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theangrypokemaniac · 5 years ago

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I've been on Tumblr ten months now, and this blog has existed for nine of them. During that time I have noticed something.

The majority of the posts I've come across have been by and for the S&M scene, as is to be expected.

The second-most frequent are Indigo League, which I don't think is bad going considering it was broadcast before most Tumblerries were born.

Third-most popular I would say is Sinnoh, probably for being the introduction for many here.

After that I've seen bits on Johto, a smattering of Orange League (unsurprising given it's briefness) and maybe a single item on Hoenn.

No one likes that then? Is it Max? Go on, it is.

What I find odd is that, in all that period, I haven't seen anything on Unova or Kalos. No fan art, no screen shots, nothing.

I'm sure someone can point to a bounty of pieces I've overlooked, all done within the last year, but if so, they're well-hidden, as none of the people I follow have shown any interest in re-blogging them.

If you have done any, you must admit the amount has depleted considerably.

Why is this? Is it of no interest anymore?

This in itself validates my own opinion. Had I been here when Unova and Kalos were broadcast, I presume over half of the posts I'd see would've been devoted to them. If I then spoke harshly of either, that would not have been well-received.

However, if dropped, both by the audience and writers as soon as the latest generation arrives, wasn't I right to not be impressed?

If cast aside by those who claimed to worship them, were they really of any worth at all?

Well the same fate has now befallen Alola. I make no secret of how much I despise it, and can not grasp its appeal for anyone.

I don't know how Pokémon even has a fanbase anymore, given that it's ugly, boring and repetitive.

Prior to the arrival of the S.S., I suspected that Alola material would drop, vanishing altogether once a year's worth came to a close, and so it has proved to be.

It's gone from making up roughly 60% - 70% of dashboard posts to about 10% - 20%, in only a few months. Is it that bad then?

It can't be explained as excitement for the new, not with the amount of coverage Kanto gets, and even that isn't motivated by reminiscence, given the average age of the current viewer.

Why are you still posting about something that old? It reminds me of my wasted youth, but what's your excuse?

Why, when the writers want to wallow in nostalgia, do they hark back to Kanto, which no modern fan can remember?

Is no one looking with misty-eyed fondness at Iris and Cilan? Why not?

Or is that an admission that it was so appallingly bad even the writers recognised it, that's why it's been so hastily forgotten?

You could watch Pokémon from the beginning to the close Sinnoh, skip the next two eras, starting again with Alola, and you would never know there'd been a between.

Unova is described as a 'soft reset', with regards to its inverted nature. The arrogance of those writers is staggering:

• Trying to erase all that'd gone before, supplanted by their half-arsed efforts.

• Redesigning everyone with Fish Eye and flat profiles.

• Resetting Ash as not even knowing the basics.

• Warping Team Rocket's established personalities into disgusting, soulless lizard people robbed of all charm and charisma.

• Only new Pokémon existing.

• Catches kept with Juniper not Professor Oak etc.

The irony is that Unova Pokémon are copies of the first 151, so whilst deliberately ignoring the past, they can't resist imitating it, thanks to their own woeful inadequacy. I suppose they hoped if they didn't notice, we wouldn't either.

They then undermined their own decision by stuffing everything available into the third run, as a blatant effort to win back the crowd, including:

• Reverting to Team Rocket's actual motto, not that embarrassingly pretentious codswallop.

Too bloody lazy to make it rhyme now!

Notice they opted not for the Sinnoh one, although more recent. It was straight back to the beginning.

• Look at these hundreds of Pokémon we suddenly remembered!

Just before Giovanni's mid-life crisis, Ash spotted a Rattata, but it having been so isolated from the outside world, his brain fell to mush at the concept, and pronounced it 'retarda'.

Idiots are so easy to please!

• Charizard! Genwunners love Charizard! Give 'em Charizard and they'll forget everything else we've done! Let's condense his entire story arc into one episode of meaningless retelling!

So, Charizard was there to bait the first wave, and yet we had the plot we know repeated to us anyway?

Don't refer to the past and everyone will think it's brand-new!

It makes no sense. How could this be done with the hope of drawing in old fans, and yet filling up an episode with it as plotline isn't an issue, when the intended targets know it's been done before?

• Butterfree! Genwunners loved Butterfree leaving! Let's condense his entire story arc into one episode of meaningless rehash!

Why would they remain when finding the same thing again, absent of feeling and subtlety, not to mention upon discovering the damage done elsewhere?

Recent incomers, who might assume it's a fresh idea, have no emotional connection with Butterfree, so who is it meant to please?

Why is Mewtwo a woman?

• Mewtwo! Genwunners love Mewtwo! Let's copy its background for Genesect rather than be creative! Look, it's Mewtwo! Watch it!!!

Erm... It's not the same Mewtwo...

It's not the same Mewtwo?

You believe the way to an original fan's heart is to lie to them, and in the process smash a fundamental principle of canon that there can only be one Mewtwo?

The writers get a deserved excoriation round these parts, because someone has to, as what part of that film suggested the current crop give the tiniest toss about what matters to you and me?

I'm glad Unova is labelled 'the Dork Age' as every series since its dawn has been atrocious.

Hoenn and Sinnoh held massive flaws, but they're masterpieces compared to what followed. At least they felt like Pokémon, albeit a watery interpretation.

Unova has to be truly lowly for the dunces responsible to recognise it, and neither Kalos or Alola have been as cut off from their predecessors.

I don't believe that's a sign of contrition, more a matter of necessity. Thanks to the same personal limitations there just weren't enough new Pokémon in either era to make such insularity possible. Even between the two it'd be a scrape.

Except whilst previously invented Pokémon designs may be involved, there's no sign of actual familiar characters.

Ash took his original team to Johto, and even in Hoenn and Sinnoh, where local catches took precedent, older Pokémon were still referenced and came back for the League, but that stopped with Unova.

It's evil influence strikes again!

Despite flimsy nods to the past, which can't be avoided, each generation is now a world unto itself, to the point that individual episodes live by their own canon, a feeble web of strands unrelated to anything else.

Why is it considered 'retro' enough to say, have Forms of Kanto Pokémon, for which we're expected to be so grateful, when there's no mention of Ash's earlier squad?

Remember Tauros? And Kingler? And Muk?

Remember Bayleef? And Noctowl? And Heracross?

Remember Corphish? And Torkoal? And Swellow?

Remember Buizel? And Gible? And Torterra?

They don't. As far as I can tell none of them exist anymore, and maybe aren't meant to ever have done.

Same as Gary, Cassidy and Butch, Jessibelle, Tracey, and so on. Until they do, and don't again. Whatever is convenient to today's storyline.

My typical attitude is that the first series is the best thing ever, and it's all been downhill from there, with Unova and all that came after reaching incredible depths of tedium. I don't suppose you like that, but the ephemeral tendencies displayed on Tumblr hardly help change my opinion.

At some low ebb I'll get round to watching Galar, which I'm confident I'll hate as much as the last few generations, based on what I've already seen and heard.

There's little point doing otherwise. Why bother getting involved with the 'plot' or characters if, when it's over, they'll never be spoken of again?

What incentive is there for me to even force myself to like Galar when, once the ninth generation (Pokémon Keenan and Kel) emerges on the distant horizon, those who've sung its praises for three or four years and scoffed at criticism, will drop it without a backwards glance?

Yet talk about the Indigo League is ever present, somewhat proving its superiority. Attachment to it is a subconscious acknowledgement of the dearth of quality in the modern mentality, but which no one can bring themselves to admit.

#Pokémon #Unova #Iris #Cilan #Charizard #Butterfree #Mewtwo #Tumblr

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weirdlyokaywithit · 6 years ago

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Soldier? Part 1

I watched him on the monitor, he was quick and methodical. Never thinking twice and acting on pure raw instinct, he killed mercilessly.

“Well, what’s your assessment?”

I scoffed and turned to look at Steve, he was watching me intently.

“That’s a joke, right?”

Steve shook his head and I turned back to the monitor.

“He’s a killing machine. Strong, calculated, smart. If you can find a way to keep his madness at bay, he’d be an asset,” I spoke, my eyes never leaving the soldier.

Steve moved beside me and clicked a button on the dashboard, the monitor changed and showed the subject locked in a containment cell.

“He’s here?” My eyes searching Steve’s.

He gave a curt nod, and I turned my eyes back to the screen. The subject was sitting on the bed, his eyes never leaving the door. His body was taut and he was tense, probably assessing the situation for a way out.

“Why am I here, Steve?” I tore my eyes away from the monitor to search his face.

“Fury recommended you for this. He said your background in this type of situation would come in handy,” he couldn’t meet my eyes when he said it.

My background meaning that when Fury found me, I was a brainwashed psychopath who tried to kill anything that moved. I wasn’t fortunate enough to have been brainwashed by Hydra, my organization didn’t have the sense to give me a handler who could neutralize me. Fury and Banner worked with me to cage my demons so that I could function as a normal person, well as normal as you can be when you’re genetically enhanced. It took five years.

