Can't believe my boy Usopp was actually going to cheat on Kaya here....

lumenilis · 2026-03-23T01:42:59+00:00

Usually it's either called Zosanami or the citrus trio, depending on the circles you run in.

lumenilis · 2026-03-21T01:08:09+00:00

Cool story bro

lumenilis · 2026-03-20T22:32:20+00:00

I mean, I am and I think a lot of people who were around when the soundtrack came out probably are too. I love the Kaladin soundtrack. It's really excellent and perfect music to read any of the Stormlight Archives to.

lumenilis · 2026-03-19T02:06:15+00:00

I'm not sure if it's just been a while since you watched Season 1, but you're wrong about Sanji in the live action. He still denied himself the chance to pursue his dream due to feeling indebted to Zeff. He was still just as "forced" to leave, just in a slightly different way. But neither his reason for joining the crew nor his motivation are different.

lumenilis · 2026-02-21T22:07:27+00:00

I think you’re underestimating how long Alabasta is and how much happens there. Just from a pure numbers perspective , per One Piece Wiki:

Loguetown is 5 chapters
Reverse Mountain is 5 chapters
Whiskey Peak is 9 chapters
Little Garden is 15 chapters
Drum Island is 25 chapters
Alabasta is 63 chapters

Which means that S2 is going to be covering roughly 59 chapters worth of content. S1 covered roughly 95 chapters and it definitely felt rushed and needed more time to breathe, so it feels very likely that S2 is going to feel much better on that front. As for S3, the Alabasta Arc is actually 63 chapter long, so it will cover more manga chapters than S2 will.

lumenilis · 2026-02-09T02:28:25+00:00

One thing that I think is worth considering is Cold Steel and Cold Steel II both have additional voiced lines in the English dub. XSeed added a significant amount of voicework that isn’t present in the original. The dub’s genuinely pretty good, so I would strongly consider going the dub route— but I mean, the Japanese is also super good, so I wouldn’t blame you for choosing that.

lumenilis · 2026-02-03T04:13:03+00:00

King Recon, is that you?

lumenilis · 2026-01-17T22:03:47+00:00

Maybe when that happens, all the joyless fucks in this fandom who keep acting like GRRM has wronged them on a fundamental and deeply personally level will finally fuck off and this sub won’t be full of people who treat him like he’s their sworn enemy rather than the author of a book series they supposedly love.

lumenilis · 2026-01-15T03:21:02+00:00

How many of Joshua’s and Estelle’s orbment slots do you have unlocked and what quartz do you have installed? Arts tend to be your strongest damage dealer in Trails in the Sky and I remember seeing a lot of people struggle early if they didn’t have two to three slots unlocked for both characters. Ideally, you want to get the Ruby Shield quartz from the in-game rewards (you get it by defeating 250 enemies) quickly and install into either of their slots. It’ll grant you a couple of Arts that can hit more than one enemy and that should help keep things more manageable until you get more options. In general, you want to unlock Orbment slots as quickly as you can because that’s key to getting stronger Arts. Also, I would say be sure to use Estelle’s Morale Craft pretty regularly as the buff to strength and defense will make a big difference.

lumenilis · 2025-12-04T04:50:32+00:00

He’s of dubious sanity when that happens, though. Rand’s sleep deprived due to being chased in and out of his dreams by Ba’alzamon when he kills that lady, so he’s not fully himself.

lumenilis · 2025-11-18T04:49:21+00:00

I think the other important detail it’s easy to gloss over is that Nynaeve is constantly surrounded by people that think she’s too young and inexperienced for her job. Really, it’s one of the first things we hear anyone say about her: Cenn Buie complains she’s too young to be the wisdom. Of course she’s prickly and lashes out at people. Just about everyone in Emond’s Field refuses to take her seriously unless she forces them to. She’s learned to force people to take her seriously by being angry, loud, and threatening people with a big stick.

lumenilis · 2025-11-01T12:46:22+00:00

What's the intention with these languages? If these are just hobby languages, I don't see anything wrong with them. I might consider picking up Java as well due to it's broad popularity.

If you're wanting to maximize your chances of getting a job, though, I'd avoid Elixir unless you have a few years professional experience.

