Voxels

Hi, I'm Southern. And I'm unfortunately not on the Mastodon board. Now, I know this is a huge

loss to everyone. We petitioned hard, we petitioned strong, and alas, they did not put me on the

board. I understand everyone has mixed feelings about that. I'm Christian, by the way. I would

just want to say that I don't care what they're doing with the money, what they're not doing with

the money. Europeans built different, so return to stolen artifacts first. But we need some baddies

on that board. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, this is episode seven of Voxels. We're ostensibly a

culture podcast. I mean, Mastodon is culture, so we got to mention it.

I mean, remember, computers are culture, you feel me? And all I'm saying is, I'm not trying to be

problematic, but I would not vote for AI if I was on the board unless it's the kind of AI that gives

everyone free HRT. That's all I'm saying. Vote me 2024 for the Mastodon board. Yeah, I mean,

at least it's kind of like, did they put fucking Biz Stone on the board? Is there a sale on washed

up tech bros? What's going on? You know what's actually the most sketchy part about this?

You know what? I actually don't give a fuck about the non-profit, right? It's the one sentence

mention of, "We lost our non-profit status in Germany." How do you... There's, I feel like,

at least in US and Canada, one does not simply lose non-profit status.

I have many questions about that. I have significant questions about why the fuck Germany

revoked the Mastodon non-profit status. I'm extremely curious what happened there. We are

not getting enough details there, I'm for sure. I'm sure we'll find out.

So anyone in Germany, here's what you're going to do, all right? I'm going to assume that most

countries have a version of the Freedom of Information Request stuff we have in the US,

right? Someone should just start FOIAing, FOIAing all the documents for Mastodon.

I don't know if FOIAs as a concept exist in Germany, but if they're...

Let's Google this. Does FOIA exist?

I mean, they probably have some sort of government transparency stuff happening, but

if you have any German listeners, please, especially people who understand...

Yes, Germany has one that went into effect on January 1st, 2006. I have the Federal Act

Governing Access to Information held by the federal government. First and foremost,

shout out to the Germans for having this shit available in English.

The US ain't got any other shit available in Spanish, so shout out to the Germans on that.

Yeah, I would very much like to know. I don't care about this new board. This is just

whatever. Who gives a shit, honestly? I mean, people do give a shit, but also at the same time,

it's like, does it really matter? It doesn't actually, day to day, whatever.

Anyway, I'm curious what happened to the old, not the old, the German non-profit there.

Also, I do want to just say, for anyone out there thinking, "Oh, this is a way for

the Mastodon developers to funnel money," actual jokes aside, it is stupidly difficult to do that

in the US of a non-profit. To be clear, if Gargon wanted to funnel money, he would have made it a

religious non-profit. Anyways, let's talk about Destiny 2 weapon sunsetting.

- (laughs) Okay, yeah, let's move on straight from that to Destiny, of course. So Destiny 2.

- Two bad topics in a row.

- Two bad topics in a row. We got a weapon. Okay, so this is kind of a big deal, right?

So Destiny 2 had this controversial, let's just say, thing that it did. What was it,

like a couple years ago now? - It was 2019. It was before the pandemic,

because that's when you stopped playing, right? When they started doing the whole

gear sunsetting thing. - I don't care about the sunsetting.

It never really bothered me specifically because I never played Destiny 2 enough to care about

the weapons being sunset. I know a lot of people were pissed off because a lot of their favorite

weapons or gear or whatever was being sunsetted. People felt... I mean, it felt like all this time

and investment that they had put into this game just kind of goes away. So there...

- And plus two, content was also sunset too, remember? That's when they removed all the

old content from the game. - Yeah, content, yeah. All the content,

all the... Sort of the history of the game was sunset in a way. That was kind of like a weird

thing. If you're new to the game, there's this whole aspect, this whole era of the game that's

just not available to play, right? Unless you go and watch people play it on YouTube or whatever.

You can't actually experience it for yourself because it's sunset. So they're undoing part

of it, right? They're undoing the weapons specifically. They're gonna unsunset because

there's no other good way to say that verb the other way around. Let's not do that.

So they're unsunsetting all weapons. At this point in Destiny 2's sort of

state, how much does this actually matter? I know this sounds like... I mean, it's a big deal,

but also at the same time, we're approaching what appears to be the end of Destiny 2's...

- Current iteration, yeah. Okay, so it's weird because I don't think anyone knows how this is

gonna play out until it goes live in the game. And the reason I say this is, is a god roll gun

that I was playing with back in 2017 still good with current content? I don't know, right? We

don't know if it will be or not. And the main reason is there have been new weapon perks,

new weapon abilities. So all these guns are just getting updated to the current level so you can

still use them and actually deal damage. And they're getting current weapon tuning,

but they're not getting current weapon building, right? So in Destiny, you have two things,

right? You have how the guns actually shoot, how recoil is, how reload speeds are, that kind of

stuff. But you also have perks on guns. So you're not gonna get a new roll of it with additional

perks. You're gonna get the original perks, and they've added new perks to the game since.

