I've noticed that in some cartoons (Batman Beyond) and anime (Hunter x Hunter, Naruto Shippuden) some characters are seen a lot, i.e. Inque in BB and Bisky in HxH.
I was thinking that some of the calculation behind that should be how easy is the character to draw. But I'm not an artist so I w...
Often I want to buy some anime or manga, but after a long time of searching, I find out, that the manga/anime isn't translated yet. Is there a website where I can find information about whether an anime/manga is licensed and/or translated? At least in English, but if there's a source for German t...
I am studding some inequality properties of absolute values and I bumped into some expressions like $|x-2| < 1$ that I just can't get the meaning of them.
Lets say I have this expression
$$ |x|<1.$$
This means that $x$ must be somewhere less than $1$ or greater than $-1$ which means that
$$-1
@Eric Strictly speaking, that isn't really an issue. We aren't supposed to use our own judgement, but the judgement of professional anime/manga artists. What one needs to do is find interviews which address this question by notable artists. I know there are plenty such interviews.
@Eric That's precisely why it's on the multicollider.
@LoganM I don't think it changes professionally. A manga artist develops a style because they find different things difficult or more natural. Why they're difficult varies by person.
@LoganM I should just go ask what addition is. I'd probably get 200 upvotes.
Things get on (and stay on) the multicollider when there are lots of people answering and voting. That requires lots of people to know the answer. So the math questions that make it there tend to be the kind that the average SO user will click on and vote on. The interesting math questions never make it there.
@Eric I don't think that's actually true. I've only read a few interviews which covered this, but most of them said the same sorts of things are hard.
Specifically, complex hair/clothing tends to be what makes a character hard to draw. Nearly everything else on characters is the same for most or all characters. The reason why the artist can afford to have the main characters fall into this is that they get plenty of practice drawing the main characters, but side characters are usually bland because that's easiest to draw.
In any case, if he's asking for our own opinions, it's OT because of our custom reason that questions about making your own manga aren't allowed.
I interpreted it that he wants to know what professional anime/manga artists think. Which I can answer, but the way he's phrased it makes it not so good.
I think it would be better if he dropped basically everything except "what factors make a particular character difficult to draw?" and start over from there
Also, NC isn't a close reason any more. It's either "too opinion-based" (which I don't think is the case) or "unclear what you're asking" (which is sort of the case right now). Or OT for the custom reason.
@Eric This really requires specific expertise we don't have... I can attempt to answer it, but it's highly dependent on the type of artist (illustrator vs sketch) and the type of position (character designer vs. bg artist) and their skill sets (traditional vs digital)
Wrote a comment explaining my biggest complaint, namely that it seems to be soliciting non-expert opinions ATM. If that is fixed, I'm willing to overlook the opinion-basedness so long as they are all expert opinions, at least until there are multiple contradictory answers.
Like I said, I think if the question was something like "According to notable mangaka, what makes a character particularly difficult to draw?" then it would probably be allowable, but right now it seems to just be asking our own opinions, which would then be both opinion-based and OT for the custom reason.
Normally I'd advocate closing it and reopening later if he fixes it, but this particular OP had another borderline question closed by Madara and me. We offered suggestions for how to change it so that it would be acceptable, but he didn't take them even when we basically fed it to him. I think he might be more responsive if we give him the warning and give him a chance to edit before closing.
@Krazer Oh wow I had thought there was no way that Jeff's -183 answer would get overturned. It seems like the more ridiculous the stance Jeff takes, the more set in their ways SE becomes about following it. Looks like I was wrong this time.
@LoganM I have been noticing strange things too. For one, he gave a completely unrelated rant for a question that asked if mods should be put in charge of their site's twitter accounts.
Stack Exchange sites have their own Twitter accounts, like http://twitter.com/StackUX. These accounts appear to just autotweet the latest interesting questions using the question's tags as hashtags. But there's a problem with this: Twitter is not an RSS feed that happens to have a 140 character l...
