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31338 No. 31338 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
i can download anime faster than i can watch it, several times faster. the standard 1080 episode comes through in just a few minutes.
what good is the excess capacity doing for me?
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>> No. 41953 [Edit]
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>>31338
tis better than streaming...
>> No. 41982 [Edit]
>>32202
>>41953
Arr... my hearties. Let's sail the bodacious sea.
>> No. 41991 [Edit]
>>31338
It's very good to be able to download as much as I want with fast speeds. I remember circa 2010 - 2016 I was still getting 300kbs maximum on my internet, it was very rough.
Nowadays I get about 12mbs. I'm out of disk space, though.
>> No. 42042 [Edit]
>>41991
Buy some HDDs; storage is cheap now.

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36079 No. 36079 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Love them or hate them, what are your thoughts on hololive and vtubers?
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>> No. 39537 [Edit]
>>39525
>most people would accept that FGO for example is part of the otaku subculture
I hope time travel is possible so that when rokos basilisk is eventually created it will torture the people who tolerated FGO for all eternity.
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>>38885
"Catch You Catch Me!"
https://youtu.be/vpRUiPAApW8
>> No. 40779 [Edit]
>>39527
After reading through the thread, I think this is most in line with how I feel about it. In complete theory I think the format has merits, but in practice it feels less like the best of both worlds (cute anime girls with interactive personalities) and more like the worst of both worlds (nonphysical girls with human personalities). Tacking on the fact that many of the people behind the mask are raking in money from gullible loners, without having any honest connection to any of them, makes it really hard for me to appreciate them. I think there is a realistic future (or an unknown present) where there are vtubers that focus more on building a genuine community but for now I'm inclined to see them as innocently harmful at best and predatory at worst.
>> No. 42041 [Edit]
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Harmless fun but don't get addicted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8f7JNhOwbk

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29143 No. 29143 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
What's yours?
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Motorbikes & coffee are my demons.
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Bicycles are my vice.
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>>29143
Calendars and time-keeping
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Cooking

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41973 No. 41973 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
A thread to discuss methods of archival and the things you have shared, or would like to share with the world.

I consider preservation and sharing equivalent to one another, because creating more copies is the most sure-fire method of preventing something from vanishing. On top of that, bit rot, mold, and all that nasty stuff, is increasingly making a reliance on physical copies downright dangerous.

On that note, I recently ripped an OS-tan desktop pet application from a CD-ROM. The cover has english text, but it's obviously Japanese and the files are from 2004. I suspect the CD is a re-release sold at an American convention, that may or may not be official.
https://archive.org/details/os-tan-desktoppet.-7z
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>>42018
You can buy 1tb SSDs for like $50, and 2tb SSDs for $100. SATA or M.2. So not really. When it comes to HDDs, I'm of the same opinion as Linus Torvalds.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230417004704/https://www.wired.com/2012/10/linus-torvalds-hard-disks/
>'Rotating storage is going the way of the dodo. How do I hate thee, let me count the ways. The latencies of rotational storage are horrendous, and I personally refuse to use a machine that has those nasty platters of spinning rust in them'
>"My primary requirement -- since CPUs are fast enough -- has been that the system be really really quiet, and that it has a good SSD in it. If our cat deigns to jump into my lap while I'm working, the loudest noise in the room should be the purring of the cat, not the computer,"

That was over 10 years ago, and since then, SSDs have gotten far cheaper and more reliable. The standard now is a lifespan of like 700TB of writing. Plus I also can't stand the noise an HDD makes.

Post edited on 9th Dec 2023, 10:44am
>> No. 42020 [Edit]
>>42019
SDDs are worse for archival, they tend to fail more catastrophically. They are also not good for cold/offline backups. SSD endurance / write amplification is generally not an issue though, for a "normal" usage pattern it should last for ~30-40 years. I would not use it as a scratch drive however.
>> No. 42021 [Edit]
>>41992
I just want to support the thread with a visible post.

