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AI writes formal. No one replies to a discussion thread in this kind of format. Where on Fedi do you see an 'average' that looks anything like this?

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The problem with a hat like this is that if I saw this person from a distance, I wouldn't look closely enough to read it.

Do you think that these are in opposition to one another? What is the comparison you are trying to make?

I don't see why it would be a problem for 30% of the list to be animation. That seems like a perfectly reasonable ratio. Maybe even a bit low honestly.

I liked the contrast between the two cours. Cour 1's quiet introspection shows life at Frieren's speed, cour 2 focuses on other characters to show life at humans' speed.

The term antihero gets misused a lot, but villain protagonist is absolutely not correct either. An antihero does not have to be the protagonist, and a protagonist who is a villain is still a villain, not an antihero.

I don't understand streaming music as a concept. My collection of individual tracks stands at about 1,700 (clocking in at 190 hours -- that is 22 hours more than a week), and there are several full albums atop that.

Streaming is very useful for people who don't have such a curated collection already. Especially younger generations who didn't grow up on physical media.

you don't want to choose what you listen to

You can though? You can always pull up a specific artist, album, or track. You can even curate your own collection of favorites on these services, and shuffle from there.

But for a lot of users, there's added value in discovery algorithms that'll find new music for you. It is radio with extra steps, but those extra steps of telling the system what music you like and dislike do result in much better results than radio stations that weren't tailored to your exact tastes. Before you built up your collection, how did you use to discover new music back in the day? I'm guessing probably from the radio, this is that for the current generation.

The slow death of being able to own things is sad. But unlimited access to nearly all music, with discovery tools, is a pretty dang tempting deal. The average user doesn't really care about whether not they 'own' their music, just the practicality of being able to listen to music.

Consider that music piracy is way way way down compared to how rampant it was in the 2000s, because people are really happy with streaming now. There's an old saying that piracy is a service problem, and after unsuccessfully trying to fight it head-on for so long, the industry won in the end by simply offering a better service.

Back from Too Many Games last weekend. Bit different from the FGC majors I typically attend, but it was right in my backyard so I had no reason not to check it out.

We had a five man Melty Blood Type Lumina bracket. Haven't touched the game in years, I proooobably should've booted up the game at least once to familiarize myself with it, but I managed to fake my way to second with 214B and 236C. Once I was down 0-2 in grand finals, I went Neco Arc just to entertain the crowd.

Splatoon 3, the random pickup I formed ended up getting completely washed. Ow.

Dr. Mario, had a very good run. Format was weird though, round robin bo1 pools that are purely to determine seeding, everyone moves onto the bo5 single elim bracket regardless. They could've just done double elim the whole way through and it would've been faster (and I wouldn't have had to miss out on Third Strike...). 3-3 in the round robin, 1-1 in bracket, very close matches, perfectly balanced as all things should be.

Between all of that I was mostly on the rhythm game cabinets grinding Chunithm, Wacca and Maimai. Then I went to Round 1 later this week to get another fix, but I had to lament the fact that Chunithm is offline and missing half the songs, Wacca is still out of order, and they don't even have Maimai here. :(

Also managed to pick up a CIB copy of Super Puyo Puyo Tsu in fantastic condition for $20. Absolute steal, can't believe they were practically giving that away.

Charging works fine.

Serious question, were any of you using third-party docks on Switch 1? Is this really something that's a big deal to you guys?

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