Why "locked into"? When choosing JavaScript, you're locked into JavaScript (and Ecma International), when choosing Kotlin, you're locked into Kotlin (and Jetbrains). You're always "locked into" the language and its ecosystem, no matter what you choose. I don't find that to be a real argument.
Speaking of which, how good is .NET on Linux nowadays?
I know it was possible for a long time (with the release .NET Core), but heard it was kind of broken/cumbersome on Linux. Maybe now it's easier to just develop an ASP.NET app, host it on Linux and use Posgres/Mysql instead of SQL Server?
In the front end you have no choice but in the backend you have all the choice into the world. No you’re not always locked in the backend if you have a decentralized system where each service can be based on a different language but yea, I don’t like Java or Java like languages so I will never use especially one maintained by microsoft.
I wouldn't say Midnight Gospel is really deep, isn't it basically just his podcast set to a aesthetically stimulating background animation that's tangentially related to what their talking about?
I'm not saying it's bad, just that "deep" to my understanding is when a piece of art has more to it than what it appears to at first glance. Midnight Gospel is about a guy doing a "spacecast" where he interviews random aliens he finds. But when you look "deeper', it's really....a guy doing a podcast where he interviews people. Not a lot going on under the surface, just reskinning the interviews into a different format and adding a small bit of sci-fi world building.
Yeah, I guess that's true, but that doesn't make them any less "deep" for me. All the episodes got me thinking about things in a general sense, which is what I'm looking for from what I'd call "deep". However, the last episode was on a different level than anything I've ever viewed before. It does have more to it that what it appears to at first glance, at least it did to me. Are you aware of the background of that episode? Maybe that one episode causes me to attribute a deeper deepness to the show as a whole.
Rick and Morty fakes a lot of its depth with nonsense technobabble, akin to Evangeleon's biblical references which are largely nonsense.
The good bits of Rick and Morty are very short, maybe 1-minute sections of episodes. Morty's relationship with Planetina was one of the deeper moments of all of season 5, except it is summarized in maybe 90-seconds of story at the most.
And its really not much deeper than "some eco-friendly people turn out to be eco-terrorists", and that's enough to ruin a relationship. Yeah, sucks for Morty, but... its not exactly a particularly deep message (deep in the context of the rest of the show, yes. And I definitely enjoy those kinds of moments. But something needs to be longer than 90-seconds of story for me to call it "deep", especially compared to other things I've seen)
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I dunno, as far as technobabble / nonsense words go, I prefer Evangeleon from that perspective. There's a lot to be said about Shinji's exploration of his depression (caused by Gendo, his father's, obsession over the Human Instrumentality Project).
Rick is just a toxic asshole that the show forces you to watch. Someone like Morty should have run away / cut Rick out of his life a long long time ago. At least in Evangelion, Shinji is actively trying to cut out the entire mecha-project out of his life (running away multiple times), but since Shinji is one of the few candidates who can pilot the mech, he's forced back into the job over-and-over again (unlike Morty who seems to just be this passive guy who is needlessly picked on by Rick for 5 seasons).
If nothing really matters, then Morty could just leave and that's that (and the fact that this hasn't been explored across ~5 seasons shows the limitations of the relatively shallow, episodic format... forcing Rick and Morty to be friends again by the start of the next episode to keep things serialized). What makes Shinji's situation unique is that Shinji's worth as a pilot is more than he gives credit for, and each time he tries to leave, a disaster occurs. Each time Shinji does fight, a disaster also occurs by his hands. So Shinji's confusion and depression is far more understanding.
Ex: Shinji's relationship with Toji evolves over a few episodes, and is deeper than all 5 season's of Morty's development.
Shinji is forced to pilot the mech in episode 1. Shinji's inexperience with the mech causes collateral damage, and Toji's sister gets trapped in the rubble. Toji bullies Shinji until Shinji saves him in the next fight, as Toji didn't realize the issues of being a pilot. The arc culminates as Toji himself becomes a pilot, and Shinji is forced by his father to destroy Toji's mech. Shinji is being forced to follow Gendo (his father's) plans as scripted out by "The Dead Sea Scrolls" (aka: technobabble), but the important thing is that Gendo's ambition for the project is so great, he's willing to traumatize his own son over it. Shinji x Toji's relationship is just one sacrifice Gendo makes, and Shinji's depression goes even deeper because of it.
