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"I am reckoned a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for them under such trying circumstances, and insults to my people." - Ned Kelly

Any pronouns but he/they, unless you buy me dinner first.

  • Adam Neely did a great video on AI generated music recently, and one of the interesting things he teased out is that people who use AI to "compose" don't cite any influences—AI or otherwise. Personally, one of the most gratifying things about music is understanding it on a deeper level—both from analyzing the notes/techniques/textures themselves purely in the context of the song, but also tracing the lineage of musical ideas: "Oh, that kind of chord voicing comes from X composer" or "That lick is definitely a reference to Y's solo" or "That production technique was made popular by Z". This gives the listener an idea of the unique blend of music that shaped the composer's style, and can point to more things to listen to in order to broaden their musical palate and historical perspective.

    Well said. I hadn't thought of it that way before.

    from what I've heard, it's a recap with a bit of new animation, no?

    Basically. The new animation is pretty much just at the very beginning and end, though, as I understand it, and the ending diverges a bit from the original series.

    so I'm curious to know what you mean but I think I prefer to keep it a mystery

    I guess it's difficult to put it into words, but I want to say that it felt "lazy" to have the dog talk. Which I guess makes sense when they're making an episodic TV cartoon, but like…… if Courage could only communicate through regular dog noises, the way the writing would have to compensate in order to convey Courage's thoughts, feelings, motivations and overall character, that would've been interesting. It would've been like the Tom & Jerry of horror, right? That's something I'd like to see.

    but I've heard that the music (courtesy of prominent Japanese composer/producer TeddyLoid) is pretty great.

    Heaven, please sing for me a song of liiiife has been going through my head regularly since Clara started showing PASWG. It's yet another song in the growing pile I'd like to write new lyrics for and karaoke. PASWG is also often said to be better dubbed than subbed. My first time watching it was basically just me trying to get into something a classmate of mine liked, but it didn't work out.

    Another thing that stood out to me about PASWG is how much of Kill La Kill's "DNA" clearly comes from it. I vaguely feel like I've also heard something about how Cutie Honey from the '70s is sort of the progenitor of "magical girls but with sex and/or nudity", but I don't know much of anything about that, so it would be interesting to see if I could recognize some of PASWG's DNA there.

  • extremely rare The Pokémon Company W

    Yeah, but when the whole show's just a toy commercial it makes sense that they'd make (a significant part of it) freely available. More or less all of MLP:FiM is also available in numerous dubs on YouTube for the same reason. This is why I emphasize that piracy still contributes to the value of an "intellectual property".

    But it's also interesting to learn that playing on online emulators was a thing even that far back.

    It's fun that I get to tell you about it, then. It wasn't just Game Boy, but also GBA, NES, and SNES on those emulator sites with ads, I remember.

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

    Too bad, so sad! [silly victory dance]

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

    Original? Have you seen the reboot?

    (I'm sure I've seen a few random clips/images, since the MC seems familiar)

    I've probably shown the main character's "Things You Can't Fix" song as an intermission once or a few times, that song was how I first heard about Kodocha. Kodocha was mentioned in Mimiyori's recent video about anime from her childhood, too.

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    is on me, hahah. I'll add Umareru Seibetsu wo Machigaeta to mia planlisto. And it's interesting that you have that attitude towards Yotsuba&!. I guess for me Yotsuba&! is good because one doesn't need to understand much of it to follow along on the plot, but one gets more out of it by understanding more of the text, so it's basically easily read as long as I accept that I won't understand everything. But I can also see your perspective.

  • 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!

    I swore I'd already put this one in the bottomless pit of PTW but apparently not. Time to rectify that!

    🌟Journal with Witch (Ikoku Nikki) — This is a must watch, IMO.

    I take it that's why you put the star there.

    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.

    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.

    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 obvious cliché answer is just "read Yotsuba&!" but I can do you one better: My Journey to Her (Boku ga Watashi ni Naru Tame ni, abbrev. BokuWata). Single volume with eight chapters. Most terms have no furigana, but I didn't let that stop me. It's an autobiography of a Japanese trans woman going to Thailand for SRS.

    Aside from Yotsuba&! and BokuWata I have also read ARIA in Japanese and really enjoyed it. I also have the first volume of Doraemon in Japanese but I've hardly touched it, alas.

