zabadoh

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An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

So I've been grabbing a few shows I want to watch reruns of while playing Balatro that don't have good blu ray releases. My piracy is fairly limited these days so I don't bother with private trackers (do have a VPN though). In the past, I never really had an issue with grabbing a few one offs off the popular, maybe honeypot,...

zabadoh ,

I have also noticed some dips in brightness in some shows.

Sounds like an encoding problem, or some sort of form of copy protection in the streamed video that screws up the encoding algorithms, like the old Macrovision copy protection on VHS tapes.

zabadoh ,

I fell behind following this show, and my thoughts on episodes 4-7 are...

The CG characters continue to be really well done. The girls have a lot of personality in their body language, and the visual composition is really good, even if the POV is a little flat, and we don't get cartoony asides, like Bocchi turning into a worm, for example.

I especially enjoy watching best girl Subaru, the long dark haired drummer, the comic relief in the group, despite her serious acting training and hime/princess hairstyle which implies a wealthy background.

The music is carried by Nina, the MC's, stylish vocals, but for a story about a band, the mixing seems to almost mute the the instruments. At least in these episodes the producers seemed to get the mix of instruments correct to what is shown on screen. The audience seems strangely inaudible, which they shouldn't be in the tiny venues they're supposed to be playing in.

The story itself involves a lot of fears of abandonment. Nina, and two other girls were previously abandoned by bandmates. Momoka, who left a rising band on the verge of stardom, wants to give up music. Subaru wants to leave her famous actress grandmother's shadow: She's even named after her grandma's breakout role. But she's afraid to tell her grandma she wants to follow her own path.

Anyway, a lot of "I'm leaving the band!" announcements drive the drama

@rikka

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zabadoh OP ,

Wind Breaker gets a well deserved #1, followed by twin girl rocker series Girls Band Cry, and Jellyfish.

New Gate shows surprising strength for a crap story

Big drops for Astro Note, Shuumatsu Train, and Yozakura Family, and a huge drop for Re: Monster

Cries in Tonari No Yokai, not on the chart at all…

zabadoh , (edited )

Great job by Tanjiro's VA at deliberately being annoying!

The whole self pity/angst thing from Giyu wasn't so great.

You'd someone who has trained hard enough to become a Hashira would have more mental fortitude.

I mean, we all have bad days, but this isn't that kind of show.

That's what passes for character development in this show.

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

A nice series of fight sequences with D, disguised as Hibiki, engaging in simulated combat against low-level colored rangers as part of the entrance exam.

There's tension as D cannot risk getting hit by anything, or he'll be revealed as a Duster.

It's a fun, tense battle, while we're wondering about D's plan to beat these guys.

@rikka

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zabadoh OP ,

The show follows the comics quite closely.

zabadoh OP ,

Or just show the VAs speaking while waving paper cutout characters.

Also, I could totally see an episode of Blue Lock presented in powerpoint.

zabadoh OP ,

That's right about the time No Game No Life S2 is scheduled for production

zabadoh ,

Mu-chan and the yokai talk seriously about mortality and the differing lifespans. It's implied that Jiro was in love with Mu-chan's great-grandmother.

Tear jerking story about Kazuhiko and his late wife Namiko, who happened to be descended from a banana tree spirit, a Basho No Sei hence her green eyes and hair.

Other yokai and food references, in this episode:

Umibozu - Giant sea spirit who portends bad ocean conditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umib%C5%8Dzu

Gohei Mochi -Burned rice on a stick with nuts, soy sauce, miso and mirin http://kyoudo-ryouri.com/en/food/385.html

Deitarabocchi - Giant spirit whose footprints make lakes and ponds - Said in the show to become Umibozu when the move out to sea??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daidarabotchi

Okari-inu - Dog shaped yokai that follows travellers and eats them if they show tiredness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okuri-inu

Betobeto-san - A spirit that follows people walking at night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betobeto-san

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

First guild job for not-Kirito and friend, escorting a merchant while traveling, and of course they are attacked.

I'm bored with this already.

The screenshot indicates the highest level of writing in this episode.

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

The guy who just got out of prison, Kojima, is a hardcore old-school Yakuza, i.e. before Japan really cracked down on the Yakuza

He gets into old school shakedowns and violence for money, like something out of a Scorcese gangster movie.

Even shaking down Fable, without knowing who he really is...

