u/ShadowGuyinRealLife

Patty spent quite some time learning Japanese and is pretty much fluent. I think she missed some idioms here and there, but given that by definition those are phrases that don't use their literal meaning, that is understandable.

She is into anime and many of the same things Konata is interested in. The author Kagami Yoshimizu even mentioned that Patty has "the wrong idea on Japanese culture" because she thinks her friends are representative.

I was reading a draft of a fanfic where their entire hometown was summoned to another world. But this isekai was one where they were strangers in a familiar land. It was a world very much like their own, except the internet was never created and natural hair colors were limited to black, blond, red, brown, white, and so on but lacking blue, purple, and green. Some people who existed in their world like Emperor Akihito and Aya Hirano also exist in their destination world, but others did not. A lot of the jokes were at Konata's expense since many of her hobbies got invalidated.

The Japanese government just integrated most of the town and treated it like thousands of extra people they "forgot" to record births of.

Unlike most of the Japanese cast who had their extended families moved to the alternate world, Patty only had her immediate family who were visiting her. When they tried to go to America and see what happened there in this world, an INS officer (since those things I guess exist in this world) initially blocked them because there was no record of their existence before giving them a fictional visa.

In this case, Patty is sort of caught between two worlds. Everyone she knows in America besides her immediate family are gone. Most of the people she knows are Japanese, but as the author mentioned her idea of what Japanese culture has come from her immediate friend circle.

I know it is silly to try to predict a fanfic from canon since fanfic authors do whatever they want. But I was a bit curious. Given what we know of canon Patty, would she try to go full native?

So I'm just curious, what is Riccardo doing? Given his employer Anastasia in Season 4 is heading to a dangerous tower where they have very little info, I'm guessing he would normally join as a bodyguard. So either he's given some other task, or more likely his injury from Season 3 makes him unavailable for this task.

So what's he doing? Sent home for rest and relaxation? Was he given some low stakes task?

If he wasn't hurt and Anastasia announced she was heading to the Tower to help the victims of Lust and Gluttony with the Emilia camp would he expect her to bring him along as opposed to whatever he's doing in canon?

When Subaru returns by death, he feels the pain of dying and then resets with more info on how to deal with the problem. Ironically tying him up and locking him in a cell is a serious speedbump to Subaru. Making him die multiple times can damage him psychologically, but capture is a bigger problem than a single death that doesn't break him.

As of the time of this posting, episode 74 "who are you?"/ Omae wa Dareda had just aired and I finished watching it. I do have the LN for the first 3 arcs and sometimes I talk to my friends who have later volumes, but I ask them to only talk about things covered in the anime or a part that was skipped in an episode that already aired unless I explicitly ask a question. I remember watching the first Season in 2016 and feel like the I enjoyed it better because I saw the anime first.

I think this would have been a great opportunity to play Redo and Styx Helix for just one episode and have it end on his first death after getting amnesia. Of course something would need to fill out the time. And since the group went to check out the Library where Subaru lost consciousness, having him go there would fill out the episode. So like they could have Subaru follow him, and then he gets pushed or whatever later.

Actually, not only does it make sense from an outside perspective to me to have him go to the library to slow things down so the episode ends on his death, we were discussing in r/anime that, but from what little info the cast knows, it would be smarter to take him anyways. So even in-universe Subaru would want to know what made him lose his memories, he'd want to join the group to investigate, and from what little they know it makes more sense to bring him to try to jog his memories anyways. Out of the group the best thinkers are Subaru and Anastasia, both of which are compromised so I guess a bad plan isn't out of character.

I think what would happen is that they still don't get answers and Subaru would die later. but presumably they'd find something interesting right before it gets reset and none of it matters.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong on this. Perhaps he has to stay out. Maybe if he followed them they'd figure out what happened to him and the arc would end early.

I did accidentally get a minor spoiler 3 years ago. Someone said Anastasia in a failed loop thought she discovered something when Subaru forgot how to read in a point after the anime (at the time). Out of context, that made no sense, but now that I saw this episode, I think it must happen in this arc. If that insight happens later, you can just say it will air, and if it's cut content from this episode, let me know what she discovered.

So tell me LN readers, what would happen if Subaru followed them in his first amnesic loop? You can spoil me as long as it just relates to this one question. I don't know if this is spoiler discussion or discussion. On one hand I am explicitly asking for LN readers for info, on the other hand I am asking what would happen if Subaru did something in his first loop after losing memories and the first loop after losing his memoires was already aired in episode 74. It's not like I'm talking about stuff that happens after episode 74.

I am not a resident and only saw Toronto as a tourist before. I have seen videos about various transit systems in the world. One of these talked about Toronto's street cars being an old system.

