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  • The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?

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  • are you saying it's because a daily doubling is itself exponential

    Yup, that's what I'm saying! I'm not the kind of person who will get on someone's case for using exponential colloquially to mean "growing really fast", but when you explicitly describe an exponential function and then imply that it's not exponential, that's just sloppy. Bringing in nonlinearity, which makes it seem like you're being more mathematically formal, makes it even less acceptable.

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    What have you been reading/watching recently? [Anime - March 2026]

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  • Episode 15 of Pokémon is "Battle Aboard The St. Anne", which was the first English-dubbed episode of Pokémon to broadcast on Turtle Island, before the rest of the series was broadcast in order.

    Honestly didn't realize this until you pointed it out!

    it was very good to find out that so much of the Norwegian dub of Pokémon is available for free on YouTube on Pokémon's official channel

    extremely rare The Pokémon Company W

    I played the original Game Boy games (Red & Blue) through online emulators without save features as a kid. This meant that I had to start at the very beginning every time I played, and accordingly I never finished either game, because how the heck's a kid supposed to beat Pokémon Red in a single sitting, right?

    My first experience was on the Game Boy, but my second experience was also on a janky emulator where I lost my save a few times and thus never completed the Gen II games. It's amazing what you'll put up with as a little kid! But it's also interesting to learn that playing on online emulators was a thing even that far back. My only interaction with them has been via the Internet Archive, which uses them for old PC platforms like the Apple II, but given the light system requirements of a Game Boy emulator it makes sense that someone would set up a website with one and slap some ads on it. From the earliest days I've always preferred downloading over streaming so that's a whole subculture I'm not familiar with (e.g. I know that KissAnime existed but I never actually went on there).

    I think I was especially fond of the antics of Jessie and James — which figures, they're the adult characters.

    Yeah—I have no idea how the series develops, since there's over a thousand episodes, but the Team Rocket trio is by far the highlight of the show for me (and also the highlight of the English dub, if you ask me).

    Avatar: The Last Airbender is another thing that was popular when I was a kid that I missed out on, and, although certainly flawed, it is genuinely a very good cartoon.

    I also missed out on it (no cable + too old + L + ratio), but I watched it as an adult and enjoyed quite a bit! It's no Owl House, but it's a good un. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend Korra due to the horrifically lib politics, which I'm sure you've heard about...I think I tapped out by Season 3).

    My mom and I are getting very close to the end of Steins;Gate.

    Looks like I'm gonna have to admit defeat on this one.

    Ranma ½ (reboot) is a a very cute show with a very good dub

    I really ought to get around to watching the original Ranma ½ at some point.

    I already mentioned in a previous thread that SungWon Cho plays Mousse in the dub.

    I couldn't confirm it but I'd certainly suspect that Grace Lu probably grew up speaking Chinese, because the /ɻ~ʐ/ in how Shampoo says "Ranma" is very distinctive.

    Sasuga Erika! It's always fun catching little things like that.

    We started Kodocha basically just to have two English dubs in rotation. We've only seen the first episode so far, but it looks very promising, we burst out laughing at several points.

    Ooh, I'm not familiar with this one (I'm sure I've seen a few random clips/images, since the MC seems familiar), but you've piqued my interest! I want to watch/read more shōjosei, so this'll go close to the top of my PTW.

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  • This activated a neuron of me as a brand-new weeb watching my "first anime" (Little Witch Academia) and just looking at the episode list when I was halfway through it just to see how many of the episodes I could remember.

    Cute!

    My Journey to Her (Boku ga Watashi ni Naru Tame ni, abbrev. BokuWata)

    Great recommendation! But perhaps too good of a recommendation, since I've already read it

    I guess I could re-read it in Japanese, but I read it relatively recently so I don't think I'd have that same pull. Incidentally, that's the second manga in the "autobiography of a Japanese trans woman going to Thailand for SRS" I've read, the first being Umareru Seibetsu wo Machigaeta (I Was Born the Wrong Sex) which I think I've read in both English and Japanese.