Thanks for the reply, I'm only about 6 episodes into R&M so my view might change. What is "deep" is probably a better question, The Simpsons is pretty deep if you choose to look at it that way. I'm sure many people have written PHD thesis on this kind of thing. Personally I found the Midnight Gospel pretty deep as it basically rehashes a lot of Buddhist philosophies which Duncan Trussell is very fond of.
I think R&M is an unusual message, in that it tries to take a Nihilist stance on a lot of subjects. Combined with pop-culture references and technobabble, it can come off as more high-brow than it really is IMO.
Neon Genesis Evangelion, really did the Nihilist thing better though. No matter what Shinji tried, things kept getting worse. Rick is "too obvious" of an asshole. Gendo (Shinji's father) is better, because nominally speaking, Gendo is working on a project to literally cancel out the apocalypse that's occurring in the series.
So when Gendo says "Get in the mech and fight that monster", you generally know that Shinji (probably) should do that, you know, to save the world. The long-term effects of this decision (as well as the alternative decision: for Shinji to run away from this responsibility) are explored in the short 26 episodes of the series.
When Rick says "shove these 'Mega Seeds' up your ass Morty", I'm not entirely sure if Morty should comply with that. They have some foreshadowing going on for the "what if Morty stopped listening to Rick all the time", thanks to the "Alternate Universe Evil Morty" plotline going on, but we've had like 4 episodes so far with that character? And most of the time, that character doesn't interact with mainline Rick/mainline Morty.
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The show is randomly pretty good with some relationships. Rick x Unity was a good episode, as was Morty x Planetina. Otherwise, I think its largely just a comedy show where ridiculous things happen in a crude manner, with a mildly Nihilist perspective on events.
A lot of R&M scenes are due to incredibly poor decisions of the main characters: Rick outright lying to Morty and then hiding the lie through toxic interactions (its your fault Morty). Morty becoming so overly influenced by his sexual desire to potentially cause a world-ending (or universe-ending) event. Jerry wimping out of some fight. And these decisions are largely encoded into the format of these characters. These characters rarely "try something else", because doing so would break the serialization format (ie: the golden rule of American cartoons. Do not change the characters).
Plug for CJ the X's excellent video essay on the dialectics of Rick and Morty. Given the thought you put into your breakdowns of both R&M and NGE, I think you might like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm4dxUIRZso
Note that Gendo has always been focused on getting his wife back, the Human Instrumentality Project was just a means to his ends. In both timelines/stories, the original series Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Rebuilds, he doesn't follow the plan.
Well yes but I'm trying to avoid unnecessary spoilers, in case the readers haven't seen the ending yet.
The Toji sub-plot is all wrapped up before the 10th episode, and is a side-story at best. Its barely a spoiler IMO. What makes Evangelion great is that its filled with these interactions: Misato's interactions with Ritsuko, Ritsuko interacting with Rei, Rei interacting with Asuka, etc. etc.
Its filled to the brim, not all of the interactions are depressing, some are ridiculously over-the-top / campy (especially the excuses for fanservice scenes), but the "serious story" that's told over the 26 episodes (or 4 OVA movies for the new timeline) is pretty good. Albeit heavily laden with long-winded dialogs about Selee, Three Magi computer system, Dead Sea Scrolls, AT Fields, the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th impact events and Hedgehog's Paradox (Okay, Hedgehog's Paradox actually is relevant and the running theme between all of these characters. But a lot of the other stuff doesn't matter, lol).
They can definitely go very deep - it is just a very western (or maybe even specifically American) thing where people think "Cartoons are just for kids".
Grave of the Fireflies is depressing as fuck and definitely does not skip the serious stuff.
Plenty of forest, but relatively little forest away from well marked trails, urban developments and authorities that don't think people should be living in forests.
Go look at Singapore on Google maps. There doesn't seem to be much, and all of it has marked trails. Are you sure there's "tons"? I admit I thought it had much more.
Im not the OP and not sure about multitude but one problem for a successful app is bandwidth usage from transferring redundant chunks of HTML, and potentially JS and CSS
Assets like JS/CSS can be cached, and unless you're doing something very convoluted HTML overhead should be pretty low. I mean HTML was standardized in the 90s when we had <100Kb/s (not KB/s) bandwidth so i understand if you have a "successful app" you're always going to need to deal with scaling, but it's not exactly a problem for most of us and caching reverse proxies are very easy to operate and stable nowadays.
So you’ve said that you don’t have this problem because your not a successful app? Or are you denying that there’s duplicate HTML, and sometimes JS and CSS being sent? 100k for 100 users is 10mb and bandwidth is one of the easier ways to save costs.
