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 No.143478[Reply]

does anyone on kissu make youtube videos? let's plays, reviews, vlogs, or really anything? i'm curious
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 No.143550

>>143527
huh this one really popped off
wonder why the algorithm roulette picked this vid specifically, maybe the boobers?

 No.143557

>>143527
oh, no, i know for a fact i found the channel through kissu, i used to hang out here more often
the first video i saw from this channel was some bad ending song from an eroge, the video had two shabs tied up and being used by orcs or something, but i can't seem to find it...

 No.143559

>>143557
yeap, that video is gone sadly it was too ero for youtube-kun

 No.143560

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>>143557
haha, that one. Yeah that was deleted in 2 weeks or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmS1dIYF-k&feature=youtu.be

 No.143571

I've always wanted to make frag videos in whichever game I happen to be playing at the time but find that my gameplay isn't interesting enough to be worth developing into a video, so I just end up with short clips of video games and an occasional video I've taken while travelling. Recently, I've felt like I should try and create a successor to the Asian Shoegaze channel, who's owner nuked all the videos on it a couple of years ago for an unknown reason. I have most of the albums downloaded in flac as well as some others that I have since discovered or have since been released.




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 No.143074[Reply]

We're upgrading the servers.
We'll be down for about a minute.
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 No.143153

>>143074
good. We love stable servers

 No.143471

>>143074
I think wordfilters to Japanese are funny and have taken to ending posts in desu in lieu of having t-b-h filtered to desu even though I never used to type t-b-h
in that spirit I suggest you add more funny wordfilters, like turning btw into another copula

 No.143524

>>143471
I'm fond of tbdesu for that purpose, tbdesu. It rolls of the tongue.
Only problem with filters is that some slang are actual words in normal context. Based, slop, soy for example. Can't tell you how many times I got caught off guard by soy sauce being filtered to onions sauce on 4chan. Slop is probably the easiest so long as it covers shitposty use cases. Maybe filtering to kuso.

 No.143539

Dunno if people get the drift of how this place works yet or not.

But our misc topics are in >>>/qa/138870 so that can just be used to discuss free thoughts.
On the homepage staff can select things to go into Featured Threads

We have a lot of markup tools, and a way to create custom markup using ALT+M but you have to be a programmer to really understand it. I've sanitized it to prevent exploits.

The difference between /qa/ and /jp/ is that they're similar but JP is supposed to be more fast paced than QA. QA has 20 pages of threads while JP is 10.

I might point out other things but that's about it. We basically aren't going to moderate the same we do typically until things wind down so don't fret about being a nuisance too much.

 No.143541

Much like 4chan we can restore threads going back through a hidden archive board. Our deleted posts wind up on >>>/trans/ for transparency.
Illegal content obviously does not




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 No.143013[Reply]

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 No.143021

I don't buy things from dumb traitor cats.

 No.143348

>>143021
Karl did nothing wrong. Double agents are not traitors, they're just smarter than your average pussy.

 No.143350

Being a cute catgirl requires no justification.




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 No.127052[Reply]

How is your sleep routine? I'm thinking I need to improve mine. Strangely I've found that having my little tablet thing playing a youtube speedrun history video helps me get sleepy faster. My theory is that it interrupts my thinking and allows my brain to turn off faster. It doesn't increase the amount of sleep I get, but at least it starts earlier so there's less wasted time doing nothing in bed.
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 No.143273

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Haven't been sleeping too well lately. It's a bit of a paradox in that the more things I do during the day, the more difficult it is to sleep. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Last week I was tilling the garden which is very exhaustive work and in turn it took me... FOUR HOURS to fall asleep.

 No.143316

>>143273
I just bit this shab

 No.143321

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I've been sleeping only 5 hours for the past week and I don't know why, it's killing me.

 No.143328

been sleeping pretty bad ever since I started taking brain pills to correct my brain problems

 No.144212

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I have a lot of sleeping problems.
Thankfully, I have a lot of leeway with this because my college doesn't care about attendance, in other words I don't go, except for the exams and a quiz here and there.
A "sleeping schedule" is out of the question, but even sleeping itself is kind of hard and takes effort, I average about 5h.
It is a complicated balancing act between relaxing and trying to get into a sleepy mood, but also not trying too hard, because that shifts towards being bad.
I drink something warm (usually tea, sometimes milk, sometimes instant miso soup) and just listen to music in the hour preceding going to bed. Before that I spend a bit watching anime. All with blue light off and so on.
I take valium and magnesium glycinate.




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 No.143048[Reply]

Won't forget Asan

 No.143152

geez I haven't seen that edit I made in YEARS

 No.143166

If there's a silver lining, it's that because Asan got fired, he didn't get his email leaked... The /QA/-12's plans are measured in decades

 No.147754

>>143166
Yeah, I was glad most all the good mods were gone and couldn't be doxed.




