Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

12:14 AM

@Tonepoet S.O.S. Brigade?

@Tonepoet the one with the floating blue eye, does she always have a heart shape in that cable thing the eye is on? because when i see art of her there's always a heart

Tonepoet

12:25 AM

@Memor-X That's the name Haruhi chose for her club.

forest

12:41 AM

<3 Koishi

She was the first extra stage boss I got a perfect game against. :P

(Either that or Suwako, but I think it was Koishi)

The worst part was that, right at the end of the "Subterranean Rose" spell card (the final one), as the bullets were disappearing from me beating her, I got hit by a stray bullet and died. I was so pissed. A few games later I managed to do it right though.

forest

12:57 AM

@Memor-X The heart is common because of her theme (psychology).

Tonepoet

@forest It's in her original art too:

forest

ah

(I haven't played Touhou in a few years, so I probably just forgot...)

Speaking of which, I really should play it again.

Tonepoet

forest

oh yeah

I love ZUN art lol

ahiijny

2:27 AM

Symphogear rewatch started today reddit.com/r/Symphogear/comments/bedt01/…

Good music streamable.com/dz3lv

^ from episode 1

Tonepoet

4:08 AM

@forest Then I think you'll adore this website: Touhou-memories on Tumblr

forest

:3

Tonepoet

Gensokyo's doomed!

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forest

7:26 AM

Hm anyone here watched the "Koishi's heart throbbing adventure" series?

Is it fully translated? I remember a few years ago when it was still coming out, a few of the last episodes weren't translated. I really liked that series.

Memor-X

@forest this what you looking for

forest

@Memor-X Is that all of them, including the 9-part finale?

(Can't open YT, have to use youtube-dl later)

Memor-X

8:14 AM

@forest no idea. just google it myself and got that, however there's a bunch of Part 19 [___/9] videos

forest

ah

Well if it has 9/9 then that's awesome!

When I last watched that (years ago), it wasn't finished.

Not even fully translated (my moon is too weak).

Memor-X

@forest look at it, looks like it goes up to 8/9, sorry

the wikia page has links to all of them but for the past one it only goes up to 6/9 touhou.fandom.com/wiki/…

oh and here's 9/9

Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure Part 19 [9/9]

►

assuming it's real

having not seen it myself and reading it's fan made i can't give any garuntees

forest

huh

damn

Memor-X

hmmm, there's seems to be no part 9 going by the origins source for all the videos nicovideo.jp/mylist/13478199

forest

O_o

When was part 8 released?

Memor-X

8:27 AM

12/01/2016 20:17

forest

hm....

I hope it's being worked on. I loved the series.

Memor-X

it's in US format for it's the first of December

@forest looking at the previous dates i'm not too hopeful. it's been over 2 years and biggest gap i can find between the upload dates on nicovideo is 7 months

forest

ah good

Then not all is lost!

Memor-X

@forest you got more hope than me there

watched the first episode of Thunderbolt Fantasy and given they are using puppets it's even better than you would expect. sure it's sorta obvious in scene where there's water since the droplets on the face are too big but the movement is so fluid especially in combat scenes

would have watched a couple more but my no idea where my brother downloaded them from but they have inconsistent codecs. 2nd episode played audio but the image froze and i tried to convert all of them and episode 3 cashes Total Video Converter

they all play on the PC so might see if i have an extra long HDMI and......ahhh fuck that's right i'm using my PC's HDMI port

forest

heh

I only use h.264 or vp8/vp9 (with aac or vorbis/opus) for codecs.

Sticking to that makes it so videos always work for me.

Memor-X

8:41 AM

@forest with Total Video Converts i just use the AVI XVid setting, but i've had the program for years so i might need to get a new video converter

what do you use @forest?

forest

ffmpeg

It has the best conversion quality of pretty much anything.

Mostly because it always uses the most up to date codec libraries.

Memor-X

ffmpeg.org < that?

forest

Yeah. It's pretty much the standard video conversion utility.

It's command line of course but I'm sure there are GUI frontends.

Memor-X

@forest you use the windows command line? if so what's the command you use?

forest

I use Linux.

But the command is usually ffmpeg -i input.avi output.mp4 or so.

For Windows, I guess it'd be ffmpeg.exe -i input.avi output.mp4 instead.

Memor-X

8:48 AM

@forest that's using the h.264 thing?

forest

With input.avi and output.mp4 being, of course, the input file that you want to convert into the output file. The format is detected based on the output's extension.

Yeah if you convert it to MP4, it'll use the x264 library to convert to h.264.

Memor-X

ok. i'll download and try it out now

forest

If you have multiple cores, you can also add -threads 8 or whatever.

That makes it multithreaded and makes it a lot faster.

There are also a gazillion GUI frontends. A quick search shows avanti.arrozcru.org.

I prefer the command line version though.

Oh duh! I forgot about the GUI frontend Handbreak. I think it's kind of the de facto standard for ffmpeg GUIs for the purpose of video conversion.