“Steve, this could take a long time,” I said, my voice small.

“It’s a good thing I’ve got time then.”

“It took me five years to get functional.”

When Steve’s eyes met mine I could see the pain in them, he knew this man. Or at least who he used to be.

“Might as well start now then,” I sighed.

Steve looked alarmed, “You’re ready for that?”

I chuckled.

“Steve, I’m still enhanced. He can try to kill me but it won’t work.”

Steve nodded looking relieved, “Containment room C.”

I turned on my heel and left the screening room, when the door shut behind me I exhaled softly. My boots clicked on the tile floor as I made my way to see him.

I stretched my arms and rolled my shoulders, stopping in front of the guarded wing. The two guards nodded and pressed a few buttons to let me through. A loud buzzer sounded and the wing door slid open, I stepped through into the white hallway.

I inhaled deeply in front of containment room C, the door was no joke, it looked to be two foot thick. I hit the red button next to the door and leaned over to scan my iris. The door clicked and I slid it open enough to let myself through and the shut it behind me.

The subject was now standing against the back wall of the room, blue eyes watching me with distrust. His long dark hair was hanging somewhat in his face, his arms were crossed against his chest. The metal of his arm glinting under the fluorescent lights, the dark scrubs they had him in didn’t hide his physique.

I pressed my back against the door, my hands hung by my sides palms facing outward. To show him that I had nothing to hurt him with.

“What do you want?” His voice was gruff and full of disgust.

“Me? I want nothing from you. They want me to see if I can clear the fog on your mind,” I spoke clearly.

His eyes narrowed and his face twisted.

“I don’t care what they want, so whatever you try it’s not going to work,” he spat.

I shrugged, “Then it won’t work.”

He seemed taken aback by this, and his eyes never left me as I pulled the metal chair from the desk and sat down.

We sat staring at each other for an hour, blinking and breathing but never backing down.

“Are you hungry?” I asked, finally breaking the silence.

His eyes narrowed, “I’m not an idiot, they put sedatives in my food.”

I briefly flinched, I knew how those felt in your system. No control, hazy, unable to move.

“No sedatives when you’re with me.” I spoke with so much graveness in my voice that he cocked his head at me.

I clicked the com button on my sleeve and spoke loud enough for him to hear.

“Bring me a meal. No sedatives or I’m kicking someone’s ass. I’m serious.”

He never moved from the wall until the food came and he pushed off of it and stood ready to hurt someone. The guard handed me the tray and swiftly closed the door behind him.

I looked down at the food they brought, spaghetti with green beans and bread. I grabbed the fork, stirred the spaghetti and took a huge bite. He watched intently as I did the same with the green beans and bread. I took a swig of the water and set it on the tray and then put the tray on the floor in the middle of the room.

He waited five minutes before making a move for the tray, watching me intently to see if there was anything laced into the food.

He sat on the floor against the wall and ate quickly, watching me all the same.

When he was done he pushed the tray to the middle and resumed his position against the wall.

“Did you kill them?” I asked quietly.

His eyes flashed with something before he spoke. “Who?”

“The ones who did this to you.”

He nodded firmly and then looked away from my eyes. Like he was ashamed.

“I did too,” I admitted quietly.

His head snapped up and curiosity was in those sapphire eyes.

“I was 12 when they found me. My parents had died in a fire, no other family. An orphan. No one to care if I went missing. They took me and experimented on me, brainwashed me, turned me into a soldier.”

I couldn’t read his expression but I could sense that he wanted me to go on.

“I was 15 when Fury found me, at that point I’d killed countless people. I was so mindless that I would attack anything that moved. I got locked in a room similar to this until they could undo what had been done to my brain. It took a year for me to stop attacking things that moved. Two more for me to assess and identify friendly forces. And another two for me to operate in the field without reverting.”

“I don’t want to operate in the field.” His voice was quiet.

My eyes found his and my heart squeezed at what they saw, a broken man who wanted to be left alone.

“I thought the same thing. But there is no getting out for people like us.”

He looked down at his arm and his face twisted. When he looked back up at me, his face was blank and his eyes were cold.

“I want out.”

Here we go, I thought to myself.

“I know,” I responded.

He stepped away from the wall and closer to me. I didn’t move from the chair, if he was going to hurt me I wasn’t going to provoke him into it.

He stalked closer to me, and leaned down into my face. His features were perfectly sculpted, he was handsome. No questioning it.

“Let. Me. Out.” His words were harsh and said through clenched teeth.

I didn’t flinch or react, I calmly shook my head and looked into his ocean eyes.

His metal arm glinted as he grabbed my shirt, he leaned in closer until we were scant centimeters apart.

“I’m. Not. Asking.” He bit out angrily.

I opened my mouth to respond and his eyes shot down to my lips. His pupils dilated and his brow furrowed.

“I can’t let you out, James.” I spoke softly.

He stared at my mouth, brow furrowed and fist still clenching my shirt. His eyes darting back and forth like he was trying to figure out something.

“James...” He said quietly.

His head reared back slightly and I flinched, anticipating him to head butt me.

“I don’t-... I don’t like being called that...” He spoke like his words surprised him.

I hid my smile and said, “What do you like being called?”

His grip on my shirt tightened and his brow furrowed deeper. His mouth opened and his tongue ran along his bottom lip.

“Bucky?” He said tentatively. As if it was a question.

I nodded and spoke softly, “Okay, Bucky, I cant let you out of here.”

His eyes met mine but he wasn’t looking at me, he was lost in a world of his own. His hand released me shirt and he stepped back and sat on the bed.

I slowly rose from the chair and walked to stand in front of him.

“Do you remember anything?” I asked softly.

His looked up at me, and what I saw sent chills down my spine. A broken man forced to do things, confused and angry but not sure where to go. He was lost.

“I can’t remember who I am. But... I think I was good. There’s little ticks I still have... that I can’t place.” He spoke slowly.

I nodded, and slowly reached my hand out to touch his shoulder. Before it landed, his metal hand shot out and grabbed my wrist and shoved me backward. Hard. My back hit the desk and I hissed with the impact.

“I.. I don’t like to be touched.” He was half standing, like he was readying for an attack.

I straightened and rolled my shoulders and nodded.

“I’ll be back tomorrow... Bucky.” And then hit the red button by the door. The door clicked and I slid it open so I could slip out. Once I closed the door I collapsed against it.

I exhaled with a mixture of relief and satisfaction. So far he was doing a lot better than I had, that’s good news for Steve.

I shoved off the door and exited the wing and abruptly crashed into a wall of muscle. I looked up into blue eyes, I stepped back as Steve reached out to steady me.

“How did it go? Are you okay?” He asked eagerly.

“Well, he’s doing a lot better than I was when I started. He did shove me but it’s my own fault. I reached out to touch him, not a good call. I think I’ve established trust between him and I. Although it’s going to take several more sessions before he’s going to open up.” I divulged.

Steve was nodding intently and listening to my plan on how to get him to slowly want to interact.

“Also, no sedatives. Period. Ever. They should never have been given to someone like him who suffers with control.” I said the words very harshly.

Steve looked guilty but I wasn’t backing off, Bucky already had trust issues as long as the Nile River and sedatives made it worse.

“We didn’t know what to do, we couldn’t get him to calm down,” Steve’s voice was thick with guilt.

“Sedatives have been used on him for years, he’s coming out of a fog that’s lasted decades. We have to establish trust. No more. From now on, I will be in charge of what happens to him. For everything,” I said.

Steve nodded and his expression brightened slightly, “So you’re staying to help?”

“I’ll stay but I get whatever I want. And I want no one questioning my methods.”

“Done.”

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That’s all for this part!

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biglybt · 6 years ago

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2200 Released!

There are lots of new features, enhancements and fixes, as you can see from the various beta release posts:

https://biglybt.tumblr.com/tagged/BiglyBT2200

For summary, here is a list of the new features in no particular order:

Separate sidebar dashboard view

Added isSuperSeeding() constraint function Add count indicator. Shows “Inclusive | Exclusive” count when > 1 tag Option to disable tracker auto-tagging Explicit option to select which tags are library view filter buttons Support regular-expression matching for bind interface selection Option to rename magnet downloads based on their ‘dn’ option to only rename single file magnets if they have an extension IPv6 multiple global address firewall checks Support auto-skip and auto-tag for torrent folder auto-imports Option to download to temporary folder and move to original dest when done Allow tracker updates as well as download duplication for same hash Option to disable smart tracker activation Option to control minimum number of pieces for a file to be considered for swarm merging Option to revert file locations but retain any name changes Plugin access to multiple DHT local addresses Support xcode for linux Multiple column sort. CTRL+Click (CMD for Mac). Also Header menu rework. Added super-seeding library view column Next I2P scrape time shown in Sources view Collapse All/Expand All menu items added to Files View tree nodes; also default double-click action Options to automatically decline unknown SSL certificates instead of prompting Sorting for table view sub-rows Add Columns by dragging from Into tab to column header Speed sub-tab support for multiple selected downloads Age-specific custom date formats DND from torrent list to tag overview list Mouse wheel to scroll TabeView or ScrolledComposite that cursor is over. Show Piece Map and Piece Distribution when no piece selected. Show Piece Map when torrent is stopped. Added file offset to piece map header info Long-press on cancel button to close multiple advanced rename dialogs Make advanced rename dialog show one at a time, ESC to cancel all Unify config-wizard + nat-check-wizard somewhat, add IPv6 to config one Added item count, active + queued to other table views Session stats option for up/down idle column Combined Library detailed list view option Double click tracker in Sources view -> All Trackers entry Ctrl+a selects all in skin text box; fixup open torrent window somewhat Show bad availability in general view Option to show transferring pieces in general view Separate sidebar dashboard view Options to hide/show legends

#biglybt #BiglyBT2200

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 7 years ago

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Warning for discussion of 18+, potentially triggery things within the DakaIchi discussion...and the nature of that show being a yaoi will tell you whether you want to read that discussion in the first place. (There are full stops and lines around it in case you want to dodge that particular part, since Radiant comes right after it.)

