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Gallifreyan

00:12

Sakamoto

01:01

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Q: Anime - Tv or Movie

I am looking for an anime but I cannot remember the name of the show or movie. She is blonde with blue eyes and is looking for her father or mother by getting answers. I remember the opening scene where the blonde girl and man who has brown-dark hair who looked at each other just a moment, they w...

anime-history

Memor-X

02:08

@Gallifreyan some of the artwork with that is.....creepy

or unnerving. not sure of the right word

might have something to do with the...

Uncanny valley

In aesthetics, the uncanny valley is the hypothesis that human replicas which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit feelings of eeriness and revulsion (or uncanniness) among some observers. Valley denotes a dip in the human observer's affinity for the replica, a relation that otherwise increases with the replica's human likeness. Examples can be found in robotics, 3D computer animations, and lifelike dolls among others. With the increasing prevalence of virtual reality, augmented reality, and photorealistic computer animation, the 'valley' has been cited in the popular press...

Tonepoet

03:49

@Memor-X I don't think it's that actually. I think the issue with that image is the eyes. They're angled a little too far into the corner, which aside from the usual problems also makes the pupils harder to notice, which isn't helped by the fact that the iris doesn't contrast enough against the whites. It makes her eyes seem empty and soulless, esp. in the thumbnail. I think the rest of the image is fine

Memor-X

@Tonepoet possibly. i do find i can't really look at their faces sometimes

Taisho

Tonepoet

@Memor-X I'd point out that boobs aren't everything, but I'm in the wrong company for that sort of comment to have the intended effect. =P

Memor-X

@Tonepoet i didn't mean it like that. i mean that while i want to look at their faces something about them makes me want to look away

in that image for the most part i don't even notice them unless i seek them out, even then it's just a glance

Memor-X

05:30

Darjeeling

05:48

@Memor-X what is this

Memor-X

@Darjeeling touhou i think

first frame the fox girl and the one next to her look like Touhou characters

and quite sure the guy is Rinnosuke Morichika, like the only guy in Gensokyo

with the reception to reader-kun who mainly stars in h doujin

how's thing anyway @Darjeeling

Darjeeling

been playing a random game where I run a school with bunch of girls fighting zombies and other school for a while

mobile game

Memor-X

@Darjeeling fighting zombies and other schools? don't the schools have a bigger problem like the zombie apocalypse currently occurring

have you voted in the election yet @Darjeeling?

Darjeeling

06:20

@Memor-X the zombies don't really attack you tho, they just wander around the school peacefully and we are the one that attack them

@Memor-X yea changed my mind couple times, but I already vote.. uh, two

Memor-X

@Darjeeling i was changing my mind before i voted. both i believe would have made good mods

Dimitri mx

06:39

Mornin'

Memor-X

@Dimitrimx morning, how's things?

Dimitri mx

@Memor-X fairly good, how about yourself?

Memor-X

@Dimitrimx good. completed a script which downloads my website's wiki. once i create the reverse i can then manage my wiki on my offline WAMP Server and just run this script to update the one on my website

Dimitri mx

ohh, thats pretty nice

JNat

07:13

Mornin'

Dimitri mx

@JNat morning, hows life?

JNat

Pretty good; yours?

Dimitri mx

Fairly good as well

Gently awaiting the result of the elections ;)

Tonepoet

08:14

@Memor-X Identifying it as Touhou is a little vague. Those are almost certainly Touhou characters, but I am almost certain that Zun would not sanction a kick to the crotch in authorized work. It's not quite like South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy or even (insert harem based anime here). What doujin is that, if you're at liberty to say?

Avery

I'm writing some tiny code to instantly give me the name of winner at the moment elections finalize

Tonepoet

@Avery One of these days, you're going to have to code a program where the only four characters are G, O, L and F.

Gallifreyan

Avery

@Tonepoet meh

it's as simple as "echo 'Dimitri mx'" tbh

Dimitri mx

Good to know people have faith in me so far :)

Gao

08:21

does anyone own a mac?

or can boot macos10.9+

i have lots of large images that i need to optimize and compress but this app only supports mac

Gallifreyan

@Gao Seen this?

