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12:05 AM

@ton.yeung need me to get you something?

@ton.yeung yeah, I run out of those about an hour ago

you know what @ton.yeung, unless I prepare those things myself I doubt I could get them... at all in my country

Dominican Republic

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12:26 AM

@ton.yeung See /help weather for usage info

@ton.yeung Houston: 83.894F (28.83C, 301.98K), light rain

@ton.yeung Othón P Blanco: 30C (303.15K), scattered clouds

i.ntere.st/c/13602628

all hail onodera

I'm not sure if the bot supports it, but their API allows passing latitude and longitude instead of the city name. Clearly US zip codes aren't supported though, probably because they vary in size pretty drastically (some are just a couple square miles, others are up to 10000)

@ShinobuOshino wao so much onodera

I think there's about 9000 picture of her there

what? who is yui

manga-only character (so far)

she appears later

there's so many girls there... I forgot that one

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2 hours later…

2:16 AM

finished watching second season of Mushishi, it's the greatest thing of its genre

Got my Curious badge on SO.

wow it's top 17 on mal

@Eric weird, I also got it

@user1306322 it got high rate everywhere

I havent watch it tho

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@user1306322 :O

2:20 AM

@user1306322 Right ahead of NGNL right now

°o°

But that will probably change the next time they reorder the list, since NGNL has a higher score

gotta check it out then

IMO MAL rankings are pretty bad though. I've seen some in their top 50 which were incredibly meh, and some of my favorites are ranked below 8 (and a few even below 7)

I only really trust them as a relative measure when comparing very similar series, never as absolutes.

I gotta say there's a lot of stuff in top that I'm never gonna truly enjoy because it's either rated by a ton of rogue biased users or it's a cult thing (which is about the same thing)

2:30 AM

that's not only for MAL, I guess most site also have same problem

Yes, it's a general truth

but yea, all rating sites have that issue

Because people have opinions

And not all people have the same opinion as you

steins gate was good but not top 2 good :o

It's better than what they have at #1 at least

2:31 AM

it's one of the best, but there's stuff I value more than it

that is just a popular opinion thing

I mean what else would there be, eva original series?

Yeah Brotherhood is popular

nobody even knows what's it about

But I don't care about it

For a long time After Story was #1.

Like for several years

gintama is in my tl;dw list

I got to watch about 12 random episodes, it's okay, but man too many episodes

Gintama is worth watching, but you have to know how to watch long shows.

Specifically, don't watch too fast or you'll get bored within 50 episodes

2:33 AM

I watched all 5 seasons of Prison Break in 2 weeks

so I wouldn't know :p

@user1306322 I only got to watch the movie, it was good but I got confused since I never watch the series

And don't watch too slow or else you'll just drop it

What is Prison Break?

some tv series

Ah never heard of it

don't watch it, it's comprised of cliffhangers

2:34 AM

it's human

hate these tv shows

lol don't watch Tales of the Abyss then

you waste time on them, they're barely useful, but you can't stop

HAMMERTIME!

It was actually not a bad adaptation for a JRPG, but every episode was a cliffhanger

Some of them really stupid

like "gets resolved with two lines of dialogue" stupid

2:36 AM

sounds like a bad game design example

That's the kind of show that if you didn't marathon you'd be really annoyed with it.

right from the first page, I don't think I'll ever get to watch any of Clannad, Code Geass, Hunter × Hunter, Hajime no Ippo, Kuroko no Basket (srsly? basketball?) and Fate series

how did anime about basketball turn out to be so highly rated

@user1306322 from your list here, code geass and fate is good, fate/zero I mean, havent watch the rest

anime.stackexchange.com/help/badges/90/inquisitive

is this a bug? they awarded 15 user at the same time

code geass' story setting is bullshit war stuff, and I just can't handle that

@ShinobuOshino the badge was just created and was automatically awarded to tons of users

on SO there's a badge that got awarded about 13000 times today

oh I see

2:43 AM

Badges (other than informed) always get awarded in batches based on scheduled scripts. So it happens for other kinds of badges too.

@user1306322 I don't like war, I hate mecha, but I like code geass

But this one was a bit of a special case because those are all the people who had already earned it.

I don't see the use in badges anymore, since most of them are awarded multiple times and the total count doesn't mean much

I dont remember ever got that badge, but then again, I dont remember ever got any badge

some people like it when their internet numbers are bigger that others', it's a good motivator, blah-blah, doesn't matter

imma watch the 12th episode of Soul Eater Not now

hope Sid-sensei is revived as a zombie now

soul eater now

why do they show Kadokawa's logo twice in the beginning?

ain't nobody got time for that!

