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ram @bookwormstory.social 1y ago

The youtube channel would first need to be willing to take Nintendo to court.

ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

The usernames are just domains. Nobody can steal your domain.

ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

If you do, I'd be interested to hear results. Deluge's plugins are nice and it's easy to make your own. If it wasn't for the performance issues, I'd likely still be there.

ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

As an aside, is that a traditionally animated dance scene in a pokemon show? I would not have expected such nice animation coming from pokemon.

Ya, Pokemon XY/XYZ had a whole bunch of really great animation, making great use of both traditional and CG animation. One particular change is that, while in Best Wishes, they used generic backdrops to indicate motion during attacks, like so:

Come XY/XYZ they used fully rendered 3D backdrops during attacks, with complex battle choreography and a consistent, full field of view as the Pokemon navigate the entire arena during attacks,. They also make a lot of use of depth and motion in the action sequences, and even 360 degree shots.

After XYZ, Pokemon Sun and Moon completely changed the art direction to be a much less modeled, restricted one. XY/XYZ was one last big hurrah for the traditional style of Ash Ketchum and Pokemon anime that we all grew up with, and the animators delivered quality in spades. It's by far the best animated of that traditional style.

Also thanks for the note about the footnotes thing. I never use the apps, so didn't know that they don't handle the markdown properly.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

Ya, my only issue with Deluge is after ~500 torrents it starts to slow. I'm on private trackers, so I always tend to have ~2,000 torrents seeding at once. For my particular usecase, it simply becomes too slow and bogged down to be viable.

Granted, I've not used Deluge in some 2 or 3 years; maybe they improved process handling since then? I'd love to be corrected if so.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

IMO, CG's great in backgrounds^{[pokemon xyz: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/179755], and in helping compose a shot by applying to non-human set-pieces}[izetta: the last witch: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/246362]. It can also be good for living things like kaiju and mechs^[ssss gridman: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/239676].

It's generally bad form to apply to humans though unless heavily stylized for it^[high score girl: https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=3EVn5xpw6qo].

An exception to this is a show like Land of the Lustrous in which the people are made of minerals, and thus it makes sense for their bodies to appear more rigid and uncanny. It's also the only reasonable way they could have gotten their hair to be consistently iradescent throughout the entire runtime of the series.^[land of the lustrous: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/40496]

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

uTorrent doesn't play well in the landscape of the modern bittorrent protocol. It's also adware, infringes upon your privacy, and is a malware risk.

qBittorrent is my client of choice, but other popular and great clients are Deluge (only up to ~500 torrents), transmission, and rtorrent (on Linux). There's other clients as well but YMMV, especially if you do any private tracker usage.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

The bot's actually not AI powered, but uses Sumy to algorithmically create a summary.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

What makes you so confident? It's not as though the internet's "fine" right now compared to where it was 20 years ago.

EDIT: I see your entire personality is hating Mozilla, and apparently that means people can't hate Chrome too. Gonna just block this google shill.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

Nobody's stopping you. Just saying it's either ignorant or stupid to, and actively makes the internet a worse place.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

I don’t understand why so many folks aren’t worried about another superpower replacing the US’s slowly waning stranglehold

Can't speak for others, but personally I simply find them both worrying. The Chinese and US states are both foreign powers that wish to track everything I do and use it to control me in the future.

Look at all the fucked up shit the US has done around the world, and that’s with a quasi-democratic government that at least has a modicum of domestic and international accountability

Which US-led, US-backed agencies are you referring to as delivering accountability for the US? The ones they have veto power in too?

Not trying to "both are equally bad". China's output of political violence is ostensibly worse, but you seem to be dismissing the legitimate concern that the source for this is the US regime, whose political interest is for us to point fingers at China as they continue working behind our backs.

We know to be cautious of China, yet any time someone brings up "we should be cautious of the US too", the response is "China's worse", deflecting from the real threat that the US presents globally.

Preferably, I'd like to see all these superpowers overthrown, the states broken up, and a union a la the EU to form with more global pursuits, or the EU itself to expand beyond European borders, while continuing to be genuinely voluntary while also being both politically and economically beneficial for all member-states.

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ram @bookwormstory.social 2y ago

No game project should be AAA. It's anti-creative, as developers must turn their game into something that appeals to the broadest audience, and it's unstable, as companies bet their entire next 3 years of revenue on a single title. I'd much rather everything become B or C-tier developments. The great games that come from this development style simply are not worth it for the damage they do to the medium.