Cool stuff.

Gao

@Gallifreyan the windows version suck, and the web version timeout after 120s

win version saves only 10% max, but the web thing can save more than 50% easily

linux version haven't been updated in like 7 years

or i'll have to use irfanview's batch command or something else

actually i'll give that a try now

a shame that cool stuff doesn't have a windows version

Avery

> python2 runElection.py -r TextReport MeekSTV ase.blt | grep Winner is | awk '{print $3}' | tr -d .

Just need to do some more magic and it shall work

Ikaros

08:40

Congrats

Avery

well I'll go to sleep

Ikaros

Works as intended

Good night @Avery

Avery

this should handle it

Ikaros

.-.

Gao

lol ok, seems irfanview is just as good as imageoptim

Avery

08:48

gist.github.com/ardaozkal/a69a6bfe7c1a1f4c9ded8c964d5b7692

^ the code

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Dimitri mx

My hero

Toshinou Kyouko

09:16

Morning

Dimitri mx

Morning tosh

Toshinou Kyouko

zZzZ ~

Dimitri mx

Hows life

Avery

hi tosh

Toshinou Kyouko

so busy T_T

i started playing pokemon go again

i caught lugia :)

Darjeeling

09:31

:o

Memor-X

@ToshinouKyouko wasn't that the first raid boss....thing?

@Tonepoet oh that, i have no idea

it was a random image i saw

sorry to dissapoint

@Gallifreyan this one i don't really find creepy or anything

@Gao are they all png and jpg images?

@Avery aside from the hacking there is a government warning on home releases indicating that they shouldn't be used for public screenings

Tonepoet

@Memor-X Eh, I can't be too disappointed, since I'm not the person who originally requested the source for it. I just pointed it out because I figured the fact that it was a Touhou image should be made sufficiently obvious by Tewi's presence. I mean, she's one of the characters from the first three Windows entries into the series, which I believe should be the most recognizable core set.

Avery

well it is copyright infringement

all DVDs etc you buy have a legal text on them

Memor-X

@Tonepoet which one was Tewi?

Avery

basically prohibits public screenings without prior written approval

Tonepoet

09:45

@Memor-X The one who delivered the kick.

Memor-X

@Avery yeh more or less

@Tonepoet ahhhh. i had no idea who she was. when i first saw the image i didn't realize it was Touhou until i saw the 2 girls in the first frame then it clicked that the guy being kicked was Rinnosuke

is Rinnosuke his first or last name?

Avery

sounds like a last name

Tonepoet

@Memor-X I don't even know to be honest. I have the full names of many characters memorized, including Hong Meiling, but he's not among them because he's relatively rare even in the fanworks.

Toshinou Kyouko

@Memor-X yup, group battles

Gao

@Memor-X yes, but i'm turning them all to jpg

Memor-X

09:52

@ToshinouKyouko so does everyone get a chance to catch it or is it first to catch it gets it?

Tonepoet

@Memor-X Hmm, oh! I didn't notice Ran and Yukari Yakumo. They're even more (in)famous, but I suppose I was too distracted by the obvious distraction.

Toshinou Kyouko

@Memor-X you all beat it together, then you all get a chance to catch it individually

Gao

will have to resize some images to cut down file size

Memor-X

@Gao have you looked at tinypng? if you have a drop box account you can save them strait to that

@Tonepoet at first i didn't notice that. i thought he was getting clashed or something

Tonepoet

@Memor-X It took me a moment to realize what exactly happened as well, but that panel is certainly the focus of the page.

Gao

09:57

i want something i can specify a minimum jpeg quality and a maximum file size, and will auto resize when needed

Memor-X

@Gao oh....hmm, no idea then

tiny png can reduce file size by getting rid of alot of the crap meta

Gao

@Memor-X i'm almost done with it using irfanview

i set a limit of 2MB

but most are under 1MB

Memor-X

i generally see size reductions between 70-90% of the original size with no reduction of quality

Darjeeling

@Gao isn't it better to use full size?