So that's the question mark that everyone has, is like, are these still gonna be viable? It'd be

fun to mess around with. I have a bunch of stuff in my vault that I'm gonna take out, I'm gonna

play around with, see how it plays. But is this actually going to shuffle the meta? I don't think

so. And I think that's why Bungie did it, because they're probably looking at it now being like,

this is an easy move. It'll make a lot of people happy. But it's probably not going to break the

meta, since all the new perks are the things that the game's balanced for. And a gun having a really

fast reload perk when another one has a precision damage perk that isn't even available to that

iteration of the weapon you're using, you're gonna be outgunned regardless. However, though,

I still think it's important, because it is so funny seeing people on X, Twitter, whatever it's

called, mast it on Reddit. You know people did, right? They broke down all their stuff in the

vault. Yeah. Yeah. All their favorite guns and people are in shambles right now, bro. People

are in shambles. P.S. They never, they didn't think they were going to get their god rolls back

and now they did. And I, I am just like, I'm in my villain phase right now. I am just drinking

these tears. That's, yeah, that's what's funny. And like, yeah, I get it. So what people might

just be like, oh, that's, that's unfortunate. Like it's, there's some other good moves though,

in this blog post. I know it's on the Polygon post, but something else to bring into Final

Shape is super important is something called fire team power. So let's say I'm high level

because I play Destiny all the time because I, I, I don't know how to play other games. I,

I literally do not know what another video game is. But you want to join in, but you haven't

leveled up in forever. So what it's gonna be doing now is because you're in my team,

it's going to raise your, your power. So we're more balanced.

- Oh, so this, so this, okay. That's actually good because it sort of makes the, the whole

problem of like people who haven't played in a while coming back to the game and then,

then they can't participate in like group stuff because they are massively under leveled. Right.

- Right.

- I think that's, this is a good idea. I think this is a smart, smart move.

- Yeah. So they're, they're just trying to do more ways to get people back into Destiny, I think,

with, with all of these changes, like the redoing power difficulty. So it's really only a 40

level or 40 power difference from Final Shape stuff to end game stuff. So they're kind of,

honestly, what I think they're doing is they're trying to phase out, I think, power and have set

difficulty for activities, but they probably give a huge game rework, right. Textured with the values.

So they're, they're trying to standardize power between things to make it just more of like a

difficulty selector versus a, a grind. Since I think a lot of people, what would the seasonal

model, right. It used to be your power gets reset, you grind back up the next season it resets. And

I think a lot of people really fell off that, that hamster wheel because it is just, it's a grind,

it's a slog and it's not fun. - It's a grind. It's a, it's a real,

it's a real slog because every, every season, it's just like, you get back into it and you're just

like doing the activities all over again. And it's just like, and then he just gets reset over and

over again and just feels bad. Like it doesn't feel good. Right. You don't, you don't feel like

you've actually made any progress in the video game. Right. So. - Yeah. And, and the nice thing

too is with the Final Shape is there. So like I said, they're, they're sort of compressing it.

It used to be 150 levels for each season. It's only going to be 40 from the expansion. And then

they're not raising the cap for the whole year. So you, that's, I think that's basically, if you

beat the campaign on Legendary, you actually get a set of gear at the top of that level.

So if you just want to not grind, you just do the campaign on hard mode and then you're good.

They're also doing account-wide power too. So if you have different characters, you don't have to

regrind shit on your different characters. So you could. - Oh, that's. - Yeah. So I think,

I don't think Bungie is going to, with this expansion, I don't think they're going to get

anyone back, but what I see there, what I see that they're doing is they're trying to think,

lay the groundwork to, for eventually when the reset happens, right. To make a game that's far

more welcoming for newer players. - Yeah. Yeah. I, yeah. I'm seeing a lot of like, yeah. Like a

lot of the building blocks of like a completely new, a redone like sort of progression curve and

like progression system of perks, class, they're doing multi-classing, right. They're going to do

multi-classing. So they're like basically reworking a lot of the fundamental like,

like game mechanics and frameworks that are here. So, and I'm not like personally interested in this

right now. Like I, Destiny, I'm out. Like I've been out for a minute, so I am not going to come

back for the final shape. It doesn't make sense, really. Like, honestly, I don't like nothing,

nothing is going to bring me back here because like story stuff, I've been disconnected for

a long ass time. So it's, there's nothing here, but you know, if this is the kind of game that

they're making going forward, like the next iteration of Destiny, Destiny 3, whatever

they're going to call it, like I'll give it a shot. Sure. Also they're, they're, they're working

on the crucible. They're introducing one new mode that I think you actually might enjoy. Oh no,

oh no. What is it? Gun game. It's called a hardware. Um, no abilities, just guns and grenades.

That's sure. I, I've never big, been a huge fan of the gun game mode type in first person shooters

personally, but you know, uh, sure. Uh, that's, I'm glad that. I mean, people have been wanting

that forever. Right. Cause that's like the more halo you can get, I think where it's like,

you don't, you don't do specific builds, right. It's just, you know, start off with a gun

and then, you know, you have, you could pick up ammo crates on certain timeframes and that's it.

I'm, I think this is probably be destiny's like most popular multiplayer mode since honestly,

I, I don't like abilities and competitive shooters that are not objective based, right.