    As a dutiful Japanese learner, I do have Yotsuba&!, and I've read a few chapters, but the kind of thing that really gets me hooked is well-developed characters and emotional turmoil (hence Ikoku Nikki). I think when I get to the point where I can easily read in Japanese at about the same pace I can in English, I could read something more lighthearted, but in the meantime I need something properly dramatic to keep me plowing ahead.

  • Do you feel like your ADHD can manifest in avoidant behavior?

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  • literally me meaning to respond to this yesterday

  • The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?

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  • As the conflict with Iran intensifies, the world’s energy arteries are constricting to a point of “nonlinearity,” where every day the Strait of Hormuz remains closed doesn’t just double the economic pain — it multiplies it exponentially.

    the math understander has logged on

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    Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users

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  • I first learned about the Quittr vulnerability from an independent researcher, who scanned the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for a common misconfiguration in apps that use Google Firebase, an app development platform. The researcher tested hundreds of the top apps on both stores after we published a story about the Tea app suffering a devastating hack due to the same issue. The researcher found dozens of apps had the same problem, including Quittr, but did not name Quittr in his public disclosure because the highly sensitive and personal data could put users at risk.

    So glad that Google is going to protect users by forcing even free open-source app developers outside of the Google Play ecosystem to pay a fee and register with them using government ID, which will lead many of them to stop development entirely. Users will be so safe now that they can only install Google-approved apps that must adhere to rigorous software engineering standards.

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  • So I guess I'll try to make an ultra-abridged comment this time and can share commentary if other people are interested in it rather than upfront.

    It's me, I'm people

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  • Anime

    Seasonal

    This has been a pretty quiet season for me—only watching three shows. I never actually bothered starting The Darwin Incident (Darwin no Jihen), and I dropped The Case Book of Arne (Arne no Jikenbo) after the first six episodes. The latter was fine, I guess, but I realized I was forcing myself to watch it instead of actually looking forward to it, and I've grown well past the "don't drop anything" mentality that I used to have which lead to me burning out of watching anime entirely for a few years. Anyway, here's what I've got left:

    The Holy Grail of Eris (Eris no Seihai) — Decent little show with some mystery elements and politicking. It's no Apothecary Diaries, but it's got a fun twist that keeps it entertaining. Not a strong recommend from me, but you should know from the first couple of episodes whether it's your thing.

    Champignon Witch (Champignon no Majo) — Cozy shōjo fantasy with an interesting world and a nice artstyle (albeit with fairly basic animation). Definitely worth checking out!

    🌟Journal with Witch (Ikoku Nikki) — This is a must watch, IMO. Lovely josei character piece tackling grief with naturalistic acting, superb direction, a sensitively portrayed neurodivergent character...just, watch the first episode, at least.

    Non-seasonal

    Beck — Still slowly working my way through this one. I'm enjoying it, but it doesn't strongly pull me to watch it day after day. I'll finish it when I finish it.

    Cardcaptor Sakura + Movie I & Movie II — Just finished watching this show for the second time with the Blorp gang and it 100% holds up...goddamn I love this show. I could easily start rewatching it again right now, and I never rewatch stuff so that's saying something! I actually hadn't seen the second movie, somehow, so it was fun to get a chance to watch it for the first time with everyone.

    Pokémon: Indigo League (i.e. Season 1) — been watching this in Japanese with Japanese subtitles to take a trip down memory lane while working in some Japanese immersion. Overall the quality of voice acting is leagues better, although I do miss Maddie Blaustein's Meowth, which is both funnier and a lot less grating than Nyarth. Kids these days with all the whiz-bang Pokémon sakuga have no idea what kinda bottom-of-the-barrel animation we had to put up with back in the day! But I didn't notice back then, and nostalgia is enough to paper over it for me now.It's wild how memorable and iconic episodes there are in just the 20 that I've watched—I'd say it's most of them. So far I haven't hit any episodes that I don't remember from my childhood (not counting Beauty and the Beach), but I'm curious to see if there are any I missed later in the season or if that won't happen until Orange Islands/Johto. I don't remember watching Ash challenge the Elite Four or anything like that, so I suspect a lot of the material at the end of the season will be new to me.