  • The Owl House fucks so hard for real. I've been saying this ever since I started showing it, but if you haven't seen The Owl House…… I mean, it's your choice what you spend your time on, but it is REALLY good. And it also got REALLY gay in the last batch of episodes I watched — the episode with Grom I mean. Incidentally, grom is Russian for "thunder, roar" — I wonder if that factored into that creature's name, or if the writers were just like "we need a name for a monster that's one letter off from prom, and sound symbolism says that 'grom' works best"?

    Alas, because we're in the part of the year where Turtle Island has switched to DST and Europe is still on standard time, I've had to put The Owl House on hold for a bit. Or I guess "had to" and had to, since I could just start my shows at 10 PM my time, but I do prefer to start at 11 PM when I can.

    People said they liked Trigger Happy Horses, but the chat was pretty dead for most of the movie.

    Regarding My Little Pony: A New Generation, come Saturday I'll probably agree with my past self and say that it's a serviceable — if not outright Fun — movie, but still far below MLP G4.

    Fireman Sam continues to be a very cute little stop motion slice of life. Once I finish showing series 5 I guess I'll move on to Joshua Jones. But imagine if something like Cardcaptor Sakura were in the Sam-Jones stop motion style, that would rock, right?

    SHINE was very technically competent and I think the use of narration was a good choice for the limits of the medium, but unfortunately it never got a second episode.

    By contrast, Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors is probably the longest fanime of all time; I'll be showing episode 2 this Wednesday alongside some Soviet movies. What's notable about Magic Heart aside from its length, age (starting in 2007), and weird-ass geometric art style, is the voice acting — it's all Microsoft Sam! The characters have literal ROFLcopter Bonzi Buddy ass voices, presumably because the creator didn't speak English as a first language and didn't have access to any other voice actors (or maybe just didn't want to deal with doing voice direction over the Internet).

    My own fanime I'm slowly but surely working on, Blazoner Narazen, also uses machine-synthesized voices — albeit using Retrieval-based Voice Conversion rather than text-to-speech, to give me full control over the intonation and meter of the acting. But ultimately I have to acknowledge that Magic Heart's use of Microsoft Sam is for similar reasons as BlaNara's use of RVC: the only meaningful difference is 20 years of technological advancement.

    Camden once said something like, "In the future people will use GenAI to make fanime and it will be indistinguishable from the original thing" — which I thought was honestly pretty disrespectful to the medium. Fanime is to me something defined by its "spirit" first and foremost: the spirit of making things for the sake of making things, even if the end result is poorly drawn, poorly acted, and poorly written, or otherwise "cringeworthy". Offloading that to generative AI just defeats the purpose! The point is not that fanime is an anime-inspired animation created (or in the case of GenAI "created") by an anime fan: the point of fanime is in the creative process, in the drawings that through their flaws show how they were made, you know? So the uses of machine learning technologies that are acceptable in fanime in my view are those that adhere to this Fanime Spirit™.

    But that's enough of that tangent.

    It was good to return NEW GAME!!. We'll presumably finish it on Sunday, after which we'll have to choose something else to watch together. It was also fun to show ol' Aeroo Chitanda various songs I liked, and she also showed me a song she liked in turn, Bao The Whale's "Final Bow", a Vtuber song that vaguely reminded me of Eir Aoi's "Sirius" from Kill la Kill. I think she might've also shown me another song in the intermissions but I didn't make note of it, alas.

    Cardcaptor Sakura remains a favorite of mine, but Garg's wapas were my first time seeing the movies. A good time was had by all.

    Magic Knight Rayearth is another CLAMP anime. I've tuned in for the first eight episodes but frankly they haven't impressed me nearly as much as Cardcaptor. Part of that is probably just because it's hard for me to follow along on the chat and the subtitles at the same time, especially when I'm tired and distracted by [gestures broadly at the absolute state of things]. Following along on the subtitles is a much smaller issue when the thing being shown is an anime I've already seen before.

    Apropos anime I've already seen before, Gurren Lagann: It fucked way harder than when I watched it for the first time yeeeaaars ago, but the movie was disappointing.

    Courage the Cowardly Dog is another old cartoon I'd wanted to get a taste of just to familiarize myself with others' nostalgia. I was surprised that the dog talked, I kinda thought the dog only whimpered. Frankly, I think it would've been better if the dog only whimpered.

