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MentalEdge

@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz

Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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It's a good tangent, and they should.

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This episode adapts two of the most pivotal chapters in the manga. The proper introduction of our fifth member of the main cast, Izutsumi. And the first deep-dive into one of them, Marcille.

I could gush endlessly about Izutsumi. I am so happy to finally have her around. Seeing Marcille animated so beautifully has had me waiting on the edge of my seat to finally see this gremlin of a catgirl in motion.

She's standoffish, assumes the worst of others, selfish, and quick to violence.

She's a cat!

So often anime nekomimis are depicted as cuddly fluffballs of adorable softness. And while cats like that exist, you don't see many nekomimis in anime that act like the more aloof and wild cats that are out there. The ones you have to build trust with for years before they'll get in your lap, or purr at your touch.

The second chapter adapted this episode is the nightmare encounter.

When I read the manga, up to this point, I had merely liked it. I thought it was funny, and at times pretty cool. But this chapter is when I realized this story might turn out to be my all time favorite manga. And eventually it did.

We dive into the very core of who Marcille is. A frightened child, terrified of everyone she'll ever care about, aging to death before she really even comes to feel like an adult. And having those fears re-inforced by the fact that at merely the starting steps of her lifespan, she has already lost one the most important people a person can have.

I really, really loved the nightmare sequence. The paintings were not a thing in the manga, BUT HOLY FUCK ARE THEY A BIG HINT. Marcy obviously hasn't had a normal elven upbringing. She didn't attend an elven school of magic, or at least didn't stay in one if she did. Instead she wound up hanging out as the sole elf in a human/gnomish school. What's up with that? How and when did she even get into dark magic, and why? She's claimed her interest is to help society, but she's an outcast that's barely part of it herself. What is her personal reason for pursuing the forbidden arts and researching dungeons in general? What spell is she referring to when she shouts at Laios that her magic is not yet complete?

There are a couple of different paintings, but they tell a pretty explicit story.

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Marcilles dad was human, and he aged to death before she even began puberty. She's not a bure-blood elf. She is half-human.

Spoiler for a small detail about half-elves in the Dungeon Meshi world

Worse. Half-elves do not have lifespans that are half that of full elves. They live longer. Much longer. Longer than any race. She is doomed to outlive almost everyone she will ever love.

Also. Remember how Marcy said her research involved another dimension where infinity exists? What symbol is the eye on the mad sorcerers book? The way it was the sole colored object in the dream for a moment was an amazing addition that wasn't possible in the manga.

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Much like the master noticed Laios in the paintings....

The book, has noticed Marcille.

And did you think I was kidding back when I said the Laios x Falin fuel started dropping? Have some more!

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MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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Spoiler

We should at least get to see her turn all cuddly within the monster-pacifying effects of the immortality field. And her subsequent realization afterwards :D

MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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I touched on this in previous discussion threads. The retainers are property.

When they "join" the family as retainers, they don't even get to keep their original names. They insisted on renaming Izutsumi to Asebi.

Their existence is so normalized, Shuro doesn't give them a second thought. The only one among them he considered a person is Maizuru, as she was his tutor growing up. They formed a bond (this is why Maizuru is so "motherly" towards him), but he grew distant again after learning that his dad was fucking her. The consensuality of which is extremely questionable considering "no" is not an option for a slave.

Shuro has had quite a challenge growing into someone half-decent in an environment where completely fucked up things are normal.

MentalEdge OP Mod , (edited )
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Yes. The Nakamotos are very, very fucked up.

Izutsumi was given to Maizuru as a pet by Shuro's father, though in practice she was just another slave purchased to become a retainer. And Shuro's dad's actions are questionable af as he was love-bombing Maizuru by giving her a literal person as a gift.

Unlike with most retainers, Izutsumi was never happy to be owned just because the Nakamotos housed and fed her. Likely because typically retainers start off very young so they can be indoctrinated into endless gratitude towards the family, ready to die for a Nakamoto at the drop of a hat.

But Izu was purchased when much older, as a drunken impulse buy to "get Maizuru a kitten".

I'll post Maizuru's world guide chapter next, as it touches on these things.

That was the dungeon masters book, yes.

MentalEdge OP Mod ,
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Just start training the pecs, then one day they'll look at your fatty tissue and go "look at me, I am the tits now"

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MentalEdge ,
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Exec, as he swallows the last bite, of the last liver, of the last goose: "yeah that's a fun analogy, but sometimes there's nothing quite like a good foie gras"

MentalEdge ,
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People go back to playing old games.

M$: wait no

MentalEdge ,
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Don't pan left

MentalEdge ,
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And, yet, the ruler of humanity.

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"hello, I would like to inspect the firmware of the insulin pump/pacemaker/artificial heart that keeps me alive, can I have the copy of the source code?"

"no? it's proprietary? well golly! guess I'll trust ya in blind faith then!"

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Like I said. Blind faith it is.

MentalEdge ,
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That's not even remotely the point I was trying to make.

Medical software should not be treated the same as any old random proprietary code.

Right now we just have to trust that "the car has airbags" because no-one is allowed to open it up and check.

That shouldn't need to be the person themselves, but that's the bare minimum of what a sane situation should allow.

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And yet

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I love how whenever you advocate for this kind of improvement, someone always feels the need to try and dismiss you because "it still won't mean the world is perfect".

You assume I'm under some delusion that if only enough people were allowed to check, every mistake would be caught every time.

I'm not.

And you're being rude about it.

MentalEdge ,
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Cool.

Unfortunately firmware-related problems especially is something regulatory bodies haven't kept up with. They'll test the device, sure. But not necessarily every line of code that might ever interact with it.

Overall they are operating under outdated levels of complexity while medical device manufacturers are running ahead with wireless functionality, mobile apps, over the air updates, etc.

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You really can't.

You can run checks and fence it in with traditional software, you can train it more narrowly...

I haven't seen anything that suggests AI hallucinations are actually a solvable problem, because they stem from the fact that these models don't actually think, or know anything.

They're only useful when their output is vetted before use, because training a model that gets things 100% right 100% of the time, is like capturing lightning in a bottle.

It's the 90/90 problem. Except with AI it's looking more and more like a 90/99.99999999 problem.

MentalEdge OP ,
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Haha. Guess my posting tool goofed somewhere.

MentalEdge ,
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White Jesus isn't real, he can't hurt you.

Well yeah that's clearly Obi-Wan.

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Sweet, sweet Razira, wearing your heart on your sleeve like this, is why you lost.

MentalEdge ,
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You're comparing apples and oranges.

The speeds you mention are defined by the memory type, not the connector.

As far as I can tell, there is no reason this connector could not, and won't be, used with more advanced memory types. Including the type in apple silicon, and beyond.

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Good. Did I claim otherwise?

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