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Evening_Dragon posted...

what the fuck

i gotta check this out

Most of what I know about it is from the KamSandwhich video so that's the thing I'd say to start with: https://youtu.be/E6xVzcxsQW0?t=543

It will eventually get to the 24 hour version of the affair, so don't get let down by it only being 8 hours at first.

Ryven posted...

Nascar easily. Hundreds of laps and 4 hours of going in a circle. Yeesh.

Made me remember about the 24 Hours of Le Mans board game, in which there is a tournament using specific rules to turn it into a 24 hour game with no breaks.

LightSnake posted...

not exactly. Silver was used to prevent the return of one as a vrykolakas. Not the same as utilizing it as a weapon, Which is a modern creation.

modern vampires, when the reflection features, still have no reflection in anything from windows to modern airport mirrors.

It was "all of the above." Silver was a deeply religious metal so it was used for everything to some group. It was absolutely used as a weapon.

And yes, modern vampires certainly are different. I blame society. Not sure what the concept of the passage of time is supposed to mean here. Are you going to bring up vampires sparkling as well to disprove silver being a vampire weakness as well?

LightSnake posted...

silver as a vampiric weakness doesnt start featuring till about the 1970s.

The first time it would appear would be in the Greek vrykolakas, which certainly appeared quite a bit earlier than the 1970's.

Though, I should say that the Greeks weren't the first with a vampire legend, IIRC. Just the first one that I am confident in having a silver weakness.

LightSnake posted...

Im saying again: silver isnt mentioned as their weakness at all. Not in Dracula or Carmilla or Varney or most folklore. Im not sure why youre holding to this when the explanation for no reflection is given in the book without silver being mentioned. Its just a post hoc justification. The explanation for to on Stoker gives us they dont have souls and the mirrors show that, silver has nothing to do with it.

if later sources tie that into silver, thats fine. Theres no wrong way to do it. But its not part of Dracula and its certainly not part of traditional folklore

Pre hoc.

As you said, silver in mirrors in the context that you were talking about wasn't done until the 1830's. Hence why mirrors weren't a weakness in, say, The Vampyre as that predates the proliferation of cheaper silver mirrors.

By the late 1800's, on the other hand, they already had become a thing so you started to see it as a weakness.

Ye, I'm pretty dumb.

Still above average, which is the sad bit.

LightSnake posted...

mirrors didnt begin commonly using silver until the 1830s. Dracula has a much older mirror in his castle he doesnt reflect in.

they explain everything in n Dracula in great detail and why. Silver is never mentioned there. Its just not one of his original weaknesses

Mirrors were first made using metals: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Speculum.html

The concept of a silver mirror predates the concept of a vampire entirely. By around 1800 years at the *minimum.*

And Dracula isn't the first vampire story either, it was just, arguably, the most pivotal vampire story ever made.

LightSnake posted...

Silver isnt even mentioned in early sources there. In the novel, Dracula doesnt cast reflections in any mirrors, silver doesnt enter into the equation. Its meant to show Dracula as a soulless creature

That would be because it was just assumed that you knew what a mirror was. Like, they don't have to know that the boat was made of wood in Spain in 1300. They wouldn't say "the wooden boat": all the boats were that way. Same goes with the mirrors: the mirrors had a silver back, they didn't have to say it.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

Fight? Can't we just talk out or differences like reasonable adults?

Did that really look like the face of a man that wouldn't immediately resort to violence to you?

Ice is cold.

Didn't play both so I can't say.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Jesus was Jewish. So while they certainly can't also be Jewish, they can very well be Christian. Especially since God has done far worse actions than any Christian has ever espoused.

LightSnake posted...

Mirrors are beleived to reflect one's soul. As vampires are soulless, they don't show up in them.

Mirrors used to have a silver backing, it was always just a "silver is the enemy of the unnatural" bit.

Shamino posted...

We are quite possibly witnessing greatness that has never been seen at any level in any sport.

Nah, there are some that are far more dominant in their respective sport than he is in baseball. Heck, he isn't even as crazy of an outlier as Eddie Feigner even when only in the context of baseball.

621 posted...

christianity in america is just so weird in general. so creepy and cult-like.

To be fair, that's part of the whole reason that Christianity has been dying off everywhere.

FL81 posted...

*spend hours crafting your RPG character to perfection*
*immediately cover them up in full-body armor*

*In a first person game.*

Seems pretty antithetical to the entire genre. The entire point is mindless fluff for the kids, and making it "adult" would just be turning it into an entirely different genre.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

I leave that to Puerto Ricans to decide. To my recollection, no vote listing all three options (statehood, independence, or status quo) has managed to garner more than 50 percent of the vote so I'm okay with the status quo until that happens.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9bd315b9.png

That is the most recent one from 2024.

Realforce posted...

AI?

knightoffire wouldn't have posted it otherwise.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a8c3852b.jpg

kirbymuncher posted...

It's an entirely different aspect of the situation and honestly I think you are just totally missing the point here. AI subtitling would be about the quality of the text and translation itself while this article is entirely about other aspects, such as layout, placement, subtitle tracking, etc

Basically in summary it talks about how the standardization away from an anime-specialized tool towards a general subtitling tool, as pushed by netflix and amazon prime, is trashing the one major thing crunchyroll had that made its subtitles look so much nicer than everyone else in the business. because they're being dragged towards using a subtitling tool and format that may work okayish for live action but is not great in anime, which has a much higher amount of on-screen text. It's the subtitling process that gets you garbage like this

I realize that. It, however, doesn't change the statements I made. The loss of people was to shift over to AI, the change in software was because the old one wasn't going to use AI, etc. Yes, one can come up with other reasons for any of the singular aspects, such as money related ones being the reason for staff being let go, but it doesn't change the fact that so many of the changes also relate directly to their AI push. The fact that the article doesn't go over that as much is more a failing on the article's part than me not understanding what they are saying.

