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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Spoilering for maybe light GWitch spoilers

    You saw what happened in Episode 20 - stop shipping them or else 😡

    #水星の魔女 #G_Witch

    Happy Pride Y’all

    I don't get what they're trying to say here lol
    shipping who? suletta and guel???

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Spoilering for maybe light GWitch spoilers

    You saw what happened in Episode 20 - stop shipping them or else 😡

    #水星の魔女 #G_Witch

    Happy Pride Y’all

    I don't get what they're trying to say here lol
    shipping who? suletta and guel???

    Yeah
    they're doing a shipping wars style jokey bit about straight ships getting killed off, like in episode 20

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    Spoilering for maybe light GWitch spoilers

    You saw what happened in Episode 20 - stop shipping them or else 😡

    #水星の魔女 #G_Witch

    Happy Pride Y’all

    I don't get what they're trying to say here lol
    shipping who? suletta and guel???

    Yeah
    they're doing a shipping wars style jokey bit about straight ships getting killed off, like in episode 20
    but suletta and guel are both still alive, is why I'm confused. Not that I think that ship has a chance in hell compared to SuleMio but y'know.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It took until today before I accidentally clicked on a WfM spoiler
    Dang

    Ps don't feel guilty that's on me

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    Spoilering for maybe light GWitch spoilers

    You saw what happened in Episode 20 - stop shipping them or else 😡

    #水星の魔女 #G_Witch

    Happy Pride Y’all

    I don't get what they're trying to say here lol
    shipping who? suletta and guel???

    Yeah
    they're doing a shipping wars style jokey bit about straight ships getting killed off, like in episode 20
    but suletta and guel are both still alive, is why I'm confused. Not that I think that ship has a chance in hell compared to SuleMio but y'know.
    The joke is that if the fans don't stop shipping Suletta/Guel then Guel is going to get killed off because straight ships don't prosper in this show.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ahhh ok

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't think Bocchi is bad, I just don't think I like it, sadly. I was really looking forward to it, too. It's just not holding my attention at all.

    I glance back over when I hear music or see a different animation style, and those moments are all great. Just the other 80% or so of the show is just...not grabbing me.

    It might win me over in the second half, I guess we'll see. That's happened before, on shows I would've otherwise dropped if I was watching alone.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM: *whistle*
    okay so I and everyone else called Gundam Caliban. Or Calibarn in this case. Don't think a single one of us called Suletta as the pilot, or Lauda as the schwarzette pilot, though.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I don't think Bocchi is bad, I just don't think I like it, sadly. I was really looking forward to it, too. It's just not holding my attention at all.

    I glance back over when I hear music or see a different animation style, and those moments are all great. Just the other 80% or so of the show is just...not grabbing me.

    It might win me over in the second half, I guess we'll see. That's happened before, on shows I would've otherwise dropped if I was watching alone.

    Yeah, sorry for reacting like I did yesterday to you not liking Bocchi.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM
    Fuck yeah, Petra Lives! I love me a good ignored death flag.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    One Piece ch. 1086
    Today we meet the five members of the godhand, I mean godhead.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Get in the robot, Suletta.
    Don't get in the robot, Laudna.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh, Spy x Family is finally gonna go to the fireworks factory.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    Oh, Spy x Family is finally gonna go to the fireworks factory.

    In the manga?

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    One Piece ch. 1086
    Today we meet the five members of the godhand, I mean godhead.

    I am amazed that Oda can still come up with new designs (and names) for characters; I was curious, so I went looking, and according to the list of all the canon characters on the one piece wiki, there's 1,372 of them, and 43 named groups. Amazingly, the equivalent list for naruto has 1,438 entries, so I guess one piece doesn't hold the record.

    In other Shonen Jump stuff, it's confessions all over the place this week; Witch Watch is all about making increasingly over-elaborate plans for one,
    (spoiler removed, sorry)
    Blue Box had one last week and this week it's reciprocated,
    and while I don't think this strictly speaking counts, these panels from Akane-banashi are more ambiguous than they might be:

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    (between those there's the standard sort of "I became a rakugoka so I could beat you" panel, so this is very much the shonen "you are my rival" sort of thing, but even so...)