Memor-X

9:06 AM

@forest can't use that one because it requires .net 4.7.1 which i don't think i have and my computer doesn't connect to the Net

forest

ah

forest

9:27 AM

The old Wikipedia... nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain

That description of Serial Experiments Lain reads like a review. :P

nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing on dubbing...

> For more sophisticated audiences, subtitles may be used instead.

:D

Tonepoet

10:07 AM

@forest I watched a little of it but then I stopped because I think the translation was broken. It seems like translations that existed in youtube's annotations were either lost or don't work with firefox.

Tonepoet

10:19 AM

@forest To be fair, the only qualitative assessment it makes is sub v. dub, and doesn't judge the series as a whole. Speaking of which, I would rate that one show poorly. It brings back memories of lengthy rambling monologues, staring at nothing of great importance and compromised facial proportions with some forced paranormal events. XP

Though it was also a highly rated show which had a fairly large fanclub, so what do I know about good taste...

forest

11:03 AM

Totally unrelated, but opinions on the Rozen Maiden manga? It seems like a clusterfuck to me. Does it even conclude or not? I've watched the 2004 anime before (loved it) and am not sure if I want to read the manga (or watch the 2013 anime which I think is a more faithful adaption of the manga) because Hinaichigo is my favorite doll.

Mostly I just want to find out if Hina dies in the manga for good or not. Don't really want to read anything where I lose her, especially if the manga is finished.

Right now, I consider the 2004 anime to be cannon, where I think she lives, or at least it's implied that there's a way for her to be brought back.

The fandom page is confusing because it states that she's alive in the manga (and 2013 anime), but deceased in the 2004 anime, so I'm not sure if the page is correct.

Memor-X

11:25 AM

@forest i know some things about it from what i read but it might be spoiler if i say them

forest

I don't mind.

Memor-X

i haven't read the manga myself

forest

I accidentally spoiled myself wrt Hinaichigo not too long ago so I can only go the full way and figure out if my understanding is correct or not. I know that in the 2004 anime, while she's in a coma, it's implied that there are ways for her to return.

Memor-X

ok, well apparently there's another Maestro like Jun who at some points gets his hands on Suiseiseki and sews one of her eyes shut so it can't be opened and he also made a dolls which is actually 2 dolls fused together

forest

haha what

That's probably one of the new (post 2016) manga that wasn't made by Peach-Pit.

Memor-X

11:28 AM

as for Hinaichigo, i read that Kirakishou takes over Hinaichigo's body and i heard people say that she devours Hinaichigo from the inside

@forest maybe

forest

Yeah that's what happened in the manga (and thus 2013 anime).

I think, since the original manga did not conclude and had to be taken up by some other project and finished with a deus ex machina (if my understanding is correct), then it seems like less cannon than the more popular 2004 anime.

Memor-X

the first anime deviated from the original manga which you can see that they thought about maybe trying to tie it back up at the end when Laplace gives a Rozen Mystic to Kirakishou at the end

forest

Yeah I know that the first season of the 2004 anime was accurate, but the Peach-Pit guy got hospitalized and so the second season had to go its own direction.

But I'm not sure if Peach-Pit continued after that or if that's when some other team took up the manga and concluded it.

Because if Peach-Pit didn't kill off Hinaichigo, then I don't consider it cannon!

Memor-X

well i'm happy to this this

forest

:3

Memor-X

11:38 AM

tell that Contract between Megu and Suigintou isn't a marriage engagement

i do hope that however it ended Megu and Suigintou ended up together

forest

I forget if Megu was even in the 2004 anime, or just the manga.

I prefer Hina anyway. :P

Memor-X

@forest she was in the original anime. always got a yuri vibe from her in that too

forest

Maybe I should re-watch it and forgo the manga or 2013 anime.

Yeah I think I'll do that. It was an amazing anime.

Memor-X

12:16 PM

@forest yeh i enjoyed it too. sorta wished they continued it

Gallifreyan

TIL the second series of Wanpanman is finally out

Memor-X

@Gallifreyan it came out like a month ago

Gallifreyan

I live under a rock

And it's not out on our local Netflix yet

Memor-X

12:33 PM

@Gallifreyan *takes out paper fan and smacks mouse hand* we do not use the streaming service that tried to make their own Death Note with a Light who think condition statements work as a method of death

Gallifreyan

1:07 PM

Serious Sideways Jumps

Kiki's Express Delivery

1:54 PM

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Q: Sci-fi or Fantasy similar to shonen manga?

I'm a big fan of manga and was hoping to make a transition to fantasy or science fiction novels.

Sakamoto

3:01 PM

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Q: Searching for a manga

I read an isekai manga a while back but I am unable to recall its name. It had a person who was quite healthy but lived alone. He apparently died due to sneezing and banging his head on the ground while sleeping. He is reincarnated by the gods and spends 3 years in the forest with slimes until on...