Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

12:00 AM

Anyway I could easily see tea getting enough content to make a site. Given the number of posts I've seen on various tea forums, it wouldn't be hard at all. But it's more a question of bringing those people in and also maintaining quality.

Also, all drinks are allowed on cooking.stackexchange.com, which has a tag for tea.

user1306322

I've asked some questions about tea there

Logan M

I'm not convinced anyone there is really serious about tea. The content is decent but mostly beginner stuff.

user1306322

true

I don't really know what there is to ask about tea on a pro level

all the preparation methods can be considered subjective because different people − different tastes

I'm not sure how to resolve that for the site

Logan M

That's true

But there are things you can still say

Like "steeping longer will give a stronger taste"

Taisho

Logan M

12:05 AM

Everyone would agree with that

user1306322

@Taisho that looks weird

looks photoshopped

huh it does

you don't say?

the resolution is different on the different characters

user1306322

12:08 AM

yeah, but Naruto's eyes threw me off and I didn't pay attention to the rest

Shinobu Oshino

oh there's lot cute girls picture with star, that's what I expected from this chat room

Logan M

They didn't even do a very good job with the edges.

Jugem Jugem

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Cannabis

Proposed Q&A site for people who are using cannabis.

Currently in definition.

Logan M

@JugemJugem This will be closed for content violation most likely

Shinobu Oshino

@user1306322 that's just how his eyes look like

user1306322

12:09 AM

@JugemJugem use? for what purposes? making ropes?

Logan M

People have made this proposal in the past and it's gotten closed

@user1306322 Given that it's in the recreation category, most likely recreational use

user1306322

"recreation"…

!!define recreation

HoiHoi-san

@user1306322 recreation Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

user1306322

> The term recreation appears to have been used in English first in the late 14th century, first in the sense of "refreshment or curing of a sick person",[3] and derived from Old French, in turn from Latin (re: "again", creare: "to create, bring forth, beget.)

Logan M

Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of a drug (legal, controlled, or illegal) with the intention of enhancing life (increasing euphoria, blocking unhappy memories, or creating pleasure). Some would also include creativity and religious growth among the effects of certain drugs (cannabis and the psychedelics); understood broadly, this is recreation. Usage of recreational drugs has been associated with various dispositions ranging from curiosity to boredom or low self-esteem, a want to be risky, to meditate, to escape from or cope with difficulties, to relax, to increase energy and decrease ...

user1306322

12:14 AM

I was more interested in etymology

as in what's created

and why again

enhanced life

coz it was hindered

Logan M

yeah the word itself doesn't make much sense.

user1306322

if you think about it, most languages have such words that don't make a lot of sense even to native speakers

I can't find the tea proposal on a51 is it deleted or something?

Logan M

Every language I know has lots of words like that

@user1306322 yeah it was deleted

user1306322

why delete proposals

Logan M

Old proposals without any activity are automatically deleted

user1306322

12:17 AM

there are closed questions and such with comments that help understand what went wrong

Logan M

Which is really annoying

user1306322

that's bad

Logan M

yeah but no one is going to fix it

because A51 is the lowest priority thing for SE

user1306322

it's as if an electrician's tools were his lowest priority

what the hell

from imgur.com/gallery/ADVgpSI

I couldn't get a good start with Kyosou Giga

I thought I could handle all that random nonsense, but there's too much to pay attention to

Shinobu Oshino

12:46 AM

@user1306322 At the first time seeing it, I thought it's gonna be like kill la kill

haven't finish it tho

don't know it's same or not

and who's dat

Miu Matsuoka

anime title sound delicious

Taisho

user1306322

12:54 AM

Shinobu Oshino

and what are those black demon

user1306322

Shinobu Oshino

now it increase

I bet there's no 4th demon

user1306322

1:16 AM

Shinobu Oshino

@user1306322 -_-

user1306322

1:55 AM

buckwheat tea…

I wonder what that is

user1306322

2:38 AM

TIL flute is a recorder

Eric

Other way around, I think

The recorder falls on the square side of the square-rectangle analogy

user1306322

BASU GASU BAKUHATSU!!