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    Oh, Spy x Family is finally gonna go to the fireworks factory.

    In the manga?

    Yeah.

    Ch. 82:
    Twilight got blown while undercover and hunted by the SSS, he goes to his backup disguise, Yor's brother. Which is unfortunate because Yuri is somehow able to tell his own footprints and tracks him down. the chapter ends with them coming face to face, cut to yor breaking a plate and the last panel is someone's blood hitting the floor.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I don't think Bocchi is bad, I just don't think I like it, sadly. I was really looking forward to it, too. It's just not holding my attention at all.

    I glance back over when I hear music or see a different animation style, and those moments are all great. Just the other 80% or so of the show is just...not grabbing me.

    It might win me over in the second half, I guess we'll see. That's happened before, on shows I would've otherwise dropped if I was watching alone.

    Yeah, sorry for reacting like I did yesterday to you not liking Bocchi.

    Oh, no worries. If I didn't want a reaction or conversation, I'd just not say anything.

    Like for the current Monday show I don't like, I never thought I'd like it, so there's nothing for me to discuss there.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    @djmitchella I am reading Blue Box and didnt appreciate that spoiler thanks.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    One Piece ch. 1086
    Today we meet the five members of the godhand, I mean godhead.
    How could Mac Tonight do such a thing?!

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    @djmitchella I am reading Blue Box and didnt appreciate that spoiler thanks.

    oh, sorry about that, I've marked it as a spoiler to avoid anyone else getting spoiled; I guess I didn't realise people wouldn't have read the one-shot version of the story (edit: for reasons I won't go into here just to be on the safe side)

    (edit: yeah, now I look at what I wrote I realise that for people that are also reading it, I did probably the worst possible job of trying to talk about what happened without actually saying what happened, that was a bad move on my part, sorry)

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  • EidolonOrpheusEidolonOrpheus NoatunRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Unrelated to anything, Handyman Saitou is fun although episode 11 is a lot, and Lv999 Yamada is actually really cute.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WFM21:
    Double tagging for new MS
    two different attempts at bringing up the levels on the Calibarn

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    Gunnode looks like they’re screaming with that sensor configuration

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Demon Slayer S3E10:
    All the Love Hashira stuff was great. Nice and flashy UFOTable animation.

    I also loved how they remixed one of the main themes with different instrumentation to reflect the Love Hashira's personality.

    The music has been outstanding. There's multiple version's of Tanjiro's Constant Flux as well.

    The pacing at the end was a little bad, but tune in next week for the finale! I'm wondering if it will be double length like last season. I can't remember how much of this arc is left.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched the Prologue to Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury

    I get irritated at this tendency for sci-fi mech anime to treat their technology like they have no fucking clue how it works.

    Like, "we build this big-ass robot, but it sucks the life out of its pilots and also only works for some pilots and we don't know why"

    Like it's some alien artifact that they just found and are having to figure out. Did they build this fucking thing or not? If they did, why would they build a fucking weapon of war that only works for the random "chosen one" or whatever.

    Oh also it's totally for exploration and the betterment of humanity, pay no attention to all the weapons systems on-board.

    I dunno, the woo woo quasi-mystic shit just bugs me.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    WFM21:
    Double tagging for new MS
    two different attempts at bringing up the levels on the Calibarn

    twagsest0znv.jpeg

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    Gunnode looks like they’re screaming with that sensor configuration

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    Interesting note on that spoiler (spoiler for WFM21)
    While the Caliban part of it's name is obvious, perhaps less obvious is the Caliburn - another name for Excalibur, a sword only able to be wielded by the worthy.

    Also some of reddit have mad speculation that Calibarn will turn out to have Nadim hiding in it. I'm doubtful for various reasons, but it's certainly an interesting theory.

    I also like how much this gives a lie to the well, everything, around gundams - SAL has just been sitting on this Gundam all this time, etc. It's fucking great

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    I watched the Prologue to Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury

    I get irritated at this tendency for sci-fi mech anime to treat their technology like they have no fucking clue how it works.

