciation of anime you really enjoy or lead you to finding other works with them included that you may also love. It can also be an interesting experience to go through the catalog of a director to watch how they grew over the years. A similar thing applies to seiyuu, and with them there's also the feeling of hearing a new voice you don't recognize that absolutely hits it out of the park and astounds you, like Utena from MahoAko.
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>>124317
>So many people on there that are knowledgeable but publish their knowledge on a kuso platform you can't even view half the time without an account
It's ok! In time they'll all be on misskey once Elon's gutted jp twitter enough. Where you can easily sign up and be free of all the limitations westerners force through twitter! As long as you sign up through a JP IP. That isn't a VPN since it could get you banned. And your sign up is through a JP exclusive email because most western ones throw an error including gmail/proton. Which is easy to get as long as you've got a JP phone number with SNS available that you can activate any time, while in Japan.

 No.124319

>>124318
...I signed up to Misskey on my kuso western gmail with my kuso western IP and I didn't have any problems...
Also, you can just sign up to other instances on the Fediverse.

 No.124321

>>124319
Yeah, I did that a year or so ago too but I forgot or my password was changed and I can't get into the account.

 No.124348

I know the basic stuff like big name directors, artists, composers, seiyuus, etc. I also like watching behind the scenes stuff when it's available such as vid related.

 No.124349

>>124348
There's an official version on youtube of the short animation by the way. Give it a watch.



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 No.124329[Reply]

To what length do you go to avoid spoilers?
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>>124330
I kill anyone before they get the chance to spoil me.

 No.124344

I seek them out, actually. Fairly often, there's just so much out there that I'd rather check what's up before giving it a go:
>>>/jp/74826 >>>/jp/75268
Today I watched a movie that I knew was about altered states of consciousness and because of the context it was recommended in I thought it would be about introspective ego death shit but turns out it had a fucking caveman in it! Going out to the zoo at night and eating a fucking goat! Like fifty fucking minutes in after they experiment with the sensory deprivation water tank and the tribal shrooms in Mexico, genetic memory my ass. What a waste.

 No.124345

I remember reading that a certain Ancient Greek playwright had a person come in before a play and explain to the audience everything they were about to see before it started so they would better understand the story, and that Aristotle thought this was great while Nietzsche hated it, but I can't remember where or who that was.... maybe it was Sophocles...

 No.124346

>>124345
Both Nietzsche and Aristotle predate the modern concept of spoilers, anyway.

 No.124347

Spoilers being a bad thing that you should avoid is a manufactured concept being propped up by TV networks and streaming services in order to convince people that they need to watch/binge shows immediately in order to boost ratings/subscriptions.



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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.122145

For once it gave me something good. I heard it a long time ago but I forgot the name. Turns out I've had the album on my HDD for years.

 No.122185

Supaida-man

 No.122189

I might check this out just out of curiosity. This guy has a cool channel in general.

 No.122444

Not sure if this counts or not since it's somewhat biased by me being subbed

 No.124323

Never watched Breaking Bad before but this is cool.



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 No.120518[Reply]

What is your proudest 2D/otaku related accomplishment? I can say I've watched Evangelion as a kid. Pretty cool eh? While everyone else was watching Pokemon, DBZ and Yugi-oh I was feeling funny looking at Shinji grab Rei's boobs by accident.
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 No.124147

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>>124106
AniDB is definitely very informative. I think it mostly suffers from a UI that doesn't really capture people's attention. You only get a few seconds to have a first impression and it fails to compare to MAL and anlist in that regard. Personally I use anilist because easily connects to Taiga. ANiDB is far more trustworthy when it comes to ratings, needless to say. If it did somehow get a sudden influx of say 50,000 users I wonder if the site and staff could support it.

 No.124154

I finished Gintama, One Piece and Bleach in 1 month

 No.124157

>>120518
I watched H stuff at a too young age. Don't know if it's something I should be proud of, but I guess I did end up discovering I was a lolicon at age 12. Thankfully I was able to hide it that early, and now it's kind of something I don't pay that much attention to now.
>>124106
I prefer anidb since it's not grating to see the community on there the same way it is for that MALicious site, which I've never been a fan of.
>>124147
I wonder that too, still one of the 10 people only using anidb though.

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>>124106
I've thought about it before. The site could easily be near-perfect in regard to completeness but I just don't think that's going to happen unless something significant changes. People don't like the UI which causes less people to join, change requests can pend for literal years which causes less people to continue contributing, the list goes on. There being several "competitor" sites doesn't help either, since a lot of people just contribute to AniList or MAL instead which seems like a fool's errand imo, they're so incomplete and will never be complete since they exclude so much.

>>124147
The site could probably handle it since donations go above the goal every time they're done, but the staff absolutely couldn't since they struggle to maintain what they currently have. Returns to the point about staff apathy, the senior moderators just don't care anymore and there's too much of a backlog of change requests to realistically work through with the current (relatively) active staff.

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These are not really feats but I'll list two things

1.Having a more in depth knowledge of otaku culture and niche moreso than most others around my age (I'm a loser, I know)

2. Contributing fanworks like art and fanfiction to a small fanbase I was in. I got a lot of likes and feedback for my work and it made me happy knowing that people enjoyed my stuff.

>>120521
I don't know if you'll ever see this now Reisen anon, but that's awesome. One day I plan on 1'cc IN as well.



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