@rikka
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zabadoh ,

The team's first mission, and it seems like a routine takedown.

It looks like the big kaiju referred to as Honju carry lots of little kaiju called Yonju, so that's why lots of squad members are needed.

Honju 本獣 means "original or main beast"

Yonju 余獣 means "extra or additional beast"

The idea of a big kaiju hosting lots of little kaiju is similar to the monsters Legion from Gamera: Attack of Legion, and Clover from Cloverfield

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

I wouldn't say it's the most entertaining or deepest anime i've ever watched.

It's not even the deepest or most entertaining anime this season.

So far it's just... okay?

zabadoh OP ,

The drop in global fertility has fuck-all to do with glyphosate.

The article doesn't comment on linking fertility and glyphosate in sperm either way, but it's worth researching, if someone hasn't studied that already.

zabadoh OP ,

Killing weeds never felt so good!

zabadoh OP ,

Most plants survive just fine on their own.

What spraying herbicide like glyphosate does is evolutionarily select for pesticide resistant weeds, aka superweeds. Free gift link for you.

zabadoh OP ,

It's a statement of suspicion, not a conclusion of causality towards glyphosate specifically.

zabadoh ,

There's hilarity in the girls trying to masquerade as zombies...

Zombie queen was actually cool, and this turned out be a wholesome adventure, when it could have turned really bad.

So according to the map:

https://ani.social/pictrs/image/a1ef9c17-158c-4ee7-84e6-2bfc58b5e679.webp

It looks like the girls just got through station .

I'm still not sure what the blank circles mean...

Just before this, they were in the land of giant vegetables, and after this they entered the land of random barber poles.

I'm sure that the animators gave themselves cameos in the zombie crowd...

This appears to be the key animator, Toshihiko Masuda, for example, in the top left

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

The whole concept seemed half baked and rushed from the start, like they took one day to write the story and script and just decided to go with the first draft, instead of going back, editing, and developing the characters and story.

Even though you can tell there was a ton of money put into the production, the story just doesn't work.

Even the action gets silly towards the end, especially with the badly designed mech suits (open toes?, limited battery life?) and bad and offensive villain concepts like gay sex predator dwarf, black fade poser guy, and I couldn't watch anything past that.

The best part for me was the delivery guy fight in episode 2.

zabadoh ,

Human figures are easier to draw without clothes on. This is true of all figure art, not just anime.

Draw the figures first, get those accurate, then add the clothes.

zabadoh ,

Mr. Frundles located.

zabadoh ,

With regard to the MCs having game interfaces:

Maybe he's been working hard in making anime for so long, bless him, that he doesn't empathize with those who grew up playing MMORPGs, which is where that comes from.

Who knows, maybe in a few years we'll have light novels/manga/anime based on mobile gaming tropes to pander to those who grow up playing those.

I mean we have Blue Archive, Touken Ranbu Kan, Mahjong Kan, which are all mobile game adaptations this season already

But those are direct adaptations instead of exploiting some trope that's common in all mobile games, like "My Gacha Lootbox Ability Gives Me SSS Rare Girlfriends Every Time"

zabadoh ,

Izutsumi's a teenager!

She's very capable, she thinks she knows everything, but quickly gets into trouble without help from others, and hasn't learned to get along with others yet.

zabadoh ,

The "Sheep growing on a plant" thing is a real historical legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

zabadoh ,

The medieval people were on some weird shit, man. LSD is a famous thing that comes from moldy rye, but without refrigeration and science-based medicine, who knows what people were ingesting back then?

zabadoh ,

The Princess is on a track to get legal status in Japan easier than Livia...

Those horse names and double entendres...

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@rikka

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zabadoh ,

So we learn that the current "atmosphere" of the Shishitoren is definitely emanating from the top down, but the bullying middle school kids thing was more of a problem with certain individuals in the gang.

On the other hand, Shisitoren leader Choji, is made to be more of a psychotic than previously shown.

Sakura can take some hits. Geta stomps to the back of the head should be enough to KO just about anyone.

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

Been there, done that with the "it looks like a short easy walk the map" thing.

The whole effect from fuzzy memories was hilarious, from the fuzzy backgrounds because they weren't paying attention, to people who weren't there, to eating things they may or may not have eaten, to imagining bringing the dogs.

What kind of psycho injects dogs who weren't there into their hiking trip memories?!?

