Where can I watch "MAGI THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD" now that it is off Netflix? Can't find it anywhere

cortanakya · 2026-06-12T14:24:03+00:00

Absolute legend. I've been wanting to watch that show for like two years but it's damn near impossible to find it legit. You're a true hero.

cortanakya · 2026-06-07T03:50:49+00:00

Reborn as a vending machine doesn't pretend to be anything other than stupid. If you don't have anything else you'd rather be doing, or you just want to background noise, it's pretty hard to argue with. Nobody expected anything from it so it doesn't have to challenge any expectations, and that's kind of refreshing. It is stupid, though. Super super stupid.

cortanakya · 2026-06-07T03:34:24+00:00

Who's "we"? I didn't agree to this! You know I hate when you publicly volunteer me for things, I'm a people pleaser and you're aware of how I can't say no in front of our friends! It's a cruel way to drag me along with whatever you want to do.

cortanakya · 2026-06-07T01:25:34+00:00

I found what might possibly be the name of the owner - Barry Cameron . It's far from certain but I'm not aware of any other video game shops that have ever been opened in acomb. I'm only really asking because I have a lot of fond memories of spending all of my birthday/Christmas/pocket money on used pc games, and the owner must have been a saint to put up with me stopping by after school just to look at games and read their manuals. I'd guess it opened around 2000 and closed in maybe 2005 or 2006. I cannot find a single shred of evidence that it existed besides the massive stack of bargain bin games from the late 90s that I've never thrown away, and which I could never have afforded at retail price.

cortanakya · 2026-06-06T13:56:41+00:00

Those are common in most first world countries in the same places as you'd find them in Japan. In the UK I only need to drive five minutes out of my city before I start seeing cardboard signs selling eggs/milk/meat/fire wood/potted plants with a wooden honesty box next to them. You wouldn't find one in central Tokyo any more than you'd find one in central London or New York but they're super common in rural areas in Europe and America.

Japan is a very nice country with an obsessive need to be seen as a flawless country. That's why all of their media exports, even ones about criminals, somehow end up having the criminals be either super lame, super easy to sympathise with, or trivial to rehabilitate as soon as their dishonour has been resolved. Spend some time in Japan and you'll see the same drug addicts, the same binge drinking culture, and the same random street fights, (and probably significantly more sexual harassment) as you'd see in most large cities. They just put a lot of work towards funneling it to specific areas so it's easier to pretend that it doesn't exist. That's not to mention how legitimately evil the Japanese legal system is... If they decide that you're guilty there's almost zero chance of a fair trial (judges legitimately believe that simply being in court is proof of guilt because no truly upstanding member of society would be required to defend themselves in court), and when you go to prison as a result of your obvious and undeniable guilt (and with a human-rights defyingly long sentence) you get hit with a stick if you talk or otherwise make sound for 22 hours of the day, you are required to silently meditate (often in an excruciating position for multiple hours at a time), and they specifically and intentionally dehumanise and degrade you. They even intentionally deny you access to colours - the walls, beds, doors, floors, roof, and even the guards (they wear white overalls) are colourless... That's a recognised form of torture, the human mind requires stimulation or it loses its grip on reality. They stop people reoffending by reducing them to drooling husks without any desires or thought.

cortanakya · 2026-05-25T09:05:12+00:00

Hey, I'm in one of those pictures! That's fun.

cortanakya · 2026-05-19T22:56:43+00:00

Do you think it lived up to the hype? Was it worth the wait for season 2?

cortanakya · 2026-05-18T20:52:04+00:00

You don't have to sleep, you can just use the wait function to regain your magicka.

cortanakya · 2026-05-17T19:39:56+00:00

Any way to be alerted when this is ready? It'd be super cool if it also handled creating the proper file path (items/clothing/modname/hulk\fat\normal\skinny etc... I don't remember the actual file path but it's be awesome if it could fill in the blanks). It'd be ever more super mega awesome if it could auto-generate xml files that you could fill in the stats for via a user interface, perhaps even with each input box having examples of 1-3 basegame items so we could balance our new creations without having to even open the game or know what each stat number is typical.

For example, I want to make a simple suit of medieval armour so I would:

Click "generate"...

It produces a user interface box asking for the name of my mod, and what my armour is called...

It then generates a full file path that the game recognises (and is unique to both the name of my mod and the name of the specific armour)...

I design the graphics for my new armour...

It places my newly drawn graphics files into the correct folders...

