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I was going to make a jokey post about how it’s obviously Goku, but once you mentioned Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist, that pretty much sealed it for me. Tucker is on a whole different level of awful.

I just thought of another "Anime Bad Dad". Ivan Dryar from Fairy Tail. He turns his back on Makarov and tries to kill his son Laxus for the lacrima in his chest.

Got a new set of battery cables for one of my solar batteries the other day but I don't like the connectors on them. The ones that came on the cable are aluminum and the bolt hole is too large for the battery's terminal bolts. As a result the metal around the hole - the part that actually connects with the battery terminal and carries the power - is too thin for my comfort. So I'm replacing the lugs on the cable with ones that are a bit more substantial. Mine are solid copper and larger overall but with a bolt hole of the proper size for the battery's bolts. More importantly the surface area for contact with the battery terminal is much greater. The same power going through more metal means less resistive heating and a cooler connection.

Idk, I actually think it’s kind of nice seeing anime culture, collabs, and events popping up in places you’d never imagine years ago. It’s wild how mainstream it’s become, but in a good way; the reach is bigger, the budgets are bigger, and the variety of shows is bigger. And I’m really not sold on the idea that “the mainstream didn’t like Sora, so NGNL didn’t continue.” That’s just not how it went. No Game No Life got wrapped up in a plagiarism case, and the staff basically admitted wrongdoing. After that, the studio said they were open to exploring other possibilities with the IP, but not continuing the direct work. That’s a huge legal wall. To make a new season, they’d need rights, approvals, and cooperation from the original creator, and with a plagiarism admission on record, that’s a nightmare. It’s not happening, and it has basically zero to do with public opinion. Honestly, the legal side killed NGNL way more than any fan take ever could.

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Maybe this has already been covered, but in Southern California, we have: L.A. Anime Expo (LA AX) in DTLA in July, Animé LA in Long Beach, AX Chibi in Ontario, and several smaller events. Plus, most Comic Cons have a lot of Anime content and other Japanese Pop Culture.

Been spending most of my time in Cyberpunk 2077 today, just doing side quests and exploring Night City. I keep getting distracted from the main story because there is always something interesting around every corner. Also finally started Hollow Knight which has been sitting in my backlog forever. So far so good!

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101F here today. Hope it's cooler tomorrow. I have outside work that I was planning on doing this weekend.

Egg and cheese sandwich on toast for lunch. I might have put a bit too much Tapatío on it though.

I posted a few weeks ago about putting the CachyOS Linux distro on my new computer build. It's still there but this morning I discovered the AUR has been infested with malware. The malware appears to be targeting older, abandoned software packages and does not appear to be affecting binaries, only source-code. The malware is going after unmaintained software by basically applying to be the new maintainer of the software, then adding new code to gather information via keylogging or other means once the "updated" software gets installed on end-users' systems. This means PKGBUILDs of AUR software should be done with caution, but updates of well-maintained packages and their binaries should still be ok. So far several hundred software packages have been affected. That sounds like a large number but there's over 100,000 software packages in the AUR in total so it's really just a fraction of 1%, and as I said it appears to be unmaintained packages that are being targeted. Commonly used software usually does not have much trouble finding people to be maintainers so to be affected it sounds like you would have to have been a user of a little-used piece of software that has lost its maintainer. Assuming you still have the software installed you would presumably get an automatic notice of an "upgrade" to that software from the new "maintainer" (probably an AI agent) and if you went ahead and upgraded you would then be downloading and installing the malware on your system. Note this is still something of an ongoing event so I may not be correctly describing the situation but that's how it appears to me at the moment. The best source I've found so far for keeping up with info on this attack is this AUR list thread, including this message containing a list of possibly affected packages. For those unfamiliar with Linux, the AUR is the Arch User Repository, a collection of software source code collected and maintained by / for users of "Arch" (and Arch-based) Linux distros. "Arch" is a linux distribution ("distro") that allows linux users to build their own system from the ground up. Arch starts with a minimal install of the kernel and utilities required to get a bootable and basically functional system going and then allows users to add their own bits of software to customize it for their own needs. Often a lot of that added customization comes from software contained in the AUR. Arch-derived distros - such as the CachyOS that I'm using - provide the next level of functional build. In the case of Cachy that would be a system tuned for hardware performance, such as for gaming or computing throughput. Ideally in a user-friendly and system-oriented way that doesn't necessarily require users to be command-line gurus or concern themselves with inter-package software interactions. Though a little user knowledge about what's going on on their computer is never a bad thing either.

This just brought back memories from when I was the biggest SWS fan

oo how is nano machine, i've heard a lot about it

The devil is a part timer has been a favourite comedy for me!!

I agree with this, that is just how he is

I've never actually looked the movements intentionally, but to be fair it might depend on the genre of the anime as well. If i'm watching anything action, movement is going to be super important in comparrison to something like a romance

Hi Neil! Welcome to the forum

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I went to the aquarium this weekend, but I couldn't shake a bad feeling I had there. There’s just something fishy about that place. I'd love to have kids one day. But that's as long as I can handle them. What did sushi A say to sushi B? Wasabi!

Nobody finds this interesting? I may have actually proven digimon are real. https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Cryptozoology-Exploring-Cyberspace-Environment/dp/B0H49M9FMM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RWUUPA8VN5H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tdx2WsjJdJ-0hUa0qyIqex7sLgKng_K64aboJrVuWwkEUBUkgJ9-0FTPa1NrSR_OoDidZxn99nc6fLgj-Rw7hR4DLdnQ716MgE3-GEZGQQXaxsXBI0A58D3gIEF6lKVeBl22KbHCePzKBA4vFEnhm7Dm30W3K5eBf2Q72gce_R2qv1oZ6V3xI6m_UnkNENitX8cpctodF94gzcljIWZnqKlygaxGqqRHP4l7dDzPkuU.NRJmQXG9yzjNamXxy0plIltHDziopw4j9hph0Z4pKe0&dib_tag=se&keywords=cyber+cryptozoology&qid=1781219818&sprefix=cyber+cryptozoolog%2Caps%2C238&sr=8-1

Hi, i mentioned this before. I really love this anime. In my top 3 of the last 4 years. Th critics and people opinion hated it. I was really worried if there would be a s02. There is now. I still love it. Since i have no idea why people would hate it i looked at different comments in different media, It was very interesting. The main complain was;..anime means movement and they are not moving. Haha it never occured to me,..so i rewatched some eps. And true. Everything in the frame was so still except the faces moving. I could not look beside it. BUT i still enjoy the anime much. So my questions: - Do you look at the movement in an anime? - Did you watch the beginning after the end and like it? - Is gfx above story telling?

eeeh is this AI GENERATE, Is that allowed here?