social.noyu.me

a subtle thing in “haruhi” is that kyon initially does not have the protagonist's seat. it's only after he spends a while regularly talking to haruhi, and it's established that she finds him more interesting than anyone else, that the seats are reshuffled and he ends up there

rips your journal of fate in two

girl who has memorised the general midi level 1 percussion map note assignments' corresponding positions on a guitar fretboard and plays drums with a midi guitar set to channel 10

i think the reason that creative types tend to feel such a deep disgust towards ai is that taste is such a fundamental part of creative expression, and ai systems produce a perfectly average, tasteless result by default, by design. knowledge and skill are no substitute for taste

was remarking to my gf that it's been years since i consciously thought about the fact that part of what makes anime anime is that it doesn't have lip-sync, that speech is dubbed over and is subservient to the animation, not vice-versa; the original japanese is also a “dub”

just intonation is when they're selling a dollar for anything between 71 and 112 cents

you walk out onto the top-floor balcony of the abandoned building. to your surprise, there's an npc there. she's staring transfixed at the gray cloudfront in the sky. she doesn't seem to notice you.

when you press the interact button, she says “someday, i'll touch it…”

what anime character do you think i might be unfamiliar with but which would be my pre-emptive goat

still utterly fucking surreal that this kind of Actually Pretty Fucking Good shit exists in the same universe as … uh… the “band” with a girl who pretends to be a sentient bear mascot costume who is a dj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqQPM0dZpXc