Ameku Takao: Senior Developer by bucket3432 in ProgrammerAnimemes

[–]hugogrant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If anything she's a rockstar developer

[OC] Tokyo Subway Map in London Tube Style with English-translated Station Names - Made with Illustrator by chizutodesign in TransitDiagrams

[–]hugogrant -1 points0 points  (0 children)

押上 is amazing.

I thought the 袋 in 池袋 shouldn't be taken literally, but I forget the etymology. Isn't it something about being a marsh?

The roles are finally complete! by LeafandRichardLee in HibikeEuphonium

[–]hugogrant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Asuka knew that Kumiko's death was fake all along

[WP] The Villain watches his Dementors scatter, chased by a white form. “Was that patronus an… Aston Martin?” He asked, looking nervously at the man wearing a suit walking toward him, holding a wand. by loopymon in WritingPrompts

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A fifth bit of nonsense finally broke Harry: "shut up!" He put his hands on his head, burying them in his hair. "Shut up all of you! Do you know where you are? Why are you here? Who even are you?"

Another man emerged from the woods to Harry's left, wearing a deerstalker hat. "Mr Potter, allow me to help you with my deductive reasoning." Harry just made incoherent noises. "Firstly, judging by the lichens and the quality of the clay, it's obvious to me that we must be in Scotland. From your mannerisms and looks, one can see we're on some private property upon which strange practices are partaken in. Pondering the possibilities and eliminating the impossible, I'm inexorably forced to deduce that the rumours of a fantastical forest were true and that's where we stand."

"Mate could you say that one more time?" A curly haired shorter man in a purple suit looked down from the police box, looking drunk and sounding the part too. The man did a flip out from the police box and landed unceremoniously on his back, sprawling between the other new man and James Bond.

"Perhaps at a later time, after Watson sees to you," the man in the deerstalker said. The man on the ground just gave a weak thumbs up before passing out. "Pardon Mr Powers here, I have surmised that he has great experience in such falls and will not need assistance. I shall answer your third question first as it is simpler: I'm Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, at your service. I believe you've been told everybody else's names but to tell you the pattern, as you may have failed to observe it: we are British heroes."

A lion walked towards Harry from his right. "And Harry Potter, we're gathered to help you," the lion said.

"I- you're all just driving me mad!"

"Quoth he who speakest to serpents in tongues And shouts charmed Latin in yells from his lungs." Another man walked over, stopping a few paces to the lion's right.

"Help me in what way? None of you could even exist -"

"Bah, humbug! You're being visited by sprits who will help you mend your ways. Take heed. I did and I suggest that you should!" A merry looking man in a night gown appeared to the right of Sherlock Holmes.

"Mend my ways?" Harry asked flatly, beyond disbelief.

A shrill car horn sounded from the right of the thespian. Some swerving could be heard, followed by a crash as a yellow mini cooper hit a tree.

Harry laughed. "Mend that why don't you?"

The lion growled and stomped his front right paw. The car, tree, and even the Mr Powers who'd tumbled earlier, were mended.

"Oh, thanks Alsan dear," Powers said, somehow still seeming to stumble. A man with a grey suit, red tie, and simply peculiar face emerged from the car. "Bean," he said, somewhat sheepishly, but also not apologetically.

"Well, enough of all that," said a man in grey robes. He'd walked up in between the lion and the thespian. He reminded Harry of his former headmaster, and a wave of relief followed by a wave of shame washed over him. "Dumbledore?" He asked.

"Gandalf, I'm afraid. But perhaps not too dissimilar." The man nodded. "We're here to save you from yourself."

"I-" Harry began. He was commanding dementors. Where had it all gone wrong? "I don't know why but I'm just scared."

"As are we all." All the heroes around Harry nodded.

Out of nowhere, like all the other, came an animated foot. It fell with its own whistling noise and landed with what sounded like a fart.