Uh, Overwatch has its problems, but I think Overwatch kind of like if they used to have it,

right, like a death match above an Overwatch, it wasn't an absolute trash. No, I mean,

Overwatch is designed fully with abilities in mind, right? Like it's a game like from the ground up,

like the P it's a PVP game from the ground up. Right. First of all. Uh, and it's not like

a hybrid of like PVP and PVE, like, yeah, they're trying to do more PVE stuff, but like Overwatch

at the, at the core of it's like gameplay is this PVP and it's balanced for ability. So abilities

feel better to use in a PVE like in, in Overwatch than they do in, in destiny, uh,

crucible. Right. Uh, because it just feels it's in destiny crucible also always felt like I'm just

getting fucking bombarded with abilities all the time. And it's just like, what's the point of

having a good weapon? It just feels kind of like, it's not, it's not fun. Like destiny crucible is

not fun. Like it hasn't been fun for, for a long time. I don't know if it's gotten better recently,

but, uh, from what I hear it's, it's kind of, kind of been kind of in mid for a minute. Uh, so,

uh, is there anything else? I think, uh, the multi-classic stuff, well, that's not,

that's a whole other discussion. So we probably just leave that there. Uh, I think, I think once

the final shape comes out, we can talk about how it's implemented. P is, uh, it's coming out soon

enough. And like, I'm thankfully, I don't think bungee is going well, assuming Sony doesn't shut

it down. I think the plan, at least at bungee from what they're doing is to lay the groundwork,

like I said, for something new and kind of like a reset. And yeah, I'm, I'm excited for the future

of destiny. It looks like the current leadership seems to be taking a lot of the feedback that

people have been giving over the years and actually trying to implement it. Uh, or maybe

they just ran out of money and everyone's like, fuck, what do we do? And someone finally pulled

up the poster that said, give them what they fucking want you dumbasses. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

I think this, all this feels very like, Hey, we're, we're, we're going to try all this shit now

because you know, we got to, we got to prepare ourselves for the next iteration. And who knows

what the next generation is actually going to happen. Nothing is set in stone, this kind of

shit. Who knows what Sony is thinking? Um, because that's, it's all very contingent on Sony willing

to fund, uh, development of, uh, another iteration of this game. So, it works for

halo infinite though. Like why is halo infinite good? They just brought back the old maps.

They hit, they broke the glass in case of emergency. Sure. I mean, I, I, I don't know,

but it's not, I mean, I don't think they care if it's good. I think they care if it's popular.

Like if it makes, it has a strong user base that makes money, uh, for Sony. I mean, I'm not,

I'm not talking about ourselves. I'm talking about Sony. Um, so I'm very curious if they,

if they want to keep investing in destiny. I hope they do, because I think it would be a shame to

just have destiny kind of end like that. Like it's, it's, uh, what game would I play? Like I

can't play overwatch the fuck. Yeah. What kind of play final fantasy 14. Um, it does have Xbox

support now. That's true. I could, yeah, you could, you could get into, uh, anyways. Uh,

I finished, uh, I finished this thing, a player, uh, game, uh, without horizon forbidden West,

uh, which came out earlier. I came out like late last month and I started playing it this month,

finished the base game. There's, I'm still going through the DLC. Uh, the base game took me about,

uh, 80, uh, 80 hours, um, with doing all the side quests and stuff, uh, uh, and, uh, and all the

sort of activities, a lot of the activity stuff that isn't the game. Uh, so it took me any hours.

I personally, I think this is like, why is it forbidden West? It's just like overall, just like

a better game in any, every way that the, that the first game in the, that horizon zeroed on,

uh, it looks amazing. Uh, it, the story is interesting and has like good characters. Uh,

and it's, uh, it's good. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's what I wanted. Uh, it's,

it's the open world bullshit, uh, that I needed. Uh, so that's, uh, that's all,

there's not much to say about it without spoiling the game. So I'm just going to say that the ending

of this main story, uh, is interesting. I wonder what's going to happen, uh, I know one, know what

the plan is with this franchise, uh, because it, uh, the ending of the, of this game sort of left

things up for grabs. Uh, so, uh, that's horizon forbidden West now. Our IP Lance Reddick on

destiny and on horizon. Yeah, I absolutely, uh, that's, that's the one thing that's good to

mention is that last Reddick played a role, uh, in, in horizon zero dawn and also in horizon

forbidden West. And I imagine this was one of his last, uh, last roles, uh, at least as far

as video games go. Uh, so yeah. Um, it's, it's, it's, yeah, it's, it's like he, his character

looks like himself in the real world. So it's like kind of weird. Uh, but yeah, it's, it's,

it's, it's, it's sad to see that we're not going to get any more performances, uh, from Lance.

Uh, so now we get to the, uh, well, we are all here for, I think, uh, the anime pickup of spring

2024, uh, and delayed, but here in ready to go with more shows than, um, just a lot. I don't

even count. Oh my God. Let me count this real quick. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 ish, 27 shows. Let's get it. And

all right. So listeners and static, I have a challenge for y'all. One of these shows is funded

by Japan's train system. Um, guess you're going to guess which one it is. And at the end, I will,

I'm not telling you which one of these shows is, but I'm just going to go through it.

I think, I think I can guess with these titles, uh, titles, titles don't matter. Wait until you

hear the descriptions. Um, but okay. So we're going to start with the actually gay category.

The reason is, um, these are as the title implies, actually where there's like actual, you know,

it's not because he used to have like that shit. Right. You remember like back in the day

where it would be like technically a Yuri or like a boy's love kind of, um, genre tag,

but it was just baiting the entire time. Like that gay shit never happened. It actually happened

in these. So we have today, I'm a O'Kerry. I'm terrible at pronouncing Japanese words.

So this is, um, I got baited with this one in a way I didn't think. So this is basically,

you know, a slice of life show where, uh, two husbands are taking care of their kid and just

like live in life. And I'm like, hell yeah. You know what? That's the shit I'm here for, right?

I don't want no love story. Just, just, you know, shows that don't even acknowledge it in a way

where they make it a plot point or whatever. Right. Just it's our normal relationship. We

need more of that representation. That's what I'm here for. Unfortunately, it's in the Omegaverse.

