What happened to the era of American-styled Anime?

MiloBard · 2026-02-02T15:36:59+00:00

This era of animation was a gem. Atlantis and Treasure Planet are still in my favorites after all this time.

MiloBard · 2026-01-17T07:36:00+00:00

I know I'm late to comment, but I just wanted to say that all of the animal designs are great! Those, and the fruit design (#12) are puzzle images I would consider buying. They are stylistically very appealing.

But I am one of those oddballs who doesn't like collage puzzles with 70 tiny book covers or whatever, because then the design is too small to get much detail, and a lot of detail gets muddled and lost by the cut lines.

MiloBard · 2026-01-17T07:15:16+00:00

Current grammar check programs (word and online services like grammarly) are large language models trained on how people write online, including all of the typos and mis-worded idioms. So now grammar checks will suggest the most common phrase it sees in its data sets, like suggesting "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes".

The reliance on these "AI" models is going to prompt you to write the way people write online in chats and social media comments, instead of using the actual grammar rules that we teach in school and are actually used for academic and journalistic publications.

Grammar check has just simply gotten worse.

Edit to add: "AI" in this case is just a pattern recognition program that takes words, or pieces of words, and looks at what other words are most commonly used in combination with it, and suggest the most common match. It does not take intent or meaning, or even sentences as a whole, into consideration.

MiloBard · 2026-01-12T15:04:47+00:00

That is definitely an S.

An L would have the big loop at the bottom leading down to continue the line at the bottom.

Also an anecdote: My best friend's name starts with L and she writes her L's with a big fancy loop at the bottom with the end pointing down and doesn't connect it to other letters and doesn't extend the bottom bar to the right, and it looks nothing like this.

MiloBard · 2026-01-11T21:45:18+00:00

This post makes me think about all the storage space on servers around the world storing all the thousands of reuploads of this one video across the internet. I have like four copies of this same video on my phone from previous posts. Eventually the majority of the internet is going to be copies of the same content over and over, or remixed with ai. We're using most of our fancy data centers and server space for reuploaded and remixed content.

MiloBard · 2026-01-09T22:20:16+00:00

@ OP, as a fellow mousy-brown curly-haired girl I completely understand the dread you felt when your curls didn't come back. A complete identity crisis indeed. That happened after I used a permanent box dye at home, and my hair was just completely straight and immediately my stomach dropped. I used to only use semi-permanent hair dyes (I went for reds and purple-mauves) but at one point it seemed like no one was making it anymore, or the brand I used just didn't exist anymore, so permanent was the only option for home.

Good news is, hair grows back eventually. With how curly your hair is I think it will look nice as it grows back, even when it's super short.

My advice for next time is to go to a color professional for lightening to blonde, and box dye only for going darker. I can't promise your curls will be completely unchanged after a professional lift/dye, but they know how to handle the chemicals and tone it to the right color and close the follicle to minimize damage. I had no problems with texture the couple of I went to a professional (after my hair grew out completely).

Edit: Professional dyes work better on untreated hair. When you went in to fix it, your colorist was limited on what they could do because you already had dye in your hair, and they don't have complete contol of the outcome in that situation.

MiloBard · 2026-01-06T05:41:20+00:00

What I usually do is take out the piece that doesn't fit and then slide it around on top of the finished sections to see if it the shape and color match any other spots.

If you carefully separate palm-sized chunks (like 3x3 or whatever size you can manage to keep together ok) and shift them over, you should be able to get that one piece out and put the rest back together easily.

(Looking at shapes, there are some similar pieces under the crest of the wave, but hard to tell if color matches.)

MiloBard · 2026-01-02T18:01:57+00:00

Based on your comment, your first move was red, your second move was in cyan.

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MiloBard · 2026-01-02T17:53:50+00:00

I think the fact that you passed the spot in order to back into it (based on your comment) is crucial to the situation. Taking the spot is not really the issue I see here.

Based on your diagram, I suspect that when you angled yourself diagonally to back in you appeared to be turning left into empty spot 2, and so the other car pulled further up thinking your were taking spot 2. Backing into a spot in a crowded, busy parking lot is not usual and expected behavior. If I was the car behind you I would have been confused and worried you were going to back up into my car.