My "archiving" goes as far as me saving videos that I find myself returning to. If I watch it again and again, I have a little folder of memories.
I've been a regular YouTube user for over a decade now, and there's been so many videos I've gone through phases of loving, but I can't remember them all because I moved on, and then forgot about them, so yeah, keeping a personal archive is something I do, but that's about it.
I save them on Google Drive for now, but I've recently become aware of the fact that Drive, and all Cloud Storage by extension, is actually not a good option for long-term storage. Just because Google will never die, that doesn't mean your files stored on Drive will never die.
>> No. 42022 [Edit]
>>42021
>I save them on Google Drive for now
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/google-calls-drive-data-loss-fixed-locks-forum-threads-saying-otherwise/

The more likely risk with cloud provider is that one day your account will get randomly suspended for mysterious ToS violation. Maybe one of the videos you archived had a slur, and their automated content detection didn't like it. Or maybe the background music in one of your videos was too similar to a famous anthropomorphic mouse song; banned.

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40310 No. 40310 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
any of you went to japan? can you t3ll us what've done? 1ny pics to share?
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>> No. 41981 [Edit]
>>41976
If you don't mind bicycling, there's a rental bicycle service to get around Taipei.
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>>40310
This was from my previous trip to Japan many years ago.

>>41981
It's embarrassing but I don't know how to bike, it does sound nice however.
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>>41984
>They protect the sea by cleaning it of any trash.
Never thought I'd see pro-human propaganda.
>> No. 41987 [Edit]
>>41985
To be fair, the image was intended as a tongue-in-cheek and I had to crop out the other marine species for privacy reasons. It's also more reflective of the local area, the seas around is breathtakingly clean and thus frequented for scuba diving. The region is the real-life inspiration for Amanchu!.

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41935 No. 41935 Locked hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
do we have a discord server

No.
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>> No. 41938 [Edit]
>>41937
Those guys abandoned irc for discord.
>> No. 41980 [Edit]
>>41935
>>41938
Why do you want to use discord?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU
>> No. 41988 [Edit]
discuck is a botnet
>> No. 41999 [Edit]
Fuck discord, faggots who use it deserve to be datamined, spied on and groomed by letter organisations.

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37201 No. 37201 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Growing veg is easy. During spring & summer, got a lot of cherry tomatoes. Now in winter, eating the ones I pickled.
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Rain makes everything grow
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I'm only happy outside in the rain.
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Only gardening I do is a mint plant for tea.
>> No. 41945 [Edit]
>>41930
Mint likes a lot of rain..

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35697 No. 35697 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
I think my enjoyment of things decrease everytime I share it with others (through the internet, only share I can do).
When I was a teen I played any videogame and I could find cool ideas and get some enjoyment from almost everything. And if the game was considered good I was probably going to find it good too or see why it had that consideration. Now as an adult I discovered every game I liked was actually shit. If it was a well known game, it was entry level shit. If it was a cult classic it was hipster overrated shit. If the game had good story, suddenly that story is considered horrid and awful, worse than the cheapest novel. If I felt the combat was great, it's now considered irredeemable and unplayable. The same with anime or movies.
You thought Legend of Galactic Heroes had good writing? It was actually the shittiest ever and also pretentious.
Akira had great animation? It was a forced, overanimated mess, but you didn't know enough to notice.
It's all bad and if you like it you are probably dumb/have no standards. I think the internet it's taking our enjoyment of things, turning us into sour individuals that can't enjoy a thing. And I know it's ultimately our fault, just wanted to reflect about it.
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>> No. 35815 [Edit]
>>35697
Man, fuck the haters. Just like what you like.
Though I like to see what other people think, just to be more self-aware.
>> No. 35816 [Edit]
>>35813
>>35814
>>35815
Fuck me.
>> No. 40752 [Edit]
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>>35697
play whatever you want
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Had wisdom tooth surgery today so using speech to text instead of typing but yeah, it was because of brave and the bold it got me interested in the character in the first place, and after reading or more accurately, watching the top, the fourth wall blue beetle retrospective I think of movie just about Ted Corden booster Gold could actually be pretty good especially since like I said those two seem fun

