#the day i finally stop talking about w7?

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Nono, keep talking about water 7 feelings, I'm also really bitter about the conclusion 😭 and it hurts because there are so little "fix it" fics that dwell on this issue specifically, most of them do end up blaming Usopp one way or another *hitting the ground with my fists* I GET YOU!

don't!!! make me talk about w7 bc i already can't stfu about it :)))

there's just so much to talk about, usopp in general, usopp&merry, usopp&sanji, usopp&franky, usopp&luffy, usopp&robin, usopp&zoro, usopp&sogeking, and have i said usopp? nami and chopper kinda get the short deal, but i can talk nonstop about them too (i feel like no one ever talks about usopp&chopper and how usopp is basically chopper's big brother, totally different from zoro, maybe more like the middle brother, and im pretty sure usopp sees his little veggie pirates in chopper)

and im tired of this whole who's right and who's wrong debate bc everyone did mistakes in a very valid way, luffy was wrong how he told usopp about merry but it's valid bc he (and the others) already processed that news and had their chances to be in denial (like can you imagine usopp feeling so left out *again* that everyone seems so normal about the news while luffy literally swept the last of unsteady ground right under usopp's feet away) and usopp's snapping is so damn valid, like it's not really about pride, it's not about not caring about the others, it's not about being selfish and egoistical, it's not about being delusional or childish, it's not about "playing pirates", it's not only about the importance of the merry, it's not about knowing that merry can't go on, it's not only about himself and his insecurities and his fears of being left behind, it's about all of that and more, so many complex layers that he himself hasn't all grasped yet

and this hasn't even scratched the topic of how we were kinda forced to view it through the "the shounen protagonist isn't wrong" glasses bc luffy can be wrong (see for example in the beginning of drum) but i think those instances are rare and the aftermath of w7 left the conflict not quite open, but also not really solved bc sorry that conflict lasted on more than usopp's shoulders, so making him carry it all is. not nice. especially since we learn about usopp's motivation when he talks with franky, like oda!!! you were on the right track!!! why solve this conflict one-sided?? you really think luffy of all ppl could have left w7 and usopp behind without talking to him just once???? im 100% sure that would have broken the crew bc without a talk there are just too many what ifs that'll eat every single one of them up, and chopper, nami and sanji were already infected, and zoro is more talk than anything, and the way luffy breaks once usopp apologizes says a lot about how he wasn't at all at peace with leaving usopp behind *even if it was what usopp wanted* i just think oda could have done that better :)

every day i think about w7 and go a little more insane

#the day i finally stop talking about w7? #won't happen #im going to keep talking about w7 frommy grave #w7 feels

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Some Reasons I Love One Piece

So I set up a poll to ask what I should do for my 4000 follower milestone, and something like 85% of the responses to my poll said you wanted me to do a compilation of stuff I love about One Piece! So hell yeah, get ready for me to talk about pirates for way too long (a sentence that could also serve as an accurate blog description).

Before that though, lemme just say- thank you all! Seriously! When I started this blog I figured I’d be extremely lucky to end up with like a thousand followers, and now I have four times that and it just keeps growing, which just constantly baffles and amazes me. I adore every one of you, and you’re providing me something fun and productive to do in quarantine, and I love you for that.

Anyways! Let’s talk good shit.

Let’s start with Luffy. The whole story starts with him, after all.

I love Luffy, just as a character. He’s one of my favorite protagonists in anything, ever, when ordinarily protagonist characters don’t really appeal to me all that much. I genuinely think he might be my favorite character in One Piece now that I sit down and really think about it. I love how unconventional of a main character he is- he actively shuns the idea of being a hero and is in fact the most chaotic neutral motherfucker on the planet, and yet he’s so friendly and loyal and fun that you straight up can’t not love him both in-universe and out. 

