>What games are you playing today?
Haven't been playing games much lately, as I haven't been finding them fun. Instead, Visual Novels, right now Tsui no Sora. Doesn't seem like my cup of tea for the time being. Also morrowind here and there.
>What anime, movies, YouTube channels etcetera are you watching today?
Read most of Little Busters, so I've been watching the anime with an online buddy, because I enjoyed it a lot, wanted to see how it was adapted and share it at the same time. Aside from that, I've watched a bit of Galaxy Express 999, maybe watch more this weekend.
>Have you been listening to any podcasts or music today?
More doujin music. Syrufit's new to me and it's not bad.
>Are you reading any manga or literature?
Reading is hard for my addled mind.
>What're you going to have to eat and drink today?
Had chicken breasts covered in ketchup alongside some whisky, Hibiki in particular.
>What's on your mind right now?
Turbulent times ahead at work. It's beneficial for me that things are getting shaken up, but I may be out of a job if things don't go smoothly. Wouldn't be bad. I have plenty of savings so an excuse to return to NEETing would be welcome. Alternatively, I get promoted and have one less incompetent idiot to irritate me.
>And, in general, how are you feeling?
I feel... not bad. I'm tired but, less gloomy than usual.

>>43485
>Read most of Little Busters, so I've been watching the anime with an online buddy, because I enjoyed it a lot, wanted to see how it was adapted and share it at the same time.
Little Busters' anime isn't the worst visual novel adaption or anything given the absolute enormity of the source material, but I can't say it was worthwhile to watch after reading the novel. Refrain's OP is really good though.

>>43609
Yeah, we've about finished watching it, with 5 episodes left. I have to agree with you, though I still enjoyed it. I also get to share it with my friend that isn't going to read the VN.
It's only to be expected. Little Busters IS a lot to cover after all. Unfair to compare it with something like Kanon's adaptaion.

>What games are you playing today?
Lately I'm playing a lot of Morrowind and also Mahjong. In Morrowind I'm leaning more into the roleplaying aspect of it. It's a lot more fun when you aren't just making an optimized perfect character and you don't get burnt out trying to do EVERYTHING. With Mahjong, it's fun and quick. Actually, it can make me a bit upset too, but whatever.
>What anime, movies, YouTube channels etcetera are you watching today?
Finished watching Aim for the Ace! recently. It was alright. I disliked it at first, but it grew on me. Today I watched another episode of Mushishi. I'm slowly working my way through it. A few times a week I'll watch it on my PS2 before I sleep. Really cozy, and I intend to continue this with other shows after finishing Mushishi.
>Have you been listening to any podcasts or music today?
Listened to some Tengu no Mai today at work. A nice break from all the electronic music I've been listening to lately.
>Are you reading any manga or literature?
Not right now.
>What're you going to have to eat and drink today?
Frozen Pizza and water. It's either that or noodles. Maybe I'll get some booze for the weekend.
>What's on your mind right now?
Thinking about moving out. I live with 7 other people. Too damn many. I can't even make food without getting hassled.
>And, in general, how are you feeling?
Tired, unmotivated. Been working 10 hours a night, 5 or 6 nights a week for 4 months now. This should be the last week for a while, but man... I don't have the energy to do anything actually "productive" outside of work.

>and they SUCK
To make it a bit less of a low quality rant, I'll expand. First, I tried X-Mouse Something Or The Other, but it only reconfigures existing buttons, so you can't emulate anything.

Autohotkey, on paper, allows you to do a lot of things, in practice, the scripts either rely on existence of buttons that are simply not there, or they don't really work. The one that allowed me to actually scroll at all turned out to be useless, because the scroll was completely unpredictable whatever I did to the config. I move my mouse, but it barely scrolls, then suddenly it flings the page as if crazy, all without a pattern. It is unusable for all practical purposes. And besides, it relied on other buttons. There is no software that I could find to emulate the middle button and then use it for scrolling.

