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[–] e-five@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago

Off with a (bomb) bang. Animation looked pretty good, especially the wave controller scenes. I hardly remember any of this story at all so don't think I can give as indepth comments as I did with tsukimichi. It feels a bit risky to introduce a pretty much entirely new cast after only one season. There was a lot of story for each characters, that I remember at least, back in season 1 but it feels like we kind of lost all of that if they're going with a new crew, which I'm not sure whether will hold the interest the same way the originals did

[–] e-five@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think a combined view is what people have been asking for, this sounds like a filter on the combined view of sub to me.

I guess it's a bit different if you're wanting to show comments as well. That sounds difficult to do in UX to make the context of a reply make sense, not sure how Mastodon does it, I guess there aren't super complex tree structures? Because the comment they could be replying to could have nothing to do with the original post, you have to show the entire tree some times

[–] e-five@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that what /sub/microblog/newest is? Or do you mean entry and entry comments as well when you say posts (since the term is a bit overloaded)

[–] e-five@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh and one last thing I wanted to say was that it was fun discussing these episodes with you and the others that chimed in. I think based on your post in summer season preview you won't be watching Tower of God so WE'LL NEVER SPEAK AGAIN 😆 but maybe I'll give something new a chance or if not, we can pick it back up in season 3

[–] e-five@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This series has never felt like it is particularly popular

I never even saw it on the popularity charts you posted but maybe that was because it was a 2 cour anime so not technically a spring one? Although maybe those charts are for outside Japan.

Certainly not like Slime or Overlord

I don't know how everyone else feels but I haven't watched the last like four episodes of slime. I probably shouldn't give up on it but boy does it seem like it's just time I won't get back... I could see people liking Tsukimichi at least more this season rather than overall.


Do you have any closing thoughts on the season overall? Especially with the heroes in the first part, and the students later on? Should they have cut more, less, or was pacing the main issue? I feel like I'm coming out of it with a positive opinion but thinking about it, that might be because everything good was stacked right on the last few episodes, where it took ~23 other episodes to get here

[–] e-five@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought they would actually go back to the fight in Kaleneon this episode but, nope, fast forwarded through it. I still really don't understand what Mio did to make the demon general a smol lizard... I assume it has to do with his reflection skill but... I didn't remember or expect Mio to have won the fight by eating.

Mondo and Lime best bro duo this season.

They kind of glossed over it but the prince(ss) was expecting Makoto to be normal and like... blackmail her. That and Makoto turning down a full time teaching position shows it really does help to have a pocket dimension where all your needs are met.

What I was wondering if would get adapted last episode was (I wonder if we were talking about the same thing, wjs018), and Sofia is shown to be still alive! Oop, nevermind. Hard to not feel bad for her, Root definitely comes off as the villain here with his blasé attitude towards life, but perhaps that comes with living a very long time and losing everyone you get close to by being functionally immortal.

I had a moment during the party where I was thinking "Wait, is this the scene with... Right Mio won the contest... so will they adapt..." And yep, I feel like that's kind of a bad scene to end on, as Makoto brushes her affection aside, comes off as prime dense protag to me, but at least they all get a last name so they're like family, right?


I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the entire season, but doubt I'll have enough time to go through it all to collect my thoughts. Overall I didn't find the adaptation disappointing, but that might be because I have a lot of context with the WN, manga, and soon LN to fill in the gaps. I do wonder if things would be better if they went even more cut-heavy. Like people complain the students aren't fleshed out in the anime, but are in the manga (so go check it out if you want to see more), but I wonder what if the anime just completely cut them out? Nah, that's impossible, but what if... I'm not sure I've seen anything make that amount of drastic cuts though.

It was a fun ride, surprised it got a 2 cour episode season, and even more surprised it's getting a season 3. I think over time this became my favorite isekai, though it's very slow going there's so much character and relationship development, as well as crafty antagonists and allies, that I couldn't think of anything I'd place higher, so even though the anime adapation itself has been a bit iffy, another season is still something I look forward to

[–] e-five@kbin.run 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is as surprising to me as it getting a season 2 was. And I'm sure it's a completely normal, company purchasing rights to adapt and expecting returns... but part of me is like... what if it's just one really rich dude that wants to see it animated? 😆

[–] e-five@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago

What a coincidence, I just mentioned recently over on !lightnovels@ani.social that I was reading the first volume. Has a fairly unique setting so could be interesting, especially for those that like Overlord

[–] e-five@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know if the reverse is a new thing or if it's always been like that.

