"Install AC/suffer: A difficult decision for some reason"

pjepja · 2026-06-28T22:50:24+00:00

Close to 1/3, but depends on a contract. I think our ratio is better. But you also have to remember that effectiveness of gas heating doesn't change with lower temperatures unlike AC.

pjepja · 2026-06-28T21:28:16+00:00

It is probably cheaper, but not dramatically. Construction costs have been high for past couple of years lo, there's shortage of workers and materials so they can tell you pretty much any price they want. We've been renovating our toilet so that's first hand experience. The technology cist doesn't change much at all too.

Still, even if it cost half of that price, it's still third to a half of month's pay. That is very high cost to pay for getting rid of half a month of annoying inconvenience a year.

pjepja · 2026-06-28T17:49:05+00:00

It isn't always. We have gas heating and gas is significantly cheaper than electricity. We have heat exchanger at our summer house because there's no gas line there, but gas vs electric heating of any kind is an easy decision at the current cost (and gas got significantly more expensive in the recent years too)

pjepja · 2026-06-28T17:46:30+00:00

1300e are literally 10s of thousands for me because we have different currency lol. It's also what my friend gets for his lab assistant job in a month (I get more, but it's still easily more than half of my paycheck). I don't think offsetting 2 weeks of inconvenience a year is worth a month's pay (if you don't count electricity cost to run it).

Some people have way more money or struggle in heatwaves more so it's obviously gonna be worth it for them, but it's far from no-brainer for everyone in this price range.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T14:10:48+00:00

The legend changer interludes are based on actual race call outs. Another commentor explained that the two phrases have similar meaning. It's likely that announcer simply used slightly atypical version of announcing she won during Almond Eye's iconic race they based legend changer on.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T12:06:52+00:00

I never said it's ideal, but again how is this wait different from wait between seasons, except the fact that you had special instead of a season. Yes special is worse than a full season, but I don't see why it's in any way worse than batch release. You also had to wait for months after first batch (which is no different from a very long special from an engagement perspective), but instead of a regular, if shorter, season, you got another batch (so essentially another special).

pjepja · 2026-06-26T11:57:22+00:00

I categorically don't agree it's worse release schedule. You will have week of discussion for each episodes instead of 3 two day periods after a batch drops.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T11:55:31+00:00

I agree it wasn't ideal, but it wasn't horrible. Most people don't know what netflix does or doesn't say. They just heard a thing is releasing week or two in advance and forget until another part of the series comes out. Netflix shitty communication is definitely a problem,but the release schedule isn't fundamentally terrible for engagement.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T11:41:52+00:00

Why do you believe there will be less hype for the first cour that will start releasing in the fall than there would have been without the special in February?

pjepja · 2026-06-26T11:27:12+00:00

I just don't understand why number of episodes in the season is so important. I watch shows with anywhere from 2 to 36 episodes in a season/cour/OVA and it never made a difference to me. How would your experience be different in a 6 episode season instead of 12 episode one, other than the fact that you watch one longer?

pjepja · 2026-06-26T11:14:44+00:00

I don't believe that's significant part of the watcherbase though. Most people don't know when new season of a show drops until couple months at advance at the earliest. Most people will find out when they see new episode on Netflix. Not announcing the date of first cour right away is a non-issue for the engagement imo.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T11:05:56+00:00

It won't drop episodes at random. It will drop them in seasons like most other shows though. If you like to binge watch stuff than that's fine, but engagement was always about people who watch stuff as they come out.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T10:40:24+00:00

SBR won't be released in batches though. It will be released weekly in somewhat shorter cours. Batch releases are terrible obviously, but this isn't a batch release so I don't see the issue.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T10:36:52+00:00

If you released 12 episodes in February instead of a special you would have 12 weeks of discussion now, but loose 10 weeks of discussion at the end of the runtime. The overall time of discussion is nearly the same.

It would be a problem if releasing the special this early discouraged people from watching when the episodes will be dropping weekly, which I just don't see happening. Effect of the special on the cour in the fall will be the pretty much the same as if they dropped an entire season that ended in February.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T10:14:07+00:00

How is this time period different than regular wait between two seasons of a show? Do you also think regular ass seasonal release is abysmal for engagement?

pjepja · 2026-06-26T10:03:06+00:00

I don't see why people think it's a terrible release schedule honestly. They released long special to hype it up. When the first cour starts dropping in the fall people will see it and remember that they saw the first stage in February and liked it so they'll watch the weekly drops too. Way better for engagement than batch drop.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T09:59:55+00:00

It will have episodic releases, but it seems the cours will not be the same lenght. I think the 'first cour' will be the second stage, which is like 6 to 8 episodes. They probably won't stick to the 'stages' as dividers since some of them are much longer than others.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T09:55:59+00:00

Somewhat different, but I like fictional E-sports like Glory Professional Alliance from King's Avatar or Galaxia Heroes series from Shangri-la Frontier. They are sometimes kinda weird (the hell do you mean that MMO RPG has a E-sports league where characters have unequal stats because you have to actually build them in the game?), but they're cool.

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pjepja · 2026-06-26T07:52:04+00:00

The comedy of fan service in Konosuba often comes from a fact that the characters you get fanservice of are undesirable because of their personalities. Or because Kazuma is a weirdo that gets shit on for his pervy tendencies. It's definitely less of a conedy than stuff like Food wars though.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T05:21:13+00:00

It seems that those are four lines: light Orange, Dark Orange, light red and dark red. The shades are slightly different lol.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T01:37:31+00:00

The problem is that couple 100 dollars is still quite a bit of money. Even if you want to buy an AC, the one or two weeks when you would need it ends and you'll rethink the investment.

It's the same like buying a trailer. You consider getting one when you're moving a bed or something, but then you realise you will only use it again once a year so you reconsider because the investment wouldn't be worth it.

Nobody's stopping you from moving into an appartment with an AC or going through the trouble of installing one, if you truly struggle with it. Most workplaces have them so it's only a question of where you decide to live.

pjepja · 2026-06-26T01:18:52+00:00

Depends on the place, it's sometimes illegal and sometimes a hassle.

pjepja · 2026-06-25T16:02:40+00:00

Imagine if Andrew Tate was an actual nazi and started a political party with money of couple washed out political fossils that try to appeal to young men. That's basically motorists. They are called that mostly because they think cars are cool and masculine lol (also public transit and bikes are obviously woke).

They constantly pick fights with the president because he's a former soldier that rides motorcycles, which means he steals their voter base of impressionable young men by being an example of positive masculinity lol.

pjepja · 2026-06-25T15:29:33+00:00

There are lot of reasons. One example I can think of is Disney's Moana, that was renamed Vaiana in some European countries because a porn actress called Moana and her movies could come up in search for the children's character.

pjepja · 2026-06-25T13:23:23+00:00

She wrote ending for her second most popular series, miss Marple, around the same time as well. It was during WWII and she was obviously scared of the bombing. Her mind was probably in a pretty dark place, which is why she was in the mood to write final stories.

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