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Dry eggs are a slippery slope guys, stop paying attention and you'll wake up eating well done steaks some day. Just say no to dry eggs, and embrace the warm and wonderful runny, gooey goodness. You could try to get a Japanese snack box. There's a pack with all sorts of KitKat flavors that apparently sprang from the mad mind of someone who stopped experimenting on prisoners of war after World War 2 and picked up candy creation. No, you don't want to know what all that is. Really. All those wonderful flavors. Sake, wasabi, maccha (matcha) tea, houjicha (green tea leaves roasted over charcoal), red bean paste sandwich? As for seafood - curiously enough, it's the other way around. I enjoy shrimp sashimi, but most cooked seafood - including shrimp - is nigh uneatable. It's not the taste, but the texture much of it gets by cooking. Outside of (most) fish as long as it is not overcooked, eating it is so unpleasant that I just can't. It's the same thing that makes many mushrooms impossible for me to eat, never mind something that always seems to have an overly chewy texture, like octopus.

CCS' voice acting has a way of really growing on you while watching. Once I had watched Perfect Blue Tomoyo was distracting for a while, and Sakura was kind of annoying at first - until at some point during the episode where she trashes her father's work, it just clicked, and I guess Tomoyo's singing tided me over. Still have to chuckle when I think back to the post about the episode where Tomoyo breaks her initial camcorder and I made the text and spoilers read like the show killed a main character off for real. Could feel the death glare through the screen. Good times. Seems like a decent enough director then, but my watchlist way too long already. Random tangent: my maternal grandmother and her mother once started culling their chickens because they thought they got sick, until they realized that they were just drunk out of their minds from the alcohol-preserved sour cherries they threw on the compost heap. The chickens actually ate them. So, yeah, keep foodstuffs containing alcohol away from children and small animals.

Experience.

Why do people insist on having calls to discuss issues that could easily be explained in a two line instant message or e-mail? Hey, there's a wrong line break in X. Or... - Find a time where everyone is available for a spontaneous call - Send out invitations and hope everyone sees and accepts in time - Set up hardware - Connect - Wait for everyone else to resolve their headset/cam/connectivity issues - Meet and greet even if you've talked to each other for ten thousand times - Smalltalk - Talk about a wrong line break for two minutes - More smalltalk - Goodbyes You'd think these people get paid by meeting count. Sheesh. There's a reason the OSS field manual for sabotage operations suggested setting up as many meetings as possible to bog down decisions and workload.

I can live with that. Probably not. It is hard to explain how groan-worthy the really terrible parts of Tamao Love Story were without the context of the series and the rest of the movie. The worst part about them was that the film was actually pretty great. I liked the characters, the 'plot' (surprisingly, it's a love story, who would have thought), it was thematically great in the way it was in juxtaposition to the events of the series when it comes to depicting Tamako's life as ever the same and suddenly there's a rush of change that she simply never truly perceived. The film is also really, really, really good with its scene composition. And then... then it goes and tries to tell the audience that Tamako is still completely oblivious, by telling her guy-best-friend who she is in love with but doesn't realize it yet (i.e. the entire plot of the film, then and there) that she ran into giant breats at the bath (complete with saying BOING when she does) and wondering if boobie shaped mochis would be a good idea and by grabbing her gal-best-friend's butt to feel if it would make a good shape for mochi rice cakes. Tamako's autistic friend (a character you'd probably love ) even narrates the latter by talking directly at the camera about how we can see the perverted mochi girl going for some fine ass. Well, not entirely in these words, but perverted was definitely a part of it. The breast part at least I could have lived with, to be honest. It's still strange to talk to Mochizō about it rather than to Midori, but if the aim is to show that Tamako is still not thinking about romantic and/or sexual topics in general, which is a huge stretch at her age in the film, but not impossible, then that would have worked. Touching Midori inappropriately in the light of Midori's unrequited love for Tamako is not only degrading to the character, it's downright hurtful for no good reason, and nothing really comes of it either. Overall I enjoyed the film, probably too much in light of that scene. It is such a stain on an otherwise great work. It made me like a romantic comedy, and that takes a lot. Sigh. The film's character models and designs came out of the same factoy as well.

Quotations seem to work now, as per my post above, but parantheses still break the post:

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The text is not disappearing, when you try to post you get a white screen with request blocked: The issue is potentially linked to some validation attempts where the posted string is checked for signs of scripting attacks, because when it happens it is related to certain characters appearing close to a submitted HTML tag and certain key words in quotation marks. Steps to easily reproduce the issue and for further information: Then there's the ever present problem of the forum being hungry and simply not posting what you typed after hitting submit. This is a separate issue from REQUEST BLOCKED, but the current issues can be used to reliably trigger the post eating behaviour. Basically if anything causes a 403 Forbidden error, the next post before reloading the page is going to disappear into the void without error message:

The English title Weathering With You is like literally in the next sentence, but I'll place it more prominently next time. I can get behind that. I guess I should put Your Name back on the watch list then. The story part of the film is less than half of it. The rest is mostly character building and interactions, which should be great, but somehow was not. It wasn't bad by any means, and I've certainly seen worse, but for every good moment there's something stupid. Then there are some moments of bizarre fanservice where Hodoka just stares at one of the female character's breasts until it is pointed out to him. It's sillier than usual because it's way, way out of place. Not that fanservice like that is every necessary in my opinion, but there's a time and place for it, and this film certainly is not. Much like the stupid boobery in Tamako Love Story, but at least Tamako Love Story tried to make it a story point - an unnecessary one, but a point at least. Here it's just random. Edit: The description was pretty barebones because there's not much to the film's plot, and descriptions of all the character interactions would have been really superflous. There's just not much more to say about it. It is perhaps the films biggest achievement, to never really be boring with so little going on. Well, little. There's Hodoka's friend and his attempts to gain custody of her daughter, which never really gets resolved properly other than a throw-away montage at the end, the friend's niece who works with Hodoka who is looking for a job but never finds one, uhm... yeah. It would be my kind of nothing happens if that nothing was more interesting.

Absolutely secondary to the ear bleeding, but not wrong either. #notmystyleofmetal

The vocalist makes my ears bleed. I almost recommended K-On!, but then I realized that K-On! just pretends to be a musical anime. It's really a slice of life series about doing nothing much that pretty much just incidentially has music performances in it because the source material was about a highschool band.

I also realized that my RTX 3060 is obviously only connected with one 8 pin power cable. I'd have to fiddle out another 8-pin cable from the cable management tray for the RTX 4070 Ti, and now we're instantly no longer in the realm of "do I really want to pay X money for a GPU?" and in the realm of "how I do overcome that impossible to deal with revulsion at the thought of installing the card?" - a place I was in after I bought a GTX 970 back in, uhm, 2014 or so. I had that card for three months before I managed to conjure up the will to install it. I bought it to be able to better play Dragon Age: Inquisition, I game I had finished and no longer had any desire to play by the time.

Reading the comments is painful. Swedish weebs are weak! Either that, or the joke is too good. It's a bunch of random Japanese strung together to sound like the original. Being able to speak Swedish apparently makes it so that the Japanese misheard lyrics can be misheard back to Swedish with an accent. What a glorious find this turned out to be.

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon episode 15. Last episode Usagi was sick. Well, possessed by Kunzite, and Mamoru dropped her off at Ami's place. Naru wanted to visit but Ami threw her out, now Naru and Ami are not talking to each other. Usagi still doesn't know that Mamuro is Tuxedo Mullet, and Naru gets the wrong idea when she hears that it was Mamoru who carried her to Ami's. Cue Naru giving Usagi Mamoru's phone number, address, blood type (that is a rather Japanese thing ) and leaving them alone at an auction where, supposedly, stolen jewelry is being pawned off... Naturally Usagi stumbles herself into someone carrying Minako's stolen earrings and he wants to go and get them back. Mamoru does the sensible thing and says they should talk to the police officer over there. When the police officer doesn't believe her, she says she's going to get them back. Mamoru is like, what, you, wow will you do that? And Usagi goes: I'M GOING TO TRANSFORM INTO SAILOR MOON. Good job, Usagi. Anyway, after fifteen episodes, it is becoming a bit clearer that Ami's actress is a little, say, stiff. I don't know if that is the direction, or her ability, but it's not working as well as the others are. For Usagi's actress (I guess I should look up their names at some point) that is more the direction and the character she is playing. She's okay when being normal, very much not so when she's being told to be anime Usagi.

This would be a lot funnier if it wasn't so close to the truth.

It was both in the past. Actually... in the not so distant past. Currently, I only play at 1080p and the RTX 3060 that I currently have is plenty for that, even on the highest settings. It was pretty much the only reasonably priced card available to buy at the time when I ordered the computer, and I thought about upgrading it relatively soon, but unless my screen does and I replace it with something with a higher resolution I'm likely skipping this gen, unless nVidia stops pricing their cards in a way that is supposed to clear leftover 30ies stock first. Guess that's not going to be any time soon.

So, launch day prices for the RTX 4070 Ti in Central Yurop €-land: 900€ for the cheapest, the same asking price as the RTX 3080, 15 to 20% cheaper than any available 7900 XT and a whole lot cheaper (like 45% cheaper) than any available RTX 3080 Ti and never mind the 3090 Tis, which are still being sold for prices similar to the RTX 4090. RTX 3070 Tis are 750€ right now. It sure is, but it is predicated on the US pricing reality that simply does not exist for us commies, as such I can only watch and be slightly amused by the exasperation. As per curent pricing, given the performance and efficiency of the RTX 4070 Ti, it's currently the best value card on the market. It's ridiculous.

So let's see about this cookie rejection issue... If that shows up it worked and should be fine. Killing posting requests is still an issue, any new status for that one perhaps?

