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.

Down: 2,92 TB, Up: 3,85 TB, Ratio: 1,32

I try my best to not be a dead weight, but I download pretty obscure shit so even if I keep the torrent seeding for a whole month people don’t download it.

Fuck, I remember it. It was 110% cute!

Note Black Torch predates Chainsaw Man by two years or so.

In fact I don’t know why they resurrected this series. But not complaining about it.

Prolly getting one season and that’s it, the story is ~20 chapters, but I don’t recall if it was axed or planned already short.

First episode was a decent intro of the two MCs (Jiro and Rago): good-natured punk who speaks with animal x mononoke who’s a shadow of his former self.

Amazing adaptation of the Eris gaiden. So much being done to show Eris’ character, beyond the words:

• cutting her own hair, a sign of determination
• punching Nina almost to death, to the point she literally pisses herself out of fear
• jumping back as Gal Farion goes forth, because she instinctively “knows” he’s a dangerous foe
• paying absolutely no attention to taunts, as Nina says she has more talent for brawling than swords
• Auber reaching for his second sword, as if knowing “this is a dangerous beast you can’t reason with”; etc.

In no moment you need to be said “this is why she’s called the Mad Dog”.

Ooooh, this part is hilarious. Nina thinking Eris is just making shit up on the spot, then finding Rudeus is actually way stronger than she expected!

Small info on the styles:

• Sword God Style values initiative. If you can cut down your opponent before they react, you win.
• Water God Style values defence. Provoke the opponent to act on predictable ways, so you can counterattack them.
• North God Style values flexibility. Dirty tricks, usage of the terrain, whatever it takes to stay alive.

They’re in a weird triangle of sorts: Sword God overwhelms North God, North God tricks Water God, Water God counters Sword God. That explains why it’s so important for Eris to train against all three styles; if she focuses on a single one, Orsted can simply use the one that beats it.

That “eleven” is an old meme :P

I fully agree with you. It goes three ways:

1. Cultural aspects play better alongside other drawings.
2. It forces you to look at what really matters for you, instead of some symbol you’ve been drilled to accept.
3. Flags are typically simplistic patterns, and there’s way more art on actually drawing something.

I’m not authority by all means. Just someone who’s cross-breeding peppers at home, and had to read about this stuff to know if my goal (four custom pepper varieties) is even viable with the varieties I have at hand.

The reason I used species names is because it’s cleaner — plenty species have multiple cultivars, cultivars often have local names, and some of those don’t even have an English name.

so I’ll take everything you said has fact

Please, don’t. It’s good to check info people mention in social media.

Info on diverging 17mya: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel-the-burn-new-world-chilies-traced-back-nearly-17-million-years/

Biggest clade diversity being in the Andes: check this map, focus on Bolivia. The association between clade diversity x geographical origin is a common rule of thumb biologists (and linguists) follow.

Is this the flag I’m supposed to replace with Visibly Artistic, Newly Doodled Additions, Laid Intrusively Supra Merdiculae*? Or will be there a bigger one? NO KINGS, NO KINGDOMS, NO FLAGS! DEFACE THE FLAGS IN THE CANVAS! SAY «NO» TO THE DIGITAL VERSION OF IMPERIALISM!!!11one11eleven

I’m 25% joking, 75% serious with the above. I do think people should gang up against the largest country flag they find in the Canvas, whichever it is, and deface it. Not just “work around”, as if you were a vassal and your suzerain “graciously” accepts your doodle over it; no, fuck those country flags, if we gang up we’ll force people to either shrink or remove them. Because yes they do tend to take A LOT of space.

On another matter, since Canvas is in two weeks, I feel like I should stop being a lazy arse and prepare my template; I’m thinking of doing something silly, like a (tidied, pixellated, and waaaaay smaller) version of this:

The pic above is 320 x 200, but I think 80x50 would still look good while not wasting too much canvas space.

*sorry for the unnecessary Latin. It’s just “over shit” wouldn’t fit the acronym.

The manga is by no means a masterwork, but it’s fun, and it gets more interesting as it progresses. This anime adaptation is rather faithful, so I’m expecting it to follow fashion. Although to be frank I think the most interesting parts will be likely way past the end of the season; they seem to be adapting 2 chapters per episode.

This reminds me Huxley’s The Genius and the Goddess. At the start, two characters discuss fiction versus reality, with one saying “the trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

I think this applies to the epics. Even if the historical events depicted in both were completely true, they’re still “fiction”, as the events are “glued” together, as part of a narrative of valor, struggle, fate, heroism. So IMO the hypothesis of the Trojan War they depict being a bunch of smaller conflicts fictionalised into a single one seems fairly reasonable.

Specially given that the Anatolian coast was a clusterfuck of peoples. Around the Late Bronze Age the Hittites would know it as Arzawa, and associate it with either a kingdom or a loose confederation, that included Wilusa/Ilion/Troy. The presence of Luwian speakers there seems safe, but I think there were other Anatolian peoples, plus Pre-Indo-Europeans; their main connection was simply “let’s gang up so we don’t end conquered by either the Hittites or the Achaeans”.

Pariya-muwas and Pari-zitis

For reference:

• Priam: 𒉺𒊑𒀀𒈬𒀀 pa.ri.a.mu.a, Πρῐ́ᾰμος Prĭ́ămos. It’s being translated as “exceptionally brave”, but I think “thoroughly brave” is a bit more accurate; more on that later. Note the Greek nominative -ς -s is pervasive to masculine names being borrowed.
• Paris: 𒉺𒊑𒍣𒋾𒅖 pa.ri.zi.ti.iš, Πᾰ́ρῐς Pắrĭs. That ⟨z⟩ is probably [ts], given how commonly it surfaces as a reflex of PIE *tʰ, and Anatolian languages (like Luwian and Hittite) typically lacking voicing contrast AFAWK.

In both you have the root 𒉺𒊑 pa.ri. I’m tempted to interpret it as coming from PIE *peri “in crossing, in passing”, the locative of *per “before, in front”. The “thoroughly” vs. “in front, first” semantic scope is a mess but that mess is fairly common in IE languages.

Dias sounds exactly like I pictured. I don’t like the overall tone of Alna/Aruna’s voice; I think the VA (Wakayama Shion) did a way better job voicing Momo.

Beyond that… it’s OK, I guess? I agree with NineSwords about the pacing. But I feel like the animation was better than I expected.

and everything feels rushed for such a slow paced story

Agree. I was able to follow it because I read the manga, but I’m not sure if anime only folks will follow it.

…meh. Watched it. It isn’t bad, but it’s certainly not great either. I guess I’ll watch a few more episodes, then decide between watching it vs. dropping it.

Yup. If they could, the discourse would suddenly change from mockery to genuine praise. Corporations are filled with hypocrites, and as entities they act like hypocrites too.

Now you do! You’re also talking with the guy who invented fire. And internet shitposting!

It’s corpo, but it’s shitting on common corpo practices.

Same deal here in Brazil. Or at least my city; pizza styles vary regionally here, so sometimes those takeout pizze you eat in a State might be rather… meh in comparison with homemade ones.