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Humongous tabs, bad tab highlighting that makes it difficult to tell what tab is currently active without having to look (real important for me as someone that cycles through tabs exclusively with Ctrl+Tab/number), submenus that open by replacing the original menu instead of an actual submenu, white space EVERYWHERE that's shifted literally every single shortcut, setting, bookmark, etc. from where they should be, and everything just looks ugly and oversimplified. No, this just won't do. (e): I'm also the type of person that still longs for the olden days of 16:10 monitors, which basically don't even exist anymore - please do not waste my precious vertical space with comically oversized tabs or anything of the sort, thank you very much.

I'm VERY sensitive about these sorts of user experience changes. I stuck with Old!Opera (before they switched the entire back-end from their proprietary Presto to horrid Chromium) for about...3 years after its last update, and the only reason I updated was because literally everything was breaking all of the time and many websites had become straight up unusable due to glitches and styling issues and such. I had to switch to Firefox at that point. It ended up being for the best due to the necessity of better extensions anyways, but it was still sad. ...Which reminds me, I should make a complete backup of my Firefox just to make sure it doesn't try to auto-update my 20 or so extensions and then strip them from me because "they're no longer supported with your old version of Firefox". Bah, humbug. Yes, but I fixed it - it doesn't actually delete your old profile, it just creates a new one and tells you you aren't allowed to open the old one. There's a profiles.ini in AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox that you can re-write to set to the old one, then force Firefox to allow a downgrade via a --allow-downgrade shortcut switch of the Firefox.exe, then re-opening Firefox should allow the old profile to load. (e): Would also suggest creating a backup of that profile...just in case. Also, it occurs to me that you might've meant from the update itself rather than trying to downgrade, so maybe I have the wrong thread of thought entirely here, .

Yeah, I read that, plus they're apparently going to remove the limited compact mode for Proton as well, hence why I went and downgraded entirely while disabling auto-updating (...and firewalling off their update service juuust in case). Stupid.

Firefox updated today and it looks and feels absolutely horrendous, good lord almighty. Everything is double-spaced for some goshforsaken reason, and the top of my browser where the tabs are is so freaking fat. I hate it so much. It's Opera all over again... Going to have to identify the last version of Firefox that wasn't horrible, save the installer and then always disable auto-updating until they come to their senses or there's an add-on to fix this disgusting display. (e): Okay, successfully downgraded. It tried to tell me my profile (containing login cookies, bookmarks, extensions, setting customization, etc.) wouldn't be compatible with the old version and generated an entirely new profile, but I found the old profile in AppData and manually overrode it, and it seems like everything's fine. Never thought Firefox of all browsers would be this pants, but here we are... What other browsers besides Firefox and Chrome have the needed extension versatility? Ugh.

Tomoyo's really got that Once in a Lifetime "this is not my beautiful Sakura...but at least she's right over there" vibe in that picture. Also, given that I lack the context for the scene, it still is pretty creepy! Presumably, it will be less so when I see it for real... Now that you mention it...I have no idea, . Have to imagine it's real early among sports-centric shows...

...Did you have plans at some point? Classic sports story arc stuff...and then the training montages to climb back up to the top, . ...Although this is a show, so that probably won't happen, at least not directly. No Sakura for me...yet. Perhaps to be amended later today.

Indeed! First time LeBron has ever been eliminated in the first round...and also, to answer something I asked earlier, apparently 2007 is the last time both conference champions were eliminated in the first round. So not a totally unique occurrence.

I'm going to bed, hope to wake up and see that the Lakers were eliminated tomorrow. I think I read a stat the other day before tonight's game happened that Jokic has played 37 playoff games with Denver, and Denver had never even once won a game while already up one (e.g. 1-0, 2-1, 3-1); tonight finally broke that streak. (e): Oh, also, Jokic will be the lowest drafted MVP ever, after Giannis set that record two years ago (15th pick for Giannis, 41st for Jokic!).

It seems that we are all aphantasiacs to one degree or another on this blessed day! In that case, I have no other explanation for the terrible lack of dreams, .

I can't even get regular dreams, never mind lucid! With the one lucid dream I had, it was an utterly boring dream where absolutely nothing of note happened, but it was still amazing not just because I was awake and aware, but also just the...clarity of detail. Real life doesn't have what that dream had - everything was perfectly clear and colors and shapes popped in a way I'd never seen or experienced before. And then to be able to look down at the ground, see a rock and then tap it with my foot and really feel it, and then to kick it and have it...well, at least seem like the laws of physics were being properly applied from a decision I had consciously made, it was all so very real and vivid. Feels like such a waste to have what's probably my single lucid dream in my entire life be a dream where absolutely nothing happened, but better than never having had it at all! Could've been in a cagematch to the death with my robot dragon alien doppelganger on the Plane of Shadow...

I'd take surreal painting over what I've got! That one dream makes me feel like I temporarily unlocked some part of my brain that I immediately lost the key for after I woke up, never to be found again...

