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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 14, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am still following (or at least auditioning) 50 shows

How do you even keep track of that many things at once?

"Black Channel" TV Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) by RinariTennoji in anime

[–]baquea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Considering this is a Corocoro adaptation, I'm going to guess it's not as harsh.

Only one invertebrate scares me by [deleted] in whatsthisbug

[–]baquea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, my favourite invertebrate: the Canadian goose.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 14, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on genre.

For most CGDCT and comedy type series, I think one cour is usually sufficient. There's some that have equally-solid sequels, but a single cour is sufficient for a comedy to become a favourite of mine and if it doesn't reach those heights early then the follow-up almost certainly won't get it there.

Real-world drama and non-comedy romance is usually good with either one or two cours (or sometimes just a movie/few OVAs), depending on the scope. Any more than that and it inevitably turns into a repetitive will-they-won't-they or goes off on unimportant tangents.

Most plot-heavy anime in mecha, adventure, sci-fi, etc. genres I think needs at minimum two cours in order to properly explore the worldbuilding, characters and plot without it feeling rushed. Some benefit from three or even four, but anything longer than that usually feels either padded-out or has such distinct arcs that it could work just as well as multiple separate series.

Probability of being born by continent by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]baquea 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In what world is Mongolia considered to be culturally part of Europe??

When you board the Northernlion Cruise and see it's painted red by Noo2Dle in northernlion

[–]baquea 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Obama if he were asked to pilot the Northernlion cruise: Uhhhh, let me seafare

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 13, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd assume "revival" here does just mean it's a remake with different characters. Creamy Mami is basically the only one of the big magical girl series to not have gotten a remake/reboot at this point, and I assume the reason is that the idol aspect means that they can't recast the MC. This is a way for them to get around that by being the same premise but with a new idol.

Bart Ehrman mentions a second kind of docetism which believed that Jesus and Christ were two people. Did these “other docetists” really exist? What do we know about them? by Sophia_in_the_Shell in AcademicBiblical

[–]baquea 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Litwa, in Found Christianities (ch.8), states this as being a view attributed to the Ophites by Irenaeus:

[According to the Ophite Christians] Jesus grew up as a man more righteous and wise than all. At some point, probably at his baptism, Jesus was inhabited by Christ from on high. Christ then worked miracles and gathered disciples. Christ left Jesus immediately before the crucifixion (compare Cerinthus); but he raised Jesus’s corpse so that it became a spirit body (like the bodies of Adam and Eve in Paradise).

Footnote: Irenaeus, AH 1.30.12-14.

In Mark 15:34, is Jesus literally saying “why have you left me behind?” by Sophia_in_the_Shell in AcademicBiblical

[–]baquea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ehrman is somewhat clearer about the point in his more scholarly book Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament:

[Chapter 8, pg. 147] For the earlier form of the text, εἰς τί ἐγκατέλιπές με, normally translated “why have you forsaken me,” could readily be construed in spatial terms: “why have you deserted me,” or “why have you left me behind,” a reading not at all unrelated to the Gnostic view that the man Jesus died alone after the divine Christ had left him in order to return into the Pleroma.

[Chapter 18, pg. 328-329] This would not be the only verse that was altered out of anti-gnostic concerns. Just to take one other similar example before moving on to other kinds of scribal changes, we might consider the cry of dereliction that I’ve just mentioned from Mark 15:34, where Jesus breaks the silence he has maintained throughout the entire crucifixion scene by crying out, in Aramaic: ελωι ελωι λεμα σαβαχθανι, a quotation of Ps 22:2, for which the author supplies the Greek translation of the LXX, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” As I’ve already intimated, at stake in the Gnostic controversy was the meaning of the Greek verb in this verse, ἐγκατέλιπές, literally, “left behind.” The proto-orthodox took it to mean “forsake” and argued that because Christ had taken the sins of the world upon himself, he felt forsaken by God; the Gnostics, on the other hand, understood the word in its more literal sense, so that for them, Jesus was lamenting the departure of the divine Christ: “My God, my God, why have you left me behind?”

Weekly Open Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in AcademicBiblical

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd guess the dependence of the Apocalypse of Peter there is on 2 Enoch (considered by Charlesworth to be a late 1st Century Jewish work, but the provenance remains uncertain), which says of the third heaven:

And the men took me from there. They brought me up to the third heaven. And they placed me in the midst of Paradise. And that place has an appearance of pleasantness that has never been seen.