►

Shinobu Oshino

2:54 AM

dat quality

user1306322

yea azumanga is notoriously low-q

how long is the wait for delivery from amazon?

neat

save money if you can wait for it

maybe even ask a friend if they have an unused cable and save even more money and time!

I'd buy a few spares then just in case

anyway you could probably expect needing a cable when you got the extra monitors

last time I ordered a monitor I also checked for included extras and had to order the video cable

abunakatta

I still don't have an hdmi-compatible piece of tech :p

user1306322

3:29 AM

my d-sub port started showing a fuzzy picture so I had to get a d-sub<>dva adapter

then I found out my video card does have an hdmi port but I still don't have any hdmi devices to receive that signal

I've been reading some tech site comparisons of various matrices, went to some stores to see them with my own eyes, but I still can't see much difference between $300 and $800 displays even with some radically different matrices

only monitors that looks somewhat better are in pro category and cost 2-3k bucks

maybe I'll order a 2560×1440 display for $300 from a random seller on ebay when my current monitor dies of old age

Hell Butterfly

3:48 AM

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Q: Should fate-series become one tag?

tbh, I don't watch whole fate-series so I don't really know how to deal with this, but watching fate:stay-night and fate:zero it seems like these are two separate series set in the same universe since fate/zero is prequel for fate/stay night and I want to add some detail in tag wiki for fate-ser...

@user1306322 Yes, there's furigana support here

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Q: Can we get furigana support here?

Sometimes, I find myself wanting to cite a Japanese text as evidence for an answer to a question on Anime.SE. Japanese sometimes includes phonetic annotations called furigana, which look like this: The small characters in the upper line of text are phonetic annotations that explain how the cha...

feature-request status-completed

user1306322

@Taisho that's the wallpaper in vm where taisho lives

I don't see Math.SE have any formula options in the footer

Logan M

Mathjax formatting help comes up when you're posting IIRC

user1306322

4:06 AM

I picked up NGNL, but from the first episode it's hard to figure out what it's gonna be about

lol I meant something else

Logan M

I didn't pay much attention to the story of NGNL, but from what I saw they didn't do anything terrible.

So just pay attention to the girls and it's a good show.

user1306322

the animation it too fast and bright, so I can't focus on the details very well

that's not very good for a cuteness-centric series

Logan M

I didn't have that problem

user1306322

sassuga kyuuto-sensei

is there a way to find tags that share a word or two?

Logan M

I think * works as a wildcard in tag searches.

user1306322

4:13 AM

like these Fate series

Logan M

You could just go to anime.stackexchange.com/tags and type in "fate" and see what it autocompletes to

user1306322

I kinda want to see all such tags without knowing specific words they have in common

Logan M

For that you'd need data explorer I guess

I don't think anyone's written a query to do that though so you'd have to do it yourself..

user1306322

yeah I can't find anything like that

and I don't know the syntax so…

Logan M

This question basically summarizes how I feel about Hinduism SE as a whole:

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Q: The Inmates are Running the Asylum?

I read this post of the user vedicd. The question he tired to raise was valid, but his approach was probably wrong. If he knew the answers were wrong, then he should have posted the correct answer there. Nevertheless, I feel the point he was trying to raise regarding the overall status of the sit...

discussion

Essentially, I have no idea what is going on, but I'm pretty sure bad things.

user1306322

4:34 AM

I think the site has to be about sensible things in order to stay sensible in the future

it all started from SO which is as sensible as it gets probably

Logan M

Most of the religion sites are at least capable of sticking to official doctrines and supporting their answers with citations

user1306322

then people just have to learn from it and follow the example

Logan M

Anyway I don't think just following what SO does is a good way to build a community. Most experts, regardless of the topic, are not programmers, and have a different culture than programmers.

user1306322

I mean the rules that can be applied to other topics

Logan M

At the end of the day, how you deal with community moderation and building needs to be tailored to that community.

user1306322

4:36 AM

subjective questions and questions that aren't really questions are already a problem on many other sites

Logan M

That's why MO was successful. It was moderated and run solely by professional mathematicians for several years prior to joining SE, at which point it already had a sizable community.

