Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
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It's amazing how much of a difference in nostalgia playing Game Boy Advance games on my #SteamDeck has with filters off vs having them on. This is Pokemon Emerald running with lcd-shader-gba-color.glsp as a shader in Retroarch.
It emulates the shitty LCD frame blur and dimmed colors of the original GBA I grew up with, and honestly, while not being a 1:1 effect with the original, it just feels "right".
I used to think I hated Shaders but it turns out people just used inaccurate ones. This's gr8
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Appreciate your friends, family, and especially lovers. Say hi to them once in a while instead of being absorbed in whatever you typically do. Tell them that you appreciate/love them and actually mean it. Realize that there is a possibility they might not always be there.
Don't obsess over it of course, because then you're not enjoying the time you have with them, you're watching a clock dreading every second passing instead of putting all your focus on to the people who mean something to you.
@WMan22 I'm not really a fan of idol culture, however, some idol anime are pretty cute and entertaining.
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@olives There's good dubs. Black Lagoon comes to mind, and so does Cowboy Bebop. But that's about it.
One of the problems you tend to run into with #anime dubs is the delayed release problem.
Let's say an episode comes out in Japan. If you're someone who watches the subs, you can watch it almost immediately.
If you watch dubs, you got to wait a month for that release.
You also lose some of that foreign culture exposure / foreign language practice, which frankly, is missing a good part of what gives it value.
If you learn Japanese entirely from anime though, you're going to sound like an anime character to anyone there, lol.
And there are so many ways for the quality of the content to degrade.
It also tends to get a bit less quirky and tends to get flatter, and I really think the world could do with more quirky and "weird" content, not less of it.
That is simply... More interesting.
Cool site, although a bit flashy, lol.
@olives https://fauux.neocities.org/
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Someone defending dubs? o.O
Dubs are practically always worse than subs. Always. Not even a question about it. In a lot of ways. #anime
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-ai-to-predict-online-video-terrorism Disturbing pre-crime program.
If you're both an #anime fan and a programmer, I'd suggest watching Serial Experiments Lain, although it is a very, very strange anime, lol.
It is interesting though.
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Finished watching #SerialExperimentsLain.
That was a great and still very relevant #anime!
Since I'm seeing the name coming up, Serial Experiments Lain is certainly an... interesting anime.
Well, try it, lol.
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Selecta Vision Schedules Original ‘Hellsing’ With New #Anime DVD/BD Release http://dlvr.it/StNPSs
Japanese attitudes to continuity and canon
@kayeluvian how about "parallel universe" lol
Have I mentioned how freakin random the posts which get federated are? Lol.
So, so random.
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I just found out my sister died, she passed on June 24th. I dont know the cause of death yet....
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344 What do you think of this search feature?
@KristianHarstad I've been a fierce critic of Bluesky for months.
They're doing literally everything wrong.
From artificially limiting users with invites, with empty promises rather than getting something out (and improving on it later), to Silicon Valley cryptobros parachuting themselves in (rather than something being a community effort) to "save" everyone.
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Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