One thing I don't get is that many North American uploaders mention is a division between "traditional" streetcar networks made before WW2 and "modern" ones made... well after. Sometimes the term used is not "modern" but "modern style" or some other wording to suggest the philosophy of streetcars changed after that time but without implying 50-year-old rolling stock is modern. Older networks have been updated with newer rolling stock and technology. The only thing "traditional" about streetcar systems made before WW2 that survived scrapping is their topology and any legacy technology. If you took an old system, kept the old routes and stops, modernized those routs, you'd have a functionally modern system.

And speaking of legacy technology, many people complain that Toronto has switches that are single tracked. I look at them and wonder how any trains can be switched with them, but I assume they must somehow work. Is there any advantage of the single-track switch design? I guess upgrading to double track switches would temporarily take down the system. Or maybe it is backwards compatibility issues? Perhaps upgrading all of them to double track would be all upsides and the TTC is in the same boat as the MBTA, SEPTA, CTA of "Yes there is a good idea, no we don't have the money right now"

Did any of you see an anime episode where nepotism led to a positive outcome? Usually nepotism is... well bad. Examples are a qualified guy being passed up for promotion because the boss gave his sister a promotion or an unqualified relative being hired. That might be good for the boss's family, but it is a bad ending for the story narrative.

I remember a plot like this, but not in an anime. It was a sci-fi video game where the player character has a fast travel option most characters can't use. The gates are locked genetically, but rather than an exact match, it was kind of an "in the genetic ballpark" thing. The MC never gets a revelation out of this if the player uncovers the log so I guess he assumed he was a distant cousin of the bad guy, but it turns out he's the villain's son.

In this case the devices recognizing people related to the boss was a good thing for the direct beneficiary (the player character) but also for the story as a whole (since you were the hero). I thought it was a nice twist. Anyone see an anime episode with something similar? It doesn't have to be an exact match to this. Like the boss hiring his technically qualified son over a much better unrelated guy but then some coincidence later made that other guy the wrong choice in hindsight. Or a "chosen one" plot.

In episode 73 of Re Zero "Walking Out of the Convenience Store and Into a Wondrous World" / Konbini o Deru to, Soko wa Fushigi no Sekai Deshita, Subaru woke up he calls Emillia a silver haired beauty. After this, he reacted to his surrounding the same way he did in episode 1 The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End.

In order for the plot to progress, he will need to trust at least Emillia, Beatrice, Ram, and the probably others. Assuming he is now Gluttony's newest victim, he isn't going to get restored without help. So either he is going to find a reason to trust them now, or he will Return by Death and trust them at least in the final loop. This reminds me of [Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku] >!Gabimaru loses his memories. However he is able to realize all the people he didn't recognize were not his enemies and shared the same mission in getting the immortality potion. Actually I have no idea what method Gabimaru used to realize he was around allies. I assume Subaru cannot use Gabimaru's method.!<

Since Subaru probably won't be able to do the same trick the spoiler character did to realize Emillia and the others are allies, another way is needed. He could go around his surroundings and find reasons to trust them. I have no idea how he will find out his friends are allies but I can guess. Or... what I think will happen is that since Subaru has been factory reset a crush on Emillia will cause him to just unconditionally believe what she says.

Is there a way to search a subreddit for all posts made within a specific date range?

I was wondering how real transit systems schedule buses in a way to be useful to riders. Let's take a really simplified route. Say we have 4 stops on a line to make the math easy. The stops are on average 10 minutes apart except for return to terminal.

So naive schedule:

Bus 1: Stop 1 at 3:00, Stop 2 at 3:10, Stop 3 at 3:20, Stop 4 at 3:30, 1st Stop (terminal) at 3:43.

Bus 2: Stop 1 at 3:30, Stop 2 at 3:40, Stop 3 at 3:50, Stop 4 at 4:00, Stop 1 at 4:13.

Bus 3: Stop 1 at 4:00, Stop 2 at 3:10, Stop 3 at 4:20, Stop 4 at 4:40, return to terminal at 4:43.

But there is a problem. A bus might get delayed due to traffic or whatever. Though bus bunching, a late bus will pick up more people, miss more red lights, and fall farther behind. So someone might try to get on at Stop 4 at 3:30 but the but might arrive at 3:50. This is not good. Most people don't want to wait 20 minutes for a bus. You can try to fight bunching by having a late bus turn into an express bus and skip stops since buses can pass each other easier than subway trains, but this is just damage control at this point.

OK, how about try to pad the schedule?

Bus 1: Stop 1 at 3:00, Stop 2 at 3:13, Stop 3 at 3:26, Stop 4 at 3:39, 1st Stop (terminal) at 3:55.

Bus 2: Stop 1 at 3:30, Stop 2 at 3:43, Stop 3 at 3:56, Stop 4 at 4:09, Stop 1 at 4:25.

Bus 3: Stop 1 at 4:00, Stop 2 at 4:13, Stop 3 at 4:26, Stop 4 at 4:49, return to terminal at 4:55.

