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Yeah, I don't remember much about its animation, so I can't really disagree or agree. I probably wasn't super keen on it, but that's more to do with the aesthetic, which is very related but not quite the same thing.

The fifteen minutes of pure anime melodrama terror and pain that I sat through after you recommended it to me a couple of years ago says YES! ...No, wait, I mean no: "bad" is subjective. But would I blindly recommend it without giving some idea of what kind of film it is while just saying "it's a masterpiece of animation"? No, no I would not. Now while I know how you feel about these kinds of films, I don't think I've ever heard KP much mention them in either a positive or negative light, so I think the warning is apropos. If that's the kind of film one is in the mood for...well, that's fine.

It's a soft piano drama. Seriously, read this synopsis: How much more soft piano drama can you get? In fact, the first and most highly upvoted tag for every single movie made by the director/writer is "drama"...and if there were "soft piano drama" or "teenage melodrama" tags instead, I'm sure those would be at the top as well.

Whoa, whoa, hold on a second here...that link is just a recommendation to make use of the normal ignore list (while also carrying an implicit suggestion to exercise self-control), not my filters. The filters are a paid service, . (Okay, not really, but yeah, not a link to the filters. Ironically, I barely ever use the filters these days because...well, they were a useful tool for learning to stop caring and use self-control, and I've almost entirely mastered that at this point - pretty much the only time I look at one of the most egregious posters who are on my ignore lists' posts is if they happen to post directly after mine, otherwise I assume they're not talking to me and there's no need to look. I'm sure the moderators appreciate that, because in years past, I used to kind of spam them with reports for BruceVC and company's, how would one phrase it...unreadable posts? That seems appropriately non-inflammatory while still being somewhat insulting).

Sorry, I've had Linux bros tell me that sort of thing unironically too many times. While I actually have multiple Linux machines that I use and am comfortable with for specific uses, I pick up way too much miscellaneous software for all sorts of random purposes for Linux to not feel like a constant exercise in frustration whenever I try to do something new with it. Part of that is simply being way too used to Windows, part of that is my personality (just not having my normal Windows navigational keyboard shortcuts already feels like an intolerably painful slowdown when there aren't equivalents nor even a unified approach across distributions for Linux; there are times where I can literally go an hour without touching a mouse while doing real stuff because of how little it can be needed when you have proficient control of your keyboard shortcuts...I try to use my mouse as little as possible because of how slow and painful it is in comparison), part of that is Linux is just generally very sensitive and quite trying to use. It is way easier for me to break Windows in all the right ways to get it to work how I like than for me to screw around and try to do the same with Linux.

but it literally only took 30 seconds, there's video proof

oh no, my stolen copy of windows 10/11 isn't activated, whatever will i do :'( it's amazing what you can do with just a .bat file that's been openly hosted on github for several years these days

In my experience, stuff with peanuts or peanut butter tends to have the oils go rancid within like 6 months, so that's something to beware.

Yeah, I am pretty much the biggest hater of fansubs around. If you go through the trouble of taking a movie or show that is not in English and which doesn't already have a translation and you translate the entire thing because you're that much of a diehard fan, I applaud you. Really, that's impressive and makes it watchable for tons more people, and that can only be a good thing. But...you know, it goes without saying that I am going to revert your disgusting teal-yellow text color to normal white with black shadow, and I'm going to change the font from your "inspired" choice of Comic Sans to Calibri or something halfway respectable, and pretty much anything that require an asterisk to explain something is going to get thrown straight into the garbage with only rare exception given...and if god forbid you decided to inexplicably not translate "sensei" because it could not be accurately translated to "master" or "teacher", I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth. Fansubs are the worst, made by just the dumbest people...who are unfortunately much smarter than I am.

Well, personally, I just illegally steal installation images of corporate-only Enterprise versions of Windows that cut a lot of the worthless cruft out while giving you fuller control over the OS compared to the Home/Pro editions, illegally activate it via the infamous Microsoft Activation Script (MAS) suite, and then use a few other things to further illegally lobotomize the OS, preventing it from ever calling home except for when I elect to run updates. ...Oh, you're not comfortable with all of that? Well, I can't say I didn't try, .

I've noticed that there largely isn't consistency in how the tracks are named between web streaming and even DVD/BD sources. For my own files, I ended up calling everything with descriptive text "SDH" rather than trying to discern the precise differences between SDH and CC because...uh, well, it's genuinely pretty difficult to discern at times with the different ways that they're handled. I can only hope that the term "closed captioning" goes the way of the dinosaur entirely in favor of "SDH" over the next decade or two and retroactively makes my choice here completely correct, . I find reading descriptive text to be pretty disruptive to the reading experience, so I'm not a big fan. I am me, though.

Don't take it too personally, I am either openly contemptuous of or straight up laugh at 99.9% of music videos, even those made by my own favorite artists. I have zero respect for the medium of music videos. Of course (and it is now time to be offensive), the only thing funnier than the band looking hilariously miscast for their own music video is Billy Corgan's voice... That calculator is a little on the...large side. Might need another decade or two of cooking.