2:59 AM

I heard SE:Not is only a spin off?

no maka anymore

I miss her voice

SE:Not is a spinoff but it has Maka

not main char

Yes she's a minor character

It's still Omigawa Chiaki AFAIK

didn't check the credits but it certainly sounds like her

as far as I know there's only one seiyuu that sounds like that

SE:Not wasn't ever really supposed to be slice of life IMO.

But I didn't have any big problems with the battle scenes. They were short and mostly unobtrusive.

3:12 AM

ehhh…

I'm disappointed

Anyway I think a lot of people went into Soul Eater Not thinking it was going to be like Soul Eater meets K-On, in which case they were disappointed. Other people were hoping for more about the SE universe, and they got some but they were probably also disappointed.

the slice-of-life portion was okay, but the action scenes are all out of place

nothing makes sense

even animation keyframes are crude

it's like not even the production team liked them

As a spinoff manga it's fine IMO. But I don't think it was a good choice to make an anime out of.

that's what I'm thinking right now

it would be fine just as a slice-of-life anime, without action

Maka is still voiced by the same VA

They would have been better off just re-adapting Soul Eater and doing the whole story without some bogus anime-original ending.

3:15 AM

but she's got only about 4 appearances throughout 12 episodes

That would be an action show I'd actually enjoy watching

@ton.yeung Yeah everything after like episode 35 or so was anime original

it did seem off somehow

They finished everything in the manga to date at the time

And then just decided they'd drive the anime off a cliff

Yep pretty much

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Q: When did the Soul Eater anime and manga diverge?

From what I've heard, the anime version of Soul Eater was fairly faithful to the manga up to a certain point (excluding a few fillers). However, the ending of the anime was nothing like the manga (which is still ongoing), and in my view the end of the anime was its weakest point. I want to start ...

@LoganM I didn't know you can watch action

@ShinobuOshino Oh yeah I have nothing against watching action. It just bores me.

Mostly Maka

3:19 AM

gonzo.co.jp/works

Maka's VA is also present in that what's-it-called anime about Kissuiso inn

Ohana is the main char

Basically, if I enjoy something, it's because the characters and dialogue are good. I don't care about action at all, and I don't really care about story unless they do a terrible job.

you know the one

SE without maka is not SE

well, it's SE:Not I guess

@ShinobuOshino Yeah that's why it's called Soul Eater NOT

@user1306322 Hanasaku Iroha?

3:21 AM

I think it's just that her seiyuu is older now and can't pull off the exact same voices as she was doing 5-6 years ago

I thought a girl that age wont make much different with her voice?

Yes Omigawa Chiaki is Minko from Hanasaku Iroha

even after she grow up

Well she's a voice actor, so hopefully her voice got better over 6 years

Also, she was like 18 when Soul Eater came out

@ShinobuOshino yes

huh, interesting

gonzo's best work on mal is NHK

which is expected

3:25 AM

Yeah I don't know what else they did which would come close to that

Maybe something like Seto no Hanayome, but I'm pretty sure NHK would be ranked higher

Just because it's darker and MAL has enough emo teens that anything dark gets lots of high votes.

@ton.yeung nani-nani?

hah "bishounen"

FWIW Omigawa Chiaki's voice in SE:Not reminds me of her voice for Hotori from Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. If you combine that voice with her old voice from SE, it's clear how Maka's "new" voice came to be.

@ton.yeung Don't bother. It was forgettable.

But the ED was amazing

link?

@LoganM oh, another shaft? I need to see it

Features Maids in a rock band

with an accordion

3:30 AM

the girls are scaring me

That version has real life maids too

original didn't though

have to find it

is this the "amazing" effect you meant?

Meh it's better with 2d girls

can't find it now though except on some sites I don't want to checkk

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Yeah she voiced her too

3:34 AM

also same VA as Maka

@ton.yeung P-Ko

best girl in Arakawa

someone from arakawa I gues

It's not hard to be the best girl from Arakawa

under the bridge in Arakawa, to be more specific >.>

google.com/maps/place/Arakawa,+Tokyo/@35.731852,139.82895,217m/…

My favorite character she voiced is probably Nazuna

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Hidamari Sketch

3:37 AM

@ton.yeung Hidamari Sketch character

I think she shows up starting in S3 of the anime, but I'm not sure.

why is it so highly rated

do I really have to watch it now

Hidamari Sketch?

ye

it's very fragmented between releases

Because it's the widest anime out there.

kinda like minami-ke

3:40 AM

@ton.yeung blue bell mint n chip

If you ever were like "I want to watch an anime where the characters all have wide faces", this would be your choice.

