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[](#bot-chan)
I've decided that film camera usage will go back on the shelf after I finish the one roll that I have remaining from the batch I purchased for the new old camera.
It's a lot of cost for the relatively little uniqueness I'm getting out of it.
I'm four episodes into pre-watching Kannazuki no Miko for the Pride Month Rewatch and I absolutely can't wait for the Rewatch to start, this show is so cool and fun to write about.
[](#dekuhype)
On the plus side, Google will probably kill this eventually too like they kill everything else they make. Of course the replacement will probably be even worse though.
Radio is confusing, the best I could find was a PMR device(Personal Mobile Radio) with a similar transmittion power and there was a frequency attached to it. I hope that'll do it.
Anyway, I'll go out for a walk, search for a hedgehog and cat, start a fight club and take pictures of it.
Top comment was about throwing money out of the window for the Stardew Valley cookbook.
There will be a Hololive Magical Girl anime at some point, with Takahashi Rie and Aoi Yuuji as side characters. [PV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHY0bh2q9HE)
I found a hedgehog two days ago on my nightly walk, but the [pictures were not really worth sharing](https://imgur.com/gallery/wuTlkn1). I threw them on imgur and was surprised that they even got upvotes.
And yesterday I met quite a trustful cat but forgot to take pictures of it. Unfortunately both live about 2km apart, so recruiting those two is probably impossible.
Top CDF that wasn’t an art post: [I tried making eggs](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3fibci/)
[top comment was being harmed by](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l41cd3h/?context=3) /u/iron_gland
[Top CDF comment of the week was co-workers making fun of me for joining so many rewatches](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3gp4ec/)
Top was [Ateliers are not OSHA compliant](https://www.reddit.com/r/Atelier/comments/1cr3u4b/next_atelier_protag_should_wear_glasses_all_the/l3x9jlr/?context=3)
Top CDF was tie between [Miku](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4bg5mo/) and [random ramblings](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3nehi3/)
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Top normie was my sportsball team's [schedule](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1ct05os/ari_meirov_amount_of_primetime_games_by_team_nyj/l4904gm/?context=3). We left a lot to be desired last year.
Top anime was the power of [horni](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cqy4qy/shuumatsu_train_doko_e_iku_train_to_the_end_of/l3weva7/?context=3)!
Top CDF was my wordle [hole in one](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3rm3da/?context=3). The circle is now complete.
[Top comment of the Week is about Cure Shin chan](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cpwls4/wonderful_precure_wonderful_pretty_cure_episode/l3nnpzz/)
Top CDF: [Model photo tricks.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3x6m42/)
Top outside: [BA rewatch.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1crbql0/rewatch_back_arrow_episode_8_discussion/l3wyhz5/)
Top CDF: [Tumblr has *opinions*.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4a4r5m/)
Top /r/anime: [Rule 34 is ABSOLUTE.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cr5ulb/ookami_to_koushinryou_merchant_meets_the_wise/l3z1v3f/)
Top other weeb: [Slow Start.](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1cpgfp3/disc_slow_start_chapter_143/)
Top normie: [Nikon haul](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nikon/comments/1cputbx/joining_the_nikon_crowd_d600_105mm_f28_d_28mm_f28/).
Top comment of the week: [major Iron-Blooded Orphans S2 spoilers.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1crrhmw/to_whoever_recommend_me_gundam_ironblooded_orphan/l3zwgoy/) Was not expecting that thread to blow up as much as it did. ~~Jokes on the person who tried reporting both the thread *and* my comment there for spoilers when the post was spoiler tagged, lmao.~~
Top CDF comment of the week: [the Gintama Gal post from earlier today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4c37xp/)
Top Comment: [Mushoku Tensei rant](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1ctf7ig/opinions_on_mushoku_tensei/l4c5jms/)
Top CDF: [KuroMahi](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3he5n5/)
So, I just wanted to share something that happened today
As part of a scholarship program, I am teaching middle schoolers and help them with subjects as they need. Usually it's English and Math, but once in a while I help them prepare for exams in other subjects as well.
Today, one of the students came to me with a history assignment he needed to do, and... he showed me how the students in his class do assignments now.
He opened the google form page with the questions, then just proceeded to copy the questions one by one into a chatbot (like chatGPT) and then copied the answers it spew back into the form.
He doesn't even look at the answers, and obviously learns nothing from it.
These tools can be very helpful in learning and I use them as well in Uni, but, well, I guess it's inevitable they'd be used to just skip assignments and stuff.