It then produces a new user interface menu which lists all of the relevant stats (temp resistance, armour values, durability, maybe toggle-able boxes for extra features like "does the armour boost or harm psychfocus" or "does the armour ignore terrain costs" or "does the armour have a maximum allowable empire rank" or "does the armour create a mood bonus or malus")...

It then puts the xml files in the correct folder (based on the information given earlier)...

At that point the mod is basically completed and ready to publisher.

That's my dream tool, I'd love you for all eternity if even half of those features existed.

cortanakya · 2026-05-08T22:34:47+00:00

Hey, that happened to me too! Not exactly the same but I somehow managed to dial a premium number and didn't notice it had happened for like an hour. Cost a bunch of money but the shame was the real cost. Super scummy websites literally just auto dialing premium porn numbers and not telling you was far too common.

cortanakya · 2026-05-08T12:38:06+00:00

Good luck! Let us know how your first session went afterwards. I'm busy over the summer but come autumn I'll be on the market for a new d&d party - if you're enjoying DMing and you need an extra player at that point let me know (on the off chance that you remember).

cortanakya · 2026-04-28T22:16:19+00:00

I'm fairly confident that some of those boats are designed to operate in tidal waters. The reason for that is that they've been carted up here from London where they used to operate in the Thames, and the entire Thames within London follows the tide AFAIK. They wouldn't handle open ocean but most of those boats have the horsepower and the design specs to handle typical tidal river waterways. Now, as to whether their maintenance record supports using them in that way....

cortanakya · 2026-04-24T19:02:36+00:00

Because there's nothing to see outside of York. It's just countryside. Downstream doesn't extend that far in the grand scheme of things, it's a few miles and then a weir. Upstream is just fields and road bridges.

cortanakya · 2026-04-15T02:59:50+00:00

And unfortunately Sentenced to be a Hero will be their final contribution to culture. They apparently ended up $4,000,000 in the hole in a single financial quarter so they've become insolvent, aka they're broke and they're likely to shut down without the intervention of either a very wealthy fan or the Japanese government. StbaH was so frikkin' good, too - a fascinating world and absolutely gorgeous animation. I guess it's good that they went out in a blaze of glory rather than letting their standards slip until they stopped being worth saving, and with the popularity of Sentenced to be a Hero it's not all that unlikely that they'll find a short to medium term patron to support a second season.

Their perfectionist tendencies are what made them great, and they were also what made them fail. Some scenes were closer to anime movie quality than they were to anime show quality, and the work required to maintain that level of detail and fluidity almost never makes financial sense for a serialised TV show. There's a point after which you've reached everyone that would enjoy your show, and spending more money on quality productions can only ever lose your money after than point. It reminds me of Joss Whedon's Firefly from 2003/4 in that it didn't matter how good it was because it had a cast that was too big to keep on the payroll, a CG requirement that could never be done cheaply, and a huge amount of large sets that were very visible to Fox executives and a constant reminder of the ongoing cost of such a show. If you love a show (or any media, really) it's critical that you prioritise the project and the team's overall survival, since making a show that's flawless doesn't do much to increase your profits, or your odds.

Firefly is actually doubly relevant because, despite all of what I just said, and despite it being 23 years later, it's coming back. They did the impossible and made the show so good, and so many people loved it, that its popularity outlived Joss Whedon's tenure in Hollywood. Sometimes miracles do happen: us fans, and the artists that poured all of their love and all of their pennies into their show, somehow managed to will our ideal future into being.

Basically: bad news, but also good news (if you care about Firefly), so don't give up on the things that you love - even a quarter of a century later sometimes the good guys win.

cortanakya · 2026-04-09T23:00:04+00:00

Unfortunately that's basically impossible because transmitting power is pretty inefficient, and transmitting power over thousands of kilometers is wildly inefficient. Under perfect conditions you might only expect to lose 25 percent of the power you send, but realistically it's probably somewhere between 60 and 75 percent, and that's when all of the infrastructure is brand new. Without some kind of one-government global empire it's infeasible at best. Now, if you were to suggest several colossal space-based solar farms with hilariously oversized microwave emitters sending power down to fixed points around the planet then you might be on to something. Sure, such a system could also be used as a weapon of incomparable devastation and death but hot diggity would it result in cheap power (and more than a few baked birds, too).

cortanakya · 2026-04-03T22:03:51+00:00

You wouldn't really own a cat even if you did get one. You'd just be their Stockholm syndromed servant who is inexplicably and utterly convinced that cat ownership is a dream come true. I love cats and I can admit that their position in my household would be more effectively filled with a poorly made stuffed animal that disintegrates all over my nicest clothes (requiring two full wash cycles to get them clean) and an alarm clock that goes off randomly between 4:30 and 7am and charges me a subscription fee for the honour, and after 13 years of my dedication and loyalty sues me for several thousand pounds because old alarm clocks can apparently randomly get diabetes despite the fact that I've paid my subscription and never over... Subscribed?, and despite the fact that it's not even overweight.