    Archer and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt are interesting because they're both kinda gross and vulgar for the sake of it, but I didn't care for the former but look forward to the latter every week. I first tried Panty & Stocking yeeeaaars ago and basically rejected it because of the grossness and vulgarity, but this time around I've responded to it much better. Is the social aspect part of my enjoyment? Probably, but that raises the question of why I didn't care for Archer.

  • There was a panel in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle that made me say "goddammit" because it really looked like the Twin Towers, but you already knew that.

    I know many people don't like The Catcher In The Rye because the protagonist is a bit of a dick, but I've really been enjoying it, and I'm glad to be reading it with my own two eyes.

    All in all Angelic Layer was pretty eh, not to say that I regret watching it to the end, and maybe I'll find more appreciation for it later on — it was just kinda unsatisfying. But at least the main character is cute.

    My mom didn't want to watch Tesagure! Bukatsumono entirely because the fansubs (the only subs) are too hard to follow. It's a pretty mid series overall, but I still appreciate it for what it is and represents: it's a very ad libbed series using cheap 3D (MikuMikuDance) animation, being Yaoyorozu's main thing before Kemono Friends. Another good thing about Tesabu is that the episodes are only 11 minutes long, which happens to be around the amount of time I take to eat a meal.

    There was a really fun one-off ojou character in one of the Tokyo Mew Mew episodes I watched recently, Saionji Kanna in episode 32. Shame that she is only a one-time character.

    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. I always like to watch anime in Norwegian when I can, so 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. Some more of the Norwegian dub is on the Internet Archive, too.

    My own relationship to Pokémon is this: 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? I also had a Pokédex on my 3DS, and I had a few toys and maybe even trading cards to boot, but I didn't really watch the cartoons nor know much about the lore. I think I caught part of one of the movies at a classmate's birthday party and that's basically it, and even that is a very hazy memory. I also remember I did a pen and paper trace of Ash Ketchum once, apparently because I'd just turned his age and was thinking "I'm a big kid now! Big enough to go out on adventures, if Ash is any indication!"

    But anyways, yeah. Far from being in the Great Red Spot of the Pokémon craze, I was more orbiting around it at a Europa distance, to put it that way. So when I saw you were watching Pokémon for nostalgia and immersion that it was as good a time as any to expose myself to something popular that I sort of missed out on as a kid. The quality of the Norwegian dub is naturally questionable, but I of course respect the work that was put into it nonetheless; I already shared the details with you privately at the time.

    I think I was especially fond of the antics of Jessie and James — which figures, they're the adult characters. Overall, though, Pokémon is probably best as a nostalgia watch rather than a first-time watch when you're a grown adult.

    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.

    My mom and I are getting very close to the end of Steins;Gate. We're also seven episodes from the end of the first season of Ojamajo Doremi and five from the end of Serial Experiments Lain. Whether we'll continue the extremely long Ojamajo after finishing the 51-episode first season remains to be seen.

    Lupin III Part 2 is always a good time. The episode we watched this month was "The Island of Dr. Derange", in which Lupin, Fujiko and Jigen are put on auction, and are bought by Dr. Derange and put on a desert island with killer cyborgs.

    Ranma ½ (reboot) is a a very cute show with a very good dub. I like how Ranma and Akane's relationship is developing. There will probably be a season 3, and I look forward to it when it comes out. I already mentioned in a previous thread that SungWon Cho plays Mousse in the dub. Shampoo's voice also stands out to me because of the Chinese accent: 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. Shampoo in the English dub of '80s Ranma was voiced by Cathy Weseluck, apparently.

    The Squid Girl OVA has been as fun as the main series de geso. It's only three episodes, though, and we've already seen the first two de geso! Ah, cruel fate, that we have almost run out of Squid Girl animated content de geso…

    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. I've already seen the first two episodes of Kodocha by myself, but that was years ago, so I don't mind rewatching it. Kodocha is really a bit of a legend among shôjo anime, and many anime fans my age grew up with it, so I look forward to continuing it. Funny Moments™ clip compilations make it seem like a very good time, too.

  • Thanks for the correction.

  • Alright sooooooo……… I started writing a comment, only for it to hit the fucking max comment length and the UI literally wouldn't let me type any more. That was a bit embarrassing. I try to provide some commentary about whatever I'm watching or reading, but if I hit the max comment length it's maybe a sign that I need to stop yapping so much. 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.