...Otherwise, have at it.

Cells at Work! 13 (FINAL)

Apparently “distal” just means your extremities…

For some reason, I already knew about the fact that you can die from losing one third of your blood…because I read a Tumblr post that was meant to be for action writers and it was about blood loss.

…Huh? Was this a blood transfusion? That would explain why these new RBCs are so clueless about our RBC. Update: Yup, guessed it.

Come to think of it, there’s a WBC Nendoroid and a Platelet one but no RBC. That’s a bit disappointing…

The WBCs using that wobbly stick thing in the background are amusing, eheh.

Anyways, that was fun, even if I did get used to the routine of RBC getting lost and WBC fighting antigens in the end. See you next time!

Double Decker! 2

We’re now properly in the fall season, and of course now that the first drop’s out of the way, we’re starting with the best show this season (at least for the moment).

So does that mean if we’re NEETs we’re not paying for these detectives…? Is this an incentive for people to pay their taxes (LOL)…? (Okay, I’m kidding, I’m kidding. Sheesh.)

DD Partners…? Sounds…uh, partnery, considering what DD stands for.

Why is Travis blinking so much when he’s apologising…?

Snarky narrator is fun. I thought it was Kirill during ep 1 (or at least, it was for a bit), but now this narrator’s talking too much in 3rd person for it to be true. Maybe…it’s future Kirill. *collective facepalms from the peanut gallery* Or maybe it’s Kirill and a narrator, and Kirill will then break the 4th wall somewhere.

Now that’s monkeying around…LOL. *gets pelted by tomatoes* Oh c’mon, can’t I get in a decent joke around here?!

Well, as much as the can thing Doug does to Kirill is tropey for anime, I gotta admit this ain’t monkey busin-eh? You want me to stop with the jokes? Aw. Fine then, I’ll stop…

There’s something utterly relatable about having gone down the path of your dreams, only for it not to work out. In fact, I think I’m going down that path right now and I need to decide where to head next. That’s why I’m watching this episode right now – to make sure I don’t regret my future, by focussing on the present with a good anime.

According to this link to Google Books I got when I googled “ignis” and “desperatio” together, this might have something to do with a Panegyric of the Saints…something to do with hell, worms, fire and despair…? Uh, wuh? Am I just investigating this the wrong way?

Sanctus Bridge? As in “sanctuary”? Wow, that’s…ironic.

The rabbit police mascot…you can see it on Deana’s dashboard, LOL. Plus the bird police mascot that goes with it.

The name shots you get of these criminals aren’t nearly as good as “dick suck” (sic) in Kekkai Sensen, but they’re pretty close. Plus they actually do have correct Japanese translations, unlike “dick suck” (LOL).

Seriously, what’s up with Doug’s head prodding? Is it to stop him from trichotillomania (which is the pulling out of hair)? I can see it getting vaguely annoying when the excitement of a new season wears off…

The CGI is kind of awkward in this. You’d need to stare at it for a bit to realise it’s CGI and it’s not the worst effort I’ve seen (*grumbles* Tsukigakirei *grumble*) but it’s still pretty bad…

Oh! Those doors! Is Doug’s car…a DeLorean? (dramatic piano SFX in background)

Was it just me, or did Kirill’s face go funny for a second as he was moping about how he didn’t get to do anything…?

“Let me be your Double Decker!” – That’s what he says as a double decker bus goes by…clever wordplay, huh?

“One is poverty. The other is class.” – Okay, my studies tell me that’s pretty much impossible. Even in social situations, you have a clear leader and subordinates. Poverty is fine and dandy in regards to giving the boot – heck, that’s why things like the Millenium Development Goals exist (or rather, existed in that case, since those were replaced in 2015) – but class? That’s a bit of a difficult one, unless you want to resort to hardline socialist methods, Marxist methods…or communist ones. Not that any of those are bad, it’s just that I happen to like capitalism,even with its flaws and no matter what imbalances it causes to others. It’s just that not having capitalism would mean everyone’s equal, but then everyone’s worse off as a result…because if everyone has the same stuff, no one is different and no one is diverse enough to make anyone special. Get what I mean?

I think this episode sold me even more on the show, the premise…the everything. Except maybe that “I want to get rid of class” part.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 1

I just memorise this show as “Slime Datta Ken”, so if you’re wondering what that is…now you know.

What was that opening segment for, man…? This is just a boring isekai intro.

I’m laughing! He values his computer over his life? As much as I know I’m attached to my computer, you should prioritise 1) getting Mikami an ambulance, 2) stopping the blood flow or 3) just getting Mikami to preserve his own life. Not that I’ve ever been in a life or death scenario, but that’s common sense, even if it’s a bit nihilistic or unrealistic.

Seriously, there’s currently no pull but how intriguing these unexplained “acquisition” scenes are. Like seriously. Those effects are cool and somewhat intriguing in the same way as Juuni Taisen was.

The picture of a flower…where did it come from? A child? Hmm, interesting way to express such a though process.

The CGI of the reveal was actually really good. Like, Houseki no Kuni good!

Actually, this is very Houseki no Kuni. Reestablishing what it is that makes humans human and what causes a creature to live and all that.

I never knew a slime could be this expressive…

“I see you have guts.” – That’s probably something you shouldn’t say to a slime, LOL.

Oh! This reminds me of a writing piece I had to do one time where you had to tell a tale from a monster’s perspective and make them sympathetic. I wrote about a dragon, so there’s something nostalgic about this.

There really isn’t a lot of movement in this show. Not that I mind it – Juuni Taisen I used to love a bunch and that was based off a novel, but this is an LN-based show…the level of writing in this show is clearly from the LN camp, for one thing. How it got such great production values, however, is another question entirely…

The slime and dragon friendship that just formed made me wanna go “ET!”, just because the gesture they did to seal said friendship did kind of look like that, haha.

Mechasoft Doors MX…hey, I am getting my fix of anime OSs this season after all! Just…not in Gridman yet. Update: There are zero OSs in Gridman, not in episode 1 at least...

Oh wow! That fight scene was so darned cool! It makes me wanna see more already! And the fact he (I already know from promo material the slime’s name is Rimuru) uses his slime form and human form interchangeably…that’s even cooler!

The font down the bottom and up the top of the next episode box appears to say “Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken” (due to the frequency of one of the symbols that appears to be an S, then you do the same for E and you realise it works…then you realise the text is just stylised romaji). There are zeroes and ones on the left and right sides, which might correlate to Rimuru’s “analysis voice”…whatever that may be. Anyways, I’m pretty confident this’ll be something for my lineup, but it’s too early for judgement calls. It’s a keeper…for now.

Run with the Wind 1

Now here’s a show I didn’t expect to follow going in…I picked it up merely on ANN recs.

I’m laughing like a maniac! As much as it was a compelling opening, after the dude arrives on his bike and asks “Do you like running?” to a thief, I lost it. For some reason, I find it almost so unrealistic it became hilarious, in a stupid sort of way. Or maybe I just have a really bad sense of humour. Who knows?

That one guy running in the back in the OP is basically me every time I’m meant to do something physical. Even going up three floors via stairs gets me out of breath though and I live a fairly sedentary lifestyle, so I ain’t a good comparison.

That nickname “Shindo” puzzles me. I can’t think of a kanji combo that would result in wordplay with the characters for “god” and “child” using the name “Takashi Sugiyama”, but I guess maybe we’ll find out in a later episode…?

Thank…uh, goodness for the censorship on Musa…

Musa speaks unusually politely (because I noticed he used “gozonji desu” at one point, which is a keigo variant for “shitteiru”). Maybe it’s because they barely know each other that there’s keigo being flung about. That seems reasonable, at least.

There’s something authentic about this sense of camaraderie. I can tell because my extended family is huge, so gatherings are often like this but multiplied in scale.

