Idk, I think Frieren isn’t about the action, and all the stuff about elves and maturing, and what is really important etc is a breath of fresh air to me. And has just been interesting and different to me.

I think maybe Lina Inverse from Slayers. But picking a favorite is hard.

OMG I can’t wait. This was amazing.

I watched the first episode of Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, and then kind of had a blog post that trashed it for whitewashing slavery took my enjoyment out of it. But now the second season is also highly rated - I wonder if I should go back and watch it?

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen - the top MAL comment kind of strikes me as likely: “This anime is a cheap copy of My Next Life as a Villainess.” If you’re watching this, what makes this worth watching if I’ve already seen that?

Also, is MAL just overly negative in their ratings?

Yea, I guess I’ve outgrown Bleach or something - I sort of like the first part of TYBW, but the second part I just haven’t made time to watch. I’m actually more interested in the Vending Machine one lol.

I found the vending machine one to be strangely interesting in a stereotypical kind of way. Kenshin I’ll probably drop, seemed like a direct copy or close enough of the original and live action movies. I liked My Happy Marrige a lot more than I expected and really need to see the next episode to make a determination. I really didn’t like The girl I like forgot her glasses. The production is… something, and not in a good way. And the story isn’t catching me.

I just got on Matrix recently, and in my limited use it seems basically Discord to me? At least if you use Element Web UI I guess.

I’ve never heard of Fosscord - why that vs Matrix?

I’m going to suggest Matrix (or an old school IRC) over Discord at this point. No reason to direct from lemmy back to a closed commercial ecosystem.

I kind of hope not. I loved the original FMA anime, Brotherhood was a DNF due to boredom for me.

This felt like a very similar / the same as the original anime, but more serious I guess? IDK, I really liked the original, but it’s been 20 years since I saw it, so maybe my memory is just wrong. I saw little flashes of the Samurai X OVA in the prologue and the ending.

I’m just not sure I want to re-watch something that I basically know what’s going to happen.

Given megumin was already kind of a wish.com version of better characters that’s quite a comment for me.

Not until it solves a problem for less money than existing solutions and faster. Last time I tried it cost 15 dollars to move 30 dollars in etherium, and took 5 minutes or so.

Can you clarify - do you mean hate because it’s paid for marketing and there’s much better products for a similar price,(sort of BIFL maybe?) or hate because the company is anti consumer somehow and there’s a better company or free version?

Like for the first, Kitchen Aid stand mixers. Way overblown because marketing and resting on laurals from 50 years ago when they’re not built like that anymore. Bosch Universal Plus is a much better spend if you want robustness imho.

For the second the obvious is Microsoft, and a community driven Linux as the alternative.

I could go on I suppose.

I think it’s going to depend a lot. I haven’t used paper for anything for decades, and when I was graduating college back in 06 I remember one time I actually forgot how to sign a debit card slip as I just hadn’t written anything by hand for years.

I’m kind of getting back to that - I don’t have to sign slips ordering online or using a card at more and more stores.

For my job, there’s no reason to write something out on paper, but I work in IT so I assume YMMV. Written on paper is actually a significant detriment to me - I can lose it way easier, it often isn’t with me whereas digital text I can sync to different devices seamlessly. It can’t easily be backed up. I can’t copy from it or paste to it.

My sister OTOH works in consulting / planning. She uses like 3+ Monitors so she can see what she’s referencing to then work on a document - but it’s still all digital AFAIK.

So there’s groups of people who paper doesn’t help at all. I think the main use of paper is sticky notes to tell UPS to pick up a package left out, and the shipping labels.

Then I can imagine people who are artists who just like paper (I know someone like that). People like me who might like some books as collectibles / high quality / art in themselves. (Look up Folio Society for examples) People who don’t work all day at a digital device. Older people who find paper and pen easier and faster than getting a device (I’m swapped - it’s a higher cognitive load to go find blank paper and a working pen).

I do think we’ll see general paper use trend downwards like physical letters have since the 1990s. Because it’ll cost more, you’ll need to go out of your way to have it on hand etc.