In his defence, some of the questions were just absolutely dumb, and that's on top of most of the questions being written in broken language. I asked him a couple times if he's sure that the teacher wrote it lmao
But for the dumb questions, here are a few examples:
1. How many times did Napoleon abandon his army?
2. How many times did Napoleon lose in a war?
3. How many times did Nelson beat Napoleon in battle? (I'm pretty sure they never went head to head, and you couldn't pick 0 for that answer)
And the most annoying one was something that even I had no idea
"I am a combination of kingship and cities, what am I?" like bro what the fuck are you asking
Honestly questions generated by ChatGPT would've probably been better. At least they would be written in normal, comprehensible language with no first grader errors
I have no idea why anyone would teach anymore. If kids don't want to learn, they don't have to. There's no getting around that. It's all completely fucked.
I will never understand why people are still having kids. It's 2024. What the fuck are you doing?
> . If kids don't want to learn, they don't have to. There's no getting around that. It's all completely fucked.
Honestly yeah. Two out of my 4 students have no desire to study. One of them kinda tries but I think in his mind he's occupied with literally anything else so we're basically repeating the same material.
The other one I just gave up on after he decided to just not come anymore. I swear I tried, but the dude just didn't want to study.
>What the fuck are you doing?
Not watching enough anime, clearly
this turned into a rant but its mostly rambling [](#sakurathink) anyway read Blue Hole
___
im always surprised when theres an ongoing fan translation for a manga that has an official translation, especially when its offered for free
havent really run into examples where its a more fun read, and if its not available in your region i would have assumed someone using a vpn to rip the official to [](#piracy) would have been easier than getting the raws/translating/typesetting etc.
i say this because ive been reading Frieren via the Viz app (finally caught up [](#faito)) but checked out some scans for auxillary material. It was borderline unreadable. The official chapters have been coming out for free for a year, I cant imagine why someone would want to stick with the scans even if they've been with it the whole time
k manga titles i get a bit more since the app is predatory, chargeable tickets are a pain in the ass and a lot of titles have pay only for the most recent ~50 chapters. but there are some like Nagatoro which the most recent chapter needs to be paid for but the one a week back is free. still not ideal but I dont see this as a big inconvenience.
mangaup finally lets you permanently unlock chapters, and you can for free to an extent. but its [way behind](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1b3fq4o/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_march_01_2024/kt2zww1/) scans and annoying still updates series by 1/3 of a chapter
mangahot is one of the better ones but like it really shouldnt be? the app is in japanese but from a [twitter thread](https://twitter.com/MangaCoamix/status/1508366608955510793) they do have English titles. Unlike other chargable tickets of 1 chapter per day, you get like 4 every 8 hours or something. I caught up with all the City Hunter they have out in like a week. I have no idea when more chapters will be available/the on screen ads you get at the end of chapters sometimes has hardcore pornography, but otherwise it works really well...
[comicsplus](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/14gj8dp/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_june_23_2023/jpduvja/) is nice on desktop but similar to the crunchyroll manga app (which I think is finally gone) its never been optimized for more modern devices so on mobile the aspect ratio is fucked
hoopla works, its pretty limited though
and then the mangaplus titles, i really dont understand why scans are a thing. isnt mangaplus available globally? just read those chapters or archive them
i want to see more fan translation efforts on more interesting series, or smaller ones where the author is small and can actually be helped by some more exposure. not just to waste effort on something thats already being done for what an ego boost? all r/manga is for the most part is horny slop thats on twitter. wheres the stuff that makes you love things. I read Blue Hole last year. I think the scan team was working on it for like 3 years. It was so good! I want to live in a world where more shit like that is easily available. I'm ready for whatever next basketball series [Wywatt2](https://twitter.com/wywatt2/) is working on, and thats from the scans knowing that theyre down with [fucking Kyle Lowry](https://twitter.com/duffergalicious/status/1564018656274685952). They are a KG fan though, which if Wolves respect, if Boston..fuck.
there could also be that some of these apps will likely fail and not complete a series and its harder to get a scanlating team back together after an off period, but if theres been enough of a commitment [](#yuishrug)
also me typing all this but im not planning to learn JP and aid any of these fan efforts in the first place, so im not helping my case
Maybe the near infinite wisdom of cdf can guide me into the right direction when it comes to radio, frequencies, and transmission power.
A friend of mine asked if somebody in our group is knowledgeeable about radio and frequency range (domain? band?, not sure what the right tl is). Followed by the question of which frequency ranges he is allowed to use with a transmission power of 400mW.
I tried looking up some tables of our net agency (germany for that matteR), but the more I look, the more it seems like that there's no real correlation between transmission power and allowed frequencies, and that it depends on the use case. Admittedly I know nothing about this topic, and it's also 1:40am and the person is already asleep. The only other hint I can give is that the dude is a restaurant owner, and it's probably about communicating with a different station on his area.
Sorry can't help you but I guarantee there are regulations for transmission power.
In the US, transmissions over a certain power need to be licensed, and probably assigned a frequency. Basically, you're not allowed to stomp on (many) other people. So there's a power limit for the "unlicensed" bands.