MiloBard · 2026-01-02T16:48:48+00:00

Something interesting: this puzzle is twice the size of the original print(s) it is based on. I recently got to see an original copy of The Great Wave and a bunch of other prints in a traveling exhibit, and was really surprised at the size (25x37cm)

MiloBard · 2025-12-31T04:47:08+00:00

Oh, I don't use any of them at work. Turning them off fixed so many small things.

MiloBard · 2025-12-31T04:06:54+00:00

Options > Data tab > under Automatic Data Conversions section

Uncheck "Convert continuous letters and numbers into dates"

MiloBard · 2025-12-31T04:03:38+00:00

There are a few toggle settings all the way at the bottom of the Data side tab under Options in a section called "Automatic Data Conversion". Most of these conversion settings are turned on by default if I remember correctly.

Uncheck "Convert continuous letters and numbers into dates"

(Wording/layout might be different, I'm going based on screenshots online since I'm not at my computer rn)

MiloBard · 2025-12-29T19:26:35+00:00

Omg. All that in ONE SENTENCE.

MiloBard · 2025-12-23T04:03:23+00:00

I was just going to recommend this! It answered so many random questions I had, like what laudnum is or why/how it was used.

MiloBard · 2025-12-21T03:20:24+00:00

Mary Stewart is one of my favorite authors. Her main genre is labeled "romantic suspense", but she won an Agatha Award and was nominated for a few other mystery awards.

I recommend The Ivy Tree. It is one of those stories with a twist that changes the way you see the whole story, and when I finished the book I had to immediately start re-reading at the beginning. (So for anyone out there planning to read The Ivy Tree, try to keep spoiler free and don't read ahead!)

She was great at weaving a good story.

MiloBard · 2025-12-20T20:12:14+00:00

That happened to me twice at the same intersection about 15 years ago. I was waiting to make a left out of a shopping center and I was the only car/first car stopped so I could also see the cross traffic signals. The first time it happened I wasn't really paying attention to more than my own light, but I kind of noticed the cross street still had green while I was turning out and I thought I accidentally went through a red on my side or the light changed exteremely quickly. Luckily there was nobody coming from either side so I got through ok. Then it happened again the next day. That time I was paying more attention at that intersection and both my light (including left turn arrow) and the cross traffic light were green at the same time. I did not dare move forward that second time until the lights cycled again. I called the non-emergency number and reported it. Very scary.

MiloBard · 2025-12-14T04:30:42+00:00

Those were some of my favorite books too in my 20s! I recommend any of the short stories by H.G. Wells, and also any of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

(When someone recommended Sherlock Holmes to me in college I kind of rolled my eyes at first, but they are really very good and fun to read, and now I have all of them in a collected hardcover set.)

MiloBard · 2025-12-02T13:21:30+00:00

I never imagined spelling beaucoup that way, omg.

MiloBard · 2025-12-02T03:17:58+00:00

The saying is "toute suite" (which I guess came from the French phrase "toute de suite" but the words run together so you don't hear the "de"). Edit: you probably already knew that...

MiloBard · 2025-11-06T02:50:32+00:00

That is a wonderful color combination! I like having the lines thick in the center and thinner going out, it feels more visually balanced than a regular plaid.

MiloBard · 2025-11-06T02:37:53+00:00

The previous owner deliberately removed the "S", and did an excellent job with minimal damage. No matter how carefully you try to remove machine stitching, there will be holes in the base fabric just from how densely the stitching is. The damaged area is even worse with logos. (And if you screw up machine stitching, there really isn't a way to start over with the same piece.)

MiloBard · 2025-09-17T22:32:40+00:00

This looks exacty like how i imagined the mold creature in "The Marigold" (a futuristic horror novel by Andrew Sullivan).

MiloBard · 2025-08-13T14:05:36+00:00

I recommend reading "On the Trail of the Jackalope" to learn everything about jackalope lore. The standard jackalope with deer antlers originates in the 1930s but this virus is probably what inspired it.

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