I’m roughly 6 episodes into the original Cowboy Bebop, and about halfway though a re-watch of Dragon Ball.

Mister Bondman, please pay this month’s rent. Also, there are noise complaints from the neighbors!

So far these last two episodes have been B-story bonanzas, but I’m still enjoying the spotlight shining on the supporting cast for a change.

• That reporter Franklin was really portrayed as a bit of a slimeball, wasn’t he?
• The Bondman segment just being him acquiring a queue of girlfriends that ultimately being his downfall was decent.
• I liked the little omakes after end credits too, especially Anya’s telepathy giving her a reason to never get in the pool again!

I kinda enjoyed them giving a bit more depth to Damian though; showing that his two friends are really there for him, almost to their own detriment, and that while he is determined to live up to the goals his father set for him, he might actually be willing to mellow out a bit from time to time.

The lake was really nicely drawn too.

A dog!
Draw eyebrows on him!

Yeah, I have to agree there, it definitely loses itself towards the end. It just starts bringing in crazy caricatures instead of fully formed relatable characters because the goofier parts of the established cast were received well. Once Catherine Tate shows up, I’m eyeing the exits.

Regarding Bocchi the Rock I have to disagree, all I want is more of that show beamed straight into my eyeballs!

I can’t think of any anime that could be improved with less episodes, because I only continue watching something if I actually like it, and I can’t remember anything I just walked away from. Maybe one of the two versions of Fullmetal Alchemist? That show really didn’t impress me much at the time though, really only watched as much of it as I did because friends were so into it at the time.

Non-anime wise, Dexter, Weeds and Supernatural all should’ve ended wayyy earlier and were kept in life support because of prior successful ratings, off the top of my head.

All I could find was an anime named “Carole & Tuesday”, which I think I’m going to add to my list too. Is that what you meant?

Alright, I guess I’ll give it a go then, thanks!

I don’t watch much anime, but really enjoyed Bocchi the Rock! when I stumbled across it.

Would I like this show too, or is the only similarity that both shows follow a band?

“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story

I don’t even like golf and I enjoyed it.

People also seem to be refusing to learn what federation is and how that works

Yeah, I’ve seen plenty of new communities that have already shuttered to “move to X instance where the users are” that would make me laugh if it weren’t so annoying that they’ve just decided to squat a community that could flourish locally if someone else took it over.

Yeah, but when did ‘most common’ matter to a social network trying to push a totally different paradigm of federation?

If anything, it should be a malaysian .my TLD so it just ends up being lem.my instead, but seeing as the entire point of the Fediverse is that there’s no one central authority figure, this whole thing seems silly. 🤣

I believe this is either a major design flaw of Lemmy (or lack of any design) or it is precisely what the creators intended, and the software is being greatly misused.

The design is as intended, and everything is federated at an Instance level, not a Community level, which always seems to be the thing that doesn’t click with people. You pick a home instance, and can view content across the fediverse from that location, regardless of platform. These platforms (Lemmy, Mastodon ^[twitter], Pixelfed ^[instagram], Friendica ^[facebook], PeerTube ^[YouTube], Funkwhale ^{[Spotify-ish]}, etc…) are then independent silos of content accessible from anywhere.

I don’t think we need to split users and content into separate instances, but I agree that having a platform agnostic approach to user accounts would probably benefit the fediverse in the long run, as currently when you pick your home instance (say Mastodon, for example) that user interface becomes the window you see the rest of the Fediverse through.

Ideally, we should be able to have an account on a Mastodon instance @EccTM@mastodon.emmetcoughlan.com that could be referenced and logged into from a Pixelfed instance for that experience, then jump to a Lemmy instance and see that content through that intended UI, all while playing some music on FunkWhale in another tab. I think we could expand the current system out to make this happen in time, but most of these federated platforms are still in their infancy.