“Tsuru no Yu” – Technically that translates to “Crane’s Bath”…”Public Bath” is the place’s purpose.

I was wondering why we’d somehow reverted to not having 10 dudes, but then they show this is actually Haiji’s perspective of the event from the start of the episode and show the scar on his knee. That’s gotta be important for later.

…and Haiji left his towel, LOL.

I still laugh every time I see Haiji’s stupid face (the one he makes when he asks “Do you like running?”).

I’ve associated the slurring of words like “yakusoku-ssu” to be for smol bishies like Yumoto, so having Haiji use it is a bit of whiplash. Then again, apparently that slurring is only used by men to assert their masculinity as far as I know…so, uh, yeah.

Actually…I’ve been wondering. How long are courses at this uni? Where I am, being a straight literature major is 3 years (assuming you also do other stuff that fulfils a straight Arts degree). Also, Fune wo Amu (by the same creator) is about a dude making a dictionary…hmm, so the creator really likes books.

Wait, as far as my short term memory operates, most of these guys at Chikuseisou do arts majors, aside from the law student and the smoker (who does engineering). They do literature or sociology, mostly. So if that’s correct…the author also likes sociology. I’ve been thinking about doing some sociology myself, it would really complement what I know about international studies.

As explained by Kyra, chiku – sei – sou. The sei means blue/green and the chiku means bamboo. Switching the two and reading them differently gives you “Aotake”.

Rent’s $300? Must be cheap, eh?

Also see Kyra’s post for information about the food-based suicide note.

The Kanto Gogakuren refers to this manga, Sakigake!! Otokojuku. It’s basically Again!!, but with more Fist of the North Star-style dudes.

Hmm…turns out you can refer to this show as KazeTsuyo. That’s going to make me confuse it with SekaTsuyo, though…(SekaTsuyo = Wanna Be the Strongest in the World!) Also, it turns out the character for “Kakeru” in this case means “to run” (normally it means “to dash” with a kanji normally used for flying). Wait…did I ever mention how much this show’s aesthetic visuals always look as if they’re a Powerpoint theme (see images below)? They do look like that, don’t they?

I still have no idea why Kakeru has a bad case of resting b**** face, but…uh yeah, forget I said that. The sound direction in this show’s really nice. It really takes advantage of quiet moment to insert natural sounds.

I think if you go “yes!” when Haiji says “I’m going to win over all the dudes”, then you’re sold on the show. I did go “yes”, just without speaking. You know those feelings you only get in your gut and heart? Yeah, like that.

Huh? I noticed a dude called Bruce Chiou is in the credits and he’s definitely on RErideD this season too…

Out of this one, Slime Datta Ken and Double Decker it’s ranked last, but this show’s still a pretty strong addition to the seasonal lineup. Only time will tell if I kick it out or not…

Bakumatsu 1

The only experience I have with this era in anime is Bakumatsu Rock, I think…and that means I don’t know much about it.

Actually…considering the OP, scratch that. I know a bunch because of Touken Ranbu and other similar historical shows.

A…boob window? On a man? I get the black skintight vest is meant to be sexy, but I can’t see the point of that diamond…it’s just something extra for the animators and the illustrators to deal with.

C’mon. Can we not have Dudes Swishing Their Swords at the 4th Wall as something meant to hype up the audience? It’s a cliché, almost as bad as the running scenes you often get in OPs and EDs…Seriously, I can’t believe I’m getting mad at 10 dudes swinging their swords like this (specifically I’m getting mad because they were all in succession – doesn’t matter if it was in time to the music or not).

Okay, who transplanted WWI into this? I know that’s the point of the show, but the sepia really sold the idea of “this is meant to be Old-Timey Wimey Stuff and whoever’s meant to be watching is meant to be a history buff so they can spot the difference”.

Part of the ep title is “Mou Ichido no Bakumatsu”, so a better translation is “The Bakumatsu (Era) – Again!”

Wait, I thought Kondo was meant to look hotter than this (especially because he had what appears to be a coin – or an old-timey family crest – on his head). The frumpy mouth doesn’t sell the goods, yo.

Somehow…I knew Katsura would have glasses. He has them in Bakumatsu Rock. But is it historically accurate to have glasses in the Bakumatsu era, though?

Come to think of it…something that controls time would be pretty hard to destroy, no?

I think I read on ANN that swords being too big to draw in ship quarters is accurate. Hmm.

If this is such an important treasure…then why not have more padlocks on it? Or more guards closer to it (although those guys probably ran away)? Or some other protection around it? Couldn’t this supposed Yoshinobu-sama fight for himself?...Then again, I think this is just a case of overthinking. (insert MST3K mantra here)

Puh-lease. As much as I want a kunoichi (lady ninja) in my shows, don’t make them Naruto run. That’s one of my pet peeves…

Uh…Hagi? That’s probably it, considering there’s a river in the show.

Kakesoba.

Kamaboko.

Tanuki soba.

Well, there’s something to be said about being able to steal Shinsengumi jackets while the men are eating noodles. At least it didn’t involve knocking them out though (weak LOL).

Okay…why do the Shinsengumi look like waiters now? As much as I like a dude in a waiter suit, if I wanted a waiter, I’d go to a fancy French restaurant…

I feel like I’m being clubbed over the head with themes in this show. C’mon, have more tact than that.

There’s basically no chemistry between these guys (Katsura and Shinsaku). How did they meet?

Wait, so Darker Blue is Sakamoto if Green is Katsura and Red is Shinsaku? Sakamoto (Ryouma) is the redhead in Bakumatsu Rock, isn’t he? Okay then. But who’s White?

Seriously, Shinsaku. Learn from the kunoichi and stay quiet and stealthy. I don’t need another shonen hero…

Oh man, Toshizou is normally one of the Shinsengumi I like best (or at least I recognise his name more) out of these kinds of shows. If he has Perma-Scowl, I can’t possibly like this version.

Oh goodness. Souji’s a friggin’ sadist. Come to think of it though, I think this (Okita) Souji looks like the one from Gintama.

Why does Toshizou sound a frigton like any given Touken Ranbu sword…?

If that katana is symbolic…Toshizou must be hecka masculine, LEL. (Note: A “LEL” is not quite a LOL, it’s mostly done in jest. If anything, it’s probably about half a LOL.)

If that blonde ain’t Abe no Seimei, Yoshinobu-sama or some other important historical figure I know the name of, I’m eating my hat! (Not that I’m wearing one, it’s a figure of speech.)

I like Sakamoto’s face here, but man, I get distracted by the man candy below it…(i.e. his abs and bare chest, LOL. What did you think I was referring to?)

Oh great. (sarcastic) Sanada Yukimura almost always has that silly helmet, ever since Sengoku Musou I’ve pretty much tried to run away from it. I’d recognise it anywhere.

Who had the grand idea of letting Sanada keep his horse, anyway?

Okay, as much as I like making snarky comments, I made one too many here, methinks. Time for the drop pile.

Zombieland Saga 1

I read spoilers just a little bit, so I know the main twist is “zombie idols that sing death metal” already. If you didn’t want to know that at this point…sorry.

Whoa! They killed their protag off the bat? Not that I didn’t know that wouldn’t happen (already knew it would), but that’s gutsy. Truck-kun, go back to your darn isekai shows already.

Okay, I know this is a schoolgirl, but can we not with Sakura’s Schoolgirl Run for Dainty Ladies? This is a zombie show, dangit. Run properly. Can we also not with the boob jiggle?

Well, that’s one way to defeat a police officer (or get yourself arrested): Spade to the Brain.

Otsumami appears to be the name for the squid in Kotaro’s pocket.

You can’t see Kotaro’s eyes, even behind those sunnies…hmm…

Wow. Miyano sounds like he’s having such fun voicing Kotaro, y’know?

From the flyer: “They are coming soon from the underground...” Yup, that’s right, alright. Zombies have already come from the underground.

Tae’s credited under ????. They’re still holding out on us!

It seems like a pretty good keeper, provided you can keep up with who’s who.

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DakaIchi 1

Yep, the BL anime. Thought I’d never try one? Think again.

As much as I do think I’d want to be hugged by Takato, his face…makes him look like he came out of Junjou Romantica…? Uhh…awkward.

Please don’t let this be a work full of sadism and BDSM. I’m not that kinky, y’know…?

Uh, if you ever knew “boundaries”, Azumaya, that would be great. Thanks.

LOL, what a way to win a dude over. $10! That is cheap for a star.

I’m still wondering if this all constitutes “assault” or some other illegal business. I mean, Takato agreed to everything under the influence of a bunch of drinks.

LOL, the director’s shirt says “concentration”. As in, “focus on the stuff you’re doing”.

Hey wait, how does anyone pull off a kabedon on an operation curtain?!

Uh…maybe it’s just my inexperience with the genre, but…what the heck was that scene with the feathers?

Dangit, Yaoi Hands. If I weren’t so aware of you already, you wouldn’t be breaking the immersion of this show!!!