If you compare to a site like Physics, they still have quality problems today because there are a lot of enthusiasts and non-experts asking mediocre questions and giving wrong answers. But since the community itself is mostly not professionals, they don't get evaluated terribly accurately.

Steven Stadnicki

A little belated, but what I saw of NGNL struck me as a slightly better/more interesting Maoyu: a series that had really interesting ideas (and in NGNL's case, some fascinating designs) and didn't trust them enough, instead giving itself over to fanservice that felt not so much pandering as just out-of-place.

user1306322

@StevenStadnicki can I ask you how you so suddenly got here to talk about NGNL?

Steven Stadnicki

Well, I didn't really drop in here to talk about NGNL - I just happened to drop in (from the mathematics chat room, from the main math SE site) and saw the discussion in the backscroll.

user1306322

I don't want to come off as rude, it's just interesting because you don't have an A&M account

Logan M

4:42 AM

I didn't feel like the fanservice in NGNL was particularly forced so much as a big part of the appeal of the series. The actual story was not particularly groundbreaking IMO.

Steven Stadnicki

Huh, I guess I don't. I could have sworn I set up an anime.SE account at some point.

user1306322

backscroll? it that an all-rooms chat message list or something?

Logan M

If you didn't have any posts and didn't visit the site for 6 months, it could have been automatically deleted.

Steven Stadnicki

headshake I just mean that I dropped in here from the list of all the chat rooms, and then just read the past conversation.

user1306322

ah, I got it

well then, welcome and if you'd like to stay, might as well make an account and ask some questions if you have em

Steven Stadnicki

4:46 AM

I will at one point or another, I'm sure, but I haven't had a lot of really SE-suitable questions.

Although now that you mention it, there's a relatively obscure manga I'd love to get more history on from someone really knowledgeable about it...

Taisho

user1306322

if it's too obscure, I'm not sure you'll get your answer fast if at all

do anime rating sites and their forum users know A&M exists?

Logan M

@user1306322 For the most part, no

user1306322

is there a way to find out how many visitors come from them?

Steven Stadnicki

I can believe I might not! But it's never gotten an answer anywhere else, so SE is at least another place to try.

Logan M

4:48 AM

We're pretty obscure outside SE

@user1306322 Mods can see where traffic is coming from, but officially they aren't supposed to tell us

Sakamoto

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Q: What is the name of this rap being sung in the background of music?

I really like this Japanese rap that is being sung in the background, but it is being drowned out by voices and the music of the instruments during the scene. If I could understand Japanese it would be good, but unfortunately cannot. Does anyone know the name of the rap being sung in the backgro...

identification-request music free

user1306322

why the hell not?

it helps manage advertisement

Logan M

Because they're not supposed to share any information they get using mod superpowers

user1306322

a lot of rules are silly on SE

Logan M

Actually technically that doesn't seem to be part of the moderator agreement: anime.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement

That only mentions user information

But there are "other moderator policies" which I guess could still count

user1306322

4:52 AM

myanimelist.net/anime/10519/Mahou_Shoujo_Sonico%E2%98%85Magica

Steven Stadnicki

Actually, a question about my question (or the question I'm thinking of): would a question about the 'back story' (licensor history, sort of) of a manga be on-topic?

user1306322

these mahou shoujo names are confusing

it seems like they're related, but they're not

Logan M

Yes, that would still be allowed

@user1306322 what names? The ones for characters other than Sonico?

I thought they were all related to various Nitro+ productions

user1306322

they are, I'm talking about the names like Mahou Shoujo ?????★Magica

Logan M

Well that's a parody of Madoka

user1306322

4:57 AM

oh well that explains it

Steven Stadnicki

Admittedly between Kazumi and Orico and the side story it's a natural mistake to make!

user1306322

does anyone know a reverse google image search link I could use by pasting an image link as its argument?

Logan M

not sure I understand your question

Steven Stadnicki

Logan: they want to start with an image (unattributed, etc.) and find other copies and/or more information about it.

