Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Santa

00:18

@LoganM holy crapsticks, looking at the historical info for that. Remind me to never be a math mod; that community is incredibly hostile.

Logan M

01:18

@Santa If you can believe it, Physics is worse nowadays.

(IMO)

Santa

Talking to physics mods is probably enough to make me believe you :p

Memor-X

@Santa what do you mean hostile, as in closed minded to opinions in discussions or League of Legends chat hostile

Santa

Hostile as in "Our site is different; we get what we want or we complain endlessly about the establishment and act like 6 year olds for weeks until you ban all of us"

To which is the standard response is "Why are you not suspended for horrible conduct?", and which people in that community respond "but they're well known! let them get away with it!!!!11!"

multiply that by about 100 and you have an average mod's afternoon

Memor-X

i wonder if Overflow is like that since they seem to be the biggest

Logan M

TBH the MSE fiasco and the one on Physics SE are the primary reasons why I didn't want to be an Anime SE mod and declined when they emailed me to ask if I was interested. Our community is a lot better than that, but it still just seems like thankless and mostly annoying work.

JNat

01:33

@LoganM It's not annoying. And probably not much different from what you currently do for us.

Santa

Oh, it's thankless when dealing with the worst of the worst, but apart from that it's actually quite rewarding

JNat

@Santa We haven't had any of that here. The 'worst' we had here was amusing enough... lol

some guy that created 5 or 6 accounts just to spam us

Santa

Also, I got a lovely email today about blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/12/stack-exchange-gives-back-2012

As did every other mod

JNat

@Santa Yeah, just saw it too

Santa

@JNat worst freelancing has had is a bunch of people insisting that the site is like odesk, and the odd spammer :p

Memor-X

01:36

@LoganM i think you would be a great mod and if the current mods are just the guys who hang out where with > 3000 points then i doubt it'll be thankless

@JNat no 4chan invasion from those degenerate rooms like /h/

Logan M

Star this if you love lolis.

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JNat

@Memor-X No(t yet)

@LoganM lol, I'm gonna pin that message XD

Logan M

@JNat Go ahead

Memor-X

@LoganM that's just human, absolute powers corrupts absolutely

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unless your borderline insane like me in which case it taste likes butterscotch clouds and smells like dead clowns

@LoganM great way to ruin my reply

JNat

@LoganM Now we'll see how many people here love lolis

Santa

01:40

My avatar is toushino kyouko.

Memor-X

@JNat by pin do you mean star, i think that was already discovered when everyone was posting images

JNat

@Memor-X No, I mean pin. The top two messages on the right are pinned, the rest are starred

Santa

Also, I started my life with anime on /a/. I've ran R/a/dio since 2009, and I've been involved with Doki, SHiN-gx, UTW, Whine-subs, M33W and a few other sub groups. I am literally immune to abuse on the internet.

mods/owners can pin messages~

Memor-X

@Santa oh, i thought that was just the most stared messages grouped by time

JNat

@Memor-X Pinned messages stay on top

Santa

01:43

Nope; they be pinned, matey

Memor-X

@Santa just got an mental image of the girl you use in your avatar sounding like a pirate...i think there's even an image of her dressed up like one somewhere

Santa

it's kyouko from yuru yuri

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Memor-X

@Santa like i said before, i have season 1, waiting on NISA to rele.....

Santa

NISA?

Memor-X

@Santa *head explodes from Shoujo Ai/Yuri *

Santa

01:46

My nickname everywhere on the internet is Chitose

eeexcept here :p

Memor-X

@Santa Neppon Ichi Software America, AKA NISA, they localize NIS's works

Santa

oh, you should really just say NIS america

since... that's kind of their name

Also wait, why are NIS doing yuru yuri...?

It's an anime.

Also, here, i'm testing my tripod while playing osu!:

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Krazer

@Santa we can't see you rip it up on the screen~~ booo

Santa

@Krazer eh, that's for screen-record

(also, my job is actually as an osu developer)

Krazer

@Santa how cool of you

Logan M

02:01

osu is a lot of fun, but unfortunately I've mostly stopped playing. My greatest accomplishment was a full combo on the hardest difficulty of this beatmap

krikara

Whoa there is a Santa now

Christmas must be coming

Memor-X

02:21

@Santa in Trinity Universe the Prinny's refer to them as N I S A (explaining to Kanata that they don't have the budget to create a universe scale boss fight...even though there was), also in Hyperdimention Neptunia, the character who represents NIS/NISA is Nisa though i have no idea with the Japanese audio if they call her Nisa

