Because unless you are already interested enough to keep up with all of the new releases you end up throwing a dart at the board filled with recommendations you've heard were good and get slapped in the face by the fan service fairy before the end of the first episode of whatever you landed on. They also seem to be some of the more popular shows so they get shoved in your face as recommendations on streaming platforms etc. That's the only reason I've heard of Chainsmoker Cat for example.

My daughter was getting into anime a few years ago and even going back to the classics it's really hard to avoid the eye rolling booba jokes and upskirt shots. Maybe I'm just old now.

Thats...not what I said lol. I was there for every one of the shows she checked out and recommended a few myself based on old memories. Sorry I apparently hit a nerve trying to add an anecdote to the conversation.

My point was frustration trying to filter fan service out of shows where it can just randomly pop up out of nowhere 12 episodes in with a surprise upskirt or beach episode in a cool giant fighting robot story or whatever.

Its being recommended on the front page of my family's Netflix accounts, and the description is super generic. There's a pretty good chance people just try a show without bothering to dig up all of the details about it first. We're not all spending the day on anime forums. 🤷‍♂️

I went this route as a compromise with my PS4 years ago. Even imported some harder to find games over time. Then the drive died and I discovered Sony ties some hardware ID on it to the serial number of the motherboard and restricts service to "authorized repair shops". So fuck all of that, I'm sticking to PC 100% and pirating the hell out of exclusives for emulation down the road. My backlog is impossible to complete anyway.

You may be thinking of Mama Cass in the late 70s, who died of a heart attack but was popularly cited as choking on a ham sandwich?

Good news! Bethesda is surely about to release a patch that fixes nothing you need and breaks all your mods, just like Skyrim the other day again!

That whole story is horrifying and hilarious. Thanks for sharing!

Oh hi Marc.

I found a good deal on large diameter pipe cutters, and I like that they are very silent and surprisingly quick to use so I don't disturb my neighbors when I am doing large scale plumbing in my basement.

I was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.

It was a ghost town.

If I was doing "AI research" and my agent launched an "unprecedented cyber-attack" I'd be held liable and put away forever right?

Sure. But the point is with Reticulum you dont NEED to leverage existing internet infrastructure. This guy chose to for his demo, but you could easily do the same thing over RS485, or a serial port, or ametuer radio bands. The protocol is medium agnostic.

No, its no internet killer. But its useful right now and pretty fun to mess around with.

Remember when PC gaming was dead according to every outlet for two solid years?

Holy shit...this is the cringiest thing I've seen all day

Money laundering? 🤷‍♂️

This is exactly the kind of crap So y lives to pull, and why after my PS4's disc drive died (and I found out they're paired to the motherboard and can't just be replaced) I stopped buying any more games, let Plus lapse, and repurchased everything on PC.

They all run better and can be modded there anyway. Fuck you Sony.

I'm so sorry...

I'm calling in gay tomorrow and citing a world leader.

Cool, let's just normalize women not taking their husband's name. Less paperwork all around and no voter roll issues. I'm sure that'll go over great with Republicans as a bonus.

Christopher Standin'