I also love the Strawhats just in general, both as a group and individually. Found family is one of my all-time favorite story tropes, and they do it better than like, the vast majority of stories out there. They’re all so completely unique from each other and play off each other so well and they really do feel like a family. I love how often Oda just shows them fucking around and hanging out. (One of my only gripes with post-timeskip is how much time they spend split apart.) I think it says a lot about them that I struggled so much when someone asked me to rank the Strawhats a few months back and had to rearrange the list like four times. I just!! Love them all!!

One of my favorite things about One Piece is that it’s the story of Luffy’s rise, and that it occurs in a world that’s so solidly scaled and well-developed that all progress he makes actually feels tangible and impactful. Some of my favorite moments in One Piece are the ones where we can see how far he and the crew have come and see other people’s reactions. His reappearance at Sabaody after the timeskip is my favorite scene in the manga, full stop. His entrance at Marineford and all of the Decks of the World cover stories delight me for the same reason.

Speaking of the worldbuilding, god it’s so good? I think one of the greatest potential strengths of a long manga is that its just got so much time to establish and build on so much information, and sometimes that leads to mangaka kind of tying themselves in knots with too much lore and explanation, but Oda just fucking nails it. 

I recently read a conversation during Zou where the Strawhats are talking to Inuarashi, Nekomamushi and the Wano folks about all their mutual acquaintances on the Roger Pirates- Brook asks about Crocus, Franky mentions Tom, etc- and I had a moment where I realized how in pretty much any other series all those connections might seem contrived, but in One Piece it works so well. So much time has been dedicated to establishing all these facts and characters and connections over years and hundreds of chapters that when they do come together, it just feels so satisfying. 

Like, at Twin Cape Crocus mentions he was a ship’s doctor and then mentions Roger as the Strawhats leave, at Thriller Bark we find out he’s Brook’s friend, at Sabaody in conversation with Rayleigh we find out for sure which ship he was a doctor on and that he joined them to look for Brook’s crew- and it all just falls together so nicely. One Piece is maybe the strongest series I’ve ever read in terms of how it establishes its characters and concepts and how they all fit into the world and cross over and connect with each other. The world of One Piece is huge, but it also feels so alive and interconnected, and that’s just wonderful. 

I love how hopeful One Piece is. I was talking to a friend a couple months ago who doesn’t watch it, and she kind of dismissed it as ‘a show where nobody dies.’ Which- setting aside the fact that that’s just not fucking true- my first response to that was, “So?” I think it’s nice that we can all know for pretty much certain that the Strawhats will achieve their dreams in the end. There’ll be a happy ending, and Luffy’s going to be Pirate King, we’ve known that from the start. The fun is in seeing how they get there. 

Aside from a few specific cases, I also really like how Oda does his character writing just in general. The female characters in One Piece generally get a bad rap, largely from people who haven’t watched the show and judge it on the (admittedly exaggerated) artstyle, but fuck if I haven’t seen such a widely varied and developed and flawed female cast writing-wise since- I don’t even know. Oda does a really good job of giving his characters, both male and female, unique and memorable personalities, which is super fucking impressive considering just how many there are. Similarly, I’m impressed by how new characters are introduced without getting repetitive or annoying, and very often those characters are really fantastic. I could talk about all the different One Piece characters I love and why, but we would legitimately be here all day. 

I also love how unlike a lot of long-running series like this, characters don’t just go away when their time in the spotlight is done. In just about any other series, characters like Buggy and Coby and Crocodile would just be gone and never to be heard from again after they’ve served their purpose. Instead you have the stupid clown villain from the second arc becoming a fucking shichibukai several hundred chapters later, and it makes sense in the context of the story! The whole concept of the cover stories works really well towards this aspect of One Piece, letting us see what all these other characters are up to without taking attention off the main story. This fits in with the interconnectedness I mentioned earlier, too. 

