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[–] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

The end credits mention 3DCG and motion capture so you might be right.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 5 days ago

Surreal. Never read any of Junji Ito's works. I've only seen his artworks through social media. I don't like horror much, but let's see how long I can keep up with this one.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

archlinux-2024.09.01-x86_64.iso

[–] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm about >1hr in so I more or less just completed the tutorial(?). I have to set the game at 200% render scaling because the anti-aliasing is terrible at 100%. The mouth movement is a bit odd and the characters move strangely sometimes. There's also a lot going on in the UI and it's not nearly as clean as P3R. There are text boxes that kind of hover around your screen in the city. I'd much prefer it was anchored on the NPCs instead.

Also MC's face looks funny in some angles.

Other than that, the game looks really good. I think they made the atmosphere quite well. I wasn't sure I was going to like it at first as I'm not the biggest fan of fantasy but the introduction with the man talking about "fantasy" was interesting enough.

I'll finish the demo this weekend but I'll buy and play the game after I play the other Persona games first.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

Oh I think I've heard of this one. It's honestly crazy what some people do over a videogame.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've never read this. But reading the title reminds me of post-game League lobbies where people would drop locations for a fist fight.

I don't think they ever push through but its pretty funny sometimes lol

[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

I used to do beets and cmus but eventually moved to MusicBrainz Picard and Strawberrry Music Player. I sync to my phone with syncthing.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried to get into this game because I like Rimworld but damn is it so hard to learn. I couldn't even get past the tutorial.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Gacha games.

I play Genshin Impact and one gacha is enough for me.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not expecting to see this today. Those crossover outfits are really cute.

ツンデレサービス~!

[–] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

At first glance, I thought they were Kronii and Reine.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

This thread is like 2 months old and I'm rewatching the episodes of the threads I missed on, so let's go through this via screenshots.

I'm pretty convinced this toilet sign is Ougi and Nadeko. I think it's easy to forgot that Ougi is a boy now.

We finally got the opening for Nademonogatari which features both Kana Hanazawa and Saori Hayami. I don't know if Nademonogatari is the first time I've heard the two together. Both their voices share this characteristic I can't describe in English but when you hear it, you might get what I mean.

I'm certain this is a callback to an older scene in the series. Either Koyomi or Ougi meeting with Tsukihi. You can also say Akira if you'd like.

Marina Inoue sounded completey different here, obviously because this isn't the same Sodachi we knew. She's a lot more compassionate and sister-like to Nadeko. I didn't even recognize her until Nadeko said so herself. I'm actually quite glad Sodachi is doing better here and didn't turn out to be a one-off character in the series (as she kind of came out of nowhere previously).

There really is something about girls cutting their hair short when they want to change something about themselves. It's a really interesting phenomenon that boys don't really have an equivalent to. More interestingly I guess, this scene parallels with Hitagi and Koyomi during Mayoi Snail.

By far the shots that reminded me that Monogatari is "peak cinema", as they say. Live action shots, somewhat reminscent of early 2000s handhelds composited with a running topless Nadeko.

 
 

Archon Quest Spoilers

Sometimes I forget what happened in previous archon quests (and the story in general). I'm happy I remember Caribert from the cloth tied to his arm though.

His bit with Atossa was really emotional. Especially with the dolls on the tree in his island.

I found Caribert more interesting than the twins for some reason lol. I was a bit disappointed that the traveler doesn't remember their conversation with the other sibling. I was expecting something like what happened in the Sumeru Archon Quest.

I knew there was going to be a gift/ornament though but I wasn't expecting a photograph. It was a bit funny.

Anyway, I can't wait for the next summer event. Genshin Impact's summer events are always fun.

The only screenshot I was able to take:

 

Ani.Social's 1st Birthday! 🥳

Today Ani.Social is officially 1 year old! It's kind of crazy that it's been a year already. I still remember the days when it was just me posting illustrations of Kurumi. Now there's nearly 1,000 of us and over 50 communities! We've been through a lot this year (defederations, federation issues, migrations, etc) but I'm happy there's a lot of support from the community and even other admins from different instances! I want to say thank you to everyone who has contributed through posts, comments, community tools, reports, funding, and more!

Ani.Social was kind of an experiment to see if hosting a public instance is something sustainable and fulfilling. After a year I can say that it is both! :D Here's to another year!

(Fun fact: We share the same birthday as Gawr Gura from Hololive EN.)

(Fun fact 2: Ani.Social was supposed to be a KBin instance. But because there was not docker container, I settled with Lemmy instead.)

