Two LN/Manga Series
I've been reading a ton of LN and Manga lately, and two that I've been thinking about are Eminence in Shadow, and Tearmoon Empire. They're totally different genres, Shonen vs Shoujo, Isekai vs Time Reversion, but both are very similar in feel.
In one, the main character's a total Chunni, but has reincarnated into a world where his delusions always prove to be either accurate, or at least helpful to those around him. His main abilities are focused on fighting and making magic tools, and building up his organization. He thinks that he's just making stuff up, but his organization knows that everything he's doing and saying is actually accurate, and they're going out into the world and fighting the evil organization. He's completely selfish, but his selfishness ends up backfiring on him and helping others.
Tearmoon on the other hand, the main character dies and is sent back, but this time has knowledge from the prior life, as well as a copy of her future diary that tells her how she changed the timeline. What she does in response to those events end up getting her a reputation as a knowledgeable sage, so when her future diary suddenly stops working, or doesn't have enough information to solve a problem, she ends up giving platitudes or saying random things, and all the smart people she gathered around her are trying to figure out how to twist it into wisdom without realizing it, and end up solving a lot of problems. Like the other series, she's completely selfish and largely vapid, but that future knowledge lets her self preservation kick in and has her doing good things for others to save herself.
Interesting how such parallel ideas can emerge in different genres.
In one, the main character's a total Chunni, but has reincarnated into a world where his delusions always prove to be either accurate, or at least helpful to those around him. His main abilities are focused on fighting and making magic tools, and building up his organization. He thinks that he's just making stuff up, but his organization knows that everything he's doing and saying is actually accurate, and they're going out into the world and fighting the evil organization. He's completely selfish, but his selfishness ends up backfiring on him and helping others.
Tearmoon on the other hand, the main character dies and is sent back, but this time has knowledge from the prior life, as well as a copy of her future diary that tells her how she changed the timeline. What she does in response to those events end up getting her a reputation as a knowledgeable sage, so when her future diary suddenly stops working, or doesn't have enough information to solve a problem, she ends up giving platitudes or saying random things, and all the smart people she gathered around her are trying to figure out how to twist it into wisdom without realizing it, and end up solving a lot of problems. Like the other series, she's completely selfish and largely vapid, but that future knowledge lets her self preservation kick in and has her doing good things for others to save herself.
Interesting how such parallel ideas can emerge in different genres.
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@pro @bagder 6502, and 65816 are commonly used like that. Ben Eater on youtube did a series with the 6502, and the 8-bit guy made his computer with the 65816, IIRC. Both are still manufactured as far as I know. I think there's still people building computers with Z80's as well. I follow one person at @rc2014
@union True, recycling is quite advanced in the steel industry. We don't make much of the input iron ourselves, so that little bit of new iron we use ends up being largely imported, even if it's far less than our steel output totals.
@union US makes a lot of steel, but the US imports most of the raw materials, we don't make enough of the pig iron that goes into the steel and we have to compete with the rest of the world for that.
US also tends to make the high value, high quality steel and import the lower quality stuff for tasks that don't need higher quality.
US also tends to make the high value, high quality steel and import the lower quality stuff for tasks that don't need higher quality.
@TechConnectify Yeah, It's probably entirely fine to do that. It's still one of those things that would get me to go to the "if you have 2 of something, you only have 1" school of planning for disasters. I'd probably go ahead and plug the refrigerator and freezer into it even if it was the only transportation form, but I'd probably live off something that didn't need cooking if it was my only car. I kept my old car in working order just to have a backup for emergencies.
@TechConnectify Interesting, but it really tweaks my fears of using up too much of a vital battery resource. This is why I don't play games on my phone as well and instead use dedicated gaming handhelds, I'd be too worried about running it out of batteries and not being able to contact people. If I wanted to use electric cooking appliances in a power outage, I'd probably want to get a separate battery bank for the house. Though, if I had two cars I might consider it.
@pro Maybe it's trying to tile some window to that side and hasn't completed the task.
@pro That's usually by convention of the people using it, the one used to reply there is officially labeled as "tired" by the emoji system, but a lot of them are used for purposes other than their label, like the "pray/bless" one is used in a discord server I'm in as a "high five" icon in that server.
@zaitcev They probably came from places like Discord, where it's an easy way to just respond to a post without actually making a formal response. They don't get notifications over there either.
@hackaday I just bought a A1200 replica case when I wanted to build a wedge all-in-keyboard computer.
@anime In a later chapter, it talks about how her father was the one who introduced her to gaming, so there's one point in favor of "if you have kids, you can get them into gaming too."
@RobbieT @Johncdvorak I imagine someone might have done it to show a size comparison, then someone else inexperienced with firearms thought it was something else when putting it into the article.
@Johncdvorak It is actually in their article. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8yjx/el-chapos-son-ovidio-guzman-house-raid
@moh_kohn Well, it's not so much pouring oil on the fire, but because you're interacting with something, it assumes that other people who interact with those people will have other connections you would like to interact with. The tenor of the interaction matters less, the fact that you created content in response is the key. You ignore them, they assume it's useless to show you similar things. So, interact positively with things you like, don't interact with what you hate.