The thing must be done on the driver level, the way it's done in X11. Software that tried to fix it by hooking into key presses is all but doomed to be broken. Windows is simply fucking unusable in every meaning of the word. Nothing, absolutely fucking nothing works out of the box, and simplest things that I can do blindfolded in linux just do not exist on Windows and everyone behaves as if it's not a big deal. There is no support for anything. Amusingly, not even AI bots give a heck. I can't quite wrap my head around it, but it seems that linux has better support for some hardware that doesn't even support linux in the first place. They ship their software for windows and mac and mention supporting them, while not mentioning a word about linux and I just end up having a superior experience on linux.

Maybe there is something to tweak in the manufacturer supplied software, but as you can guess I don't have access to it. They only offer so called kensington konnect, and of course the main page about it is some fucking AI slop that my brain cannot even parse, but the duck assistant says
>Kensington Konnect is a software ecosystem designed to enhance productivity and streamline video conferencing experiences by allowing users to customize their webcams and keyboards easily. It simplifies connections and provides features like one-click access to AI tools and personalized settings for a professional video presence.

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>>43651
>Software that tried to fix it by hooking into key presses is all but doomed to be broken
This part is not true. I don't know about windows, but I can tell you for a fact that on macOS you can do it completely from userspace by using quartz events taps to intercept pointer movements and rebroadcasting as a scroll event, and it works seamlessly. So in principle there is no reason it needs to be a driver, if your OS gives you the right primitives to intercept and rebroadcast events.

Now I don't know anything about windows, maybe they don't offer the right APIs to do this performantly. I see [1] which is open source and does it the way I'd expect
>In windows we can capture low level mouse events in User32.dll with SetWindowsHookEx function (WH_MOUSE_LL). We need this to detect back button press and marble movement. For simulating a scrolling wheel we can use mouse_event function (MOUSEEVENTF_WHEEL and MOUSEEVENTF_HWHEEL).


[1] https://www.fewprojects.com/marblescroll-for-logitech-trackman-marble/

>>43652
Yep, press the back button that doesn't exist in Kensington Orbit, then scroll to your heart's content! Also, I am simply not going to write for code for windows.

I don't know about MacOS, but my experience with Windows is mostly frustrating. I think of it as of a web browser. I've got apps that only run on windows, so I use it. But I use the apps, not windows itself. The windows is unusable, but if it opens my app, I don't need to think about windows the same way I don't need to think about the browser. Pretty schizo, yes?

Lately been doing esCapism again. Feeling sort of weird pleasure, because finally my programs code ends up looking almost the way I want it. Though of course you can't judge much based on 200-1000 LoC programs, but it's not like I am competing with anyone or publishing the code anywhere at all.

What I absolutely hate about imageboards is that half of the users are Yankees and the other half are from CIS. I am honestly sick of both. Majority of them are simply fucking inadequate. And those who are adequate are simply not enough to fix the overall impression.

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>>43633
I too am fed up with the scourge of yankees, but I haven't witnessed a significant amount of anons from CIS countries outside of runet, then again, I haven't lurked and peered through most imgboards outside of a select few in a long time...

What I absolutely hate about imageboards is that half of the users are saberfags and the other half are sakurafags. I am honestly sick of both. Majority of them are simply tasteless. And those who have some discernment are simply not enough to fix the overall impression.

>>43639
This is a very cute Tohsaka, thank you.

>>43569
Most of us aren't working in the fields, and I think that is a necessary qualifier for something to be considered serfdom or whatever term you prefer.

https://github.com/tile-anon/tiles
This is a collection of various tile patterns that can be used as desktop backgrounds.

>>43623
Haven't seen this one, these look very nice, especially them being more otaku-centric patterns.
There's also https://github.com/BenjaminHCCarr/PropagandaTiles & https://github.com/wallace-aph/tiles-and-such which have quite a few examples of tiled background images.
Here's a link to a folder of CDE backdrops converted from .PMs to .PNGs so that they could be more easily edited https://files.catbox.moe/uq39a0.7z

>>43623
i love jacob

>>38162
Detecting people of the tribe is my super power. This ability was gifted to me for a reason and it was meant to be shared. Why, not using it to expose the works of the tribesmen would be simply immoral.