Santa

Lol, did they seriously personify the publisher

Memor-X

@Santa NISA also does localization of anime, Pandora Heart, Yuru Yuri, Persona Trinity etc. i already own every anime they have and 90% is premium editions (didn't get Persona Vol 2 premium edition as it was gone, no Pandora Hearts one and already brought Akiwara here in Australia but they are missing one premium which i plan to get one day)

Santa

Oh, I just fansub :p

Memor-X

@Santa that's Hyperdimention Neptunia, the 4 nations are personifications of consoles (Sega's unreleased one = Planetune, X-Box = Leenbox, Playstation = Lastation and Wii = Lowie), the human character are publisher personifications (IF AKA Iffy is Idea Factory, Compa is Compile heart, you have Cave, Nisa, Gust, 5pb, Red, there's more in Victory but i haven't played it yes)

Nisa is also DLC for Disgaea 4 but either way she a "Hero of Justice" who is themed around a Prinny and gets pissed off when she's called flat (kinda like Etna), there is this halerious scene in the first game where Blanc and Nisa are called flat (Nisa is refereed to a pimple nipples) and Blanc goes into HDD and demands Nisa help her kill the bastards (yay Lady White Heart)

@Santa Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha really was bad with the first season, second was worse but third is ok for now, brought the DVD collection from ebay thinking it was offical but it's obviously fan sub, no official sub is that bad

@Santa .....i really need to get .Net 4 installed on my main PC to i can finally start playing it, i keep forgetting

Santa

sec, ill get you a link, lol

microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=17851

Memor-X

02:34

@Santa has to be runtime installer, my main PC does not connect to the internet

Santa

microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=24872

that one then

oh wait

that's just client

if you had an internet connect, this would be automatic :p

^ real one this time

microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

Memor-X

@Santa i know, it's the pain of have a 100% secure cpmputer

@Santa i'll proably download it tonight on Aura but wont be installing it on C.C until the weekend

Santa

@Memor-X my server is connected to the internet, has encrypted hard drives, only allows key-based authentication, and is still secure.

I actually have a cluster of 7 of them, all heavily-encrypted and on a private network

@Memor-X might I also remind you that windows has more exploits and backdoors than anyone can keep track of?

Memor-X

@Santa anything connected to the internet is not secure, the purpose of IT Security is not to prevent or stop and attack but to waist the attacks time enough to make them think the effort and risk of being caught outweigh the target, the only way to have a secure computer is one that is not connected to any sort of network

Santa

@Memor-X on a secure host, being connected to the internet provides potential vectors for attack. But if the host is secure, attacks are pointless anyway :p

I'm a linux sysadmin, pentester and developer

debian7 with grsecurity-patched kernels, proper administration and solid, vetted applications installed (all open-sourced), with a hardware firewall in place with an IPS+IDS/WAF and you're usually fine.

(at that point, user error is more likely than system failure)

Yuki

02:47

Ohmaigawsh, it's @Santa!

Santa

おはよう〜

Yuki

Dear @Santa, I would like a new chapter of Horimiya for Christmas, please. I have been a good boy this year. I've seeded all my torrented anime to a ratio of at least 2.0.

Santa

well, we're outta coal this year to give to the naughty kids...

how about a ferrari?

got a bunch of them just lying around

Memor-X

@Santa my friend is a hacker and quite possible apart of Anonymous (or she does freelance work for them, don't care either way), her policy "if it can be attacked, it can be broken in time"

Santa

@Memor-X oh please, I was part of AnonOps for a month (the actual hackers behind Anonymous as the media see it). They're a bunch of script kiddies.

That level of security is Linus Torvalds-tier security for no reason

Yuki

02:51

@Memor-X Even then, it's vulnerable to physical attack (i.e. someone breaking in and stealing the actual server hardware). The only way to have a secure computer is to not actually have a computer.

Memor-X

@Yuki "all my torrented anime"...........i hope you plan on buying that anime if you enjoy it cause i have no problem in downloading anime provided that if you enjoy the series you support the devs and buy it legit

Santa

What @Yuki said

Yuki

@Memor-X Reminds me, I need to check what anime I have that has been licensed.

Santa

@Memor-X funny thing is, the thing I brag about torrenting is Assassin's Creed (Every single game) on PC. because every single time i bought the game, the DRM made it unplayable.

no issues with the cracked version.

(bloody ubisoft)

Yuki

Has Ika Musume been licensed yet?