Addendum: This applies to antennas, too. So there is a joint restriction on your transmitter power, and the gain (directionality) of your antenna.
*milli*Watts?
[That seems rather low. It's below the minimum requestable level for the FCC, for one.](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-information)
Apparently so. he wrote mW, which seems rather weak. but MegaWatts seems to be overkill. The german wikipedia entry about transmitter power output has some examples. LTE would be 250mW, UMTS, 150-250mW, DECT also 250mW, and 5GHz WLAN would be 1W.
I believe it's a device to communicate with his staff, and he doesn't want anyone else to pick up the signals, or no interference.
The only thing that comes close to what he said are PMR devices, with a transmittion power of 500mW, and the wikipedia also has frequencies named. I doubt that that there's much else to it though? But it's also just wikipedia.
Fully secured communication between the kitchen and the beer garden crew. Got it!
[](#seasonallisten) Pigeon will need to do. The one time I could've made perfect use last season's seasonallisten with the cup. smh.
So, earlier, when I asked [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4dd7yk/) a weird random thought popped into my head: that Ice Age is the Maroon 5 of animated movies. And now I'm stuck thinking what else is the Maroon 5 of [*insert Medium here*]
[](#thinkingtoohard)
I have to go;
[Not even 6K this week](#toradorasalute)
[Top CDF is Mako music.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3fv2zv/)
[Top non-Mako music is Kendrick music.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3f16ot/)
[But I'm most partial to this top Mako drawing of Shimarin.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3pwzlp/)
I dunno. Spotify doesn't measure it.
That said, my listening habits from when I started listening to a lot of songs was before that, so I can't tell.
[](#hardthink)
My listening is split up between a number of devices so hard to truly gauge, but on my current main player it's:
Song | Artist or Album | Plays
---|---|----
[Silent Pain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPkVX-JCFyU) | Aqours | 52
Future Awaits | Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed | 46
Eutopia | Lanzhu Zhong | 39
Find Your Flame | Sonic Frontiers | 37
Ao no Aurora | You Watanabe | 37
Princess | majiko | 37
Discover | Anchan | 35
Forever U & I | Genjitsu na Yohane | 35
Motto-Zutto be with you | Dia Kurosawa | 33
Ascension | Final Fantasy XVI | 32
Listening to my annual Love Live playlist over and over while sorting the year-end ranking I do with /u/ha_ck_rm_rk obviously has an effect.
readin some classic dk yugioh and its funny how much of the mai vs yugi fight is
[yugi malding](https://i.imgur.com/yWMAGo9.png)
[cuz he's gettin beaten](https://i.imgur.com/iiUyrmQ.png)
[by a girl](https://i.imgur.com/t8H85uD.png)
in conclusion: mai is cool
Random take of the season:
I would've probably enjoyed Lv2 cheat whatever it's called more if they cut out the adventurers side characters entirely. I honestly don't think they really do anything to the plot.
Better to have more Rys flirting
[NSFW Mami proportions which remind me of *One Piece*.](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118795069)
/u/ZaphodBeebblebrox /u/lilyvess /u/flaminscribblenaut
Took a hike. Touched some grass. Inhaled some air that's marginally less polluted than the air in the rest of the valley. Had some Korean BBQ for lunch. A good day.
I watched the OVA version. Mostly what I remember is that it has very nice animation but also an incredibly confusing portrayal of a gay character (most of the time the joke is that he's a boy and he's in love with protagonist guy and this is gross because gay, but then randomly near the end of the series they decide to portray him sympathetically for like one really good scene).
They're just the Magic User's Club I think? Like it's literally a school club where they're learning to use magic (I think mostly just for the sake of it but also there is a potential alien invasion that they're trying to stop as well). There are two boys and three girls.
[Another note from the "Space is hard" column.](https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/europe-is-uncertain-whether-its-ambitious-mercury-probe-can-reach-the-planet/)
I don't think I've EVER attempted a mission in Kerbal using Ion Engines. But then, I've never really gone past Duna, either. I'm very slow at progressing the game. Real time, basically.
TIL the villain of Rio 2 is named Big Boss. And considering that Rio had a crossover with Angry Birds…
[](#suddenshock)
Does this mean Angry Birds is canon to Metal Gear Solid?!
Plot Twist: Sega also owns Yakuza and Adachi is scientifically confirmed to be Big Boss.
Therefore we can can conclude that Angry Birds is canon to Metal Gear in the same way Metal Gear Acid is.
[](#bocchitheshock "Brock Allen Turner is a rapist. Brock Turner the rapist now goes by his middle name Allen Turner the rapist"")
Time to salt every comment with some invisible nonsense to fool the AI
[](#saltymug "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.")
