potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 1 point

You mean Parvati? :)

"Can't you think of anyone who'd go with Ron?" he said, lowering his voice so that Ron wouldn't hear. "What about Hermione Granger?" said Parvati. "She's going with someone else." Parvati looked astonished. "Ooooh - who?" she said keenly.

I'd assume in the early years Parvati and Lavender saw Hermione as "the girl hanging out with the boys" and were not that close with her. On Hermione's part, especially in the Yule Ball arc, she didn't seem to like being associated with girlish things which Parvati and Lavender are into. That might have changed a bit after Dumbledore's Army started where they worked together with a common goal.

That said, the class is small and everyone would have to cooperate here and there, so I'd expect them to have at least casual conversation normally. The "What about Hermione Granger?" line from Parvati could perhaps indicate their special tension around the Yule Ball (meaning, she would use "Hermione" normally).

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
kimyeti 1 point

Sure thing. What should I do exactly? :P

I release the images under the Creative Commons Share Alike licence.

potkettlepot 1 point

Done! (Technically it's still pending review, but almost done anyway)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_University_Library#Gallery

One last thing - when did you take the photos? This month and in morning, I assume? We try to describe details like this to distinguish different photos.

kimyeti 1 point

Nice, good work. The pictures is from the day I posted them :)

How long do you think the review will take?

potkettlepot 1 point

It should usually be a few days, but because currently the backlog seems to be huge, maybe longer.

I should also mention that, in case you happen to be interested in contributing yourself, no review is needed for first publications of your own photos - the review for possible copyright issues was needed here because it was a repost.

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potkettlepot commented on a post in r/newsokur
umashikaneko 11 points

働き方改革ってまだ最近のことだろ。今の生産性って去年のGDP÷労働時間で計算されてるんじゃないの? せめて5年後に言えよ。 もう今朝牛乳飲んだのになぜ身長が伸びないのかみたいないいがかりだな。

potkettlepot 3 points

文化や仕事の仕方の話をしてるから、(一人一人が心がけるだけで)瞬時に効果が出るはずだ、簡単でしょ? という主張だと思う。ソフトウェアへの投資はちょっと違うが。

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
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potkettlepot 1 point

Perhaps contrary to the popular opinion, I imagine the Japanese school is under a lot of western influence, and is not fundamentally different from Hogwarts. You can replace names, clothing, creatures, but that's about it. The magic of HP is inherently quite western and Rowling made it kind of global (think quidditch, or how Charles and Bill work internationally). Magical wands and flying brooms are not found in Japanese lores, while (I assume) Mahoukotoro students have their owns.

I think this is mainly Rowling putting little thoughts about the Japanese school (yet). One could imagine a lot more complex world where magical traditions from different parts of the world blending together, with an emphasis towards local traditions. I just don't see that happening in what Rowling described about Mahoutokoro (or about Hogwarts for that matter) so far. Even the name Mahoukotoro sounds...patchy. It's simply a non-word. Not a playful combination of Japanese words that native speakers might come up with. As it stands, I can only assume the school was named by a person who doesn't speak Japanese at a high level, probably a foreigner, without consulting locals (or rejecting their disapprovals).

choconuts5 3 points

前使った時は複数タブ開けなかったけど
今はどうなんだろう

potkettlepot 6 points

長押してから選べば新しいタブで開ける。ただし表示はタブっぽくない(右下にタブの数が出てそこから他のタブに飛ぶ)

機能が足りないことは確かにあるから、ブラウザの記憶とかを使いたいサイトはFirefoxで、単発で見るだけかのサイトはFocusにしてる。

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/japan
bundeslige 14 points

They add them as they talk along. It's a means to talk to the panel of guests that are present, as well as the viewing public. It's quite effective.

potkettlepot 5 points

It's a bit analogous to whiteboards not being made completely obsolete by teachers in way of Powerpoint and the likes. Other things being equal, I think physical presence and human body movement can attract additional attention from the audience.

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/japan
December18th2017 39 points
  1. Before July this year, a rape against a man was not considered rape. "Sexual harassment against men" was not even a concept.

  2. The current law recognizes both men and women as victims. However, unfortunately, I can't imagine the police taking sexual harassment against men seriously.

potkettlepot 3 points

"Sexual harassment against men" was not even a concept.

