I dunno if this is really a curse. I've played Warframe, I know not to gift any animals with human intelligence. That's how you end up giving them human depression.

Holy hell this shit is so peak. Never would have expected that exorcism, really love that Jiji let the band setup and perform knowing the whole time what he'd do.

The biggest change that I loathe is the Void Century. The initial concept seemed too fantastical to be true. A 100 year chunk of history that has been cut out and scrubbed from the record? So there was contiguous history from before that, right?...right?

Oda's really big on rule of cool and having flashy setpieces in the moment, and that's fun. It's just a very disappointing world when there are so many examples of the audience being told one thing, only for the information to be changed later.

The second my body wakes up, I am in pain and want to throw up. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to stretch, adjust to the pain, and power through the nausea.

because the United States is run by big business, and it's much easier for big business to only need to bribe one man than to bribe several dozen.

actually think One Piece worldbuilding is hilariously bad, so wild to see it used as a good example.

I think most of the anime I've watched that I'd consider to have decent worldbuilding usually cheat by basing it either directly or indirectly on the modern world. Something like Solo Leveling, which I think actually does a great job exploring how human society would react to videogame dungeons suddenly appearing, still gets the benefit of world cultures and how they act already being in place. Similarly, I think a lot of cyberpunk anime cheats in the same way; it's more like a modern society getting extra bits and bobs added to it than an originally built world.

Honestly, thinking about this has made me realize no anime I've watched is stacking up against the serious juggernauts like Tolkien or Pratchett. Pre-Shippuden Naruto is pretty close, but I think the world becomes increasingly nonsensical as the series goes on. Dr Stone would be towards the top if everything in its world didn't revolve around Senku, though it also cheats a little bit by having those connections to the modern world.

I think my answer, as boring as it is, will actually be Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I think the country of Amestris and its history are really well realized, other countries in the world are fleshed out pretty well, and while they are clearly based on real world archetypes, there's enough magical additions to make them a little distinct. The alchemical rules are simple, but understandable, and they don't get broken by nonsense powerscaling. You can put a lot of the story together ahead of the big reveal by understanding the world and it's logic, which I consider the mark of really great worldbuilding.

I started out using an old Nvidia Geforce 1060 TI and an i5 whose model number now escapes me. My experience was terrible, on Mint, Ubuntu, and Bazzite. Most games didn't work, and researching the error messages I found in my logs just directed me to Nvidia forum posts from 6 months to a year ago where a user described my exact issue and received no response.

Then, I purchased a new pre-fab computer with an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D processor and a Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU. I still had a handful of issues on Ubuntu, so I switched to Bazzite and it's been smooth sailing ever since. I can run the vast majority of games through Steam, and use Bottles for anything else.

The lesson I learned was fuck Nvidia. Team Red 4 lyfe.

spoken like somebody who doesn't know a thing about security.

Windows 10 is going to be compromised the second it goes end-of-life. There are cybercriminals who've been sitting on exploits, potentially for the entire Windows 10 lifecycle, but at the very least for the past year or two. The second Microsoft will no longer commit to patching those, they'll pounce.

Connecting any operating system to the internet after it goes EoL is just asking for trouble.

Don't fall for outdoor propoganda! There's plenty of boyfriends on the internet!

I think the implication is that it's a non-poisonous frog who has merely painted themselves blue. bird will be fine, bird too silly to even know they made a mistake.