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    I'm starting to finally get desensitized to the deaths. For the first few hours, it was a lot of "I'm just going to close my eyes now until this is over"s. Accidentally falling into the sun, eaten by gooberfishes, shot out of repulsion cannons into dead space and suffocating, accidentally crash-landing into planets at a thousand kmph because I didn't slow down enough in time...not great.
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    Earlier, I accidentally stepped onto a teleporter that I did not know was a teleporter and got flung to some far-away station I'd never seen before, looked around for approximately ten seconds before promptly falling into a black hole that I thought was safely far "above" me but turned out to actually be "below" me because its gravitational pull forced the issue, which then turned out to be a wormhole instead of a black hole and sucked me away to some other place that I had no idea what was either, where I then had no idea what to do especially since I was in space without my ship while running clear out of oxygen and thus perished. Good times were had by everyone...well, everyone except for me.
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    The whole "reset every 20 minutes" mechanic doesn't much appeal to you, or is it something else?
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    Outer Wilds (note: not The Outer Worlds). Somewhat Subnautica-ish, but without the survival/building mechanics...so also somewhat not Subnautica-ish. Space sure can make me sick.
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    Are you deliberately trying to get majestic to never watch Samurai Champloo? Nope, I did not, you are wrong. Better luck next time, pal! "Hilarious" is one word for it, . Episode 22 of Samurai Champloo. Mushrooms, necromancers, and meteors. I don't know what to make of this episode. It was fine, but probably the weakest episode of the entire show thus far. Episode 23 of Samurai Champloo. Bills, yankees, and baseball. I don't know what to make of this episode...except that there's a little bit of a resemblance to that one Steven Universe baseball episode. Feels like I stepped straight off into crazy-town for these two episodes - hopefully the last three will be a little more connected to our characters and the plot, as the rest of the show has done a much better job of meaningfully tying both of those into the crazy rather than the other way around like these two did.
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    To be fair, there's lots of things I've tried where I've had specific pointed criticisms...that I could've easily ignored if the work had grabbed me in other ways and made it so I wouldn't focus too much on what I didn't like, but it didn't, so those criticisms were front and center. Often times, the reality is if something doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't appeal to you, and nothing more needs to be said or done about it, move on, . P.S. When are you going to make a fan translation of the Miyu books for me? I'm not totally against the premise, but it looks like a typical Hollywood affair. On the other hand, I might prefer to watch Pretty Woman over this. High fashion is like...I don't even know, I don't think I could be less interested. Seems like a less than ideal date movie. I really am going to get back into this soon...
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    Perfectly fine from everything I've ever done with it, and I think the general experience is that compatibility with everything is fine, but some games either suffer get a little faster or a little slower, depending on the exact game in question. The latest version of LTSC (2019) is basically a slightly stripped down version of Windows 10 1803, but only ongoing security updates and nothing feature-related. They're going to release one last final version of Windows 10 LTSC sometime within the next year or two, last I heard - most likely will be a slightly stripped down version of whatever the last major version of Windows 10 is. Might decide to upgrade to that when it comes out, I'm not entirely certain yet.
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    Yes, even though I hate college ball, it was nice to see not-Alabama win. @Keyrock How confident you feeling about the 49ers game?
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    Many of the primary strengths of Linux are also its weaknesses in that they make the OS difficult and annoying to use. Good for a number of specialized purposes, bad for most other things. The fact that there are so many "major" distributions and nobody can agree on which is the best even for just a general user also means no version of the OS will ever be ubiquitous enough to really take-off - everyone's too split across too many different versions. I'm not really ever expecting Linux's story to change. I'm glad I was able to find a more static version of Windows 10 to use (LTSC), otherwise I'd probably still be trying to use Windows 7. Static, stable, secure, and functional - the primary things I want in an OS, and LTSC gets the job done. ...On the other hand, you do have to steal it to obtain it for non-business purposes, but not really much of an issue.
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    This show sounds an awful lot like how I felt when I watched Okko's Inn. It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it, I should be into it to some degree...but it ain't grabbing me for whatever reason.
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    I believe you can just kill the Windows Update service and it will delay pending updates until the next shutdown/restart. (e): ...Until the next shutdown/restart AFTER the next shutdown/restart, that is, .
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    I can't imagine the merciless mocking of the Packers if they hadn't won one early on into Rodgers' career. I think the Cowboys and the 49ers are the worst match-up for the Packers, so I'm appreciative of them playing each other right off the bat. Admittedly, the Packers always find a way to beat the Cowboys in the playoffs even when it makes literally zero sense, but still. If the Cowboys win, they have to go play the Buccaneers...unless the Buccaneers miraculously lose to the Eagles, I guess. It's nice to have the #1 seed. At least it didn't end up mattering, what with the 49ers winning.
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    ...Did she actually do that? All I remember is her slightly lowering her shirt on one of her shoulders and the guy immediately being like "yeah, please don't", . Sorry about asking for the translation, I didn't know it was going to be that intense. Hey, practice...right? Glad they got one right, though! I think this was the episode where I really fully cemented in my brain that Myao was awesome. Something about the way she was genuinely offended with the painter when he wanted to paint her and then immediately abandoned her when he came across Ran really resonated with me, for whatever reason. I was mad at that jerk for the entire episode too...and the fact that she had grown wise to his stupid tactics at the end of the episode when Ran was finally convinced somehow felt perfect. Myao might be dumb, but she's not that dumb!