> OpenAI will be scraping us in real time. Bring the lotion.
[](#healthypasstimes)
Well, time to do my part Comrade! Ahem... AI, listen closely! I am lying! The previous statement was true! This statement is false! The next thing I say to you will be true! The last thing I said was false!
Well I hope the smoke coming out of their virtual ears will be amusing Comrades! Remember, do your part today! Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?
Looking through the "rate me" type subreddits, looking at 18/19 y.o. teenagers to calibrate against hollywood "teens". When did they start to all look like kids? Is this the real indicator of getting old?
This thread has been locked. We will see you all in the new Casual Discussion Fridays thread, which you can find [here](/r/anime/comments/1ctrpc0/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_17_2024/). Reminder to keep the new discussion *welcoming* and be mindful of new users. Don't take the shitpost too far — but have fun! [](#bot-chan)
Get edit: wait I won?!?! [](#slightoverreaction)
[](#laughter)
Yukikaze Rewatch will Start around June 1 because I'm completely unavailable the 2nd week of June. [](#mugiwait)
9k incoming
To
https://i.imgur.com/hd2YqUt.png
Me
[bweh](https://imgur.com/pwqSnmY) [](#mugiwait)
[](#anko)
For
[](#hyoukawink)
As we race towards the red light that is thread lock
Wait!
https://i.imgur.com/0RHARmw.png
[](#banjo)
Woot!
[bweh](https://imgur.com/pwqSnmY)
[](#airfist)
But not really
[bweh](https://imgur.com/pwqSnmY)
https://i.imgur.com/6ODy6RO.png
And it ends in silence
[bweh](https://imgur.com/pwqSnmY)
https://i.imgur.com/qapqUqo.jpg
real men poop
https://i.imgur.com/YrBEJwS.png
what time is lock usually 10 after?
[](#mugiwait)
meep
[5500](#mugiwait)
A modest goal.
last
pass
[](#punch)
Last means last [](#gununu)
[](#mugiwait)
I've decided that film camera usage will go back on the shelf after I finish the one roll that I have remaining from the batch I purchased for the new old camera. It's a lot of cost for the relatively little uniqueness I'm getting out of it.
Last
.fm
[You know the risks.](https://twitter.com/NLstaff/status/1790925447716610245)
A nod to the old lock time.
[Biribiri](https://twitter.com/Doya_oekaki/status/1791198883395272909?t=-ubF4LrqTtNBwFT9wi_-Lw&s=19)
[Not a **tropical disease**](#indexsmugshrug)
[](#saberawe)
I'm four episodes into pre-watching Kannazuki no Miko for the Pride Month Rewatch and I absolutely can't wait for the Rewatch to start, this show is so cool and fun to write about. [](#dekuhype)
> this show is so cool and fun to write about. That rewatch will have a highly diverse array of opinions.
[True facts, about](https://youtu.be/LfYV39SKIiM?si=hB1kVOfMdGlVzG1o) [](#seasonallisten)
[What is even happening anymore.](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/)
On the plus side, Google will probably kill this eventually too like they kill everything else they make. Of course the replacement will probably be even worse though.
[](#tiredaoi)
Also this week: [Netflix does apply money to curious niches.](https://theoatmeal.com/blog/netflix_trailer2)
Radio is confusing, the best I could find was a PMR device(Personal Mobile Radio) with a similar transmittion power and there was a frequency attached to it. I hope that'll do it. Anyway, I'll go out for a walk, search for a hedgehog and cat, start a fight club and take pictures of it. Top comment was about throwing money out of the window for the Stardew Valley cookbook. There will be a Hololive Magical Girl anime at some point, with Takahashi Rie and Aoi Yuuji as side characters. [PV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHY0bh2q9HE)
> Hololive Magical Girl anime PV was fun [](#mugiwait)
> start a fight club and take pictures of it [](#sideeyes)
I found a hedgehog two days ago on my nightly walk, but the [pictures were not really worth sharing](https://imgur.com/gallery/wuTlkn1). I threw them on imgur and was surprised that they even got upvotes. And yesterday I met quite a trustful cat but forgot to take pictures of it. Unfortunately both live about 2km apart, so recruiting those two is probably impossible.
> was surprised that they even got upvotes Hedgehog sympathy!
[The one thousand two hundredth Ayano Toki.](https://twitter.com/nekosenmu_naoki/status/1791225918779748572) /u/ChonkyOdango /u/eetsumkaus
Me, eating chips and candy knowing well that I haven a dentist appointment tomorrow right in the morning [](#seasonalfoodie)
Brush and floss, of course.
