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12:10 AM
are there any avatar movies (not the m. night shyamalan one) out there?
 
12:31 AM
I moved my torrents to my raspberry pi (and hid it well so it can overheat even better). I now have enough internet speed to chat. cc @Chinatsu-creepy-chan
Runs at 46.5c steadily. I hope it doesn't burn overnight lol
 
@ardaozkal you just need a NAS that is capable of downloading Usenet and torrent stuff. Pro: you have enough storage.
 
@ton.yeung ssh... they'll hear
@Armin Jokes on you, I also use this as a NAS.
#post I might make a bot to save posts by @Taisho, that'd be a perfect NAS.
 
12:48 AM
48.2c and rising. INSURANCE MONEY HERE I COME (in case of insurance agencies investigating, this is a joke. A RPi can handle 90c)
(fell to 47.6)
#post whatever, gnight.
 
@ton.yeung will do tomorrow
 
1:29 AM
@PlanetExpressDelivery it's sound like last exile, fam the silver fang on animax
 
@Armin theres even 1 upvote for that
 
@ardaozkal noice
Yo guyzz
 
@ardaozkal put an egg on it
@Chinatsu-creepy-chan reply hi chin chan
 
2:21 AM
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Q: Are Eileen and Erza related?

NatsuIn the chapter 482, Neinhart started to realize that he has heard the name Erza before, nonetheless, he knows that she is the Erza Scarlet that he has heard of. He started figuring out that there might be some connection between Lady Eileen and Erza scarlet. “Hair…and this magic power…” SO I ...

 
 
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3:34 AM
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Q: What was Johan trying to achieve by setting fire in the book donation ceremony in Munich?

SayanI have completed watching the Monster anime. One thing is not cleared to me: Johan eliminated all Schuwald's close friends just to get close to him. Once he became the secretary, his plan was to kill Schuwald. However, he changed his plan and set fire in that ceremony. My question is why Johan w...

 
 
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6:24 AM
just completed Final Fantasy Type-0. as i knew it sad end and the "happy end" is more or less denying that anything happened
but now i want to play Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII again just so i can kick Bhunivelze's stupid meddling godly prick ass. stinking fal'Cie
 
Mornin'
 
@JNat morning
 
7:01 AM
morning
 
7:18 AM
Mornin'
 
 
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8:33 AM
hi o/
 
9:25 AM
yo yo yo o/
 
9:39 AM
yo toshinou
 
the aircon in my building is broke
and it's super humid D:
 
@ToshinouKyouko who needs air conditioning...
almost noone in germany has that
 
@Armin me .... D:
 
@ToshinouKyouko it's clearly overrated...
 
people mostly have it at work here, rather than at home
 
9:49 AM
0
Q: Why are there naruto posters in naruto shippuden

Aditya DevWhy are there posters of 'Naruto Shippuden' in Naruto shippuden? These pictures are not from the scenes after the credits.

 
10:00 AM
0
Q: Why does light Yagami shuffle the two death notes?

Aditya DevLight Yagami gives a death note to Rem and then asks Rem to give it to Ryuk. Then Ryuk drops the book according to Light's order. Light then takes back the book. And he does a similar thing with his own book. Why did he do this?

 
10:10 AM
the weather is total crap like late fall
global warning
 
@Hakase same here in Australia. Tasmainia is getting destroyed
but it's winter here so it's expected
 
it would be not so bad if we had hot water but it's the economy season here
 
10:23 AM
way to combine 12 and 24 hour systems
that's insane
 
10:36 AM
Just learned that in Fire Emblem Fates the relationships aren't restricted by sex or gender
i don't think i need to explain what my plan is
 
stardew valley same thing
unfortunately the spouses lose personality quite a bit upon marriage, but the maker said he will fix it later
 
@Memor-X you don't care about the men and all lesbian couples?
 
yes
 
@Armin i care for the shoujo ai/yuri couples yes. hetro not so much since almost every game has them regardless
it's not that i hate them mind you. just that i love shoujo ai/yuri much much more
 
@Memor-X yeah, but do you care about the men as well? will there be some yaoi love?
that's was i meant xD
 
10:44 AM
and that fuzzy feeling then i can be someone's wifey *swoons* oh Lady Blanc
@Armin meh, i can tolerate and accept it. for me to love shoujo ai/yuri i can't hate shounen ai/yaoi but i wouldn't single mindedly seek it out to see/read it like i do with shoujo ai/yuri
 
@Memor-X i meant: do care whether the guys get their guys or don't care when matching them in fire emblem?
 
