machinya [it/its, fae/faer]

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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • really anxious about this one. watched the original anime at least twice complete (and a bunch of individual episodes when they were broadcasted) and while I really liked the series I remember that there were a bunch of things that felt wrong even back then. not sure how will I react if i watch it today.

    wondering how much will they change from the original work. 48 episodes to addapt 37(?) volumes is too few but I remember there were a couple of arcs that didn't really affect the story so they could just remove them. will they change or remove some uncomfortable scenes? not sure what would be the best then


  • won't write my thoughts on it since i still have to let it sink to have a better analysis, but i got the feeling that they didn't had clarity on what to do with the story. the series had some good ideas or plot points that were either forgotten or just set asside to be solved later. and the last episode felt like they skipped a whole season of character development. it really needed more time or a better planning since most resolutions felt incomplete.

    and it's very hard to not call the series bait. they had a very good episode that cannot be read at anything other than romantic development and then they split the characters for the rest of the series just to reunite them at the end as just a simple group of friends. and the whole thing with kiui/nox was very well written but then it's just left asside

    i really want to like the series but sadly I can only say it's dissapointing. it's probably better than the average "girls friend group" anime since it tried to pressent more serious themes, but it didn't do much with them






  • been thinking for a while about getting one (although probably a 1000, since I prefer the feeling overall) but i am a bit worried about the battery life and the size not being as great as I remember. also I don't really game that much these days so it would probably be forgotten soon. that and alway wanting a vita makes this decision very hard





  • is this really the feeling people outside mexico has about the situation? as someone that lived a big part of his mandate, and part of claudia's mandate on mexico city, I really feel like it was just a neoliberal government disguised as left populism. the biggest changes that I can remember were giving way too much power to the military and ignoring a bunch of problems.

    there were a couple of things that I remember being good, but none of them looks remarkable enough to make me thing about socialism. socdem at most and I'm not even sure.

    that said, maybe living the period from inside gives me some kind of short sighted view, but a bunch of people there that I know that has leftist tendencies (most of them anarchists, no clue why) have a similar readings of the situation




  • just started watching it (just watched ep 2) and i have so many mixed feelings about it to the point i'm not even sure I want to continue it.

    on one side, the story feels interenting enough and the characters are more complex than the usual in the "group of girls doing things" type of anime.

    on the other side, some tropes of the genre are painfuly there. like sexualizing girls in scenes that are very out of place and makes me feel extreme disgust to whoever decided to include them. and the yuri, even if it's not bait, feels fetishized.

    worst for it is that I cannot stop comparing it to girls band cry since the premise is similar enough. but that show actually makes me care about the characters and can successfully transmit the emotions they are trying to convey. and also the soundtrack is closer to my preferences.

    i won't say it's bad or anything yet, but it's hard for me to continue watching without having strong negitive opinnions at this point. will probably try a couple of additional episodes before having a verdict. i have probably watched way too much anime that i got exhausted of these tropes and might be overreacting here tho



  • depends a lot what do you need it for.

    AMD is quite good these days so it's recomended (at least the ryzen procs. haven't tried the others). on the gpu side, the integrated graphics are good enough for most basic tasks and even light gaming so that could work if you are on a budget. i would never recommend nvidia since it's a pain to use it on linux but i don't know how it works in different OS or if it has improved over time (my card is somewhat old so it might be the problem).

    one thing i recently learned is about second hand minipcs. they tend to be quite cheap for what you get and if you don't need very high specs or very modern or specific hardware they work great.



  • machinya [it/its, fae/faer]togamesGamer's edition
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    1 month ago

    i mean, the main reason this type of "representation" appeals to chuds is because the "lifeless plastic doll" part and the rest is just part of the stereotype. it's very hard to find chuds that actually like real women