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    Wordle - now brought to you by the goddamned New York Times

    in The Shower

    Posted

    I stared at this for so long. The word just took forever to come to me.

     

    Wordle 954 5/6*

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    At least Connections was easy

     

    Connections 
    Puzzle #232
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    Turns out nitrogen execution isn't quick and painless after all.

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

    Posted

    41 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

    I personally always find it curious we worry about humane capital punishment against those who perpetuated inhumane crimes.

     

    Because we want the death penalty to be a spectacle, but not so much as to make the families watching ill. Otherwise, we'd do it like Japan and kill death row inmates in secret and not let anyone know until after the deed is done.

    Wordle - now brought to you by the goddamned New York Times

    in The Shower

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    This one really had me sweating. However, that turned up to be the only playable word left, so not as scary after hitting Enter on the guess.

     

    Wordle 953 6/6*

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    Really glad I got everything other than the purple words. I don't think I would have made that connection.

     

    Connections 
    Puzzle #231
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    Wordle - now brought to you by the goddamned New York Times

    in The Shower

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    12 minutes ago, Jason said:

    the bot gave me a skill score of 99 @Ghost_MH :cool:

     

    the bot's still a fucking son of a bitch doe this one time doesn't make us cool

     

    Wordle 951 3/6*

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    That is a good guess. Going with the actual solution there would have been a bad guess even though it would have been right.

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    Another Capital Punishment Thread

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    6 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

    Redemption for @Ghost_MH

     

     

     

    No redemption for this guy and we'll never get all those people that died back, but at the very least KyoAni did not shut down like I was worried they would. They came back with Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S back in 2021. They still aren't producing much, but this at least didn't end the studio's ideals.

    Polygon: anime is HUGE — and we finally have numbers to prove it

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    2 hours ago, Jason said:

    I'm interested in exploring other anime, but the big holes in the Dragon Ball content made me not interested in renewing Crunchyroll past the 14 day trial. The big one was that all the pre-DBZ movies only had subs, no dubs.

     

    It's still the best anime streaming service out there. HOWEVER, there's a whole lot of fantastic anime on Netflix. Pluto came out last month on Netflix and I feel it really flew under the radar. It might be an Astroboy spinoff, but it is very much hard sci-fi. I really liked it and wish more people would give it a shot.

    Polygon: anime is HUGE — and we finally have numbers to prove it

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    3 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

    Yeah I agree with all of this. Anime has always had an arm of it that's always been super accepting - I similarly remember old Otakon's where it was incredibly inclusive, especially at the time. Then on the other hand you have the toxic arms of anime, as you mentioned. I just think the TV content diet of anime fans is too skewed to anime if they think that's where the most emotionally compelling and mature stuff is. Anime is a lot of things, but emotionally compelling isn't what I'd think of first, even though there are anime that are of course, to say it's above other mediums is a bit much.

     

    I think it depends on what you're looking at and the people we're talking about here. There is a bunch of GenZ representation here. Now I'm a 41yo, single dad to three kids in school. I'm about as far away from that age group as you can get before the number of anime fans my age really start to trail off. Still, GenZ is what? 10-25 or something? Compared to a lot of the stuff made for the tween, teen, and young adult market market, yeah, I can buy that anime resonates emotionally. We aren't just talking about action stuff either. Anime is pretty close to the only medium that has any romance content that targets straight boys and men. Last couple of years we've gotten stuff like My Dress Up Darling and Insomniacs After School. These aren't romcoms. These are straight romance, slice of life, dramas that target guys.

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    Polygon: anime is HUGE — and we finally have numbers to prove it

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    3 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

    The stats here seem very heavily skewed but in general I'm not surprised

     

    Eh, not at all surprising. Anime nerd culture, NOT gamer culture, has always more inclusive. Huge numbers of minority fans and support for LGBT fans, even if anime media wasn't as inclusive. There might be Blerdcon these days, but I still remember the first few years of Anime Boston and being much more friendly to women, minorities, and anyone else not a cis, white male.