Oh boy. Uh, and I'd ever thought I would link to wattpad in, um, one of our show notes,

but I have a wattpad link here explaining what this shit is. So, so, so, so for those of you

who have been blessed to never run into the, Oh my fucking God. Oh no. I know I'm looking,

I'm looking at the fucking recommendations on the side. There's a 50 shades of Erie,

which is like an attack on Titan, 50 shades of gray fan fiction. Jesus Christ. Oh no.

Yeah. Um, let's go back. Let's go back to that. Anyways. Great explanation on a wattpad.com

by Vivaldi. Um, so, um, okay. Basically in this world, there are three types of people,

alpha, beta, and Omega. Um, and people, and when alpha is an Omega's date,

you can be discriminated against. Uh, really what you want to think about this is basically it's,

um, alphas are tops and Omegas are bottoms and anything in between are like switches and shit.

And I guess in this world to have the two tops make sense, but not a top and a bottom,

when you really think about it, two tops is just like an unfinished sandwich. So I don't really

know how that works, but that's a shock. Okay. Sure. This is going great. I love this. Okay.

That is what this show is about. And as a lot of the plot, there's a side plot of like

them facing discrimination for one being a top and one being a bottom even. And not, I mean,

I guess it was just better than like some like really bad plot about like their sexuality, but

um, yeah, this is, uh, I don't want to actually judge. I am kind of memeing on this, but I,

I am so uninformed on all of this that it could really be like a great narrative device, right?

I just don't know. Sure. I am. I just, yeah, I, I'm like vaguely, this is also like the Omegaverse

fiction has also made its way to like publish books nowadays. It's the thing that's happening

for some reason. I don't know why now of all times, because the back up versus the thing

has been around for a bit. Uh, so it's not a new, it's not a new thing. It's it's been around.

Um, when I, when I read this as a mega verse, I legit thought it was like some mech shit.

No, it's uh, well, no. Uh, but I could see max being gear max max being involved. Uh,

for sure. I am sure he could write a Gundam show into your mega verse. Um, so what's, uh,

is the show good? Like, is it, is it like so far? Like, like, is it, is it like,

are you enjoying the shows so far? As you can imagine the parts of the show that are just

slice of life things of two husbands taking care of their kid is fantastic. And the rest of it is

kind of whack. Honestly, if someone put on YouTube, just a cut of each episode with the slice

of life shit and nothing else, I'd be happy. I would pay money for that. Yeah. Well, okay. Uh,

that, that, that just seems like the, somebody wanted to write like an Omega first thing,

but like, it didn't really have like an actual plot, like beyond like the slice of life stuff,

uh, which seems kind of unfortunate, like a lot of possibilities, uh, left on the table.

Uh, Oh, whisper me a love song. Uh, this one is surprisingly one of the only high dive links on

this one, which seems, uh, out of place, but, uh, I'm sorry. No, we got to step back. I'm

I'm reading the fucking Wikipedia page of Omega verse. This shit originated in star Trek. What

the fuck? Uh, what? I'm sorry. We, we just got to like open the link. I just put in the show notes.

Oh, Oh no. Oh no. And you want to go to the origins part, uh, tropes origins. So the concept

of mating and heat cycles among humans is popularized by a 1967 episode, a muck time of

the American television series, star Trek. Oh, upon far. Oh my God. Oh, the Vulcan stuff. Oh,

okay. Nerds, bro. Um, swear to God. Um, I don't want to, I'm not like, this is, I mean, sure. Oh,

wow. This is interesting. But, uh, that's, uh, I, I don't know if that is the origin,

like if it's just the origin of the trope or the origin of Omega verse. Like, I think it's sort of

like, Oh, by the way, it's as a thing, or it just, it just means that Omega versus like a subset of,

of this kind of trope. Right. Uh, what a, what a great sentence in Wikipedia.

The first works were recognized as ABO were published in mid 2010 that year in May,

a writing prompt was shared on a live journal community dedicated to supernatural mentioning

alpha males having knots on their and bitch males without the knots in spiraling user

Ted dirty a sock to write. I ain't no lady, but you'd be the tramp, a real person in fiction work.

Um, so yeah, there's, there's a lot happening here. Let me, let me, I want, I want everyone

listening to firstly, if you're still listening, thank you. But secondly, uh, please understand

we're not dunking on fan fiction. Fan fiction is like a legit ramp to like actually get into writing.

There's a lot of great stuff on Wattpad and live journal and all of that. What I am mostly

dunking on is how exquisite of a narrative devices is just talking about tops and bottoms.

Yeah. It's, it's a lot. It's it's, it's a lot. There's, there's a lot happening here. I feel

like we could do an entire series podcast series on the mega verse and it's, I really don't,

I really don't. I would not. I, I, yeah. I mean, we, we, we're not us, but I feel somebody good.

Uh, somebody does definitely an audience for this, uh, group of people are two people who can record

a podcast about the history of this sort of the, how the sort of fandom on this has sort of evolved

over the years. Uh, because it's not a new thing, as I mentioned, it's been around for a minute,

uh, since star Trek in the sixties, man. Um, all right, we got, we got to keep this rolling.

If you have a mega verse recommendations, please send them to at pack a cat, a 10 fold on social.

Anyways, the next show is whisper me a love song. Now this one's cute. It's also the only

one in high dive. Um, I think we can just look at this list and uh, yeah, Sony has a two,

there's two on high dive. Sorry. Uh, Sony has an anime monopoly. Look at all the current Eric shows

that are only on crunchy roll. Um, so this was actually pretty fantastic. It genuinely is really

cutesy. Basically a first day of high school ends up going to a concert, falls in love with how that

person singing and then tells that person in the band that they love their singing. And she states

it in the way that the singer interprets it to mean that she's actually in love with her.

