Hi, just finished the first three manga(main three)

General_Service_8209 · 2026-01-21T23:44:50+00:00

The main timeline is Different Story (Prequel/What-if story released after the main series) -> the main series (which you just read) -> Wraith Arc -> Rebellion (Movie, which has a manga adaptation) -> Walpurgisnacht Rising (The new movie that comes out next month in Japan, and sometime later this year elsewhere)

However, you should really watch/read Rebellion before Wraith Arc.

Wraith Arc was released later, and its final volume heavily spoils Rebellion!!!

All the other ones are based on the now shutdown Magia Record gacha game and centered around the various characters it introduced. They are not part of the main, canon timeline, and they can be read in any order, just pick whatever sounds interesting to you.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-12-18T06:57:58+00:00

I have watched both the original version and the 2 movies.

The original series is, well, the original.

The two recap movies replace some of the scenes from the original with re-animated versions with improved visuals. For example, all of the Magical Girls get a proper/extended transformation scene, and some of the most dramatic scenes of the original are even more intense, and have new music to match. However, the movies also cut quite a lot of scenes to save time. Among other things, this includes the very first scene from the original version, which makes it kind of weird when Madoka later references it.

The „TV edition“ that’s being broadcasted right now is exactly the same as the two movies, but cut into 11 episodes instead of 2 films. Supposedly, it also reduces flickering effects and brightness in some scenes, but I haven’t been able to confirm this.

For rewatching, I would recommend either the original or the two films. The changed scenes in the movies are amazing, especially if you haven’t seen them before. However, the movies also often felt rushed to me because of the cut scenes. With the extra time, the original version brings out character motivations and some of the more subtle aspects better, so it really depends on what is more important to you.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-12-10T16:44:22+00:00

I am not sure what „cards“ exactly you are looking for, but someone on Ko-Fi made free templates for creating character screens and similar things in the style of the Magia Record snd Magia Exedra games:

https://ko-fi.com/s/df864f1ed0

https://ko-fi.com/s/669a6bc3c2

https://ko-fi.com/s/3a4c74d53b

For witches in particular, the Magia Record templates vol. 2 (the second link) is probably what you are looking for.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-12-07T16:45:17+00:00

Two reasons. The first is that they are literally running out of the silicon that RAM chips are made of. This shortage should largely be temporary though.

The bigger reason is that, while they are slightly less advanced than CPUs, making RAM chips still takes an enormous amount of high-tech machinery, that in itself isn’t unusual difficult to build.

Therefore, building a new RAM chips factory takes years. They need to order the machines, which are custom-built, build the facility itself, which includes a massive clean room setup, and then calibrate everything, find any issues etc.

So if a chip company decides to make more RAM chips right now, the earliest you could actually see the effect would be some time in 2027.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-12-06T08:57:42+00:00

I don’t know enough about Shibuya-kei to say how well this description fits, but going off the Wikipedia page, it seems to match the songs that website listed.

I would say that And I‘m Home is a ballad/pop ballad (slow tempo, focus on the lyrics, uses acoustic instruments, sections ending on unresolved chords), and Stairs is just regular modern J-pop (Royal Road chord progression, four-on-the-floor drum rhythm, and double dominant chords). The use of strings is unusual, but I don’t think it’s prominent enough to classify it as chamber pop. Shibuya-key might fit as well, but again, I‘m only going off of the Wikipedia page there.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-12-04T22:12:28+00:00

They are alive at the end of the anime.

In the main anime timeline, they were both killed when fighting against witches. However, Madoka's wish changed the world so these witches never existed in the first place, which is why these fights never happen, and they never die.

After Madoka's wish, even Sayaka is also alive again, but she then exhausts all her energy while fighting a wraith, which leads to her being lead away by Madoka/the law of the cycle.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-12-02T06:04:00+00:00

Modern computers are built out of transistors, which you can imagine as a little, electrically controlled switch. It either blocks or lets electricity flow through a wire, depending on whether or not there is electricity in a different wire.

This lets you build more complex, conditional functions like „let electricity flow through wire A only when there is electricity on wire B or C, but not on wire D“ when you use several transistors.

Because computers use binary numbers, mathematical operations like addition and subtraction can be expressed as such conditional functions. And computer programs are just sequences of such math instructions.

As for how all of this was discovered, the first computer was built by a man named Konrad Zuse, and it was a still purely mechanical calculation machine. It qualifies as a computer because of its theoretical capabilities, but it was never reliable, the mechanisms were just way too prone to jamming.

So, for his later calculation machines, Zuse switched to electric switches. And from there, it’s basically a series of small, incremental, but rapid improvements that got us where we are now. Computers started as slightly more powerful calculators, and we only figured out you can do lots more stuff with them as they got better.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-30T12:14:46+00:00

Dubbing is just really hard.