@Armin i don't care so long as they don't get in my way. in fact shounen ai/yaoi couples are actually safer then hetro couples, because if a guy was trying to steal the girl i liked....well i can't be everywhere on the battlefield to save him from when i ordered him into that obvious and deadly ambush
 
@Memor-X you are so nice to your underlings xD
 
11:00 AM
it's Oded!
 
o/
 
yo
 
did we get flagged?
 
could have
I don't see temp bans on taisho but maybe they're only visible from within the account
 
Naw. JNat asked someone to look at this:
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Q: Why doesn't this feed for featured questions work?

JNatI've created this feed user a little more than four months ago. It is supposed to post featured questions from Anime & Manga. However, it never worked. The feed is currently empty, since we have no featured questions right now currently has two questions. However, whenever there are featured ...

So, I hopped in to see what's the deal.
 
11:06 AM
oh right I remember we talked about how it never worked
ironically, the Big Shot show had to close
 
Oh, look, it's an Oded!
 
Yeah, it looks like "featured" feeds don't work for bots? Dunno what's happening there - but looks like it has been a couple of years now.
 
@Oded But, according to past JNat (meaning I don't exactly remember it, but the post suggests so), we tried the same thing but with featured questions from SO, and it worked just fine.
 
could be that it doesn't work on SE chats
 
11:28 AM
or that there are extra lines of code that are in SO that doesn't exists in other SE Sites which is making it work
^ how Book 5 should end
 
11:43 AM
That's why I am digging into it. Trying to figure out what's going on.
 
12:29 PM
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Q: What does "when nine and nine meet nine" mean?

Memor-Xin Final Fantasy Type-0 in The Nameless Tome 14:7 it says "I will become Agito. I will sound the knell to shake all the world. When nine and nine meet nine, the depths of reason shall stir. When the seal of creation is broken, a voice like thunder shall sound, And thou s...

 
 
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1:59 PM
> Takamiya-kun and the Chamber of Secrets
Magnificent.
 
@Yuuki i get it's supposed to be a parody of Harry Potter but i don't know who Takamiya-kun is
 
@Memor-X Witch Craft Works.
 
@Yuuki ahhhh, i get the connection now
 
The chapters all use a Harry Potter-esque naming scheme "Takamiya-kun and <insert thing here>". Took them quite awhile to make a more obvious Harry Potter reference.
 
I'm really enjoying My Hero Academia — really good stuff!
Anyone else watching it?
 
2:20 PM
@JNat it is on my list, but I've not had a chance yet. So busy with random stuff...
maybe I'll watch the first episode over lunch today
 
You should; really good stuff
 
so many things to watch this season that are above par, I'm only a few episodes into a few of them =x
 
2:50 PM
@JNat me
feels like they're not utilizing the other characters to their full potential yet
it's not bad but just unusual
 
You mean 'cause they're not showing off every characters' quirks?
 
compared to other "bunch of heroes" works where they all showcase their abilities and personalities very early
yeee
 
Like they'd do in Naruto, for instance?
 
I guess, haven't watched an ep
 
I kinda prefer this, to be honest
Not showing off everything
 
2:52 PM
ye, this is much more natural
looking forward to various reveals is very important imo and it's very often thrown out the window at the very start of most shows
made me remember all the best adventures and realize that most of them had their characters keep their secret abilities hidden until they were really needed, and it was indeed intriguing
 
sometimes it is good to hide things till the end in the super friends type shows, like Punch Line.
as long as it is well written and not like "I just never did this before, especially when we really needed it that one time, just because..."
 
hmm I might check it out
somehow it's not on my list
ah 7.18/10 that's why
started watching some let's play with guys who seem to understand something about games, but as it usually goes with these things, they're not at all prepared, and discuss interesting stuff pretty slowly
I got interested in hyper light drifter
from what I've read it's not a very interesting game, but it's somewhat well made
sound design seems alright and the visuals are ok, not sure about the gameplay though
 
