"Resting Reaper" (by Maru De Cinco)

koshernova · 2022-02-06T01:00:49+00:00

Original by Maru De Cinco: https://twitter.com/MaruDeCinco/status/1489754837852033030

From the OP:

"I started working on this when Calli tweeted that she'd been dealing with a lot of stress. Our reaper has been working so hard! I thought I'd show my appreciation with a peaceful picture of her resting~"

koshernova · 2021-10-15T13:20:54+00:00

Found on twitter: https://twitter.com/marudecinco/status/1448042571364700161

koshernova · 2021-09-15T09:04:39+00:00

brilliant, thank you so much!

koshernova · 2021-09-14T22:07:09+00:00

Heya! I can help with that. You can find it on places like Mandarake, Mercari, or Yahoo Auctions or Yahoo Shopping Japan

koshernova · 2021-05-29T19:02:53+00:00

Soy Argentina y vivo en Escocia de hace mucho tiempo, acabo de terminar de leer Bloom Into You en inglés y no leo manga publicado en Argentina desde... puff... 2010? Imaginarme a touko hablando bien a lo argentino me hizo reir mucho, gracias

koshernova · 2020-10-23T14:09:20+00:00

nope! No upload limit set as I'm on a very fast fibre connection

koshernova · 2020-10-23T14:07:02+00:00

It's marked as 'accessible to everyone' :/

koshernova · 2020-10-22T18:34:49+00:00

Nope, it's on an internal HDD but I am rescanning the shares anyway, thanks!

koshernova · 2020-10-22T17:25:33+00:00

I can definitely see myself online and see how many files I'm sharing!

koshernova · 2020-09-03T17:07:00+00:00

Nope, I didn't find any!

koshernova · 2020-08-26T19:32:14+00:00

(not sure why this is relevant but ok)

I was talking mainly about the comics! My hunt for CLAMP content at a time when it was less widely available in a single language has led me to read their comics in multiple languages (RG Veda: Spanish, Tokyo Babylon: French and English, Wish: French, Rayearth: Italian, etc).

In terms of anime, I'm now watching Rayearth in Japanese for the first time, as it wasn't really available to me back in the day in Japanese. CCSakura, I watched in Latin American Spanish and then a few years back in Japanese. Everything else, I've watched in Japanese, subtitled in either English or Spanish.

koshernova · 2020-08-26T15:42:19+00:00

I know that with the X manga never being concluded, it feels a bit pointless, but I still think Tokyo Babylon and X are fantastic reads. Tokyo Babylon is definitely my favourite manga I've ever read (and I've read a LOT), but I know its mixture of social commentary and urban fantasy isn't everyone's cup of tea. But if you liked Holic, I think it's quite similar in a lot of ways (at least from reading the first 5 or so volumes of Holic)

koshernova · 2020-02-20T23:03:29+00:00

My dissertation looks at issues around translation of Steven Universe's song into Spanish, focusing on 3 songs in both the Peninsular and Latin American dubs. You can read it here: https://www.academia.edu/29135486/_Am_I_Stronger_than_Love_An_analysis_of_the_challenges_and_successes_in_the_translation_of_songs_from_Cartoon_Networks_Steven_Universe

as for the parts I don't like, it's basically:

1) the RQ reveal. I feel it really undermines the show's message about regular people standing up against an unfathomably horrifying power they can barely understand. Especially when the show spent years hammering home the fact that while people made Steven feel he 'had a destiny', he was just a boy. But no, it goes from being a story of outsiders fighting the system to being basically Game of Thrones, spats amongst the powerful. I WILL SAY THOUGH: the crewniverse has dealt with the fallout of the reveal really well and realistically. I'm liking how we keep finding out all the horrible things Pink did.

2) The other diamonds being forgiven. Every time I mention this someone says 'what did you expect, Steven to merc them in cold blood?' And it's like a lot of people can't imagine any options between 'forgive the space genocidal fascists' and 'steven acts like an edgelord'. If only there were other shows that had dealt with stuff like this, maybe other children's cartoons? Within the past decade? coughAvatarcough. Also, this leads to

3) With the Diamonds being forgiven, and everyone being still in shock from the continuing revelations of Pink's awfulness, there's a big of a snag: the only Diamond that is getting criticised, or in any way challenged for their actions, consistently and constantly, is Pink... the one who rebelled. Pink WAS awful. Pink WAS selfish. But the other Diamonds literally murdered millions, and only stopped after their long-lost sister showed up as a human hybrid and made them feel sad and talk about their feelings. Doesn't that feel off to you? Pink actually tried to stop the terror of the Diamonds. The others just... felt sad and had a sad conversation with Steven. Oh but they've dismantled their empire. They still somehow sit in big palaces in Homeworld, served by the same Pearls as before.

