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I finished The Tatami Galaxy last week. It’s timely as I’m graduating next year and I have some regrets with my university life. Tatami Galaxy is a great show to cope with that. Masaaki Yuasa’s style is incredible by the way. Maybe at some point I’ll watch all of his works. If anyone here is a fan of DAN DA DAN, you should watch Yuasa.
Interestingly, NHK ni Youkoso is about moe, or at least it’s a major point of the show (otaku and moe). I hope you enjoy it. It’s one of my favorite anime.
I’ve caught up with the English translation of Asako.
I really like it. The first few pages might deter a lot of people but I think the author handles the age gap relationship quite well and the other themes in the book like sexuality, preadolescence, memories, adulthood, etc. I expected the entire story to revolve around the relationship of the two but it extends far past that.
Depending on how it goes from here, it might be up there with my other all time favorites like Flowers of Evil and Three Days of Happiness.
Maybe I’ll put up a post comparing it with “My Boy” some day as they’re both similar situations but handled differently.
Oh I had a similar experience in elementary school. Our teacher knew and told us that Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore but because the textbook was out of date, she told us that if it came up on our tests, consider Pluto a planet anyway.
The way of the future
There’s a recent post about the 5XX errors and I think it’s related to this as well. I’m still figuring out what’s going on but from what I can tell, Lemmy-UI (the default frontend for Lemmy) is acting really strange lately. In the meantime, you can try using the other frontends (photon.ani.social or alexandrite.ani.social) or a different instance while I sort things out.
Anime has such a broad definition nowadays so I think it’s fine. There are other instances that can house it as well like lemmy.zip which I think is focused on gaming.
Lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social a long time ago.
I suggest using a different account that federates with both instances (like lemmy.world, lemm.ee, lemmy.dbzer0.com, etc). Sorry if it’s a bit inconvenient, but there’s not much I can do about it.
Maybe like 30 hours. I was feeling depressed and didn’t want to eat at the time.
A little update: Lemmy-UI made over 1500 zombie processes and I noticed that the other frontends aren’t going down so I assume it’s a Lemmy-UI issue. I’m trying to figure out what’s causing this but I’ll keep you and this thread updated.
I’ve been getting the downtime emails but the status page is definitely not reporting correctly. I’ll check what’s wrong over the weekend.
I like PipePipe. You can log in with a YouTube account (which fixes a lot of the YouTube blocking for me) and it’s a fork of NewPipe too (just like Tubular but it regularly receives updates).
I didn’t realize you’ve been posting Asako here! I just wrote about it in the weekly thread. I just stumbled upon it while my friend and I were browsing Mangadex the other day lol. I’ll try to catch up when I can!
Wow I’m happy I clicked on this. The animation is so good.
I have no idea. The DLCs you can buy from Steam or Epic (or get the bundle).
This is the way. Civ 6 is so cheap when it goes on sale now. I bet it’s a more complete game than Civ 7 too but I might be wrong.
I finally found a new read that I might like. It’s called Asako. It’s an age gap manga so it might not be for everyone but I’ve read a few before (My Boy and After the Rain). It has a bit of mystery to it and the plot is non-linear so that makes it more enjoyable for me. Anyway, for those interested, it’s about a man who reminisces a woman he met when he was a young boy set in a small coastal town. Her identity is a mystery however. I’m only a few chapters in and I like it so far.
I think the irony here is that the user-friendliness experience of Bluesky stems from it being a centralized service (in practice). I seriously doubt most people who signed up for Bluesky even understand what “decentralized social media” means.
I’m not saying Lemmy (and the greater Fediverse) can’t improve, but it’s clear that the biggest barrier for most people is the decentralized aspect itself – the core of the Fediverse – which is something one shouldn’t really “hide”.
As long as the state of social media usership demands centralized practices, then the Fediverse will forever be at a disadvantage in gaining mass adoption in my opinion.