MoogleMaestro

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[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

I feel like Gemini is a good idea but it should be open to simple link-only style media injection.

I think it's 100% valid to look at embedded media with some side eye, but I think the utility for non-tech users is basically eliminated by not having simple embedded pictures or media.

A protocol that enforced no runtime scripting, but stills allow some media embed would be awesome.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think it's a mixed bag. The new show is OK but I would probably read the manga first if you've seen the 90s show but haven't read the manga yet.

This is basically "yet another take on Trigun" so it shares elements of both the old anime and the manga (Trigun + Trigun Maximum) but remixes it.

I think the direction could be better and the music isn't as good as the original show, but it's fun if you go in with the right expectations.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

They're also machine translating subs and, guess what, they suck just as hard

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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Love these but usually play them in the morning and avoid the comments. Will try to share my results more tho I'm usually slow.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

But what does chiijohn say?

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let me ask you this way, why use lemmy at all if email forums are perfectly legitimate ways of communication? You could be on a mailing list right now, so why is activitypub even important?

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Even 2FA, I mostly don't use email anymore in favor of other more secure 2FA methods.

School, beats me, bit work is mostly chat based these days imo with slack. Granted, I do have email for invoices, but I was mostly talking about email as a communication tool, not a document management system. I'd be perfectly fine with sending people cloud links to Google drive if they accepted it.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Job uses slack, rocketchat or discord. I have a work email that is so separate from personal email that it basically doesn't count (because there's no spam there.) HOA and Bank sends old fashioned mail, and also isn't critical to me as I have websites for both. Receipts I wouldn't really consider communication, but even then most receipts I save personally.

Seriously, email is kind of old fashioned and isn't really used for communication between real people. You can see how most of what you're talking about is effectively "documents" and not real communication right?

Most I use email for discussion in 2025 is mailing lists but those are usually for old phogey FOSS projects.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (7 children)

You're telling me you use email for anything other than spam? By all means, give an example. Personally, when I talk to friends or family, I never use their email address, I just add them to signal or get their phone number...

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Uh, I was going to graduate from highschool in a year and Obama was running and we were all pumped for Medicare for all (you can guess how that went)

Overall it was a good year but mired with a lot of negatives. The economy crashed, college tuition went skyhigh and cost of living went up like crazy. I was lucky to have family to help support me through that period, though family has also been the only thing keeping me together the last 10 years as well so I suppose it isn't that different. As a 17 year old at the time, I didn't care too much.

The internet was much more hopeful and diverse back then. Explaining to people how different the Internet is now compared to 20 years ago is extremely humbling but also incredibly concerning. It feels like we've failed to teach the next generation how to approach the internet.

 

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I went to see Lupin the IIIrd Immortal Bloodlines in theaters today, which is currently having a limited screening in the US before having a digital release sometime later this month IIRC. I believe this film has already been seen in theaters around Italy and Japan, but this is otherwise the first day for the film in France / US and Canada from what I can tell.

I'm going to be brief about the film, only to gather my thoughts more later and revisit this thread tomorrow with further comment.

Spoilers ahead. If you don't want to see them, back out.

spoilerBoy, I really wish this film was better. As a huge fan of most of Takeshi Koike's works, I was really bummed out that this movie didn't live up to his legacy as a director.

There are some redeeming qualities to the aesthetic and general art direction, but most of the dialog of this movie drove me nuts with how expository it was. A significant chunk of this movie is characters talking about Muom and how he is immortal, and since the characters are split up for most of the film, it becomes a telephone game where each character is responsible for telling the others that they're immortal. At a certain point, it was too silly to even take seriously.

There are various characters introduced (new villains or side characters) who are unnamed, and various named characters who return, but most of those character either vanish part way through the film with no explanation or otherwise serve no purpose to the plot other than just... existing. For returning character, I'm talking about Yuel and Hawk, who felt like they didn't need to be in the film at all. Hawk gets demolished within the first 5 minutes of him showing up, and that is immediately after showing a flashback where his head is cut off. There were a few new characters as well who show up and do effectively nothing, but I'm not even sure if these characters were given a name let alone a reason to be in the film.

There's also some major pacing issues with this movie. There are sequences in this movie with inexplicable time skips and reversals; This includes some ludicrous usage of flashback to serve as a deus-ex machina for how the gang wins by the end of the film. I could tell immediately that the movie was going to have pacing issues when the recaps were doing a pretty awful job of selling me on movies I had already seen before (that were a lot better than this one!)

Hmmm.. I don't know. There's probably more I could say, but I'll have to sleep on it. Overall, I'd say that I'm glad that Koike wrapped up the movie and that we finally got it, but I can't say I'm entirely impressed by the penultimate (? final?) film's overall plot. I've been seeing people on other communities talking about how this all leads up to the 1975 film Secrets of Mamo, but I still can't shake the feeling that there are major leaps of faith the movie takes with the plot that are simply hard to follow and not just part of some larger idea.

Want to keep this thread up for discussion about the film, if anyone else on the fediverse wants to talk about it or has seen the film previously in Japan and want to share their thoughts.

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