what was it called, todorn pachi or something? a timeless CAVE classic

こんにちは - “Hello”

It’s a great movie. I saw it in IMAX on opening night. If i’m not mistaken, this is an original plot that doesn’t have any manga source. Beautiful visuals, great opening theme, all of the key elements that you would expect from a Spy×Family arc. Anya and Bond have their Forrest Gump-like tendency to get into big trouble and do great things, Twilight shows off his cunning/perception and dexterity, Yor has some great action scenes where most of the budget went and she also gets very drunk. The only thing I could dock points for is toilet humor, not my thing but it’s a kids/family movie we’re talking about.

I’m glad that it’s getting licensed for international release. Stuff like the most recent Seishun Buta Yarou film will probably never see US theaters (though that’s a much more niche audience).

Not everything needs to be built from source, true, but certain software that isn’t in wide distribution may have source as the only option.

Or maybe some tool hasn’t been properly updated and errors on your computer, maybe you can debug it and change a small amount of source code to fix it. Maybe the source release is far ahead of the stable binary release and you want to test or use new features.

If you download the source for something like linux or ffmpeg or your favorite emulator, you will learn a whole lot by doing a deep dive.

However. Gentoo. Have you ever built firefox from source? That shit contributes to global warming. It takes so much time and CPU power to build such a heavyweight application from source and the tangible productivity benefit that you get from compiling on your own machine rather than downloading a binary is far outweighed by waste from the sheer active CPU and real time spent building. Maybe if you had a threadripper distcc setup, and only a dial-up connection to update source, it would be faster to compile everything than to get new binaries all the time. But for everyone else, if all you want to do is use the software, downloading binaries for the most popular applications is the way to go.

Damn

I want to give everyone here a hug, but only if they are comfortable with it

Ah, this is really more of using HTTP to transfer files. I do something similar with the default python web server module to transfer files in a pinch but this also implements the post/put part of the transfer with some nice buttons (instead of me straight up curl’ing the files to my desktop via the running http server).

It fits too well also… Ubuntu 23.10 has reached the letter M

Morphology is fun

When I see Wikipe-tan make that face, I start feeling a little strange

These two are a power couple

FE engage is great. It feels really strategic, compact maps with powerful terrain effects and chokepoints to take advantage of, units don’t have a lot of movement, positioning and formation can let you do a lot of cool plays.

The new mechanics, chain attack and break, are very powerful and interesting to play around both on player phase and enemy phase.

The Emblems have some really powerful effects between AoE dance, AoE warp, a billion range nuke, +500 movement on one of your characters, and some other combat steroids. There are a lot of options and I think the game is fun on any difficulty.

The story… uhhh, I liked when the Fire Emblem: Engaged. The plot is very generic and pretty much the same as a plurality of previous fire emblem plots. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.

As soon as I saw Dia suit up for the bike I was waiting for the iconic bike slide. Did not disappoint. Another one for the montage :)

Act-age

Not axed but unlimited hiatus works, Iris Zero

Same with Ruri Dragon

I think it would be way more interesting for the series to explore the relationship of “siblings who aren’t mentally siblings” than to shut it down immediately. Any case it wouldn’t be healthy to deny Ruby this kind of conversation. It will take time to build real rapport.

Everyone is denying the incest ship, but I want Aka sensei to go through with it. If the Oshi no Ko twincest plot actually falls through we will have no choice but to bow down to the new imouto romance god. No “non blood related” nonsense, led us on for over 120 chapters, hard pivot to incest plot.

As a whole, this anime has been incredibly faithful to the manga. I can basically hold up my book next to the screen and it’s more or less panel-for-panel, sentence-for-sentence. I loved being along for the ride. I don’t watch a lot of weekly anime but since I have been reading Oshi no Ko weekly since the day the first chapter dropped, I thought I ought to give it a watch.

One of my favorite panels so far was included in this episode:

And in the manga:

On screen for a full 24 frames! Kana bros taking the W this time.

There is also the title drop by Arima Kana in this episode - “アンタの推しの子になってやる！” in response to seeing Aqua waving all three cyalume colors. “hako-oshi”, or “box pushing”; not picking a favorite, supporting the entire group.

I do think that Oshi no Ko feeds a lot on weekly hype. This was definitely true for the manga, Aka constantly leaving on a cliffhanger, often times with not a lot of actual plot progressing, but further insight into the thoughts of the characters, backstory, or just straight up lecture on some aspect of modern artist work culture. For sure there are going to be many people who rightfully believe that Oshi no Ko does not live up to the hype, but for me, it just gets better and better the more I re-read and re-watch it. There is some quality that makes me want to go back through and scrutinize every detail again and again.

I definitely enjoyed the anime because I enjoyed the source material. But on top of that, the animation is strong in its own right, bringing a lot of spectacle and impact to the key scenes. In this episode, I really enjoyed the dance choreography as well as Aqua’s wotage.

E: Spoiler tag didn’t work on mobile so I deleted it all.