Gao

@Darjeeling not possible to get it below 2MB for some 6000x6000 images

unless i set the quality to be very low

now that thumbnail feature is gone

i have to post the original image

Darjeeling

10:02

we used to have 10 MB image, so we have thumbnail, but with thumbnail we also can see it full size. I don't think reducing it without providing the original image is a good idea

Memor-X

Darjeeling

well, for me at least :p

Memor-X

^ that's about 1 MB and with Tiny PNG i can reduce it down to 200 kb

Tonepoet

@Memor-X Fate finally figures out how to kill Nanoha through copious amounts of blood loss. 'Tis almost a shame she no longer has a reason to do so by then.

Memor-X

@Tonepoet lol that's true

Tonepoet

10:08

Ikaros

Darjeeling

who is that

Memor-X

@Tonepoet i actually can't wait for the 3rd because we're finally going to see the Material Girls in action

@Ikaros well in a way she is happy in the end and i suspect if the story continues and Gen Urobuchi doesn't fuck them over Homura's fears wont come true

after all Madoka says it's no ok to break the rules but she did that herself, she broke the rules of the universe

Ikaros

I guess yeah :)

Tonepoet

@Memor-X To be fair though, Kyubei probably doesn't even know if it's even possible for Homura to feel anything, except maybe for hatred towards him.

She seems so detached from any sense of emotion throughout most of the show, but she is motivated to kill him.

Memor-X

10:16

@Tonepoet yeh because Homura being more emotional was in terminated timelines and Madoka is the only person who sees those at the end

Gallifreyan

10:51

^ By one named spicybara.

Memor-X

@Gallifreyan reminds me of one of the twins in Nier

grrrrr, Tokyo Tattoo Girls is available for pre-order but Shopify Checkout is down for maintenance

Gallifreyan

Darjeeling

Gallifreyan

@Darjeeling Image not found?

Darjeeling

ye I thought so.. I guess I have to upload image from pixiv

Hakase

10:59

Darjeeling

@Hakase others looks fine to me tho

Hakase

this userapi never works for me

Dimitri mx

Hakase

only if I click the image

Dimitri mx

no probs here

Hakase

11:00

it's a hotlinking problem

Memor-X

@Darjeeling 403 Forbidden you dirty hotlinker

which is what should show up

Darjeeling

k lol

Memor-X

well it could be worse. my brother once hotlinked and rather getting the image or a 403 error the image was replace with a low quality image of some naked guy stretching his anus open so wide my brother side you could stick you whole foot in there

Darjeeling

wth

Gallifreyan

@Memor-X o_0

Memor-X

11:03

which is why i am always careful with my image uploads

Gallifreyan

@Hakase Are you at work? Do they block Vk?

Memor-X

last thing i need to do is see that myself or expose anyone here to such a horror

Darjeeling

Memor-X

@Darjeeling reminds me of Mashu from Fate/Grand Order

Harebrained Schemes sued for Copyright Infringement over Battletech images

►

Darjeeling

it is her

lolified grown up

as opposed previous images

Memor-X

11:06

in case if you are wondering why i posted that video, well it's about trouble caused by Harmony Gold, the studio who did Robotech

Harmony Gold USA

Harmony Gold is a real estate developer, motion picture distributor and production company, based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1983 by Egyptian-born Frank Agrama and is managed by his daughter, Jehan F. Agrama. The company began by selling broadcast rights from Paramount Pictures to the Mediaset media conglomerate. It is best known as the distributor of the controversial Shaka Zulu miniseries and for various anime series, notably Robotech. The company worked closely with Intersound, a Los Angeles-based post-production recording studio, managed by Frank Agrama's son, Ahmed Agrama. They were...

@Darjeeling it's cute. now we need her being cuddled with Ristu for more cuteness

Darjeeling

who?