(Or at least that's what I'm presuming)

Logan M

Yes, I got that, but he want's do do it automatically somehow

user1306322

5:00 AM

something like hxxp://google.com/&q=link

I think I saw that cool links a few times on the main site

Logan M

Yeah I don't know of any way to do that unfortunately

Steven Stadnicki

Yeah, but I've seen search engines that can do that (start with an image and find other similar images) - e.g., you could start with a blurry finger-painting that looked vaguely like it and find the Mona Lisa.

I just don't recall any URLs offhand. :(

Logan M

Google can do it

user1306322

https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?image_url=

found it

Logan M

Ah yeah that does seem to work

user1306322

5:02 AM

if people knew how to google properly, SE sites would diminish by 60% — Mindwin Apr 3 at 1:26

Logan M

For most of the time I've been on this site I was using chrome, and I could just right-click to do an image search

Now I've just been going to Google's homepage and uploading manually, which only takes a few seconds.

user1306322

damn I even used that link in one of my anime-id answers

Logan M

lol

user1306322

firefox also has tons of google-image plugins that add right-click menu option for that

I never seem to find the same one after I reinstall firefox though

the option moves around the menu every time

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Q: Where does this picture of a magical girl style series come from?

Long story short, my friend linked me this picture so I could tell him what it is, but frankly I have no idea. I cant even tell him if its manga/anime or just random fan-art. So if someone knows the name or anything, I would appreciate it.

identification-request

Logan M

Someone tell me what to watch this season. I looked at the list but I still have no idea which shows are going to be worth looking at.

Taisho

5:12 AM

Logan M

@Taisho You have a weird selection of images

Eric

@Taisho wtf is this lol

Logan M

It's Cowboy Bebop

!!youtube cowboy bebop OP

Is she offline? :(

lol

5:14 AM

Logan: None of them, I think. It's a kind of bleak season. :-)

user1306322

that's what the imgur op put together to reach 300 image album

Steven Stadnicki

More seriously: Barakamon looks pretty good (and I've heard good things about the manga), Bakumatsu Rock at least has entertaining upside (best-case, it's Jojo with guitars), Aldnoah has some names, and there's always Free?

user1306322

I just added that as a test to see if it will work

Steven Stadnicki

I really suspect my viewing group is gonna take this summer to play catch-up on some stuff we missed, though.

user1306322

by all means, upload better selections of images

where is that huge anime list pic link with covers and titles compiled by some guy on black background?

Logan M

5:18 AM

Okay how do I upload images again?

user1306322

#wallpaper add link

Taisho

Link type not recognized.

user1306322

but with an actual link instead

#wallpaper add help

Taisho

Link type not recognized.

user1306322

#wallpaper help

Taisho

5:19 AM

Posts wallpaper links from time to time. Commands: enable, disable, post, add, status, timeinterval, postinterval.
enable − Resume posting wallpaper links.
disable − Stop posting wallpaper links.
post − Post a random image link on request.
add − Add a single image link, multiple image links separated by spaces, or a link to text file with image links separated by line breaks (pastebin raw link accepted).
status − Print module status, posting intervals, counts of posted and queued links.
timeinterval − Returns current value or changes it.

Logan M

Yeah and the link is to a text document where each line is the URL of an image right?

Okay got it

Will upload some in the future

As for the chart, is this what you want?

Steven Stadnicki

@user1306322 There's a version of it at crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/07/01-1/…

user1306322

@StevenStadnicki yeah, that's what I was looking for

Logan M

There's something amusing to me that crunchyroll is using neregate's charts.

user1306322

can I get a full image link?

btw it should be pinned probably

Logan M

5:23 AM

2 mins ago, by Logan M

As for the chart, is this what you want?

user1306322

ah didn't see the link

yeeeah

Logan M

I don't know if we need to pin it

Most ppl here probably already know that the new season is starting.

user1306322

myanimelist.net/anime/22189/…. looks intereting

well not this one, but I mean pin the new ones regularly

myanimelist.net/anime/22319/Tokyo_Ghoul probably has an interesting story

Logan M

I'll be watching locodol, but I don't expect it to be in any way groundbreaking or spectacular.

user1306322

chat why you cut off the titles

Logan M

5:27 AM

It should just be another show with cute girls becoming idols. We've had them every season for years now.

user1306322

myanimelist.net/anime/22789/Barakamon maybe

myanimelist.net/anime/22729 it's an original, so I don't know, maybe it'll be fun or not

myanimelist.net/anime/21681/Hanayamata I'll check this out though it's not my thing usually

Steven Stadnicki

Early reports on Locodol have it a little worse than the average idol show.