Random Dance Ending? I so did not expect that, I’m laughing as a result.

Uhh…I cannot believe I did that. I watched an episode of a yaoi anime and coveredit without it ruining my pride! To think I watched 18+ shoujo ai before 18+ shonen ai is really something I cannot get my head around, though…not that I will ever tell you which shoujo ai show I watched. So…uh, it was actually pretty decent aside from the “I don’t get what the heck this scene is meant to be” bits which are probably staples of the genre.

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Radiant 1

Uhh…why do I feel like I’m watching Deltora Quest for the 3rd time? Not that Deltora Quest is bad, it’s just too stereotypically high fantasy.

Mahoutsukai. Literally “mage”, but could be “wizard” or “sorcerer” if you went with it loosely. Then again, the French word for sorcerer must be pretty close to the English one which should be enough of a guide for translators, right?

Eh? It’s an…elephant –cow? What is this, Avatar the Last Airbender? (half-snarking)

I think as the show goes along, its comedic timing is actually getting…better. That’s something, huh?

The show’s just a tiny bit too heavy-handed with its themes of racism or whatever sorcerers stand for. Then again, this is a shonen show. It’s allowed to be this way.

Geez, stylised English really is the order of the day for anime these days, huh? Lessee here…Alma’s…uh, Observatory, I think it says…?

Uh…all this talk about grimoires is giving me bad flashbacks…bad, screamy flashbacks involving a certain Asta…

I just noticed Alma gets referred to that way by Seth. Are these two not related, even though they share the same house (?) and hair colour?

Oh great. (sarcastic) Toilet humour. One of my worst enemies, aside from fanservice…

What’s up with the bat (?)? It knd of seems to be Alma’s…

Hey, I…think I know this kind of story too well. It’s going to eventually end, after a long run, with an adult Seth and that girl from one of the key visuals together…or something. Shonen are weird like that. They always end with a happily ever after and an adult protagonist, or the “the adventure just keeps happening!” sort of thing…y’know?

The plural of Nemesis is “Nemeses”, but it seems the book Seth read said “Nemesis’ Egg”. So the plural is the same as the singular in this case.

Huh? They chose to put both fancily-written French and then Japanese under it, as a homage to the French origins of this work? Huh, interesting.

Tommy’s saying “Gyaaaaah!” not “Yaaaaaaah!” - there’s a difference between those two, y’know?

SSSS.Gridman 1

As a self-professed fan of heroes who never actually got into tokusatsu because I keep missing Power Rangers when it airs on local TV stations, this and Garo are filling in a genre space I never really had until I started wandering tokusatsu wikis...which was before the live-action Power Rangers came out, methinks.

Why do I feel like I’ve seen this font (the one “SSSS.Gridman” is written in)? I thought it was a Calvin Harris music video, since I have a few downloaded legally (due to a CD I found in one particular library), but Harris’s font is slightly different to this one…Well, after some experimentation, it seems to be Arial with extra kerning.

“Amnesiac” is starting to become an anime trope in itself…

Seven-Two-One, LOL.

Ahh, children in puberty. Can’t tell whether relationships are romantic or just platonic. (wistful)

If Utsumi isn’t the goth dude from earlier, I’m eating my hat! (Not that I’m wearing one right-oh, I’ve used this joke before, haven’t I?)

…dangit, now I have to eat my metaphorical hat. By the by, I thought Utsumi was an Ume sort of character (as in, the type who would usually get voiced by Yuichiro Umehara), but no, it was Soma Saito.

The girl with the purple hair reminds me of the Administrator (or whatever her name is, the AI) from Yakusoku no Nanayamatsuri.

Regardless of whether the scene was with volume or not, that awkward pause between Shinjo, Utsumi and Hibiki went just a weeny bit too long…

When Takarada approached Utsumi and Hibiki, the colours of her earphones and eyes really popped!

They seem to treat memory loss as something minor, like a cold. It’s a bit awkward, I think.

Utsumi, kid. If you think computers from the 70s and 80s are huge, you should see server rooms! Those computers are huge! Not to mention, the first computers filled up entire rooms (just like servers do). Even portable server units are about a good 160 cm tall with wheels…oh, you don’t want to hear me prattle on about this? Okay, moving on.

“This really is a pile of junk, huh?” I had to go back and check someone hadn’t skipped a word – they did skip the word, in fact.

T-This is what Trigger have held out on us for? A monster like this looks terrible in CGI, man. Even if it is one of the better efforts. I mean, the eyes don’t even look in the same direction…

Why does Utsumi refer to the computer as “Junk”?

The Ultra series? Y’mean Ultraman?

Let’s just say…Gridman looks much better than the kaiju here.

They didn’t even dispose of the kaiju head properly, LOL.

I feel like the battle didn’t quite get my blood boiling. (Probably because I was grumbling too hard at the kaiju and the parts where the execution got a little too silly.) I’ll put it on hold and see if it gets better in a few episodes, but I’m not holding my breath. Since this is Trigger, it could pull off some great stuff if it tried…it’s just this seemed a little soulless in comparison to everything else I’ve seen them do. Or maybe my increased consumption of anime this year has left me jaded...

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July 26, 2018

News and Links

Protocol (with an assist from the Ethereum Research team)

Shasper chain, v2.1

Prysmatic’s biweekly update on transitioning to Eth 2.0 with separate Go codebase

VDFs are not Proof of Work by Danny Ryan. Verifiable Delay Functions have some properties - requiring significant computation to calculate but relatively little computation to verify - that is suitable for strengthening RANDAO-based RNG. That sounds like proof of work, but Danny explains the difference between VDFs and PoW.

STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds by Vitalik Buterin: In Vitalik’s STARKs series part 3, he introduced how to actually implement a STARK with vivid explication.

Latest Casper standup call

VB: Epoch-less Casper FFG liveness/safety argument

Why Shasper makes more sense than the previous FFG, then sharding roadmap

LearnPlasma is really coming together as a Plasma education resource

A Plasma Cash primer from Simon de la Rouviere

Jinglan Wang: what is Plasma? Plasma Cash?

Raiden is live on Ropsten testnet and open to testing

Stuff for developers

Benchmarking between Mythril, Manticore and Oyente from ConsenSys Diligence

What FoMo3d’s real exit scam might look like, but you can hedge with Augur?

Péter Szilágyi: How to PWN FoMo3D, a beginners guide

Pipeline - video explaining PoC of visual IDE of already deployed functions

Airswap tutorial on building with their API server

Adding ENS into your dapp tutorial

Tutorial to using Parity’s Secret Store multi-party key generation

IDEO on dealing with gas in UX

ethereum-to-graphql: autogenerate the schema and resolver

EthQL alpha from PegaSys and Infura

Aragon Package Manager - upgradeability for Aragon orgs

Zeppelin: Exploring upgradeability governance in ZeppelinOS with a Gnosis MultiSig

Apache Camel connector for Ethereum enterprise using web3j

The new Infura dashboard - existing access tokens need to migrate to v3 authentication keys and endpoints

Release

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.12, better syncing and performance. Also has a new website.

web3j v3.5

web3.js 0.20.7 and web3.js 1.0.0-beta.35. breaking change on http provider

EthereumJS VM v2.4.0 (and their monthly recap)

Live on mainnet

iExec went live on mainnet to test rendering. 80% of jobs completed.

Melonport is live on mainnet with somewhat constrained Paros release

Gnosis DutchX contracts are live on mainnet in advance of their 100k competition to build on them

Ecosystem

The new Gnosis Safe miltisig is live on Rinkeby

Parity’s Thibaut Sardan: what is a light client and why should you care?

Someone managed to briefly cause a kerfuffle with a 1337 Javascript popup in Etherscan using their Disqus comments.

Nathan Sexer: State of stablecoins

Metamask’s retrospective on getting removed from the Chrome store this week. Also how they’ll support more networks

A reader friendly version of 100+ Eth dev interviews from EthPrize

Governance and Standards

EIP1227 (remove difficulty bomb, revert to 5 ETH block reward) vs EIP1234 (delay difficulty bomb, reduce to 2 ETH block reward) vs EIP1240 (remove difficulty bomb, leave at 3 ETH block reward). Results in Afri’s poll mirror what I hear in the community.

ERC1257: proof of payment standard

ERC1238: non-transferrable token badges

ERC1261: membership verification token

Add bottom-up composables to ERC998

ERC1263: NFT index

Project Updates

As planned, Augur burned the escape hatch, so the code is now decentralized.

Messari buys OnchainFX, lays out content strategy

Status now displays at full resolution on tablets, and no more Mixpanel

Maker to vote on increasing the Dai stability fee to 2.5%

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Dappcon videos are coming in

Andy Tudhope talks about EthPrize’s dev interviews on Smartest Contract

CoinTelegraph with some good print interviews: Jutta Steiner and Joe Lubin

FunFair’s Jez San podcast interview

Open Source Web3 Design call

Jay Rush talking The Dao and how Quickblocks grew out of that from Gitcoin’s weekly stream

Dan Boneh on the Bitcoin Podcast

Ethan Buchman talks testnets on Zero Knowledge

Dan Finlay on MetaMask and Mustekala on Smartest Contract

Maker’s Rune Christensen print interview where he says they are developing their own language for better security

Martin Becze on Epicenter

Tokens

You now need Santiment tokens to access some of their market and data feeds.