Santa

02:53

The only reason I torrent anime is because it's literally not available for purchase outside of japan.

Memor-X

@Yuki true but it's the same for an anime collection, ofcause that's chucked up to humanity being dicks of the phantoms of religion not doing their job

Logan M

@Yuki Yes

Yuki

@LoganM Well, looks like I'm getting that then.

I kinda stopped following anime news so I don't know what has or hasn't been licensed or is now available in the US.

Santa

Also, all of this "Support the devs and studios!" stuff is actually quite "meh". Go to japan. Talk to a studio. Ask them what they think about people torrenting releases because they can't get access to a japanese cable connection in another country.

Logan M

@Yuki FYI Amagami SS is also licensed, so you can buy that and watch it with your sister all you want.

Santa

02:57

They honestly dont care as long as it's not for profit; the people complaining are the publishers :p

Braiam

this is serious? otakumode.com/shop/…

Yuki

@LoganM !!!

Memor-X

@Santa my policy is that provided you buy it legit it doesn't matter if you also download it, with games if i brought it on one system (ie. Bioshock on 360) i played my share, rather than learn how to hack the game and porting it myself to PC i might as well download the PC version

if a game is made in a way which make it unplayable on my C.C (it, requiring internet access to just up, ie. Starcraft 2, Settlers 7) then buying the game is a waste of my money and thus i pirate a version that will make it work

@Yuki that's a good boy...girl....whatever (dam avatar and alias)

Yuki

@Memor-X Current avatar and alias is b/c of Monster Hunter. I alternate gender with each game for a different look. Currently playing MH3U as female, so yeah.

Once MH4 comes out in the US, I'll probably switch to a male avatar.

Memor-X

@Santa i'm just talking about getting stuff available outside japan, sure if i could confirm that an anime had at least subtitles then i would buy direct from japan, otherwise i either need to be fluent in Japanese or fan subbing need to be 100% right, it's all about supporting the devs who do the work to bring anime to the west

Santa

03:05

@Memor-X fansubbers do that too, and they do it in their own time :p

(I'm hilariously biased because I am a fansubber, heh)

Memor-X

@Santa like i said Nanoha was bad and i've seen a screenshot of season 3 fan subs where someone subtitled the aerial Gadget Drones going "pew, pew, pew", there's just some bad ones out there and it's hard to tell when downloading if the fan sub is any good or not, also there is no consistency with video codecs

Santa

@Memor-X ...then go to well-known fansubbers that aren't called "Hadena"?

Also, install CCCP or k-lite as a video codec pack

you can play literally anything.

Memor-X

@Santa thing is i don't know any, i think someone here was trying to find a list of the good ones from a while back

Santa

10bit, any audio format, any variant of x264...

The well-known sub groups are UTW, Doki, gg (usually trolls), Commie-subs, Horrible-subs

Memor-X

@Santa it's not having something to play the codecs which is the problem it's their use, compressing them sometimes to low resolutions just to have an entire series in a small download

Santa

03:11

@Memor-X you realise the size of the source files, right?

those 1080p releases you get on DVD are upscaled :p

Logan M

@Memor-X If you're pretty lazy you could just go by MAL ratings. They're typically pretty bad, but they'll at least avoid directing you to trollsubs or anything of that quality.

Santa

A source TV stream that you get is an MPEG Layer 2 Transport Stream (I've done everything in fansubbing)

You rip it and encode the container stream

it's 1440x760

and interlaced

wait, 1440x1080i

you need to work some fancy magic to get that to be a progressive, PC-friendly picture

Blu-rays are much easier to work with though

Memor-X

@Santa nope, what, they bigger that 4gb?

Santa

@Memor-X a typical 24minute TV show is a source file of ~2GB

it's a container stream format that is pretty annoying to rip

@ton.yeung format is nicer to index, easier to decode and deinterlace, audio files are readily available in the source files, and you take them directly from the disc

Also, higher quality and you can filter them better

Oh dear christ no these are not DVDs

it's an entirely new format

DVD is a horrible format

in order to preserve quality in a DVD you need to add artificial grain to the movie file

otherwise you get artifacting and blocky images

you also need to motion-blur every frame to give the illusion of smooth video

BDMV files are two containers: one for video, one for audio. the video is a raw h.264 stream

LARAVEL IS AWESOMEEEEEEEE

github.com/R-a-dio/site

nope

only in python

NoSQL is neat

I use Redis as my cache database

@ton.yeung the way laravel is designed, you can plug anything into it as a database facade

