Listening to Finocchio’s/Roswaal’s VA steal scenes is a pleasure as always…

I think . . . [checks] Yep, that’s Koyasu Takehito, who’s been in the seiyuu business for ~35 years and has a very long and varied resume. I think I encountered him first as Rezo the Red Priest in the first season of The Slayers, from the early 1990s.

I believe the name for those were “dragoons”. I thought about it, but my understanding was they were armed with muskets. Since firing a rifle from horseback usually meant you missed, they would dismount before engaging. I suppose it’s not a stretch to have dragoons that only carried swords, but we also know that they had 5000 troops in that battle and even if they doubled up the riders that’s over 2000 horses. We saw, maybe 2 dozen in the retreat

Dragoons were a more recent incarnation. I believe there were other earlier ones.

Basically what went wrong with this scene in Reincarnated Aristocrat, though, is that they went for too much detail in a crowd scene that would have been much better off with less. If you look at older anime from the hand-drawn cell era, they didn’t try to individually animate every member of a large group like an army. Exaggerated atmosperic perspective and depth of field, plus judicious use of detail, reduced the parts of the army away from the main characters to a sort of dark mass with the occasional helmet or horse-leg movement—and that was okay, because we didn’t care enough about those people to focus on them individually. Currently there’s a fad for using computer animation to spam copies of the same model, often poorly animated, to make up the numbers, and it doesn’t work and tends to be very noticeable. Hopefully someone in Japan will eventually figure that out, and they’ll return to the more painterly approach.

(In this case, of course, they didn’t even spam enough copies, so even worse.)

And if they have horses why are they infantry and not cavalry

Because they’re not trained to fight on the horses, and the horses may not be combat-trained either. Infantry throughout history has often used horses or mules for transport, then gotten off them for the actual fighting.

To add to the list of criticisms: They knew what route they would be retreating along, so why were there no traps? Even if digging a concealed pit would have taken too long, a few chevaux de frise, tactically placed, could have done some damage. Or give the rearguard some caltrops to toss behind them. Horse archers could have helped a lot, but would probably have been too much to ask for.

I get the impression that the person responsible for the source material for this series doesn’t have even my passing interest in the nuts and bolts of medieval warfare.

Dan Da Dan and JJK are completely different types of shows.

JJK’s main selling point is the quality of its combat animation. The fight scenes are really well-executed, so it gets high ratings from people who like that kind of thing. Plot and characters are bog-standard shounen fighter types whose names and backstories I forget half the time because they’re not all that memorable. If you swapped everyone but the MC out with characters from, say, Chainsaw Man, I doubt I would even notice.

Dan Da Dan, on the other hand, is character-driven. The interaction and budding romance between the main characters is the point of the show, and the fighting has so far been subservient to that. It also doesn’t take itself at all seriously, unlike JJK.

For an isekai, it’s amazing how many different games we see aside from the titular Shangri-La Frontier.

Now you have me trying to count.

• The trash game Sunraku is playing at the very beginning, where he gets to beat on the annoying princess for a few minutes as the end credits roll, after fighting the final boss while wearing a luchador mask and not much else
• The fighter game where the users had collectively decided that exploiting bugs was the point
• The realistic-to-the-point-of-not-being-fun fantasy game where he met Pencilgon
• And now this mecha game.

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Did I forget any?

And whoever buys it won’t also have some kind of ulterior motive? Chrome isn’t likely to be a money-maker on its own. If it were, Firefox would have less trouble staying afloat. Anyone who buys Chrome most likely will have plans for it that are no more in the end-user’s best interest than Google’s.

All browsers using Google’s Blink engine are distasteful. Vivaldi is less bad than most, despite being closed-source, but to echo many here, you’re better off with almost any Firefox derivative. Libre Wolf has a good rep. I use Pale Moon, but its old-fashioned interface isn’t for everyone.

Depends on how much effort the average scammer puts into remembering the prospective victims that don’t bite. My guess is that they don’t waste too many brain cells on that.

I haven’t read the manga, but based on the show, the end is…alright.

The Trigun Maximum manga wasn’t finished at the time the series aired, so their endings are unrelated. The last 4-5 episodes of the anime are complete originals. (There were two different manga series, and I think the original Trigun manga had more of the goofy-villain-of-the-week stuff, while Maximum, which picked up where the first series left off, was more serious.)

It almost gives off the vibes of a 20th-century Western-made Saturday morning cartoon (except that for some reason the MC’s relationship with his mecha-ude reminds me of the one between the lead in Kill La Kill and her seifuku). I’m not quite sure why—maybe it’s the lack of any real moral ambiguity? Anyway, many of those could not do cool or edgy to save their lives.

The problem isn’t that it didn’t. The problem is that anyone thought that it should have.

It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn’t free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.

Moose are technically deer (taxonomic family Cervidae, which also contains reindeer, red deer, roe deer, etc). And a big bull can weigh almost a (US conventional) ton. I don’t know whether that’s enough to trash a modern semi (based on an old memory of an apparently undamaged semi and a dead moose on the shoulder of an Ontario highway in the 1990s, I’d guess probably not, or at least not always), but I wouldn’t want to be the driver of the semi, either. Hitting them in an ordinary passenger vehicle—like any Tesla product—is something you really don’t want to do.

It’s one of those things that needs careful handling and is unlikely to get it. I can see it having some value in therapy, but only if there is, y’know, an actual therapist involved who can make an informed call as to whether their patient will be helped or harmed by talking to a digital fake of a loved one. Instead, we’re likely to see a ham-fisted “allow all” or “forbid all” call by regulators.

Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely.

Geeky people, on the other hand, may either adopt a new OS while it’s still half-baked, or jump through hoops to keep an old one running long past the point where a non-geeky person would have given up. Some of us do both, just for the lulz. Windows 11 on unsupported systems offers a new and exciting(?) way to scratch the same “can I make this work, just for the hell of it?” itch.

I didn’t mean disable it in software, I meant physically disable it by stuffing the phone in a Faraday cage (you can buy them for phones in the form of pouches with metal worked into them), which blocks electromagnetic radiation and therefore prevents the phone from contacting towers or satellites.

Or you can disable it from time to time at random when you’re doing something innocuous, and obscure the pattern that way. Which is probably easier for the average person than figuring out a second method of tampering with their phone.

Thus, for the time being, if you’re in the US or some other nation that has issues with women’s health, do not take your phone to the abortion clinic with you, or turn it off and stuff it in a Faraday cage until you’re at least a block away.

Even if the storage were strictly local, there would still be some privacy concerns. Hackers can’t steal data that isn’t there.

Sounds like the person you were talking to may have been the confused one. (In all fairness, if they have no great interest in wood, woodworking, or furniture, they don’t really need to know that engineered sheet goods don’t count as solid wood.)