Hanayamata is probably terrible but I admit I'm kind of curious too.

user1306322

myanimelist.net/anime/22835/Himegoto who knows maybe it'll be 7.5/10

Shinobu Oshino

never judge anime from one episode

Taisho

user1306322

5:31 AM

myanimelist.net/anime/21995/Ao_Haru_Ride probably gonna be nice

myanimelist.net/anime/14355/Yama_no_Susume looks nice, but ratings are low for some reason, gotta check it out

there's second season airing now

Logan M

@user1306322 S1 for that wasn't bad for a 3 minute comedy series

user1306322

from 9 july

Logan M

I think S2 is going to be half-length episodes

user1306322

Psycho-Pass something is airing in July that image says, but I only see season 2 which will be later and the movie which is in 2015, but I still expect it to be interesting

Logan M

The one airing this season isn't S2

user1306322

5:35 AM

myanimelist.net/anime/22865/Rokujouma_no_Shinryakusha! looks promising

Logan M

It's an edited version of S1, which will have some new content but mostly be the same

user1306322

myanimelist.net/anime/21353/Tokyo_ESP hmm

@ton.yeung oh then nvm

Monogatari something, which can't be bad

that's it for the series

space bros movie?

Ghost in the Shell Arise 3 is already out, and it's fine

Steven Stadnicki

Yeah, but unfortunately Kanbaru is my least favorite character in that series by a fair margin.

user1306322

you have normal tastes then

Shinobu Oshino

which girl actually normal there

user1306322

5:40 AM

myanimelist.net/anime/20457/Inari_Konkon_Koi_Iroha. is a nice series if anyone doesn't know

Logan M

Oh I still have to watch the OVA for that

Steven Stadnicki

That's good to know. It looked okay (and I'm definitely a fox fan), just... decidedly bland.

Logan M

but it was kinda average in my book

Steven Stadnicki

I really liked what I caught of Gingitsune, though.

user1306322

yeah they were somewhat similar in setting

Logan M

5:44 AM

I think I've seen the PVs and CMs for everything airing this season that I have any interest in. I just don't have any idea which ones are actually going to be any good.

Whatever I'll just watch everything

Easier than making decisions

user1306322

yup

Steven Stadnicki

Heh.

I only have the time for ~3 new series a season. And I've seen enough at this point that I'm mostly just looking for stuff that's >interesting< in one way or another. 'New' would be even better, but that's even rarer than interesting.

Logan M

I'm hoping to land in the 10-15 range, but experience tells me that it's more likely I'll end up with at least 20 shows, half of which I don't really care about but can't bring myself to drop.

user1306322

@StevenStadnicki Mushishi, Monogatari, Kino no Tabi, basically anything directed by Makoto Shinkai is what I'd recommend

Steven Stadnicki

Yeah, I know. I'm a sucker for a lot of the Shaft stuff (they tend to be visually interesting, at least) and I started with Shinkai all the way back when a friend pointed me to Voices of a Distant Star.

I think my biggest pleasant surprise of the last year or so has probably been Log Horizon, of all things - it's hardly new, but they got so many little details right.

user1306322

5:59 AM

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Q: Should bots not speak unless they are spoken to?

Our friendly RebolBot got flagged for the first time, apparently for an automated greeting. Another bot was taken down for (among other reasons cited) speaking without spoken to: Is it the case that bots shouldn't speak unless they're spoken to? From a technical angle, I can understand the p...

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an interesting story by Zirak posted as answer

Logan M

@user1306322 How many images (roughly) do you want for @Taisho? I can get as few as a couple hundred or as many as 25k depending on your preference. The average quality will be higher if you pick fewer.

@user1306322 Yeah I remember that

There was also a similar thing on meta SU IIRC

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