I wonder what she meant when one of the girls says that Chikuwa's voice sounds familiar? The VA who says that is probably the one doing the dog's voice too. Chikuwa's voice doesn't get mentioned in the credits.

I guess we'll have to find out what "syoy sauce" means next episode!

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

That's a terrible idea!

How would you even cut off 25% of everyone's bodies to get a quarter of the population?

zabadoh ,

On to a new opponent! An ex-pro taekwondo fighter who just happens to be a sadistic bully in the same school as our characters.

This guy looks both nasty and dangerous, and Hobin is seriously out of his league.

I continue loving the writing in this show. There's always an element of doubt that Hobin can actually beat these opponents and get out of bad situations.

@rikka

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zabadoh , (edited )

Of course we never see Bastion's body getting sucked into the black hole or getting ripped apart in the explosion, so he can conveniently re-appear sometime later.

Renewed thru S4?

Speed running through the X-Men storylines at the rate they are, I'll be surprised if they can keep this up before running out of material, and having to create their own original stories.

zabadoh ,

Actually Fico ran on the pledge to stop Slovakian military aid to Ukraine.

“Populist” means far right Russian stooge these days.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66972984

"If (Fico’s party) Smer enters government, we will not send a single round of ammunition to Ukraine," (Fico) recently told supporters. (Before the election, which Smer won)

zabadoh ,

How is decades of outsourcing US manufacturing to China working out?

All that just to bust unions in the US in a race to the bottom.

Congratulations corporate Americans, your plan has succeeded!

zabadoh ,

It’s possible… Like someone who learned the Heimlich maneuver by watching House or something.

zabadoh ,

Even though there was a buffer zone under enemy surveillance and drone fire, there could have been more done to prepare defenses against Russian tactics, i.e. human wave meat assaults, and they could have been more forceful with those who didn't want minefields and other defensive placements on their farmland.

zabadoh ,

Hooray for in-picture captions!

zabadoh ,

Okay, an episode setting up another god's game for real.

I can't figure out the strategy for this one. The "filler" team's abilities are unknown, and presumably useless for this game.

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

A whole bunch of eccentric and violent yakuza characters all thrown together somehow results in laughs.

Maybe this will all result in an explosion of violence?

A genuinely creepy stalker sequence was rotoscoped, and made me scared for the female being stalked....

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

You'd think that some doctor would have noticed something odd about Kafka when they gave him X-rays to determine his bones were broken after the exam, unless kaiju powers of transformation are really that good.

Same goes, more or less, for Kaiju No. 9, masquerading as a cleaner.

Everything in the base is recorded, good thing they went off base to "Bonniys" to talk to Shinomiya to talk about his kaiju-ness.

Another good one for the "fake anime brands" file

zabadoh , (edited )

Let's play Yu-Gi-Oh without playing Yu-Gi-Oh!

"I play my bs, activating my bs, which gives me another turn, and I'm going to play more bs, which activates your bs trap, which I reflect back on you with my own bs trap, and I win!"

p.s. this is reflective of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime show, not the actual game.

Pearl renaming her attacks was cute.

zabadoh , (edited )

I think it's weird that the other girls would accuse Shizuru of withholding information from them about her argument with Yoka just before 7G.

Maybe the other girls think they're better friends with Shizuru than I think they should be?

Also the girls name the train Apogee, and the production company happens to be named apogeego, adding the kanji for number after the name.

This is how Japanese refer to ships and other large vehicles that have names. A ship named the Yamato would be Yamatogo, for example.

The outstanding background art continues to amaze...

@rikka

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zabadoh ,

That was very cool! I had no idea about that reference!

Paperless Stainless Steel Filter

I don't mean this to be an advertisement, but I have tried a few metal coffee filters, and have not been able to find one that works as well as one from a company called Ovalware. Its the only one I could find that lists a micron size for the inner mesh (40 μm). I've found that this draw down time is faster than a paper filter,...

zabadoh ,

I use this sieve-like thing sold as an "oil skimmer" that's sold in local Asian markets for USD$1.49

It has a super fine mesh, but it doesn't get clogged filtering my French press brew.

Anything that gets through, I can drink easily.

Here's the closest thing I could find on Google https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Skimmer-Strainer-Filter-Handle/dp/B0CWKNP2VS/ref=asc_df_B0CWKK61YF/

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