Well: Okay Amazon.

To post something on topic: I don't mind symbolism in films or series (or even books), but if it is the or even just a major focus, it is far too easy for me to become annoyed by what I perceive to be the creative team or the writer doing it simply to feel smug and superior. Like a group of people telling each other in-jokes in the presence of someone deliberately left out, although as the good Bruno could attest to, I am being a hypocrite here, as I do enjoy that too, but I don't like it being done to me. It's a fine line to walk and it is hard to explain where the breaking point is. To give an example, Mulholland Drive annoyed me to the point of disliking the film during the scene where the blue box is opened. In contrast, a while back I watched Adolescence of Utena, a film that has the two protagonists reach a car wash, with one of them entering as human and leaving it as a car. The other then gets in and drives off, being chased by a medieval style castle, leading to the final action/chase scene of the film and the ending. The difference is, I guess, insofar as that scene with the car makes perfect sense within the film and all of its established symbolism, while opening the blue box came, appropriately I suppose, more or less out of the blue. That is not to say that Mulholland Drive defies understanding in any way. The film is, prior and after the change, a criticism of Hollywood and the way it tends to (ab)use people's hopes and dreams. There is just no point in the switch besides being intentionally confusing. It only gets worse if you're taking the scene at face value and ascribe everything that happened in the film to this point as Diane's fevered masturbatory (for those who have not seen the film, this is meant literally) fantasy that still pertains to reality as it is her way to cope with the other scene that happened in real life, which is the very beginning, albeit probably in a different manner than shown. The scene breaks the narrative and adds nothing thematically. It serves no purpose, at least not in my opinion. Utena becoming a car did, and when you look back after the film is over, it was the only way it could have ended. Thematically, that is, they could have done any number of things. Car war perhaps a little on the nose, all in all. Regarding the last paragraph: this is something I thought about not that long ago. I would not call myself an atheist, but agnostic does not truly fit either. I do reject the idea of the Abrahamic god, for instance, but I do not know whether or not there are beings or entities that could be considered, if not gods, then at least godlike. This rejection is not borne out of a counter-reaction to any upbringing either, it is one based on conclusions that I arrived at early on in elementary school, but it is my own, and I do not try to convince others, but I do talk about it if and when the topic comes up. It also happened far earlier than my rejection of the Christian church/organized religion. That did come later. Seems logical: it did take longer to understand the church and its role in history than it is to poke holes into what the Bible describes, especially if it is presented as the literal truth by one's teacher.

What? No, I really just hit the submit button without typing the post first. For me, the forum is working perfectly fine, outside of the REQUEST BLOCKED issues that creep up whenever you accidentially annoy whatever checks the forums for scripting attacks.

This place is turning more and more into work every day. *death stare* Edit: Hey, there should be more to this post, but I accidentially posted it. So it'll sit there, any edits would take too long.

For me, seeing Violet break down at the end of episode seven hit harder than guy-I-just-met having a tragic backstory. Anne in episode ten was a different story as she played off Violet really well and was a very active viewpoint character, but even then I thought they key moments of the episode were the hug (what a massive difference going from telling a distraught customer to rein in her crying in episode two to basically being able to calm down an enraged and scared child) and her admitting that she had a hard time staying professional and distanced while working with her client. Ending the recap with episode ten also removes the emotional high one gets from the ending. I said it before, I guess, but it bears repeating: Violet telling Gilbert's brother that she no longer needs orders is amongst the best and most well earned "feel good" moment in a series I've seen, and it's followed up with Violet finally being able to express appreciation and write Gilbert a letter. The long OVA is not really necessary, as it only explains how Benedict gets a golden bike that shows up in the movie. I mean... there's the story of the OVA, but it's easily my least favorite part. Except for that movie ending, but I've complained enough and at length about it. The movie also contains some scenes where the subtitles fail to convey what it said. Well, fail. More like being incomplete. as for many concepts and things there's no proper way to translate the intricacies of Japanese. This is one huge part where watching original with subtitles is far superior to the dub as you can hear a lot of that in Violet's way of speaking.

Fingers crossed, then.

Interesting take by Der8auer. The 4070 Ti has an MSRP of 899€ for the EU. If it actually comes to market at that price, it will - depending on the games and the resolution you play at - give you performance between a 3080 Ti and a 3090 Ti, at 1080p more than a 3090 Ti, most of the time, with the largest performance deficiencies in 4K (where it drops to 3080 levels in some games, see the GN video). Assuming the 4070 Ti hits the market at 899€ or only slightly above that, as the other 40 series cards, at least for Central Europe (Germany), it is much better value than current 3080/3090 Tis that go in a price range from 1600€ to 2000 Euro. It is less than 30% more expensive than current 3070 Ti stock, giving it a nice generational uplift, and if you set the card to 70% power target it loses 10% performance but the power draw drops to 170w while playing. Zero chance of the card only costing 899€ though, so that's all theoretical. Still not paying 899€ for a card.