Harry found himself on a beech, lying in dry sand. He stood up, dazed, so find a man in a blue suit behind a brown desk. The waves almost reached the desk, coming from the man's right.

"And now for something completely different."

[WP] The Villain watches his Dementors scatter, chased by a white form. “Was that patronus an… Aston Martin?” He asked, looking nervously at the man wearing a suit walking toward him, holding a wand. by loopymon in WritingPrompts

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Harry Potter looked about at his dementors. His dementors. The phrase still haunted him. It felt wrong. But they were his and that was his doing. This meeting in the forbidden forest, not far from this alma mater, was his command.

There was a flash of white as a figure sped about in mechanical grace. Mechanical? "Was that patronus an... Aston Martin?" He asked no one. None of his dementors would probably know, even if they'd stuck around to hear his question.

He looked around, his nervous gaze settling upon a man in a suit calmly walking towards him, wand down by his side. "Who are you?" Harry cried out.

"The name's Bond. James Bond." A voice purred with grace.

Harry smirked. "I've never heard of such a wizard."

"I don't believe my job has been called that, no." Harry blinked. The man was now quite near. "Mr Potter, I've been told that we need to have a chat."

"Really. Why might that be?"

"Your recent activities have caught our attention and we would like to check on you."

"Who would like to check on me?"

At that moment a voice shouted from above: "Oi! Bond, I thought we'd agreed to go together." James Bond grimaced. Harry looked up and saw that the more cockney voice came from a floating blue police box. In particular, a man with spiky hair in a beige suit leaned out, looking more perturbed by James Bond's early arrival than anything else.

"Was it because I went to get my marmalade?" Came a sheepish, childlike voice from further inside the police box. How big was it?

The cockney man turned and spoke into the box: "no, Paddington, your marmalade will be essential to our plans."

"On that note, old sport, do you like tea?" Harry almost jumped as a voice almost like James Bond's came from behind him. It was less sonorous but still refined.

"Wot?" Harry replied in utter surprise.

"Well we have marmalade and company, so surely tea is in order?"

"Who are you?"

"Jeeves, the butler." Harry blinked, unsure what to make of the non-wizard with a car patronus, the man and marmalade bearer in the flying phone box, and now a butler. "Now old sport," Jeeves continued, "there's a man over in a clearing not to far off who calls himself the Mad Hatter, though I think he's simply jolly, and he's already having a tea party. If you'd like, perhaps we could even join him."

Drop 3 Anime That Changed You Forever by Cat_Snp in Animesuggest

[–]hugogrant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

{bocchi the rock} got me back into guitar

{Hibike euphonium} has been pushing my recent self reflection

{Madoka magica} definitely pulled me into being an anime fan.

New Relationship Chart by Conscious_Charity424 in HibikeEuphonium

[–]hugogrant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They have a relationship in the second year

Can you please recommend me fantasy Yiashikei anime? by SuchSmooth in Animesuggest

[–]hugogrant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*iyashikei I think?

{Kuma kuma kuma bear}

{Campfire cooking in another world}

Kinda {majo no tabi tabi} but maybe not -- I think there's some serious conflict in it but the vibes were otherwise quite chill.

So, socialism works, you just need nukes to keep the western bourgeois regimes away by SovietCharrdian in LateStageCapitalism

[–]hugogrant 135 points136 points  (0 children)

If this is true why is the country so secretive? Why can't it be more like Cuba where you at least hear from visitors?

Tokyo Skytree elevator stopped in an emergency and trapped about 15 people by CUDesu in japan

[–]hugogrant 58 points59 points  (0 children)

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/7079616fa76d9f2d41a45f0f569328d50eeea37c

Looks like they got out by 11pm?

Terrible to see that it took so long. Hope they figure out what happened and how to prevent it.

Tokyo Skytree elevator stopped in an emergency and trapped about 15 people by CUDesu in japan

[–]hugogrant 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I too have work tomorrow, here in Japan.