Text tutorial of how to claim your (free) Livepeer tokens.

Incentivizing new users of TCRs through gamification

Mike Maples: Slow money crypto

General

Zilliqa releases its Scilla language “with formalization of its semantics and its embedding into Coq.” Also of interest, Etheremon is planning to have gameplay on Zilliqa but will use Ethereum as its store of value.

First Polkadot parachain deployed in PoC2

Raul Jordan with an intro to hashing algos

NYTimes on art and blockchain

Péter Szilágyi: TOR from within GO. I imagine many who read it will immediately start using the Brave browser’s private tabs with TOR

Ethereum coming to Google Cloud

John Backus with his lessons learned from p2p file sharing

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

August 7 - Start of two month distributed hackathon from Giveth, Aragon, Swarm City and Chainshot

August 10-12 - EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)

August 10-12 - ENS workshop and hackathon (London)

August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)

September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 - EthBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - EthSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)

December - EthSingapore hackathon

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Mr. Roboto: Connecting with Technology

People don’t always need another human being to experience a sense of connection. The deep emotional bonds many people have with their pets proves this. (So might the popularity of the Pet Rock in the 1970s but that’s just speculation.) Even Link in The Legend of Zelda had an inanimate companion: his trusty sword (see Figure 9.1).

Fig 9.1 Even the company of a wooden sword is better than venturing into Hyrule alone.

It’s also possible for people to feel that sense of connection in the context of behavior change without having direct relationships with others. By building your product in a way that mimics some of the characteristics of a person-to-person relationship, you can make it possible for your users to feel connected to it. It is possible to coax your users to fall at least a little bit in love with your products; if you don’t believe me, try to get an iPhone user to switch operating systems.

It’s not just about really liking a product (although you definitely want users to really like your product). With the right design elements, your users might embark on a meaningful bond with your technology, where they feel engaged in an ongoing, two-way relationship with an entity that understands something important about them, yet is recognizably non-human. This is a true emotional attachment that supplies at least some of the benefits of a human-to-human relationship. This type of connection can help your users engage more deeply and for a longer period of time with your product. And that should ultimately help them get closer to their behavior change goals.

Amp Up the Anthropomorphization

People can forge relationships with non-humans easily because of a process called anthropomorphization. To anthropomorphize something means to impose human characteristics on it. It’s what happens when you see a face in the array of shapes on the right side in Figure 9.2, or when you carry on an extended conversation with your cat.[1]

Fig 9.2 The brain is built to seek and recognize human characteristics whenever a pattern suggests they might be there. That means people interpret the array of shapes on the right as face-like, but not the one on the left.

People will find the human qualities in shapes that slightly resemble a face, but you can help speed that process along by deliberately imbuing your product with physical or personality features that resemble people. Voice assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Alexa, for example, are easily perceived as human-like by users thanks to their ability to carry on a conversation much like a (somewhat single-minded) person.

Granted, almost nobody would mistake Alexa for a real person, but her human characteristics are pretty convincing. Some research suggests that children who grow up around these voice assistants may be less polite when asking for help, because they hear adults make demands of their devices without saying please or thank you. If you’re asking Siri for the weather report and there are little ones in earshot, consider adding the other magic words to your request.

So, if you want people to anthropomorphize your product, give it some human characteristics. Think names, avatars, a voice, or even something like a catchphrase. These details will put your users’ natural anthropomorphization tendencies into hyperdrive.

Everything Is Personal

One thing humans do well is personalization. You don’t treat your parent the same way you treat your spouse the same way you treat your boss. Each interaction is different based on the identity of the person you’re interacting with and the history you have with them. Technology can offer that same kind of individualized experience as another way to mimic people, with lots of other benefits.

Personalization is the Swiss Army Knife of the behavior change design toolkit. It can help you craft appropriate goals and milestones, deliver the right feedback at the right time, and offer users meaningful choices in context. It can also help forge an emotional connection between users and technology when it’s applied in a way that helps users feel seen and understood.

Some apps have lovely interfaces that let users select colors or background images or button placements for a “personalized” experience. While these types of features are nice, they don’t scratch the itch of belonging that true personalization does. When personalization works, it’s because it reflects something essential about the user back to them. That doesn’t mean it has to be incredibly deep, but it does need to be somewhat more meaningful than whether the user has a pink or green background on their home screen.

Personalized Preferences

During onboarding or early in your users’ product experience, allow them to personalize preferences that will shape their experiences in meaningful ways (not just color schemes and dashboard configurations). For example, Fitbit asks people their preferred names, and then greets them periodically using their selection. Similarly, LoseIt asks users during setup if they enjoy using data and technology as part of their weight loss process (Figure 9.3). Users who say yes are given an opportunity to integrate trackers and other devices with the app; users who say no are funneled to a manual entry experience. The user experience changes to honor something individual about the user.

Fig 9.3 LoseIt gives users an opportunity to share their technology preferences during onboarding and then uses that choice to shape their future experience.

If you can, recall back to ancient times when Facebook introduced an algorithmic sort of posts in the newsfeed. Facebook users tend to be upset anytime there’s a dramatic change to the interface, but their frustration with this one has persisted, for one core reason: Facebook to this day reverts to its own sorting algorithm as a default, even if a user has selected to organize content by date instead. This repeated insistence on their preference over users’ makes it less likely that users will feel “seen” by Facebook.[2]

Personalized Recommendations

If you’ve ever shopped online, you’ve probably received personalized recommendations. Amazon is the quintessential example of a recommendation engine. Other commonly encountered personalized recommendations include Facebook’s “People You May Know” and Netflix’s “Top Picks for [Your Name Here].” These tools use algorithms that suggest new items based on data about what people have done in the past.

Recommendation engines can follow two basic models of personalization. The first one is based on products or items. Each item is tagged with certain attributes. For example, if you were building a workout recommendation engine, you might tag the item of “bicep curls” with “arm exercise,” “upper arm,” and “uses weights.” An algorithm might then select “triceps pulldowns” as a similar item to recommend, since it matches on those attributes. This type of recommendation algorithm says, “If you liked this item, you will like this similar item.”

The second personalization model is based on people. People who have attributes in common are identified by a similarity index. These similarity indices can include tens or hundreds of variables to precisely match people to others who are like them in key ways. Then the algorithm makes recommendations based on items that lookalike users have chosen. This recommendation algorithm says, “People like you liked these items.”

In reality, many of the more sophisticated recommendation engines (like Amazon’s) blend the two types of algorithms in a hybrid approach. And they’re effective. McKinsey estimates that 35% of what Amazon sells and 75% of what Netflix users watch are recommended by these engines.

Don’t Overwhelm

Sometimes what appear to be personalized recommendations can come from a much simpler sort of algorithm that doesn’t take an individual user’s preferences into account at all. These algorithms might just surface the suggestions that are most popular among all users, which isn’t always a terrible strategy. Some things are popular for a reason. Or recommendations could be made in a set order that doesn’t depend on user characteristics at all. This appears to be the case with the Fabulous behavior change app that offers users a series of challenges like “drink water,” “eat a healthy breakfast,” and “get morning exercise,” regardless of whether these behaviors are already part of their routine or not.

When recommendation algorithms work well, they can help people on the receiving end feel like their preferences and needs are understood. When I browse the playlists Spotify creates for me, I see several aspects of myself reflected. There’s a playlist with my favorite 90s alt-rock, one with current artists I like, and a third with some of my favorite 80s music (Figure 9.4). Amazon has a similar ability to successfully extrapolate what a person might like from their browsing and purchasing history. I was always amazed that even though I didn’t buy any of my kitchen utensils from Amazon, they somehow figured out that I have the red KitchenAid line.

Fig 9.4 Spotify picks up on the details of users’ musical selections to construct playlists that reflect multiple aspects of their tastes.

A risk to this approach is that recommendations might become redundant as the database of items grows. Retail products are an easy example; for many items, once people have bought one, they likely don’t need another, but algorithms aren’t always smart enough to stop recommending similar purchases (see Figure 9.5). The same sort of repetition can happen with behavior change programs. There are only so many different ways to set reminders, for example, so at some point it’s a good idea to stop bombarding a user with suggestions on the topic.

Fig 9.5 When a user only needs a finite number of something, or has already satisfied a need, it’s easy for recommendations to become redundant.

Don’t Be Afraid to Learn

Data-driven personalization comes with another set of risks. The more you know about users, the more they expect you to provide relevant and accurate suggestions. Even the smartest technology will get things wrong sometimes. Give your users opportunities to point out if your product is off-base, and adjust accordingly. Not only will this improve your accuracy over time, but it will also reinforce your users’ feelings of being cared for.

