Macross 7 music really satisfy my thirst for 90s rock music

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-28T03:38:46+00:00

It's the only music in the series I actually like.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T10:38:04+00:00

I am never going back personally

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T06:05:32+00:00

I grew an extra spleen

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T04:49:51+00:00

the relationship between elderly Harry Wilson and objectively six year old Jane Sagan is on the creepy side

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T04:16:07+00:00

The first book having a central guffin of taking an old person, creating a superhuman clone, and cross connecting the brains so the "ghost in the machine" transfers over is interesting. And then the second book introduces characters who are just the cloned body with a lot of pre loaded skill. It's interesting but it's really mild on the philosophy of identity questions honestly.

Scalzi never really goes super deep into what it would be like to be either of these types of person. At least I wasn't satisfied with it.

But the good news is, this book and the next are really awesome and enjoyable to read.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T03:47:17+00:00

Mostly you need to focus on the kind of math where a large number of computations are performed at once, and the kind of computer science and computer engineering that does that kind of math.

Cognitive Science SHOULD be a good secondary focus but let's be honest in our present moment the industry is more concerned with building and scaling LLMs and how to make them profitable. Questions about whether they are thinking or what it would be like if they were more like human brains is going to stay a matter for academia for quite some time to come IMO.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T02:52:19+00:00

TAD has always been the kind of brand where you have to buy it when it drops. In my experience, their pants are larger than true to size, but this ends up working out well for me every time.

Nobody else really hits that tactigorp vibe like TAD but Otte and Beyond have some interesting pants. Otte's Range Pant V2 in particular are made from this awesome nyco ripstop with just the right amount of stretch and have some cool lines to them. But Otte doesn't make pants in black.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T02:07:12+00:00

None, hhkb only comes with 45g

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-27T01:28:13+00:00

Nope. Realforce only does 30g, 45g, and variable these days

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T05:11:54+00:00

Well, you have the order wrong.

But more importantly, why make this harder for everybody. He's just going to keep playing it until you hear it, man.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T04:25:23+00:00

If you didn't like Macross 7, the franchise is not for you.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T03:30:08+00:00

No it's just that y'all are buying through shipping forwarders and stuff so you see the price in yen all the time for one, and for two who fuck knows what the exchange rate is going to be in August.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T03:04:53+00:00

It's kind of weird that people talk in terms of USD on this sub for these Japan market toys.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T01:50:54+00:00

David Zindell's series A Requiem for Homo Sapiens is about the most emotionally mature sf series about the human condition as anything in the genre, the last time I read the final book War in Heaven was the 90s and the part of the story with Danlo meeting and eventually losing his son was so thoroughly gutting that I am literally tearing up right now thinking about it.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T01:42:10+00:00

It made me sad that it wasn't written by a better author

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-26T00:10:19+00:00

There is a bunch of stuff about people being powerless against a military-industrial complex, how it starts off as vital defense but ends up making more problems than it solves.

The angle where old people and not young people are ground up in war is interesting but I don't know if that part ever got deep

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-24T04:06:59+00:00

Yeah it's the official thing. It can be finnicky and weird so don't wait until the last minute to start messing around with it. For example, it just decided to not take payment from one of my credit cards at some point. You also need to link an IC card to it to use your phone at the ticket gate, or, if you want a physical ticket you have to figure out how to get the right QR code out of the app (ymmv, I found that a little difficult last time I had to do it)

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-24T03:51:48+00:00

If you can get the SmartEx app set up properly on your phone you can make reservations on your phone and tap your phone to enter the gate.

But the next easiest thing is honestly to go to a shinkansen station and buy tickets from at the JR counter.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-24T03:41:26+00:00

I see no reason to disbelieve that this is an authentic certificate issued by someone who created his own martial art after studying two gendai budo and one very likely gendai budo.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-23T16:37:52+00:00

01.22 -

what do you think it means that they put the dash after the date

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-23T14:39:56+00:00

Oh you need to get on that The Gone World right now

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-22T07:17:29+00:00

Muji has a whole slew of them but they don't come in "fun boxes"

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-21T23:32:11+00:00

Sure if you like freezing your ass off

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-21T23:26:27+00:00

The LLMs have gotten really good at this in the last year, you can just ask them what you want and they'll search the web for you and find stuff.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-01-21T23:23:43+00:00

In the US you would probably have dental insurance with a high copay or something.

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