@Hakase 7.18 is well above average though
it wasn't great, but it was amusing and charming
 
people say TTGL was great, but all I want to say is what you said
 
3:02 PM
i enjoyed it a lot
 
well, downloading it now
 
TTGL dragged for a bit, I like the movie remakes more. They glossed over the unimportant episodes so fast they didn't even bother to re-animate them and they stood out like sore thumbs. But I heard that they ran out of budget money mid way through and that is why the quality dipped so much.
also that Lord Genome hacking scene...
overall I still really liked it
 
it's always confusing for me when the show runs out of budget halfway
then idk what they originally wanted to do
both halves are like separate visions of the same thing and both incomplete
 
yeah, I mean if you have x dollars for 25 episodes and spend x/12 dollars per episode you won't make it... duh @.@
they could just be like Shaft and just put dialog over blank screens and patterns if they have to
 
that's thinking creatively
 
3:11 PM
it works so well that the first time I saw it I thought it was a stylistic choice instead of a budget one
 
I think they kinda rebalanced their budget to animate a few scenes really well, and that's what makes it good
hmm I think I'll rewatch some of those genius party movies soon
isn't it supposed to be a "channel" of sorts that just shows random works from many studios and authors?
the related works section is off
good thing it's all on torrents
 
yeah, it seems like most seasons everything I want is on Crunchyroll or Hulu but whenever I'm really excited for something it isn't on either, like Nanoha Vivid, Disappearance of Nagato, and Macross...
I guess maybe no one likes what I like so they don't license it
 
it's not high up on the top selling list
not worth the effort I guess
I was just thinking about music and how there's so many more tracks than even anime, and how would that even get known enough to become popular and sellable
you basically have to appeal to the widest audience range you can
but that comes at a cost of losing some individuality of the work
depends on the type of work, it could be a lot, or it could be very little
I'm pretty surprised nichijou was deemed failed in many reviews, I thought it was a pretty popular concept
 
3:27 PM
yeah, they're all huge franchises though so beats me. I guess the robotech folks have a monopoly on macross licenses but are very poorly managed so that makes sense.
 
a lot of very smart and funny comedy videos on youtube are not popular, even though they've got very smart communities, and you'd think it would be popular, but it's not
 
success on youtube is more about luck than anything else I suspect
 
what does that say about the most consumers − that they're not smart enough to appreciate it? idk
ye but it's recordings from comedy shows which sells tickets to real audience
 
I'd believe that.
 
I've only ever been to licensed copycat shows recordings myself, and it was alright most of the time, but man how much do they cut out!
and those were some of the funniest moments and they didn't air them
I think by now the top distribution services would have figured out by now what their viewers want, and what they still don't have, so they would write appropriate letters to corresponding studios to try and get a license
maybe it's happening, maybe it isn't, I don't follow the anime industry news enough to know
@Tosh do you know about stuff like that in CR?
 
3:32 PM
 
do sites like CR try to contact studios to get an agreement to sell their shows, if the studios haven't contacted anyone already?
I'm interested in how the shows get on such sites in general
who writes to whom, etc
 
@Hakase that's probably the case
thats what tv stations do with normal shows
 
I imagine tv stations have higher level representatives, but internet sites probably don't, and something tells me that difference in size may result in much lower response chance
are there any questions on how these things work on the main site?
would they even be on topic?
 
id say theyre on topic
 
I'll ask and we'll see
 
3:43 PM
it's part of anime productions
 
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Q: How do anime streaming sites acquire licenses from studios to show their anime?

HakaseWhat is the process of getting an anime for example onto CrunchyRoll? Let's say a new original anime airs in Japan and a lot of the viewers on the west want to watch it too. How do the streaming sites know it's going to be popular? And when they're sure it will be worth the effort, what are the n...

 
I imagine sites like CR have a lot of sway. There is a rather large viewer base.
 
@Hakase It'd be cool if someone from CR answered it :P
 
ya :D
 
4:16 PM
every time I walk by academia.se, I think "wow this site's users would definitely eat me up whole if I commented anything"
I don't know much about the research and the processes themselves, but I often see some problems in formatting, phrasing or missing the obvious human factors on which I could comment, but nah
it's their world
 
yeah, I avoid that and Math.
 
The language specific ones are also scary.
 
4:32 PM
watching Boku no Hero Academia
 
4:43 PM
2 hours ago, by JNat
You should; really good stuff
 
@JNat doesn't seem like my thing but first eps always suck. Will watch 2
the art style is really nice tho.
 
@ardaozkal What's "your thing", then?
 
5:10 PM
many stuff. This seems fun tho. Will continue watching.
 
No lunch break for the bunny, I'll have to watch it over dinner then. My wife can deal with it.
 
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Q: Soul Eater: What Happens to Demon Weapons Who Eat Innocent Souls?

