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I posted about my very visceral reaction to K-On! last month and I did not expect to find another show that would surprise-gut-punch me with all the feels so quickly.

I've had Medalist on my watch list since it came out at the beginning of the year and I've put it off for quite some time because I'm not a sports guy and figure skating just wasn't much of a draw to me. I had seen here and there people recommending it, often people who clearly shared my taste, but it wasn't from a studio I was familiar with, it isn't about a thing I'm particularly interested in, and on Anilist the genres are listed as "drama", "psychological", and "sports". I assumed it was some maudlin, depressing thing. Boy, was I wrong.

Now I don't think the tags are wrong, per se, but this show is funny, heartwarming, and brilliantly upbeat, as well as being a dramatic, and occasionally intense, sports anime. I think I cried in more episodes than I didn't, but always happy tears. I am a 40 year old childless man and this show made me wonder if I wanted kids. I still don't, I'm pretty sure, but fuck me if this show doesn't make being a teacher or coach look like the most rewarding career.

The show's direction and performances are fucking gripping. The CG is very well executed, and the 2D animation is stellar. In the actual skating sequences, the direction and use of more expressive surrealist elements like motion lines and vignettes really drive home the beauty and difficulty of the sport. It's legitimately some impressive filmmaking.

Inori and Tsukasa are both adorable goofballs with deep-seated trauma and hearts of gold. Tsukasa is also INCREDIBLY hot, not just because he's a dancer and athlete but because he's kind and empathetic and patient. Inori is so charming and so strong, while still really feeling like a 10 year old girl. It's so painful to see her sad and so joyous to see her happy. They both believe in each other, and help the other to believe in themselves.

They use exaggerated cartooning a lot which I always love; like Bocchi The Rock or Maomao from Apothecary Diaries, they aren't afraid to make the characters larger than life and go way off model. It really uses the medium of animation to great effect, something I'm always happy about. Special shoutout to Mike-chan and her hilarious cat eyes.

This thing is a masterpiece, full stop. I'm a little pissed at myself for not picking this one up earlier, but if I'm gonna take anything away from this show, it's that it's never too late.

So I've been using rootless podman-compose to run my arr stack forever, and I've never had this issue. What seems to be happening is that sometimes, but not always, when a new folder is created or an existing folder's contents are modified, it seems to be setting the files and their folder's owner to "52587" which does not exist. This causes it to then not be able to access those files. I can manually change them back, of course, but the container just overwrites it again. If I specify the user in the compose.yml, it seems to ignore it. It is happening with a few different containers (all in the same compose.yml), as I've seen it now with Radarr and NZBget. The files are on a 12TB drive, and the container mounts and compose.yml are on the same drive, but the OS (Bazzite) is on a separate drive.

My thoughts so far for possibilities:

1. The podman install is fucked somehow
2. The drive itself is fucked
3. Bazzite's weirdness is causing an issue

For #1, podman comes with Bazzite by default so I'm not entirely sure if I can rpm-ostree remove and reinstall, though that might be the next step I try. I'm not terribly good with podman to begin with so I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting it much otherwise.

For #2, this is entirely a possibility, the drive is pretty old, but I'm not seeing any errors or anything in the SMART stuff and outside of this specific issue I have seen no other problems there.

For #3, this issue did start to happen maybe a month after switching from Arch to Bazzite, mostly because I also wanted to use this machine for Sunshine streaming and my arch install was a mess anyway. I know Arch, though, and this immutable stuff has tripped me up before, so maybe I go back. Feels like admitting defeat though, lol.

Any ideas to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

So I'm learning Japanese and I'd love to have more practice material, but from what I can tell most (maybe all) of the manga available from the several sites I checked on the Megathread wiki only had translated books. Many languages, tbf, but I could not find the original Japanese anywhere. Am I just missing it or is there a particular source I should look at for untranslated books?

Also as a corollary, anyone have a good source for visual novels in Japanese?

Our moon is interesting.

My favorite part (emphasis mine):

Conservation of angular momentum means that Earth's axial rotation is gradually slowing, and because of this its day lengthens by approximately 24 microseconds every year (excluding glacial rebound). Both figures are valid only for the current configuration of the continents.

If that changes suddenly, we'll have to do the math again, lol.

I'm sure I'm not alone in spending more time building structures to be productive than actually producing. I'm always trying to find ways to "trick" myself into getting things done, with varying levels of success.

For me, it's always a struggle to keep going with anything once the novelty wears off. Finding new ways to structure and gamify work helps for a while, but very few things stick more than a few months. That said, every once in a while I find a thing that does become an actual tool in my toolset. I'm thinking specifically of Pomodoro timers for me. If I don't want to spend too much time hyper focusing, the intervals help me break out and evaluate, rather than working for 9 hours and forgetting to eat.

It's been useful and I remember to implement it, I don't have a ton of tools of strategies like that. What tools or strategies both work for you AND you seem able to actually implement them reasonably consistently?

MAL and Nerdfonts conspiring to slander our ever-compiling friends.