>>38168
And what do the subbers and dubbers who do that have in common? Perhaps... strikingly well developed nasal structures?

>>38200
Gen Fukunaga, the founder and president of Funimation, isn't jewish. So you're not even right about that.

For archival reasons, I've been going back over past subs back from when groups such as ddy were more active (and you could usually expect to see alternate subs for seasons). I think my general conclusion is that people have no idea how to evaluate anything

A decent chunk of sub groups just repackaged official subs with minor (but nonetheless positive) edits, and they get worshipped like they're the second coming of christ when the effort involved is about an hour's work. On the other hand you have some subgroups that put in an immense amount of effort with their subs and somehow end up getting pissed on (GG's joshiraku subs are my go-to example. I have no idea what they did to receive so much heat, those aren't low-effort subs considering they included both out-of-band TL notes and inline comments in the ass file). Then you have the groups that decide that "real" translations shouldn't make any reference to japanese terms at all, and so will mercilessly strip off any foreign word (sensei? No that's your "bossman". Yakuza? Nope, "gangster"). [*]


[*] Maybe someday given unbounded time I'll go back and re-edit the translations for my favorite shows. Sabagebu and Flying Witch are good low hanging fruit here, Anime-Koi did a pretty decent job on most of the lines (actually brining it closer to the original JP clause order) but missed on a few others which were worse than the original. And flying-witch had two separate groups (other than the official) make a pass, that'll surely be a fun diff party!

Probably the most annoying thing is that releases don't document the general changes they made, and most people aren't going to bother diffing subs so that's how these cargo cults develop (as an example, the commie subs for Yuyushiki are excessively demonized when as I think I might have written somewhere before they ultimately fixed a few isolated bad word translations, stripped honorifics, and maybe clobbered 1 [honorific-related] joke in total, which while not good is also not the order-of-magnitude fuckup you'd expect from hearing crowd sentiment).

As for localized vs. unlocalized, I think it's a false dichotomy. Unless you're translating poetry in 80% of cases you can usually do a literal translation p

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Neat link on the visual effects that can be achieved with ASS subs: https://www.md-subs.com/blog/creative-fansubbing-techniques-2

(Happy to see Flip Flappers there since it's a show that deserves the attention to typography and styling as an artform). That said my personal feeling is that beyond masking/substitution, the effort for things like karaoke lyrics or other hijinks is a bit wasted. Especially since it seems to be a pattern that the fansubs with most amount of effort put into style seemingly spend little effort on actual translation.

i used to try really hard to become a person i wanted to be. i would spend 8-10 hours a day reading scientific books and solving problems from textbooks. i was alone in that, did not participate in any clubs or competitions. and i was content. then i realized i was too stupid, got burned out. it took me two years roughly to get over it and i vented so much if you took it together you probably would have three good sized volumes. so you'll get over it too. you can wish all you want to meet your own expectations and "overcome troubles", but unfortunately it's just fairytale. if life doesn't want you to have something you won't have it. if life needs to crush you first, it will. so make peace with it and move on or you will be moved. shift your priorities or they will be shifted. you're just going through a stage. the less you oppose the inevitable the less pain you'll have. so as other t-cs said stop consuming it and do something else, or consume differently.

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"Watching/reading everything" is a total fool's errand, and the desire to do so has always mystified me. I know everybody wants to be the OTAKIIIIIIIIIING, but unless you're some kind of animanga savant, you're not going to remember 80% of the shows you've seen anyway.

Like those guys on MAL who make it their mission to watch "every anime ever" (people have been debating where that starts and ends since the dawn of time, and it's safe to say a consensus will never be reached) and end up with like a 3/10 average rating. Really? You've spent thousands of hours - sometimes tens of thousands - watching things you know you won't like and definitely won't ever think about again? For what reason? That's entirely antithetical to the definition of "otaku", in my humble opinion.