GwynnieOkay, I pretty much get how Demon Weapons and Death Scythes work. I get how Kishin's work too. However, on the Wiki, it says that the process of becoming a Kishin is "initially exclusive to Demon Weapons" and requires the "merging between a non-Demon Weapon and a Demon Weapon", which would be a D...

 
5:51 PM
my very incomplete MAL: myanimelist.net/animelist/ardaozkal
@JNat lol they did
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A: How do anime streaming sites acquire licenses from studios to show their anime?

MilesThis is a lot of questions - I'd be happy to answer a few of them if broken up into individual questions. Best, Miles - CR Staff

 
@ardaozkal Ahaha. I sent them a message on FB :P
Guess they look at 'em
 
I usually pm the staff on CR directly
however, that is not an answer
 
Yeah
 
(can you move that to a comment?)
 
can someone help me break it up into smaller questions?
 
5:55 PM
YourQuestion.Break('?')
 
split
but seriously
 
@Hakase Gimme a sec
Ok, so it seems to me like one question could be:
> What is the process of getting an anime for example onto CrunchyRoll? Let's say a new original anime airs in Japan and a lot of the viewers on the west want to watch it too. How do the streaming sites know it's going to be popular? How do streaming sites decide what licenses to acquire?
Since that's all about the process of choosing
Then there's
> And when they're sure it will be worth the effort, what are the next steps? Who emails whom? Do streaming sites hire additional staff to translate and censor/modify anything? What is the cost of the effort to acquire a license? As in per license, which professional and legal services or fees need to be paid?
 
@Hakase ah, yeah, my bad.
 
I'm also interested in online petitions and collecting a bunch of votes to convince a streaming site to stream something
 
Which would be about the subsequent steps
Finally, there's:
> What if the anime is not deemed popular enough by the streaming sites, but there are enough viewers who sign online petitions or like some forum posts, will that be enough to make an anime appear on any streaming sites?
Which is a third and separate question
Does that help, @Hakase?
 
6:01 PM
yes, thanks
I'll get to editing
 
Also, we'd normally delete that answer, but since I poked them myself, and this is a good chance for a good and reliable answer, I won't do that, so as not to scare them away
 
@JNat can't you move that to a comment?
 
@ardaozkal I will. Just want to leave them a comment explaining why first
 
edited the main Q, thinking on others
 
6:06 PM
@Hakase Leave links in the comment section of your own post, @mentioning that user, so they know where to look for the other ones ;)
 
we could also invite Miles into this chatroom for a bit of introduction if they agree to spend some time on us
I think that would require granting posting right since there's not enough rep
ok I will
 
He replied back to me on FB, so I replied to them back there too.
 
ok, i'm doing nothing today...
i watched the first too seasons of legend of korra today and just started the third
 
@Hakase title should probably be edited too. Something like
> How do anime streaming sites decide what licenses they should acquire from studios?
 
oh I thought I edited it
thanks
 
6:17 PM
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Q: What is the process of acquiring a streaming license?

HakaseWhen a streaming site decides they want to stream a particular anime series or movie, what steps do they take from start to finish? Who emails whom? Does the streaming site hire additional staff like translators, censors/editors to add subtitles and hide/blur nude body parts? Which professiona...

 
Miles is unregistered. I don't think that we can give him posting rights without him registering.
 
oh
they can log in via google+ or whatnot
 
yeah
 
sakamoto being late again
also I think chat requires some thinking time to grant chatting rights to users after they've got enough rep
why is chat not perfect
I bet we could totally fix it collaboratively (or break it completely)
 
ardamoto here!
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Q: Can fans convince a streaming site to show a certain anime?

HakaseIf a streaming site, for whatever reason, doesn't have a certain anime of which you're a fan, can you gather enough votes in online petitions or facebook likes to convince the site to start streaming it? When could this work, and when would this be hopeless? For example: do studios decide not to ...

 
6:25 PM
there will surely be some secret functionality that the devs don't want mere peasants to know about
 
@Hakase They just need 20 points anyway
So an answer on one of your three questions with two upvotes should be more than enough
 
I thought maybe because I don't know what intricacies exist around getting licenses, we could tailor a few questions based on that previously unknown info
can't just ask "what else is there to know", that would be wild
 
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Q: Can fans convince a streaming site to show a certain anime?