And that person starts crushing on her. And it's just like a QT dating story.

Sure. Uh, this sounds, it does, does look cute, but I love the cover art here with the guitar.

Uh, uh, so how, how is it, how is it so far? I think there's like two episodes.

Music's good and it's basic. It like has a confession and all that in the first few episodes,

which I appreciate this and not really spoiling anything, but you're not going to be waiting until

the end of the season to, um, to actually have a confession happens in the first few episodes.

Which I, I, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. And I can already tell there's gonna be like another

girl has a crush on them is going to be in the middle of them and some good drama coming,

but at least like they're already partnered up and, and that's what I'm here for. So I respect

it. Like I said, this is why it's in the actual gay category. And that sounds good. That sounds

good. Um, many sides of voice actor radio. Uh, I'm guessing this, this is like an industry like

their show, like talking about a radio program. Yeah. Yeah. So basically it's two, um, the two,

two girls who were in a, the same high school class, they are both voice actors, like street

idols. They do voice acting for anime, um, performance stuff, all that kind of stuff.

Right. And they get a radio show and it's how they meet each other and they initially don't

like each other. So this one is honest. I, I, we didn't have enough to put in the kind of gay

category, but really this one's like kind of, because this is tagged as Yuri, but all the

stuff is Japanese only. None of it's been translated. So I wasn't able to spoil the

show to see if it actually got like, um, out of the bait category. But what I see is setting up

is like, they end up falling for each other while they initially don't like each other through their

work. Right. It's, it's a enemies to lovers thing with trope, uh, which yeah. Okay. Uh,

and because they both are playing different personas, right? Like who they are while

they're being actors and, and doing the, the, the radio stuff is different than our actual

personality. So you have that gap rate and then them trying to navigate their bone personas while

navigating each other, the jobs have all written so far in, in the, the characters really human

where like they have flaws, their arms about the flaws, a lot of the devices are making mistakes

and trying to learn from it with each other. So even if it never gets to the point where it goes

like full gay, I'm, I'm actually pretty happy with, with what's been presented so far. And if

it just developed through like friendship and stuff like that, I'd be pretty all right with it.

Um, because there's not much baiting in it, you know? Yeah. Um, classic, we got some tropes,

classic tropes, classic trope shit. Yeah. All right. So we got a new gate.

So he say Kai and VR MMO put together, let's fucking go with time traveled. Oh Lord. Of course

do get stuck in a VR MMO. That's a death game. And then he beats the final boss and wakes up in

that virtual world. 500 years later. Sure. Okay. Uh, so, so it's like a shown in anime, I guess

so far. I was in like, kind of like, uh, yeah, yeah. It's like a show and stuff. It's,

it is a, it is a trope done well. So it's like a good popcorn anime, right? It's honest about what

it's going to give you and it delivers. And that's what I'm here for. You know, this is not John or

pushing. Um, this is, you know, more Metro Boomin than alchemist. Okay. Sure. That's a analogy.

I get it. I understand. It's it's, it's, uh, okay. Um, the studio apartment, this is a great

title studio apartment. Good lighting angel included. Great title. Uh, what is this one

about? One of the few harem animes of the season is declining popularity. It's only sick. I trash

nowadays. Um, but all right. So studio apartment, good lighting agent included dude is an awkward

high school or where, where are you? He wakes up one day and there's a literal angel sleeping on

his balcony. He moves in with him. And then he starts meeting other mystical girls to add to his

harem. Um, how problematic is this one? Um, is it problematic at all? Uh, so far, uh, one girl

causes a blizzard cause he sees her changing. Like that's probably the most problematic it's gotten

like actually causes a blizzard cause she, her magical power is that she's like a snow person.

Okay. All right. Sure. I feel like if I had ad libs on the board, I would put like a push a T

after the snow person thing. Um, anyways, yeah, it's a, it's a hot garbage. It's absolute hot

garbage. It's very honest about it. Um, okay. Unnamed memory. This one could be good. It could

be bad. We're not, it depends on if they do time travel and what is his, what unnamed memory is

basically he is a Prince, the main character, and he had a curse placed on him that he cannot have a

child. So he climbed a tower where a witch can grant any wish and the wishes to, you know, make

it so he can have children, but he does it clever by saying you should live with me for a year.

So it's kind of their story as he lives with a witch and it's mostly been exploring like the

world so far during world building her relationship, his relationship, his, you know, just

running the castle, all of that kind of stuff. And the reason that it could be whack is there's

been a few like hints of time travel and I don't, if it ends up being a time travel story, I'm going

to just drop it. But everything's being about like the whole witchcraft and curses and like

this mystical world stuff. I'm here for it. Okay. Yeah. Um, what, what are these titles, bro? A

solid bowl of eccentric. Okay. So this one is an easy guy in a different direction where someone

from mystical world comes to our world. Oh, I see. Okay. Reverse this. Okay. The sub genre. Yeah.

Yeah. A garage punk. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so basically a princess from another world comes

to our world and works of a detective and just kind of slice of life thing. I think what holds

it is it's just strong characters, but it is very much a, a gag show. Right. Oh, like it's like

just comedy. Like it's, it's doing, yeah, it's more of a comedy show playing on the tropes and

that it's a, it's a fun watch. I I'm, I'm here for it. Not there's honestly not a lot of gag shows

where the gags are not based off of like just ha ha ha incompetent man does dumb thing. Right. Or ha

ha ha woman does like slightly lewd thing. It's just a comedy show. And you know what, we need

more of that in our lives. Oh, this title is, I love this title. I'm going to read this up as a

reincarnated aristocrat. I'll use my appraisal skill to rise in the world. Oh God. This is,

I guess this is a, this is a, it's a guy in a way, or is it like a, like a, okay. It's a guy. Yeah.

