Skip Navigation

Hoimo

@ Hoimo @ani.social

Posts
4
Comments
374
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • 2025-12-09

    Jump

  • Yeah, I think it could work if more attention was drawn to the bear, maybe have the horses all cowering in one corner looking at the bear. I had to read the explanation to even know it is a bear, it's so tucked away.

  • Dead internet theory

    Jump

  • A haiku is a traditional Japanese style of poetry that consists of three lines of specific lengths and uses a seasonal reference to describe a feeling.

    They're popular on the internet because they're perceived as easy to write, being short with few rules. Sadly they don't make a lot of sense in English, because English doesn't really do syllables of uniform length and stress like Japanese has, so the effect is mostly lost.

    When people say "this is a haiku", they mean the syllable counts line up. They're not saying "this is poetry".

  • 06 December 1988

    Jump

  • How does he pay his elves? He doesn't, the North Pole is a feudal system and Santa is its King. The elves pay him for protection (against other elves?) and as long as elf society runs smoothly, they have no reason to revolt. And Santa, aware of the pathological greed that men in his position tend to develop, gives away all overproduction to the children of the world every year, as a reminder to himself and his elves that maintaining a stable society is more important than amassing wealth.

  • Honestly wtf?

    Jump

  • But if it was growing in Europe at that time, wouldn't it be all over the place and be in books in the Middle Ages? Unless the Bronze Agers somehow smoked all of it.

  • [Episode] SANDA - Episode 9 discussion

    Jump

  • I just started Sanda this week and I still have to catch up, but it's already my sleeper hit of the year. What science are they doing at Science Saru to make Dandadan and this back to back?

    I'm just disappointed in the AMZN subtitles and no fansubbers picked this up, so now I'm learning how to use Aegisub. For myself, initially, because it's a bit late to retime the full season at this point.

    Though if I figure out how to do signs and karaoke, it could still be worth doing a batch release for... next Christmas? (If no better groups pick it up before then. I'm just a single amateur with a grudge against badly timed subs.)

  • Immune to Rule

    Jump

  • Help, at one point I was younger than Shinji, but I am older than Misato now. But seriously, 30 is too young to be a cougar right?? She's a young woman, an older sister to Shinji and Asuka.

  • What TV series bungled a great concept that you'd like to see tried again?

    Jump

  • Bebop is very different from Firefly imo. They're both good, but I wouldn't say to watch one over the other. I can't directly compare them like that.

    Bebop is smooth and classy, more focused on music and choreography. Firefly is way more grounded and physical; lots of greebled grimy tools, machinery, carts.

    You can see a similar divide in the themes. Firefly is way more rural, frontier type western. They get rid of small-town despots and help trading outposts under siege, because they're the only help around. Bebop is the end of the wild west: they all have stories about the real west, but that era is over. Cities are growing, the government starts playing a role, outlaws are on the run. The heroes are struggling to let go of the past and find their place in this new world.

    I also want to shout out Outlaw Star, released in the shadow of Bebop. It's not western at all, a bit messier in its theme, but still a lot of fun.

  • What TV series bungled a great concept that you'd like to see tried again?

    Jump

  • Altered Carbon had trouble keeping their premise straight too. When anyone can swap their body, you can't recognize people by sight any more. They used this to the MC's advantage a few times, but you'd think that people in that society would be more aware of the possibility.

    Like they had the subplot with the MC's sister(?) where he spills all his secrets to the person in his sister's body. I'm sure he really needed someone to trust, but at least verify someone's identity before you share life-or-death information!

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

    Jump

  • You could make it single-use tokens and rate limit individual users when they request too many tokens in a short time. Someone could still share their tokens with a friend, but it doesn't scale to where thousands are verifying with some stranger's id.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

    Jump

  • 6 years is post-cave diver. He bought it after Elon went crazy.

  • I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

    Jump

  • Do you then check those historical details against trusted sources? If so, how often do they need correction?

  • Wouldn't want anyone to know

    Jump

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/70xaqa/a_they_live_adblocker_details_in_comments/

    This uses Catblock with a custom image set, but Catblock hasn't been updated in 6 years, so I don't know how well it still works. Anyway, if Catblock won't work, we have to find a blocker that allows for some customization and then fit those "They Live" images in.

    (I'm trying to get Catblock to work, but somehow I can't find any pages that even load ads? I think the pihole is blocking the scripts that would load the ads.)

  • neutral language rule

    Jump

  • I don't quite understand what you mean in that first paragraph. Are you talking about people who justify clearly bad behavior with religion? Or the opposite, people who are uncertain about good behavior because it contradicts their religion? Or both at the same time, people who give up trying to define good and bad and just do whatever, because God will forgive them anyway?

    I worry about being good though, not for spiritual reasons, but because the world is created by the tiny choices we make each day and I worry about making the world worse out of complacency.

  • lawyer

    Jump

  • It's absolutely meant as a compliment!

  • lawyer

    Jump

  • It's interesting how these comics feel highly relevant and at the same time like someone in the early 90s made a webcomic based on cyberpunk novels from the 80s fantasizing about the 00s.

  • How can you tell if music is AI-generated?

    Jump

  • Vocaloids aren't AI, they're digital instruments.

  • How can you tell if music is AI-generated?

    Jump

  • Fuck, I failed the test. I have to wonder if they're full unsupervised generation though, because one of them had a recurring motif that I know an algo would have a hard time to keep track of. None of it was really my genre anyway, but it still got me good.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

    Jump

  • They added an OS check to a website? What's next, checking if your desk is sturdy enough to carry the weight of their javascript?

  • Deleted

    As an asexual girl who still wants a male partner, would “scheduled sex” be a dealbreaker for men?

    Jump

  • Norwegian Man Arrested for Playing Dorei to no Seikatsu

    Jump

  • I wonder how the police even got involved. The article says the NCMEC reported him? But was he streaming the game? Did somebody on Steam or Discord see his game activity and ratted on him to the NCMEC?

    Anyway, I don't see why the National Council for Missing and Exploited Children should concern themselves with drawings of fictional characters. Nor the police, nor the law.