@LoganM I agree so far. But I watched both shows for the music. Not for the plot. The characters aren't really interesting except for Chihaya in IdolMaster.
Also, I found mine. It's really poorly maintaned (everything in watching is actually completed by now, and I'm missing anything recent and lots of stuff that I just forget to add)
@Mysticial She actually had a pretty sizable amount (probably 3rd or 4th most, she even got her own story ark), but they never got very deep into her story.
@Mysticial One of my friends is the head of [sage]. Last I saw (I've lost the link), her MAL had over 2000 completed, with something like 900 days, which could very well be more than all the active users here combined.
I think if I managed my list properly and added everything I'm missing, I'd get another 50 or 60 days, but I'd still only be at 170-180 days. If they included VNs I could probably get another 60 or so days like that. But I'm still nowhere near 900.
I wish I was that diligent, but usually what happens is I get behind in a series because of real life, then the end of the season comes along and I get worried I won't finish in time so I marathon it. Sometimes I update MAL, but for the past 6 months or so I haven't bothered.
@Mysticial I do that too. I keep everything unwatched in one place, then after I watch it I move it to a series folder.
Also, at least at the beginning of the season, I try to watch shows the day they come out so I won't get confused. But that always breaks down later on.
Although I have not read carefully the end of the manga,
I did not understand why they had to change it?
There are many details in the Manga that are not mentioned anime.
My two cents... I feel like that question should be closed until the OP edits it to make more sense. Logan is probably right but it's still not made clear in the question itself, so it's just guessing on our part
But anyway it's a VN based on doujin works, but the actual game is done by a western "studio" (group of people who gathered on 4chan and then formed their own studio) and it's written in English. The original artwork was by a Japanese artist, though.
@LoganM Hmm... looks like the just concept is Japanese (by a doujin artist, Raita), the actual art for the game is done by the group you mentioned, but it's essentially a game with no direct connection to (an officially published) anime and manga (even if you are asking about the story), unlike Melty Blood... I feel that it's off-topic.
There's already a question about it on Arqade, but it's more gameplay related:
@Krazer Sounds reasonable. I think this is a similar case to OEL manga, because they're deliberately trying to make the game as close to Japanese VNs as they can (it's pretty much indistinguishable from the average nakige except that it's unvoiced and in English)
This is a pretty notable case if we're allowing VNs because Katawa Shoujo is probably one of the top 10 most played VNs in the English community. Not that there are a ton of questions to be asked about it, but there's a good chance we'd get one eventually.
We might need to revisit/rescope the what counts as anime/manga issue later. This question is about a Korean webcomic series, but I personally think it's fine if the series is well-known enough.
Yeah Tower of God is a tricky case because it's one of the few manhwa which is more popular than a lot of Japanese manga in the English-speaking anime community. Katawa Shoujo is similar in that respect.
That happens on MO, which is why MO rep is actually worth something. If you see someone with 10k+ there, either they are refreshing the site every 5 minutes to find the easiest questions they can that aren't going to get closed, or they're a professional mathematician.
But on Math.SE I could get 1k a week if I just answered homework questions
I never liked the fast-moving sites. It discourages a long, complete answer that also addresses other issues in favor of a 1-line answer without much explanation. Most of the best answers I've read on any Stack Exchange site were long, and I've almost never read a long answer that wasn't worth the time.
And I couldn't possibly win the FGITW duels most of the time. My internet connection takes like 30 seconds just to load a page, and my answers always require some thought and research to make sure they are complete.
While I hate it, that's how my top 2 answers on SO came about.
Granted, I would've "won" them both anyway since the 2nd best answer for both of them don't really compare. But it would've taken a lot longer for my answer to float to the top.
The "trick" on Math, which doesn't move fast enough that it's an issue, but moves fast enough that you lose if you're a minute behind, is tactical voting without getting caught
If people see a +1 answer and a +0 answer, they're more likely to upvote the +1 than the +0. So you just have to get to +1 before anyone else can post an answer.
Upon further analysis of this, I believe this is (at least partially) caused by data alignment of the four pointers. This will cause some level of cache bank/way conflicts.
If I've guessed correctly on how you are allocating your arrays, they are likely to be aligned to the page line.
This mean...
@Mysticial Tactical downvoting is caught pretty frequently (I don't have any mod tools over there so I can't tell how often, but there are often meta posts about it), but getting friends to upvote your answer is almost impossible to catch if you know enough people, and it's not really even against the rules if the answer is correct.
Sometimes a regular in our chatroom will dump an answer and ask for "help".
And then everybody pours in to "evaluate" it.
Well, it's common in the C++ chatroom. 1. One of us sees a question with a bunch of wrong answers. 2. So he downvotes all of them. 3. And then posts a correct answer. 4. Links it in the Lounge. 5. Upvotes pour in.
@Shog9 I'm not doing it, nor do I think it's acceptable, but I've seen it happen many times that an answer would come out 1 minute after another one, and the second was worse all-around, but it quickly accumulated +2 or +3 and became top-voted. I flagged a case of that once, but the mods just told me that I should let the vote fraud algorithm deal with it.