Yep. Yeah. This one's an easy guy. So basically he dies in our world, wakes up in another world

and he has the appraisal skill that no one else has in this magical world where you can appraise

people off of their values. The only reason is didn't get put into the, we don't do this shit

in 2024 category spoiler at the next category is this show handle slavery in a way that is nice,

which is to free them. Oh, okay. That's progress. When slavery is present in this

little world, freeing them as the only, only solution provided. That's a, that's good.

That's a, that's, I mean, it's a low bar apparently for us to, but okay. Is it,

is the show so far this, I seen this like four episodes. It's basically about like a child,

like playing tower Sims, one of the games where you just get like resources and people and you

would just delegate them to do things like a grand strategy game. It's kind of like watching

someone do a grand strategy game of just like finding people who are like broke, but actually

would be really good, like builders or fighters or whatever. And then putting them in those roles,

the really weird sentence to say out loud now that I'm saying it out loud.

But all right, we got the next one here. Chilling in another world with level two

super cheat powers. Honestly, the best part about this is just having you read all these

things. Yeah. These titles I swear are so good. Honestly, I love these.

So this is a double ESA guy. Oh God. Okay. Guy in one magical world gets easy to another magic.

Yeah. Why do I like this show? Honestly, it's basically because he does not like his entire

thing is he got sent to this new world. They left him out to die because they didn't think

he was powerful. Turns out he's powerful. Do just like wants to have a house in the woods and relax

relatable, relatable content. And people keep trying to fuck with him up and trying to like

fuck with him while he's doing that. And his entire goal is like to not fight the demon army

or whatever, but just to vibe out. Also to this one, there's actually, it handles once again,

slavery in a progressive way. Okay. Sure. Everyone keeps recommending that he uses a spell

to bind or what's there's another word for like enslaving, but basically like that. Right.

And he's just like, he's just tells everyone no. And he has like a whole speech on why he can't do

that. Yeah. All right. I'm glad we're moving out of the face of Alabama with slavery. Just like,

yeah. All right. We have the next category. We don't do this shit in 2024. Okay. So do we got

slavery or is this one? Yep. That's what this one is. This is why this one got dropped.

Oh, okay. Let me read this one. An arc demons dilemma. How to love your elf bride. Oh boy.

He bought the elf bride. Anyways, we got the next show. There's nothing else to say about this one.

There's really nothing else to say about it. Okay. First of all, before you move on,

this shit has like five stars of crutch year old bro. Like I, our anime nerds. Okay. Like what's,

what's going on. She's a cute elf girl that he bought and no one wants to address the fact that

he basically forcibly coerced her into this loving relationship. Okay. Let's well, um,

this one, uh, Nijio on animation, it's love life. And ever since I showed the

gacha game, we don't do that shit no more. That's why it's in that category.

That's, uh, okay. Um, all right. Uh, we got pretty great shows. I'm curious. These are the ones I'm

curious about. Uh, grandpa and grandma turned young again. Uh, is this like a reverse? So it's

a, it's a slice of life comedy where they eat a golden apple and they revert back to their twenties,

but it's only for a few years until they eventually pass. So it just kind of, you know, goes,

if you were in your seventies or eighties and had the body of a 20 year old, how would you live your

life? It's funny. It's a heartwarming watch. You know, I, I, you can't, you could fuck up a premise

like this, but they thankfully didn't. And I've been enjoying every episode. There's not maybe

much substance per se, but you don't need that sometimes. Uh, I trained to the end of the world.

Uh, all right. So when seven G is deployed into Japan, the world ends and this show,

they, one of the girls, five girls, one of them loses their friend during the seven G incident

and they ride a train or my seven G. Do you mean like cellular technology? Yes. Cellular

technology. Seven G. Yes. That's what I'm referring to. So after seven G is deployed,

one of their friends and they're trying to take a train around Japan to find their friend.

And each like town in Japan has been like ruined in different ways in a town that they live in.

Everyone turns into an animal. Once it turned 21, there's another town where everyone turned

into a goat person, one town where everyone has mushrooms on their head and they'll eventually

die due to the fungus infections. Sure. Um, great premise. Um, I, okay. Um, is it, so,

it's, so, is, uh, so you like this one? Uh, so it's, it's, it's pretty good then. Uh,

you gotta listen to the opening song. Actually, you know what, we're gonna,

I'm gonna link this shit to you right now. Cause you're gonna, you're gonna listen. We're gonna

basically, I'm gonna cut this. So it gets like, you know, you know, you know, actually like, uh,

linked out or, you know, it's not 20 minutes of you listen to a song, but I think this is the,

let me open it up first. Uh, is this it? Yes, it is. All right. Listen to this track. Oh,

I got to find the DJ drop tag for it. Please listen to it. And then tell me what you think of it.

It's so dissident for the teams of the show, right? Like the, like the song, the, the visuals

of this look like very like Makoto Shinkai movie as visuals, like girl cute girls doing good things

on, on a train vibe. Like that's the vibe I'm getting from the opening, but so it's, it's not

the, is that what you want to do? Like, yeah, this one, this is, this one's genuinely a great show.