Alfred was a recommendation app developed by Clever Sense to help people find new restaurants based on their own preferences, as well as input from their social networks. One of Alfred’s mechanisms for gathering data was to ask users to confirm which restaurants they liked from a list of possibilities (see Figure 9.6). Explicitly including training in the experience helped Alfred make better and better recommendations while also giving users the opportunity to chalk errors up to a need for more training.[3]

Fig 9.6 Alfred included a learning mode where users would indicate places they already enjoyed eating. That data helped improve Alfred’s subsequent recommendations.

Having a mechanism for users to exclude some of their data from an algorithm can also be helpful. Amazon allows users to indicate which items in their purchase history should be ignored when making recommendations—a feature that comes in handy if you buy gifts for loved ones whose tastes are very different from yours.

On the flip side, deliberately throwing users a curve ball is a great way to learn more about their tastes and preferences. Over time, algorithms are likely to become more consistent as they get better at pattern matching. Adding the occasional mold-breaking suggestion can prevent boredom and better account for users’ quirks. Just because someone loves meditative yoga doesn’t mean they don’t also like going mountain biking once in a while, but most recommendation engines won’t learn that because they’ll be too busy recommending yoga videos and mindfulness exercises. Every now and then add something into the mix that users won’t expect. They’ll either reject it or give it a whirl; either way, your recommendation engine gets smarter.

Personalized Coaching

At some point, recommendations in the context of behavior change may become something more robust: an actual personalized plan of action. When recommendations grow out of the “you might also like” phase into “here’s a series of steps that should work for you,” they become a little more complicated. Once a group of personalized recommendations have some sort of cohesiveness to systematically guide a person toward a goal, it becomes coaching.

More deeply personalized coaching leads to more effective behavior change. One study by Dr. Vic Strecher, whom you met in Chapter 3, showed that the more a smoking cessation coaching plan was personalized, the more likely people were to successfully quit smoking. A follow-up study by Dr. Strecher’s team used fMRI technology to discover that when people read personalized information, it activates areas of their brain associated with the self (see Figure 9.7). That is, people perceive personalized information as self-relevant on a neurological level.

Fig 9.7 This is an fMRI image showing activation in a person’s medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), an area of the brain associated with the self. The brain activity was recorded after showing people personalized health information.

This is important because people are more likely to remember and act on relevant information. If you want people to do something, personalize the experience that shows them how.

From a practical perspective, personalized coaching also helps overcome a common barrier: People do not want to spend a lot of time reading content. If your program can provide only the most relevant items while leaving the generic stuff on the cutting room floor, you’ll offer more concise content that people may actually read.

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Mr. Roboto: Connecting with Technology

Fig 9.1 Even the company of a wooden sword is better than venturing into Hyrule alone.

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Fig 9.3 LoseIt gives users an opportunity to share their technology preferences during onboarding and then uses that choice to shape their future experience.

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Fig 9.4 Spotify picks up on the details of users’ musical selections to construct playlists that reflect multiple aspects of their tastes.

Fig 9.5 When a user only needs a finite number of something, or has already satisfied a need, it’s easy for recommendations to become redundant.

Don’t Be Afraid to Learn

Fig 9.6 Alfred included a learning mode where users would indicate places they already enjoyed eating. That data helped improve Alfred’s subsequent recommendations.

Personalized Coaching

This is important because people are more likely to remember and act on relevant information. If you want people to do something, personalize the experience that shows them how.

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint: Project Review Part Four (4)

Having decided to revert the car back to original left-hand drive specifications I cut the dashboard out of the bulkhead and then reduced it further to three pieces. In essence switch the gauges binnacle with the glove box. Mig welded the three pieces back together and then back onto the bulkhead. The welds are somewhat rough so a little filler will be required on the welds prior to adding some…

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What's the Difference Between Office 365 and Office 2016

Microsoft keeps launching new Items, which makes it tough to maintain within the latest programming. A couple of customers have questions concerning the distinctions and similitudes between Office 365 and Office 2016. Just how about we explore Office 365 and habitual Office to find what type is directly for you? Odds are you will quickly realize that Office 365 includes everything you must keep your business running effortlessly.

What's office 365?

Together with more businesses are moving to the cloud every time, Office 365 is now Microsoft's drama to maintain their business beforehand.

Microsoft Office 365 plans include the Overall package of Office software, along with distinct administrations which can be enabled across the web, integrating additional dispersed storage using One Drive and Skype moments for home usage. Together with Office 365, you secure the entire, introduced Office adventure on PCs, Macs, tablets (counting Windows, i-pad and Android) along with cellular phones.

Thinking regarding its own potency of the work place a part, it ought not to surprise anybody who Microsoft is enthusiastic about increasing a stable toe hold from the computing market too. Having constructed its luck selling programming permits, Microsoft is increasingly turning up under strain in associations, as an instance, Google, that requires a gander in programming because service to be awarded, less a commodity must be sold.

Together with Office 365, Microsoft has been Significance to make sure that when its customers are enthusiastic about moving into the cloud, then that they're not moving endlessly from Microsoft. Merely a quick have a gander at the set of capacities of Microsoft Office 365 reveals that Microsoft is not Experimenting

Similarly, like almost all cloud administrations, Office 365 is awarded being a membership, as opposed to at a forthright price. There are many business benefits for this specific version, at the least that is the possible cost. Somewhat, the calendar month cost of Office 365 comprises all updates, including security stains, ensuring that most customers are on probably the very outstanding kind of different components continuously.

What's Office 2016?

Microsoft Office 2016 does not Appear to be exceptional to Office 2013, having its use of strong colors and Ribbon pubs which are overall unaltered. Rather, the accent will be really on steady improvements that centre round the omni-present office package's cloud-based high lights. We are supporters of Office 2013's port, therefore it's favorably absolve to observe that Microsoft has never attempted to mend anything isn't brokenup.

Office 2016 suites, such as Office Home and Student and Home and Business, include programs, as an Example, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, along with One-note; they're available as a One Time Purchase to be used on a lone PC or Mac. The software aren't so refreshed; to find the latest rendition, you can purchase Office again, once the brand new form becomes reachable.

One of those newest highlights in Microsoft's newest release is Office 365 Planner, and that the item manufacturer said aids classes with sorting out their job, with the capability to produce fresh plans, write and relegate missions, place payment dates and upgrade status together with visual dashboards and email notices.

The Latest rendition of Office in addition includes cowriting in Word, PowerPoint and OneNote work area programming. It integrates constant writing in Word which provides customers a opportunity to see different customers' changes since they create sure they are.

Office 365 Vs. Office 2016?

Office 2016 suites comprise Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and One Note as a One Time Purchase to be used on a lone PC. In its firm optional, customers can likewise acquire Access and Requirements the newly referenced software.

Even though Office 365 programs appear in a Month or annual obligations. It integrates the entire package of Office software alongside different administrations across the Web comprising more distributed storage using One Drive, only as Skype moments for home usage. Numerous Office 365 plans likewise provide you the disconnected forms of software, as an instance, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc forth. An individual can present those PCs, Macs, tablets (counting Windows, i-pad, along with Android) along with mobile phones.

Though they Gives all you the safety refreshes for nothing, Office 2016 loses this front. That's because its software are not so refreshed when a second version ends up. As a couple of men and women are pleased to keep with their obsolete Office software, yet that really isn't trusted for everyone. On the off likelihood you want to refresh your Office 2016 when a second adaptation has gone outside, you want to purchase it yet again. You additionally won’t receive any new high lights which can be inserted to Office 2016 post-buy, which might create a direct impact you personally or perhaps not at the smallest amount.

Though, that the Office 365 membership always provides you per month updates and significant rendition re-designs at no additional price.

Currently, this really is a crucial Duration; you want to comprehend that technical service is much way better, Office 2016 or even Office 365. What's more, that really is just another aspect at which Office 2016 are in an inexplicable weakness. If you purchase an Office 2016, then you obtain support in a introductory level since it was. Moreover, about the off likelihood you have a Office 365 membership, all degrees comprise day in and day outside assistance for technical problems, or charging and subscription service.

Thus, with Office 2016, For those who experience a concern that's not identified together with your own establishment, you are going to want to describe yourself. While with a membership, Microsoft can aid you with settling down it.

Which will you buy?

For the undergrad who desires Word, Excel and PowerPoint, a copy of Office 2016 is sufficient. It's cheaper and provides the basic jobs to get beyond the faculty. Additionally, it well might be reverted to upto 4 individuals from your family.

A company, make sure as it may, needs Microsoft Office 365. Along with the fact that you receive complete access into this job Area adaptations of the Office apps yet in addition the many recent renditions. You do not have to worry more than getting and placing in fresh Programming the moment as it happens. Programming will likely be exemplary, always. Additionally, it totally depends on an individual requirements & features they're seeking to use.

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So... I probably owe some sort of update on why I’ve been out of commission and not really... online.