...yeah, it's not really viable to keep up with everything now. It hasn't been for a couple years now. I mean, you can do it, but it has to be literally the only thing you do, no imageboards, no fap breaks. no nothin'. Studios have quadrupled their output to keep up with the apparent demand for more fucking stories about an unassuming high-school-age boy in a Dragon Quest setting who's an F-rank shit-kicker but secretly has access to the S-rank skillbook. And you can guarantee AI will exacerbate the problem tenfold. Ara ara.

>>43618
I fear not the man who has watched 10,000 anime once, but I fear the man who has watched one anime 10,000 times

I don't fear the man who seeks to be one with anime, but fear the man who rises his eyebrows at the question and replies
– Watashi wa Ningen Ja Nai

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>>42985
Brilliant, you're amazing. I found the post I was looking for, it's >>/an/37137. As I suspected, my memory was right and I was searching for the right keywords (I knew I had mentioned something about accusative or noun phrase), just that all search engines fail at their basic job and simply don't have it in their index.

>Still under 1GB compressed.
Yeah there was some junk in /mp3/ and /ddl/. Removing that, the uncompressed size is 873M. I highly suspect that excluding those and using better compression like 7z you could get a resulting size of < 150M or so. You could also remove the +50 or +100 version of the thread html since they are redundant.

> I used a very rudimentary method
Out of curiosity, what was this method? I'd think that it would suffice to just rsync over anything ending with the html extension, right? Also are you the same anon who made the >>/navi/3378 thread?

Not exactly a clear/objective request, but does anyone know any moe artists with an aesthetic similar to https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/13824728 ? At least with a theme of physical illness (not guro) and a washed out palette.

>>43529
Their colors aren't muted, but the line work in that reminds me of this artist's
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/482483

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Can somebody find a high-res version of this? I looked everywhere I could think of.

>>43588
to be fair, aren't most of the ads aired during superbowl supposed to be particularly funny and entertaining?
I haven't owned a TV in 20 years and I've been using adblockers on the internet since WebWasher came out in the 90's, but I'd sooner watch the ads that air during Super Bowl than the actual game.

But yeah I'm very much in favor of paternalism in principle, the problem is that the state and most major institutions in the West and particularly the US have already been so thoroughly subverted and corrupted that giving more power to the state would result in negative consequences for the majority of the population. Watch the interview Thomas Massie gave Tucker Carlson if you don't know what I'm talking about.

>>43589
Honestly, I feel like the hype for Super Bowl ads has come and gone. For the past decade or so, they've hardly been different than what's shown during daytime TV on a normal day. Non-football fans are watching for the halftime show nowadays, not the ads.

>>43588
Yes superbowl.
> during superbowl supposed to be particularly funny and entertaining
Good/effective ads are "supposed" to appear funny and entertaining. Just like propaganda, it's well known that it's more effective when it's subtle and appears organic. If you're a company making an ad, you obviously want it to be memorable. By that standard superbowl ads aren't actually very good, maybe they have high production value but they don't stick around in the collective conscious for very long afterwards. Comparatively, something like the "geico gecko" to give an example [if you are in the US] clearly has more staying power in the collective mind.

I don't really watch tv but my casual suspicion is that today most ads on tv aren't very well done, just because advertisers know that the people who most strongly influence group opinion today and shape the "hivemind" don't watch tv either so they don't spend too much effort on it (that is to say, young people as a whole don't watch tv, rather they just stream stuff). I'd wager that instead most effort has shifted to influencing social media. And that's something that adblock cannot prevent, so it's also a double-win. How many so-called "memes" were deliberate shaped by advertisers. To give an example, something like the "tide pod eating scare", probably was whipped up from a non-event of one stupid person doing something stupid into a whole "fake challenge" drama by some advertisers.

Anyway most of the above is probably obvious, but GP's post focused a lot on visual advertisements whereas the true advertising with the goal of ingraining into the culture is more subtle. I don't think you need a lot of money to do it effectively, people create memes "for free" after all, but you do need a good intuitive grasp of psychology. The people most successful in advertising probably have the best grasp of how people actually behave.

