[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I hate that the LN series is finished but there's still 3 volumes that haven't been translated yet. I have to know if it's the most absurd yuri-bait to ever exist or if it's actually yuri and Menou is just oblivious. The answer is out there already and I just can't read it yet. kitty-cri-screm

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

"Marx could not explain why kids love ["breakfast cereal" that is literally just cookies, you're feeding them literal fucking cookies for a meal]!"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I recommend the LNs more than the anime tbh. The worst thing I can say about them is that they're ultimately just a wish-fulfillment isekai except lesbian this time and despite being self-aware and class-conscious they don't go far enough with it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"How are they gonna stretch this premise out to twelve episodes?"

The I'm in Love with the Villainess anime barely manages to get halfway through the Revolution arc. It doesn't get to Claire being radicalized and instantly becoming a better person than Rae, the "this is explicitly and textually a trans allegory" character's story, or the actual revolution part of the story. Looking back at the anime I'm realizing how much literally nothing happens for almost all of the season, and IIRC it even cut out the bits of Rae explicitly talking about homophobia and self-critting over what a creep she's being. If they'd paced it better they could have easily covered the first two books in one season imo.

Despite my criticisms of the series I still wish they'd get a second season to at least finish that first major arc with. Also I still need to read the other 3 novels.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's the best game in the Batman Arkham series.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Even without seeing that my first guess was dead on: they think it's a vice, like just a little crime that special good boy rich white patriarchs can do as a treat, and are very, very invested in insisting that it's not disordered and it doesn't make them other and weird. Crimes against people they see as beneath them are just fun little treats that rich guys get to do as long as they don't piss off the wrong people, but having something wrong with them? The very notion of it is deeply offensive to their fragile little egos.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hate that there's so little yuri anime that ever actually finishes the story paired with how much yuri treats the buildup to a relationship starting as at least the first 90% of the story, such that Bloom into You is a standout just for being unambiguously gay and starting the relationship immediately, since its drama is more about the main characters' toxic idealist brainworms and how they work through them.

I'm in Love with the Villainess is another one that's at once toxic and bad but still a standout just for being completely and unambiguously gay, even though the LN tackles how it talks about LGBT issues better than the anime and is more open about the fact that Rae is being toxic and creepy with how she acts towards Claire and how it's bad that she feels entitled to win her as a prize for doing good deeds (but then she still does, because it's still ultimately a wish-fulfillment isekai).

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd say it's wild how reactionaries are so insistent on trying to draw a line between pedophilia (the predatory crime) and pedophilia (the disorder), but it really makes perfect sense: they revel in hurting others, they revel in having power over others and abusing that power, and they don't care about consent in the first place, but they will be absolutely livid if you suggest there's something wrong with them that makes them weird and bad.

There's also the extreme normalization of teenage girls as "acceptable" targets for adult men that all these fascists grew up immersed in, and which realistically has only started breaking down bit by bit in the past 20-30 years. To them preying on teenage girls is a socially acceptable vice like day drinking or doing rich guy drugs, because the world revolves around their own libertine treat lust and they perceive themselves as the sole arbiters of what is "normal", which makes them confused and angry when someone starts telling them that preying on their choice victims is not only bad but it makes them weird and other. It's one big mess of misogyny and libertine sociopathy and toxic masculine posturing/fragility.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

i honestly don't like the relationship dynamic between the two main leads for the majority of the anime and the fact that it just stops in the smack middle of the story.

It definitely would be better if they'd gotten a second season to actually finish the story with, because their weird toxic brainworms about relationships are eventually resolved and they ultimately look back on them with something like "damn we sure had some messed up ideas and expectations when we were kids, huh?"

There's also a spinoff LN series about Saeki Sayaka that I haven't read yet.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

There's like 0% chance the AI gets it right, it gets "close enough".

That's true for just throwing prompts at a black box and slapping "generate" like it's a slot machine, but in the same way that LLMs are good for like OCR, speech-to-text, or transforming existing blocks of text but terrible at generating things from whole cloth, image generating AI is fairly good at merging composites together or otherwise transforming an extant image. AI assisted rotoscoping like ebsynth (which uses provided keyframes alongside a video to rotoscope the rest of the frames) is also extremely impressive, more so than the dogshit full AI video generation I've seen.