    Reading

    • Finished vol 1 of Kemono Friends à la Carte and vol 1 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
    • Read individual chapters from vol 1 of The Daily Lives of High School Boys and vol 1 of Neon Genesis Evangelion
    • Read individual chapters from vol 6 of The Demon Girl Next Door (skipped vols 1~5; reading with mom)

    But lately I've been more interested in reading "proper" books, namely J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment. I've read the first three chapters of the latter and read the first eight chapters of the former. I'd previously listened to those eight chapters of TCITR in audiobook form, but that audiobook was removed from YouTube, and after a while I decided I should just read TCITR with my own two eyes from the beginning. And so I've done that. It's a very good book, I recommend it.

    Watching alone

    • Started Angelic Layer back up and finished it.
    • Continuing Tokyo Mew Mew and Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • No progress on Maison Ikkoku
    • Started Tesagure! Bukatsumono back up after mom confirmed she didn't want to watch it with me

    And I saw episode 15 of Pokémon dubbed in Norwegian; I have seen very little of the Pokémon anime before this point, but figured it was good to acquaint myself more with something that's nostalgic for many people.

    Watching with me mum

    • Continuing Ojamajo Doremi, Serial Experiments Lain, Sailor Moon R, and Steins;Gate
    • Saw an episode of Lupin III Part 2
    • Finished season 2 of the Ranma ½ reboot
    • Started the three-episode Squid Girl OVA and the English dub of Kodocha (which I already saw two episodes of years ago, but I don't mind rewatching them)

    The live action show Furuhata Ninzaburô is copaganda but it fucks, I almost want to call it better than Columbo. I've been watching Furuhata with my mom for a good while (and on Blorp before that) but apparently I've never mentioned it here in these threads before, just because it isn't animated.

    Own Blorps

    • The Owl House (up to S1E17)
    • My Little Pony: Pony Life (just the first three episodes)
    • My Little Pony Tales (just the first three episodes)
    • My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
    • Equestria Girls: Better Together (finished except for the choose your own ending shorts, which I decided to skip)
    • My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas
    • Trigger Happy Horses (YouTube animator Viva Reverie's pony OCs in a Danganronpa parody over who killed Santa Claus)
    • Fireman Sam (up to S4E3; dead air material)
    • SHINE and Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors (fanime; I'll be continuing the latter this Wednesday)

    And I saw a few more episodes of NEW GAME!! season 2 as a one-on-one watch party with @AernaLingus@hexbear.net the other day, for the first time since January.

    This coming Saturday I'll be showing My Little Pony: A New Generation, which will be interesting to revisit.

    Others' Blorps

    • Garg finished showing Cardcaptor Sakura and its movies, and has skipped the three Cardcaptor omakés to show Magic Knight Rayearth instead
    • Stalin finished showing Gurren Lagann and its movies; I loved the show's finale and tuned in for the first movie, but it was disappointingly basically just a clip show so I didn't tune in for the second movie
    • Stalin has started showing Berserk, which I tuned in for the first episode of but decided wasn't something I wanted to stay up for
    • Garg has been showing Courage the Cowardly Dog and Archer, but I wasn't too impressed with either of them
    • Garg has also been showing Simpsons shorts and Batman: The Animated Series, which I've caught in bits and pieces but don't necessarily stay up for.
    • Redcuban1959 has subtitled some Cuban sci-fi animated short films called Yeyin, which were nice to see
    • Carcharodonna has been showing Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and it's way better than I thought it was when I first tried it many years ago
  • Another note: {万岁|wànsuì} (trad. 萬歲) literally means "ten thousand years" or "myriad years" and is equivalent to Japanese {万歳|ばんざい} banzai and Korean 만세 manse. It was historically reserved for the emperor, which gives extra significance to its usage by the PRC.

  • I could make out just enough to recognize that it says

    {共产|gòngchǎn}{主义|zhǔyì}{万岁|wànsuì} — long live communism

    {世界|shìjiè}{人民|rénmín}{大团结|dàtuánjié}{万岁|wànsuì} — long live the great unity of the peoples of the world [note: one of the placards on the walls of the Tiananmen]

  • Oh, that's an interesting tidbit. Extremely vaguely reminds me — just in terms of being a neat bit of character design that goes over most viewers' heads — of how the ahoge/cowlick on the main Red Blood Cell in Cells At Work is theorized by some fans to actually represent the shape of a sickle cell. So, the cowlick/ahoge already commonly used in anime character design to signal an easily lost klutz, in the case of Red Blood Cell also carries the double meaning that the reason why she is such an easily lost klutz is because she is in fact a sickle cell.

