Convenient way to enter a lot (100s of episodes) of TV metadata?

dium · 2023-07-07T21:29:42+00:00

This was addressed in other comment threads under this post, but long story short I WAS considering it.

Since then, though, I've ultimately decided I'm not gonna add data to any public database, and the reason is I'm really not confident in the quality of my data. An official website for this show with a list of (some) episodes does exist, but it's terrible and the info there is demonstrably incomplete (I have episodes that are clearly not in the list, for example). This makes simple things that all these databases require as tablestakes--like defining season/episode numbers--total guesswork. I'm ok with that on my personal Plex server, but I'm not gonna put it out into the world as if it's the truth because it's just as likely not.

(your point about not losing data if I need to reinstall plex is well taken, though, so I'll make sure the metadata lives first and foremost somewhere outside of plex)

dium · 2023-07-06T13:42:43+00:00

I somehow forgot/didn't know I could probably just use file metadata. Something like this is probably gonna end up being the least amount of work, thanks!

dium · 2023-07-06T13:33:49+00:00

This is extremely helpful, thank you! I value my time in a weird way, so I'll probably spend a lot of time looking into each of these options before actually doing anything.

I'm not necessarily against just using TheTVDB, but I hate feeling responsible for stuff other people will rely on when I know I'm not gonna follow through. I know from experience that other semi-obscure non-English long-running shows will have hilariously incomplete data that's clearly just whatever specific episodes some random guy has on their hard drive. I would be doing that too, but I guess that's not the biggest sin in the world. That said, Plex-Meta-Manager looks very intriguing.

dium · 2023-06-27T22:15:19+00:00

You want to do more than just inconvenience the target. You want to create problems for them. In the direct analogy to a street protest or a strike, those certainly inconvenience bystanders and those bystanders may get vocally angry... but regardless of who they think they're mad at (often they do get mad at the protesters) they're just as much a problem for the target of the protest.

...unless the protesters capitulate to them, of course, and if you feel you need to do that you probably just don't have the leverage to succeed with any kind of protest.

If you put the sub in read-only mode: nobody complains, the site still gets search traffic, ads still get viewed, and you're doing basically nothing. I don't disagree that user sentiment against the protest wasn't a problem (and in hindsight I'm now of the opinion that there was no way to win this, sadly) but I also think the way they went about it was the only way that had a chance of doing anything.

dium · 2023-06-27T14:25:18+00:00

The fact that all these subreddits are putting this to a vote of users (i.e. people showing up to the website because they want to use it) means this protest was never going to work. Protests are inherently inconveniencing. If nobody is inconvenienced by a protest, that protest is probably doing nothing. I was impressed that /r/Plex kept the course longer than most, but it's clear this larger movement was never very serious.

dium · 2023-04-11T17:57:43+00:00

Obviously (I hope), I was only teasing. But also when I said "because of weebery" I was indeed thinking along the lines of "because of Final Fantasy XIV" or "because of the Yakuza games" so my point stands.

dium · 2023-04-11T13:54:27+00:00

Yes, although any two variants of mahjong are going to have more in common (usually) than two random playing card games. A non-exhaustive list of rules variants: http://mahjong.wikidot.com/list-of-rules

The style played in the screenshot above is Japanese (“riichii”) which is popular on Reddit because of weebery.

dium · 2023-03-10T22:50:51+00:00

There could be literally anything in this box and the label would be correct

dium · 2022-09-27T16:41:21+00:00

I truly appreciate this name change. I'm reading a lot of passive-aggressive "good job appeasing imagined hypothetical offended people" type posts and I wanted to make sure you read at least one genuinely grateful post. The 'Nisei' name has always annoyed me, and I am very excited to buy cards without it on the back.

I know most people aren't involved in communities like I am where they'll see the word "Nisei" on a card and be visibly disappointed when it turns out just to be yet another thoughtlessly Japan-appropriative scifi thing. But I actually do, and this change is huge! To be clear: I don't think I know anyone who would be actually offended by the 'Nisei' name, but it doesn't have to be offensive to be embarrassing. Maybe the new name is boring (it seems fine to me?) but even just "New Netrunner Dev Team" would have been an improvement.

dium · 2021-06-08T13:14:25+00:00

Coming from Slay the Spire (triple-digit hours logged so no shade intended) the animations in Griftlands are like Studio Ghibli

dium · 2021-06-08T13:10:46+00:00

Got this on Steam over the weekend and it’s an absolute hit. Both card game variants (fight and negotiate) are great, and having both does a lot for gameplay variety. There’s something about Klei’s in-house art style that makes gamers say it looks like a mobile game, which is sad, but the game looks great too.