This is simply not true. The concept of female-to-male and male-to-male harrasment is at least as old as 2012 (probably much older).

https://web.archive.org/web/20121211012832/www.jinji.go.jp/sekuhara/leaflet.pdf

セクハラの対象は女性に限らず女性から男性、男性から男性もあります

gpuuhs 5 points

The notion that a woman could possibly be an aggressor in a sexual assault doesn’t exist in japan. Japanese internet slang was therefore developed to describe a woman raping a man as 逆レイプ (opposite-rape or reverse-rape). In this column written by a feminist ex news anchor today https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20171224-00010000-bfj-soci, she goes on to explain to the men who disapproves the #metoo movement that this movement isn’t limited to only female victims of sexual harassment but also men. She describes a situation when a man calls another man a virgin to exemplify a situation of a male being sexually harassed by a male, but fails to mention not even once in the four pages of a possible situation of neither a man or a woman being sexually harassed by another woman. In japan, sexual harassment by women aren’t considered as serious than men sexually harrasssing other men or women. This is because the notion of gender equality never existed in japan;japan was always traditionally a gender divided society with clear gender roles. Then feminism came and began claiming their rights while gender equality was never officially established anywhere in the society, and therefore many male rights were forgotten. Essentially the feminist movement in japan was females' movement for females' rights. While women's rights related to their gender were gained, the same rights for men were disregarded because we never knew what gender equality was while women claimed for their rights and respect. We didn’t know what to do with men who were silent, and who the feminists failed to stand up for because they themselves knew nothing about gender equality and had only their rights in their mind

potkettlepot 3 points

The notion that a woman could possibly be an aggressor in a sexual assault doesn’t exist in japan. Japanese internet slang was therefore developed to describe a woman raping a man as 逆レイプ (opposite-rape or reverse-rape).

There is nothing special about a sexual fantasy genre or a fetish acquires (or keeps acquiring) a new name. It's less about the notion has existed or not, it's more about how they want to label and distinguish their own sexual fantasies, now. So a term being new can hardly be an evidence for the notion being new.

Look at the new fantasy term 'yaoi' and old good 男色 - the notion (or at least a similar one) had existed but they wanted a new name.

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potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 3 points

Excellent work. However I have to wonder about copyright/license issues.

JKR/WB appears to be tolerant about quite a wide range of fans' extensions and reinterpretations to the HP world being published online. Fan works generally are allowed/get away as long as they don't get money for their works.

Could this one be more "dangerous" if it directly competes with the original producer's interest? What if they plan to produce a similar thing?

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 51 points

I like how the deaths of many major characters were sudden, random and meaningless. It makes me sad and feel hollow, but that's how death feels like and it somehow makes HP world more relatable.

I think it also emphasizes how miraculous Lily Potter's sacrifices was, how well planned Dumbledore's death was. Not in the sense that Lily was the only one who was willing to sacrifice themselves, but more like, it shows that very little people are given the opportunity to do so, at the right time, and when they are prepared.

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potkettlepot 7 points

When J . K. Rowling saw the dust cover of the ltalian edition of the first volume of her boy magician's saga, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 1998, she asked why Harry was shown wearing such strange head gear, a hat in the shape of the head of a mouse, no hint of which had been suggested in the novel. The answer she received was that the illustrator often created her characterisation like that, with "strange hats sitting on their heads".

It does seem like the artist likes strange hats: https://www.applausous-art.com/product-page/serena-riglietta-alice-in-wonderland-print

It would be funny if Rowling got the idea of the lion hat of Luna Lovegood from this.

potkettlepot 7 points

No specific meaning? as in "it's a children's book, let's throw in one cute animal or two"

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/manga
UrMumsBestFriend 209 points

Why are boys suddenly less enthusiastic?

Oh you dirty,dirty boys

E: Just gonna drop Kaguya discord link here- https://discord.gg/yDrcgkg

potkettlepot 45 points

In Japanese, Fujiwara was heavy on the innuendo when she said "pump it" - シコシコ. It's an expression typically (but not strictly) used to describe fapping. It's hilarious that the onnomatopeia keeps flying around in the background of later panels.

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/newsokur
potkettlepot 8 points

移民する人は健康で若いことが多いと思うけど、そういった要因は統制されてるのか?

