I didn't know people were opposed to showing Grave of the Fireflies to kids. I always thought it was one of the better war movies to show to kids because there isn't much explicit violence and the main characters are children.
Dink Smallwood is an old fantasy role playing game. It has a small community that makes mods for it. It's really dumb but it's free to play and very short if you have nothing better to do.
edit: Wow! I didn't realize a lot of people here know this game. That's actually cool.
I'm going to continue watching the new Monogatari Off Season this week. I saw the new OP and it's really cute. I feel like Off Season might be one of my favorite seasons in the series. Anyway, it's summer and I spent a lot of time touching grass (and sand!) which was very refreshing and really tiring. I went on three different trips and got sick during one of them so I haven't been very active lately.
Yeah but I think Linux VM is more convenient for me as I don't have to switch back and forth between operating systems. I can have both operating systems in front of me at once.
I can keep the VM running while playing games with my friends on the Windows host.
I kind of like having Linux on a VM in Windows. I only use Linux for things like web browsing or writing papers which a VM can do. For gaming, I prefer Windows to avoid any problems I might encounter (like anticheats).
This gives me a near-ideal set up with access to both Linux and Windows. I just wish my Linux VM can do 120+hz and GPU passthrough.
I mentioned last time how Nadeko changed a lot throughout the series. Now, different faces(phases) of Nadeko materialize thanks to Yotsugi which made me realize that Nadeko changed much more than I had originally thought. We have Current-Nadeko, Meek-Nadeko, Wrath-Nadeko, Flirty-Nadeko, and God Nadeko. That's a lot of Nadekos.
Yotsugi also mentioned Gaen Izuko and Kagenui Yozuru so I wonder if they're going to appear in this season. Gaen is also one of my favorites. Speaking of appearances, Oshino Ougi makes one and seems to be a major character this season. I'll have to remember that Ougi is a boy now.
As usual, this episode is a visual treat. It's much closer to Bakemonogatari (Season 1) than any of the other seasons I think. It really looks like mixed-media artwork compared to the other seasons.
Some screenshots for this episode:
With these screenshots alone, it's hard to convince someone that this is anime. Monogatari Series really stands out because of this and this is why I really love this series.
edit: It's 30 minutes long. It starts with a live action shot of an egg cracking. That's how you know it's good.
It retains a lot of what I love about the Monogatari series. Lengthy dialogue paired with its unique visual style that sets it apart from a lot of anime. It still has that really harsh and bloomy lighting style that creates weird geometry from shadows, the space around the characters are surreal, the style of animation interchanges, and the cuts are quick.
I think the music is a bit different from what we usually had though but a lot of sound effects (like when the characters talk sometimes) are still there.
Nadeko really changed a lot. This shot explains it:
She's my second favorite character in the series so I'm happy we're getting more of her especially since she's the character who had some dramatic changes.
The voice actors are great! We just saw Hayami Saori's performance in Giji Harem and her emotionless monotone voice as Ononoki sets the role apart. Everyone sounds just as they did over a decade ago (especially Hanazawa Kana whose voice is unforgettable!).
We didn't get an opening theme yet but we do have the ED theme with Yoasobi's performance and Hajime Ueda's illustrations of the characters.
I've never read the novels, so I couldn't tell whether the adaption is faithful or not.
A pleasant Sunday morning!
Here's a compilation of some of my favorite shots (in a spoiler tag so it doesn't take up the entire page):
Nadeko's room is different than it was before. Now she has large shelves of manga and her bed blocks the entrance door.
This one was really well done! It shows the passage of time in an animated comic book frame.
I remember this setting when Hitagi pushes Koyomi over and uses the Eye of Horus to count the number of girls Koyomi hung out with that day (including Kanbaru's Grandmother). There are also other memorable locations like the park.
Platinum Disco dance:
I love this heat map image. Ononoki is a doll so it would make sense that she's "cold".
I just finished the manga the other day so it's still fresh in my mind. I wasn't expecting Hayami Saori as Nanakura but it was a pleasant surprise. She's played a really wide range of characters so it's fun to see her in a role that does... exactly that.
Okay, for the actual Giji Harem: CUTE! They're both just teasing each other throughout the episode. It's really playful and funny at times. Not much else to say yet since we're only establishing the characters.
This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can’t tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there’s no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here.
0.19.4 provides a way to see uploaded images (although not the best) but this version was only recently released so I can see where the frustration is coming from especially since the CSAM attacks happened nearly a year ago. At the time, I had to make a copy of pictrs, view everything on a file manager, and manually remove those images. People can still upload images without anyone seeing it however.
It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with.
This was fixed in 0.19.3 (released 7 months ago) where you can disable image "caching". This has solved storage costs for us together with pictrs' image processing.
plug in an expensive AI image checker to scan for illegal imagery
It's unfortunate that we need this. Not everybody has the resources to run fedisafety nor does everyone live in USA where they can use Cloudflare's CSAM scanner. I think a good way to deal with the issue is to have images that are not public, not be stored (or have no private images at all). This way images can be easily reported.
Overall, I understand the frustration and to some degree I also feel the same but I also limit my expectations considering the nature of the project.
Yeah, that seems to be a good point. Maybe kids around the age of Seita would understand it better.