Finally got that Mac Clone, but it seems to be finicky, it wouldn’t chime. Maybe have to do with the PRAM, but I put a new battery. May have to clean the contacts and reseat everything. Maybe it’s time to replace the PSU too since it can use a regular ATX PSU (pinouts are the same from reading the posts on 68kmla and tinkerdifferent)
Noticed the cache card is missing, so I probably need to install the G3 accelerator card.
@yon I got this SATA card for the Power Computing clone that is coming soon, and this is practically the easiest card to flash, to make it work on a Mac. Just in case if you are interested.
@yon I have been born then Mac OS 7 was about to get released. My parents had IBM XT and the old IBM PS/2, before I got a Performa 630 CD. Funny how it is more capable and easier to use than Windows 3.1.
Tech evolved a lot in the 90s ,and I started using the internet a lot in the late 90s, especially in the 2000s. Wait, parents allow a 10 year old child on the internet unsupervised. Those were the times, which of course developed my interest in computers and technology since I had access to a lot of computers, but the Macintosh is the one I’m probably the most nostalgic for, not so much for PC hardware.
From the looks of it, the cron task to remove the temp files, which accumulates. Usually, these files should get removed automatically. Of course, sometimes the file never get deleted, which accumulates and can fill up the drive and crash the server.
Now, there is a daily cron job that removes the files if they are still there, they will get removed at midnight. This will hopefully prevent the server from going down in the future because of disk space because of temp files not getting removed.
The production problems with Sasayaku You ni wo Utau isn’t the first, but certainly won't be the last.
We know how disastrous Marchen Madchen's anime production was in 2018. It's a shame that any anime adaptation doesn't get at least a decent production that has a chance to possibly get another installment or sell more copies of the source material.
But instances like these won’t be the last, until something breaks or the workers decide to unionize. This is just not sustainable
Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau Production Problems (Full Text)
While not posted here on the Fediverse, a user on the :deadbird: site has gotten in contact with a user to leak the problems the staff are working with while producing the anime. (Note: Some spelling corrections, source from Patstar_1999, OCR in text form) I may write a follow up editorial post on this over on my main blog at a future date.
@chikorita157 I'm not very knowledgeable about anime production aside from what I've gleaned from watching shows like Shirobako, but I'm skeptical about this leak because the part about the concert scene only having 2-4 people working on it contradicts the credits in the episode itself.
I suppose it's possible that they credited a bunch of people who did little or no work on this scene, but why? (The thread even claims there are problems with people not being credited, rather than the opposite.)
Also the part about "different schedules, no chance to communicate" seems weird. I've never heard of anime production, during the actual animation process, being anything other a back-and-forth thing - the animators aren't getting minute-by-minute feedback on each frame from the directors or anything. AFAIK, cuts usually get turned in when they're done, then reviewed as time permits, then returned and revised.
I don't doubt there's brutal crunch on Sasakoi and episodes are barely being finished in time, but anyone could guess that just by watching it. I do doubt that the finer details in this "leak" come from a trustworthy source.
(Side note, not all these thoughts are original, I owe some of them like the credits discrepancy to a friend of mine on deadbird. But as said friend has had their account privated for a long time, I think they would prefer I didn't spread their name around.)
@chikorita157@lethekazhorai Yeah, OP has no idea what they're talking about. They may or may not know a staff member, but if they do, then something got lost in translation.
Letheka is right: the credits clearly contradict what OP is saying and staff not all being in the same office is the norm. Traditionally there'll be an animation meeting or "sakuuchi" where the episode director (enshutsu) and production assistant meet with all the key animators (although ideally sakkan, douga kensa, etc. should be there too) and explain each of the assigned cuts, but these days you might also just have the enshutsu record videos for each animator and asking them to reach out individually with questions. OP is right that the lack of communication is a bad thing, but wrong that this is abnormal.
To be fair to OP, if they're not straight-up bullshitting, it's possible that like…animators are receiving storyboard and settei packets with no further elaboration. The contradiction with the credits and the way it's mentioned alongside the essentially meaningless "different schedule" thing makes me suspect bullshit, but there is a plausible interpretation.
