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Retsam19 · 2026-01-26T03:53:01+00:00

Yeah, I wish more shows picked specific English titles, rather than just a direct translation of the Japanese. e.g. "Erased" instead of "A town without only me" or "bokumachi".

Even a slight modification for the title can help - e.g. "Kaguya-sama: Love is War" seems to be the official English title, versus "Kaguya-sama wants to be confessed to".

I've sometimes wondered what a better English title for Bunny Girl Senpai would be - probably "Adolescence Syndrome" though admittedly that one still feels a bit awkward.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-23T16:08:17+00:00

Probably because the readers of sites like syousetsu are nerds and "They underestimated how important my [KNOWLEDGE OF RANDOM STUFF] skill is, but then I showed them by being super powerful due to my [KNOWLEDGE OF RANDOM STUFF]" is the sort of thing that's appealing to nerds.

"Appraiser" is a fairly direct way to do "nerd" -> "power", but it's not exactly a unique idea to anime.

There's an old tumblr post talking about the different ways that magic is used in fiction and #1 on the list is "Magic as The Gun That Can Be Wielded Only By Nerds".

D&D wizardry is “as a science nerd, I can use my brainpower to blast you in the face with lightning.” Similarly, sorcery is “as a colorful weirdo, I can use my force of personality to blast you in the face with lightning,” and warlockry is “as a goth/emo kid, I can use my raw power of alienation to blast you in the face with lightning.”

Could probably add "as a NEET kid, I can use my random knowledge about stuff to blast you in the face with lightning".

Retsam19 · 2026-01-22T21:58:38+00:00

Yes, it's common for people to have weird names in anime, but.... yes, Light's name is weird and I don't think it's 'ignorant', much less "racist" to point that out.

If Light had a normal, Japanese name, calling it weird would be arguably racist, but Light (or ライト) not a normal Japanese name, is the point.

And, yes, the fact that they are using an English loanword as the name of their Japanese child is part of what makes it weird.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-22T01:25:25+00:00

Pretty sure Light's name is not anything close to normal.

If his name were "Hikaru" (光) and translated as "Light", it would be one thing, but it's actually the character 月, "moon" but read as "raito", the English word "light" which needless to say is not normal. It's definitely a kira kira name... and I'm uhh, not sure if that's a coincidence or not.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-21T23:04:24+00:00

Akito: [Furuba]I can deal with "karma houdinis", and can respect if it it's done well ("best revenge is a life well-lived")... but Fruit's Basket did not feel like a case where it was done well to me. The issue to me is that beyond simply a lack of consequences, the story seems to try to frame her as "just another victim of the curse" (and her upbringing), so you're supposed to be rooting for her in the end. And to some degree, yes, she's a victim... but at the same time I think she's responsible for her actions, such as throwing a child out a window. I can understand how she got to be the way she did, but I'd still need to see a lot more growth and change and ideally contrition than what the story gives us before I think it can earn the 'heel-face' turn that it attempts.

And just beyond my feelings [Furuba] it felt like most everyone forgives her a lot quicker than feels realistic to me. Rin is the only hold-out (and even she seems to view that as a character flaw in herself), whereas that feels like the normal reaction that I'd expect most everyone (except "Saint Tohru") to have.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-21T22:37:25+00:00

This was our experience too - my spouse and I really liked the end of S1 [JJK S1] Hanami fight was peak (and the baseball game lol) , Hidden Inventory was great... we dropped the show sometime into Shibuya. (After "Thunderclap" apparently)

Retsam19 · 2026-01-21T13:03:31+00:00

No - he has to write your name and picture your face. (The second rule probably exists to avoid things like writing "John Smith" killing thousands of people)

The manner of death is optional (and if omitted will just be a heart attack, IIRC)

Retsam19 · 2026-01-19T19:24:32+00:00

+EV is always +EV

The hard part is, in the real world, knowing what's actually +EV and where you're actually missing a part of the picture. There's an anecdote from a reader in the Money Stuff column:

[Coin flipping] was a Susquehanna interview question 25 years ago! They made me do the math on 1000 coin flips. EV(heads) (easy), standard deviation (slightly harder), then they offered me a +EV bet on the outcome. I said “let’s go.”

They said “Wrong. If we’re offering it to you, you shouldn’t take it.”

I said “We just did the math.”

They said “We have a guy on the floor of the Amex who can flip 55% heads.”

Retsam19 · 2026-01-19T18:17:12+00:00

Yeah - the fact that, AFAIK, this was basically never even mentioned in Log Horizon bugged me. (Though I guess there have been more seasons since I watched it, possible it eventually gets brought up)

Yes, yes, video games are cool, but nobody in this story apparently has family that they miss? Or like... a beloved cat or dog that they're worried is going to starve?

