Hetare King

You mean the places that did the actual research and development on how to effectively build (high speed) trains and rail networks took longer to get where they are than the place that could just use already well-established technology? No way!

Don’t get me wrong, there can absolutely be political barriers to having a good rail network (as evidenced by the US), but let’s not pretend you’re comparing apples to apples here.

Heh, in fact there was a new Urusei Yatsura series recently, there’s a new Ranma 1/2 running right now and there was an anime-original Inuyasha spinoff (Yashahime) a couple of years ago. There’s actually a bunch of 80s IPs being taken out of the storehouse right now, with a new Cat’s Eye series running right now and an upcoming Kimengumi series.

The issue appears to be a lack of original works to adapt, or perhaps more accurately, too many of them. Adapting existing works has always been anime’s bread and butter, but while there are more people than ever reading manga (and light novels) right now, their attention is spread across a larger body of works, so there’s not that much that stands out in terms of popularity.

That said, brining back these old IPs might not be a bad thing in the long run. Back in the early 90s after the real estate bubble popped, a lot fewer shows were being made, so TV stations had to air reruns of older shows. This revived interest in genres that had gone out of fashion, like science-fiction, and led to the mid-to-late 90s period that is often seen as a golden age. Maybe this will be one of the things that will end this current rut of infinite isekai stories. I can hope, at least.

The FLCL sequels were made at Production I.G., Gainax just licensed out the IP. There’s no real overlap in the people who worked on it either; I think just the director, and only in the role of “supervisor”, and the original character designer.

The most recent work by the director (Tsurumaki Kazuya) and writer (Enokido Youji) of FLCL is Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, at Khara, Anno Hideaki’s studio. Some other prolific people who worked on FLCL, Imaishi Hiroyuki and Ootsuka Masahiko, are now the big cheeses at Studio Trigger. Yoshinari You also mostly works at Trigger.

I do think there’s a meaningful distinction to be made between something being attributed to a real person and a fictional character being loosely based on real people, though. Like, I think we can be pretty confident that the events in the Epic of Gilgamesh didn’t really happen (at least not literally), but if Gilgamesh was, like is generally accepted, a real person, the Gilgamesh in the Epic is most likely supposed to be that guy. Whereas Robin Hood was probably never meant to be any particular person.

That said, do we actually know whether all the stories in the Bible about Jesus were originally about the same individual? The new testament was written decades and centuries after the death of historical Jesus, by people who didn’t even live in the region, right? So all the stories the authors heard would have come from traders and missionaries of Christian cults with vocal traditions. That alone is very long game of telephone, but I imagine every town at the time would have at least one person claiming to be messiah, and if one of them became a big enough deal that rumours around him spread beyond town, there would also be bunch of copycats. So a lot of room for mix-ups.

“I am Jesus, your king!” “I heard Jesus was buried like three days ago!” “I uh- I have come back from the dead!” And then he skipped town ASAP.

I’m not an expert on making browser extensions, but I doubt they’d get direct access to the audio buffer just before it gets sent to the the OS. It should be possible to do this on the OS-level though, like with (on Linux) a PulseAudio module or something.

I’m reminded of laundry detergent for some reason.

In Japanese: 春夏冬
It means spring (haru), summer (natsu), winter (fuyu). What’s missing? Autumn. In other words, autumn (aki) is nonexistent (nai), so this is pronounced akinai, which means “not getting tired/bored of something”.

According to the website, it does not. But it also doesn’t support GPU passthrough yet, so it’s not yet really an option for most games anyway.

Here’s a thought: instead of fighting this, make it a requirement to publish the prompts before making a speech. Speeches by politicians being low in information density is nothing new, and the usage of LLMs will undoubtedly make that worse, but it also means that they had to have written a terse description of the information they want to convey. If that were public, people could just read that and not waste time listening to speeches.

It would be ironic if the first use-case for LLMs that creates positive value for society involves ignoring its output, though.