u/Nanobot

This is what we get for having Uranus be the only planet in our solar system named after a Greek god instead of a Roman god. If it were named Caelus, we wouldn't giggle every time we heard it. But we'd probably still argue about how it's pronounced.

It's just season 2, but instead of 12 x 24-minute episodes, it's 6 x 48-minute (or so) movies. With 2+ years between each one's release.

He'd better also voice the potion shop guy, or I riot.

If your graph isn't even showing a few years worth of price action, you're zoomed in too far. Nothing happened. This is just normal price variance.

Changing your name when you get married. To me, it's just as weird as if people were to change their name when they get a new job, or move to a new town.

They remind me of Jissouseki...

This author is so bizarre. Everything she writes just comes across as something written by a space alien who only learned about humans by watching isekai slop. Every show seems to be completely unaware of the major moral problems they introduce in the stories, female characters are treated like they're just things to collect and use (to a greater degree than I normally see in anime), and everything is just... off. I read a bit about this author, and she apparently prides herself in writing dispassionately, based only on what she thinks will sell, and she intentionally aims for quantity over quality.

Exactly. Technically, "ASMR" videos are supposed to be about triggering that tingling sensation. ASMR is the term for the tingling. Different people get it triggered in different ways, and some people don't seem to experience it at all. A lot of people instead try to watch/make ASMR videos for relaxation, sleep, or something sexual, which is... really a different thing altogether.

Honestly, the first season was a bit sluggish compared to season 2. And it didn't help that season 1 did a lot of events twice (once before Azunyan, and again with Azunyan). Season 2 was when the show really stepped things up and became great, IMO.

Butter oil doesn't make popcorn soggy. The trick is you need to isolate the butter oil, not just pour melted butter onto the popcorn.

Here's what I do: Melt the butter in a small pot, then continue heating on low heat, and use a spoon to try to skim as much of the film as I can off the top without burning the butter oil (if it starts turning brown or smells burnt, you've ruined it). The water content will boil away while you're doing this. What's left is just the butter oil, plus some other unwanted white goop that sinks to the bottom. Then, pour out the butter oil into a cup without pouring the solids.

The butter oil can be poured directly onto the popcorn, and it doesn't make it soggy. I usually do it in three passes: pour a third of the butter oil as evenly as you can, add more salt than you think you need, shake up the popcorn, pour the next third, and so on. Unlike the "movie theater buttered popcorn" stuff you buy at the store, this actually tastes like real movie theater buttered popcorn. You need to use almost a full stick of butter (0.5 cups) to get enough butter oil out of it for a typical bag of microwave popcorn.

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Sounds to me like they violated that requirement. The guidelines are, legally speaking, a public license. That is, it's a contract that you must comply with if you want to make derivative works such as clips. If a clip violates any of the guidelines, then the clip is an unpermitted derivative work and may constitute copyright infringement.

Change my name.

Nobody's saying the original Legend of Zelda. I still enjoy replaying that one the most. On first playthrough, I think I liked A Link to the Past the most, but I feel like it's way too easy on replay, since the combat itself is too basic. With the original, I love the feel of weaving through a swarm of dark nuts, getting in hits where you can. It's more precision-oriented, compared to ALTTP which feels more like you're swinging a baseball bat at the enemies.

Meanwhile, I think Ocarina of Time is downright annoying on replay due to the constant pestering from Navi and the owl (the true villains of the game).

So, our five guests here will be comparing Japanese products and overseas products to see if they can correctly identify which is which [...] and contestants who get half or more incorrect will lose their EN status and have to transfer to JP.

So that's why the branches merged.

If you aren't sure whether it was an anime, you might want to check if this is where you got it from: A scene from The Big Bang Theory

I've always had difficulty describing this to people. Like, I can easily imagine that all humans are little machines that all think they are conscious and experience consciousness the way we understand it. What I don't understand is why I get to experience the consciousness of one of these machines. When I ask people this, they always try to reduce it to, "Because you're one of those machines, obviously. Of course you'd think you're experience it!" But I feel like that doesn't really get to the heart of what I'm trying to ask. I feel like I'm lacking the vocabulary I need to really talk about it.

For me, it took about 5 or 6 episodes before the show started to get good. The problem with those early episodes was that it felt like the show was trying to do a formula, and that formula was uninteresting to me. Around episode 5 or 6, it felt like the author essentially scrapped whatever the show had been up until that point, and it started blossoming into something actually interesting. Both the content and the characters themselves.

What's this music from? It sounds familiar.

Brown is my favorite fruit.

Popping it removes the fiber, though. When people talk about popcorn having a lot of fiber in it, they're usually looking at the fiber in unpopped popcorn kernels (which you shouldn't be eating). Popping it makes it more digestible, which means less fiber. There's actually not much fiber in popped popcorn.

It seems the author is female. So, more likely, it's either that she doesn't understand men very well, or she has a kink for men struggling to hold back their desires.

The 2013 bubble peaked at 524 times the low point, and then retraced 87.1%. The 2017 bubble peaked at 129 times the low point, and then retraced 84.8%. The 2021 bubble peaked at 22 times the low point, and then retraced 81.2%. The 2025 bubble peaked at 8 times the low point. So yeah, the retracements have softened a bit as the peaks have become less dramatic, but I'd still expect a retracement that's closer to 80% than to 60%.

Every 4-year bubble in Bitcoin's history ultimately dropped to below its 78.6% fibonacci retracement level (that is, it dropped more than 78.6% of the way from the ATH price to the preceding inter-bubble low price). This time, the 78.6% level is $39189. So, if it doesn't drop below that level, that would be the first time in Bitcoin's history.

Just wait until you find out that there are also video games where the whole appeal is in MURDERING people. You must be so disgusted by people who play Super Smash Bros.

I'm reminded of that scene from Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie's dad lost his factory job because a machine replaced him, but then he got a new job fixing that machine. Happy ending! Right? Except... the machine probably replaced more than just that one job. And fixing that one machine probably isn't a full-time job, so he'll have to fix lots of other machines, too. Other machines that replaced more jobs.

Calling this a happy ending is like saying, "Yeah, 100 full-time workers were replaced with machines, but it created a new job for one of those 100 workers, so it's all good!" The only way it would really be all good is if the economic value produced by those machines were distributed to all the people it replaced. But of course, in reality, it never is. The economic value only ever goes to a few people who were already gratuitously wealthy.

The problem isn't the technology, the problem is with how the technology serves to concentrate wealth into the hands of a few elites instead of benefiting society. And that's a failure of the government (and the fault of the wealthy elites who corrupt it).