    New Game!! (i.e. New Game! S2) — Finally got back to watching this with @Erika3sis@hexbear.net! Not much to say about it, but it's Doga Koba doing CGDCT, so if that's your thing you'll probably enjoy this show. The creator used to work in the video game industry, so while there are obviously idealized aspects of the work environment there are also a lot of details that make it feel more authentic.

    Manga

    I've really been slacking on the manga front, sadly. Read a couple of chapters here and there but nothing consistent. I'd really like to sink my teeth into a manga in Japanese for immersion but I have to find something that'll hook me enough to push through the difficulty. The Ikoku Nikki manga is one candidate, especially since I hear that the anime does cut out a lot since it's 11 volumes and only 13 episodes, although I don't know if the anime is actually covering the full series or not.

    Western Animation

    The Owl House — Incredibly charming show that was sadly canceled by Di$ney because we can't have nice things. But damn, I am absolutely loving every minute of it. Almost certainly going to go down as one of my all-time favorite animated shows. Also, thankfully creator Dana Terrace's new show Knights of Guinevere is being produced under the auspices of indie animation studio Glitch Productions, best known for The Amazing Digital Circus. It's much darker than Owl House, but I enjoyed the pilot and I'm looking forward to the next episode.

    Various pre-G4 My Little Pony bits and bobs — The production values in these can be quite rough, but it's been fun to see what came before the Friendship is Magic juggernaut. G1 in particular had some pretty catchy tunes, I have to say.

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  • Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi (creator of MOTHER/Earthbound) – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com

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  • While I have your attention, here's another Miyamoto tidbit. I was flipping through the September 2002 issue of Nintendo Dream (a Japanese gaming magazine) when I stumbled upon a Super Mario Sunshine interview. It just so happens that the interview (specifically, the answers from the developers) was also translated by Shmuplations, but the interview itself is actually not what caught my eye. No, it was this profile of Miyamoto which is not included in said translation:

    Producer ●プロヂューサー／みやもと　しげる

    宮本茂さん

    「放水していて思ったんですけど、◯◯○◯みたいなんですよね、これ。女の子はどういうふうに思うのかなって（笑）。聞けないけど、こっそり聞いてみたいですよね。いちばん高い場所に行ってパーッと放水すると新しい世界が見えて、ちょっと男の気持ちがわかるかもしれない（笑）」

    I don't feel confident enough in my translation abilities to translate the quote precisely as-written and capture Miyamoto's tone, but to paraphrase (and assuming the censored word is おしっこ), he's basically saying that he realized that spraying water with FLUDD is kinda like peeing, and he wonders what girls will think about it. He also says that if they go up to the highest spot and let loose from there, they may see a whole new world and get a bit of a sense of what it feels like to be a guy.

    Not what I was expecting to see in a Mario Sunshine interview, I'll tell you hwhat!

    Lots of wonderful original translations of interviews with Japanese devs on Shumplations—definitely a worthy addition to your RSS reader if you're into that sort of thing!

    http://shmuplations.com/feed/

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    Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi (creator of MOTHER/Earthbound) – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com

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  • We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation

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  • Yup, from what I can tell! Haven't played it myself yet, though.

  • We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation

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  • Read a little bit about this on the wiki page. It really sounds like some guy/company just lied to a regulatory body and then that org sent DMCA's out for them.

    So, that's just the thing—to a layperson, it seemed like they were registered with an actual regulatory body, but they were emphatically not. There are two parts to this: INTEROCO and Ukie. Here are the core bits of info:

    INTEROCO

    Graceware's main support for their takedown notices has been a series of registrations filed by Brandon White through INTEROCO "Copyright Office" in 2021. These "registrations" claim ownership for a variety of aspects of Cookie's Bustle, including the source code, game concept, and character designs.

    [...]

    But here's the thing: These are not real copyright registrations, and INTEROCO is not a government agency.

    INTEROCO is a private company in Germany that bills itself as a "full-automated electronic depository." It is effectively a digital version of mailing yourself a letter to get it date-stamped by the Post Office, a comparison that INTEROCO explicitly makes on their About Us page.

