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12:29 AM
anybody read legendary moonlight sculptor?
 
i don't read any light novel
By the way, does anyone know if light novels are on-topic or not?
 
@GaoWeiwei yes, LN is on topic
 
I have no alternative :|
 
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Q: Did Weed from Legendary Moonlight Sculptor ever meet Prina's friend from planting in Valley of Death quest?

DiscipolDid Weed from Legendary Moonlight Sculptor ever meet Prina's friend from planting in Valley of Death quest?

 
yes :| mysterious friend, who could it be
I thought he got the reward for that quest already
 
12:40 AM
@LoganM Maybe this help center page needs to be edited to explicitly say LN are allowed. Some light novels are probably "not directly related to anime and manga."
#post
 
this girl carries a gun? cool
 
12:59 AM
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Q: Is this an animation error, or just bizarre character design?

MaroonWhile rewatching The Flowers of Evil, I noticed this character in episode 2: The character on the left struck me as very odd - she's wearing braids (which would normally suggest a female character), but she also has sideburns, which seem to be more or less only something men wear. (I'm assumin...

 
 
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2:37 AM
@GaoWeiwei I think it might have at one point. We actually allow lots of stuff besides anime & manga; see this:
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A: Should we expand our scope?

Logan MNote: My viewpoint is roughly the same as Madara's, so if you want the tl;dr read his post. I've tried to expand on where exactly the boundaries should be in my view. I think this is a matter of two different viewpoints. If you think this site should focus on anime and manga as artistic media, t...

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If you make a meta request the mods can change it as needed.
 
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Q: Aogiri Member : Girl on Redhood

SilverThis time , I want to ask who really she is . I know she is member of Aogiri (that's all i know .) What will be her purposed on the life of Kaneki ?

 
2:59 AM
I should point out that even before that post, light novels and visual novels were considered on-topic. That decision was actually earlier, during private beta. The other media there don't come up very often, but the point is that we shouldn't be closing good questions that are even marginally on-topic.
Of course, in the borderline cases, there's no guarantee we're the best choice for where to ask or that questions will get answered, but if they're otherwise fine they at least won't be closed.
 
 
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4:57 AM
#post
 
5:21 AM
> How would you rank your moderators?
> Still awesome! But less!
:D
 
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A: What happen to Naruto six paths sage mode?

PimajeXenjaThere is a theory that Naruto still has the potential to use it be he doesn't since needs chakra from all nine tailed beast which he used up in his battle against Sasuke. The sage said he was a pseudo-Ten tails and that the could all go into him to speak with each other; this was after he took ba...

^ Anyone get what this guy is trying to say?
There are some words missing
 
@nhahtdh i don't know
 
5:53 AM
I like how the OP knows what he's saying apparently
 
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Q: Why does Sasuke still have the Rinnegan?

Ero SenninHagoromo took back his Yin and Yang chakra from Sasuke and Naruto respectively . So if the Yin chakra was responsible for the Rinnegan development in Sasuke's eyes , why didn't it turn into his original eye after the chakra was taken back ? How is it that it has become permanent ?

 
6:16 AM
gu mooringu!
 
Ohayo gozaimasu
 
it's so good I have a new teapot
can drink tea again
 
I should trying having cheesecake with tea
hmm
 
I'm not feeling like playing right now but what games do you usually play with others?
 
Payday2, Guild Wars 2, Terraria, Minecraft, Starbound
Are you setting up another game meet?
@ton.yeung I want to but i has no monies
 
6:26 AM
not right now
still need to finish the wake-up procedure
can't think very well yet
^ nice idea
gives you a head start when you'll start working properly
I didn't get that :p
 
I'm graduating soon so it's a bit too late for me to get another one
Can't wait for graduation >_<
 
6:48 AM
u already have a baito?
 