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32584 No. 32584 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
What do you think about live action adaptations? I'm not talking about about the American ones. We all know they're shit and why they're shit. I mean the ones made in Japan. Who are they made for? What's the market? Does anybody actually like them? Does taking a niche product and making it live action somehow make it more accessible? What do fans of the original think of them? From what i've seen, they take the source material, and make a generic, butchered, soulless version with plenty of "creative liberties". Going further than that, the little regular Japanese television i've seen looks like some of the most innane, dumb shit ever produced. It's bad in a different way from American tv, but it's still horrible.
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Everyone seems to like Netflix's One Piece but I think being live-action actually hurts it..
>> No. 41924 [Edit]
>>41923
Somebody is watching that crap?
>> No. 41925 [Edit]
>>41924
a lot of people seem to genuinely really like it. some anime fans i've seen said that it convinced them to give the One Piece anime a shot, and i've seen some normies give sparkling reviews of it. i haven't seen it, personally, though, it's still really hard for me to imagine it being competently made considering how...animated One Piece is, for lack of a better term.
>>41923
a lot of these american live-action adaptations have been complete failures and wastes of money up until One Piece, so one piece's success makes me afraid that studios are like "oh, we actually CAN make money off of these", and we'll start getting even more of these normie-friendly versions of anime. the existence of live-action anime adaptations doesn't really bother me because i'm afraid they'll be bad, i just ignore things i dislike, but i really don't like the idea of normies getting into anime like this.
...on a totally unrelated note, i remember hearing a rumor(?) that a live action Made in Abyss adaptation was in the works and i hope to god that falls through, because the last thing i need is another wave of people finding out that Made in Abyss exists.
>> No. 41926 [Edit]
>>41925
>i really don't like the idea of normies getting into anime like this
It's not anime though, so I don't see why that would happen. And I really don't know what the point is. NOTHING is improved by the story being live action. It's also insulting on a conceptual level, to the originals' animators and audience. If somebody reads the synopsis and finds it interesting, they can, and should, watch the original.

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36618 No. 36618 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Given that many people here likely have a lot of spare time (and especially with recent circumstances, even those who attended uni or had fulltime jobs are probably in front of a computer as well), what do you spend your days doing? Is most of it spent in front of the screen, flitting between imageboards and anime-watching? Or do you prefer to engange in more physical hobbies?
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>> No. 38607 [Edit]
>>38606
Oh I should mention that I don't read into those to mock them it's just a means of insight for understanding how others view our reality. My post kinda came off like I was being mocking.
>> No. 38821 [Edit]
Me again. Still making coffee and watching YouTube, but I've been playing games more often lately.
Metroid Dread is very good.
>> No. 38822 [Edit]
>>38821
Interactivity is healthier than just consuming.
>> No. 41921 [Edit]
>>36618
9to5 office clerk

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30349 No. 30349 hide watch expand quickreply [Reply] [Edit]
Any fans of the occult here?
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I've messed around with it from time to time but I'm really lazy about it.

Occasionally I'll dip my toes in but I've never quite been able to fully turn off my skepticism which fucks over deeper practice. It's important to have in this stuff, otherwise you end up an unhinged schizophrenic, but at the same time it keeps you from achieving much.

I just slowly lost interest over time after getting frustrated with spotty results but that's what happens when you don't put much effort in.

Currently I'm studying other areas (philosophy, history) before returning.

Post edited on 7th Aug 2017, 4:10pm
>> No. 30395 [Edit]
A bit, but I never really went deeper than reading shitty websites about it. One day I'd like to read something from one those medieval-Renaissance era alchemists such as John Dee, Paracelsus and Mirandola. Blatavsky seems interesting too, as well as Steiner
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Happy HALLOWEEN 2023!
Trick or treat.
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Mariah Carey has escaped her containment chambers; beware!

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