I, too, despise reading closed captioning and/or SDH subtitles (one of the two which is the only option seemingly roughly 75% of the time); on the other hand, I can at least be thankful that I am not hard of hearing or deaf, so there is that.

Bears got smashed even by the Packers, don't look into it too much. I don't know how they blew out the Patriots. Falcons are gonna win the NFCS...maybe. (e): nvm there was 20 seconds left and Falcons let up a 60 yard hail mary idk (e): But then the Panthers missed the game-winning XP, . (e): And then missed the game-winning FG from like 30 yards out. Okay then.

I watched the first episode of that show like six months after it came out (i.e. after everyone was already over it) and then I completely forgot that I watched the first episode until just now. I am going to do absolutely nothing to remedy this situation.

Yeah, I wasn't familiar with Tonight, Tonight until like ten minutes after having seen A Trip to the Moon, and excluding the random awkward/embarrassing shots to the band singing and playing their instruments (seriously, just not a good look, guys), it was actually a fairly faithful representation of the original. A Trip to the Moon was a lot more mad-hat and "good lord, would all of you stop moving and doing things for just TWO SECONDS?", though.

My initial inclination was to say "...uh, are you sure this isn't just some random fanart?", but doing a search on it, it does appear you are correct: creator of SpyxFamily created this character for their Rengoku no Ashe thingy first. This is something that often bewilders and amuses me with shows/movies: having a character do something or fill a role that should really realistically be filled by someone that has not hitherto appeared, but instead they come up with some excuse for a character that we already know to do it instead because...reasons. The reasons probably vary from show to show and situation to situation (don't want to take the time to design and/or setup a new character, don't want to find an actor that can fill the role when we could just write someone we already know and like to do it instead, want to give an existing character the role because it might be funny or interesting or make them seem like they have more depth or something), but there are still times where it kind of breaks my suspension of disbelief in the way that it happens.

A Trip to the Moon (1902). On second thought, let's not go to the Moon, it is a silly place. Actually, as far as 1902 silent shorts go, it was bizarrely entertaining. Also, possibly the greatest film of all time if you're high as a kite while watching it...which I was not, but still.

Oh no, flanderization has never happened to a show before, it's not like there's a term for it or anything.

Was it actually in there? I super do not recommend it to you of all people, it's not driven by what I would consider to be interesting or fun character or even any decent theme stuff at all. And now...for something I've been meaning to get back to for a long while. Devil Lady is the weirdest show. The constant switching between gentle friendship and lighthearted romance stuff to literal evisceration and disembowelling is...I mean, they just don't really go to together in theory, but they kind of keep each other in check and it's enjoyable (albeit horrific), somehow? Oh, Jun's meeting up with a girl who had a crush on her in high school but whose feelings she couldn't reciprocate, they're having a nice time seeing each other for the first time in ages, they're talking about how their careers are going and how everything that happened is all water under the shed...and now, Jun is decapitating her because according to Asuka, devils are attracted to devils (and also have their "devil" sides activated when they're around other active devils), so it seems pretty much anyone and everyone that would like Jun (or that she would like) must therefore necessarily be a devil. Well, I gotta say, it sure freaking sucks to be you, Jun, especially since it seems like Asuka is deliberately setting you up to activate and kill people that you like. Fancy cat cross necklace thing:

Yeah, I saw that there was a 2004 film when I tried to do a Wikipedia search. Apparently also a 2007 film, a 2011 eleven episode OVA, a 2011 movie, a 2014 movie...and there is a mathematically impossible yet totally true less than zero chance of me ever checking them out, .

Appleseed (1988). Yeah, I don't know about this keyboard layout. Why do we need 5 "A"s, exactly? Anyways, kind of boring but competent (and overly serious) buddy cop action movie in a pseudo cyberpunk setting, don't really recommend unless that's your thing. Pausing and looking at this silly keyboard was probably the most interesting thing to happen for me. I mainly checked it out because of Discotek, which is probably the best U.S. distributor around for BDs of old crap. (...Also, kind of funny to compare against Gunsmith Cats, which is...not totally dissimilar except for the "cyberpunk" stuff, but just so much better in every possible conceivable way. Yes, I'm probably going to be comparing all old action stuff I see against this as a kind of gold standard from now on.)

Always the biggest concern with prebuilts: cheaping out on the power supply, which later kills the system when it inevitably goes. From what I can see, this particular model advertises a "600W GOLD" PSU, which is...better than saying nothing, but there are still bad gold-rated PSUs out there. Didn't see anybody say what came with theirs when I looked up the model, though.

That seems very disappointing. Have you watched Flanagan's Haunting of Hill House as well? I was recently recommended it... (e): Wikipedia on The Midnight Club: So...like, the opposite of Midnight Mass?