There's no manga behind it. Um, as we said earlier, as y'all could probably imagine,

this is the one funded by Japan's public train agency. Oh, Oh, hence the train. Okay. That's,

uh, that's cool. The entire point of the show I'm pretty sure is to convince people to ride trains

to rural areas because they're going from rural town to rural town, which are probably the least,

um, use train lines. Yeah. Tracks travel routes. Yeah. The travel, yeah. Uh, that's, uh, I mean,

the concept, the whoever came up with the story concept about the seven G I just, I just want to

say great idea. Like, honestly, especially cause that person works with a fucking training agency.

So good. Um, that's, that's cool. Um, that's cute. Uh, you know, so whoever, whoever wrote,

worked for the train agency was like fiber optic is the way to go. Stop fucking doing wireless

technologies. Hard line shit together. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so the next one we have Kono Suba

God's blessing on this wonderful world. Uh, this is the, um, third season of this show.

This is an easy guy that, I mean, you've not, it's super huge. You've not watched it, but

the entire point of it is that it just shit talks. Other you say guys, like it's a parody of all of

it. Oh, I see. Okay. Okay. And it's very funny. It's it's it's piece. Every, every character is

a shit character and they're all playing into it. Like they're all shitty people.

And so it's satire. It's like trying to try to satirize like he said, guys. Okay. Uh,

okay. This one, I next door, this one spice and wealth merchant meets the wise soul. So I'm

a little confused about this. Is this like a remake of the first season of spice?

All of it. Oh, okay. All of it. Okay. Um, I have watched spices. Well, this was a long,

long time ago. Like when I was a teenager at this point, so it's like 10, 15 years ago. Uh, so,

uh, I'm curious. The, do you, did you watch the original spice symbol when I was like 11 or two?

I haven't seen it since. So my thing is, I don't remember what happened in spices. Well,

if it's been so long, I don't vaguely remember what happens, but I don't remember the details.

I don't know. There's the, the wolf girl and the merchant, right? I know that much, but

I don't remember like more than that. Yeah. This one's more faithful though, to the books

than the anime was. So I think this is the full metal, uh, alchemist brotherhood alchemist to

the full metal alchemist. You know, I've always wondered why they remake it to be brotherhood

brotherhood is better, but I've actually, I need to look into that. Why, why did they remake it?

Um, also this is, I post on a mass on the other day, extra hard to search for old stuff on Google.

I was trying to find like blog posts and form posts from the original was originally airing. Yeah.

It is so hard to find results that go that back. I'm not even talking about dead links.

Like even if you force it, you can do like a site, you know, before a modifier on Google to,

to only do a year before results. You still get almost nothing in the index. Yeah. I mean,

if you want like old reviews, you probably need to go to like places like buy animalist or whatever

and look at the, look at the user reviews there. Uh, but it's, that's not good. Yeah. Yeah. That's

probably it. Cause even read it, like trying to search, read it for 2008 when it's spice

welfare spice and Walter was a 2008 was 2006. Um, spice and Wolf aired. Okay. We're going to go to

my anime list winter, 2008. Yeah. So it aired the same season, the same year as clinic.

Wow. What a year. That's a hell of a year. I mean, 2008, apparently a great year for anime,

uh, put an ad and spice of all, um, yeah. Spice of dang is spice. Wolf is only eight on,

on my end. Let's say anything could be a nine. Dang. I think it's, it's one of those shows that

if you, if you'd like not down with the concept, like it can feel a little bit like, you know,

not the kind of boring maybe. Uh, but I personally, this was a long time. I don't even know

if I would enjoy it now. I'm thinking about it like nowadays, if I would enjoy a show like this,

but, uh, how, how, how are you finding it so far? Like, uh, watching this,

I mean, it's a fun show about a Wolf girl and a merchant going around. That's really all that

we've had so far. Um, and you know, for any, for all the furries out there, like, I know this is,

this is, this is it for y'all, you know, like y'all are eating right now. Pause up. I get it.

Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Yep. Spice and Wolf is one of the, uh, it's like the lion King of anime

basically because you know, it's, it's like, there's so much furry shit in that. Um, um, so

Hi-Ju number eight. Um, is this like a Godzilla thing or is this like,

this is like a Shonen show. So basically this is, this is a hard battle anime. So it lives in a

world where there's monsters that attack Japan all the time. Right. And there's a defense force

and this guy and his best friend both promises kids is right in the defense force. She is in

the most elite squad. He is a fucking janitor. So he's in his thirties now and he's feeling washed

out until one day he gets like subjected to some experiment and can randomly turn into a Kaiju and

decides to go join the defense force to fight the monsters as a monster. It's good. It's actually

really good. It's really, the animation is great. The world building's great. The characters are

great. Uh, I, this is the number one manga and Shonen jump right now, I think for the past few

years. Oh, that's wow. Uh, that's interesting. Uh, okay. Uh, danger in my heart. Another,

another high dive anime. Um, so, so this one technically aired last season, but I forgot to

put it in the wrap up. So I'm sneaking it in here. Okay. This is, um, one of the best romance stories

I have seen in almost a decade. It is about a socially awkward boy and a girl who is a model

and them like falling in love with each other. And the amount of character growth for both of

them is fantastic. Okay. Um, seems cute. It goes from edgy teenager to like soft and caring guy

by the end of it. And it's just fucking just chef's kiss. Fantastic. Watch it. Uh, now we've

got, I don't know if you want to go through these, but we got a whole list of shows that

you haven't started because there's so many of these, uh, so many shows. This

I'm like, I was already at 20. I couldn't really like the last seven. Cause I'm also trying to beat

tears at a kingdom right now and like destiny and do other things except watch anime. Um,

so yeah, there's some shows here. I haven't seen any of them. Do any of them stand out to you?