Local, open source AI models are fascinating and potentially useful in the right hands in a way that proprietary corporate models running on remote servers are not. The problem is that the AI hobbyist community is like >90% irredeemable garbage ranging from fascists to pedophiles to grifters, along with a quite a few people who are just too cringe to be allowed.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

It's the bunny cop post from the old sub. bunny-cop

[-] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago

That's a different one riffing on the same idea. The island one is they trade a suitcase or coconut or whatever back and forth until they've raised the island's GDP enough that it produces a boat for them to leave with.

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Happened to me three times last night, fucking viscerally terrifying even though I recognized that's what was happening after the first time and could kind of get a handle on the panic the subsequent times.

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Visually it's just kind of falling flat, between the low-contrast, desaturated color palate, the kind of low-energy, stiff animation, and the "not the worst, but still unnecessary and bad" CGI. The musical score is just sort of subdued and bland and doesn't really accompany or elevate the scenes well most of the time. The writing is... not great so far and the pacing feels bad, with relatively little happening and lots of over-long bad-CGI scene transitions to pad time. The characters feel sort of lifeless and just sort of there, which could have been tied into the idea of people being deadened by hapna except it's very clearly not going for that at all in any way and that would have also needed contrast and hints of resolution to land.

From the buzz leading up to it I was really just expecting better.

Edit: I just want to add, I'm complaining a bit about the music and lack of style and I want to highlight that both the intro and outro are phenomenal in both of those respects. It's like every ounce of style and energy they had for the whole project got poured entirely into those.

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It doesn't seem to correlate with price at all, and they all list the same ingredients, so I'm at a loss for what's causing this. Like some cans are completely fine and don't pop at all, with others a few will burst without force, and with others they just kind of aggressively burst and launch themselves and anything around them out of the pan.

To be clear because I realized the wording was a little ambiguous, it's not the literal can bursting, they're obviously not being cooked in the can.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It was very good. The seikret riding mechanics are about as good as can be hoped for, the focus/wound system feels better than the clutch claw while being more grounded than Rise's gimmick, and the map feels more vibrant and alive than even MHWorld's maps instead of just being a few little arenas like in Rise.

The performance was ok for me, but it was maxing out both my CPU and GPU and I got an irrecoverable hard GPU crash once which required a hard reboot and made me sit through it compiling shaders for ten minutes again. It does not look nearly visually good enough for how demanding it is, although it does look pretty good; it's like a slightly higher definition MHWorld without the shitty TAA and overly aggressive bloom. The framegen it wanted to run by default was both unnecessary and created awful ghosting in a way I've never seen anything do before.

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I was trying to remember how to set up the target meetings in Mumbai to get certain challenges done, and it helpfully inserted this absolute nonsense that is wrong about every single point: there is a meeting on a bridge, but it's between Shah and the manager of the laundry; the Maelstrom is a person, not a group; the Kashmirian is an independent assassin who never meets with anyone; Vanya Shah is a mob boss, not a businesswoman; and none of the meetings are important to the mission at all, they're just things you can make happen.

Naturally I told google this was, in fact, helpful and correct.

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This is how to end capeshit.

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The bulbasaur was like a squishy turtle and it purred as I carried it around.

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It's like that book The Secret but real.

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I looked at several different recipes to figure out the proper cooking time and temperature, then drained and rinsed a can of garbanzo beans, and lightly coated them in a mix of garlic, ginger, sumac, salt, pepper, and olive oil. I cooked them at 390 for 13 minutes, shaking at the five and ten minute marks.

Conclusion: flavor was decent (because that's all down to the spices, which were intuitively correct like with everything I make), but the texture was awful. It just sort of desiccated them and made them tough. This was also way more work and took a lot longer than just cooking them in a cast iron pan, which yields a much better result overall.

3/10 air fryers continue to be inferior to the easier option of just using a stove and proper cookware.

Yes I'm comparing disparate recipes, but "roasted chickpeas in an air fryer" is one of those things people always rave about and it's just worse in every way compared to cooking them in a pan.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

And at what temperature?

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True story.

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