(親または祖父母などが移民してきた人含む)非移民のムスリムでは明らかに傾向が違う http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2008/muslimsineurope.aspx

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 11 points

So it feels like the producer just had to slot in a love scene for the sake of it

It was the screenwriter (J K Rowling) who did it because all the interactions depicting their love are in the original screenplay. Whether it was rushed - maybe, but it was just a side plot of a single film so it's kind of inevitable.

A popular interpretation is that Queenie's ability allowed her to see his true great personality that she really loves, beyond the surface of the stereotypical fat, funny guy who is a no-maj which scared her a little first. And that makes sense to me. I'd say that the narrative was not well illustrated in the screen, though.

I wonder if we might see more depth into their relationships in the next film.

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 12 points

Fake.

http://people.com/celebrity/daniel-radcliffe-why-i-avoid-twitter-and-facebook/

“Also, I don’t have Twitter and I’m not on Facebook, and I think that makes things a lot easier because if you go on Twitter and tell everybody what you’re doing moment to moment, and then claim you want a private life, no one’s going to take that request seriously.”

I wonder why he doesn't just create one, get it verified, and leave it (semi-)dormant. That way he would be able to make it clear the others are fake accounts. (He probably doesn't care, though.)

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/japan
nemuri_no_kogoro 22 points

I don't know about that. China's animation up to this point has been really, really bad. The art is fine, usually, but the story and characters have been terrible. They just lack any sort of heart. Emotionally dead.

If Koreans haven't been able to break into the manga scene (which people said they would), I can't see China breaking into the anime one.

potkettlepot 6 points

If Koreans haven't been able to break into the manga scene

They kind of did, depending on where you look at. Sites like https://www.manga-lel.com/ feature a lot of Korean (and Chinese) manga, in addition to Japanese. I believe Lookism from Korea attracts a respectable amount of readership in Japan.

Overtaking? No. But breaking into? I think so.

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/newsokunomoral
Glowlight38 4 points

今作っている, 人工言語の辞書作成ソフトでもGitに上げてオープンソースにしようかなと思っている.

potkettlepot 3 points

リポジトリURLを https://news.ycombinator.com に投稿するとカルマがもらえる

デモ動画を README.md に貼っておくとよい

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/newsokur
potkettlepot 23 points

厳密に言うと、出生率(子どもをうめる女性が子どもをうむ確率)は上がっていて、出生数が下がっている。問題は子どもをうめる女性が減っていること。

http://www8.cao.go.jp/shoushi/shoushika/whitepaper/measures/w-2015/27webgaiyoh/html/gb1_s1-1.html

mannnakakoiyo 14 points

未だに厚労省が出生率を指標に少子化対策してるのは絶望感しかない

potkettlepot 7 points

出生率と関係なく出生数を上げるには、20歳か30歳あたりの女性と男性をどこからか持ってくる必要がある。もっと若い人が年をとってその年代にスライドして来る以外に。

ヒント:移民

ただ、出生率を上げ続けて2超になれば、それだけでもいずれは出生数も改善する。

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 6 points

Here are some:

It's probably a good idea to save results in the wiki, when done via this subreddit.

Outside of this subreddit, I've found one on Tumblr (pretty comprehensive): http://hpsurveys.tumblr.com/tagged/surveys:-demographics-2.0 . Considering there is some academic interest in studying fandoms, I would imagine some social scientists could have done surveys (maybe IRL?) professionally, but I don't seem to be able to find one.

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/harrypotter
potkettlepot 49 points

I wish we could've seen Hermione's reaction to being told she was a witch. Since she's such a rationalist, it might have taken her a while to believe it. I can see her asking Mcgonagall for a demonstration of magic. Also, I wonder what her parents thought.

This and as a sequel the reaction of Mr and Mrs Granger to Hermione when she skipped their ski trip. It was only mentioned in an off-hand way but it must have been some sort of a coming-of-age moment for her and her parents. In a sense, she cemented her choice (again) friends over parents, wizards over muggles.

In general, we have some idea on what wizarding families look like and how adult wizards and witches think, but little to nothing about adults with muggleborn children. Dynamics within a muggleborn family would be different and interesting.

potkettlepot commented on a post in r/japan
potkettlepot 33 points

Completely off topic, but it's interesting that you added the "underline" to the left to the line.

Normally the emphasis in vertical text is added to the right. (I was like "but where is the said sentence?")

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