Lvxferre [he/him]

I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.

They also devour my dreams.

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  • Wow, it’s that time already?

    Picking for sure, no need for intro:

    • Re:Zero s4
    • TenSura s4
    • Mairimashita! Iruma-kun s4
    • Dr. Stone: Science Future p3

    Picking for sure, but might as well say something about them:

    • The Barbarians’ Bride (Hime Kishi wa Barbaroi no Yome) - I used to follow this manga, but I grew a bit bored with it. Basically: empire fights barbarians, barbarians imprison female knight, the leader of the barbarians ask the knight’s hand in marriage. He gets to slowly gain her trust, and she gets to slowly learn about the barbarians, their living style, and the world as a whole.
    • Bertia (Jishou Akuyaku Reijou…) - Bakarina plus more baka minus harem. The manga series is rather short, but the main character is lovable and there are surprisingly touching moments. If they animate it properly, I can see it becoming really popular.
    • Pride (Higeki no Genkyou…) s2 - animation of s1 was poor, but… the manga is fun, so I’m giving it another try. It’s another “reincarnated as a villainess” story, like the above; but instead of the villainess being dumb, she’s guilt-ridden to the point of being silly. I like in special the moments where it shows how the current timeline diverged from the one of the otome game, they’re often full of emotion.
    • Saikyou no Ousama s2 - Frankly I don’t remember where s1 ends, because it made me follow the manga. The premise is someone who reached the top in a past life at a fantasy world, got killed, reincarnated into another fantasy world, and now tries to both fix his mistakes and save the new world. A good mix of fantasy and adventure.
    • Isekai Nonbiri Nouka s2 - it’s also city-building like TenSura, but way more slice of life. Fun to watch.

    Probably picking:

    • Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujou: Ryoushu no Youjo) - the LN series is amazing, but I need to admit I didn’t watch the earlier anime seasons, so I’ll need to binge watch them before this one. Another isekai series; this one about a book-addicted woman reincarnated into a world where there’s barely any book, so she needs to leverage her knowledge of a more advanced society to become again the nerdy librarian she used to be.
    • Reincarnation no Kaben - I don’t know the series, but “slit your throat to get powers from your past life” sounds fun, so why not?
    • Megami "Isekai Tensei Nani… - ditto as above.

  • What? No. Software is something people go looking for and choose to download, unless we’re talking about malware which I think is fair to say is obviously outside the bounds of this conversation. Spam emails are forced on people without their asking or looking for them.

    Yeah, and that’s totally a criterion people use when labelling something “slop” or not, right? Right??? Oh wait, no, it isn’t.

    They’re not at all interchangeable or the same thing.

    That is not even remotely close to what I said. Not bothering further with a liar (or worse) who distorts what others say.




  • When it comes to the usage of both words, that difference you listed is completely arbitrary and obviously irrelevant. People also use the word “slop” to refer to commercial software (see: “Microslop”) and “spam” to refer to any sort of undesirable email being mass sent, even if non-commercial.

    Unless you’re trying to argue something else; that the slop in this specific case is more justified. Then refer to the top comment in the chain; frankly the main issue here is not adding slop to their software, it’s the eagerness to treat users as braindead trash undeserving transparency.


  • The way y’all overuse the word “slop” is like calling all e-mail “spam.”

    It’s more like calling automatically sent e-mails “spam”. From the PoV of the [software | e-mail] user saying the word, both [slop | spam] are undesirable, even if the [coder | marketing team] in question is doing it on purpose and with purpose, to further their goals of [pumping out more software | reaching a wider audience].

    If any interaction with spicy autocomplete is treated as equally bad, to the point of aggressive mockery - no kidding people will tune that out.

    For me at least the worst part isn’t using it, but trying to hide it. I don’t think it’s justified, even if some users return snide comments because of it.



  • What decides if something is slop or not is the thing itself. It is not your “KwaLiFiKaShunz”. Bringing up “muh 30 years of XP lol lmao” means jack shit.

    If he was co-authoring the code with Claude this means he submitted code made by Claude; he didn’t just ask for some examples and implement in his own way. The later would be far more reasonable than the former.

    What he said about the problem being capitalism instead of the tool itself is, I believe, valid. However, it should be no excuse to unnecessarily feed that very same economic system, by paying for the bloody tool.

    Finally. He could’ve fixed what people complained about, by removing the commits, so he would keep them happy. He could also stick to his guns, and say “no, I’m not changing it. The Claude code stays”. But he did neither; instead he’s hiding it from the users. That’s pretty much the same as saying “I’m going to treat users as gullible filth and easy to fool, instead of human beings deserving honesty.”

    A good thing open software can be forked.





  • No problem!

    I should have gone deeper on the comparative method, but I didn’t want the wall of text to become even bigger. But it’s basically a task of finding patterns and working with them.

    Proto-Human / Proto-World is an interesting case. Serious linguists reject it not because they know it’s false, but because there’s no way to know it at all. The method breaks once you go so far in time, even Proto-Afro-Asiatic (12~18kyo) is barely held together.

    Glad you liked it!





  • I joke this sort of work is like Neapolitan flavour: it’s vanilla, but it has one or two interesting twists (like you said, the vampire intrigue) to make it more interesting.

    And I fully agree with what you said about the characters. Specially their interactions! Like, Kotoyama improved by a lot in this aspect, you don’t see Hotaru or Kokonutsu changing meaningfully because of the other, but Nazuna and Kou do. They grow, a lot like the ones in Sono Bisque Doll. (…that had a better ending. Yeah, I also agree the ending is a bit unsatisfying.)