I can't tell if you're saying "heh, figures" in response to Kalafina doing Sora no Woto's OP or saying "heh, figures" in response to, well, figures.
The former. With a hint of: I'm always surprised, am I not?
I can't tell if you're saying "heh, figures" in response to Kalafina doing Sora no Woto's OP or saying "heh, figures" in response to, well, figures.
I can't believe I didn't notice this myself when I was browsing the winning entries a couple nights ago. Luckily, a fellow Evageek pointed it out.
Look what won Best of Show in the 20th International Obfuscated C Contest: akari.c
(Hint.)
If you have a C compiler around, I highly recommend actually running it. It's fun.
Okay, I don't have a C compiler around, so I didn't download the file. I clicked on the "Hint" link and read it. So what is it that I tried and failed to understand? I understood so little that I'm still in the pre-confusion stage.
It's an image downsampler. Based on YuruYuri's Akari. Basically, it shrinks images, including ASCII art, which the source code happens to be, in the shape of Akari's head. If you compile it and run it on its own source code, the resulting code is a smaller version of Akari's head, which is also valid source code (for an image expander). If you run the original Akari on the smaller version of Akari's head, it results in yet a smaller version of Akari's head, which is again valid source code, which if you compile and run, prints out "yuruyuri." If you run it again on the yet smaller version of Akari's head, it again results in a smaller version of Akari's head that is again valid source code, which if you compile and run, prints out "YU RU YU RI."
(Wasn't sure where to put this.)
If anyone around here has any sort of experience(s) or stories of the influence anime has had in their lives and they would be willing to share, please just send me a PM and we can go from there.
Ok, I've seen most of Saki now. It's entertaining with lots of characters (20 individual players just in the main match) and subplots. The Mahjong super-powers are fun, like the invisible girl yes, though some powers are too overpowering to make some of the games interesting. There are also many fun games, though. The series had a strong momentum from the beginning, with many minor conflicts. Achiga-hen seems less entertaining since they have had less resistance so far.I like the original Saki; it's over-the-top with mah-jong-superpowers, and lots of weird characters. While Chihayafuru goes for realism depicting the game, Saki tends to go for the symbolic (with one character being so unobtrusive that people forget to pay attention to the tiles they lay out, for example; the titular character has the ability to always finish with score of zero that she neither wins nor loses.) The Achiga Hen spin off has shown some signs of this, but nothing too drastic yet. But Saki is worth a watch.
Achiga-hen seems less entertaining since they have had less resistance so far.
I haven't participated much in the otaku subculture IRL. I'm too much of a shut-in for that. Which probably recursively places me very much in otaku subculture. Oops.
Also, has anybody seen Samurai Champloo? My friend keeps telling me to watch it but I'd rather like to know what I'm getting into before I jump head first.
The overarching plot to it is that a girl named Fuu is trying to find a samurai that smells of sunflowers (it'll make sense if you want it). She wins a bet, forcing two very skilled ronin, Mugen and Jin, to be her bodyguards.Also, has anybody seen Samurai Champloo? My friend keeps telling me to watch it but I'd rather like to know what I'm getting into before I jump head first.
Here's something I've been hoping an explanation for:
The Downfall of Bleach, part 1
we are the words 'i love you'
we are the words 'i love you'
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that when I heard this line in Evangelion, I was like, Oh so that's where that comes from.