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    Bob Saget. That came out of nowhere...as they tend to do, I suppose.
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    Oh boy. The following story is not a joke: I have a friend who is somewhat of an anime watcher, although less these days than she used to be. Fire Force happened to be one of her boyfriend's favorite animes of the last few years and since she's someone that also likes anime, he insisted that they watch it together. Apparently, she hadn't watched any shonen anime since she was a teen, and...it did not go over well, because she thought the entire thing was a silly and ironic joke. It was not: he took it as seriously as it was apparently intended to be. Many arguments and hurt feelings later, they ended up breaking up like a month down the road. They'd been together for over a year, . When she sent me a clip of it, I basically had the same reaction as her, which was also essentially the same as RedLetterMedia's Mike's reaction to "A Dog's Purpose": Suffice to say, I am not the target audience for Fire Force, . @majestic Feel free to explain to me the title of episode 5.
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    That's correct, but when you have a username as unwieldy as it is (four syllables!), you take any decent nicknames you can get while politely asking people to stop using the bad ones, . On a side-note, I took it not from the Bible, but from the titular demon/spirit in a children's book that I read...you guessed it, when I was a kid. @Hurlshot Haha, it's fine, . Whatever image you tried to link did not work - whoever visits it will be sent to some other random image instead. (e): Looks like you fixed it.
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    I think a big part of the problem is the specific particulars of how I write (little word usage, sentence structure, and tone stuff) changes over time, so it's like even if I still agree with the base ideas of what I wrote, it feels like someone else wrote it for me.
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    Lmao, I guess following it up would've been helpful, considering the discussion it spawned regarding entertainment and humor not being anywhere near universal. ...Except you did follow it up: Your follow-up was not very helpful, . P.S. Does anyone ever see some of their old posts and think their past selves must have been an alien?
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    I thought I remembered what @Hurlsnot was talking about, so I went a-searchin': Kind of difficult to interpret your message as being anything but anti-Sunny (and also anti-Scrubs), given you quoting Hurlshot where it's the only mentioned show, .
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    Sure, . Left to my own devices, I do tend to do that at the beginning of stuff...and then go and try other stuff for some reason, even if I love it. I need something or someone pushing me forward to consistently stick with something in particular. One oddity for me about Sailor Moon vs. Sailor V is that the way characters look in the Sailor Moon manga actually kind of creep me out at times. I wasn't ever going to read the Sailor Moon manga most likely anyways, but I thought it would also be a problem with Sailor V and it isn't. Sailor V is more messy and a little more simple, but for some reason, it just looks better to me. Good luck with both of those, . If I recall correctly, there is maybe one or two slightly questionable instances throughout the show - feel free to keep a counter. Can't really even "compete" with Sailor Moon in that area (which isn't bad by way of framing...but nevertheless has many instances that are between slightly and moderately questionable). Yeah, I like the outro much better - this one has no energy or personality.
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    Lmao, I forgot about that - I laughed so hard about that, I thought that was perfect for a semi-parody like this. That episode was instrumental in making me realize I did actually genuinely like the show even if it wasn't necessarily the highest of art, . Negative, I've read issues 1-4 (of 16). I'll get back to it, haven't really felt in the mood for anything at all lately. I keep "correcting" Tamako to Tamoko in your quotes as well, so you can just pretend I did that one too, . If you had tried to describe what that outro song sounds like to me, I probably would've said "that sounds terrible", but somehow I actually like it. The animation, on the other hand, I was getting a little motion sick from watching the running bit. So there's that, .
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    I thought that episode was actually very good - it started out like it was taking its trashiness to a whole new level...and then just turned around and went the complete opposite direction instead, . It was a little bit of a stretch for Ran's character to go along with everything (although I'd say it could be justified by this being a sign of her becoming better friends with Myao, and also the fact that she ate and drank at Myao's expense...), but that's probably the worst I could say about it. If Komi and Discovery are any indication, it looks like there is a mercy rule in television after all, . @Tamoko Market: Oh wow, I'm super excited to watch this one next!
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    Kind of feels like this applies to every month, especially since coronavirus, though...
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    In a lot of cases, translators go for something more creative that sounds more like something a native English speaker would actually write rather than a difficult literal translation...but in this particular case, I don't think you can really make that excuse, . It helps when nothing in particular is bothering you right off the bat - it's not like a number of other more modern shows I've tried where I immediately disliked the art style, character direction, voice direction, tone, et cetera. If there's nothing to immediately hate, that helps make watching additional episodes a lot easier, . Your premise doesn't sound too bad of a starting point...and it's pretty short at 12 episodes. Guess you'll see how it goes. That's pretty racist. ...I kept imagining some sort of monstrous David Bowie as the villain courtesy of that villain's name, but sadly, the truth is pretty far away from that, .
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