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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: May 16, 2024, 04:48:29 pm »
I also think that Laios is maybe a fairly accurate portrayal of Asperger's Syndrome in a character. As in, he's a high functioning autistic. Kinda socially dysfunctional, narrow interests, and inability to read people's emotions. Additionally, I think Kabru would be your textbook psychopath, with his superficial charm and otherwise ruthless behavior.

I don't know if any other characters would be considered "Textbook cases of..." but I just think that adds additional depth to the characters to make them interesting.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: May 13, 2024, 10:56:54 pm »
Quote from: Folly on April 25, 2024, 09:30:55 pm
I finished catching up on the latest dubbed episodes of Delicious in Dungeon.

The first dozenish episodes were about 95% cooking, with very little in the way of plot or worldbuilding. Then suddenly the show went all FMA, with forbidden alchemy being used to transmute cute girls into horrific monsters and minor characters popping left and right like so many blood-balloons.

I feel like this transition will be off-putting to a lot of viewers. People who just want a peaceful, simple cooking show will be upset when when everything gets bloody, while people looking for violence will get bored and give up long before it happens. A healthy balance really should have been struck much earlier in the season.

I just picked up Dungeon Meshi and... Did we watch the same show man? There was a tremendous amount of plot and worldbuilding. How much more could you possibly want? And I wouldn't say there was any harsh transition from "peaceful" to "Bloody" because the show, from literally episode 1, was very irreverent about the death and brutality of the world the characters lived in. If anything, it's slow cooking the viewer to acclimate them to gore that'll be everywhere during its climactic moments. Inversely, I'd say the the most recent episodes are the coziest the show has ever been. I'm really loving it all-together.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: May 09, 2024, 12:07:14 pm »
Yes, she got isekai'd into a new job on the other side of town :P

I recently finished Ninja Kamui, which was an awesome little action romp. I thought the plot was comically predictable, but overall I'd say it was pretty good.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: April 16, 2024, 03:39:57 pm »
My seasonal job as a Tax Pro is done for now... I need some time to recuperate, but also I'm thinking I'll need a new job asap. The work just never ends.

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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: April 16, 2024, 03:37:37 pm »
Quote from: bloop_bleep on April 04, 2024, 06:19:46 pm
If you have no limit on how many inputs are required for a strategem you can make it so you never run out of combinations. If you have a limited number of inputs you can figure out the maximum number of unique combinations: it's 4 to the power of the number of inputs.

By the way, a correspondence between combinations of characters and items you want to convey such that no combination is a prefix of another is called a Huffman encoding. There is a way to make such an assignment based on how often you use each item to minimize the average number of characters used to describe items.

There is a limit. (Sorry to get back to this so much later). For most stratagems, that's 6. And the minimum seems to be 3. I'm not sure how to go about this huffman encoding, but googling it, it seems to be a method of compression?

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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: April 04, 2024, 06:10:41 pm »
I've gotten into Helldivers 2. It has these things called stratagems which are air strikes and stuff you can call down. To do that you need to input a combination of up, down, left, and right. There are something like 20 or 30 stratagems in the game, but it occurred to me that the devs have a serious developmental problem: there's only so many unique combinations you can have without any of them overlapping. The stratagems cannot overlap, or players won't be able to bring both at the same time. It seems like a math problem, but I have no clue how I'd even get started on it, and considering my post on the Helldivers 2 Reddit got instantly deleted for being a "trivial question" I'm not sure who else I'd bring the question to but here.

Not important, just really curious.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 15, 2024, 12:10:47 am »
Hey everyone. It's been a while. I hope you guys are doing alright.

I'm just dealing with the same things as always. Feeling lonely, but the world is lonely, and any possibility of human contact is impossible. At least it feels impossible. I'm getting caught in these anxiety spirals where my life feels farcical, and all my thoughts are farcical, and everything I do is farcical; and I just feel fucking stupid and there's no value to anything in my life and I've done this to myself. I just wish I had someone to talk to, maybe to hug as well; I think that would defeat most of my anxiety, but this is the curse that's been cast on me, and it feels I simply must live with it until the day I die.

I'm off to bed, hugging my pillow activates a bit of the parasympathetic(?) nervous system I think. I have work tomorrow and it just never gets easier.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: December 20, 2023, 09:21:00 pm »
Quote from: RoseHeart on November 09, 2023, 07:44:37 pm
Just saw the "little sister bringing tea for brother and papa while they work on coding" scene from Good Night World. (Episode 3 or 4 I think?)

I just recently finished up Good Night World, and damn I was not expecting what I got. I thought it'd be a touching tale of a family reconciling their differences, however inadvertently, over an online game and getting a nice, wholesome ending. Something like Dad of Light, a live action show with a premise like that. What I GOT from Good Night World was the most insane cranking up of stakes and melodrama ever. I was interested and engaged all the way through, so I won't say it was bad, but JESUS did the show's premise grow to hyperbolic proportions near the end.

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General Discussion / Re: The Dream Thread
« on: September 28, 2023, 02:34:47 am »
Something roused me from my sleep last night, and I'd have swore to god there was a giant ass spider crawling on my wall next to my bed. I sprang up and got the phone next to my bed to try to get more light on it, but my eyes were focusing on and it was clear that I was in a half-dream state still. The plaster on the walls seemed to be glowing in constantly changing shapes, and they were distracting me from trying to make out the spider I'd swear was there. It took maybe twenty seconds, but eventually the spider metamorphosed back into the carbon monoxide detector it was originally.