Memor-X

03:26

@Santa ......ok, i was not expect that for 1 episode, if i got my anime collection then Lucretcia would have a hard time with the backups, still, there's like a euphoric feeling you get when you take off the wrapper of a new anime dvd which you can't get by sticking a usb drive into a computer/media player

Santa

$app->bind('db', function ($app) { // bind your IoC container here });

@ton.yeung nope, it's done well. Laravel has an inversion of control container where you can bind a class that implements the DatabaseHandlerInterface as "db", and it will pass in all dependencies for you

@ton.yeung ehehe. understandable.

github.com/jenssegers/Laravel-MongoDB

it's been done

nope

Krazer

04:16

> hitori ja nai~

> bokura tsunagatteru kara

Logan M

Off topic, but M.SE is losing another user at roughly 100k rep: math.stackexchange.com/users/17762/please-delete-account. Apparently because of this meta post as well as some related drama leading to a suspension.

Krazer

@ton.yeung "singing" the OP theme

Memor-X

@LoganM no idea what's going on there but adding comments to votes would be a nice thing, one could make mandatory down vote comments for those with < # reputation to deter serial down-voters, and who said it still can't remain anonymous, simple flag to hide the user

though it is M.SE, from what i've been reading/hearing that's the last thing they wont. having to explain their actions

Logan M

@Memor-X There is already a suggestion to leave a comment for anyone downvoting below 2k. Making a comment mandatory has been suggested many times on MSO and elsewhere in the past, and it's just a bad idea.

Memor-X

@LoganM how is it a bad idea, to me it seems like a good one

Logan M

04:26

@Memor-X See any of the dozens of MSO posts making exactly the same suggestion, e.g. this one

I don't think it makes sense to require comments explaining downvotes, for the reasons laid out in Shog's answer here. Encouraging comments is fine, and even a good idea, but that's already done and I don't think the current system needs any modifications.

Memor-X

ok, it makes sense now however In this answer i know i've down-voted before since that's why i know it costs 2 points to down-vote however i have never seen this popup, maybe make the div extremely huge so you can never miss it

and use blink

Logan M

@Memor-X Downvoting answers costs 1 point, not 2 (questions are free). Getting downvotes yourself costs 2 points.

Memor-X

04:46

@LoganM i was for sure it was 2 points because i had been down-voted before so i though "makes sense, i sacrifice 2 of my points to destroy 2 of their points" and it was arcade for a answer to a question on a subject i knew a fair bit about and the answer i voted down was just trying to disprove the correct answer which was correct (as i checked out the answer to see what their answer was and up-voted it because it showed more in depth research than what i would have done)

does anyone here do like what i do and visualize someones avatar talking when reading a reply

i got some weird replies like that, Krazer looks like Kerby but with a very deep almost stereotypical black man voice and Logan is ofcause a girl and Ton has the Microsoft paperclip noise in the background of his voice

Sakamoto

05:08

0

Q: Manga's where the main character (female) has amnesia

I came across this manga by accident and I cant remember what it was called The main character is a teenage girl, who lost her memories from when she was young I'm not sure but I think her last name was Mochizuki, though it might have been one of her friends She has a male friend who carries a s...

identification-request

Logan M

05:36

@Memor-X If you're visualizing me as Miki, that would likely sound strange. Try adding なの to the end of some of the sentences (you can do it at random) and it'll probably sound more natural. Maybe replace some other adjectives with キラキラ and some other 美希的 speech when it fits.

Or I can randomly do it myself if there is sufficient demand for that.

Memor-X

@LoganM is it Miki every time you change your avatar cause i'm quite sure that its always a girl

also strange how there was no reply about me mistaking your gender

Logan M

@Memor-X I will be sticking with Miki for the forseeable future. I'd sooner go without an avatar than cheat on her by using someone else.

Memor-X

@LoganM now that's devotion, similar to me and C.C yet i would leave her behind at Pizza Hut somedays

only because i know she's going to be well off for the next 24 hours or until she's kicked out for bankrupting the place

Logan M

@Memor-X I don't think I'm really much more devoted to Miki than most people are to their significant others.