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 No.127496[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Have you watched anything neat on youtube or similar sites lately? Don't just link it, mention why you like it!
This is a re-enactment of the American Psycho dubs man scene with Weird Al and Huey Lewis. There's some very nice attention to detail and the humor is great. Somehow it's 7 years old and I never saw it.
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 No.141549

lightning cannon

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 No.142210

GUYS! GUYS! NEW SUMMONING SALT!
Honestly I'm a little bit tired of the Mario 64 focus, but I guess it's the most popular speedrunning game and it's what made this channel so popular in the first place.
I'm still going to watch it probably 5 times throughout my life, though.

 No.142966

test

 No.143079

>>142210
I like his videos too but I wish someone would cover more "niche" games. TAS are their own category too but most speedrunning videos focus on those big titles. I know it brings a lot of views, I just want more diversity in this field. Maybe I should start my own YT channel instead...




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 No.142721[Reply]

Did you know the majority of posters on 4chin's /pol/ were Israeli?
What are the political implications of this?

 No.142723

vpn or memeflag

doesn't mean much

 No.142724

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They had me all along.

 No.142731

>>142721
doctored?




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 No.73454[Reply][Last50 Posts]

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

>>141358
hmmm well one problem with this is that you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past, and tons of books and papers from the last thirty years have had to argue against the popular conception that's come down from 18th-19th century myths which are still treated as fact outside of specialized literature
i think it's a solid idea but you should definitely watch out, especially with those that are more than 4-5 decades old

 No.141361

>>141360
>you'll have a lot of decades-old outdated information
That's certainly true, but it's also desirable in some circumstances. For example, an encyclopedia from 1989 is in theory going to have more information on the Soviet Union than an encyclopedia from the last 20 years simply by virtue of the Soviet Union being extant at the time of writing. I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.

>in particular one topic i'm investigating was famously covered quite badly by encyclopedias in the past
What topic is that?

 No.141362

>>141361
>I also think it's desirable to have viewpoints across time as a reference for how understandings may have changed.
valid point
>What topic is that?
16th-17th century astronomy

 No.142371

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my youtube client can now load hdr video formats

 No.142496

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




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 No.138798[Reply]

How important is it to /qa/ for your post's images to fit your intentions? To me, it's everything.
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 No.138838

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 No.138844

>>138837 just bit >>138838 causing >>138835 to happen

 No.138845

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 No.142415

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

 No.142420

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>>142415
Thankfully you're not gay.




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 No.117499[Reply]

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

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

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

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

 No.123971

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

 No.124355

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

 No.142025

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

 No.142062

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

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




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 No.141918[Reply]

Rayuko

 No.141919

wow thats ugly

 No.141925

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Eh?

 No.141960

is she sad heiling




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 No.113933[Reply][Last50 Posts]

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 No.141739

>>141738
they actually appeared after completing phase 1
jumpscared by a buncha chips....

 No.141741

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Nice work completing it!

>>141738
>>141730
Reading up on the chat log of your confusion and surprise while making the puzzle was great fun for me too.

And if anyone's curious, when creating a puzzle room there's a setting called "Enabled Censor" where you can draw an area you want to appear afterwards. And as soon i saw that i had to use this image since i figured it could make for a fun surprise to have the doritos hair part appear later, without a preview image.

 No.141756

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>>141741
Did the same with the attached image here once. Was also amusing reading about the confusion and the realisation later, heh.
Shouldn't be hard to guess which part of the puzzle was 'censored', I knew there would be at least one person to target that area first.

I missed your puzzle but like to see a kindred spirit.

 No.141765

>>141756
I'm not surprised, and i'm happy to hear that i wasn't the only one to have used it. And yeah, i can guess which part it was. Unless you like put all of the skin areas inside the "Censoring" part or something...

Anyway, i'm very tired and need to go sleep. But here's another one, without any surprises or whatnot this time: https://jiggie.fun/unPNcu

 No.141815

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>>141765
And done.
Got some extra time and ended up finishing the last bit myself. In hindsight, I kind of regret picking this one because there were far too many similar yellow and pink pieces... ugh...




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 No.141766[Reply]

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

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

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

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

 No.141784

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

 No.141789

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

 No.141792

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

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

 No.141793

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




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 No.137321[Reply]

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

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

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

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

 No.138672

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

 No.138673

starting in 8 minutes! nothing stopping me this time

 No.138674

starting now!

 No.141764

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When the fuck are we doing a Twin Peaks stream goddammit




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 No.141163[Reply]

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

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

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

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

 No.141667

starting NOW

 No.141668

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

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

 No.141673

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

 No.141674

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




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