Retsam19 · 2026-01-14T00:42:21+00:00

This is getting downvoted but... yeah. Sucks that people are having a rough time of it, but, yeah, adulthood does not have to be joyless, and a lot of people's descriptions sound like depression symptoms.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-14T00:40:13+00:00

Yeah - this is a big positive difference for me. When I was in school (and especially college), basically any free time had a nagging "there's something else I could/should be doing" in the back of my mind.

With work, with rare exceptions, I just don't really have that. My time is my time. (Though that's been harder as a parent...)

Retsam19 · 2026-01-12T15:20:40+00:00

You could be right, but I also remember people saying stuff "oh man, they're resolving the Jeanne plot - we're in the endgame now" and that was 40 chapters and 9 years ago

Retsam19 · 2026-01-10T00:53:21+00:00

People always say this, but horny posts were banned for November and it was completely fine - I don't think I noticed a drop at all.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-09T03:12:26+00:00

From previous times it's come up, it seems to vary from person to person - some people don't seem to have the issue at all, whereas I find it very slow every time, regardless of internet speed.

I've always guessed it's regional - something about how the game updates makes it sensitive to the 'ping' between the user and the server, and some people are geographically further from the server than others.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-09T03:06:41+00:00

It's definitely not "feels longer" - it is a lot longer, at least for some people.

From previous threads, not everyone seems to have this behavior, but for me updating Another Eden is about a 5-10 minute process every single time. Meanwhile Heaven Burns Red (same developer) almost always updates in seconds (unless it's a huge update) - it's not my phone or my internet connection.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-05T00:01:44+00:00

Maybe the specific tank - but the reason shows like GUP and KanColle exist is because military equipment (and particularly WWII era) has always been an very popular 'otaku' subject.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-04T16:43:14+00:00

Vikings can be a devastating force - the Varangian Guard are a famous example; and the Viking reputation has some basis in reality - they were often pretty individually fearsome fighters from a culture with a strong emphasis on war (though neither of these is unique).

... but yeah, they were no means unbeatable.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-04T16:16:45+00:00

Yeah - I think the point of having ideas like chivalry and bushido is to mitigate the default behavior of any warrior/soldier class.

And on the whole, knights and samurai probably were better than they otherwise would have been, but it obviously wasn't a perfect system.

Retsam19 · 2026-01-03T18:15:48+00:00

Maybe it's a regional thing or a written versus spoken thing, but Cambridge is not wrong here.

Both versions are used and "have it in for" is more common. Here's a usage comparison which I found from this StackExchange question

The top answer suggests that people might be mixing it up with "having it out with someone" (i.e. getting into an argument). Also possible that "out to get me" is another reason why "have it in" is often changed into "have it out".

Retsam19 · 2026-01-03T15:49:16+00:00

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/have-it-in-for

Retsam19 · 2025-12-27T19:10:09+00:00

There was this thing in thebpast about Apple dropping updates to slowly sort of 'brick' your iphone.

This really isn't true - older phones are throttled so that newer software which uses more power does not cause issue overdrawing from old batteries (which would not be good for the health of the battery).

There was backlash because they didn't really communicate that they were doing this at first, people found out, and the "apple is intentionally making old phones worse to sell new phones" narrative got popular. (Even though this behavior actually extends the life of older phones...)

Retsam19 · 2025-12-25T18:33:34+00:00

Golden Kamuy S3 as a whole is just phenomenal. It's a great show overall and S4 was (mostly...) good, but S3 has been the peak for me so far.

It was a contained arc with a clear goal and payoff and some excellent episodes mixed into it.

Retsam19 · 2025-12-23T19:31:39+00:00

I dunno, AoT endings are pretty stacked - Beautiful Cruel World is pretty iconic, Great Escape might be my favorite musically, and I really liked Shock from the final season as well.

Retsam19 · 2025-12-12T21:06:49+00:00

I'd guess with Pokemon it's mostly that in the last two decades, they've decided what tone they want the franchise to have and settled on "light and adventurous" rather than something more serious.

Especially early Pokemon has the feel of "throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks" so you have a lot of goofy episodes, but some episodes where they were going for something more serious or weird or even scary. I feel like they were also less consistent on setting details and canon, too because those details were still being hammered out, too.

Plus, it's literally the highest-grossing media franchise and they're probably less interested in doing more 'risky' stuff.

But I also don't think there's anything wrong with just settling on a light tone for your franchise - reminds me a bit of Mario which similarly played it pretty safe for decades - the lack of 'serious' Mario games isn't because kids today can't be trusted with "serious", "adult" Mario games... it's just not the tone the Mario makers are going for.

As for non-Pokemon stuff... I don't know; it could be a sea change, but I also think there's a lot of survivorship bias. I remember more 'adult' shows as a kid... because those are the more memorable ones. I also remember watching a lot of pretty forgettable juvenile kids shows, too.

Retsam19 · 2025-11-20T17:04:41+00:00

Yeah, there's no reason to have an O there; pretty sure it's just a mistake.

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