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Unless I'm missing something it looks like it doesn't use Denuvo? (Steam lists a custom EULA but I don't see Denuvo listed.)

That's an issue in older versions of Lemmy that was fixed in the 0.19.x releases, I think. lemmy.world still seems to be on 0.18.5

Discussion on Github from last year: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3965

Animethemes has it: Odoru Akachan Ningen

I think back when I first watched Welcome to the NHK that song may be what made me realize that the Japanese had also adopted a planet/weekday naming convention e.g. 火星/火曜日 == Mars / Tuesday (Tiw/Tyr's day == Mars's day; more obvious in e.g. French "Mardi", etc.); 土星/土曜日 = Saturn / Saturday; etc.

• Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau from Fate/Zero (2nd cour) -- it's a powerful song, and I think I listened to this one all the way through in every episode. Definitely one of my all time favorites.
• Taiyou - Denpa-Teki na Kanojo. (This OVA is pretty obscure, I think.) Another powerful song. No visuals for most of the ending (just text credits scrolling) -- although 神戸守 (Mamoru Kanbe) listed as the director (監督) jumped out at me! No Klimt this time, but funny that I'm talking about something he worked on again already. Maybe I should go track down his other works more systematically...
• Kesenai Tsumi - FMA 2003 -- I have a lot of nostalgia for this song and listened to it way too much as a teenager after my friends started introducing me to anime. The version on animethemes is a bit different from what I remember visually but the song is the same.
• Wareta Ringo - Shin Sekai Yori -- I was actually thinking about posting an animepic clipped from this the other day since it popped back into my mind...
• Hibari - Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note (the Fate/Zero spin-off series) -- I like both the song and the visuals (with the seasons changing)
• My Pace -- Bleach ED6; I didn't much care for the filler seasons of Bleach, but the synth from this ED and the dancing characters got stuck in my head for a while.
• X Jigen e Youkoso - Space Dandy. This one is memorable to me both for the "Hey, Everett..."/「ねぇ、エヴェレット」bit specifically and the general subject of the song.
• Zzz - Nichijou -- both the art and song are great. There's a couple versions, but I like this first one the best.

Edit: corrected the link to the Space Dandy ED

Have you tried Resonance? It's a mystery adventure game set in modern times where you play as four different characters whose stories interconnect. It's been a while since I played it (a decade or so?) but I remember that it had an interesting game mechanic that let you use memories like items in various interactions, as well as a number of puzzles that I rather liked the design of.

Hmm, so federated downvotes from Lemmy are public now on mbin, not just local downvotes and federated upvotes. Interesting. Does mbin-mbin downvote federation work? kbin doesn't federate downvotes to you. (I checked -- for science! -- but switched back to an upvote afterwards.)

artificial gestation

The word "matrix" literally means "womb" in its older sense.

Sorry if addressed in the link (I'm not willing to visit Twitter) -- but, like, actually McDonald's themed? Or are they just sponsoring a show (like P&G, etc. have done for ages)?

If the former, I guess there's some precedence with the KFC visual novel and Isekai Izakaya and such, but that still sounds pretty weird...

Edit: I went back and checked and it looks like McDonald's was also a sponsor on the show I remember P&G from (i.e. season 1 of Bleach), so there's precedence for them sponsoring Studio Pierrot's shows too -- I just don't usually pay that much attention to it, I guess.

Huh. So... it finally occurred to me to check this. Elfen Lied and Sora no Woto share the same director -- Mamoru Kanbe / 神戸守. I probably should've figured that out sooner given that Sora no Woto's OP also references Klimt's paintings heavily, but I had no idea.

It's not a GUI library, but Jupyter was pretty much made for the kind of mathematical/scientific exploratory programming you're interested in doing. It's not the right tool for making finished products, but is intended for creating lab notebooks that contain executable code snippets, formatted text, and visual output together. Given your background experience and the libraries you like, it seems like it'd be right up your alley.

I mentioned in a past comment a while back that I made a catalog of my anime. One of the observations I found while making it is that everything except for one movie had an entry on the English language Wikipedia already. That movie is Gundress from 1999. According to my personal journal, I watched this once back in 2014, apparently, but I remembered nothing about it, so I loaded it up recently and rewatched it.

The movie has that "sort of hard to follow if you don't already know the source material" kind of feel -- although I think this is the original work? I checked the Japanese Wikipedia entry about it after watching it. Sticking the article through a translator, there's a description of a seriously screwed up initial showing and mismanagement of production with the film being finished after it aired in theaters initially. The version I have is finished, of course; if half the movie wasn't colored in I'd definitely have remembered that!

The DVD menu prominently credits it as "Masamune Shirow's Gundress", but I'm not sure what his role in the production actually was. He's listed in the opening credits for 設定協力 which got translated to English as "Characters Designed by" -- but different people are credited with character and mech design in the end credits. A literal translation is something like "setting cooperation".

There's definitely a number of familiar elements with some buildings reminiscent of Dominion Tank Police, mech suits that reminded me of designs in GitS:SAC, as well as thermoptic camouflage, cable-based cyborg communication (jacked into the neck), cyberdiving, etc. coming up during the story.

Unusually, this anime features a Little Arabia enclave within the Japanese "Bayside City" the story is set in and one of the main characters is Muslim. I think this may be the only time I've seen Arabic script in anime -- although I don't know what it says.

I clipped some screenshots and stacked them up so you can see what it looks like, if you're curious: https://files.catbox.moe/qtsa0d.png (~8MB)

What upside down thing with a banana??

There was a viral video/meme maybe a decade ago about how monkeys peel bananas (might have actually been an orangutan or gorilla in the one I saw; been too long since I've seen it) where they peel it from the end opposite of how people are usually shown doing it. I'm guessing they mean that? Basically, instead of bending the stem bit (from where the bananas bunch up), you can pinch the tip at the other end and the peel splits open very easily -- it's easier to do, especially if the banana is still a bit on the greener side of ripeness and the stem part is flexible. (I tried it after seeing it and switched to peeling them from the "bottom" myself.)

What back bit?

There is a little black fibrous part of most Cavendish bananas near the tip I was describing; many people do not like eating it and avoid it.

Also…veins?

I'm not sure what they mean either.