>another small thing that is probably known is the fact that Yokohama and Cloudhearts are not the ones making the schedules and budget management
…yes, yes that is how anime works unless you are KyoAni. You can get pedantic here because anime studios actually do always set their own budgets because the production committee pays the primary contractor a fee to make the cartoon and then the primary contractor spends however much of their own money they need to get the dang thing to air. That just makes OP's claim weirder though because I don't know how a studio can lose control of how it spends its own money unless there's something very weird I don't know about how these particular studios are structured. The best I can come up with for a charitable reading is that OP might've heard that the contractor can't just ask for more time and money and misunderstood.
>They use outsourcing studios, giving them nothing to work with and in the end the outsourcing studios are the ones with the backlash.
Again, this has been how TV anime has worked since Astro Boy. This is so vague that you can once again imagine OP heard something and just didn't understand the context, but there's nothing "scummy" on the face of it. Maybe the primary contractor really is weirdly uncommunicative with its subcontractors. Maybe OP is making shit up. Who knows? According to my METI anime subcontracting guide, Japanese law considers failing to deliver information such as required to complete the job described in the contract to be an abrogation of the terms, so it better not be the former lmao
>Yokohamas entire team left the project because of these awful conditions. […] What happened is that since EP3, every EP has a different team, people are getting not credited.
That doesn't seem to be true though? What would that even mean anyway?
With the Japanese version of Magia Record shutting down at the end of July, here is my editorial I wrote a few years back on the gripes of Gacha/Live services games.
@chikorita157 I strongly prefer games with an actual end. If they don’t have an end I just get tired of them one day. Like a lot of driving games.
There’s a few exceptions, like Minecraft, that doesn’t have a way to end. But it’s fine if it’s part of the game design and not part of the monetization plan.
I find that I tend to remember things much better if there’s an end. I get a memory of the game. While if it doesn’t it kind of just goes nowhere.
Plus gacha, isn’t really fun for me. I see through the monetization and yeah. I don’t like it.
Also there’s a lot of older games out there waiting to be enjoyed :)
Ordered a SATA PCI adapter, the Rabbit Hole Computing one that is easy to flash with the Firmtek firmware to make it bootable for Mac OS 9 or lower. I plan to replace the PSU with the Corsair one in the PowerCenter 150 since it basically uses an off the shelf ATX PSU.
Yep, we are going to make a semi-extreme build, putting in actual SSD, maxing out the RAM, adding a fast video card, and a G3 accelerator. Sourcing the 128 MB 5V FPM DIMM RAM sticks might be the hard to find, without paying a lot for them.
@chikorita157 For me Intel is boring. But not because it’s bad, but because it was constantly incremental and zero iconic things around it.
It even got boring with macs, as they are slick but doesn’t have much personality.
We have a G4 Mac laptop. But it’s my wives and I don’t have the heart to potentially break it somehow. I’m sure she wouldn’t care ironically, but I would.
No wonder @yon regrets having an iPad. iPadOS is a mess, although I use an iPad and it’s okay for my uses. Still, not finding a compelling reason to upgrade to an M4, when an M1 does 100% what I do, but without an OLED screen. Even the M1 is still overkill.
@chikorita157@yon The more I see this version of growth in the iPad ecosystem, it means that it's not for me. I am not the buyer they want. I enjoy my iPad mini for reading or viewing content but that's it. I bought the pencil to draw but don't use it much.
I would never buy anything bigger especially these expensive models.
@yon Apparently, I bought a Mac Clone off a Retro Mac forum. Not an 8600/9600, but one of those Power Computing Mac clones, and it is one of those models that used the same processor daughter card despite the logic board being based off a Power Macintosh 7200 design.
More on it later, but it looks like the RAM is the only thing I need to get since it has a SCSI2SD, although is it better to use a BlueSCSI one instead?
@chikorita157@yon Raiser cards have become a thing with modern gaming rigs too, because of the massive power the GPUs draw.
But there's a lot of other problems to solve, like the form factor of the slot bracket for example.
Seems that wildcard support for antennas in Sharkey is finally added. I will eventually update the software on Sakurajima Social to add the most recent updates
@chikorita157 I like their awesome journalism and that they aren’t a bunch of twats honestly. There’s plenty of funny people online that are also nice. So I can watch that when I want funny:)