Upgrade to Lemmy ~~v0.19.4~~ v0.19.5

We upgraded to ~~v0.19.4~~ v0.19.5 which brings some new features like the ability to remove stuff you uploaded through your profile page. A full list of changes may be found here. I also want to note that because sometimes upgrading Lemmy doesn't take very long, I might not make an announcement in advance anymore.

Accidental image removal

A few weeks ago, there were some images that were deleted because of a bug from a tool I used to remove old images cached from other instances. I have a long explanation here. This shouldn't happen again (hopefully!).

Verification mails did not send

For about a week in May, email was not working so some people who signed up did not receive an email. I was informed by a user who sent an email at help@ani.social. This has been resolved and anyone who did not receive a verification email can email me to have your account verified.

Random downtimes

You might notice that there are some downtime here and there. Part of this is because of small changes I make to the server (like enabling or disabling certain settings). These usually don't take long (a minute or two of downtime).

Sometimes you might see the instance gone for as long as an hour or two. This is usually caused by our hosting provider. This type of downtime is not really within my control so please bare with it. If the instance is down/inaccessible you can visit https://status.ani.social where I post updates.

Automatic moderation tools

In the near future, I plan to add automatic moderation tools (automod) such as LemmyAutomod and Fedi-safety. Both tools are likely experimental and may remove posts or images wrongly. I'll keep a close eye on them when I deploy them.

Closing thoughts -- one year in the Fediverse

A few days ago I was reading this article called "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS" which made a lot of interesting points on the Fediverse (duh). Theses 3, 5, and 6 are the most relevant ones in my opinion.

Thesis 3 is relevant for a lot of the political discussions and issues on defederation you see around in the Fediverse. Thesis 5 is relevant for developers, admins, and moderators as it deals with labor. Thesis 6 extends this to users.

Transitioning from corporate social media extends far past from simply "install this app and treat it like Reddit/Twitter/Instagram". It's not just a technical change for most users, it's a new social experience. The social world of the Fediverse is different from corporate social media because of how it operates differently (in policy, labor, etc). More importantly though, a lot of our practices and principles are still experimental so it's interesting to see how these are changing and developing over time (and as mentioned in the article, how these will generate new "userships").

Anyway, I suddenly feel a wave of laziness so maybe I won't write anything more than that. Feel free to read the article because there's a lot to think about.

Again, if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! Thanks for reading all the way through!

 

かにばるーん

~~testing pictrs~~

 
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Please do not say anything hateful to the Lemmy.ml admins or the developers. Before commenting on this thread, please read the post completely.


We (ani.social) have been defederated from Lemmy.ml a few hours ago presumably for the reason of being "full of CSAM" which I disagree.

What happened?

The Lemmy developers recently launched the new redesigned join-lemmy.org webpage which provides information about Lemmy and a list of servers that people can join. The redesign looks great! It details a lot of new and useful stuff such as a categorized server list and mobile apps. However, I noticed that our instance (ani.social) was not in the list despite previously being there before the redesign.

After looking through the joinlemmy-site code, I discovered that ani.social was added to the "excluded" list in a commit a few weeks ago. I thought that this was a mistake so I made a pull request to remove us from the excluded list (and also to add our instance's category and language).

Unfortunately, the pull request was closed with a comment that reads "No, that is full of CSAM". The thread was locked so I couldn't reply. I tried to reach out to the developers via Matrix, politely explaining that ani.social has a content policy rule against CSAM which reads:

  1. Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old.

Unfortunately, my invitation was rejected and I did not hear back from them.

Shortly after, I discovered that Lemmy.ml had defederated from ani.social. The last post ani.social received from Lemmy.ml was just after the pull request was closed.

What does this mean?

This means that no user from ani.social can interact with communities from Lemmy.ml and vice versa. This affects those who subscribe to communities from that instance.

This also affects the anime community on Lemmy as a whole because the biggest anime discussion community resides on Lemmy.ml (!anime@lemmy.ml) in which their episode discussion bot, @shinobu@ani.social, is hosted here. It's very concerning that as an anime-themed instance, we're now completely disconnected from this community and other related communities.

This also affects ani.social in the long run as our exclusion from the join-lemmy.org webpage will reduce our visibility. The exclusion from join-lemmy.org and defederation from Lemmy.ml may also prompt other instance admins to defederate from us. Generally, ani.social will be seen in a very bad light.

As the admin of ani.social, I genuinely feel heartbroken after what had happened. Not only do I feel like I'm doing a poor job of building ani.social but I also feel like I've disrespected the work of the Lemmy developers. I really apologize to those who are affected by this. I hope that this is just a misunderstanding and I will do my best to resolve this problem.

 
 
 
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