Memor-X

@Darjeeling Protag of Grand Order. in the anime his name is Ristuka however in the game he can be a girl so Ristu, like Mio's Wifey in K-On

Gallifreyan

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^ author

Memor-X

@Gallifreyan yep, bumblebee

Darjeeling

#id 68.media.tumblr.com/2166e20e2f0540fab3ab495076e164ac/…

he's gone again

Gallifreyan

11:18

@Darjeeling I posted the author :D

5 mins ago, by Gallifreyan

^ author

Ok, I need someone with a clear head to look at this post and tell me if it's really NSFW.

Second time one of my posts is flagged as sensitive.

Grow a spine, people.

Memor-X

@Gallifreyan i can't see how it's NSFW

they are fully clothed, not in bikinis

Gallifreyan

Of all the stuff in Sunstone, this is the least racy it gets.

Memor-X

wait, with the bottom right image is there anything that could be NSFW in the border?

Ikaros

Girls are NSFW, ya know

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Gallifreyan

@Memor-X Pfft.

Well, maybe. Depends on how close one looks.

And how one chooses to interpret it.

I guess that border doesn't really have to be there.

Poof! It's gone.

That's weird though: I had previosuly had this post marked as NSFW, but I flagged for review and it's not longer NSFW.

I should post something really racy for a change.

On Tumblr, that is.

Mwahaha, no longer NSFW!

Darjeeling

11:45

@Gallifreyan I want to know if it was original or fanart

Gallifreyan

Ah.

Gallifreyan

12:14

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^ author

Memor-X

12:40

@Gallifreyan there's no way i could have that as my work space

Gallifreyan

I wouldn't mind.

Sakamoto

13:41

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Q: A shoujo manga about a guy with long bangs and glasses and a girl that likes him in middle school

The manga that I'm talking about has a long title (if I remember correctly). The story starts with the MCs being in middle school. The guy sits at the back of the class, has kinda long bangs that cover his eyes (black hair), and wears glasses. The girl sits in front of him and I think they were d...

retag

Dimitri mx

!burnit

Memor-X

@Dimitrimx burning

Dimitri mx

Memor-X

@Dimitrimx title?

Dimitri mx

nakubi.deviantart.com/art/Hellfire-133480104 Hellfire?

seems to be an OC

Hakase

13:56

@Hakase Would suggest migrate to main, and lock it. It doesn't get updated all that often, and as you also stated, neither do we really want to maintain it. — Dimitri mx 16 mins ago

@JNat what do you think, can we migrate that list to the main site and lock it?

@Gallifreyan no, I'm in Russia and it's weird here in general

Memor-X

@Dimitrimx yen, a google result didn't show anything consistent. hell i even got Iri from Fate/Zero

Hakase

had to bounce back home to find that my pc's bios has an option to boot back up after power loss

turns out I could have had it enabled all this time since 2009

better late than never

Gallifreyan

@Hakase I thought Vk et al would work well in Russia. At least last I visited.

Memor-X

@Hakase to be honest locking it seems a bit extreme, maybe auto protect

Hakase

@Gallifreyan it's probably disabling hotlinking in RU exactly because too many russian smartasses decided to hotlink images from vk

@Memor-X what's that?

Memor-X

14:01

@Hakase well normally a question is protected after so many spam/offensive answers. rather than wait when it gets migrated make it protected right away

Dimitri mx

Protected questions have the additional restriction that new users are not permitted to answer the question. Unlike locked questions, they can still be edited, commented on, and voted on. You can even vote to close them.

Gallifreyan

@Hakase :'(

Wait, why?

Dimitri mx

I think lock would be a better fit. But maybe closing it works 2.

Memor-X

@Dimitrimx and that's what i would still like to do, edit it. already we do need to remove the Aniplex link since it now leads to nothing

it would be like a canonical Q/A

Hakase

@Memor-X we don't need any new answers and we don't wanna have to edit it too often, so I think we should disable editing for low rep users at least

or maybe just disable all editing and fuck it

coz it's not our job to google "stream attack on titan english dub"

Dimitri mx

14:06

I guess the real question is, do we want to actively maintain a list of legal sources? Or just stick it out As is.

Hakase

I don't think it's too hard to find legal sites for watching specific anime

Dimitri mx

I doubt it will require edits often, especially looking back at the edit history.