The least coherent I've seen him was on a bunch of early Math meta posts. I'm pretty sure the incidents that happened there are a big part of why SE hired more professional community managers and he stopped working individually with all of the sites during their creation.
@Krazer I think you may be taking "Primarily opinion-based" farther than it's intended. IMO it's supposed to be used when there's no correct opinion, and every user is entitled to believe what they want (e.g. "Which is better, vi or emacs?"). If a question is attracting answers which are still opinion based, but the opinions are held by experts and backed by evidence, then I think that's not what the close reason was intended for.
Otherwise, I think nearly every question on rpg.SE would qualify
I propose getting together for about an hour at around this time every week to discuss a predetermined episode from a series we pick. Some ppl suggested we start with a new series while others have interest in older series
Here's my list from this season, sorted roughly by how good/interesting I think a series is. I'm not watching everything, but there are only a few that I'm not watching.
Top Priority: - High School DxD New - Tamayura: More Aggressive - Kiniro Mosaic - Love Lab - Monogatari Series: Second Season - Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C3-bu
High Priority: - Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-hen - Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! - Rozen Maiden - Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Ilya - Ro-Kyu-Bu SS
If we want to avoid comedy entirely, the only series this season are Danganronpa, Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi, and Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou. I can't recommend any of them, though Danganronpa might work.
Gin no Saji might work also if you don't like normal comedies but don't have a vendetta against humor. It's by the same guy who did FMA. However, it doesn't fall into the fantasy/scifi genre at all.
Did we figure out what we're going to discuss? Otherwise I'll probably just be like "Tomoko was really moe again in this episode. Great ep." every week.
I've noticed that in some cartoons (Batman Beyond) and anime (Hunter x Hunter, Naruto Shippuden) some characters are seen a lot, i.e. Inque in BB and Bisky in HxH.
I was thinking that some of the calculation behind that should be how easy is the character to draw. But I'm not an artist so I w...
@MadaraUchiha possibly. I based my action on the premise that we don't have the expertise to accurately answer this, any answer(s) given would a most be some good speculation.
Keeping in mind that this is anime and half the stuff is already speculation but this one feels different .. but then again, I could be over thinking this.
@Krazer potplayer is amazing, I uninstalled all my other previous players, the only gripe I have with it is the ugly skins. I am still poking around for some..
@MadaraUchiha Not exactly the same thing, but the conversation starts here, then gets interrupted for a while and restarts here. I don't think it's important at all but I thought it was funny that we discussed basically the same thing here before.
@MadaraUchiha I've brought it up a few times but they keep saying minimum time to trigger something is a few months etc. One guy said they had something similar over at Programmers and they eventually persuaded the guy to resign.
BTW why did Blender get 4 mods? It doesn't seem like any other recent beta sites got 4. Did they give you a reason for taking 4 rather than the usual 3?
@LoganM we're lucky to have folks like you and @Eric and @Mysticial who are active and alive from the beginning of the private/public beta and are very helpful
The community makes sense. Activity, not so much since they're only judging based on the first few weeks. Bitcoin, which is extremely active, still only has 3. But I'm not really complaining, just curious because I hadn't seen 4 pro tem mods anywhere else.
Perhaps more interestingly, Network Engineering, a site which seems to be doing pretty well, still has no pro tem mods despite being 67 days into beta. I couldn't even find a post on their meta site asking for mod suggestions.
If this site were catching on strongly with the anime community we'd have the same problem. Instead, the problem we have is that we can't bring in new users easily.
I am studding some inequality properties of absolute values and I bumped into some expressions like $|x-2| < 1$ that I just can't get the meaning of them.
Lets say I have this expression
$$ |x|<1.$$
This means that $x$ must be somewhere less than $1$ or greater than $-1$ which means that
$$-1 
I think it is just a Creepy pasta myth. Creepy pasta is something that is intended to scare.
Sorry 4 short answer.
naruto naruto and sasuke are battle genius.
I'm curious. Is it possible to obtain a gold badge without getting any bronze or silver badges? It doesn't seem like it would be.
