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You don't need to know how to run a nuclear power plant, but you do need to know what wires are

This analogy actually works kind of well. Like, you don't actually need to know anything about wiring to use a light switch, but if something goes wrong in your house and you need to fix it, having just a little bit of knowledge about how the device works can save you hundreds of dollars and days of downtime.

It can also help you avoid making the mistakes that cause those problems in the first place, whether the issue is that you don't know what setting you accidentally changed, or you don't know how many watts you can safely pull out of an outlet

I mean if you go into it wanting it to fail, it'll fail. There's a learning curve, as there always is with a new user experience. It isn't a carbon copy of windows, but for the average user, it's a perfectly fine drop-in replacement.

Edit: I spoke too highly of Linux in this comment, I think. While it is true that I have used Linux daily for nearly a year, it has not been as simple as a drop in replacement for Windows. Given a choice, I absolutely prefer Windows, but I will not be using Windows 11, and I don't want to use Windows 10 after it loses support in a few months.

~~Installed Mint like 8 months ago. I didn't even notice that my windows install was doing the failed automatic repair thing until I tried to boot it up for F360 in December, and still haven't bothered to fix it because Tinkercad was good enough. Try convincing me that Linux Mint is not a drop-in linux solution for the everyday user lmao~~

I think what they meant was that they lost all seven of their accounts because one of them got in an argument with an incel. Reddit can very easily link you to your alternate accounts

That's what I'm saying. Dave Brandt didn't pose for that photo expecting to become famous. If you recognize him walking down the street, your reaction is going to be "hey I recognize him! That's the 'honest work' guy!" But if you recognize Nicole walking on the street, your reaction is going to be "oh fuck her"

I don't mean you specifically, I mean you in a general sense

What makes you think I've been banned from Reddit? The fact that I don't like the superiority complex lemmings have about our relatively tiny social network?

ETA: Not all of us were correctly banned from Reddit for abusing the report system. I have a perfectly functional Reddit account, and I choose to spend my time here because it's a better platform. I just don't like to cum in my own mouth about it

I feel so bad for this girl. Nobody who becomes a meme wanted to become a meme, but at least most of them got 15 minutes of fame and are largely ignored. Imagine if the thing you were best known for was being the face of a social media spamming campaign.

I just really don't like the arrogant, self-congratulatory tone some users of this platform have. We're just all so much better and smarter and cooler than those dumbass redditors, and all we had to do was sign up for a different social media platform

I so rarely see other people rank FMA'03 over Brotherhood, but I really preferred it. The more serious tone, the origins of the homunculi, the much stronger ending ("better" is debatable, but it was definitely strong), and most of all, the Pride reveal. '03 revealing it like 2/3 of the way through the series made for a better twist. I'm so happy I was able to avoid that particular spoiler until I watched the show, because that blew my goddamn mind

An honorable mention to who actually killed Winry's parents. Having us grow to like the guy for a while before revealing that particular sin was a stronger choice than just saying "yeah, the antagonist did it"

I hesitated to put Orb very high on my own list due to worries about recency bias, but it really was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I started it because, I mean, look at my username. A show about astronomers studying heliocentrism in 15th century Poland sounds like it's tailor made for me. But it's even better, because it's not actually about astronomy. It's about the anonymous contributors to history, whose names and faces were never recorded, and yet were instrumental to building their era, and by extension every era afterward.

Near the end of the show, a certain character makes reference to the fact that "when the people of the past or future gaze across the span of time, they'll merely see us all as people from the fifteenth century." Indeed, he feels that "we, who happened to live in this day and age, even if we hated one another enough to kill, are comrades who built an era together." Even if your name won't survive over the next five centuries, you still have laid a brick in the foundation of history.

Idunno, I can write a three page essay about this show, and it still wouldn't capture all of my thoughts and feelings. It's the easiest 10/10 I've given a show since Standalone Complex. Truly the only valid criticism of it is that it is physically difficult to watch if your room isn't pitch black. They gotta go back and turn the brightness up on some scenes.

1. Haibane Renmei, Gurren Lagann, and GitS: SAC share first place. Ghost in the Shell changed how I rate shows, because I can't rate a show 10/10 if it doesn't stand up to Ghost in the Shell. Haibane Renmei and Gurren Lagann may lack the technical perfection that earned GitS its place, but they affected me on an emotional level more than any others. The quiet melancholy and ultimately positive resolution of Haibane Renmei puts it in first place for me, and Gurren Lagann's unabashed bombastic glorification of Humanity and complete denial of despair is irresistible to me.

2. A Certain Scientific Railgun got me into anime, so it has to be up there. Since I started the show nearly four years ago, I've maintained a streak of watching anime every single day. The Sisters Arc remains my favorite individual portion of anime I've ever seen.

3. Mushishi is one of a very few series I would call a flawless masterpiece.

4. Shinsekai Yori led to a great many discussions with both myself and others about what constitutes a "human," which is maybe my favorite philosophical topic

5. Last Exile perfectly captures my favorite world building technique of just plopping the viewer in the world and not explaining anything, plus Range Murata's character design is peak

6. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a series focusing on astronomers studying heliocentrism in 14th century Poland. The basic concept was tailor made for me specifically. The actual show is less about astronomy, and more about the anonymous figures throughout history who never had their names or particular contributions recorded, but were nevertheless instrumental to building both the time they lived in and the future that came after it. It has the longest review I've ever written for a show—usually I struggle to come up with more words to say. Talking about Orb, I struggle to stop writing.

7. ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Department because I really like the deliberate denial of action. A show about a federal government auditor investigating a potential coup, and there isn't a single action sequence

8. Read or Die (OVA and The TV), because ~~Yomiko Readman is my wife~~ I like the story and all the characters. I've never missed characters after finishing a show like I missed the Paper Sisters

9. Ergo Proxy, because it too raises questions about what is "human," it too sparked a lot of writing from me, and it raises interesting discussions about theology. I struggle to think of any other shows with a decidedly antitheist vibe.

10. Megalo Box, because the whiplash between the first and second seasons was incredible. Never seen a show go from shounen to seinen like that. I found both seasons compelling, but the second season shot it up to 10/10 for me

As well it should be. Even if we get our act together and elect another sane president, we've demonstrated that we're happy to burn every single bridge we've spent so long building, and that it isn't some one-off fuckup either