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A metaphor: I once played in a D&D campaign where a player tried to create an extremely overpowered but technically legal character. His justification was that he would only use th…

Most fans I saw called it by the Japanese title, Shingeki no Kyojin. You could almost tell whether someone watched the official licensed translation or not, based on what they call…

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AI is not immune to accusations of political bias, as we've seen recently from Grok. A while back there was a story going around that licensors were replacing human translators wit…

The Crunchyroll/Funimation merger was a really bad deal for fans, in that a huge number of series were never ported over to Crunchyroll before the Funimation shutdown. Initially, t…

Most anime on Crunchyroll are softsubs. There's a single video file for each supported resolution, an audio file for each language, and a subtitle file in the highly versatile .ass…

Why don't they take the timings from the closed captions of the original Japanese broadcast?

Getting proper nouns wrong is a flaw I thought we left behind in the fansub era. The official translator should in theory have the Japanese closed captioning and copies of the anim…

Perhaps this is going to go like in the UK, where Palestine Action was proscribed, with the secondary effect that anyone who expresses support for Palestine Action is designated a …

The term has become genericized, like Kleenex or Hoover.

Commodore's strategy was to sell an entry-level computer as cheaply as possible, whereas the Amiga's initial selling point is that it was cutting-edge but still somewhat affordable…

I think the future is in curating trustworthy websites. A current popular strategy is to append `site:reddit.com` to guarantee human-generated answers. I don't search Google any mo…

The author notes that circles don't draw well due to mouse polling, but I wonder if this isn't a limit of the emulator running on Windows. I remember Deluxe Paint III on the Amiga …

In the late 90s and early 00s, blogs were originally "weblogs" or "web logs", just a sort of online diary. It was mainly something you wrote, rather than something for others to re…

Note to others: This comment made more sense when the title was "Does anyone still use Morse code?"

The founder of romhacking.net announced it was shutting down in August 2024 due to some kind of internal drama. Romhack.ing was established as a spiritual successor shortly thereaf…

In March 1998, CU Amiga magazine gave away the Amiga port of Doom. It was three DSDD disks, even accounting for the Amiga's larger 880 KB rather than 720 KB capacity. It was also o…

They're right to point out that laws like this are primarily motivated by government control of speech. On a recent Times article about the UK's Online Safety Act: > Luckily, we do…

They're right to point out that laws like this are primarily motivated by government control of speech. On a recent Times article about the UK's Online Safety Act: > Luckily, we do…

My solution to a lot of issues is to use Tiddlywiki Classic. No divs inside p that I can find, less bloat (412 KB for a blank file instead of 2.5 MB), and it's still maintained. Th…

Note: The TiddlyWiki documentation explicitly advises that File -> Save Page does not work. You have to click a save button in the app, and it will generate a valid copy. However, …

I used TiddlyWiki a lot to manage my D&D 3.5 campaign back in the day. As I recall, it originally was a true stand-alone HTML document capable of overwriting itself, but once brows…

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