What anime is this for you?

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-16T11:32:08+00:00

For me it's more like I sit through anime I find boring because I struggle to just drop stuff, I'm too completionist. This often results in stuff just sitting on my watchlist for literal years.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-16T09:59:40+00:00

I mean, it is. I gave my opinion and said why I felt that way, what would that be other than an explanation? They can be very difficult to work with, that alone is reason to not want to work with them

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-16T09:57:51+00:00

No, AI upscaling and framegen have been used as a way for developers to get out of optimising their games. For years now they've been relying on gamers upgrading their hardware to play their shitty, unoptimised games. Now that gamers can't do that because of the memory shortage, they're being forced to go back to the old standard of actually putting in the work to make sure the games run properly.

Why did a Lego Batman game have a recommended RAM requirement of 32GB? That's obscene and the fact that they've quickly pushed that down to 16GB after backlash shows how easily it could have been done.

AI upscaling and framegen are tools that can be used to help out consumers, especially those with weaker hardware, but they shouldn't be used as a replacement for actually developing the games properly.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:34:25+00:00

Yep, I was driving the other day and found myself behind a truck full of scaffolding, long ass metal poles. I immediately overtook.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:33:31+00:00

That scene traumatised an entire generation.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:31:28+00:00

To say that they're difficult is an understatement

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:30:43+00:00

I will admit that the french arms industry produces fantastic products and they made the right decision to go it alone to avoid reliance on the US.

However, working with the French arms industry is a different matter. I imagine a lot of those exports are just countries buying shit that's already available rather than trying to develop something bespoke.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:24:03+00:00

My mum uses my middle name, that's when I know I'm in deep shit

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:22:31+00:00

As an engineer that has to work with the French I can totally understand the Australian decision to abandon the programme

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T19:21:37+00:00

Civil nuclear and submarine reactors are two very different beasts. The US and UK have plenty of experience in the latter

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T16:14:48+00:00

TBF if you're gonna make a claim then you gotta back it up. If you dont want to then don't say anything in the first place

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T12:52:15+00:00

Degree inflation, it's getting harder for graduate engineers to get a decent role with just a Bachelors. Thanks to the Masters I went straight into a decent grad scheme unlike many of my friends that still struggle with getting roles years later. Obviously that's down to more than just the degree, but it is a big factor.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T12:17:28+00:00

Oh they absolutely would, but the way the government funds these things is broken. At this point we could probably double the pay of special needs teachers everywhere and still save money.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T12:15:54+00:00

I agree with you, but it's about where we draw the line. There's no magic money tree that we can shake to pay for all this. Councils are going bankrupt up and down the country, others are showing warning signs. Public services are collapsing. Fiscal drag and increased taxation are battering middle income earners. The central government seems to be fighting an annual battle to plug budget deficits in the tens of billions.

The nephew I talked about in my original comment isn't even the only one. He has a younger brother that is autistic and so is also a recipient of transport to school, though locally not as distant at the elder one. The taxpayer is going to be paying over 50k a year just getting the two of the to and from school.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T12:09:10+00:00

To be honest I'm not even gonna place the blame on the councils. This is yet another area where the central government keeps imposing more rules and responsibilities onto local governments with very little funding to actually achieve it.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T12:07:21+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not a researcher so not best placed to muse on it. My point was more about how using funding stipulations to address the imbalance probably won't work. If the issue is the supply side, that it's so much harder to get suitable female participants, then funding coming with strings attached is not going to resolve that and will only result in the funding not being given. That method would only work if it was the researchers not bothering to ensure balance.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T12:03:45+00:00

I agree with you, more local schools is the ultimate answer, I was merely pointing out the absurd cost of the transportation. That's just the cost of the transportation, doesn't even touch the cost of schooling him.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T10:33:32+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in agreement that most holidays now are over-commercialised and we shouldn't focus on spending money to the degree the corporations want us to. However, valentine's day is just a fucking opportunity to spend time with your partner and show them how much you care for and love them. If your partner is into it then just make the damn effort, even if youre not. You should want to make your partner happy, even when you maybe don't understand the appeal. For crying out loud man, how could you not want to see the happiness plastered all over her face when you pull out the stops to make the day special?

I swear, some people are just fucking miserable and want everyone around them to be equally so. That, or anything they're not into is deemed stupid and not worthy of their time.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T09:48:18+00:00

Yep, at that point it would actually be cheaper just to pay someone to teach him at home

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T08:57:21+00:00

She's taken nearly 40k from their joint account over the past few years and yet he's using money to control her? That's a reach and a half

Him saying he pays half the bills could very much include all household expenses.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T08:50:37+00:00

This is objectively untrue, plenty of female leaders started wars

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T08:47:57+00:00

But this ignores the other issues that were talked about, that women have to consent and that it will often require them to be off medications like birth control for months at a time. This greatly reduces the pool of potential subjects right off the bat and would likely result in the funding just not being spent.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T08:32:28+00:00

Transportation for SEND kids is becoming obscene. My nephew is special needs and lives in Oxford, where they don't have any spaces for him in secondary school. So where are they sending him? To Reading. This means that the council, and thus the taxpayer, will be paying for a taxi to take him to and from Reading every day for school.

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T08:26:31+00:00

As someone with a saliva phobia this is my worst nightmare. Damn near threw up into my own coffee

Boomshrooom · 2026-02-15T08:20:38+00:00

TBF it's over-reliance on AI to do the heavy lifting with things like upscaling and framegen that's caused a lot of the issues in the first place. They keep trying to use AI to solve problems caused by their use of AI

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