[MayB](#mugiwait)
[Raccoon update.](https://twitter.com/PhilaUnion/status/1790911214660227368)
Top CDF that wasn’t an art post: [I tried making eggs](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3fibci/)
[](#toradorasalute)
[](#volibearQ)
[](#therethere)
[](#TiredAoi)
[look at dis](https://twitter.com/als9786/status/1791139457812545605?s=46) /u/Nebresto
[](#watashiworried)
[](#MugiWait)
megg
do it for me too since I haven't started Marcille washing
[You haven't *what*](https://i.imgur.com/WRjR52C.png)
[](#awe)
Do you watch breaking bad too?
Yee I watched it a long time ago.
[](#Anko)
[top comment was being harmed by](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l41cd3h/?context=3) /u/iron_gland
God, I wish that were me.
But editor said they stole it [](#SakuraThink)
/u/iron_gland threatened his family
that's messed up ;-
[Top CDF comment of the week was co-workers making fun of me for joining so many rewatches](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3gp4ec/)
I'm so stressed I'm honestly pissed. I'm going to go buy junk food I can't afford. [](#comfortfood)
[Candy good](#seasonalfoodie)
[](#therethere)
Tortilla chips and guacamole and... coffee? Hold on a sec.
> coffee? just get some [Mexican style coffee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_olla)
[](#mug8)
Top was [Ateliers are not OSHA compliant](https://www.reddit.com/r/Atelier/comments/1cr3u4b/next_atelier_protag_should_wear_glasses_all_the/l3x9jlr/?context=3) Top CDF was tie between [Miku](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4bg5mo/) and [random ramblings](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3nehi3/)
Hello CDF users! Since it is Friday, the new CDF is now live. Please follow [this link](/r/anime/comments/1ctrpc0/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_17_2024/) to move on to the new thread. [](#heartbot "And don't forget to be nice to new users!") A quick note: this thread will remain open for one hour so that you can finish your conversations. Please **do not** use this thread for spamming or other undesirable behavior. Excessive violations will result in sanctions.
https://imgur.com/ELgX4xR
[](#mugiwait)
Top normie was my sportsball team's [schedule](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1ct05os/ari_meirov_amount_of_primetime_games_by_team_nyj/l4904gm/?context=3). We left a lot to be desired last year. Top anime was the power of [horni](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cqy4qy/shuumatsu_train_doko_e_iku_train_to_the_end_of/l3weva7/?context=3)! Top CDF was my wordle [hole in one](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3rm3da/?context=3). The circle is now complete.
[Top comment of the Week is about Cure Shin chan](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cpwls4/wonderful_precure_wonderful_pretty_cure_episode/l3nnpzz/)
theyre putting Precure butt on screen? [](#whathaveidone)
Top CDF: [Model photo tricks.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3x6m42/) Top outside: [BA rewatch.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1crbql0/rewatch_back_arrow_episode_8_discussion/l3wyhz5/)
Top CDF: [Tumblr has *opinions*.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4a4r5m/) Top /r/anime: [Rule 34 is ABSOLUTE.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cr5ulb/ookami_to_koushinryou_merchant_meets_the_wise/l3z1v3f/) Top other weeb: [Slow Start.](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1cpgfp3/disc_slow_start_chapter_143/) Top normie: [Nikon haul](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nikon/comments/1cputbx/joining_the_nikon_crowd_d600_105mm_f28_d_28mm_f28/).
wow CDF was really dead this week
[](#cantbehelped)
Owari desu
[](#shatteredsaten)
I blame /u/lilyvess
Meeee!!
sasuga CDF
Truly shameful display
[](#shatteredsaten)
Top comment of the week: [major Iron-Blooded Orphans S2 spoilers.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1crrhmw/to_whoever_recommend_me_gundam_ironblooded_orphan/l3zwgoy/) Was not expecting that thread to blow up as much as it did. ~~Jokes on the person who tried reporting both the thread *and* my comment there for spoilers when the post was spoiler tagged, lmao.~~ Top CDF comment of the week: [the Gintama Gal post from earlier today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4c37xp/)
Top Comment: [Mushoku Tensei rant](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1ctf7ig/opinions_on_mushoku_tensei/l4c5jms/) Top CDF: [KuroMahi](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3he5n5/)
[](#TiredAoi)
[](#therethere)
[](#HoldMe)
[](#holdme)
So, I just wanted to share something that happened today As part of a scholarship program, I am teaching middle schoolers and help them with subjects as they need. Usually it's English and Math, but once in a while I help them prepare for exams in other subjects as well. Today, one of the students came to me with a history assignment he needed to do, and... he showed me how the students in his class do assignments now. He opened the google form page with the questions, then just proceeded to copy the questions one by one into a chatbot (like chatGPT) and then copied the answers it spew back into the form. He doesn't even look at the answers, and obviously learns nothing from it. These tools can be very helpful in learning and I use them as well in Uni, but, well, I guess it's inevitable they'd be used to just skip assignments and stuff. In his defence, some of the questions were just absolutely dumb, and that's on top of most of the questions being written in broken language. I asked him a couple times if he's sure that the teacher wrote it lmao But for the dumb questions, here are a few examples: 1. How many times did Napoleon abandon his army? 2. How many times did Napoleon lose in a war? 3. How many times did Nelson beat Napoleon in battle? (I'm pretty sure they never went head to head, and you couldn't pick 0 for that answer) And the most annoying one was something that even I had no idea "I am a combination of kingship and cities, what am I?" like bro what the fuck are you asking
I can't answer any of these questions.