Really spooked me, cause I have had recurring nightmares about spiders for all my life, and it felt like one of those beasties finally got out onto my wall.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 10, 2023, 09:43:12 am »
Quote from: nenjin on August 09, 2023, 06:30:33 pm
Sadly reminds me of my mom's dog. Through a total lack of exercise and constantly feeding him human food, he was full blown diabetic by like 7. Get a call one day that she needs my help getting him to the vet. He's laying on the floor, panting and sweating and can't get up. I have to dead lift a 70 pound dog multiple times myself to get him into the car and into the vet. Vet says he's in late stages of diabetic shock and we have to put him down.

This is after I made it a point to exercise him multiple times a week when my mom was in the hospital and I had to take care of her everything for her for months.

That shit sucks man, I'm sorry. But you should accept that putting them down is the only financially reasonable, and more importantly, humane solution. If a test for parasites isn't too expensive I would still go for that to see if they just have a bad parasitic infection though.

I took my Dog to get her put to sleep... that's probably the hardest I've cried in years. The people at the pound surmised that she had an infected uterus (I was wrong about it being anal bleeding...), and an emergency spay could fix it, but that would be a ruinous 1000+ dollar operation that's not even guaranteed to work... I really feel like I failed her, but I don't know what I could have done. I feel it's my Mom's fault for not getting her spayed (I thought she was...) but it's too late to assign blame.

Ultimate it's for the best, my Mom was too old and frail to be taking care of a big dog (her paw claws were seriously overgrown, a sure sign that she wasn't getting any exercise) and my Sister could not care about anything whatsoever. I can't take in any animal in my apartment... It seems this was just her fate. I just hope she knew I loved her.

Thanks Nenjin and Dragdeler, I appreciate the advice and support that can be found here.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 09, 2023, 04:31:02 pm »
I mean, I've never been to Canada (though I live in Michigan, so it wouldn't be a huge trip, distance-wise.) but I don't have a passport, which a google search tells me it would take 9 weeks or more to get one.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 09, 2023, 04:10:38 pm »
What would a detour to Canada do? I don't think the free healthcare extends to animals?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: August 09, 2023, 03:34:35 pm »
So I have a trip scheduled for tomorrow... and I go over to my Mom's to see how she's doing before I head off tomorrow, and she just brings it to my attention NOW that our family dog has been sick for the last month, not eating and only drinking, bleeding from her rectum, getting very weak, and crying every night; and that she wants to put her down TOMORROW! And she wants me to help her out to do that first thing tomorrow morning.

I try to corroborate these details with my Sister, but I have to force my way through her cold disinterest in fucking everything first... Of course she hasn't taken any interest in her own dog dying.

We're broke, I'm not working right now, we can't afford the luxury of what would undoubtedly be an expensive trip to the vet, so she's jumping straight to euthanasia. The dog is still drinking liquids, so I'm not sure if she's just been very ill (for a month?) and she can get over it with a bit more time.

She told me that it maybe started with them going on a walk and them allowing the Dog to drink river water, which caused her to throw up and be ill ever since.

I just want to hold out hope and say she'll be fine, this is the first major trip I've ever planned for myself, and OF FUCKING COURSE my Mom manages to alchemy up something fucking heartbreaking and dramatic at the very last fucking second. She always does. I hate my worthless family.

I don't know what to do.

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General Discussion / Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« on: August 05, 2023, 02:40:56 pm »
Quote from: hector13 on August 05, 2023, 11:38:59 am
Remember, Musk wanted to back out of the deal, and instead of paying the breakup fee (which I think was $1 billion if I recall correctly) he decided to go to court, lost, and got forced to buy it for the initially promised $44 billion.

Then he sued the lawyers that the previous Twitter owners hired to sue Elon Musk to force him to buy Twitter.

And didn't succeed, obviously.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: August 01, 2023, 09:12:13 am »
I've been following a Youtuber Mangs as he ran weekly Fire Emblem tournaments where viewers would submit character builds (following a set of rules and guidelines) and they would fight it out in 1v1 best of 3 single elimination tourneys in a modified version of Fire Emblem 8: The Sacred Stones. The winner of the final tournament goes on to become the main character of a "Create My Unit" romhack he intends on making at some point in the future.

These have been wild fun. The finale of "Season 1" concluded recently and it really was just extremely hype. What an extremely tight and climactic ending that was! For something that was wholly improvised, that turned out to be a very even fight right at the end, it was so exciting!

I didn't think to submit any characters myself until the tournaments were nearly completed, and by then the crowd of people clamoring to join was too large for me to have any real chance of getting in. Just watching the meta evolve over time has been intriguing, and looking over the rules document and theorycrafting characters is far more fun than it has any right to be. I'm really looking forward to the next season, whenever it happens.

For anyone interested in watching it yourself, I'd STRONGLY suggest not looking at the Youtube comments, or even getting a plugin that turns off Youtube comments, because the top comments will spoil the victors immediately.

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