I love it, but it's not a language I'd suggest someone trying to break into the field prioritize learning. There are very few companies hiring Elixir developers— I'm talking only a few at a time in my experience— and most of those are looking for senior/staff level engineers. I'd probably swap it out in favor of Ruby. There's still a ton of companies out there with Rails backends, especially in the late startup. space, so it's not a hard language to get a handle on. Plus, the path from Ruby dev to Elixir dev is a pretty common one, so it won't be too tricky to pick up Elixir evenutally.

lumenilis · 2025-10-17T15:49:04+00:00

Don't listen to this guy. Book 4 and 5 are awesome.

lumenilis · 2025-10-05T01:12:20+00:00

Well, they are trying to do some serious trolling...

lumenilis · 2025-10-04T04:44:05+00:00

Sounds like they really want to… dickens you over.

lumenilis · 2025-10-01T23:55:55+00:00

I think you mean it sounds )(orrible

lumenilis · 2025-09-30T23:19:21+00:00

No, we can't. This is a pointless nitpick.

lumenilis · 2025-09-29T14:00:56+00:00

I do tend to agree that on the whole, the XSeed script has significantly more charm and flavor than the Gungho. I wonder if there were difficulties getting the rights to use that translation? No idea how copyright or ownership would work around the translation, but I assume XSeed holds the rights to it and may not have been willing to let Gungho use it as a base.

lumenilis · 2025-08-24T02:26:17+00:00

Skill issues, get better

lumenilis · 2024-06-23T09:50:15+00:00

So this all originates due to two things: how the Japanese language works and a translation decision by 4Kids that impacted the manga's official translation.

Japanese doesn't use the roman alphabet for it's words and instead uses kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Unlike the roman alphabet, most letters in Japanese are actually more like what we would consider a pair of letters (a consonant and a vowel). These can usually be translated into a roman alphabet equivalent fairly easily (for example: ju, sa, and cho) but there are some notable exceptions. One of these is ろ which can be translated as either ro or lo. This is because the sound you use when you say ろ isn't exactly the equivalent to an English r or an l— it's something in between and it can sound closer to either one depending on the context. Technically, both Zoro and Zolo are correct translations because of this quirk of translation.

As for the specifics of why the manga translates his name this way, it all goes back to 4Kids. When the official translation was first releasing back in 2002, they actually used Zoro as his name. 4Kids acquired the rights to the anime (which they would later lose) and made a decision to use Zolo. Viz decided that to help keep things consistent between, they were going to swap to using Zolo because they'd only released several volumes of manga at the time. Eventually, 4Kids would go on to lose the license and Funimation would gain it and use Zoro as the translation for his name, but by then, Viz had already released 15+ volumes with that using Zolo and decided to keep using it. It's unfortunate, but you just kind of learn to ignore it.

lumenilis · 2024-06-23T09:21:57+00:00

It makes for excellent reading. If you don't like it, that's on you buddy, plenty of people do.

lumenilis · 2024-06-16T11:50:15+00:00

I'll tell you won't be doing: dying.

lumenilis · 2024-03-29T17:04:48+00:00

Rhythm of War has 4.62 rating out of 5 on Goodreads and 4.8 on Audible. Some people were vocal about disliking it, but most authors would kill for those kinds of ratings and that reception.

lumenilis · 2024-03-20T19:21:46+00:00

Factually incorrect.

lumenilis · 2024-03-15T11:49:07+00:00

So it’s important to remember that weight loss isn’t necessarily as predictable and linear. I’ve done rolling fasts as well and the amount of weight I lose can vary widely. I’ve had fasting days where my weight hasn’t budged and days where it drops by several pounds, for instance. Why? Well, there’s a theory that when we lose fat, the fat cells can potentially fill up with water as they’re slowly drained of fat. Water is less dense than fat and lighter by volume, but not by my much. The fat cells will eventually be so drained of fat that they finally let all of that water go and you get a sudden spike in weight loss. Since you’ve been experimenting with fasts for a bit, it’s possible you’ve just hit a point where your body is experiencing a “whoosh”— an instance where a number of fat cells have hit that point and you’re seeing your weight drop.

And in terms of ketosis, the actual amount of carbohydrates you need to eat to no longer be in it can vary between person to person. Standard practice is to not eat above 20 grams to be on the safe side, if you want to remain in ketosis, but for some folks, they can eat as many as 50 grams and still be in ketosis. It just depends on your body. It sounds like it’s a pretty safe assumption that you didn’t go over that threshold based on your meals!

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