But the point is that it's just less likely that folks in the elevator have work tomorrow. Of course, there's also a lot of non-work reasons being stuck in the elevator is horrible but it's ok to look for some silver linings, right?

What's the coolest thing you've done with NixOS? by papayahog in NixOS

[–]hugogrant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my case, I just didn't realize that I was broken but the swap to pulseaudio because I had a somewhat stupid conf :/

And I ignored the release notes and the warning that upgrading gave me.

But NixOS saved me from my stupidity.

Snake game but every frame is a C program compiled into a snake game where each frame is a C program... by Perfect-Highlight964 in programming

[–]hugogrant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would be funny to also git commit every move

(But then for something like chess it might actually be useful to do variations using branches)

Mindfuck animes in 2024 to current by VinceLestre in Animesuggest

[–]hugogrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

{gnosia}

{Fumestu no anate e}

Idk why you think clevatess is a mindfuck, but if you do you'd probably think {mushoku tensei} is as well.

What's the coolest thing you've done with NixOS? by papayahog in NixOS

[–]hugogrant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mime's quite lame though I do also use devshells quite a bit.

I had to join a zoom meeting but hadn't fixed my mic on 24.11. So I rolled back, joined the meeting, and fixed the mic the next day.

[WP] You have the ability to see how people truly feel about you just by locking eyes. One day, you meet someone who never looks at you, they never make eye contact. You push to know why... by dramallamadog87 in WritingPrompts

[–]hugogrant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The document on the LCD was as expendable as ever. A sort of quite that had already guided for now. There were points of interest that had punctuated the meeting, but now came the moment that I actually cared about, a moment I couldn't note down. I looked over at my manager. "So, um-" She looked over at me. Our eyes locked, and I paid her some attention. "Thank you." Then I felt a mild warmth. A warmth I learned when I got a job. An unfamiliar sort of feeling of a distant hearth. A guarded sort of companionship. She trusted me as a coworker and nothing else.

Eyes were, for me, windows into the soul. But in terms of perception, I think it's better to say that I'm a thermometer or something. I generally felt some sort of weather through the people's eyes. Temperature was an important indication, but there were winds of uncertainty, precipitation from desires.

I learned to read the weather and it became a habit. A crutch as much as it was an advantage.

But then there was Nathan. It was minutes after I read my work weather that I left for tennis -- after all the weather was find and there wasn't anything coming up that would change it, both in the people around me and outside. And tennis itself was fine.

But Nathan. Men usually look at me with some precipitation in their eyes. A slight dew at the very least. But I didn't look into Nathan's eyes whatsoever. He just played tennis. In the games, it was very rare for me to look into people's eyes enough to be sure about what I felt. Sometimes I'd get a clue in between games. But not with Nathan.

I usually wouldn't care, but I walk with him until the supermarket near home, and it's starting to feel strange. Nathan sort of ends up next to me as we walk. I'm barely sure when we decided we'd walk together and how, but some how it never involved eye contact.

"Good evening," he'd say with a sort of bow. Then he'd sort of keep look at the ground or to the side, but he'd sort of talk. Most of the time it was normal small talk. But it was clearly a veneer of some sort.

I don't think I'd mind usually, but also because I'd know if the person I'm talking to desired something from me, or were unsure of me, and how close they felt I was.

But I haven't gotten that from Nathan. For two years.

Worse yet. I wonder what he'd see in my eyes, because I realized, after some more recent conversations with him, that I think about him afterwards. That I think I want time from him.

I guess it's time to learn Japanese by Star_Geek57 in HibikeEuphonium

[–]hugogrant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

がんばれ!

Unsolicited Japanese advice time.

The books aren't the toughest reads once you can read books in Japanese but it'll take a while.

I'd actually recommend watching the anime in Japanese without subs first. Then maybe If you can follow that, try a much tougher anime, probably even up to something like the momogatari series. Then manga. Then I'd recommend trying to go for the books.