Memor-X

05:52

@LoganM significant others as in wife/girlfriend? or just the general affection an otaku as for their favorite character

right, 5 minutes till i clock off, need to decide, watch the last 2.6 hours of Nanoha because Vivio's crying it painful and i want to see Nanoha and Fate save her (i know she gets saved, Yurisum has a translation of a SFW Manga of Nanoha and Fate with Vivio) or watch 3 episodes and spend the rest of the night clearing Utawarerumono

if i go with Nanoha i'm less with less time for Utawarerumono and possibly not to start Chaos;Head but if i go with the second i may be left with a cliff hanger and Vivio's crying it just too much for my heart to see her in pain like that

Logan M

@Memor-X I've been in a steady relationship with Miki for around 4 years now.

4

Memor-X

@LoganM rido.......this is in your mind and not real....right

please tell me that it is real and your making it possible though something like Kelidoscope

Logan M

I don't know what you mean by "real". For me, I don't think anyone is ever really in love with another person, but just the conceptualization of that person in their own mind. It's not really any different for me than anyone else in that respect IMO.

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Memor-X

@LoganM dam, i was hoping that you had somehow found out a way to open up other realities to actully be with her......still, interesting philosophy

Logan M

07:04

I'll just leave a couple of photos here

Mysticial

07:49

dafuq?

Sakamoto

08:03

0

Q: How did Goku and Vegeta alone end up on earth

How only goku and vegeta alone end up on earth? What happened to other saiyans? Planet vegeta was destroyed by frieza but from what planet goku came from?

dragon-ball

Sakamoto

08:33

0

Q: what does 'teehee' mean

I'm sure most of you know this phrase, what does it mean? does it represent stupidity cutey thing that they do? what makes this phrase so popular?

japanese-language

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Q: Why can't Momoe Okonogi see Yuuko?

I had watched Tasogare x Otome quite a while ago. It was never clear to me why couldn't Momoe Okonogi see Yuuko. I take it that to see Yuuko you needed to Believe in ghosts Expect to see Yuuko Clearly Okonogi believes in all paranormal things, and she is always talking about Yuuko. It is als...

tasogare-x-otome

Krazer

15:10

@Mysticial how it went down probably:

@Mysticial context:

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Washu

16:52

Heya!

@Krazer please recommend me an anime ._.

Madara Uchiha

@Washu SAO

Seen it yet?

Washu

Ye

@MadaraUchiha havent read the light novel yet...

@MadaraUchiha another :D?

Krazer

@Washu what genre?

Madara Uchiha

I only watched the classics, so... FMA:B, Hellsing, Naruto, Death Note, etc.

Guessing you've seen all of them

Washu

@MadaraUchiha yeah :/

@Krazer I'm open for any genre at the moment...

JNat

16:57

@Washu Kyouai no Kanata is pretty good

Washu

@JNat You send many candy crush requests D:

JNat

@Washu Lol, sorry

Want me to stop it? I can

@ton.yeung No, I didn't

how?

Teach me master

Washu

@JNat no, it's okay. I'm stucked in one level for 1 month already

@ton.yeung i dont know why i dropped it....

@ton.yeung maybe i should re watch it

JNat

@Washu I think most of the time I ask for tickets. I generally don't ask for lives

Washu

@JNat ohh its ok i try to answer whenever i can heh :)

@JNat isnt it kyoukai no kanata?

JNat

17:02

@Washu Yes, yes it is

My bad

@ton.yeung Probably not

Washu

I was reading a manga called "Five"

is interesting

JNat

@ton.yeung The last minute or so? After the ED?

@ton.yeung Really? I enjoyed it

@ton.yeung Not sure.

But wait, are you talking about the one that aired today? Or last week's?

Washu

Are you talking about kyoukai??

JNat

'Cause I still haven't watched the latest

@Washu Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova

@ton.yeung I'll only watch it later

Will do

Washu

@ton.yeung yeah sort of D:

@ton.yeung nope, i dropped it

@ton.yeung was in a time... long ago but for spanish

@ton.yeung read Magi

@ton.yeung also Pandora Hearts and Deadman Wonderland

JNat

17:20

@ton.yeung youtube.com/…

Washu

@Krazer any recommend?

@ton.yeung and there is one i recommend a lot... check Cirque du Freak

Washu

17:38

@JNat im not following this, can you explain me a bit? the gurl is a warrior and the kiddo is like half demon rite?

JNat

@Washu Kyoukai no Kanata?

Washu

@JNat ye

JNat

She's a spirit hunter that can control blood, and he's half youmo (dreamshade) half human, which makes him immortal.

That's the basic setting

He's sees about to commit suicide, and goes to stop her

and from there, the story unfolds

Washu

ohh

nice

JNat

Yes, quite

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