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Thanks.

I'm doing much better as of this reply.

Thanks for the advice. I may look into "serious" 3 Gun on or something in the future. As of late though, I've honestly taken a sabbatical from the Way of the Gun, as it has dominated most of my life since age four (no exaggeration either). My time in Security Enforcement and the stupid stuff I had to deal with with high risk contracts, seeing the worst in humanity, being shot at pretty much every week... places where I had to wear Level 3A and even 4 body armor and tote around a shotgun on my back ended up giving me severe PTSD, only I didn't know that's what it was. It's taken all of 2020 into pretty much THIS post to get my head right. Didn't have to go overseas to see combat, I saw it pretty much weekly on the streets of San Antonio TX and all over the state of Texas, and one Emergency Stint during Hurricane Katrina, Sub Federal Contract.

Thus I'm more into the Martial Spirit again. Meditation and re connecting with my Buddhism from 25/22 years back. Kicking back and watching lots of anime, and stuff like that. But I know that the Gun is also 2nd nature to me and all the responsibilities that come with it. I can't really escape it. It's always there, just like Security Force Protection methods and J.I.C. Contingency Planning for S.O.E. and worse. Thanks for the chat. It's neat meeting someone on MAL who knows about this stuff. Been combating stupid COVID all through the last two weeks of December and still have it. Almost through, though.

I grew up shooting CAS but have never been in competitions outside of the gun club my family has been a part of, and that my father helped establish before I was born in 1974. It was more of the discipline than anything else, utilizing the single action army revolver and various lever action rifles and the Spencer. I am more of a Defensive Combat Shooter with modern firearms than anything else these days, and it helped greatly for my 14.4 years doing Security / Force Protection work, primarily carrying a .40 caliber Jericho 941, the Beretta M9, M1911, and CZ-75 semi auto wise... And various double action revolvers that I could apply CAS shooting for quick draws in the line of duty and stuff. ---Been meaning to get into active competitive

I see. Your name and forum set ring a bell and I'm sure we did talk in the forums before
Well, as great as it was, I'm not too interested in it to either read the LNs nor any additional adaptions

Finally? Can't recall that we have ever talked about it before
It was quite entertaining, but by now, I have already forgotten most. Also saw both version. In principle, I've liked the old version a bit better, but the newer one also had a great arc with the two lovers. Also wrote in the discussion threads of the older version if you want some more detailed impressions from the episodes from me

Having seen Slayers and Nanoha multiple times I can tell you it's similar in that nature where S1 is more of an introduction to the characters. Anyway, Slayers Next is arguably the fan favorite season. If you manage to get back to it you'll probably see why. Plot happens there and then continues through S3.

I've told many people in the past that they'll either like it or not like it. There's no real middle ground imo. I mean I got into it when I was barely a preteen so I can't speak volumes about my taste. I rated S1 - S3 as 10s. Do I actually think they're that critically acclaimed? Hell no. That's my fanboyism and nostalgia showing itself. I just try and appreciate it for what it is and still do. My favorite anime. Yeah, there's a lot of filler and a lot of poor writing but it still has character. Speaking of characters, I'd actually recommend you to read the novels and see how much the writers strayed from Kanzaka's original story...which is WAY better than the anime (as usual). It's almost criminal. Hell, an antagonist in a few earlier volumes doesn't even show up until S4...13 years after the first season aired. Needless to say the entire arc is completely different from where he shows up in the novels. Screenwriters, I tell ya.

The Seikai trilogy is one of the universes I'm most fascinated by and it's actually sad that it's not more well known. As far as anime lore goes, it's probably my second favorite behind Slayers. There's so much depth to it. There's even an entire language created from scratch just to give the Abh more character depth as a race.

As for Last Exile if it's been a while since you watched Ginyoku no Fam then it would be a good chance to re-watch that after getting through the OG series since it is a direct sequel and not a spin-off. It'll help S2 make more sense too even though episode 15.5 was a recap of S1. Also worth noting that the franchise has some of my favorite OP/ED songs. Cloud Age Symphony is so good and I love both of hitomi's EDs for both seasons. Okino's Head in the Clouds (insert for Fam episode 1) is another good one, too. Oddly enough, I didn't really care for Maaya's OP for S2.

