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- on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
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on [News] Gosho Aoyama Confirms He Has Already Written the Final Chapter of Detective Conan in c/anime@ani.social · 5 Sep 2026
I think you may be overestimating how vital it is to have read all prior chapters to enjoy the latest chapter. Especially Detective Conan where most chapters are standalone crime procedurals and you’ll pick up a good amount of the premise through cultural osmosis.
But also, think about it: if you’re a Japanese kid who starts buying Shounen Sunday (though nowadays they would probably use the app), most of the series in there are going have been running for a while, no matter when you start. You’re not going to just ignore the bulk of the magazine that you bought with a significant portion of your pocket money just because you haven’t read the earlier chapters.
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on [Episode] Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo 3rd Season - Episode 7 discussion in c/anime@ani.social · 17 Aug 2026
Rentarou is always willing to move Earth’s orbit for his girlfriends, but somehow him making a tiny little pencil and notebook for Nano felt particularly sweet.
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on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 34] in c/anime@ani.social · 17 Aug 2026
I recently watched Andromeda Stories, a 1982 feature-length TV special based on a manga by Takemiya Keiko (most famous for To Terra) and Mitsuse Ryuu (apparently a pretty well-known SF author), and it was pretty interesting.
It’s about a planet in the Andromeda galaxy that is secretly being invaded from the top down by machine lifeforms that take over people’s bodies and connect them to a network, kind of similar in concept to the Borg in Star Trek, but a few years earlier. However, there is also a group of people from another planet that got taken over by the same machines, fled to this planet and integrated into the local society, and now work to fight against the machines. And their leader is… not the protagonist. Neither of them, as it switches protagonists 1/3 of the way. The first one is Il, a woman warrior from yet another planet who came specifically to fight the machines, but on her own terms. After that she’s replaced by Jimsa, the prince of the first empire to get taken over, who was born earlier in the film, has the power to resist the machines and grew up to be the most powerful momma’s boy in the world. Needless to say, Il is the cooler of the two.
Now, I can’t honestly say this is a great work. The writing is pretty clunky; characters sometime behave inexplicably, there are time where the story tries to make a point, but it doesn’t manage to get the framing right, and it has possibly one of the dumbest deaths in fiction history. I’m not a big fan of the bloodline nonsense, either.
That said, if you’re at all interested in the premise and have some tolerance for awkward storytelling, I do recommend it. It moves at a fast clip and is never boring, has some pretty cool science-fiction concepts and the ending is quite something. It’s a satisfying watch despite its flaws.
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on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I remember the CEO of NVIDIA making similar claims like 10-15 years ago (and being rather eager for that future to come), but I’m not really seeing anything that has changed since then that makes it more likely now.
There’s the increases in hardware costs, yes, but in order to get sufficiently low latency, you can’t just plop one or a few big data centers per country, you need at least one smaller one pretty much per town. And to ensure a good quality of service, those are going to need more redundant hardware than a more centralised solution would, and given that cloud gaming service providers are also affected by hardware getting more expensive, that would make for some very high up-front costs.
There’s the possibility of VCs throwing dumb money at these companies until they control the market, but for that to work, they need to actually be able to take control of the market. But they’re not just competing against the latest and greatest, they’re also competing against ten year old hardware that’s considerably more affordable. Things aren’t advancing as quickly as they used to, and I doubt the shrinking number of people who do always want the best possible are going to be too thrilled about having graphics littered with compression artifacts.
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on THE RIBBON HERO - Movie Discussion in c/anime@ani.social · 8 Aug 2026
It’s been quite a while since I read Princess Knight, so I don’t remember that much, but from what I can recall, this film (despite literally putting the original work on a pedestal at some point) doesn’t seem to have much to do with the manga other than some proper nouns and vaguely similar character designs. I’ll have to dig up the books and read them again.
That aside, the film didn’t really mesh with me. The production values are high, the backgrounds are very pretty, the music is great, there’s some real cool flashy action scenes, but as a whole it just feels kind of flimsy? Cargo-cultish? There are some developments that you’ll have seen in many other works (like the protagonist obtaining the power to fight the monsters), but it doesn’t feel like the director really understands what makes those moments work and as a result much of the film ends up lacking in gravitas.
It’s also weirdly rich in goofy faces and over-action, and has some unexpected slapstick. I’m usually the person defending these kinds of things, and no moment being too serious for some slapstick comedy is very much in the spirit of Tezuka’s works, but a lot of it here feels kind of lacking in restraint or maybe it’s not getting the timing or the mood right. Kind of reminds me of Cosmic Princess Kaguya in that way. I think if it leaned in more into the film’s deceit that it’s a stage play (as a homage to the Takarazuka Revue) and made the whole more theatrical, the more exaggerated elements would’ve fit in better.
Well, that’s my stream of consciousness posing as a review. Knowing myself, it’s very possible I just watched it in the wrong mood and am rationalising my feelings, so take it for what it is.
Not every software company is a game developer, and even at home, not every programmer plays games on their PC that require a powerful GPU. If everyone working on, for example, business software all of a sudden needs a gaming PC that will be constantly running an AI model, that will greatly increase costs, both in terms of procurement of equipment and electricity. An increase in demand for powerful GPUs in fields that traditionally had no need for them isn’t exactly going to improve the hardware cost situation either.
Whether you run the model locally or you leave it to a company, someone is going to have to pay the cost.