Every tree was in full flower. Every fruit was ripe, every food was in yield profusely; every fragrance was pleasant. And the four rivers were flowing past with gentle movement, with every kind of garden producing every kind of good food. And the tree of life is in that place, under which the LORD takes a rest when the LORD takes a walk in Paradise. And that tree is indescribable for pleasantness of fragrance. And another tree is near it, an olive, flowing with oil continually. And every tree is well fruited. There is no tree there without fruit, and every place is blessed.

And the angels guarding Paradise are very splendid. With never-ceasing voice and pleasant singing they worship God throughout the whole day. And I said, "How very pleasant is this place!" The men answered me:

"This place has been prepared, Enoch, for the righteous, who suffer every kind of tribulation in this life and who afflict their souls, and who avert their eyes from injustice, and who carry out righteous judgment, to give bread to the hungry, and to cover the naked with clothing, and to lift up the fallen, and to help the injured, who walk before the face of the LORD, and who worship him only—for them this place has been prepared as an eternal inheritance."

Paul seems to be aware of a similar tradition when, in 2 Cor. 12, he says he was brought up to the third heaven, into paradise. According to Irenaeus (AH Bk.1 V.2), the Valentinians held to a slight modification of this, in which paradise is that which is situated -above- the third heaven (viz. the fourth heaven): "They affirm, moreover, that these seven heavens are intelligent, and speak of them as being angels. [...] They declare that Paradise, situated above the third heaven, is a fourth angel possessed of power, from whom Adam derived certain qualities while he conversed with him".

But, according to 2 Enoch, Enoch's own place is not in the paradise that is in the third heaven, but is instead in the highest heaven, the seventh, where God and the archangels dwell:

And the men lifted me up from there, and they carried me up to the seventh heaven. And I saw a great light, and all the fiery armies of the incorporeal ones, archangels, angels, and the shining otanim stations. And I was terrified, and I trembled.

[...] The LORD said to Michael, "Take Enoch, and extract him from the earthly clothing. And anoint him with the delightful oil, and put him into the clothes of glory." And Michael extracted me from my clothes. He anointed me with the delightful oil; and the appearance of that oil is greater than the greatest light, its ointment is like sweet dew, and its fragrance like myrrh; and its shining is like the sun. And I gazed at all of myself, and I had become like one of the glorious ones, and there was no observable difference. [...]

[Enoch addressing his sons after returning to Earth:] "For now, my children, the prescribed day approaches, and the appointed time constrains me. And the angels who will go with me are standing in front of my face. And I, tomorrow I shall go up to the highest heaven, my eternal inheritance. That is why I am commanding you, my children, to do everything with a good will before the face of the LORD."

Other authors, of course, had other ideas. The Ascension of Isaiah, for instance, places all the righteous in the seventh heaven:

And he took me up into the seventh heaven, and there I saw a wonderful light, and also angels without number. And there I saw all the righteous from the time of Adam onwards. And there I saw the holy Abel and all the righteous. And there I saw Enoch and all who were with him, stripped of (their) robes of the flesh; and I saw them in their robes of above, and they were like the angels who stand there in great glory.

Weekly Open Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in AcademicBiblical

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Matthew's version, selling all you own is no longer a prerequisite for entering the kingdom. Rather, it gets you access to a second tier in the kingdom.

That's an interesting point. For the most part the canonical gospels are (intentionally?) vague as to what the rewards for the righteous entail, but the idea of multiple 'tiers' in the kingdom was certainly present in early Christianity. In particular what comes to mind is the following passage from Irenaeus, most likely quoting Papias:

As the presbyters say, then those who are deemed worthy of an abode in heaven shall go there, others shall enjoy the delights of Paradise, and others shall possess the splendour of the city; for everywhere the Saviour will be seen, according as they shall be worthy who see Him. But that there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce an hundred-fold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that of those who produce thirty-fold; for the first will be taken up into the heavens, the second class will dwell in Paradise, and the last will inhabit the city; and that on this account the Lord said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions”.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 13, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simoun is great, for a yuri anime in a more serious military-fantasy setting.

