zagaberoo

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I did not expect to find other Taiga dorks in here!

For the curious: Taiga dramas are very slow-paced (50-hour seasons) and on the dry side, but man are they excellent. The sets and costumes are beautiful, the characters and plots are compelling, and they're quite educational (as far as dramas go).

Most are in feudal settings, but they aren't constrained to one time period. There's even one about the split loyalties of Japanese Americans in WWII. Really hard-hitting stuff.

If 50 hours of mostly people taking to each other isn't a turn-off, I'd recommend starting with Hideyoshi. The lead from Samurai Gourmet plays one of the most pivotal figures of Japan's unification, covering his entire adult life from peasant farmer to supreme ruler. There's an atypical injection of contemporary salaryman comedy that makes the whole thing more approachable.

Taigas can be a pain to track down; anybody who's interested can DM me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bah, they'll never have my precious -march=native!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's funny that a desire for biome diversity has led in a small way to a kind of sameyness. Not so much a criticism as an amusing little irony.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Semiconductor tech is super cool though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how Dawkins originally intended it, interestingly. It's been completely redefined in popular parlance, but a meme is originally any transmissable unit of information between minds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use last.fm religiously. I still love being able to go back and look at what I was listening to, or when I discovered something I still love.

I eventually got too lazy to keep all my listening sources scrobbled, but I miss it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really is great for nostalgia. I should get back on the wagon; I'm so glad to have my college listening records.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you scrobble your listenings? I used to be all about that but it feels much harder in the age of music streaming.