    Like, "we build this big-ass robot, but it sucks the life out of its pilots and also only works for some pilots and we don't know why"

    Like it's some alien artifact that they just found and are having to figure out. Did they build this fucking thing or not? If they did, why would they build a fucking weapon of war that only works for the random "chosen one" or whatever.

    Oh also it's totally for exploration and the betterment of humanity, pay no attention to all the weapons systems on-board.

    I dunno, the woo woo quasi-mystic shit just bugs me.

    In this case
    it was really a technology they developed for like prosthetics and medical tech and they knew how it worked, but then arms companies (primarily Ochs earth) took that and blew up the scale to gundam sized and were trying to toe the line of “harming some of the pilots is worth it for the gains to space capitalism” until enough backlash tipped the scale and delling went way overboard in response.

    As shown at least, idk maybe they have some magic stuff to reveal still it’s literally just a problem of scale; tying a robot hand to your brain stem can let your brain control the hand. Tying a giant hand to your brain stem has proportionally more connections and simulated nerves/impulses/strain.

    Vanadis was working to try to reduce/remove that strain because people had already taken their medical tech and turned it into weapons

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    I watched the Prologue to Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury

    I get irritated at this tendency for sci-fi mech anime to treat their technology like they have no fucking clue how it works.

    Like, "we build this big-ass robot, but it sucks the life out of its pilots and also only works for some pilots and we don't know why"

    Like it's some alien artifact that they just found and are having to figure out. Did they build this fucking thing or not? If they did, why would they build a fucking weapon of war that only works for the random "chosen one" or whatever.

    Oh also it's totally for exploration and the betterment of humanity, pay no attention to all the weapons systems on-board.

    I dunno, the woo woo quasi-mystic shit just bugs me.

    In this case
    it was really a technology they developed for like prosthetics and medical tech and they knew how it worked, but then arms companies (primarily Ochs earth) took that and blew up the scale to gundam sized and were trying to toe the line of “harming some of the pilots is worth it for the gains to space capitalism” until enough backlash tipped the scale and delling went way overboard in response.

    As shown at least, idk maybe they have some magic stuff to reveal still it’s literally just a problem of scale; tying a robot hand to your brain stem can let your brain control the hand. Tying a giant hand to your brain stem has proportionally more connections and simulated nerves/impulses/strain.

    Vanadis was working to try to reduce/remove that strain because people had already taken their medical tech and turned it into weapons

    This is my understanding as well
    im not sure it’s a matter of size specifically but it does seem pretty implied that a data storm is basically just Too Much Input going back to the pilot, particularly when it comes to the weapon systems involved that are almost assuredly pushing the pilot beyond what their nervous system is equipped for. Maybe you can pilot just a big robot body fine, but take that, now add all the sensory data and your own direction to control extremely fast, extremely responsive drone weapon systems as an extension of your body that are whipping around at assuredly ludicrous speeds and suddenly that’s a lot of data to flood your system via Permet implants

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    I watched the Prologue to Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury

    I get irritated at this tendency for sci-fi mech anime to treat their technology like they have no fucking clue how it works.

    Like, "we build this big-ass robot, but it sucks the life out of its pilots and also only works for some pilots and we don't know why"

    Like it's some alien artifact that they just found and are having to figure out. Did they build this fucking thing or not? If they did, why would they build a fucking weapon of war that only works for the random "chosen one" or whatever.

    Oh also it's totally for exploration and the betterment of humanity, pay no attention to all the weapons systems on-board.

    I dunno, the woo woo quasi-mystic shit just bugs me.

    In this case
    it was really a technology they developed for like prosthetics and medical tech and they knew how it worked, but then arms companies (primarily Ochs earth) took that and blew up the scale to gundam sized and were trying to toe the line of “harming some of the pilots is worth it for the gains to space capitalism” until enough backlash tipped the scale and delling went way overboard in response.

    As shown at least, idk maybe they have some magic stuff to reveal still it’s literally just a problem of scale; tying a robot hand to your brain stem can let your brain control the hand. Tying a giant hand to your brain stem has proportionally more connections and simulated nerves/impulses/strain.