  • This is a classic, gotta love it.

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    :motherfuck-amerika:

  • Absolutely.

  • LOL

  • Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19. It is a silvery white metal that is soft enough to easily cut with a knife.[10] Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to form flaky white potassium peroxide in only seconds of exposure. It was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from which its name derives. In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals, all of which have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge (which combines with anions to form salts). In nature, potassium occurs only in ionic salts. Elemental potassium reacts vigorously with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite hydrogen emitted in the reaction, and burning with a lilac-colored flame. It is found dissolved in seawater (which is 0.04% potassium by weight),[11][12] and occurs in many minerals such as orthoclase, a common constituent of granites and other igneous rocks.[13]

  • Hahah, imagine if it was. People are all saying it was a grenade and then it ends up just being a firework. That'd be something.

  • news @hexbear.net

    BBC: Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c5yjegg892lo
  • Phugginnnnn Carnaticization or something?

  • I could find a decent number of attestations of australsk to mean Australian English and britisk to mean British English in major news publications, but I found no attestations for kanadisk, ny/newzealandsk, or sørafrikansk to refer to Canadian, New Zealand, and South African English respectively. So it seems to be very case-by-case, maybe related to the prominence of Quebecois French, Maori, and Afrikaans in those countries? And irsk already refers to the Irish language, so that doesn't work; indisk refers to any language of India but English; and I don't think I'll get any relevant results for anything else.

    In my own experience, amerikansk in the sense of American English is far more common than australsk and britisk in the senses of those varieties of English. Indeed, amerikansk is the only one of these three words where "variety of English" is listed in NAOB as a sense. "Snakker britisk" -engelsk -reddit got 616 Google results; "Snakker australsk" -engelsk -reddit got 62 results; and "snakker amerikansk" -engelsk -reddit got 1,030 results, for whatever that's worth.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Last night I dreamed about a short-lived country in the early '90s called the United Autistic Socialist Arab Republic of Yemen, Egypt and Northern Cyprus (UASAR, 1990-1993)

  • music @hexbear.net

    Forum - "Ostrovok" ("Islet") | Soviet synthpop banger from 1985, translation in post body

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    Catcher Rye Champloo

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Guess the country/continent/colony/polity by its name in my conlang: names beginning with B

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Guess the country/continent/colony/polity by its name in my conlang: names beginning with A

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    Giddy up! We're watching My Little Pony Tales E13 + Owl House S1E912 on Blorptube @ 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    A parallel dimension where everything's the same except the Kingdom of Clow has been inexplicably replaced with Pine Ridge, call that Siouxbasa Reservation Chronicle

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    TV☆3SIS presents Nigerien musical drama "Rain the Color of Blue with A Little Red In It" (2015), starring the "Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara" Mdou Moctar as himself, on Blorptube @ 12 AM CET / 6 PM EST

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    Last night I dreamed that Crime and Punishment was originally a Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction

  • music @hexbear.net

    Vitas - "Opera #2" | if you can't handle me at my blblblblblblblahaha you don't deserve me at my ooooooooooAAAAAooooAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaAAaAaAAAaAaAA-A-OH-OHHHHHHHH-OH

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    Giddy up! We're watching My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) + Owl House S1E7+8 on Blorptube @ 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST

  • languagelearning @hexbear.net

    Wikipedia Language Redirector browser script by Edie and Enjoyer_of_Games, to force you to read Wikipedia in your target language

  • music @hexbear.net

    Vasily Kuduxty - "Čysangom" ("Ksani Ravine") | Ossetian folk pop song about a ravine that forms part of the Georgia–South Ossetia border

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Technology I Wish Existed, part 3: Wikipedia Language Redirector browser extension

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    TV☆3SIS presents the Soviet-Romanian-French musical "Rock'n'Roll Wolf" (1976) on Blorptube @ midnight CET / 6 PM EST

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    Giddy up! My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Better Together season 2 + Owl House S1E4~6 on Blorptube @ 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST

  • chat @hexbear.net

    Last night I dreamed that due to Marchetti's constant and the development of an ultra-high-speed vactrain network in Europe, the city of Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenetsia, Siberia…