A Black Falcon said:
It's just been an incredibly unlucky year for electronics for me, apparently. Three computers having problems or going down isn't even all of it -- my original Xbox's DVD drive seems to be failing (just started failing to read discs sometimes a few weeks ago), and my clock-radio's radio portion broke just within the last month too...
Well that sucks, although between 3 computers you should easily be able to get 1 running at full capacity. I know about them damn clocks though, I can no longer set mine and my old Blackberry phone I use as an alarm no longer makes it through a day without dying.
A Black Falcon said:
Credibility? You mean it makes you look more boring, right?
That's not entirely wrong I guess. Really it just looks silly when I reply in a political thread with an anime avatar, I wish they could be tagged by context and display one appropriate for each thread.
Plus I lost my Spoor avatar, I didn't keep a backup and I hate dealing with Paint to make a new one.
A Black Falcon said:
RAID... I'd never trust the "spread one partition over several discs" kind of RAID, that means if one drive goes down you lose everything. The "duplicate data" kind's better though, so everything has a backup... but of course it requires two drives for each usable one. I just have normal, non-RAIDed, partitioned drives. On my newer computer (as I said not working at the moment, but I'll get it fixed) I've got three hard drives, totalling about 1.1TBs of space. It's not enough, I've about run out of space, so at some point I'll probably need another drive (and maybe something else too, like more RAM at least), but at least it's something.
I don't try to keep movies or TV on my harddrive, though. Anime, yeah, and other than that lots of games... I like having as many of my (hundreds of) PC games installed as possible, plus lots of demos too, so that whatever I want to play hopefully is installed whenever I possibly might want to play it.
All of mine were non raid single drives. I have a SATA DVD-Burner, a Sata Blu-Ray player, a Samsung 1TB, a Seagate 500GB, a WD 500GB Caviar, and a 500 GB WD 5400 Green Drive and now 2 2TB Samsung drives. That's a lot of fucking drives. The WD Caviar started failing prompting me to buy the Seagate, there's no data I care about on it any more so I can wipe it, drill holes into it and shoot it into the sun, the 1TB Samsung will replace my 500GB Seagate which is currently the boot drive but I haven't got around to cloning my OS yet, but need to hurry as it's developing a lot of bad sectors too, the 500GB WD green drive has my music which will also be added onto my new 2TB RAID array and I don't know what I'll do with the two left over 500 WD drives. I only have 5 internal SATA ports on my motherboard so I'm just going to run the Samsung 1GB as the boot drive, the two 2TB's in RAID 1 as my media drive and then hook up the two optical drives, pity the Bluray's not also a burner as then I could cut out the DVD drive. I'm already up to 900GB or so of movies alone, even this 2TB array will start filling fast once I start ripping the Blurays I have left. Yikes. But eventually I plan to move to RAID 5 or 6 in a NAS. But yeah, it's a mirroring RAID I use, RAID 1, so it basically ensures if one drive fails it's still good, I like it. I wouldn't do RAID 0.
It's really nice, I have most of my stuff on it now and XBMC supports a ton of scrapers so your content can get tagged. The TVDB tracker was kind of ass for anime so I use the ANIDB scraper for anime but it's hell convenient. Keeps track of which episodes you've seen as well so you don't forget where you are.
A Black Falcon said:
Haven't watched that episode yet, but apart from that I agree that weird stuff goes on in real life too. The reason people complain about it anyway though is that it's more common in shows than in reality, because it's more interesting if there is more drama. I think that that criticism is clearly true. Still though, is it true that things like that happen in reality too, sometimes? Yeah, it is. But while in reality it happens sometimes, in shows it's a certainty pretty much.
I just think people need to worry about realism in the sense that are the characters portrayed in a way that makes it seem as though they're making a realistic choice in the context of the show, anything else is taking things a bit too far. And as far as
Hanasaku Iroha goes, what exactly is unrealistic about it? An abandoned child? Not unrealistic. A kid working in high school? Not unrealistic. A possible pedophile? Not unrealistic. Kido's getting slapped? Not unrealistic. I don't get the argument.
jman2050 said:
People who don't like the show just want to find stuff wrong with it when they should probably just leave it as is and go about their business.
Like, I can say that Iroha is very well-made and well-written and at the same time point out that it just simply isn't my type of show. This, Wandering Son, The Wonder Years, Friday Night Lights, all shows in that flavor are all good stuff that I just plain don't like watching. I imagine it's the same for some others, though many of them try to be antagonistic about it.
Get out of here with your level-headed reason! I agree though, I thought Wandering Son was good but I had no desire to watch it and I thought Hanasaku Iroha's first episode was fine but it didn't leave me clamoring for more either. But opinions on the internet are serious business.
pieatorium said:
Please don't go avatarless it looks weird and I will call you "old no-av" until you fold and change your mind
Well that's a strong argument!
Lafiel said:
You are no longer dead to me!
Until the next time I'm dead to you!
Lafiel said:
I think maintaining believability is a more important thing than strict realism, and again this is anime we are talking about, and iroha in question already has certain quirks (that i love) that wouldn't work half as well in a live-action setting.
I agree with this.
Steroyd said:
Heh reminds of Madoka and TWGOK discussions, there are times when you've got to accept that truth can be stranger than fiction, there is no "real" way to react to certain situations, it's all dependant on what they've experienced before and whatnot, Ohana was already aware that her mother was no good and I thought her reactions to what the mum does to her is a fair reflection of that.
True.
