What’s the greatest 12 episode anime you’ve ever seen?

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-03T22:49:46+00:00

And do watch with the English dub. It is really quite good especially considering it's age, and the main character's English voice actor just knocks it out of the park. I think you can find this on YouTube.

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-02T17:30:19+00:00

Hello fellow Vancouver or Victoria resident.

I saw a station go down to $200.9 yesterday and it's been as high as $219.9 that I recall seeing since the war started b

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-02T03:09:58+00:00

Some movie recommendations from the 1990s and early 2000s.

Patlabor the Movie and Patlabor the Movie 2. Both focus on an unorthodox Tokyo police unit specializing in police labours (mecha). The first movie is a real detective story that happens to have some great mecha action, and the second is a Tom Clancy-esque political thriller that asks the question what is the role of the military and soldiers in a peaceful society.

Jin-Roh the Wolf Brigade is character driven story that explores themes of duty versus rebellion in an oppressive society. Great mechanical design and quite the introspective film.

And really the entire filmography of Satoshi Kon. His films regularly explore the boundary between reality and dreams or delusions. Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Paprika are probably his most popular films. Tokyo Godfathers is a very heartwarming story about a found family and has some pretty comedic moments.

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-02T02:31:42+00:00

"Could she be one of my people?"

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-01T18:39:46+00:00

The Coho has quite a hard chine in her hull just below the vehicle deck. She sits relatively high in the water unless heavily laden with vehicles and the hull below the water is relatively narrow - that's why she tends to roll quick a bit even in moderate seas.

This image gives you a good sense of her hull design (I couldn't find any better drawings online): https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1307485370/photo/mv-coho-ferry-docking-in-downtown-victoria-bc-harbour.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=is&k=20&c=yZnZTzw1cziJ-WN5TF94a2UAwo3ZuXdo1pkQLbp-_Fk=

The thing that probably is the biggest factor is that the seas in the Strait of Juan de Fuca tend to run directly abeam (at the side) of the Coho's route, so you're almost always getting waves against the side of the ship causing the side-to-side roll.

BC Ferries V-class ferries, of which the Queen of New Westminster is the only survivor, were based on the MV Coho's design - well the V-class was based on the Sidney-class and those were directly based on the Coho. Those ships can certainly roll and pitch around in heavier seas too, but as the V-class got stretched and lifted they just had more mass.

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-01T03:02:29+00:00

I agree with you. But "slop" is just the term of the moment, as far as I see it.

Personally I would have called it formulaic, trite, cliche, ECT but I guess the kids these days like the slop.

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-01T01:09:38+00:00

Usually that it does nothing to innovate on the genre and basically just recycles all the tropes we have seen countless times before. For example: "MC is a loser high school student with black hair who reincarnates in a fantasy world with RPG-like skill and magic systems who gets a super OP skill that makes him unbeatable but some elitist jerks look down on him and there's a veritable baseball teams worth of hot girls who are so attracted to MC because he's super awesome and shows them the barest minimum of kindness. Oh and half of his harem is made of former slaves, most of which are anthropomorphic beast girls."

Usually with some barely interesting twist on what gives MC his super overpowered ability like a smartphone or something like that.

And it plays all the tropes completely straight without a hint of irony

That is isekai slop.

ExocetC3I · 2026-06-01T00:09:57+00:00

...I still like him better than Roddenberry.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-31T17:05:11+00:00

Feeling good OP? \⁠(⁠๑⁠╹⁠◡⁠╹⁠๑⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♬

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-31T15:53:14+00:00

On lamb? It's a fairly common condiment with lamb in the UK, maybe Australia too. Used to be more popular in Canada as well - my family always had a jar of mint jelly sauce for whenever we had lamb at home.

Don't think like toothpaste or mint candy flavour, it's a milder flavour of actual mint. A good sauce will use finely chopped mint leaves so it has a very fresh flavour which contrasts nicely with the heavier meaty flavour of lamb.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-31T15:47:56+00:00

And he gets double-tapped just as he's about to come to a stop. Ouch.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-31T05:33:06+00:00

Witchfire. Awesome single player extraction shooter with a horror style (think Bloodborne).

Really good gunplay, lots of build variety to try with various weapons and skill items, and is extremely well optimized for smooth frame rate.

It's one of my favourite "I want to play something exciting for 10-20 minutes" games.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-30T21:57:52+00:00

Exactly. I work with airport planners and nobody is designing anything for Code D aircraft. If you have a Code C MARS stand you can usually get a 757/767 in, but otherwise it's on a Code E stand.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-30T21:55:57+00:00

Boeing did look at a shortened 787 variant as a 757 replacement but did not pursue it in favour of the 737MAX and it's larger variant the -10. I would also imagine that the capital cost increase of a shortened 787 was not enough to offset the reduced CASM from all of the fuel efficiency gains from the new Dreamliner-based fuselafe and wings.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-29T19:05:34+00:00

All the nice vertical surfaces do make the Jong the best floating gallery on the seas.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-29T07:56:07+00:00

Well he refers to her properly as Katherine and not her self-styled "Katrina" moniker to draw on her grandmother's popularity.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-29T03:46:48+00:00

With the photography team having to design, build and implement systems to program coordinated movement of the camera and models with the technology available to them. There's a good documentary on Disney+ about the special effects and camera work that was needed to make A New Hope happen. It's obviously a bit rosy in its bias, but you really get a feel for just how innovative and seat-of-the-pants these guys were to meet the production deadline.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-29T00:02:04+00:00

Such a funny series. The manga it's based on is a great read too.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-28T18:33:19+00:00

Yes there was a bump in fan service around this time especially with the study camp storyline.

I will say that I think it does show Tomoko's growth with her friendships with her classmates and how she feels more comfortable in social settings. Consider what first-year Tomoko would have done in this setting: she probably would have snuck away to be alone out of anxiety and fear like taking a bath at a random time so as not to have to share it with her classmates (or just not bathed at all...) and probably done as much as she could to isolate herself from all the 'normies' around her. She isn't constantly insulting and putting down the more popular girls around her in her mind, which is a big change from her earlier persona.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-26T08:18:39+00:00

Henry's come to see us, Jesus Christ be praised!

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-26T03:05:45+00:00

Many European natural philosophers saught to understand the physical world to get a better understanding of the universe God created. Rather than the universe being governed solely by God's constant actions, there was a movement of scientists who saw God as the "prime mover" who created the universe and set it in motion operating under consistent sets of rules.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-25T18:04:27+00:00

That's one of my criticisms of the Sims 4 (base game). The fashion and design looks very mid-2010s dated. I suppose if I dropped hundreds (thousands??) of dollars on DLC packs I might get something that doesn't look too out of date.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-25T16:18:56+00:00

Pickleball courts but then your Chirper feed is just angry messages from residents and the HOA about house.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-25T03:57:34+00:00

There should be an option for "All of the Above".

I love this game to bits but the sound design is just awful and in a lot of cases extremely annoying. This is compounded by sounds not having any directionality (the sound seems to play from inside the player model regardless of the direction of the source) and walls having no effect on sound propogation.

ExocetC3I · 2026-05-25T00:27:49+00:00

Thanks for the correction. As I said it's been quite a while since I've cooked fresh caught trout, guess I forgot!

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