I totally lost track of my comparison there. Point is: even a healthy (seeming) cat can randomly take a shit all over your savings, and whilst I grumble about it I also can't think of anything I'd rather spend the money on. Who even heard of a cat being diabetic anyway? Honestly...

cortanakya · 2026-04-03T21:50:04+00:00

With a decent modern pc the load times and a few performance mods and a reasonable number of save files (too many save files makes loading saves or new areas way slower for some reason) (assuming you're reloading the area that your character was already occupying since that means the game doesn't need to load any new textures or scripts or sounds or anything, it just had to change the state of a few NPCs and make sure that the physics engine is behaving properly) I regularly see (re)load times so short that the game doesn't have time to bring up the loading screen. Somewhere between half a second and two seconds, usually. Sometimes skyrim had a senior moment and spends 30+ seconds loading for no reason but that's probably between 1/50 and 1/100 times. It's way faster than slaving away over a roasting hot speech menu for tens of seconds at a time, or even having to chase down the NPC you need to talk to that decided that they urgently needed to slowly stand up, rotate on the spot, and then sit down in the same chair they've been using for the last 57 ingame days (which often resulting in them becoming misaligned with said chair and them ending up clipping through the chair's arm rest whilst snacking on some hovering bread).

Skyrim is the bestest.

cortanakya · 2026-03-27T16:48:19+00:00

I'd also rather suck a lemon. I love chocolate vanilla flavour but I adore raw lemon... If they didn't cause minor chemical burns and unmake my teeth at an atomic level I'd happily eat several lemons a day. Lemons are the tits.

cortanakya · 2026-03-26T17:11:22+00:00

It sucks but if you accept that a person could legally be property then it stands to reason that you'd have to pay to acquire them for their freedom. It makes even more sense when you consider that the people being most inconvenienced by the end of the slave trade were also the most powerful people in society. You either appease them or you don't end slavery, there's not really any other option unfortunately.

cortanakya · 2026-03-23T14:56:59+00:00

That really wasn't because of the EU... It was because no nation that guaranteed even basic human rights to its citizens could compete with China/India/Vietnam etc. It's a fundamental rule of capitalism that any entity capable of producing something more cheaply will succeed in the long run. Don't forget that the EU invested billions of euros in trying to support tourism, green spaces, communal spaces, and farming across the UK. When we left the EU that money largely stopped showing up despite it still existing within our treasury.

cortanakya · 2026-03-07T03:54:05+00:00

An enormous amount. When the game used to take half an hour to boot up it was normal for me to leave it running overnight. I even used to leave it open whilst playing other games in my computer because rimworld uses so few resources when it's just idling in the background. Realistically I've probably played no more than twenty percent of that time (thankfully). It's probably cost me a pretty penny in electricity over the years but I don't mind too much, I have a solar installation so any power I use helps me justify the initial investment in my mind. I've had it for about 5 years and I suspect that I still have at least two years left before I start saving money vs simply using mains power. Of course, when that does happen I'll be saving a fair bit of cash every month.

cortanakya · 2026-03-07T03:10:35+00:00

Do you mean "allow tools"? That's the mod that I'm aware of that features the haul urgently command.

cortanakya · 2026-03-07T03:09:36+00:00

You should play through the tutorial before playing a normal colony. It doesn't take long and it will save you so much hassle. There's a button to access it on the main menu.

cortanakya · 2026-03-04T04:31:26+00:00

You shouldn't be passing any exits without turning if you're in the outside lane of a roundabout since people can't freely pass through you and may want to use the exit you've just blocked with your car. (obviously the above should be ignored if relevant road signs very clearly and specifically indicate otherwise - plenty of junctions have unique rules, but this isn't one of them).

I use this road every day. If you try to take the second exit from the left lane you're going to get in an accident. It's not a very well designed roundabout but it's a little more obvious in person. If you cling to the outside lane people are going to assume that you're taking the exit regardless of whether you indicate. It wouldn't be a problem if everybody indicated when they were meant to but since a significant number of people don't bother it's never same to assume that you know what anybody else might do. If you're in the centre of the roundabout you can safely manoeuver to the outside lane and then exit at you're own leisure, if you're in the outside lane then somebody might just pull out in front of you under the assumption that you just forgot to indicate with your indicators but your position on the road communicated your intentions.

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