7:04 AM
 
7:22 AM
#tomato
 
That thumbnail isn't very good.
I have yet to figure out what triggers it.
The rays of light don't help though.
That could actually feasibly be the main issue, considering a few other poorly downsized ones had similar light rays.
 
light rays
 
Or really just nonuniform lighting.
 
the ways rays are drawn is non uniform
 
7:35 AM
In the original? Yeah, that's kind of an error IMO
 
its more like rays from some torch or laser where rays does not diverse much
 
What I'm really worried about is the thumbnailed version having grainy or otherwise not sharp texture.
Can cause pretty drastic quality drops in some cases.
This one still looks more or less the same, but a couple were bad enough I couldn't even tell what the resized one was any more.
There is a general way I have to avoid that. Specifically, the problem is high frequency artifacts because of jpg resampling. If I first convert to a lossless format like png, resize, and then convert back, the problem goes away.
But that's slow to automate, and for 90% of images not needed.
 
@LoganM you can check if the file size is suspiciously too small and do that operation only on them
for example, this one is 16kb but the above is 64k
 
@Hakase Sadly the filesize doesn't seem to be a good indicator.
Some very large images compress really well down to tiny sizes without issue.
And some of the problematic ones are actually bigger when I do the resizing as a jpg rather than a png.
 
what's the current algo?
I think there might be a quality flag to set the minimum quality
 
7:44 AM
Using ImageMagick, mogrify -resize 300x300. Didn't set any particular flags.
I can definitely solve them on an individual basis. The problem is that almost anything I do will break other thumbnails, so it isn't particularly useful for automating.
 
just add -quality 81 and see what happens
 
@Hakase I think I tried with -quality 100 and still had problems with some. I'll try again though now that I have a bigger sample of problem images.
Even with no compression (other than resizing), the thumbnail images will be small enough to not be a problem, so I might as well use that if it fixes things.
 
honestly I would just convert all lossy formats to lossless before resizing and leave it processing for the night or two
determining which images turned out bad with the current algo is gonna take a lot of your time
this way it's just the computer's time
 
The actual time difference isn't that significant. The problem is that then I have to add a bunch of extra steps to the procedure.
First, I have to move all the jpg to a different folder, then convert to png, resize those, convert back to jpg, and then move them back to the main folder. Then do the same for jpeg, and whatever other weird name variants there are.
I could convert all the originals to png, but that would increase the size there pretty drastically without any real benefits.
There are some tricks you can do to simplify things, but that's the idea anyway.
In any case, it can't be done in a single command, like I can right now.
 
8:07 AM
@LoganM I don't think there is an easy way to automate this. You can try different scaling methods like Lanczos or cubic, but there will still be sub-optimal cases that need a human to identify and correct.
 
can't do everything perfect with just one command
yet
 
@Hakase Technically i did last summer but i didnt really worked so meh
I got lots of experience from senior projects and some private stuff so I'm somewhat confident I can get a job
 
I meant a better job, not just any job
anyway gtg
 
kk bai
 
@Hakase c ya
 
9:01 AM
what happened to SE?
 
yeah, it seems to be down for me
 
#post
 
10:04 AM
I thought it was due to my bad internet speed
 
it's back!
 
what actually happened , whole SE was not working
 
when do they do maintenance? or was it DDoS attack?
 
DDOS attack may not be, may be some server maintenance
there was not any tweet about it so ...
 
but chat was working, and if server maintenance, couldn't they leave some functionality still working?
 
10:10 AM
@GaoWeiwei was chat working
i did not know i just tried main site
 
yea, when i said "what happened to SE", it was when i found out SE was out
 
10:27 AM
We are investigating a routing issue with our network provider
We have enabled Cloudflare for http://stackoverflow.com while solving the routing issue. There are known SSL issues but it should help.
 
there it is
 
The routing issues should be resolved now. Sorry for any inconvenience.
 
10:42 AM
Just watched Death Parade episode 2, and lol
 
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Q: Does anyone know the name of this yaoi manga?

user11238http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/nidome_no_yakusoku/an/nidome-no-yakusoku-chapter-0.html/1/ I tried searching for it using the keyword DaDa, but I found out DaDa was a magazine.