Well, for me, I can't mentally picture even like the faces of people (friends, family, whatever) I've seen a thousand times. I know what they look like, I have specific feelings associated with them that tell me what they mean to me, but I cannot mentally picture them. Even in dreams, what I see is extremely hazy and almost...shadowy? Like a great dark fog that I can't really see through covers everything and all I get are vague outlines of things. I still know what things are because I'm associating thoughts and feelings with what I'm perceiving them to be, but the image itself is barely there. The one lucid dream I had, which I cannot even come close to properly recollecting because of my absolutely lousy ability to mentally image (and so I'm more working with a memory of a memory of a memory), was the first time in my life I ever realized how incredibly vivid dreams and maybe even the ability to consciously mentally image can be for some people. Wish I had it all the time, . (e): To be in a dream and see reality be truly made in your mind as if it were real life...greater than real life even (or so I thought when I experienced that dream - again, memory of a memory now), was such an incredibly unique experience.

Legitimately thought it'd never happen. ...Of course, what happens next is even more important than simply ousting him.

I'm jealous. I usually have only a handful of dreams annually, and they're almost always super weak (outside of exactly one lucid dream that felt more vivid and real than actual real life). I can only assume the fact that I suffer from moderate aphantasia has something to do with my lack of dreams. It's especially terrible because I love the few dreams that I have, even nightmares. I always say that objectively speaking, aesthetic shouldn't impact how writing, dialogue, and characters are conveyed and one's reactions towards them...but for some reason, it does. Hope Clear Card doesn't end up being completely terrible like Sailor Moon Crystal, .

It seems so! And yes, knowing that she has the power to crush him like a little ant should help moderate her feelings. Maybe, . Episode 31 and 32, more great episodes.

CCS, episode 30:

Speaking of gun control... https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/06/02/deputy-involved-shooting-reported-in-volusia-county/ 1. 14 year-old girl and 12 year-old boy that are foster kids run away from home for a few hours. 2. Boy is diabetic and will die without regular insulin. 3. Decide to break into someone else's home and find AK-47, shotgun, and handgun and a pile of ammunition just sitting out. 4. They go HAM and open fire against police while verbally threatening to kill them. 5. Backup is called, a shootout ensues and the older girl is shot twice, including once in the chest, survives - miraculously, no-one killed during any of the action. 6. Apparently, police have been called for matters relating to the specific foster home ("Florida United Methodist Children’s Home") 289 times over the past year. Somewhat predictably, it all happened in Florida.

Drivers licenses could honestly use a similar mechanism. It's just so tough to meaningfully implement it in a way that people will ever respond to in a responsible/positive manner (especially in the growing idiotocracy that is the U.S.) as opposed to just seeing it as a series of hoops they have to pass so they can continue being idiots every other day but the one they're being trained not to. It's easy enough to train a monkey...but in this case, you're trusting that the monkey will remain consistent to their training without any kind of supervision for years at a time and hoping that they won't deliberately decide to get themselves bit and go completely rabid in the interim.

also, you're the one that just vaguely said "how about some gun control now" with zero context for your statement given

Yeah, I'm pretty ambivalent on the subject of gun control (well, more like split and torn on it rather than simply ambivalent), but if we made something that can be dangerous if improperly used illegal every time some idiot who lacked either intelligent thought or training, we would not be able to drive cars, ride bicycles, use blades sharper than butter knives... I wish there was some magical solution for preventing both the untrained and genuine morons from using any of these things, but no-one has yet to come up with any kind of solution...especially in a country that has more guns (and cars?) than citizens.

Trust me, it's not my first choice by any means - I'm just doing my best to tolerate it and appreciate the funnier bits, of which there were increasingly less as the season went on. I wonder if I would like the Ranma show a little more, at least for shonen...

lmao, sort of, but uh, trust me, Rei's grandpa is *way* more likable than...whatever his name is. I watched the entire first season of this show, which is like 10 hours, over the past few weeks, and I don't know the main character's name. I know the other guy's name, Kuwabara, but not the main character. YUSUKE, I had to look it up, and it's kind of shocking I forgot given that it's said literally like a thousand times over the course of the first season. Anyways, yeah, Rei's grandpa would've been a way better protagonist, since at least he's not so terribly whiny and angsty literally 99.9% of the time like Yusuke is...buuut it would've necessitated that the show be less serious and more funny, which, hey, it could've benefited from as well, .

How often has it happened that the two conference champions are both eliminated in the first round of the next year, I wonder? I haven't followed basketball for long enough to know whether that's common at all or not...

Hope it plays a lot better than the Wii version. Got through the first dungeon and said "welp I'm never playing that ever again". Terrible controls, terrible puzzles, terrible characters, terrible aesthetic, terrible game. ...Although if gameplay had been good, I probably would've learned to like the characters and aesthetic more. The number of times I was grossed out by inexplicable close-up chest and crotch shots of our main characters (often while they were in the middle of trying to talk!) in that show says otherwise...but I guess I haven't watched enough (well, basically any) modern anime to see how they compare. I just really have no patience for such nonsense, . Speaking of, in one the last episodes of S1 of Yu Yu Hakusho...

Just finished the first season, and it didn't have any tournament stuff, although honestly, even though that's true, the last ten episodes or so were just villain after villain after villain, .@KP the meanie zucchini Are seasons after 1 really just all tournament crap? Don't you be bad-mouthing Navi! If you'd ever played Skyward Sword, you would know how lucky we got with Navi compared to the abomination that is Fi! Speaking of Mami, the name "Mami" is extremely unfortunate when speaking in English - it's very uncomfortable to be hearing characters saying "mommy" to refer to her, .