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A bear won't try to convince you that you weren't really assaulted and accuse you of just wanting attention

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Heh. You made one mistake... Your safety's on.

Then I would try some action movie bullshit and die, but can you imagine if it worked?

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By tesla's logic, it'll assume that you want to slow down, and will speed up to make you slow down faster

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Saw a video of the other day of some guy that bought a cybertruck, and his review can basically be summarized as "it has a ton of issues, there's rust all over it, it's incredibly dangerous, definitely worth the $100,000"

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I mean a lot of us still use reddit, you can just ignore the main site and focus on your niche communities

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Or someone who likes specific things? Show me the thriving Haibane Renmei community on lemmy

Obsessed with this comment rn. Like having interests that aren't the front page of reddit is NPC behaviour? Make it make sense

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Which version was that, and is it still possible to swap to it?

Edit: by the power of actually researching it instead of bothering someone else, I found it. They were bought by an analytics company in July of 2022, and the last full release version of the app before that on APK mirror was 7.0.57

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I can answer that! Tasker can't turn bluetooth off anymore! That's a feature, right?

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Knight boosting and Il Vaticano are both newer than En Passant

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Never resigning because maybe the 1200 that you're playing against might make a mistake and give you a dub

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I mean, how many really really good things did you watch last year?

We talking movies and TV shows in general, or only ones that came out in 2023? If the latter, then Dungeons and Dragons was the only good thing I watched last year

Most of the good shows I watched last year were animes that came out around the turn of the century

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Hope you're ready for a wall of text!

Early 2000's anime has definitely aged. In my opinion the aesthetic of it has aged extremely well, but I understand that the relatively poor animation and picture quality are enough to turn some people off to it. If you like the aesthetic as much as I do, then I have a whole list. I'm not much of a shonen guy, so a lot of these are calmer, less action-packed shows.

My personal favorite anime is Haibane Renmei, from 2002. The story seems like a mystery at first, but the show never answers most of the questions it raises–it's not about finding answers, it's about the characters, and how they act and react both towards each other and towards the world they live in. The setting is what really pulled me in–it has the same timeless, liminal feel that Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian have.

Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are staples. Both 1998 shows. It's hard to believe that Cowboy Bebop was made in the 20th century. Both shows have good plotlines, lovable characters, well-made action sequences. It's hard to write anything about them that hasn't been written before. Watch em!

Witch Hunter Robin from 2002 was pretty good, imo. It's a mystery series about a team of witch hunters. It starts out as a sort of monster (or witch, as it were) of the week show before pivoting into a longer story arc about the characters discovering a conspiracy. The show looks drab and gloomy at first, but really it's absolutely dripping with character, and Amon is the only person in the show that never really seems happy. The action sequences are largely made up of characters just sort of standing and staring at each other, but the camera work and visual effects make it look really good in my opinion.

Fullmetal Alchemist '03 was the first FMA I watched when I was a kid, but never got around to finishing until last year. It's really good. Brotherhood and '03 are largely similar (with minor differences) up until the 5th Laboratory, where they diverge severely. Personally I felt like '03 had a more concise, well-told story. Having fewer characters worked in its favor, because it gave the characters that it does have more time to develop. It also takes itself a lot more seriously than Brotherhood–it feels more like a seinen than a shonen.

Planetes (also from 2003) is the hardest sci-fi that I think I've ever seen. It's about team of orbital debris haulers in the 2070s. At first it's a slice of life show about their day to day activities, and partway through it becomes something of a political drama/action show. It's cool. The main character is a little bit annoyingly idealistic in the first few episodes, but after that it's a solid 10/10 from me.

Last Exile (also 2003) is one of my favorite shows. It's very confusing at first, it feels like there's a couple of episodes worth of exposition missing in the middle, but all in all I absolutely adored it. It never gives you any more information than you need to know, and it never wastes time explaining how its universe works. How do vanships fly? Because of claudia. What is claudia? It's the fuel that makes vanships fly. You never even find out what Exile means until like 23 episodes in. The show is extremely aware of its own aesthetic, in a way that the sequel series from 2011 kind of wasn't. Still worth watching both series IMO, because the sequel finds its own footing in time.

Mushishi (2005) is another calm one. Probably the calmest one. Watching it is like meditating. It follows a sort of travelling doctor who tries to help people when their interactions with the ethereal mushi (they are explicitly living things, but for the sake of storytelling, you can think of them as spirits) turn harmful. Every episode is a new place, a new mushi, a new story. It's masterfully crafted, and the slow pace ensures that not a single frame goes to waste. The early 2000's aesthetic works heavily in its favor, making it fit right in with Studio Ghibli's works, even though it was an Artland joint.

Baccano was 2007, so a bit late to call it "turn of the century," but it has the same sort of aesthetic and vibe that most of these shows have. The story has a wide variety of characters, each with their own fully fleshed out stories, all intertwining like a spider's web as they meet and influence each other. It's really good. Watch the dub!

Right now I'm nearing the end of Noir (2002). I couldn't tell you if it's worth watching until I finish it (just in case it ends badly), but so far I'm liking it. It's about a pair of assassins, one of whom has amnesia and only knows that she's somehow connected to the other, and the other who is trying to find out who killed her family and why. If I have one gripe with the series, it's that they don't ever show any blood on screen. They aren't afraid of showing people die on screen, a lot of people die in every episode, but aside from holes appearing in people's clothing, there doesn't appear to be any actual violence.

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Took me a few months to get back to you, but it totally was! My car's been blaring Stray more than any other song for the last couple months

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It was awesome! It gave me strong Last Exile vibes, despite the two series being nothing alike. Out of the anime I listed in that comment, it's the one I'd recommend the most based on Wolf's Rain

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What if I use a pulley?

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When you fail the history check, and recall your teacher mentioning something about Karsus's Pulley in the year -339 DR. "Can't for the life of me remember how he managed to kill magic with the thing..."

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If you really wanna see a bloodbath, watch this:

You know that a couple has two children. You go to the couple's house and one of their children, a young boy, opens the door. What is the probability that the couple's other child is a girl?

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Oops, I changed it to a more unintuitive one right after you replied! In my original comment, I said "you flip two coins, and you only know that at least one of them landed on heads. What is the probability that both landed on heads?"

And... No! Conditional probability strikes again! When you flipped those coins, the four possible outcomes were TT, TH, HT, HH

When you found out that at least one coin landed on heads, all you did was rule out TT. Now the possibilities are HT, TH, and HH. There's actually only a 1/3 chance that both are heads! If I had specified that one particular coin landed on heads, then it would be 50%

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90% of "vegetarian versions" of dishes are just the dish without meat. 9% of the remainder are the dish with black beans and/or mushrooms

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Edit: removed implied support for Hamas. Both militaries should burn. Hope for a quick end to the conflict for the sake of the civilians affected.

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Literally all I'm saying is that the vast majority of pit bulls aren't violent. I fucking said I'm in favor of spaying and neutering the breed out of existence because the few that do become violent are excessively dangerous.

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