@Mysticial It might, but only if there's a group of folks in a room who only (or even mostly) vote for each other. This does crop up every now and then. Lotta accounts suspended or deleted for it - hundreds of votes for the same 6 people, who also all voted mostly for the other 6, that kind of thing.
@Shog9 Yeah. And that's definitely not the case among our chatroom regulars. I think our votes are mostly all over the place. (at least mine should be)
@LoganM You see something like that, you go look at the guy's other answers. Are they similarly overrated? Is there a pattern? Then you give that to the mods, and they'll see if there's anything behind it. Not much can be done with one post, unless it's truly blatant.
@Shog9 I didn't see such a trend in that case. It was pretty blatant from my perspective as a neutral observer, but from a mod's perspective if this was the only time that it was noticed they have to give him the benefit of the doubt. It didn't make too much of a difference in the end, but it annoyed me a bit.
@Shog9 True. I had a question that I expected to get closed or at most +1 or +2, but instead it was the top question on the Theoretical Physics Beta. In the case of the math answers, there could easily be something I missed. I'll have to see if I can find the question.
@Shog9 I'm just wondering. Can mods see a list of all the ip addresses that an account has been accessed from? I'm curious to see how many ip address I hit between December 24 and January 5th.
This probably overlaps heavily with Can you ask questions even if the answer is easily found elsewhere?, but two differences being:
The answer lies within the series if you pay close attention
You answer it yourself.
Example:
What were the rules of the written round of the Chunin exams?
Ob...
@JNat Even in my anime club, I had the 2nd or 3rd largest anime list out of ~300 members. Most people had seen only a dozen or fewer shows. So I don't think there's any problem with not having seen a lot, especially if you are an expert in the ones you have seen.
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Also, I don't really have much time anymore to watch a lot. Most of what I watched was in high school, when I would skip school to watch anime. Now I'm only watching 1 or 2 shows at a time.
@Krazer In retrospect, most of what I was watching instead of going to school was terrible. Stuff like Da Capo, Negima, To Heart, etc. I don't really remember 90% of it. But I was way ahead in school and had good relationships with most of my teachers, so even if I showed up only a few times a week I was fine.
Sometimes I went to work instead of going to school (I worked at a physics lab so it was actually pretty fun), but sometimes I just went to school and watched anime in the library instead of going to class.
Oh I stopped caring about that. Maybe you win. I don't know. It's really hard to tell when I haven't watched Naruto and neither of you has watched Gurren Lagann.
Do we even want another answer on that question? It already has 5 answers, one of which is accepted. Unless there's new information (which you Naruto people would know better than me) it seems like we've got it covered, and there's not really anything he can add to make the answer useful.
I got into a debate with a friend about whether or not it's possible for an anime to come out before its manga.
He claimed that there were several instances where the anime actually preceded the manga. Are there any cases? Is it even possible? I mean, it would make more sense to animate an exist...
There are some interesting cases like Escaflowne where the anime should have preceded the manga, but didn't because the various rights didn't line up at the right times
@Mysticial You know things are bad on the php tag, when we have a chat room called "cv-pls testing" where we test and enhance the cv-pls extension to help filter out crap more easily.
We're actually thinking of getting it some server-side support
@Mysticial I don't actually use SO, just Math and Physics. I probably could ask some questions there, since my current research involves a lot of lattice QCD and other high performance computing stuff, but at the moment I'm just using someone else's highly optimized code so I don't need to write anything.
@Mysticial No worries. There are some other people you missed, like Jon. I think it's actually a lot more than 50% if you count anyone who has ever used SO, maybe as much as 80%, but if you're only looking at people who do so regularly it's probably close to 50%.
Do you think we've exhausted the supply of anime fans on SO? I know there are probably some on the other sites I frequent, but Math definitely wouldn't upvote a community ad over there for our site and Physics would be a pretty big stretch.
I'm sort of worried about the lack of traffic. Recently the number of active users has been steadily decreasing. When we started we had a lot, but now I think we're down to a dozen or so.
Well, not anymore since we've been spamming the site with other stuff.
@LoganM And that's why he's back.
Since I posted a few questions that interested him.
Now atm, I don't consider that we're in any real trouble yet. If we post on reddit and 4chan and the traffic is STILL low... then we have to be concerned.
That is, we are unable to get a front-page link on r/anime. Or we do, and we don't notice an increase in long-term traffic.
Right now there's no Naruto or Bleach on the front page at all. If we start having the opposite effect and people don't ask Naruto questions, we'll be losing a lot of what we have experts in right now and turning away a lot of potential users from other sources.
Sure, but we should also set a plan for when we will start advertising on other sites. When we hit 500 questions, or when we get 5 that we can post on Reddit, or something. Otherwise I'm worried we'll keep putting it off and eventually die out without getting a chance to post it at all.
If our site doesn't at least look somewhat active, no one from Reddit is going to join. They'll see the good answer, read it, and then leave.