    Vanadis was working to try to reduce/remove that strain because people had already taken their medical tech and turned it into weapons

    Also
    permet is, in universe, a relatively new mineral, a substance mined from Mercury and then the earth, and the basis of a full sweet of transformative technology. It enables insanely highspeed data connections, but I think it's fair that they may not fully understand everything about it - I'm sure there's materials we don't understand as of yet, fully.

    Hell, we have stuff like carbon nanotubes where we know a chunk of stuff, yet keep running into issues when we scale it up.

    Further to that: Gundams in this setting show some level of sentience. Lfrith was definitely "alive" to some degree, given it only wakes up and starts working after it's talked to by another child. - but the Lfrith Pre-production models worked fine, so there's clearly a difference in the level of technology implemented. Further to that, we have proof that Permet enables the level of information density to support consciousness.

    And well, we still don't have anywhere approaching a full idea of how the fuck our own brains work.

    So yeah, I don't find "we built this tech, but we don't understand it fully" unbelievable at all. Especially not when it gets more and and more advanced

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also there is a lot of tech in the real world where they genuinely don't fully understand how it works.

    They just know if they do x, y happens consistently. Sometimes z happens, and then they try to work out why (they have no idea why).

    As long as a show gets across the predictability of the technology, it's pretty in line with reality.

    I would actually say, in this case, and I mean this gently, that the complaint comes from a somewhat distorted lack of awareness of how quite a lot of stuff works that you'd probably be pretty terrified to know we don't fully understand.

    Like how wings generate lift. We can get it to happen consistently, and we can even model it. But the maths doesn't add up to a real explanation.

    It just works.

    70 000+ flights per day, and the math doesn't add up.

    edit: I hope nobody with a fear of planes was about to take a flight, maybe I should spoil that?

    edit: Oh yeah and we regularly use Newtonian physics for a lot of orbital calculations and it's completely the wrong model. Like we don't even know how gravity works for real, but stuff gets put on mars, cos it is at least predictable. The real world actually kinda is quasi magical when you look at it hard enough.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm pretty sure the "we don't know how plane wings generate lift" things is one of those "the average person eats x number of spiders every years" facts.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cB557 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the "we don't know how plane wings generate lift" things is one of those "the average person eats x number of spiders every years" facts.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/

    The engineering mathematical models are solid.

    The actual explanation of how it really works is still in dispute, with competing models and different researchers arguing for the one they like the best.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Took a while to track it down but this is my favourite banal everyday thing that it took physicists decades to work out.

    https://physicsworld.com/a/clothes-washing-mystery-solved-by-physicists/

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Another great one is using a generic algorithm to evolve a circuit to do a particular thing. (I believe it was output one of two tones, or something).

    A computer ended up creating a impressively small circuit which curiously, featured a part that didn't seem to do anything and wasn't connected to the rest of the circuit.

    Get rid of it, and the entire circuit stopped working. No one has a clue why this is, just some guesses about weird physical priorities. The computer that designed it had no idea either, because it can't know things. Literal black box technology. It works, but we don't know why, despite being the ones who built it

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Most things involving tech and especially people have real issues when you look at them too closely.

    Its honestly fully justified here.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That reminds me of the story of the 'more magic' switch.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Love Hashira is very quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in Demon Slayer (and honestly fiction as well).

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Another great one is using a generic algorithm to evolve a circuit to do a particular thing. (I believe it was output one of two tones, or something).

    A computer ended up creating a impressively small circuit which curiously, featured a part that didn't seem to do anything and wasn't connected to the rest of the circuit.

    Get rid of it, and the entire circuit stopped working. No one has a clue why this is, just some guesses about weird physical priorities. The computer that designed it had no idea either, because it can't know things. Literal black box technology. It works, but we don't know why, despite being the ones who built it

    Vaguely reminded of the Load Bearing Random JPG in countless video games

    Does it do anything? No! Does the entire thing freak the hell out and stop working if you remove it? Oh hells yes.


    Meanwhile, a WFM21 spoiler got fan art already that’s really good:

    Their shading style feels so influenced by Gyobu’s, that Super stark contrast and heavy use of flat colors that just pops

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