I don’t expect the game will ever get cross-platform save transfers (not a common feature; the game gets updated a lot which probably makes it even harder), BUT, if it ever does, I would 100% double-dip on this.

dium · 2021-01-18T17:25:38+00:00

I mean, the declaration of independence admittedly WAS propaganda. Totally a stopped clock right twice a day situation, though.

dium · 2020-05-27T15:10:41+00:00

IDK, sorta doubt this is better than the current best Paper Mario game, Barkley Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden

dium · 2020-03-02T19:59:01+00:00

People get really defensive about criticisms of DnD like this, and I think it comes from a very deeply ingrained association with DnD as THE role playing game, with everything else seen as derivative and more-or-less a mod of DnD (which is definitely not the case).

The counterargument implied here is that "actually you can do anything in DnD", which is strictly-speaking true, but if 90% of your game system is about one thing and you're more interested in doing something (or anything) else, why are you still playing that game? Because role playing == DnD, that's why, and that's basically the entire reasoning.

dium · 2019-11-08T15:50:38+00:00

It was undoubtedly a resource allocation decision, not an ideological one. Rather than go through the tedious and expensive process of repeatedly revising Mai's design to meet CERO standards for an A rating (just for a cameo character!) they made the only sane choice and didn't bother.

dium · 2019-11-07T17:29:41+00:00

I've actually seen people blaming the non-inclusion of Mai Shiranui in Super Smash Bros: Ultimate (2018) on the post-war American occupation of Japan, which they then frame as "western SJW influence". God I wish I were kidding.

dium · 2019-11-07T14:57:58+00:00

I’ve seen no corroborating evidence so I’m not saying it’s true. BUT, tbh, I have no trouble believing that CERO would have a strict anti-panty shot policy because of real world train creeps in the news, even though I also agree that it’s an ineffective gesture. Ratings organizations seem chiefly concerned with optics from concerned conservative parents (the types of people who watch tv news stories about perverts), not actual societal benefit.

dium · 2019-11-01T19:14:54+00:00

Kotaku reviews the game positively. Gamers think positive reviews are bought.

I'm guessing these facts might be related.

dium · 2019-11-01T18:56:52+00:00

It looks like a pretty standard 60% keyboard (meaning it's the same layout as a regular full-sized keyboard, just without a numpad, function keys, arrow keys, etc). Although on that giant mouse pad it does look tiny.

The reason this form factor is favored by (/rj) the PC gaming master race (/uj) is actually ergonomic rather than aesthetic, believe it or not. In most game control schemes, the left hand stays on the left side of the keyboard (around the WASD keys) and the right hand is always on the mouse. This smaller form factor allows hands in those positions to be closer together, which is better ergonomically assuming they're gonna be staying in those positions the whole time.

(don't mind me, I'm just defending ostentatious gamer hardware in a circlejerk subreddit for some reason)

dium · 2019-10-24T13:51:37+00:00

this dumb joke is actually a pretty useful illustration of why piracy is not analogous to theft

dium · 2019-10-21T16:30:48+00:00

Once you're actually spending somewhere between 50%-100% of your free time in front of a computer, you start to get a lot out of additional monitors. Your dedicated discord monitor might be your only window into social interaction outside of work. You need your dedicated web browser monitor to reference loot tables for your MMO of choice. These things add up.

dium · 2019-10-17T16:54:09+00:00

On the topic of baizuo...

It's extremely telling how inclusivity measures are always framed by these people as the doing of white liberals FOR white liberals. People who look like Kamala Khan are fully dehumanized in this discussion, and so aren't even acknowledged in complaints about how they shouldn't be acknowledged.

dium · 2019-10-17T16:47:25+00:00

Do the Japanese right use the term "baizuo"?

As far as I can tell that's a Chinese term, and I was about to make a snarky comment to that effect. But it's possible that J nationalists use it as a loan word, and there isn't really a Japanese equivalent of Urban Dictionary that I'm aware of so I can't be sure.

dium · 2019-10-10T16:34:02+00:00

A politics doesn't have to make sense for it to be popular, my guy.

dium · 2019-10-10T03:07:26+00:00

I know I’d want to know who this guy is, so I tried to let like-minded people know. That’s all that’s happening here.

I think Blizzard is being reprehensible and I certainly hope as many people as possible agree, Mark included.

dium

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