    In theory, authors and creators could use INTEROCO to prove that they published a work on a specific date. However, it would be absurd to claim that depositing a copy of a work that's already been published means that you own the rights to it. It would be like mailing yourself a cartridge of Super Mario Bros., then claiming the postmarked envelope is proof you control the copyright to Super Mario Bros. A deposit on INTEROCO for a previously copyrighted work—such as the ones made by Brandon White—is effectively meaningless.

    Ukie

    Graceware's takedown notices are filed on their behalf by Ukie, the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment. Ukie is the United Kingdom's largest video game trade organization, representing and providing professional services for over 2000 member companies. One of those services, according to Ukie, is free takedown requests for infringing use of copyrighted materials. Graceware is a member of Ukie and appears to use that service.

    [...]

    As official as it sounds to have a major trade organization sending takedowns for Graceware, the barrier to joining Ukie and using their legal services is shockingly low. Membership in Ukie costs less than £1000 per year for small companies. So if you have £60 a month, it looks like you can get the UK's largest gaming trade organization to send free takedown notices on your behalf.

    [...]

    Web Capio offers "real-time" IP protection services as a frontline defense against piracy and data leaks. By "real-time," what they mean is that they scrape the web for potentially infringing content and, according to their marketing materials, send out "automated takedown notices."

    Notably, they have bragged that compared to other takedown services, they do not require the majority of their takedowns to be verified by a human.

    In other words, Web Capio uses bots to send bulk takedown requests to websites, seemingly without confirming whether they are valid or appropriate. This would explain the large number of spurious takedowns related to Cookie's Bustle that have been reported.

    The TL;DR is that the purported "copyright registrations" are no such thing, and the UK trade organization they are a member of (which clearly didn't do its due diligence to ensure they actually held the rights they claimed) is happy to blast out completely automated takedowns for anyone who pays £630+VAT per year to be a member (they suspended takedowns for this individual/company after being contacted by the VGHF and presumably not getting a satisfactory response from the troll).

    I didn't get into the US trademarks here, but basically, they made provisionary applications for lapsed trademarks, but even if those trademarks are ever granted (which they have not been), it would have no bearing on matters of copyright.

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    We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation

    gamehistory.org /cookies-bustle/

  • Mario’s butch creator

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  • HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK - USE THE WORD "POLIO"!

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  • thumbs up : yay or nay?

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  • Just FYI, it's cultural cachet (rhymes with sashay) rather than cache (pronounced like cash). And of course, all four words come from French

  • Bro was a G A M E R

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    Linked article (Archived version)

    Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News.

    In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

    Alejandro Romero, who attended the University of Pennsylvania with Mangione and was a member of the same Discord group, said he was shocked when news broke on social media that Mangione had been taken into police custody.

    "I just found it extremely ironic that, you know, we were in this game and there could actually be a true killer among us," he said.

    "As soon as his photo and name popped up on X, my friend texted me asking if I knew him, and then either I was calling some 10 friends or they were calling me," Romero added. "I didn't speak to anybody today who wasn't already aware of what had happened."

    Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday morning in a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an employee spotted him.

    Police found a firearm, believed to have been 3D-printed, and a handwritten document on Mangione "that speaks to both his motivation and mindset," New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference.

    He was also carrying fake identification and a passport, authorities said.

    In New York, Mangione was charged with murder, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of a weapon, according to court documents.

    Authorities in Pennsylvania charged Mangione with carrying firearms without a license, forgery, tampering with records or identification, possessing instruments of crime and providing false identification to police.

    In a statement on X on Monday night, a member of the Mangione family said they are "shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest."

    "We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved," wrote Nino Mangione, a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

    Romero, who said he has not spoken to or seen Mangione since 2020, described him as a typical college student who did not stand out to him.

    "He just fit a mold," Romero said. "He just seemed like any other normal frat dude that you could see at a frat party."

    His final year in college was cut short when the pandemic hit. Students were forced off campus in their last semester and did not return for commencement.

    The Discord group was one way to stay connected, Romero said, but members began to go their separate ways as they got full-time jobs or embarked on long trips.

