I usually prefer subs for serious works and dubs for comedy – assuming the dub doesn’t completely suck.

I don’t understand the cutlery, but I could see someone modding this version of Rei into Nier:Automata…

Imagine some future PugJesus type excavating our memes from the archives and reposting this 1000 years from now. 🧐️

I think they mean that they’re blaming Mary Sue-ish/wish fulfillment isekai specifically. i.e. like stories that are stereotypical of self-published content on Shosetsuka ni Narou (lit. “Let’s Become a Novelist”) – not two separate genres.

(“Narou” itself just means “let’s become”, but it’s slang for the website if I understand correctly.)

Yep, salt. Also, there are much better options than MD5. I used bcrypt in systems I built a while back. There’s also scrypt and argon2, which are newer. (Just be careful that you don’t create a DoS vulnerability while hardening your login system…)

RIP.

(Screenshot is from Bodacious Space Pirates – he directed the anime.)

May the Fourth be with you

Miku/Teto version:

Hmm. So… how long do you think before we start seeing news stories about their DRM servers getting hit with DDOS attacks (or other network fuckery) and no one being able to play their PS4/PS5 games? 😛️

Better out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices would be very welcome. The defaults are pretty painfully robotic… (Try spd-say "Hello world" if you don’t know what I mean.)

Trivial to use on-device dictation software could also be useful.

The capabilities of models like qwen3.6 to do things like on-device image analysis are pretty incredible if you have hardware capable of running it – I’ve run it on a Framework Desktop – but I have no desire to expose my systems directly to AI agents. That’s just asking for trouble… If an AI agent can fuck up, it will fuck up eventually, and I’d rather it not have the ability to delete my files when it does.

Isn’t there also a chemical method to do it? I’m not a chicken farmer though. Maybe even with that it doesn’t make sense economically.

Still though, it feels like there’s an opportunity there that a creative marketing campaign could exploit to transform what’s currently a waste product into something more valuable. If not “Premium Chicken” then maybe “Ethical Rooster Meat” or an “Eat the patriarchy!” angle or something. Selling the sizzle rather than the steak, so to speak…

That’s one of the things about the current industrial processes that I don’t get. Capons (neutered roosters) used to be prized over regular chicken, and they’re much easier to keep than regular roosters. You’d think someone would try diverting at least some of the male chicks from the macerator to market as “Premium Chicken” or something.

I’d sweeten the evaporated milk (i.e. make sweetened condensed milk out of it) then use that to make Thai Iced Tea.

I’d also cook up some fried rice.

I don’t have the right ingredients (e.g. Jasmine rice) on hand to make a good Thai-style fried rice without going to the store, so I’d probably just make one of my usual (more Chinese/Japanese influenced) fried rice variants and serve the pineapple diced up on the side. There are pineapple fried rice recipes though (including some that call for serving the rice inside the hollowed out pineapple) which might be fun to try if I made a store run with these ingredients in mind.

Glad you got outside and were able to get things sorted out without too much trouble! Having gone from “complete shut-in” back to “goes outside at least once in a while” myself, I will say it gets easier the more you do it.

Might be this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vk6hANjLeU

YT thinks I’m a bot and has me blocked for some reason, so can’t confirm.

On the original CD-ROM, it was SOUND/RADIO/STATIONS/Bluegrass/MUSIC/sp.WAV

Probably the best song in the game. Certainly the most memorable!

I think I’d get bored pretty quick just driving around with no goal – although, I did have a fair amount of fun driving around Streets of Sim City as a kid and probably spent more time messing around my own SC2K maps than I did with the actual game missions, so I could be wrong about how bored I’d get of a pure driving simulator…

Regardless of whether I’d enjoy it, I have family members who I’m pretty sure would find it right up their alley – especially the classic car aspect.

Wasn’t seeing it here on reddthat yet until I tried loading it manually, so I’m guessing the bot that automatically subscribes to new communities failed.

Not an exhaustive list, but here’s some of what I usually have on hand (including fridge/freezer items that keep a long time):

• Pasta (various kinds but usually at least spaghetti and shells)
• Canned beans (I usually have black beans and chickpeas + sometimes others)
• Canned tomatoes
• Chicken stock (either in tetrapaks, cubes, paste or some other shelf-stable version) – sometimes other kinds of stock (e.g. vegetable stock too) but usually at least chicken stock
• Salt, Pepper, MSG + a good selection of various dried herbs/spices/seasonings (e.g. basil, oregano, cumin, cayenne, garlic powder, etc.)
• Soy sauce
• Vinegar
• Olive oil
• Neutral vegetable oil
• Butter
• Canned fish (at least tuna and/or sardines)
• Cheeses (I usually have Parmesan, pepper jack, and American cheese slices that melt easily [e.g. velveeta or kraft singles or something like that] plus sometimes cheddar or Swiss)
• Peanut butter
• Flour
• Baking soda
• Yeast
• Chocolate
• Cocoa powder
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Milk (UHT lasts a long time)
• Salsa
• Canned or frozen green vegetables (e.g. peas, spinach, etc.)
• Rice
• Bread (frozen for storage)
• Dried lentils
• Dried fruit
• Cornstarch
• Ground meat (frozen)
• Tea
• Ketchup
• Mustard
• Mayonnaise

(may add more to this as I think of things)

Been there. Got so bad that at one point I was seriously concerned I’d get fired over lack of productivity due to anxiety and depression. I was already in therapy for the anxiety (and some traumatic events that were then recent in my life) but had been resisting pharmaceuticals.

Two things helped me. One, I started keeping a weekly list of the hours I’d been mentally “on the clock” at least trying to work – whether or not I actually got anything useful done – along with a note of what I was trying to work on. When I got to 40 hours, I was done for the week. Off the clock. Unless I was doing something that I really wanted to get done or some emergency that really needed my attention came up, I was just done. Could do whatever the fuck I wanted with my time with no guilt. (If I did get called for a work emergency or was pursuing something particularly interesting, I logged those hours and deducted them from the next week’s 40 hours.) I used a text file for this and wrote a little python script to tally my hours automatically – do what works for you. This alone helped me a lot.

The second thing I did was I got on an SSRI. That reduced the amount of chest pain and severity of anxiety attacks I was having. After they took effect, I’d say I had more of “Oh fuck it, I’ll just do it” attitude to things I’d put off from anxiety before. Didn’t solve everything, mind you, and I still have a hard time getting myself to go outside regularly, but it’s not the ordeal it was every time before, at least. It lowered the bar for doing things rather than removing it completely, basically.

If your problems persist, seek a therapist. A licensed, human therapist – not an LLM! – and tell them what’s going on. My therapist strongly encouraged me to try medication after we’d been talking for a while, and eventually I took his advice and got a psychiatrist who prescribed the SSRIs.

Best of luck.

Hmm. Maybe I’d make chilled barley tea with the toasted barley, and a simple chickpea salad with slices of bell pepper to accompany it – or, alternatively, hummus with the bellpepper to dip in it. Would be good for hot weather.

If the weather’s cold, maybe lentil and barley soup with the bellpepper added in as an extra ingredient along with any other veggies I have on hand that seem like they’d be good in a soup. (Edit: Maybe experiment with the Cajun “Holy Trinity” – celery, bell pepper, onion – as the base? I haven’t tried that for lentil barley soup before, but might be interesting.)