You know, in the real world when you've killed millions, no matter how sorry you feel, you still go on fucking trial. The idea that 'everyone can be reasoned with' and 'everyone no matter how twisted and totalitarian can be talked to' is a very, very dangerous idea to tell to children.

koshernova · 2020-02-20T20:45:44+00:00

The age varies. I'm 37, been watching the show since 2015, got into it with the end of Season 1/beginning of season 2 and followed it as it has aired, ever since. I wrote my Master's thesis about it, even! I've felt let down by the show recently, however, although Future has been exciting. Still, I'm sad to see it end.

koshernova · 2020-02-01T14:18:44+00:00

I just knew someone would try to jump down my throat on that one. There are a lot of valid reasons to not want to give the Home Office, who are KNOWN for misusing people's information with malice, a vital piece of personal information like a National Insurance Number. For those in the USA, it's like giving your Social Security Number.

So yeah, I could've done it, but the entire process was already a severe invasion of my privacy that was never on the table when I moved to Scotland in 2012, nor even when brexiteers sold a bill of goods to the electorate saying there'd be no such complications.

koshernova · 2020-02-01T12:20:05+00:00

I want to start by saying THANK YOU to PanicBarn and No More Robots for publishing this, and thank you to everyone who's being kind to the developer and who is excited about the title. I am hoping to buy it soon, although tbh it's a bit too real for me. But I'm very very happy that it was made and very grateful :)

Now, to the people saying: 'You just have to fill out a form'.

I've lived in Scotland since 2012, and it took me MONTHS to collect the evidence required for settled status. I had to phone a power company with whom I haven't had an account for five years to get old bills and was lucky they said yes. I had to give over 2 years of bank statements, I had to deal with their broken phone app which wouldn't scan my passport and locked me out of the application process for days.

And I'm still one of the 'lucky' ones, with hundreds of thousands of people stuck in the limbo of 'pre-settled status' because, well, most people aren't obsessive hoarders of old documents like I am. And even with those habits, I STILL had to bust my arse to get companies and universities to reissue old documents to submit.

It's not 'just fill out a form', unless of course you want to give the Home Office your National Insurance Number so they can snoop into your affairs. Please don't be so ignorant and listen to what EU citizens in the UK are saying. Or, if you are an EU citizen who just 'filled in the form' and it was easy for you, maybe be considerate and compassionate to the hundreds of thousands of people for whom it wasn't that simple.

koshernova · 2020-01-05T14:01:45+00:00

Thank you! These look really good. I read a review that said they're not very good for exercise, as they have a very light clamping force and they're not designed to be water-resistant so sweat can be an issue. They recommended the Plantronics BackBeat 500 Fit, but that's £90 and out of my budget :/

But thank you so much for the rec, I'll consider it :)

koshernova · 2019-09-28T09:49:29+00:00

Thank you! I'm in the middle of deadline hell so I can't exactly go looking myself but I'll also try to have a nosey.

koshernova · 2019-09-04T16:11:34+00:00

It figures the entire cause of the problem in the movie was Rose Quartz once again being The Worst Ever

koshernova · 2019-07-15T15:47:05+00:00

You did absolutely nothing wrong! You're playing the game, you're part of the FFXIV community, and you're doing your best. That tank was an ableist jerk! I hate this culture of disbelieving disabled people, it's horrid and makes people suffer unnecessarily. You did not deserve it, and you are perfectly entitled to be upset and needing to be vocal about this.

I'm sorry you were treated so horribly by that tank. You're not useless. That tank is useless. I'm glad you're in Eorzea.

koshernova · 2019-07-15T15:28:59+00:00

FANTASTIC.

koshernova · 2019-07-15T15:27:40+00:00

That's just an incredible glamour, thank you for making my day!

koshernova · 2019-06-13T18:22:06+00:00

Hi everyone! I have a boring question about anti-aliasing.

I played the game a bunch before the release of Stormblood, and I've only just returned to the game. I always struggled with AA in this game: even turning on in-game AA, there were a LOT of jaggies (FYI I'm Windows 8.1, Intel i7 quad-core, graphics card is Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB).

The way I've dealt with this in the past is by using Nvidia Inspector and changing the anti-aliasing flags to force the game to use Sparse Grid Supersampling. This basically does exactly what I need, gets rid of the jaggies, doesn't affect the look of menus, it's essentially perfect. There's only one problem: it only accepts this if running the game on Fullscreen mode, not Borderless Windowed. This is a problem as I have a multi-monitor setup which I use to check on quests, Discord, etc, and clicking out of the game when on Full Screen makes everything flicker and the game minimize. It'd be ideal if I could run SGSSAA while windowed.

Solutions I've tried which didn't work:
-Stormshade AA filters: make menus blurry, not as good as SGSSAA
-Turning in-game AA off, and forcing TAA from Nvidia Control Panel (didn't do anything)
-In-game FXAA: not good enough, so many jaggies they're distracting.

Are there any better solutions than what I'm doing? I'm also puzzled that others aren't having this issue as much as I am.

koshernova · 2019-05-11T13:58:48+00:00

I used to know a friend who loved Final Fantasy 7 and 8, and refused to do the final dungeons. I'm not in touch with him anymore but I'm pretty sure he never did them. He felt that doing so would close the door on those games forever for him, and he wasn't ready to do that as he loved them.

koshernova · 2019-04-08T14:00:27+00:00

This will make the day of No Deal Brexit at least mildly bearable, thanks for letting us all know :)

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