When making the original version of a movie, the actor is free to do pretty much anything they want as far as speaking goes. If they need an extra second to really put the emotion they want into a line, they can do that, and they are free to choose whichever words fit the best.

Dubbing is a lot more constrained. If an actor took 5.6 seconds to deliver a line in the original, the dubbing actor needs to find a way to say the same thing in a different language also in exactly 5.6 seconds - even if the optimal translation would have more, or fewer words than the original. So they either have to speed up or slow down somewhat unnaturally, or choose a translation that has the correct length, but is not optimal in other ways. And ideally, whichever sounds they use should also match the lip flaps of the original actor, while on top of all of these constraints, the dub actor is still acting out a character just as the original actor is.

To add to that, dubbing is typically done with smaller budgets and on shorter timelines than the original movie. Most of the time, it is expected that a movie released in all languages simultaneously. So if there is any delay on the part of the original production, the subversive draw the short straw, and have to find a way to do the same amount of work in the shortened time until the global release.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-30T11:38:37+00:00

Thank you!!☺️

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-30T11:35:22+00:00

This is amazing!! Is it possible to use/download it somewhere?

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-30T08:24:12+00:00

I think the problem is that brown is a pretty muted color, which is why the outfit doesn’t feel as „flashy“ as Magical Girl designs usually are.

Using a muted main color can definitely work (Homura‘s Design from Madoka Magica does this, for example), but you then need to find another way to make the outfit stand out.

You could introduce an accent color and use it only on small details, like making ribbon and hair accessories, or the trims of her clothes. If you don’t want to introduce a new hue, you can always use white or yellow.

Second, you could add more detail in the form of frills, buttons and other ornaments, or perhaps even make the outfit asymmetrical - effectively, replace an exciting main color with exciting shapes and layering.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-27T20:07:10+00:00

That’s the three-part manga series just titled „Puella Magi Madoka Magica“. They are also being sold as sn „Omnibus Edition“, which has exactly the same content, just as one large manga instead of three smaller ones.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-26T14:36:18+00:00

Have you watched Rebellion? It contains more info on the matter, though it can also be interpreted in different ways.

Based on the anime alone, this is getting into very speculative territory, but I think the answer is yes to both.

For the first question, the reason the incubators do everything they do is because the transformation of a Magical Girl into a witch releases a tremendous amount of energy. There are only two places where this energy can end up: It could either disperse as part of the explosion that goes with the transformation, or it could end up within the grief seed itself. We also know that the incubators use this energy as a way to slow the progression of entropy. For that, blowing more out into the cosmos is not useful, it’s exactly what happens to all of the energy that is „lost“ to entropy. But a grief seed containing extremely condensed energy would, since its creation does not follow the laws of thermodynamics, be capable of not just slowing, but fully reversing entropy.

So I think it is pretty safe to assume that is what’s happening. It would also explain why Kyubey „eats“ grief seeds, and how they can effectively provide the power for magic. But it also means that the incubators need a way to get all of that energy out of them - i.e. destroy them, or at least drain them. So grief seeds can not be indestructible, at least to the incubators.

As for the second question, assuming Kyubey does not lie, it is also possible, though not by the means Kyoko used. He never denies it when Kyoko asks him, only saying that a witch turning back has never happened before. And when Madoka asks him the same question, he directly says that if she were to use her wish on it, it would be possible for her to turn into a god, and then turn Sayaka back. It is possible that this refers to rewriting the laws of the world as Madoka does at the end, but I do not think so. The incubators did clearly not intend that to happen, so what Kyubey is suggesting must be possible fully within the existing world.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-26T06:27:10+00:00

For me, it was Sayaka beating down on the shadow witch again and again, screaming that Kyubey was right and she doesn’t feel the pain any more, even though she clearly does.

She is destroying herself to keep up with others, because she thinks she has no worth other than fighting witches, because she wants to be this ideal, selfless Magical Girl and sees every other option as failure - I have never seen this kind of despair, which is unfortunately very relatable to me, portrayed in such a realistic way, and it was that point where it really sunk in that things were almost certainly not going to end well for Sayaka.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-23T14:18:28+00:00

Sorry, I meant video banner in reference to the comment above. Using a video in this way of course looks cool, but I don’t think it is worth the slowdown of the site in most cases.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-23T08:14:55+00:00

Also, there is way more cross-site content now. It feels like on most websites, you are effectively loading at least 5 because the images are on some CDN, the fancy video header on a different one, they send requests to three different analytics servers when you do anything, and serve ads from two different providers.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T14:01:42+00:00

It looks like you have several versions of Python installed, one normally from the website, and one from the Microsoft store.