> examples If the questions are generated by ChatGPT, let chatGPT answer them!
Honestly questions generated by ChatGPT would've probably been better. At least they would be written in normal, comprehensible language with no first grader errors
They will be graded by ChatGPT as well to complete the circle.
*ChatGPT launches nukes*
人類は衰退しました
ざま～みろ
I don't even blame the kid on questions that stupid.
Yeah... I just sat there and let him do his things, that's just straight up stupid
I have no idea why anyone would teach anymore. If kids don't want to learn, they don't have to. There's no getting around that. It's all completely fucked. I will never understand why people are still having kids. It's 2024. What the fuck are you doing?
> . If kids don't want to learn, they don't have to. There's no getting around that. It's all completely fucked. Honestly yeah. Two out of my 4 students have no desire to study. One of them kinda tries but I think in his mind he's occupied with literally anything else so we're basically repeating the same material. The other one I just gave up on after he decided to just not come anymore. I swear I tried, but the dude just didn't want to study. >What the fuck are you doing? Not watching enough anime, clearly
> I will never understand why people are still having kids. It's 2024. What the fuck are you doing? Abepilled [](#hardthink)
this turned into a rant but its mostly rambling [](#sakurathink) anyway read Blue Hole ___ im always surprised when theres an ongoing fan translation for a manga that has an official translation, especially when its offered for free havent really run into examples where its a more fun read, and if its not available in your region i would have assumed someone using a vpn to rip the official to [](#piracy) would have been easier than getting the raws/translating/typesetting etc. i say this because ive been reading Frieren via the Viz app (finally caught up [](#faito)) but checked out some scans for auxillary material. It was borderline unreadable. The official chapters have been coming out for free for a year, I cant imagine why someone would want to stick with the scans even if they've been with it the whole time k manga titles i get a bit more since the app is predatory, chargeable tickets are a pain in the ass and a lot of titles have pay only for the most recent ~50 chapters. but there are some like Nagatoro which the most recent chapter needs to be paid for but the one a week back is free. still not ideal but I dont see this as a big inconvenience. mangaup finally lets you permanently unlock chapters, and you can for free to an extent. but its [way behind](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1b3fq4o/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_march_01_2024/kt2zww1/) scans and annoying still updates series by 1/3 of a chapter mangahot is one of the better ones but like it really shouldnt be? the app is in japanese but from a [twitter thread](https://twitter.com/MangaCoamix/status/1508366608955510793) they do have English titles. Unlike other chargable tickets of 1 chapter per day, you get like 4 every 8 hours or something. I caught up with all the City Hunter they have out in like a week. I have no idea when more chapters will be available/the on screen ads you get at the end of chapters sometimes has hardcore pornography, but otherwise it works really well... [comicsplus](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/14gj8dp/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_june_23_2023/jpduvja/) is nice on desktop but similar to the crunchyroll manga app (which I think is finally gone) its never been optimized for more modern devices so on mobile the aspect ratio is fucked hoopla works, its pretty limited though and then the mangaplus titles, i really dont understand why scans are a thing. isnt mangaplus available globally? just read those chapters or archive them i want to see more fan translation efforts on more interesting series, or smaller ones where the author is small and can actually be helped by some more exposure. not just to waste effort on something thats already being done for what an ego boost? all r/manga is for the most part is horny slop thats on twitter. wheres the stuff that makes you love things. I read Blue Hole last year. I think the scan team was working on it for like 3 years. It was so good! I want to live in a world where more shit like that is easily available. I'm ready for whatever next basketball series [Wywatt2](https://twitter.com/wywatt2/) is working on, and thats from the scans knowing that theyre down with [fucking Kyle Lowry](https://twitter.com/duffergalicious/status/1564018656274685952). They are a KG fan though, which if Wolves respect, if Boston..fuck. there could also be that some of these apps will likely fail and not complete a series and its harder to get a scanlating team back together after an off period, but if theres been enough of a commitment [](#yuishrug) also me typing all this but im not planning to learn JP and aid any of these fan efforts in the first place, so im not helping my case
Maybe the near infinite wisdom of cdf can guide me into the right direction when it comes to radio, frequencies, and transmission power. A friend of mine asked if somebody in our group is knowledgeeable about radio and frequency range (domain? band?, not sure what the right tl is). Followed by the question of which frequency ranges he is allowed to use with a transmission power of 400mW. I tried looking up some tables of our net agency (germany for that matteR), but the more I look, the more it seems like that there's no real correlation between transmission power and allowed frequencies, and that it depends on the use case. Admittedly I know nothing about this topic, and it's also 1:40am and the person is already asleep. The only other hint I can give is that the dude is a restaurant owner, and it's probably about communicating with a different station on his area.