All of them but Zelda II and the G&W games.

RasterGraphic posted...

How the fuck am I older than the admin?

I'm not even one of the older users.

Get in line for the canes, grandpa.

Behind me, of course. Don't cut the line.

kirbymuncher posted...

??? did you even read any of it, it's maybe like 1% about AI at most

Crunchyroll, very specifically, has been on a "replacing the paid humans with AI" thing. It is less about me not reading the article and more me knowing more about the situation than the article went over.

kirbymuncher posted...

https://daiz.moe/crunchyroll-is-destroying-its-subtitles-for-no-good-reason/

neat article about the past and (potential) future of anime subs

TBF, there is no group that calls for AI slop more than the "subtitles-only weeb" crowd. This is the future they called for.

Divinehero posted...

the post above mine while 4's story was alright (outside of a very....specific part)

Naw, it was complete garbage pretty much the second that it started. It leads on simple bad writing with stuff like the whole "the MC switches to a sword because these specific bugs are immune to it and doesn't switch back because the writers wanted him to have a sword the whole time" and ends on "Lol, best hope you didn't like basic continuity from about 30 minutes ago."

Calwings posted...

I still wouldn't count it though, since those forms were clearly designed alongside their originals while that gen was being created. It's not the same as a new evolution or form being designed separately from the originals and added later on. While Gamefreak were designing Magmar for gen 1, I strongly doubt they were thinking what its evolution would look like in gen 4. While they were designing Ampharos for gen 2, I strongly doubt they were thinking about a mega evolution coming in gen 6. But while they were designing Shaymin for gen 4, they were clearly creating both of its forms at the same time and basing them off each other at the conceptual level. Likewise with Diancie and its mega evolution in gen 6. That's the difference IMO.

We have already established that you wouldn't count it, which is irrelevant to me saying the opposite. Whether you add on other unsubstantiated rationale is irrelevant.

Calwings posted...

That new form debuted in the same gen that Shaymin did, so I don't think we can call it a "new" form so much as a form it came with right out of the box. I thought about saying Mega Diancie, but it's the same situation as Sky Form Shaymin. Both Diancie and its mega debuted in the same gen.

Same Gen, sure, but not the same game so it wasn't really "out of the box" for anyone who played during that Gen.

xsdarknesssx posted...

but I am fairly certain we have not seen any of the mythicals get new forms/megas have we?

Shaymin absolutely has gotten a new form.

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

I'd kick his ass, but he's probably an adult by now.

Pretty confident they are no longer an adult if the bird was shot in 1900.

Because it is a non-Sonic franchise done by SEGA.

Noivern.

Give me a summary.

Not about the video. Of why I should give a crap about an AI video.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Some wars are worth fighting.

Sadly, in this case the burrito was pretty mid.

Didn't even win the episode.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

What you on about? That sounds yummy. Just a paella dish in a wrap.

There was quite literally nearly a war between Britain and Spain because of a paella burrito.

Gotta know your weird pop culture lore.

Despised posted...

This is sacrilegious

Could be worse.

Could be a paella burrito. Then we'd nearly have a war between Britain and Spain.

action52 posted...

As I said, this is not a sustainable system. History shows what will happen to the wealthy elites if they push things too far. The only question is if they will change the easy way (like progressivism in the early 20th century) or the hard way (like France in the late 18th century).

We already have a large chunk of the population that will go to bat for them even in the middle of getting screwed over. Those things will absolutely not happen in America, and the rest of the world is going to get dragged along in the consequences department.

Bugmeat posted...

If anything, it would probably encourage more countries to start allowing it as well. "If the U.S. can do it, so can we!"

Nah. They already would have done it if the US doing it mattered.

Ye, when a right-winger uses "liberal" they are using in the way that they mean "woke." It's just a buzzword for "thing I don't like" and has no actual meaning beyond that.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

DAWYNE "THE LICK" JOHNSON

Please refrain from licking the Johnson.

Ivynn posted...

You don't understand

They put women in my Vidya :(

The chef is black.

I'll never recover.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

... So it can't be anything with an O in it, huh.

Correct. It can only be "buck" or "muck."

So choose wisely.

Dang.

This is like that one time that Shapiro said that having basic human empathy and doing good for the world are exclusive to liberals.

Will_VIIII posted...

Oh we have more than one?

Sadly, yes.

eaglei3 posted...

If we are arguing the extremes, I would think a game is too easy would have no way of making it harder. I am talking about a game being too easy to the point that all you have to do is hit a button when the game requires it. How do you make that harder? You can't, the game has you do the easiest of inputs to win. You cannot lose as the game just waits for you.

That is where that argument is going if you do both extremes like the other person is trying to start with the "too" hard logic.

That is the visual novel genre.

Unsurprisingly, it is a genre that has no troubles sticking around because the logical extreme of "too easy" isn't actually a meaningful label in the same way that "too hard" is.

GamingMessiah posted...

Seems rather unlikely, lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/275ad757.png

Nah, the guy who actively doubted the Covid vaccine is still a mod.

Nice clickbait.

thronedfire2 posted...

is Friends the only show they let the AI watch?

They probably put Friends in the prompt.

It wouldn't be a Republican presidency if there wasn't a new war, so I have been ready for a while.

Villain_S_Fiend posted...

That goes back to us Gen-Xers.

And 420 is something from the Boomers. And 6 7 is a reference to a song.

A major part of the whole thing is that Wings is fishing for replies, not that they aren't completely divorced from reality.