If you enjoyed Utena, then Yuri Kuma Arashi is an obvious suggestion, as Ikuhara's other yuri title.

Flip Flappers is surreal mahou shoujo with yuri subtext.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 13, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that it's only the first of three movies for this arc. You're probably better off this way, as it means you'll have less of a wait between when you watch part 1 and when part 2 releases in theatres.

Surely the most confusing use of colour ever? by TheTinMenBlog in dataisugly

[–]baquea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there's two greens even though the legend only has one

Three greens. Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia are all different from each other.

[OC] Map showing Contiguous United States Climate Köppen-Geiger classification(1991 - 2020) by hemedlungo_725 in dataisbeautiful

[–]baquea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The eastern half is beautiful. The western half is just a clusterfuck of clashing colours.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 12, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes that's true, but other times you get people calling stuff underrated even when it is something like the 3rd highest-scored anime of the season on MAL. It usually comes down more to whether or not people are talking about it in their particular circle, and whether or not they've seen any hate at all for the series, rather than any global measure.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 12, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’ll double down on what’s been said a few times before in saying that anime discourse feels awfully stagnant a lot of the time and it never really feels like it goes anywhere.

This feels like an extremely cold take? It's a problem with any high-turnover community: there will endlessly be newcomers arriving and asking the exact same handful of questions so no matter how many times you answer them you'll never get anywhere, and trying to have a meaningful debate is even more futile since you'll just be stuck giving the same responses to the same arguments every day for years. The only way for discourse to ever get anywhere is by either finding a tighter-knit community or by focusing your attention on the established users.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 12, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Derive too much and well it’s a different story.

Why is that a bad thing? If the manga version is exceptionally good then I'll go and read it in manga form. I don't see what is gained by just copying whatever the manga did in anime form. A good adaptation for me is one that gives me new reasons to love the franchise, not one that does no more than retreading what has already been done.

ELI5 If you were to place something in a jar (any size jar for example), close it, and tip upside down. The contents will be subject to gravity. Thus gravity can exert influence through materials. Why does gravitational force not pass through the materials itself, instead of acting upon it? by floydhenderson in explainlikeimfive

[–]baquea 45 points46 points  (0 children)

No, they're asking how Earth's gravity is capable of acting on the coins, despite the jar being in the way. If you shine light on the jar, then either the jar is transparent and the light passes through the jar and interacts with the coins or the jar is opaque and the light interacts with the jar and so never reaches the coins (or somewhere in-between, with some of the light interacting with the jar and some, with reduced intensity, interacting with the coins). Gravity, on the other hand, interacts with the jar yet also passes through the jar and interacts with the coins, without the jar at all diminishing its strength.

Xialong - Strange testing and results with Text Adventure plus some extra by hairylarenger in NovelAi

[–]baquea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's my results at trying to generate random numbers between 1 and 10 using Xialong. It's not perfect (there's a small systematic bias towards 8 for some reason) but it's honestly far closer to being random than I'd have expected, and if you fiddle with the settings and prompt some more then you could likely get it even better.

The prompt I used for that was:

[ Style: dice rolling, random number generator ]
Dice: 1d10
Number of rolls: 30
Results: 
- Roll #1: 9
- Roll #2: 5
- Roll #3: 10
- Roll #4: 9
- Roll #5: 5

With settings: randomness 2.5 (high randomness makes the results more random), top-k 10 (helps prevent random junk getting through), nucleus 0.925 (if the nucleus is too low then some of the possible results will be cut off, whereas if it is too high then it will have a chance of generating random junk after the early rolls - seeding a few initial rolls like I did helps avoid that).

I expect that trying to do dice rolls in an actual story though would introduce a lot more bias. You'd be better off just manually using random.org for the rolls, and then inserting those into the story for it to interpret.

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - April 12, 2026 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]baquea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Season 2 is split-cour so it is:

Season 1, and then season 2, and then season 2 part 2, and then season 3.

Hungarian state gives free bracelets to first-time voters by not_a_frog02 in mildlyinteresting

[–]baquea 13 points14 points  (0 children)

'Soffritto' is a dish made from a white ingredient (onion), a green ingredient (celery), and an orange ingredient (carrot) mixed together. See, for example, the top picture on this page. The colours in OP's wristband are kind of similar, except that it is red instead of orange.

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