 
We are investigating why egress traffic was being dropped and will have a postmortem up once we get more information on the upstream issues.
 
@Sakamoto ........
 
10:58 AM
@MadaraUchiha how should we deal with these type of user
there was one before
 
@mirroroftruth Vote down and continue
 
that i did
 
@nhahtdh Hmm?
 
Hmm, need to check a bit first, sorry, carry on...
 
@nhahtdh If I'm wrong with my assertion play do say so
 
11:05 AM
The thing is, I can't really tell here...
 
is that link legal one
 
@mirroroftruth Probably not, but I'll allow it
It's not our place to play lawyers... if anyone has a problem with it in the future, it will be removed.
 
I usually remove all such links
 
@GaoWeiwei DADA is a magazine though, according to him.
 
11:08 AM
The number is a special number about the bottom overcoming the top
Gekokujou
 
how much is this true
 
@mirroroftruth It's from Saint Onii-san
A manga about Buddha and Jesus living in modern Japan
It's hilarious, you should read it
 
@nhahtdh then i am going to try it
 
There are apparently an OVA and a movie I think
 
11:16 AM
@nhahtdh Well then, vote me down ;)
 
I commented on your answer
 
If my answer is not correct in your eyes, which I now suspect that it really isn't, vote it down
 
I did
 
@nhahtdh INSTABAN cheers
We need to vote more
 
11:18 AM
@nhahtdh ova movie and manga still going
 
Dunno, check on mangaupdates, I don't see it on latest release on a manga reading site I'm using, so I think it got stalled
But there are quite a lot of chapters the last time I read it
 
i checked
i am saying manga is still going
 
maybe it's original illustration
 
@mirroroftruth I thought it was a question, since you are talking about ova and movie
@GaoWeiwei Which one are you talking about?
 
i thought so from your reply
 
11:26 AM
Yaoi manga. "Cover Illustration Mario KAWANA"
 
Yep, but mangaupdates doesn't have anything about it
Unless it is one of the Naruto dj?
Anyway, the story is never released in English, as far as I search on mangaupdates
@MadaraUchiha: Do you understand this question: anime.stackexchange.com/questions/16880/…
 
@nhahtdh Yeah, pretty much
 
I don't get what OP means by "Orochimaru suppose to be the one who wants his Sasuke body"
 
@nhahtdh Orochimaru claimed that he wants to take over Sasuke's body
And yet for some reason he helps him (and the alliance) in the war
 
more like sasuke's body
 
11:40 AM
OK, I'm going to edit that in...
 
 
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1:21 PM
we gon play sum TF2 next weekend
 
1:39 PM
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A: How to explain what Buddhism is?

qweilunDukkha in particular is quite hard to translate. When I hear life is suffering, it feels like a romanticized sort of pessimism, though we know that's not true. Dukkha seems closer to a sort of existential unease — what am I? Why is it this way? — everything from being annoyed when we hit our knee...

Madoka is concentrated wisdom in girl form
 
 
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3:04 PM
ye buddhism is pretty much about the same thing as that book
@ton did you check out those 5pb posters in HoiHoi's room?
wtf why would people want to make moldy bread
I'm looking for ways to make bread form but I get recipes for mold on bread
 
@Hakase Some mold is edible.
 
all mold is gross
 
Certain kinds of moldy cheese are actually considered delicacies.
 
@Yuuki I consider them gross.
 
I bought moldy cheese a few months ago (I didn't know) and it was suuuuper gross
 
3:14 PM
@MadaraUchiha Preaching to the choir. I'm not a fan of pretty much all cheeses.
 
All of these "delicacies" are actually accidents
Someone failed to keep their milk and it went bad, so he called it cheese and started selling it
Someone took the juice from good grapes and let it rot for weeks, when he went back to drink it he went high and started selling it
 
−Chef, we fucked up everything!
−Put on your connoisseur face, we're doing an all-special menu tonight.
 