>thoroughly subverted and corrupted
Oh I didn't mean to imply othe

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>>43575
i love this pic it's just so perfect

I do not look forward to silicon valley startups trying to capitalize on otaku culture

https://a16z.com/anime-is-eating-the-world/

>>42951
I think the visual novel to virtual idol to AI chatbot Pokemon evolution is somewhat misled. Mostly because you play a VN to read a story and meet new characters, but you don't plan on falling in love every time you play a VN. Of course you can fall in love with a VN character, but that's rather a side effect, than the goal, much unlike AI chatbots. Dunno about virtual idols either, but it doesn't seem to fit the bills either, as it's not really interactive in any sense.

>>42951
>horowitz
you can't make this shit up

I slowly got addicted to vtubers. It started watching clips but I never really got into watching streams or anything until I found Beatani. She really cemented my love of vtubers. After she graduated I ended up watching phase connect streams, Pippa at first but I eventually found Tenma and absolutely fell in love with her, especially since she plays a lot of the games I like. Tenma is one of the few vtubers I watch actual full streams of. I got more and more into them over the past few years. Fallenshadow/Shondo being another one. I was a huge fan of her weird asmr/roleplay videos before she became a vtuber. Beatani will always be my Kami-oshi though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGJn1zAacoU

>>42953
That's how I learnt to understand English. And also reading dictionairies (not studying or trying to memorise them).
Formal study on set times drawn out over several years is a horrible way to learn. My understanding of my native language and English was always so far ahead I never bothered to care in school, the teachers and their classes were piss poor anyway. Much of it was just memorising a bunch of words every week, not much grammar or anything. Or watching shitty movies when the teachers didn't want to work. (笑)
I've looked into several languages but the only ones I've tried to actually study have been French and Japanese. French as a forced third language in school, which was mind-numbingly boring. The only thing I learnt was that je ne parle pas français.
Japanese on my own several times in the past, but I always just stopped, in the beginning mostly because of limited resources, later because I get bored. What little I know of Japanese I've picked up through immersion, not studying. I've wanted to learn this language for 20+ years, I need to get going and do more than just listen to it.

>CIA literally calls Japanese the hardest language in the world in the same breath that it claims that terrorists did 9/11; do you really trust glowniggers with all your heart?
lol. The only hard thing is kanji readings. It's a language I know I can get a basic understanding of if I only tried.

An example of your point is how my understanding of English was a rarity among people who had travel dictionary level of understanding at best, and just a generation later it's the prefered language of kids and zoomers who are all fluent with perfect pronounciation (well, "fluent" in "perfect" Internet American). They didn't learn through studying, they learnt by aping what they immerse themselves in all day, what they hear on Youtube/tiktok/netflix, and read on twitter/discord.

Is it feasible at all to get non-negligible amounts of money by translating doujinshi or web novels or whatever and doing Patreon paywall stuff? Would I need to participate in weird Discord cliques?

>>43293
Try translating content and posting them to sites like Mangadex or E-Hentai, imo just having a credit page where you list where to contact you for paid work would do just fine. There's plenty of scanlations I've read where the person translating doesn't have a Discord account.

Why is immersion technique taking so damn long to digest. I'm really into this, there no way I'm gonna learn it through books.

Maybe asking here is a shot in the dark, but does anyone know any good Russian imageboards/textboards or forums? I learned some Russian but I haven't had the opportunity to really put the language to use yet, and I've heard that the grass is greener on the other side, so...

>>43541
>pic related
Die.

>>43541
I just lurk on ычан and also just the анимублядсках threads on харкач/a/ and /media/ (the mp4/webum ones).
Доброчан was alright too, but it died-ed-ed, but maybe whatever bunker they found themselves in is alright too, haven't checked.

>pic related
pic related

>>42399
A year later and T-C is still the only 'social' site, let alone imageboard, I occasionally check. The internet sure fucking sucks now.