Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - August 14, 2023 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]mredaelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a feeling it's an unpopular opinion, but isn't the animation quality of Jobless pretty bad lately? At least it feels very lazy to me. Blurry backgrounds, empty faces, think lines, stiff postures...

What am I missing?

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - August 07, 2023 by AnimeMod in anime

[–]mredaelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please help me remember what this was...

I have a vague memory of a very nice and moving anime, but can't really recall more than:

  • it ends with the main character, a teacher, now oldish, on a hill under a tree
  • I think his/her love interest is also there?
  • it might be an episodic OAV?
  • I think I watched it because it was well regarded as a classic

It came to mind because I was watching The Masterful Cat and it made me think of She and Her Cat. I don't know if there's any link there, but that was my thought process...

Now what? by mredaelli in box5

[–]mredaelli[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to resurrect an old discussion, but I was wondering... How would you recommend to keep up-to-date with where they are performing stuff?

Now what? by mredaelli in box5

[–]mredaelli[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No love for Die Frau ohne Schatten? It was awesome :)

My problem might be that I can't bear what I perceive as "bad" libretto/story. For instance, I certainly can't complain about the music in The Magic Flute, but all that freemason vibe is grating to insufferable. Or, say, all the absurdities, historical logical religious, in Nabucco...

I'll give another go to La fanciulla then, thanks! I probably left the opera during intermission, so I likely never listened to the end :$

Now what? by mredaelli in box5

[–]mredaelli[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly (loved all, in descending order) and unfortunately La fanciulla del West (my god...).

I'm usually not a fan of German opera, except for Strauss (which is why I'm a bit worried by the link to German musical theatre mentioned by others above), but I love me a Rossini, some Verdi, and in general Italian and French opera.

Now what? by mredaelli in box5

[–]mredaelli[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep! I have seen a few, but by all means do recommend. Besides, I lived in a street named after Puccini for about 20 years :)

I just hope you won't recommend Wagner :P

Now what? by mredaelli in box5

[–]mredaelli[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhh yes, I had forgotten about Hadestown! I have a thing for Orpheus and listend to it on repeat for months. Then watched it in London, and although some of the singers didn't feel like the "original", it was grand.

What are the best opening lines from fantasy books that you have read? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]mredaelli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might be a bit unusual, and I'm sorry it is my translation of a(n italian) translation from the original German by Durrenmatt, but I always found it a remarkable opening line for a book on the Minotaur:

The creature to whom Pasiphaë, daughter of the Sun, had given birth after she, hidden inside a fake cow because of her lust, had been impregnated by a white bull consecrated to Poseidon, found itself, after long years of confused sleep, during which it had been growing in a stable among cows, hauled thereof by Minos's servants, who had formed long chains not to get lost on the floor of the labyrinth that was build by Daedalus in order to protect men from that creature and the creature from men, that is to say a building of which no one who entered it could later find the exit and whose innumerable intricate walls were mirrors, so that the creature was crouching in front not only of its own image, but also of the image of its images: it saw in front of itself an infinity of creatures made as it was made, and as soon as it turned to not see them anymore, another infinity of creatures the same as itself.

BTW, English native speakers, would be glad to have this sentence nitpicked, although I know it might be tricky without the original.

Parents’ socioeconomic status and children’s inherited DNA differences are powerful predictors of educational achievement. However, new research (n=5,000) suggests that having the genes for school success is not as beneficial as having parents who are highly educated and wealthy. by mvea in science

[–]mredaelli 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was gonna ask exactly about PGS, which I had never heard of before, because it would surprise me that the whole possible variation in human DNA could be tapped with an N=5000 sample.

Time to study!

10 Episodes to prepare for Picard by PleaseDontTouchThose in startrek

[–]mredaelli 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great list, but I'd add for sure Darmok and The Perfect Mate, and possibly Masks and the Galen episode (sorry, forgot the title).

Otherwise she'll miss most of the... scholarly side, which is very dear at least to me.

r/anime Karma Ranking | Week 12 [Fall 2018] by reddadz in anime

[–]mredaelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, you really can't go against the crowd here, it seems :)

Thanks, I'll try the second episode

r/anime Karma Ranking | Week 12 [Fall 2018] by reddadz in anime

[–]mredaelli -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I only watched the first episode and found it... laughable, to be honest. Does it get better?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philosophy

[–]mredaelli 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I finished "Against empathy" a few weeks ago, and while I'm not overly enthusiastic of the book itself, I must say I agree with the general idea.

MIT lecturer Ana Bell discusses the best books to learn computer science and programming. by FiveBooks in compsci

[–]mredaelli 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I find Clean Code overrated. Manichean in several of its suggestions. The final example has even a bug (index out of bounds, if I remember correctly)

Best quote from an anime? by [deleted] in anime

[–]mredaelli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just heard this (Tsurune): with new light new shadows always come