Gonna be honest I'm not Tomino's biggest fan lol. Especially after he claimed Hathaway's Flash would be competition for Kimetsu no Yaiba. They're not even in the same league. I'm open to recs but even Gundam has had some busts imo *coughZZcough* so I approach his works with skepticism.

Isn't Esca supposed to be mecha though? Is there some sort of S&S element to it? Also are you talking about the film or the TV series? Or both?

Monogatari has been on my mind for years and I'll get to it eventually. It certainly seems like a sprawling universe but then so is Fate. I just need to find some time to binge it. Maybe when I take my vacation later this month. If I can get through gigantic time sinks like Ranma and Dragonball in a week then I can pull that off.

Hmmm...well if you like spacy stuff, Lost Universe. Also created by Hajime Kanzaka (Slayers) and has some similarities. Mainly names. You should watch Slayers Try (if you can get that far) first though as some of the connections won't be evident otherwise. Or just watch it anyway.

On your PTW, would also recommend Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Both the TV and OVA. Some good comedy here.

Also on your PTW, Crest/Banner of the Stars as well (#5 on my favorites) and probably my favorite space opera. Imo, it has some of the best space battles outside of the Gundam universe, as expected of Sunrise. I also highly recommend Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin. One of the best Gundam entries in the last decade and a must-see for any Char fan. I would watch Char's Counterattack before it though. CC isn't that good imo and will sour the experience if you watch it afterwards.

If you like Swords & Sorcery stuff in general, then back to your PTW we go. Record of Lodoss War is a classic. The TV has one of my favorite OPs ever by Sakamoto Maaya.

Then there's Kimetsu no Yaiba. It's a bit more recent but such a beautiful show. If nothing else, it's ufotable flexing.

Would also call out Golden Kamuy. One of the funniest series I've ever watched. And Last Exile because it's just good. Both on your PTW.

You never really changed your photo ever since you joined this site, huh?

Ooh are you learning Japanese? That's awesome. I really want them to animate Wazamonogatari so bad... I haven't read the novels though, not sure if they are translated in english.

I've gotta catch up on both of those, I really liked hataraku saibou S1.
I should probably update my anime list while i'm on mal.

Fortunately I can't afford matlab, so I've never used it, so i'll take your word for it.
I guess I could try out octave if I was so inclined, but R and python fill that need for me currently.

Recently when I've had an itch for something more low-level though, I've been using Rust for its safety guarantees (and also its stdlib).

I feel like I never get any better at lower level programming though because I'm a ruby programmer at work, so most of my work is pretty high level and around databases (indexes are my mortal enemy).

On a completely different note, have you been watching any anime this season? I've been digging horimiya.

My site is written in markdown, so i'll probably leave the csv and just have pandas do .to_markdown and incorporate it into the build step. I already have my site themed properly so I guess that will be all that I end up needing.

I have to say, as a normal web dev, malloc and friends scare me. I've never had to write C for production so I'm pretty poor at it, even if I do think it's a fair language.

You're a hardware guy right, so that's probably why the C focus?

^^ Can't get much faster than C for big data problems. I know a bit of C, and I have to say I admire how barebones it is yet how you can write a lot of things, like compilers, OSes, network stacks, etc.

I've been working on my "digital garden", basically trying to keep a copy of data of stuff of mine, so I parsed it from xml -> csv -> sqlite, and now I guess I have to write some sort of script to turn my sqlite db into an easy to look at html form. (I guess pandas' .to_html() would suffice, but now that I'm a dev, everything has to be over-engineered).

My hat is off to you sir, for writing C. One hard language to use for sure.

It's hard to believe it's been almost 10 years since I started posting in casual discussion (general discussion?) and we started talking on mal.
Time really flies.

Hey Deserada,

I went online to grab my myanimelist to play around with it using python and noticed you left a comment so I figured I'd say hi too.

even though I'm not active anymore on MAL it's good to see an old face.