Lol
 
3:31 PM
does anyone know how to make bread baking forms?
 
@Hakase Like, bread pans?
 
like very precise bread pans with a lot of small shapey details
smallest detail is about 2mm
 
ow, my face!
 
3:57 PM
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Q: Ending of The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee

KonayukiThis was aired when I was a child, but I never know its ending. MAL said in Japan it's aired 1970-1971, but it's aired on my country around the end of 90's or beginning of 2000's I think. So, how this anime ended? Did he reunite with his mom? Does someone know? Wiki: The Adventures of Hutch the ...

 
!!weather Los Angeles
 
@Frosteeze Los Angeles: 48.6535F (9.252C, 282.402K), broken clouds
 
masaka
so cold >_<
 
4:20 PM
La-laaaaa lalalala-la la la Mozilla Firefox has crashed!
 
lol what
 
interessant
 
@Yuuki That was the last episode of Colbert right?
or was it second to last
 
4:28 PM
@Frosteeze Not sure.
 
4:51 PM
@Hakase :D
@Hakase pow!
 
somebody needs a proper baby-walker
 
at what temperature do babies crawl
 
"at what temperature can I die" is a legit question when you have extra high fever
polymer clay…
wut
 
 
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6:15 PM
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A: Was Kyon in love with Haruhi?

blueKyon never did said he loved haruhi or harumi mentioning that he loves kyon in an episode..but the fact that they just liked each other. Theres a lot of twists and turns with this kind of anime. Sometimes the 2nd character gets to be paired or gets the main character for him/herself right? And ho...

Doesn't look like it has any sort of reference to the main series, and mostly theory
 
6:32 PM
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Q: Can someone explain the story of Space Battleship Yamato 2199?

IzunaI understand that Yurisha was sent to earth to deliver the construction plans for the wave motion engine and also Sasha to give them the wave motion power core but why did they do it separately? I mean Yurisha also could have delivered the plans together with the core... The Gamilas empire expan...

 
aha
i choked on my hot chocolate
 
7:33 PM
@Frosteeze ... That's Canada for you. Lions and retarded unicorns abound.
Apparently the unicorn represents Scotland.
 
Burn the Scots.
 
8:12 PM
I wanna watch a space opera anime. What should it be?
@Sakamoto no, not the yamato.
 
8:25 PM
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Q: What non-japanese songs have been used in opening or ending?

RedBy "non-japanese" I mean song that's produced by a non-japanese artist, outside Japan and isn't sung in japanese. If anyone has idea how to put it better, feel welcome to comment or edit. My definition is meant to exclude songs such as "Fly me to the Moon" from Neon Genesis Evangelion's ending, w...

 
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Q: Looking for anime/cartoon that aired in 2000s

JohnWhat I remember from the episode I saw was a boy and his dog who were pushed into some water by other boys, and then were saved by an older man. Eventually the man is captured for some reason by the main villain, and then hit with giant wooden mallets and eventually tied up and killed publicly.

Really? Two days and no one figured it out? :P
 
I've watched Naruto but i would have not remembered that
 
8:45 PM
@Sakamoto list q
 
9:04 PM
@Sakamoto And then they complain when I whine about id-reqs.
Thanks but no thanks
 
9:26 PM
@SeptianPrimadewa is that from Sword Art Online Hollow Fragment? if so i assume that's with the Gun Gale DLC
 
 
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10:45 PM
@MadaraUchiha if your talking about this question (only id request i found which was deleted recently that you removed) at least they tried to keep it clean, they could have very well posted the .gif or just blatantly said what happened using pornographic terms.
still the middle of the question does make it should hentai rather than an implied echii scene similar to what Rider/Sakura did to Shirou (i doubt an implied scene would have the crush "lick her lips" at the end like that)
 
 
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