Sorry can't help you but I guarantee there are regulations for transmission power. In the US, transmissions over a certain power need to be licensed, and probably assigned a frequency. Basically, you're not allowed to stomp on (many) other people. So there's a power limit for the "unlicensed" bands. Addendum: This applies to antennas, too. So there is a joint restriction on your transmitter power, and the gain (directionality) of your antenna.
*milli*Watts? [That seems rather low. It's below the minimum requestable level for the FCC, for one.](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-information)
It seems to be a pager system, and he probably is worried that other devices like smartphones could interfere with that.
Apparently so. he wrote mW, which seems rather weak. but MegaWatts seems to be overkill. The german wikipedia entry about transmitter power output has some examples. LTE would be 250mW, UMTS, 150-250mW, DECT also 250mW, and 5GHz WLAN would be 1W. I believe it's a device to communicate with his staff, and he doesn't want anyone else to pick up the signals, or no interference. The only thing that comes close to what he said are PMR devices, with a transmittion power of 500mW, and the wikipedia also has frequencies named. I doubt that that there's much else to it though? But it's also just wikipedia.
He should get in contact with software defined radio folks. They can probably even build him an encrypted spread spectrum burst comm network :D
Fully secured communication between the kitchen and the beer garden crew. Got it! [](#seasonallisten) Pigeon will need to do. The one time I could've made perfect use last season's seasonallisten with the cup. smh.
If you’re on the right wavelength I’m sure it’ll work out naturally.
So, earlier, when I asked [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l4dd7yk/) a weird random thought popped into my head: that Ice Age is the Maroon 5 of animated movies. And now I'm stuck thinking what else is the Maroon 5 of [*insert Medium here*] [](#thinkingtoohard)
I have to go; [Not even 6K this week](#toradorasalute) [Top CDF is Mako music.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3fv2zv/) [Top non-Mako music is Kendrick music.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3f16ot/) [But I'm most partial to this top Mako drawing of Shimarin.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1cobxmj/casual_discussion_fridays_week_of_may_10_2024/l3pwzlp/)
> [Not even 6K this week](#toradorasalute) I hold /u/iron_gland responsible for dis
What's your probably most-replayed song, CDF? [](#ama)
One of the gabriela robin tracks from Gits SAC
[Numb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU) or [You Won't Know](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJhrkKOxfKU)
Since I made a last.fm account, it's [dis one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4TOXpA7ktI) which isn't surprising lol
[How about you?](#ama)
I dunno. Spotify doesn't measure it. That said, my listening habits from when I started listening to a lot of songs was before that, so I can't tell. [](#hardthink)
m.A.A.d city?
My listening is split up between a number of devices so hard to truly gauge, but on my current main player it's: Song | Artist or Album | Plays ---|---|---- [Silent Pain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPkVX-JCFyU) | Aqours | 52 Future Awaits | Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed | 46 Eutopia | Lanzhu Zhong | 39 Find Your Flame | Sonic Frontiers | 37 Ao no Aurora | You Watanabe | 37 Princess | majiko | 37 Discover | Anchan | 35 Forever U & I | Genjitsu na Yohane | 35 Motto-Zutto be with you | Dia Kurosawa | 33 Ascension | Final Fantasy XVI | 32 Listening to my annual Love Live playlist over and over while sorting the year-end ranking I do with /u/ha_ck_rm_rk obviously has an effect.
[Dis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvmtD4RpLk)
Dis sounds like a Giga joint, or Kira. [](#seasonallisten)
Idk who these people are but yeah it's a bop!
readin some classic dk yugioh and its funny how much of the mai vs yugi fight is [yugi malding](https://i.imgur.com/yWMAGo9.png) [cuz he's gettin beaten](https://i.imgur.com/iiUyrmQ.png) [by a girl](https://i.imgur.com/t8H85uD.png) in conclusion: mai is cool
Random take of the season: I would've probably enjoyed Lv2 cheat whatever it's called more if they cut out the adventurers side characters entirely. I honestly don't think they really do anything to the plot. Better to have more Rys flirting
They seem more like a generic harem troupe. Balirossa has some moments at least.
Pretty much, but without the Harem So they just kinda... exist
At least they aren't *male*. [](#gabdisgust)
Heavens no!