Well now the buses are slower. Even if a bus gets from Stop 1 and Stop 2 in 10 minutes, it can't "bank" that extra time for future stops. So even a bit of padding adds a lot of extra time. I know this example with only 4 stops is pretty silly, but the problem actually gets worse the more stops there are.

I guess you can just try what Toronto does with buses and run them so frequently that the next bus is 5 minutes away and no one is waiting long even if the bus they would have gotten on is late. But this isn't an option for cities with longer headways.

If a bus or train isn't frequent, it should at least be predictable. That way riders can just walk to it and have a short wait. The problem is that buses mixed with city traffic can throw off timetables easily. I don't know the best way to solve this problem.

OK I know this is a ridiculous question but I noticed in the past 7 years I sometimes get YouTube videos of Japanese people doing anime reviews. I sometimes click on them just for fun even though I can't understand much of it at all. And while some of them sound distinct there is about 3 male voices and 10 female voices that seem to make up almost every channel. Taken at face value, I'd get the impression that more than 90% of Japanese speakers have about the same voice and there are only 13 variations.

This is way too ridiculous to actually be true. For one thing, there are more than 13 voices in anime. And you have voice actors like Kei Tomiyama, Megumi Hayashibara, Sanae Kobayashi and others so even the same VA can have multiple voices. I went to Japan last year as a tourist and although I couldn't understand most of those around me, there were multiple voice "types" just like native English speakers have multiple voices. So it's pretty obvious 13 voices don't represent most of Japanese speakers.

The obvious explanation I could think of is maybe 13 people all around Tokyo (since they seem to share the same accent) made hundreds of channels and sound like 13 people since... they are 13. Or maybe since those voices are generally about anime reviews, maybe people who share the same hobby get their speaking habits from similar places so there are hundreds of uploaders who sound similar. I noticed sometimes those using the 13 "common" voices had a few things in common. None of them had a face reveal, all of them said European words weird, and all of them sometimes had a change in inflection between sentences. Some of the unique voice uploaders like this farmer I watched unclogging a culvert had a face on camera and all of them had natural sentence transitions. I thought of Stephen Hawking's Text to Speech device and how Hatsune Miku can generate audio from Japanese inputs. Perhaps there is a commercially available non-singing voicebank that is just weirdly popular among uploaders? I just find it weird how most of these uploaders sound the same but common sense would tell me that there are more than 13 voices and when I went to Japan there were multiple voices just like any other language.

I know this has probably been mentioned before, but I can't reply to posts made 3 years ago. Anyways, after Rem's name and memories were eaten, everything was altered as if she never existed. Given Ram and Rem were twins, this was a significant part of Ram's life.

There used to be other staff at the Roswaal manor, but it had been whittled down to Rem and Ram before Subaru arrived. Even after Subaru arrived, Rem was doing most of the work. I'd say probably 7/8 since Ram wasn't completely useless.

Well Rem's gone from everyone's memories. Someone who started being a fan right when the director's cut of S1 was released said "there probably is a labor shortage for Roswaal's mansion."

So from Ram's perspective, she, Emillia and Roswaal had been alone for a few months, maybe a year after the other staff were sent away. She had been managing the entire manor just fine. Remember in episode 27 The Next Location, Emillia was surprised the manor was in such a state of disrepair and the kitchen was a mess since Ram "always" worked hard while Frederica was gone and things were fine until things few days. And Ram's memories were also changed too. She no longer remembers Rem

Then a mysterious stranger, Subaru, arrived He's obviously attached to the lady of the manor and gets himself cursed by Mabeasts almost immediately. He then somehow manages to solo a bunch of them before Roswaal arrives. When Rem was erased by the White Whale, Subaru got all the credit, so it stands to reason that in the final loop where Gluttony takes a bite the same thing happened.

Then everything starts falling apart. Ram, who had been managing fine as the lone maid, suddenly finds everything just too much. Cooking is one thing, but cooking and cleaning is too hard. Tasks once so routine feeling like they take too much effort. Subaru then arrives with a sleeping lookalike he claims is Ram's twin sister. Ram can sense they share the same blood, but she still doesn't remember. This all must have been a pretty strange week for her even before Roswaal gets stuck in the Sanctuary.

Oh and IIRC she was pushing a wheelchair with Rem in it at the end of Season 2 didn't she?

x86 processors have a mode known as "real mode" where physical memory is straight mapped. So if I'm interpreting what I read correctly an instruction to load the value at location 1000 into a register would fetch the value at the position 1000 in memory and put it into the register. This is limited to 20 bits of addressing. I read this was due to backward compatibility to the 8086 which lacked a protected mode. If a 32-bit processor uses 32 bits for addressing, why would the real mode be 20 bits? If real is for backwards compatibility with older processors, shouldn't it be 16 bits since the 8086 was a 16-bit?

On the advice of a mod, certain information was omitted for posting so my question may be unclear but I hope you can understand.