Hakase

also people aren't googling for sites, they're googling for titles

Unihedron

because.moe always finds legal sources based on titles reliably

Hakase

and when you search "watch mononoke" you find a site which has it

google doesn't give you sites that don't have things (most of the time)

in any case, finding such sites for users is out of our scope

it's "shopping advice" type questions

Dimitri mx

14:09

Historical lock. Think that fits it best

Hakase

@Memor-X gotta review all those links, edit it one last time, add a "how to google for where to watch something" and lock it for good

Sakamoto

14:30

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Q: Can we expect Saki anime's sequel?

Saki anime is a thing. It comes in three parts : Saki; Saki: Zenkoku-hen; Saki: Achiga-hen episode of side A, produced by Gonzo. It follows the plot of the anime written by Kobayashi Ritz Saki, that is actually ongoing. My concern is that the anime stopped a long time ago. At that time, I suppos...

anime-production saki

Gallifreyan

My favourite artist posted a new art, but i'm not sure if it's acceptable.

JNat

14:54

@Hakase I'd defer to the community and mods; around to help with anything they need done and can't do once a decision has been made, though :)

Gallifreyan

17:49

^ @Avery

Taisho

??? ??????? ????? ??? ????????? ?? ????

Gallifreyan

'S a joke.

Avery

heh

Gallifreyan

18:18

^ author

Taisho

18:53

cool read

Avery

20:02

Dimitri won the election.

@Dimitrimx congrats

Dimitri mx

woo~

thanks

Avery

Everyone welcome our new mod @Dimitrimx!

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Dimitri mx

Now that i won, i can finally start the cookie bribes again

Avery

you should be able to go to anime.se and see a diamond on top of screen, clicking that and agreeing to moderator agreement shall grant you your diamond

then again I never got elected so not sure

Dimitri mx

I've been browsing A&M for the last few hours, and still am. haven't seen a thing yet

Avery

20:11

hm, check your mail maybe

I'm not really sure how you receive your hard earned diamonds

Dimitri mx

me neither ;')

I know theres an agreement that i need to agree with

Avery

in The Bridge, Jun 14 '16 at 20:02, by fredley

@Wipqozn and @Robotnik: Soon, you'll get a mod menu. First thing you need to do is accept the mod agreement. Once you do that, mod wonderland unlocks.

meta.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement << said agreement

Dimitri mx

anime.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement A&M edition (it been linked before)

nothing here yet for anything. But ill see it come as it comes ;P

@Avery you own more games than me :O

time to activate those 210 game keys i have laying around to bypass you >:)

Avery

21:14

@Dimitrimx well you deserved this

*earned

Feeds

Avery has added Dimitri mx to the list of this room's owners.

Dimitri mx

Thanks ;p

well

Now I do see a diamond ;)

Avery

~~also @Dimitrimx when will you get your dia~~

was typing that (2 minutes ago, got a message, went on to check that)

Dimitri mx

hehe

Avery

don't forget to drop by tl etc

Hell Butterfly

21:21

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Q: 2017 Community Moderator Election Results

Anime & Manga's 3rd moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! Also... Please join me...

discussion featured election

Dimitri mx

Yeah, currently re-reading theory of moderation (been a while since i last read that)

after that the email

than looking at the new powers bestowed upon me

Taisho

Memor-X

22:13

Fate/EXTELLA is out now on Steam and on specail for 44.99 (10% off)

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 on special on Steam for 10.19 (66% off)

Memor-X

22:25

@ton.yeung there's that too but when i post these specials it's because i've got them on my wish list meaning they are games i want to buy and actually play, unlike a certain someone *cough ~~@Avery~~ cough *

though the link did show me that Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 and Revolution are on Steam as well and are on special too

Sakamoto

22:46

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Q: Where Can I sell my Anime Art Cel

My original shipped from japan Ponyo Art Cel has never been removed from the protective casing except to take this photo. I have listed it on eBay and had no takers. I was just wondering if anyone knows of a dealer or website that would buy my Cel?

anime-production

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