    During some of those years, Mangione left behind a digital footprint that included reviewing "Industrial Society and Its Future," also known as the "Unabomber Manifesto" by Ted Kaczynski, on Goodreads, a platform for book reviews and recommendations. It served as the ideological reasoning for Kaczynski's yearslong mail bomb campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others.

    Mangione became significantly more active on X in 2021 after five years not posting or reposting content, according to a review of his account. 

    Asked about the change in Mangione's online persona, Romero said that question is circulating among his friend group.

    "I feel like people are unsure how to label him," he said. "I'm personally struggling to understand how this all fits."

  • New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo

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  • article lead image generated with ChatGPT

    Not only do I hate the AI slop on principle, but it actually undermines the point the paper made. In the anime (and I presume the manga), it's exactly as described: there's a long section in the middle, and two short sections with nodes on the outermost part of the muzzle:

    But in the slop picture, instead of nodes, there are grooves cut into the short outside sections, which obviously could be done with a real piece of bamboo cut to size (and it's asymmetrical, and it appears to be free-floating instead of tied with cloth). If you didn't already know what the muzzle looked like, the picture would be super confusing. It's literally better not to include any image at all if you don't think there's a fair use case than to use one that actively confuses the reader.

    AI slop aside (which isn't the fault of the original paper's authors): fun little paper! I know I'll be looking at bamboo in animation with a more critical eye from now on.

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  • I would push back a bit on "as few lines as possible" for two reasons:

    1. Modern compilers coupled with extended instruction sets have gotten so good that premature optimization can often make things less performant than just writing straightforward code and letting the compiler do its thing—empirical testing is a must. However, what you said is absolutely true when talking about programming in assembly and much more true when talking about old compilers (which is what programmers were dealing with in the time period you're talking about).
    2. Readability is important for maintainability, so even if some convoluted one-liner is more performant, it may not be worth the maintenance headache unless it makes a significant impact on performance (certainly the case for something like Quake III's famous fast square root!).

     

    That said, I totally agree with the overall thrust of your comment—I love reading old assembly code and seeing how the programmers of yore were able to do so much with so little, and that spirit seems to have been completely lost in the quest for More Product. It'll be interesting to see if the coming DRAM shortage will have any impact on that; my guess is no, but I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.

    You might be interested in a talk I posted a while back that traces the history of object-oriented programming and how it all went wrong as well as this post about eschewing game engines. And I'm guessing you might be familiar, but Kaze Emanuar does some fascinating videos about squeezing every last bit of performance out of the N64, sparing no technical details. Oh, also this blog post from Dan Luu about web bloat. Okay, I'll stop with the links, but it's a topic near and dear to my heart.

  • Nintendo has sued people for almost nothing. Surely they won't let this slide?

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  • The style is from a spin-off game that just came out yesterday, Pokopia

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    What software/technique can I use to edit a clip compilation with existing per-clip subtitles while keeping everything synced?

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    Leaked footage of chaos aboard USS Truman during April 2025 clash with Ansar Allah (/jk)

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    Nintendo DS Fan Translation

    The Series of Haruhi Suzumiya English Patch Trailer

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    Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny

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    Patti Labelle - This Christmas (Where My Background Singers?)

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    Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512

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    Testing the predictive power of phonetic components in Japanese kanji

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    Don't Just Watch TV: The Secrets of Sega Channel

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    Can anyone recommend a workflow/tool(s) for syncing a plaintext diarized transcript to audio to obtain high-quality subtitles?

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    けーえぬP

    LOVELY MIKU'S DINER / 初音ミク

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    SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0

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    In defense of lock poisoning in Rust · sunshowers

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    Wastewater-derived estimates suggest that 74 million people in the U.S. got infected during the [2025] summer [COVID] wave.

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    Nintendo DS Peripheral Reverse Engineering & Emulation

    Edge of Emulation: Wantame Card Scanner

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    "Yeah, I read philosophy."

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    Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason

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    Palmer Luckey's assistant during his podcast interview [Good Work]

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    You no longer need JavaScript

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