Here's a comment in a lemmy issue describing mastodon images not appearing in lemmy from last year. Since the issue was closed three days after 0.19.3 released I had expected it to work in the next version 0.19.4, but it appears that was not the case.

Edit: While I'm here, I noticed piefed also doesn't support it, so was considering opening an issue to support attachments, but I imagine there wouldn't be much desire to do so until mastodon integration is more of a real thing? though I think other software does it, like Plemora/Akkoma/Iceshrimp, I didn't check but did see the code for it being discussed for plemora at least

[–] e-five@kbin.run 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Navarre dies and Hibiki gains PTSD and goes through a season of character development. Sealy dies and everyone has moved past it in a couple minutes. o7 RIP random adventurer.

Though there was already a lot of death on that battlefield, hard to tell since there wasn't much focus on it. I liked how they kept Lancer killing demon teammates as well as humans for swords but didn't mention it like they did in the novel, you just had to notice the armor. Might be an actual example of show don't tell actually happening.

Makoto knows that Root was watching 👀 Though Sofia didn't have much of a comment on it, I can't remember if she did in the novel or not... but not important so not going to look it up. He also didn't appear to use Uchine in this fight, which I think is his strongest weapon (what he pulled when facing the goddess). I can't remember if that was the same or not. I don't really recognize the bow he had, so not sure if it's special, though surely dwarf made. Also not sure about the sword Sofia pulled, I'm sure there's some history there, maybe when the translated LN gets to... okay that might be a few years. (Edit: Oh right he literally says the bow is named Azusa. I completely missed that somehow. Now I remember, right, Uchine wasn't his only weapon)

Really good episode, happy with how everything was adapted.

Excited for the finale, I imagine it will be a mop up episode not unlike season 1. There is one more thing I'm curious if they'll adapt or not, so will have to see if it makes it into the last episode or maybe it was cut from the LN.

[–] e-five@kbin.run 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I played some Tiny Life recently. I liked it, but it is a bit simple, and the bigger issue I had with it is just that there isn't much to it, especially to build. There's like two counters, two fridges, one shower... from my perspective it really needs an artist to just go ham and make tons of options so there's stuff to actually decorate with, even if stats are the same.

[–] e-five@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago

Such dense plot armor you can literally see it 😆

I can't tell if they're doing a good job portraying characters strengths when they only get a couple minutes of existing before the next character comes in and shows how strong they are. Hibiki came in and got wrecked by Io, Io got wrecked by Makoto, then Sofia comes in and same for her... She's supposed to be the strongest adventurer and apparently did something to dragons which should've at least been on the level of Tomoe pre-Makoto'ing... But without ever seeing it... I guess she did smack up Tomoki last episode. I guess it's just surprising how one-sided every fight is even for characters who just won a one-sided fight earlier.

 

@hitstun@fedia.io just wanted to check with you as I think I misunderstood your request for a CSS var for color scheme. Do you mean you'd like something like class=theme--scheme-[light/dark] on the body class? For instance when the user selects tokyo night, solarized dark, dark, kbin it's theme--scheme-dark and when light or solarized light, theme--scheme-light to save you from having to type out selectors for each theme?

And I did investigate the magazine description federation issues. Think I have an idea, I'll make an issue for it and it will probably be the next thing I work on after my current open PRs.

#Mdev

 

Patch 6.55 Notes

 

FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/dawntrail/

 

I have a PR open to disable automatically opening entries that are marked NSFW when auto media preview sidebar setting is enabled.

I wanted to get some feedback from people on if this is something that they would be okay with, or if it's something they want to leave as is.

The main change would be for people that would want to preview NSFW, they will have to manually open those entries themself.

One consideration I have is potentially adding a new user option when auto media preview is enabled of "also auto media preview NSFW", but our sidebar is quite full of options, not that one more is a big deal but there have been a lot of discussions in the past about moving some of them to the user settings pages and making them persistent, which is a much larger undertaking

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