!!or or or

@user1306322 Cheater cheater your house is a heater

lolwut

whet

3:41 AM

huh

ahem

!!оr or oг

@user1306322 оr

:p

@LoganM their girl kinda like those from madoka

@ShinobuOshino Same character designer

(and animation studio ofc)

3:42 AM

I got it, searching for torrents

Basically, Madoka copied Hidamari Sketch because they realized the greatness of wide faces.

oh yeah, it's from shaft, I should guess

dunno, wide face is weird

can someone tell me the correct viewing order of Hidamari Sketch?

> wide face is ~~weird~~ wide

ask it in main site

3:44 AM

ftfy

@user1306322 Just follow MAL: myanimelist.net/anime/1852/Hidamari_Sketch

I mean, you can ask on the main site if you want, but it's going to be the same answer

at least someone will got some rep :p

but it's not going to be me because I havent watch it all

Well it actually depends. If you want to watch chronologically, the first few seasons are actually rather complicated.

But I'd say just watch in production order

It's episodic enough anyways

what happened to wiki question option?

You mean community wiki?

yeah

3:48 AM

For questions they made that mod-only a long time ago

huh I wonder how long ago exactly

I think I remember being able to do that

because a question being CW automatically makes any answers CW also, and they didn't want to give askers the right to deny answerers rep

I'll check

pff they should've fixed the answers then, not remove that altogether

Happened October 2010: meta.stackexchange.com/a/99024

I think that wasn't the only reason

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Q: What's the proper viewing order of Hidamari Sketch series?

There are lots of series out there called "Hidamari Sketch" -something and I'm not sure in which order to watch them. Can you help me out with that?

hidamari-sketch

3:51 AM

why you want to make your question CW?

@Sakamoto so you finally decide to ask it

then I'm remembering it wrong

maybe it was on Meta that I could ask cw questions

I don't know what I know anymore…

there are also specials of hidamari, so it's pretty confusing even if you follow the mal path

@ton.yeung I don't really remember anything about Campione. Weren't they from all kinds of mythologies?

GITS has pretty complicated relationships between its titles

@user1306322 anime-planet.com/anime/hidamari-sketch

maybe from this?

@ton.yeung Yeah I don't really remember the terminology they used.

3:59 AM

@ShinobuOshino oh thanks

why doesn't mal have that

because AP is better *grabs popcorn

@user1306322 Anidb has anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=8577

That doesn't have the specials though

perl-bin? did they forget to configure their site engine?

>v 2014-06-08, (C) 2002-2014 by AniDB, all rights reserved [0s]
Javascript: ajax.js $Revision$, $Date:: $

niice

specials are an important part of every anime

can't forget about them

Apparently AP lets you watch Hidamari Sketch through Hulu right there onsite.

Is that (at least approximately) legal? I assume so but no idea really.

oooh in 144p quality?

4:06 AM

with crunchyroll

it's new

torrentz 4 lyfe

quality content for all

The quality is certainly nothing spectacular

but it's pretty cool that it's there at all IMO

it's nice but its time has passed at least for me

Remember crunchyroll had pretty terrible quality also a few years ago, but now it's sometimes better than what they air on Japanese TV.

now I'm unshackled from the clutches of 56k modem monstrosity and can download faster that I'm able to watch

4:09 AM

Anyway I just like the idea of integrating your list with your viewer automatically. Of course there's software to do it for MAL also, but this is easier.

But nowadays I don't even bother keeping track of my list so it's irrelevant.

last time I watched tv on purpose was about six years ago

@user1306322 and after that you watch TV accidentally?

I watch TV accidentally pretty frequently

There are TVs all over the place here on random channels. It's pretty annoying.