Actually, the one is Tonari no Yoko I said, I think is actually one that I do want to check

out when I get some time. Cause this is about someone where like, it's a slice of life where

people live in a town where, um, ghosts also exist. Yokai is right. Supernatural beings.

And it's just sort of like a, a slice of life with that. Okay. Uh, that does seem kind of,

kind of cool. Um, so which one out of, out of these ones, if you had to like say, uh, one,

and one anime that you recommend people try, uh, this season, which one would it be?

Oh, actually wait, the studio that's doing my Toka, uh, Tonari no Yoko I said is affiliated

with studio Ghibli. And that's, that's good. That makes sense because it's a very Ghibli

ass concept. Uh, this is basically like one of the Ghibli movies, uh, which one, uh,

wait, so do Linden. This is a, is it Chinese one or switch? I don't know.

It's, I don't think it's a, so maybe it's not, but I'm just reading off country reviews and I don't,

sorry to anyone who reviews shows on a crunchy roll. Um, I don't trust your journalistic

integrity. Jesus Christ. Um, yeah, it's very much seems like my neighbor,

Totoro or like, like based off like that sort of concept where you, it's, it's like a magical

realism anime basically where you live in a world where it's like, you'll kind of like magical

beings exist. Um, but it's like, otherwise like the normal world, you know? Um, yeah,

that's, that's the concept has been around for a minute. Um, but you're asking if he would

show us people to watch kaiju number eight, watch that dangers in the heart train to the end of the

world just for that bop and theme song. Yeah. It's, it's, it's good. Yeah. Uh, and if you like

trains, I guess I know, I know there are people who really love trains. Maybe the train spotting

and mass it on like, listen, that's the Venn diagram of fuck. Yeah. Sign me up. Um, a solid

ball of incentrics. I would also watch that and whisper me a love song. If I had to give you

like five that will respect your time, those are the ones I would say go for, uh, which one do you

think you're going to drop? So far? Like if there's like, which ones do you think are like,

you'd feel like maybe are not gonna work. Uh, you just gonna, I think the ones are probably

going to drop just because I don't, I don't, I'm probably watching it for nostalgia. Only

spice and wolf. Like, I don't know if I'm gonna finish it. That's fair. I think that's fair.

Honestly, I don't think spice and wolf needed to be remade. Like personally, like in my,

in my honest opinion, I think the original still works. Like if, if you want to watch that,

they never finished it though. I thought they never finished like the full story.

I don't, I don't. So what do you do a season two or a full remake of all the books? Right?

Like I guess I'm like, I don't, we're not really bothered. Like it's sort of like,

like I remember watching both seasons of spice and wolf back when, back when they, uh, back

when they came out. Um, and I didn't feel the need for more. Um, I just still don't really,

but that's, I guess people feel differently about this. I know spice and wolf is like

a beloved anime. And I imagine people, a lot of nostalgia coming into this at this point,

people who have watched spice and wolf when it aired are now like 30, like I am. So they're like,

you know, give me some of that stuff from my teenage years, nostalgia going on. Uh,

so I don't know. Uh, I'm not personally, I'm not really interested, I guess. Like it's fine. Like

sure. I'm glad we're getting a remake, but it's not, it's either way. I'm not, I'm not really

particularly intrigued by it. Uh, kaiju number eight sounds interesting. And, and the romance

anime seems kind of cool. I like, especially the dangers in my heart and whisper me a love song,

especially seem, uh, by question about high dive, uh, how like, is it, is it, is the service

reasonably good or is it just like, kinda like average streaming service should go on?

High dive doesn't track watch history. What? Why it fails to track watch. It's like I watch an

episode. I was been rewatching clinic as, as one does. Clinic is only on high dive right now. So

basically I want to go and, you know, watch an episode. What do you do? You go to click on the

show and it shows none of your watch progress. So it does, it doesn't like if you click play on it,

does it just start from the beginning again? Like what, what happened? That is correct. The

beginning of the series and the watch list is you find the watch list in your account settings.

And this is the best part is they just redesign the entire fucking app. It used to be worse.

I, how do you not have watch history? Like that's like the most basic feature of a streaming

service. Like I, I'm confused, honestly. What is this? Like, I, like, I don't want SOTY to be

like the fucking monopoly here. Listen, I don't support monopolies, but if they just bought

high dive just to be kind of a crunchy roll interface for it, like I'm not, I'm not in

support of it. But this is the kind of competition we're getting. Like what is happening? Lena con,

let them have it. Jesus Christ. Dude. Oh yeah. Let's wrap up this episode of Voxels episode seven,

which is a weird episode. We talk about mastodon. We talk about destiny. How about a horizon from

the Midwest? And we talked about a bunch of anime. Good show. You can find us as always on

voxels.fm. The show notes are going to be there. You can find me on mastodon at packetcat at

ten forward dot social and on my website, sodicsafe.com. Christian, where do people find

you on the worldwide web? Yeah, you can find me discoursing. Actually I'm post discourse now.

Can I use beeper? I don't use your fuck chat apps. I use just one app for all. I'm on mastodon at

lofi carrots at mstdn.plus. You also find me on my website shows find a website and yeah. Until

next time, once again, Gargon, yeah, hit me up. You got my number. Come through. I slide in,

I slide in, I'll defend, I'll defend everyone on mastodon from the ops. I really don't know

what I'm saying right now. Let's let's let's let's rob this. Thank you everyone for listening. Bye.

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