HakaseIf a streaming site, for whatever reason, doesn't have a certain anime of which you're a fan, can you gather enough votes in online petitions or facebook likes to convince the site to start streaming it? When could this work, and when would this be hopeless? For example: do studios decide not to ...

 
 
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Q: Why not leave Yomiyama?

AngelplayerIn the anime Another, the town of Yomiyama is cursed with a calamity that causes the deaths of members of Class 3-3 and their family members living in the town. This is obviously a big problem. So why don't the members of 3-3 and their families switch schools? Wouldn't that be a better choice th...

 
oh hey, miles
<3
we need to steal him for our site
 
7:52 PM
I keep imagining Tails
would be a nice fluffy addition
 
my #1 announcement would be someone picking up the lucky star manga again
 
8:20 PM
got awarded 5 excavator badges on 3 sites at the same time
guess the calculation runs very rarely
This is a list of articles that are themselves lists of articles that are also lists on the English Wikipedia. In other words, each of the articles linked here is an index to multiple lists on a topic. Some of the linked articles are themselves lists of lists of lists. == General reference == Lists of academic journals Lists of important publications in science == Culture and the arts == === Literature === Lists of books Lists of 100 best books Lists of banned books Lists of The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Lists of The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers Publishers Weekly ...
that's a nice list
 
@ToshinouKyouko indeed
 
8:44 PM
i just bought a lucky star cookbook
i shouldn't be allowed to google
 
9:02 PM
@Hakase it was a bug, see here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/280023/…
 
asked the folks in gamedev room what they read and watch on the internet while developing games, on topic of game dev, they mostly said nothing
I wanted to know what their source of information on how to make games better is
 
reminded me of an anecdote which goes something like this: a dude walks by some guys cutting trees with an abhorrently blunt saw and asks them: "fellas, why don't you sharpen that saw?" to which they reply "no time, gotta cut!"
guess it's not the right crowd to be asking
I can only analyze what difficulties the successful devs have encountered by reading their blog posts and news articles about them
better than nothing
something tells me no art can be born in a vacuum, so they gotta get their inspiration from somewhere, these guys are just not telling
I wasn't even talking about specifics, I just asked about their general information sources
I'm interested in almost anything about successful game design
yes, if I knew what to ask about
but then I'd rather ask google
well yea
I could give some answers to that
it would probably take me a few weeks to list everything I know
but that would include a lot of the most obvious stuff
there's a youtube channel Extra Credits which talks about random game dev topics
there isn't a directory of knowledge on game dev so they talk about what they feel like talking about
still, I'm looking for that directory
or for similar channels
the best I got are game news sites and game related subreddits
also searching for info about the games I like
idk if there's a better source than that, but if there is, I'd like to know
that wouldn't be so bad
reading it now
 
9:36 PM
Are we ever going to get a site theme in place? meta.anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2392/…
Awesome.
 
@ton.yeung still reading, but what I'm currently looking for are deconstructions of games and comparing to other games, viewing other options that could have been taken to design this or that part of a successful game
so far the best content I've seen comes from let's plays by game developers
alright, then could you link some?
oh shit those are ancient
I'll see if there's anything that could still be useful in there
guess I'll have to just google "video game post mortem" and take my time
thanks for the hint
 
user image
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sup
 
10:44 PM
whaat you can't search reddit without logging in
 
@Hakase waat
I used to be able to
I can
0ws.pw/c9m3.png see here (some nsfw text)
 
ye I still can't see anything from that site
 
gimme a min
 
ain't got it
 
will symlink to my other domain
 
10:53 PM
I can't see shit via google :D
 
i.sstatic.net/GVICR.png here is the Original post I sent
 
do you rate-limit logins or what?
 
@Hakase I have the fail2ban thingy but it doesn't work apparently
 
hmm maybe it decided to block me for searches
fails 2 ban, just as the name suggests
huh turns out the search only wants me to log in when I search urls
 
can you try accessing ardao.me? does it work?
 
10:57 PM
works fine
blog says error establishing db connection
 
indeed
my server's RAM is so terrible that it can't handle mysql
 
oh it turns out that reddit redirects you to posting page if there are no matches for links, which itself requires logging in, but there's no intermediate page, so you could think it requires logging in just to search something
not very clever on their part
 
sigh my apache config doesn't allow symlinks atm I guess
 
oh well, I'll just be nagging you to upload it to stack :p
 
11:28 PM
1 small symlink and a small userscript and everyone will be happy, but uploading to stack everytime is too much work ^TM
 

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