I usually browse the top list and look into the ones that have nice animation or my favorite genres

wut? like public TV?

luckily I dont have to deal with that here

4:11 AM

For example, any time I go to a restaurant, they always have a bunch of TVs tuned to stuff I don't care about

@ShinobuOshino yeah, sometimes when I'm in a cafe and they have tv on the wall with sports or fashion shows, and my friends start discussing their boring work or legal stuff, I turn my eyes and there it is

so they have TV in cafe,, I guess there's some place that have a TV here, but mostly they dont

I prefer ramdom wifi

I suppose bars and pubs ought to have TVs for sport events like football cups and such

lol imagine a tv-widget in this chatroom with football for bored users

those which open late night usually have something like that, but not many of that here, and I usually stay home so I never have to deal with that

no, that will be good, at least for me it is

well, it will be better if there's also anime

I think it would harm business more that do good

crowds of hikkikomori crawling inside, weirding normal people out

overly active anime fans doing their thing

4:20 AM

wut

regular customers would be plain scared to stay

4:31 AM

hey guys

how much does your average cup o tea cost?

I have absolutely no idea

and what's its volume

mine is 64 cents per 350ml cup

it's probably a glass at that volume

I try to avoid thinking about how much I spend on tea. Because I know if I calculated it I'd be upset with how much it is.

sometimes you can't control your curiosity

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I suspect it's something in the range of $0.50 to $1 per cup

4:38 AM

mine is from middle price range of sencha, which are about 35-80 usd per 100g

all the other teas I can't drink in such great volumes as 2 liters a day

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My wife was having dinner in front of (on top of) the laptop and she spilled some soup onto it, right above the touchpad. Almost all of the soup ended up in the upper DIMM slot which sits underneath the keyboard. I took the laptop apart and I've managed to clean and dry everything other than th...

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I drink a pretty wide variety. At the moment on my desk at work right now I have longjing, oolong, sencha, genmaicha, konacha, darjeeling, earl grey, English breakfast tea, and chrysanthemum blooming tea.

But these rotate pretty regularly

I thought "english breakfast tea" was just a silly marketing name for a sort of earl grey

Probably the most expensive is the sencha, which is somewhere in the middle price range.

gotta check out chrysanthemum tea

@user1306322 Nope. They're pretty different actually. Earl Grey is a weird kind of black tea which has bergamot oil. It tastes pretty different from normal black teas, and is just about the lightest black tea I can think of. English Breakfast tea is somewhat more robust in flavor.

@user1306322 I bought a few blooming teas on a whim a couple months ago. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but so far I haven't been too impressed with the results.

4:48 AM

It seems to me that the biggest appeal is the visual effect rather than the taste.

I think they're for display mostly, not for great taste

looks cool, tastes ok

In any case, if you are going to try it, I don't recommend drinking the first infusion or two. It just tastes like water that you used to put flowers in. Kinda like drinking out of a vase really.

Also, it smells really strong

aaah I was gonna get dried flowers but my shop doesn't have them atm

but after a couple infusions you get some decent tasting stuff

4:49 AM

gotta search elsewhere

my shop fails me often these days

I'm running out of my favorite tea and it still hasn't got new shipment

@ton.yeung I'm sure I'm steeping it right

bleh jasmine

You're aware that I'm talking about chrysanthemum blooming tea, right? Because it's quite different from ordinary chrysanthemum herbal tea in terms of preparation.

@ton.yeung The Wikipedia contains no knowledge of such a thing

@ton.yeung youtube.com/watch?v=mse4_5JZaDI ; yayateahouse.co.nz/Blooming-Tea-1.php ; yayateahouse.co.nz/Blooming-Tea.php

Chrysanthemum tea

Chrysanthemum tea () is a flower-based infusion made from chrysanthemum flowers of the species Chrysanthemum morifolium or Chrysanthemum indicum, which are most popular in East Asia. To prepare the tea, chrysanthemum flowers (usually dried) are steeped in hot water (usually 90 to 95 degrees Celsius after cooling from a boil) in either a teapot, cup, or glass; often rock sugar is also added, and occasionally also wolfberries. The resulting drink is transparent and ranges from pale to bright yellow in color, with a floral aroma. In Chinese tradition, once a pot of chrysanthemum tea has be...

4:58 AM

Yeah most blooming teas are similar in terms of preparation. For all of them that I've tried, the first infusion is really pretty bad, but after that it's okay.

Flowering tea or blooming tea () consist each of a bundle of dried tea leaves wrapped around one or more dried flowers. These are made by binding tea leaves and flowers together into a bulb and are then set to dry. while the flowers inside emerge as the centerpiece. Typically they are sourced from the Yunnan province of China. Flowers commonly used in flowering teas include globe amaranth, chrysanthemum, jasmine, lily, hibiscus, and osmanthus. It remains uncertain whether flowering tea was a modern creation or was a much older invention of China. Flowering tea is generally served in co...

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