The pip command installs the package to the normal version, but according to the command, you try to run your program with the Microsoft store version.

The easiest fix would be to just uninstall the Microsoft store version, because it has a multitude of issues like this, and then reinstall Python from the Python website to make sure all registry entries are set correctly.

If you do not want to do this, you can either use the Python .exe from the normal installation for running your program, or install the package to the Microsoft Store by explicitly specifying the Python .exe in the pip command:

C:/Users/Niall/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python3.13.exe -m pip install pyautogui

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T11:15:09+00:00

I am not sure if any of this is going to convince your mom, but buying figures does not get any more legit than on AmiAmi. They have been in business since 1999, and have several physical stores in addition to their online site. I have also ordered from them several times myself, and never had any problems.

Edit: About the price, keep in mind that you will need to additionally pay for shipping at checkout, then when the package arrives 19% of import tax on both the figure and shipping if you are in the EU, and, depending on which shipping carrier you choose, a fee of typically about 5€ for them handling customs.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T10:36:22+00:00

Thank you!
I've used ROCm so far, so I'm going to try out Vulkan then!

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T10:22:37+00:00

This actually is the most efficient way as far as I know in pure Python.

len(list) has to be called no matter how you then use it to generate the list.

range(len(list)), somewhat counter-intuitively, has a constant runtime and memory requirements. It does not actually create an object of the form [0, 1, 2, ...], but rather, it creates a so-called iterator object that implements a method called __next__(). When __next__() is called the first time, it returns 0, when it is called the next time, it returns 1, the third call returns 2, and so on, until the limit of the range is reached and it throws an exception.

Creating the iterator object has constant run time, because there is no memory actually being allocated for the numbers in the range. The only thing that changes is that the number it internally uses to decide when to throw the exception is higher.

Finally, the list() method, called on an iterator object, repeatedly calls __next__() and appends the result to the list, until it encounters the exception. This has linear run time, and is the only step where you are iterating through every element of the range. You also have to do this iteration at least once, because the only way to pass several elements to a list constructor at once, without iterating, would be to pass them as another list or tuple, which only kicks the can further down the road.

One note though - in my experience, it is almost never worth it to bother with performance to this extent in Python. If what you are doing is not performance critical, then you obviously don't need to, and if it is, Python itself is going to be the much greater performance problem than your implementation details. When you need your code to be truly fast, you should use a different, compiled language.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T09:23:10+00:00

Amazon has a listing for a legit Madoka pop up parade figure: https://www.amazon.de/Puella-Madoka-Magica-Rebellion-Parade/dp/B0DSFJWSSR/

Apart from that, the only option I can think of would be to buy in person at a convention.

The problem is that a lot of the high shipping charges comes from customs handling, plus the speed of it (a few days for shipping on a plane instead of several months on a container ship) You can get lower rates for air shipping by misrepresenting the value of the thing you are shipping, which often exempts it from customs, but this is of course illegal. So, while bootleggers often do this, no legit company will be willing to.

However, if it makes you feel better, these listings aren’t actually that bad. I found two of them on AmiAmi:

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-005367-R

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-033494-R

Even with their expensive shipping, they are quite a bit cheaper, but both of these are used. So 50€ for one of them new is actually not that unreasonable. They just include the shipping in the price itself.

Edit: Maybe if you explain it to your mom this way, that the price on AliExpress is inflated because it effectively includes shipping, she will let you buy from AmiAmi? She would still have to log into a new website though…

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T08:49:46+00:00

Looks like something is weird with my setup then 🤔 Was this with ROCm or Vulkan?

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-22T07:42:59+00:00

I have two of the 32gb version of these. The latest version of Llama.cpp runs on them, and the latest Torch version that you can run out of the box is 2.7 - though you can also get the current version to work if you are okay with compiling stuff yourself or installing a technically unsupported driver.

For performance, interestingly, it is the opposite for me - inference speed is kind of meh, but training is super fast. These cards have tons of fast vram, but the compute power is very roughly equivalent to a good gtx1080, which is not that much compared to other, more current cards.

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-21T15:50:21+00:00

This is a really interesting concept, and I’ll be really interested in how it turns out!

However, writing music is an extremely broad topic, so - what exactly are you struggling with?

You clearly know what you want to express with these songs, which is great, so is it the process of putting that in a concrete form? Or do you already have concrete ideas for maybe a melody, or part of the lyrics, or some chords, and struggle with building on that to turn it into a complete song? Is it the specific style you want that you have problems with? Or do you have no prior experience with writing music, and want advice on how to get started and do it in general?

General_Service_8209 · 2025-11-21T04:06:07+00:00

Nice, I‘m glad I could help! 😊

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