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- on Diablo V Teaser in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
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on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I cared. Feelsbadman
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on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 35] in c/anime@ani.social · 25 Aug 2026
Plus, we have no idea what being stuck in a lich’s body does to the human psyche, so he has at least that much excuse for the evil he does do outright and knowingly.
That’s the thing that made me start thinking about this. There’s almost an interesting angle there with his body seemingly mysteriously changing how he feels, but they never do anything with it. I think some kind of internal struggle and mystery around it could have been a good plotline. I didn’t finish watching it, but there was another trash isekai about a guy becoming an evil boss from a video game he played (A Wild Last Boss Appears) and there was a bit of that going on with the personality of the real character he’s inhabiting slowly overtaking his own. Although at least for what I saw, they didn’t really do much more with that either.
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on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 35] in c/anime@ani.social · 25 Aug 2026
I’ve been watching “A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even” separate from my group. I have a bit more room for trash in my schedule.
That said, I feel kind of odd about the show. It sort of reminds me of my issue with Overlord: We follow the protagonist most of the time as someone to root for, then they do some absolutely heinous things that feel like they came out of nowhere, then we go right back to them being vaguely sympathetic. I’d say it’s one of the problems with doing a villain as protagonist TV show because it’s hard for time spent with the protag not to make a connection. However, I feel like there have been some good examples of shows where the protag is the bad guy or becomes the bad guy either due to a “road to hell is paved with good intentions” or “corrupted by circumstances” plot devices.
The one that most comes to mind is Breaking Bad. It’s a long road from push over high school teach and family man to ruthless drug kingpin and we’re there every step of the way to see how it happens.
This show and Overlord don’t really feel like that. The protagonists just kinda do evil shit every once in a while and nobody really acknowledges how fucked up that is. The most recent episode really hammered that home for me.
idk, I’m just overthinking a trash show. It’s just that sometimes I can’t help but watch some of these and think of what they could have been with more competent… everything.
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on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 35] in c/anime@ani.social · 24 Aug 2026
I generally don’t take many pictures. I just have this one from the Frieren cosplay meetup.
EDIT: Oh, looking close at the pic, there was one more character in there. I assume the guy with green hair is the drunk priest.
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on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 35] in c/anime@ani.social · 24 Aug 2026
This week I went to my first anime convention: Anime NYC. It was alright. I don’t regret going, but I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to go again. It’s like 90% people selling stuff. I’m more used to gaming conventions where there’s a bunch of stuff to do because companies are showcasing upcoming games.
I did enjoy seeing all the cosplayers though. There were so many. A LOT of them were either from gatcha games or really popular stuff like One Piece/Demon Slayer, but I did also see quite a few from shows I liked.
A few Jojos ones, but save for one Star Platinum, only from part 5/6. I guess it’s easier to cosplay the characters that don’t have muscles that put bodybuilders to shame.
One Violet Evergarden. I was with my mom who I recently introduced to anime and she loved this show, so she was happy to see that.
There was a Frieren meetup that we went to see. (It was weirdly difficult to find lol.) Funny thing is the character composition. There were only two Frierens in the entire group. Most were Stark or Fern, then one Himmel and I think two Eisens.
There was also a meetup for Apothecary Diaries, but it was at the same time as a panel we went to instead.
On the way over to the Frieren meetup we saw the Blue Lock meetup and I found it kind of funny because I’m reasonably sure literally every cosplayer there was a woman. I didn’t really consider it’s appeal to female audiences, but now that I think about it I guess it makes sense.
There was one person is a big Garfield mascot costume with a bikini on top of it.
One guy was David from Edgerunners.
One Megumin.
And some others, but you get the idea.
Also holy shit, I haven’t been in the Javits Center since I was a kid. I did not appreciate just how fucking MASSIVE that place is. It takes like a minute or so to walk from one end of the building to the other.
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Here’s the compromise: Take down the cameras and people won’t guillotine you.
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on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 34] in c/anime@ani.social · 18 Aug 2026
The Zombie Land Saga movie finally came out on streaming, so I watched it recently. It was super good. I love the series, but I’ve found that I dislike a lot of anime series movies because they just feel like several episodes of a TV show stitched together. This is one of the few that don’t fit that description. It feels like a properly structured and paced movie.
End of S2/Beginning of Movie
While it’s not really a criticism, I found it odd that they retconned the ending of the 2nd season with the ship not appearing at the concert, but instead much later. I think I get why they did it. They probably didn’t even have this movie written or planned when they made the 2nd season and realized later that it would make for better pacing for the movie if we started in a calmer time rather than right after the big saga flood disaster.
Also I thought they did a good job with the sci-fi stuff. I was totally expecting the aliens to be generic little green/grey men in flying saucers, but they made an effort to come up with something different and fit it into the story.
I’m kind of curious if this is the end of the series or not. It definitely seems like it could be a sendoff, but
ending spoiler
The decision to bring things back to status quo with Tae makes me think it feel like it could get continued. Like that feels like a very “We wanted a cool development to happen but we can’t change the status quo too much in a movie” kind of decision.
I’d definitely love to see more of the show or at least a new thing by the same creative team. I always love good original anime and we definitely don’t get enough of that.
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on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
“Air traffic control, please respond. We aren’t able to see the landing strip and we might crash!”
“Sounds like a skill issue. Git gud.”
Personally I liked D3 after it got rid of the AH bullshit. For the same reason that a lot of people disliked it: It’s relatively low complexity. People will look down on that as dumbing it down, but to me it’s just getting rid of uninteresting filler. I can’t stand those giant skill trees full of +x% this and +y that. It’s boring AND overwhelming. I have no interest in trying to make my own build in those games. D3 had a small number of choices that for the most part felt distinct enough to understand why you’d choose one over the other.
I also really liked that brief period in WoW where they changed the skill trees to those sets of 3 choices each level breakpoint. It was really interesting thinking about which choices would be most useful for any given situation instead of just looking up a guide then forgetting about it until next expansion.
Alas, they went back to boring number increases because people mistake complexity for depth. This is why I really enjoy roguelikes. The well designed ones give you those bite sized choices with big impacts on your run and the depth comes from understanding the system and your current situation rather than mathing out the optimal set of stat increases.