I moved. I think I made that somewhat clear before I disappeared, but to reiterate: I moved halfway across the country on what could amount to a whim less than a week before Christmas. It was stressful and nerve-wracking and I was sort of out of it for several days afterward.

I had gotten myself a new client and a new project not soon after moving, and despite the pay being standard and the work being decent, I’ve not... been well with it.

After New Years I slipped into a relatively intense bout of depressive bullshit, effectively not getting out of bed for a few days. Big whoop. I knew that would happen to some extent and I had prepared accordingly for it. What I didn’t expect was to get better for a few days only to crash hard, again, for another week or so. It threw me off my game and fucked with my work schedule. The stress of work combined with commissions, depression, and inevitable irl obligations with the new household... it’s been chipping away at my resolve to socialize. The cherry on top of all that is there’s now a plan to move the household from here in Oklahoma to Nevada.

Part of me is daunted by yet another move, and despite the plan being for a better financial situation and a better physical house, I’m tired. I’m tired a lot lately. Physically tired. Mentally tired.

I’ve been trying. Don’t get me wrong. I’m on skype and discord and whatnot pushing and pushing and pushing myself to not fade into obscurity. I don’t want to lose contact with the people I care about. But to get on tumblr? Hell, to get on twitter is a fucking nightmare more often than not. All I find is people bitching, politics, stupid nonsense, and all that jazz that just sucks the last bit of life out of me. There’s no stopping any of that. I can’t bring myself to look at either of my tumblr dashboards 99% of the time now. It’s just purse, concentrated anxiety for me.

I try to distract myself. Really. But there’s nothing really left in me. I feel creatively dead and drained. I feel useless more often than not.

I’m broke again and scrounging for change. I feel bitter and disgusting and every time I bring myself to possibly vent, I shut down and revert to whatever self indulgent bullshit I can to push through it. I have another 7k words worth of work to power through today for work due later on. I have a house to clean a bit. I have commissions to finish which keep getting delayed because I keep slipping and falling.

The move fucked me up more than I ever want to admit. I’ve become inherently selfish and greedy with attention from people. I’ve become easily distracted and overwhelmed. I feel used and no good for damned near anything anymore. And above it all?

I’m tired.

#jesus christ mike shut up #delete later

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2019 Ford Fusion V6 Sports Specification, Review and Performance

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2019 Ford Fusion V6 Sports Specification, Review and Performance – From the outside the house, the new 2019 Ford Fusion Sport does not show up everything that specific. Particular, there are grey divided up-spoke 19-” rims, a gloss-dark right mesh grille, unique Guided fog lamps, quad-tips on the double-exhaust, and a spoiler, although not one of the men and women set it up next to the sleep of the Fusion assortment.

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Nevertheless, get behind the wheel and provide the fuel pedal a company jab, you will have no mistaking that the Fusion Sport is diverse – very different. The needle on the speedometer sweeps earlier 60 mph in an exhibit, and the increasing two-turbo V6 exhaust observe hurrying into the cabin helps make me smirk, having said that I consider if there is a great deal of wish for a hot rod Fusion. Somewhat there is, with Ford reporting clientele needed a V6, a different previously missing out on from the formerly huge meals assortment of Fusion powertrain products, which include a litter of four-cylinders. You might have them customarily aspirated, turbocharged and then in crossbreed or plug-in crossbreed type. With the Sport, Ford is a result of a V6 to the retract, getting the 2.7-liter Ecoboost engine that is earlier finding duty in the F-150 and Advantage Sport and nestling it below the Fusion’s hood. In the following paragraphs, the twin-turbocharged V6 creates 325 hp, and a stout 380 pound-ft of torque, even though returning 17 miles per gallon in the area, and 26 mpg on the highway. A far more highly effective six-pace automatic gearbox installing mounting bolts as much as the engine to cope with the extra grunt, and routes it through a regular all-wheel travel program.

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The all-time travel system is an excellent exchange on Ford’s element to obtain everything that capacity to the ground successfully. Without them, torque guide could be severe enough to create cars like the at first-era Mazdaspeed 3, and old Nissan Altima SE-R is most often tame. As an alternative, the Fusion Sport is impacted by absolutely nothing torque guide by using an electric directing system that’s weighty but is not as immediate in feel as I enjoy. Turning into a Sports model, the vast bulk of my push is with the car in the Sport establishing, which activates with a press of the “S” option in the midsection of the Jaguar-like rotary shifter on the central gaming system. In Sport, directing tightens, throttle reply livens up, and the engine appears to be are magnified digitally to be observed a whole lot more obviously inside of.

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Transmission actions also change with a much more intense change and rev-matching for downshifts, although the paddle shifters give you a lot more power over selecting devices. Although a lot of automatics with guide-move capabilities time out and revert to total auto, the Fusion Sport’s will keep items proper until you alert it otherwise to get clear of undesired changes by way of ends, and when relocating from the throttle. The only time the gearbox will shift on its own in the manual environment is at redline.Most especially, Sports setting stiffens the adaptive hydraulic Tokico dampers for excellent body composure close to changes in little-reduced fat. Understanding from the 19-in. Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric wheels are not terrible, but individuals were seeking for maximum performance can Springtime for Continental summer season time silicone that Ford is providing a $195 alternative.

Regrettably, not one particular of the evaluation cars existing have the stickier silicon, but the all-time of year Goodyears are right to possess the Fusion Sport with assurance through all the twisties on the driving a car course. If pushed more difficult, there is the small question that the front end will rinse out, but the car’s cornering functions are more than satisfactory for ordinary Fusion car owners.

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Along with directing feel, the only other quibble We have with the Fusion Sport dynamically is composed of the braking program. Designers supplied the Sport larger size rotors and broke areas, which are lovely to boost run away from speed, but pedal feel is squishy, and it has a lot more trip than I enjoy just before the binders commence to nibble. For regular traveling, getting the car in Sports setting is not as correctly difficult-and-tumble. Push top quality is not uncomfortable, directing isn’t remarkably weighty, neither of the two is transmission conduct jerky. That is not saying having the car out of Sports functionality isn’t better for rush-hour, or so approximately weblogs or cross-region operates precisely where a cashier journey, considerably less aggressive gearbox changes and fewer sizeable directing job are excellent.

2019 Ford Fusion V6 Sports Review

Also aiding make the Fusion Sport, an excellent daily car operator is a cabin that is peaceful, comfort and ease, properly-produced and feature wealthy. A standard traditional acoustic windscreen, entrance area window, powerful noises cancellation method and underbody shielding carry on and continue to keep unwanted racket out. Entrance pail chairs are comfy but would enjoy the advantages of higher side bolsters to higher sealing process you in place through lateral maneuvers.

Considerable area locations all through are gentle-make contact with, despite the fact that an all-natural leather-included directing wheel, co2-fibres-routine cut, suede sitting and front door table inserts, aluminum pedals and Sports logo design floor mats place a tiny bit of clear differentiation to the Sports model using their company Fusions. To keep you interested, Sync 3 is readily accessible having an 8-in. Touchscreen, which works Apple inc CarPlay and Android Auto equally. For those not comfortable transferring your dashboard to a smartphone, Ford’s Sync AppLink links proper mobile apps straight to the car. Sharp-sounding audio pays attention to more than a 12-presenter high-quality Sony music system, while optionally available the menu manuals you to areas.

Unsurprisingly, the checklist of available security techniques is balanced, as accurately. Pre-collision assists with walking reputation signals of attainable front outcomes, while automatic emergency braking kicks in if the driver doesn’t react to signals and halts the car. Blind-spot examining with rear cross-visitors could make the help out of car auto parking locations simpler by telling you of vehicles attracting close to from the finishes, and active park your car your car assist immediately parallel- and reverse-perpendicular-leisurely locations the Fusion. Ford even delivers adaptive cruise manage that is outfitted of obtaining the vehicle to an overall quit and after that can get started yet again, as correctly as lane-keeping assist that cautions motorists when they commence drifting from a lane accidentally.

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2019 Ford Fusion V6 Sports Price and Release Date

If all of this appears excellent and dandy to you, the Fusion Sport is presented at Ford vendors now putting on a base price of $33,475, which tumbles by loaded entirely first competition like the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and Nissan Altima V6 models. The trouble with Ford is if you want a whole lot of the advised cabin technical, the price can slip up in a hurry. Mine nearly filled exam car’s sticker label tests $41,350, which is far from chump alter.

On the turn side, the Ford Fusion Sport V6 competitors, gets the current all-time push and features coping with reflexes on par with the Accord, and near to the stellar Mazda6. That it could also be cozy and has an area to haul with the family and friends is yet another offering period. The very best factor about the Sport extends back to the proven fact that it does not make the physical appearance all of that unique from other Fusions. Almost nothing visually offers aside from the essential point that it is launching 325 horsepower and 380 pound-ft of perspective, which makes it a sleeper in the midsize sedan sector, and supply as the right successor to the very first Taurus SHO.

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