     

    Telemundo was airing a bloody and uncensored Dragon Ball Z along with queer friendly Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya back before Toonami was ever a thing. I straight stole my parents' VCR so I could record episodes of the Spanish dubs.

     

    I will admit that plenty of anime fandoms are toxic. Among many others, I'm looking at you One Piece fans that refuse to use proper pronouns for the 9' tall oni just because he has big boobs.

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    Polygon: anime is HUGE — and we finally have numbers to prove it

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

    I've looked into starting this one. A lot of artists have been drawing fan art of it (if you know what I mean) is the way I found out about it.

     

    But also on Crunchyroll and airing weekly or something so I'm waiting.

     

    It's fantastic. It's also a very binge-able series thanks to the great pacing. The series does not cater to perverts, but that's never stopped anyone given the never-ending supply of Sonic and Pokemon...artwork. Perverts can go watch the BDSM-themed Gushing Over Magical Girls over on HiDive. Somehow HiDive managed to get hold of the uncensored animation, but still censored audio. I have no idea how the audio can still be censored given the content of the visuals, but that's neither here nor there.

    Polygon: anime is HUGE — and we finally have numbers to prove it

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    16 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

    One day @Commissar SFLUFAN will be one of them.

     

    Pretty sad Crunchyroll is 4th on that list despite them trying to strong arm themselves into a bunch of anime exclusives and buying right stuf, all that. Fuck em!

     

    Everybody enjoys some anime that's out there. Just need to get the right anime in front of folks. Best anime I'd recommend to people around here that's airing right now is Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. For those that don't know it, it's basically a D&D adventure, only it takes place after the hero's party has defeated the Demon King. It follows the nigh immortal elf mage as she watches her world-saving party members die of old age and try to figure out what to do with her very long life.

    What broke the American Dream for Millenials

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

    Posted

    43 minutes ago, Nokra said:

    Where I live, Portland, OR, ranks as "only" the 21st most expensive US city to live in, according to US News & World Report, but the median house sale price here is $531,000 according to Zillow. Assuming the (outdated?) standard of a 20% down payment ($106,000 :silly:), a 30-year fixed mortgage at 7.618%,  and following the (again, outdated?) guideline of housing being no more than a third of your income, you'd need to earn about $108,000 per year. And that excludes any insurance, HOA fees, taxes, etc.

     

    The median household income in the US was $74,588 in 2022, according to the Census bureau. 

     

    It's cool that I make more than that and had some $70k a few years back to put down on a $350k house, but couldn't get a mortgage no matter how hard I looked thanks to too much medical debt. Not that it matters now because all that money just vanished with the pandemic and I'm only now digging myself out of that hole. Also those $350k homes from 4 years ago are now worth $550k for reasons.

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    Wordle - now brought to you by the goddamned New York Times

    in The Shower

    Posted

    I'll take it

     

    Wordle 943 3/6*

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    I've got a bone to pick here with the blue category

     

    Connections 
    Puzzle #221
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    Colors in the Brazil flag? What?

     

    See, I linked them together because I thought it was "colors that describe emotions". Like blue sadness, green envy, white fear, and yellow cowardice.

     

    Blah.

     

    Americans can no longer afford vehicles

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, Joe said:

    But if so many Americans can no longer afford to buy new cars , why are so many being sold still? Wouldn’t we expect the number to drop?

     

    If you haven't noticed, the car market in the US has been slowly but surely focusing more on larger vehicles for families and larger vehicles for those with more disposable income. Seems the industry has just pivoted to higher margin vehicles that better appeal to the $100k+ households and individuals.

     

    Still, even if 60% of households can't afford a new car, that's still 50m+ households that can.

    Americans can no longer afford vehicles

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, Link200 said:

     

    I was going to say this is a good thing except many people don't understand what they can afford so they buy new anyway and get themselves into a hole full of depreciation hell.

     

    I mean, yes. The numbers cited are you need to make a minimum of $100k to buy new these days, but if that's the minimum then I've got you assume that also means the cheapest new car model. Neither of those is happening right now. 1.5m repossessed cars last year? That obviously di6dn't include only new cars, but it certainly means millions of people that are buying are buying more car than they can afford.

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