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[Mechatronic]

Friend of a friend had a two day siege with police before shooting himself.

[Reelya]

The problem is about a perceived cultural imperialism. Consider The last Samurai, for instance: drunkard american soldier detoxes and becomes more adept at samurai fighting and philosophy than samurais themselves... and on top of that he manages to change aspects of said way of life which are unpalatable for modern western viewers. There's a certain annoying itch in that.

Not too annoyed by that due to how often the Japanese do that themselves. It's extremely common in anime for some Japanese kid to be The Chosen One in a series that is based on any number of different world cultures. I mean, I can cite more than one series where some Japanese kid is the descendant of Sherlock Holmes.

[scriver]

It's not like the Japanese don't have have history of imperialism themselves, both cultural and otherwise.

[EnigmaticHat]

The problem is about a perceived cultural imperialism. Consider The last Samurai, for instance: drunkard american soldier detoxes and becomes more adept at samurai fighting and philosophy than samurais themselves... and on top of that he manages to change aspects of said way of life which are unpalatable for modern western viewers. There's a certain annoying itch in that.

Not too annoyed by that due to how often the Japanese do that themselves. It's extremely common in anime for some Japanese kid to be The Chosen One in a series that is based on any number of different world cultures. I mean, I can cite more than one series where some Japanese kid is the descendant of Sherlock Holmes.

"Not worse than anime" is a bad standard.

[Orange Wizard]

"Not worse than anime" is a bad standard.

"It happens all the time, so get used to it", however...

[penguinofhonor]

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[cochramd]

The problem is about a perceived cultural imperialism. Consider The last Samurai, for instance: drunkard american soldier detoxes and becomes more adept at samurai fighting and philosophy than samurais themselves... and on top of that he manages to change aspects of said way of life which are unpalatable for modern western viewers. There's a certain annoying itch in that.

Not too annoyed by that due to how often the Japanese do that themselves. It's extremely common in anime for some Japanese kid to be The Chosen One in a series that is based on any number of different world cultures. I mean, I can cite more than one series where some Japanese kid is the descendant of Sherlock Holmes.

There's more than one? Geez, if Sherlock Holmes had been a notable womanizer, that would be one thing....and let us not even begin to talk about Fate Stay Night, for that is just travesty heaped upon travesty heaped upon travesty.

[Sergarr]

Still reading serious books on statistical methods and machine learning (side note: I didn't know Poland had scientists in that field), and I meet another quotable part:

Model class selection method 1: The monkey and the toolbox

some people have fun in the weirdest places

[Kot]

(side note: I didn't know Poland had scientists in that field)

Poland has scientists in every field, the problem is that they're all in other countries. :/

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Apparently, I somehow made a copy of all my steam games and put them in the folder just outside of Steamapps, which meant that they did absolutely nothing while taking up hundreds of Gigabytes worth of space.
And I checked this, it was a copy I must have made from years ago when I had the bright idea of trying to transfer all of my games onto my new computer so I wouldn't have to download them again because it was missing a couple of game I've bought more recently.

[scrdest]

(side note: I didn't know Poland had scientists in that field)

Poland has scientists in every field, the problem is that they're all in other countries. :/

Ah, Poles, the primary export of Poland since 1831.

[Rolan7]

Very trivial but...
I constructed X-TREME vegan chili factory, but one of the biproducts (soy milk) turned out to be almost as effective, when used to make yogurt.  And much less complicated.  Then I figured out how to work the dairy with pipes, and suddenly I had incredible amounts of real milk yogurt to work with.

The X-TREME vegan chili setup will remain, of course.  But my culinary generators will be running off dairy for the most part.  I guess I'll just have to *eat* the chili or something.

[Egan_BW]

The word "vegan" makes me hunger for flesh.

* Egan  begins chewing on some dried meat.

[Ultimuh]

dried meat

Damnit! Now I'm hungry!

[Rolan7]

Well I do have a oil drum full of liquified mutton and a few buckets of "pink slime"   Vegan options are just easier to mass produce and automate.

This is Minecraft of course, Modern Millenaire pack on Technic.