I’m so glad we have GN bringing these stories to light.

At least now you know what has been eating you for so long. Like Morpheus said to Neo in the movie The Matrix:

Neo: I can’t go back, can I? Morpheus: No. But if you could, would you really want to?

You can’t unlearn it, it would only hurt you more trying to pretend like nothing has changed. I hope the people in your life will support you through this.

If it’s any consolation, you can still get shades and trench coats, they look pretty cool.

I’m going to guess that it checks once a month to see if the subscription is valid, so even if there is a connection issue, it will still work.

With that said, trusting a company like this to be concerned about your safety and responsible is stupid, because you know there are sociopaths at the head of that company that are even more sociopathic than other companies.

I know a woman who started practicing martial arts in her 60’s… She is 90 years old and 6th Dan in iaido. It’s never too late to start a new hobby.

That’s great news. Hope they all take it to heart and put hard lines on how a studio operates to prevent it from becoming another MAPPA.

While I am a manga reader, and I wasn’t surprised by any of the twists, I am amazed at how well they managed to take this in terms of direction, animation, and everything else. To me this is peak shounen, and we haven’t even reached the best fights yet.

Yup, and I’ve been discovering songs through this manga, which is nice.

I think Bocchi is a good recommendation, especially if the kid has social anxiety themselves. Though since one of the supporting characters is an alcoholic, I think parents should consider the maturity of the child and decide if they think some background explanation is needed.

Nothing wrong with not liking something, maybe it’s just not for you.

My only exposure to Chinese animation is Wolf Smoke Studio. Top tier quality, and I really like their style and everything else.

I am mostly into Jujutsu Kaisen these days, both the current arc in the manga and the anime are just brilliant, and has everything I could ever want from a shounen. Not going to bring up any spoilers, just going to mention how hyped I am at the current manga, I keep rereading chapters 223 to the current one so many times because of how epic it is.

I also like Martial Master Asumi, it’s got really nice MMA stuff and nice grappling.

Of course, One Punch Man is always entertaining, and I keep getting excited every time a new chapter pops up.

This was insane. When they said “Gojo won”, and in the previous chapter they said that Sukuna might have a trump card that he hasn’t revealed yet, so I’m still uneasy about it.

I was worried about the whole Twitter problem, but I guess we are fine now. Poor Mitsuki, I bet she feels strange learning that…

I really hope the fanfiction community migrates in large quantity. On Reddit they are nearly 400k users, so even if 1% of them move to Lemmy, we would have 4k users…

Yes, I get that. I have a few fond memories of old old forums. With that said, Reddit’s ease of discovery for niche communities and my ability to instantly join the discussion without signing up to yet another website is something I will miss.

I stopped caring about the ethics of ad—blocking, I got sick of seeing scams, gambling ads, and shitty mobile games, crappy services that no one actually benefits from, and malware. I have ZERO tolerance for these sorts of ads. If an app has ads, I immediately uninstall it; if a website blocks adblockers, I stop using it.

The type of ads I might be willing to accept would be contextual ads (rather than personalised ones), and they should be individually vetted by either the content creators, or their community. If I visit a Linux forum, stuff like Linode or Tuxedo Computers would be effective, if I visit a Kendo forum, ads for shinai and other kendo supplies make sense, since we are the target audience, and there is no need to violate people’s privacy for this ad model. These ads would need to be non-intrusive, and not take too much space as well, and not over content, and certainly not staying on the screen as I am scrolling.

This is why when watching YouTube videos, I block ads, but I don’t block sponsors.

For the popular communities, yes. For the smaller niche communities it just feels empty and sad. Hope this platform catches on so the “there’s a subreddit for everything” quote could be a thing here too.

Same. FOSS is more trustworthy for privacy as well.

Pixel 6. I got it because I got a good deal on one and I needed a phone quickly. I also wanted a phone from a popular enough model so that I would be able to get parts for repairs.

I won’t even consider buying an iPhone since I can’t install apps that aren’t from Apple’s store, and most of the apps I use are from F-Droid and I generally hate all ads.