IDK, I was taking my notes on a laptop for the last year of college in 2006. It was perfectly doable. I was never copying down graphs by hand, or charts. I never did that even back in the 90s in highschool. And if you’re taking a math class you probably (at least in college) will be using tools that are designed for formulas.

Heck, in the time they’re not spending teaching cursive, they could be teaching LaTeX for formulas. It’s no harder to pick up than cursive.

Personally I think copyright has extended into way too many realms that have nothing to do with what most people probably think it’s for, like locking out repairs of tractors and cars. It’s also gotten rid of many sales where instead of ownership of what you buy it’s a restrictive license to use.

I also feel like there’s a lot of social questions as to what we want copyright to do for our society. Even today we tend to think of laws to do something beneficial for some part of society, and argue about who should get what benefits and who might lose out with the laws.

Copyright enables large businesses and creation of content. But unlike from the dawn of modern content business through the late 1990s, today even Disney doesn’t really make money strictly via copyright in the traditional sense of selling copies of content. No, they make money via streaming subscriptions, and theme parks and hotels etc.

Now let’s see what happens if we got rid of copyright. Well, presumably less people would make money selling copies of what they already created. And this presumably would lead to less content, so the argument goes. I actually over the last 15 years have doubted this more and more with youtube, podcasts and streaming which combined with patreon and substack seem to work with rather lesser or free models for people listening. Piracy of content is both easier than ever and yet way more people pay for the various streaming services mostly for convenience and first run access.

But lets grant that some new content isn’t made. So what? From a societal POV we have more content already existing and being made than we can handle. If 50% less netflix movies or YouTube channels existed - would that actually hurt society for entertainment or visual art?

Then there’s the jobs aspect. I still maintain that currently under copyright the companies want to and are outsourcing to much cheaper locations and eventually will fight to just use AI. I don’t think jobs are really saved by copyright.

I also think this method of getting paid is kind of unfair. If you’re anything but a creator you by law get paid for doing the job one time. Mechanic? You get paid for the job. Consultant, you get paid for the hours worked. Teacher? You get paid salary. Why is everyone else limited in what they can do and how they can use their property for one special group of jobs? In some ways it’s worse than that - think of all the surveillance, court cases, and extra charges to pay for “copy protection” to try and artificially limit what people can do. It’s almost like the drug war.

And like the drug war, I don’t think it achieves it’s stated goal on the face of it. You put in place all these restrictions, try to limit new beneficial technology like VCRs, all to possibly make someone pay you later. There’s no guarantee - it’s still legal to just not view the content and so not ever pay for it. And for the VAST majority of people - this is what happens. Buyers don’t know you and don’t want to pay for something they’re not interested in. So you end up providing it for “free” anyway just so someone knows you exist. But 99% ends up being the loss leader.

Today, and for a long time now, there are alternatives that have nothing to do with copyright. You tour and sell tickets. You sell merchandise. You use patreon or ads or kickstarter to fund the release up front. I would argue aside from the absolute biggest names, little would change. And even for the big names, they can sell even more tickets or special access, zoom meet and greets or even just “I bought the official release”.

Who would maybe be hurt are the big companies twisting copyright in ways that really suck, like forcing you to buy a new whatever because it can’t be repaired, or limiting you to expensive and slow dealer fixes. Disney could no longer “lock stuff up in the vault”, which is the opposite of what copyright was supposed to accomplish btw.

All this allows is an economically bad monopoly rent seeking. So I would prefer copyright went away, and we drastically limit patents and locked out patent trolling.

Presumably you could find an instance that allows conspiracy theories, or get together and start one dedicated to that. The subs may not be federated, idk how that works exactly.

I just have no interest in a mage that casts literally one spell a day and passes out completely. It “works” in the main series because there are other characters, but really that joke was played out for me in the first idk 5? Times they did it.

There’s a big issue I recall with cross platform gaming. This is specifically that most PC gamers have a mouse and keyboard, and most console gamers have a controller of some sort. For FPS, the PC gamers would own just because of the input methods - this happened back in the aughts. And I can imagine for some games the opposite would be true. And while consoles I guess could restrict the input for various games, PCs can’t really.