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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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • Yeah, it gets worse over time. Way worse. I love the series but I must admit it’s the sort of stuff I only watch if I’m really in the mood to do it. (Like Evangelion [inb4 not isekai]. Amazing series, one of the classics, but it weights a bit on your psyche.)

    There’s stuff like Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi and Isekai Nonbiri Nouka to flush out the bad feelings. Those are mostly slice of life fluff: in one it’s a guy cooking for a giant wolf and a slime, in another it’s some guy farming and building a settlement in the middle of nowhere.



  • Subgenre of fantasy, where the protag goes to another world. Extremely popular, and extremely diverse, so this leads to a lot of less-than-inspired authors writing isekai. It’s really fun, though, at least in my opinion. [Disclaimer: I watch a lot of isekai.]

    The Log Horizon series I recommended is IMO really good; a bunch of players of a game are trapped inside the game they were playing, and trying to come back to Earth. Other popular isekai series are:

    JP/EN title: Overlord

    It’s a single person reincarnated into the game. As the undead that used to be his player. It’s a mix of kingdom building and slowly watching someone’s morals fading away, as the habit makes the monk

    JP title: Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
    EN title: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
    Common short name: TenSura

    Also “kingdom building” like the above, but there’s no game. Just some guy reincarnated as a slime. Mostly uplifting

    JP title: **Otome Geimu no Hametsu Furagu Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei Shite Shimatta
    EN title: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Common short names: HameFura, Bakarina

    The protagonist got reincarnated as the villainess of a game series she loved, and is trying to avoid the bad ending. Except she isn’t very smart.

    JP title: Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
    EN name: Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
    Common short name: Re:Zero

    The protag goes buy food late night, and suddenly another world, and he doesn’t know why. He has a weird “gimmick” though, he can return from death. The traumas pile up.

    JP title: Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!
    EN title: KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
    Common short name: KonoSuba

    Slapstick comedy. Protag kicks the bucket, and as he’s getting reincarnated the goddess can’t stop mocking him. He forces her to go to the other world with him. They build a dysfunctional adventurer party: he’s mediocre, she’s dumb, and they got a masochist and a mage who only knows a single wide-area spell in the party. [Note: not recommended as an introductory series for isekai, given it relies a lot on poking fun at common tropes of the subgenre.]

    JP title: Honzuki no Gekokujou
    EN title: Ascendance of a Bookworm

    Protag is a bookworm, dies crushed by books, and reincarnates in a world where books are extremely expensive and she’s dirty poor and has poor health, but she’s still obsessed with books at the expense of everything else.

    JP title: Saihate no Paladin
    EN title: The Faraway Paladin

    Protag dies as a shut-in, and gets abandoned when reincarnated as a baby. A ghost, a skeleton and a mummy raise him. Solid adventure, and rather good worldbuilding.


  • Culture: I mentioned cooking because it’s one of the things I enjoy the most, and it gives you a rather good grasp on a culture. Which ingredients do they use? Are dishes typically made for small or large groups? Are techniques intended for everyday cooking, or for more laborious festive events? What about culinary influences? etc.

    Depending on where you live, if there’s a Japanese descendants community, odds are they celebrate some festivals, and they’re often open for outsiders. It’s a great way to interact directly with some of that culture.

    That said, textbook history helps a lot. As well as Wikipedia; sometimes you learn a lot by stumbling upon some page about lacquer pictures, pottery repair or even cherry trees. It’s all about how you “parse” it together.



  • There’s a site called anilist.co you’ll find practically any anime series out there.

    Since anime is a medium, don’t be surprised if someone loves a series you hate or vice versa. It’s like books, you know? And for recommendations it’s often useful if you list some series or genres you enjoy.

    Unboxious’ recommendations look fairly good IMO. I’ll add a few ones:

    • Suspense: Uzumaki
    • “Innocent” fantasy: any movie from Studio Ghibli, specially Sen to Chihiro (Spirited Away), Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), and Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro)
    • Darker fantasy: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer)
    • Mecha (big robots): Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
    • Isekai (transported into another world): Log Horizon
    • Mystery/“detective”: Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries)

    Remember to have fun. Watching anime is supposed to be enjoyable; if for some reason you aren’t enjoying a certain series, there’s no shame on dropping it.

    Usually it’s said three episodes is enough to know if you’ll like a show, but sometimes a single one does it.

    Also, watch out for people shitting on the others’ tastes in social media, it’s simply better to block those.

    In some cases you enjoy the story and characters of a series, but the production sucks really bad. In those cases, it’s worth to check the manga or light novel series the anime is adapted from. (Hoshi no Samidare, I’m looking at you. Such amazing manga series deserved a better animation.)

    It’s worthy to dig into Japanese culture. It makes you enjoy what you see more. And if you’re into cooking, making the dishes you see in anime at home can be a really fun way to experience a bit of that culture.

    The “no life weeb” stereotype doesn’t hold true any more. A lot of us have jobs, children, social life etc.

    Some people flip the shit out if you use a plural -s in “anime”, “manga”, or “pokemon”. You can either avoid this or to pre-emptively use it to detect and block pass-aggro people from social media. (I never did the later in Lemmy, but it works).


  • Installation process seems to be way more complicated than the one I did for Mint in my mum’s computer some time ago. Hard to compare, though; sometimes hardware clicks well with a system but not another.

    Dolphin and Nautilus handle compressed files entirely transparently and much faster than Explorer does

    Even Thunar does it, through the archive plugin. Thunar. From Xfce, a desktop environment known for avoiding fluff by design. Caja too, even if it’s based on the GNOME 2 version of Nautilus.

    Office, email: I guess installing LibreOffice and Thunderbird would be against the spirit of the challenge, right?

    Managing applications is also not as nice and effortless as it is on Linux

    I’m so bloody glad for package managers.

    Windows 11 also has a combined emoji/symbol picker now (Super + .),

    Somewhat unrelated question: does anyone know if .XCompose works with Wayland? And if it doesn’t, what do I use as replacement?





  • I’ve been using Linux for long enough to have been disappointed multiple times. And 90% of the time it’s about regression. In no particular order:

    • Liferea losing the ability to start hidden.
    • KDE 4.0, a trainwreck that made me leave KDE altogether back then.
    • Network Manager bug forcing my local IP to change, even if I need it static and predictable.
    • Ubuntu ads. I think it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and forced me into Debian.

    etc.







  • I like measuring things. Probably a carryover habit of my first uni (Chemistry), but the end result tends to be more predictable, and it helps me to avoid dumb mistakes from lack of attention.

    For some things there’s a bit more leeway to eyeball things; for example, if I’m adding water to dough I’ll probably eyeball it. (Specially as hydration tends to behave weirdly in rainy days, so it’s better to go by texture than by fixed amounts.) But I’m certainly not eyeballing the amount of salt that goes in the polenta, rice or meats.

    Side note I hate that Reddit oversimplification where people seem to believe cooking allows eyeballing but baking doesn’t. It stinks mental laziness; I think in both cases there’s some room for eyeballing, and some for precision.