Trigun - Verrrry slowly been watching the OG classic. I’m only a few episodes away from the end. Finally some more backstory filling in details! It’s good, but I’m not quite blown away, while something like OG Cowboy Bebop still holds up.
It’s the last four episodes that really make the show on this one, so you may yet change your mind.
A lot of Broadcom cards are supported, so you either have a missing driver/firmware blob or some really bad luck.
Historically, phone line modems were very often unsupported (some people may remember the term “winmodem”), but hardly anyone uses them anymore, so the problem has effectively gone away. Older consumer-grade printers that didn’t speak Postscript, ditto. I own a very old TV capture card of the analog type that has never been supported, but probably won’t work with modern Windows either.
Modern hardware is more likely to be supported unless it’s too niche to attract developers, or too bleeding-edge for its protocol to have been reverse-engineered yet.
People who wonder why I use a Linux desktop environment whose appearance and behaviour are basically unchanged from what they were 20 years ago, and daily drive a browser that forked from Firefox 27 and still uses that UI: this is why.
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines . . . but they’re not even trying.
Lord of the Mysteries
I’ll watch. It wasn’t in the seasonal list for summer, so nice catch
I suspect it wasn’t on the seasonal list because it’s a donghua rather than an anime in the strict sense. The first episode suggests it may end up being style over substance, but it’s got enough style that I’ll continue with it.
Silly Awards Time!
One thing I have wondered since season 1 is why its target demographic is seinen. IMO suspense is one of those genres that cater to all age groups and genders.
Hmmm. Shounen publishers might have thought that a political-intrigue-based story with a female lead wouldn’t be popular enough with their demographic, and josei tends so strongly toward mundane modern-day settings with romance that an historical whose romance is very slow burn might have been a hard sell. Shoujo might have fit, but I suspect there weren’t enough flowers, sighs, and bishounen. (Saiunkoku Monogatari, which is the most similar other series I can think of, has a much higher number of pretty young men in the cast and was published as shoujo.)
So it might have ended up seinen by default.
The last part (or two parts?) of the Vampire Princess Miyu OAV when I first saw it ~30 years ago. Of course, it probably didn’t help that I was watching it at weird o’clock in the morning.
I knew that Amazon order with the catnip toys went missing for a reason!
Part of the reason is likely that farming equipment is bloody expensive. A new combine harvester can cost nearly a million dollars, and there aren’t a hell of a lot of used electrical machines on the market yet. Each farm will have several machines that currently run on gas or diesel. How many can the average farmer afford to replace how fast?
In the McCarthy era, whatever the average person said usually didn’t make it past the actual people they said it to (and those people’s gossip buddies, possibly) unless someone had an axe to grind and wanted to get them in trouble. Today, anything you say has circled the globe ten times, been indexed in multiple systems, and fed to someone’s AI assistant before the hour is out. Yet another way in which technological change is a mixed bag.
got to admit the first season wasn’t exactly memorable
Yeah, it’s pretty much mediocre from start to finish. Not horrible in any category, but the only thing that makes it stand out from all the other “loser is thrown out of adventuring party, then shows that he’s actually pretty competent and gets a harem masquerading as a new party” shows of the past few years is the fact that they made a second cours of it (and now, apparently, a third).
though, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the resurrection potion
Loulan’s words to Jinshi about people who have “already died once” being let off the hook feel like they almost guarantee it, but I guess we’ll find out for sure next episode.
“Has never been higher” = “less than a fifth are okay with it, but hey, that’s higher than 1%!”
If the problem is purely allergies, careful exposure to the allergens under controlled conditions should have some of them able to walk around without suits within a generation. Although they’ll likely need to carry hayfever meds and epi-pen equivalents around.
. . . with GTK4 already out there. Anyway, I’ll stick with menuconfig, since it’s better for configuring a kernel on a system that doesn’t yet have a GUI.
That they didn’t have enough technicians trained in this to be able to ensure that one was always available during working hours, or at least when it was glaringly obvious that one was going to be needed that day, is . . . both extremely and obviously stupid, and par for the course for a corp whose sole purpose is maximizing profit for the next quarter.
The problem is, music lyrics in many languages aren’t always representative of how the language is actually spoken—you can get tortured grammar or pronunciation and strange vocabulary that the artist chose to make a point—and depending on the type of music, it may be difficult to make out the words at all. That doesn’t mean it’s useless, but you have to be somewhat cautious with it.
Beryl’s former students need to band together and get him some etiquette lessons if he keeps having to rub elbows with the royal family, or he’ll sooner or later end up feeling terminally embarassed about something to do with a dessert fork.
Some of the existing countertariffs are targeted specifically at the southern states (thus oranges, sugar, tobacco, and such) who tend to be more likely to vote Republican. The idea was originally less “strike out against everyone in the US even if they didn’t want this” and more “hurt the people who caused this mess”. How well that’s worked in practice is difficult to say.