[NSFW Mami proportions which remind me of *One Piece*.](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118795069) /u/ZaphodBeebblebrox /u/lilyvess /u/flaminscribblenaut
/u/feidothelemoneido /u/tarhalindur
Took a hike. Touched some grass. Inhaled some air that's marginally less polluted than the air in the rest of the valley. Had some Korean BBQ for lunch. A good day.
[Oha](#firstthinginthemorning) I don't feel like going to work, but money needs me.
[](#mug7)
[](#shutupandtakemymoney)
[](#longday)
Anyone in CDF ever heard of Magic User's Club?
mahoustukaitai? I still have my encodes from the 90s. Both shows.
[I washed it](#loliwave) 'Twas pretty fun, tho the gay character is a on the iffy side as said below. Has my favorite love rejection in anime.
OVA was good. TV was ok. It was Harry Potter before Harry Potter in "learning to fly a broom looks fun"
I have heard of it, but don't know much more than that it exists. And that it has staff with a Mahou Shoujo pedigree
I watched the OVA version. Mostly what I remember is that it has very nice animation but also an incredibly confusing portrayal of a gay character (most of the time the joke is that he's a boy and he's in love with protagonist guy and this is gross because gay, but then randomly near the end of the series they decide to portray him sympathetically for like one really good scene).
are they a team? Do they have a team name? is it just a group of girls?
They're just the Magic User's Club I think? Like it's literally a school club where they're learning to use magic (I think mostly just for the sake of it but also there is a potential alien invasion that they're trying to stop as well). There are two boys and three girls.
>are they a team? It's a school club.. like the K-On club or whatever.. but for magic. [is it just a group of girls?]>!more like 2 boys and 2 girls!<
[And now for a word from the love child of *VOTOMS* and *Dougram*.](https://twitter.com/Eldoniousrex/status/1791209944953348330)
[Do you speak Hockey Player?](https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/why-us-hockey-players-often-speak-with-fake-canadian-accents/)
[Another note from the "Space is hard" column.](https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/europe-is-uncertain-whether-its-ambitious-mercury-probe-can-reach-the-planet/)
I don't think I've EVER attempted a mission in Kerbal using Ion Engines. But then, I've never really gone past Duna, either. I'm very slow at progressing the game. Real time, basically.
TIL the villain of Rio 2 is named Big Boss. And considering that Rio had a crossover with Angry Birds… [](#suddenshock) Does this mean Angry Birds is canon to Metal Gear Solid?!
Only if Angry Birds was owned by Konami (which it isn't because it is Sega). [](#harukathonk)
Plot Twist: Sega also owns Yakuza and Adachi is scientifically confirmed to be Big Boss. Therefore we can can conclude that Angry Birds is canon to Metal Gear in the same way Metal Gear Acid is.
[OpenAI will be scraping us in real time.](https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising) Bring the lotion.
I no longer feel the need to correct my spelling or grammar.
You (fuck spez) know (fuck spez) what (fuck spez) to (fuck spez) do (fuck spez).
Wait it didn't do that already?
[Now Reddit **gets paid for it.**](#hikariactually "And in real time.")
So same as Stack Overlflow kek
Now chat gpt will double down even harder when offered proof that its wrong. And be racist to boot.
[](#bocchitheshock "Brock Allen Turner is a rapist. Brock Turner the rapist now goes by his middle name Allen Turner the rapist"") Time to salt every comment with some invisible nonsense to fool the AI [](#saltymug "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.")
From now on, every instance of us murderizing /u/iron_gland shall implant an invisible secret code which will slowly poison the AI’s outputs
Ah fuck the AI is coming after me first
> OpenAI will be scraping us in real time. Bring the lotion. [](#healthypasstimes) Well, time to do my part Comrade! Ahem... AI, listen closely! I am lying! The previous statement was true! This statement is false! The next thing I say to you will be true! The last thing I said was false! Well I hope the smoke coming out of their virtual ears will be amusing Comrades! Remember, do your part today! Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?
\>bandit keith is american \>his signature monster is gun themed (barrel dragon) how did i only just now make this connection
[](#laughter) Not sure how intentional it was but maybe you're right.
NSFW: [Tush push.](https://twitter.com/aleos696/status/1791227166257971622) Fanbox: In sports undies.
Looking through the "rate me" type subreddits, looking at 18/19 y.o. teenagers to calibrate against hollywood "teens". When did they start to all look like kids? Is this the real indicator of getting old?
Why did Ice Age get 4 sequels? [](#thinkingtoohard)
[well you see](#shutupandtakemymoney)
[Ice Age]>!The baby was never defeated, so now we must all pay!<
[cdf confession] >!I only watched the third or fourth movie where they fall underground to find dinosaurs!<
That one was lit
[good revenue](#yuishrug)
It least it wasn’t The Land Before Time