And I like how (and I know there are people who will argue this, I have had them in my inbox, but I do not care) One Piece has stayed so strong for so long. I’ve mentioned before that both of my favorite big arcs are pre-timeskip- Alabasta, for the civil war storyline and great supporting cast and villains, and W7/Enies Lobby, for the epic emotional highs and lowers + ANOTHER great supporting cast. But like, I’ve been enjoying the more recent arcs just as much! Honestly, now that I’ve finished Dressrosa, I think it definitely ranks up there among my favorites as well, for how chaotic and fun and high-stakes the whole thing felt when I was binging through it. I’m only a few chapters into Whole Cake Island so far but it seems very promising, and I’m really excited to get to Wano from what I’ve seen of it.

I haven’t even really touched on the art yet, either. I know the artstyle turns some people off of the series, for how kind of cartoony it is sometimes and how different it is from most other series, but honestly I just love it. I wasn’t sure about it at the start but it grew on me very fast. Hell, I have a whole tag (which I should use more) dedicated just to appreciation of pretty panels.

And the action scenes in One Piece are so fun and expressive and creative and almost always at least a little silly just by the nature of Luffy’s powers. I don’t think I’ve ever been bored during a One Piece fight. And the splash pages are frequently just breathtaking. I’m a writing person, not an art person, so I’m bad at putting this kind of thing into words nearly as well, but- yeah. One Piece Art Good. (My friend Narramin also has a really, really good series of posts about how great the visual storytelling in OP is starting here that I highly recommend, if you’re interested.)

Finally, I think my favorite thing about One Piece is that it’s all one story, start to end. I kind of touched on this above with the worldbuilding thing, but you can see what a ridiculous degree of thought and planning Oda has put into his story, and how well everything comes together. It’s the main aspect that got me to give One Piece a try in the first place- I heard how good and thought-out the long term storytelling is, and I just eat that shit up. I don’t think I’ve ever had the level of trust in a creator to handle and end their story satisfyingly that I have in Oda. It’s a good feeling. 

#took me so long to write this post that im now like #a third of the way to 5k #which is ridiculous #feel free to ask me to elaborate on any of this!! #i write better meta when i have a single topic to focus on fjdsh #which is one of the reasons this took so long #so yeah ask box open!! #jonny talks #one piece #not japanese #long post #opmeta

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The evolution of Windows, from Windows 1 to Windows 10

We have been talking about the features of Windows 10 since October of last year and many of you are bored with reading articles like "5 reasons why I should not upgrade my computer to Windows 10" (according to the article's limb) . This post is thought to detoxify us from the vortex of these days since the decision, after all Frank Sinatra would say It's up to you ....

Let's go through the last 30 years of Windows, starting naturally in Windows 1 until we reach Windows 10. We started:

Although it was announced in 1983 by Bill Gates, its launch did not take place until two years later, specifically on November 20, 1985. It was popular thanks to its graphic interface based on windows that gives its name.

Among its desktop features were the management of MS-DOS files, calendar, notebook, calculator and clock.

Microsoft launches Windows 2.0 with desktop icons, expanded memory, better graphics and the ability to overlay windows, control screen layout and use keyboard shortcuts to speed up work.

It was the first Windows platform for applications as common today as Word or Excel.

On May 22, 1990 appears Windows 3.0, the first version that achieved commercial success, with several million sales in the first year. Important changes to the user interface were introduced, as well as improving the exploitation of the memory management capacity of processors.

The Program Manager and File Manager made their first appearance in this release, along with the redesigned control panel and some games like Solitaire, Hearts and Minesweeper. Who has not ever played the mythical solitaire?

Although the marketing people of Microsoft try to convince the world that NT means New Technology , the truth is is that the initials NT come from the code name that had the project when it was in the N-Ten development phase. The final project was launched on 27 July 1993.

To carry out this development from scratch, IBM partnered with Microsoft. They built a 32-byte multitasking, multi threaded, multiprocessing, multi user OS with a hybrid core and an abstraction hardware layer to facilitate cross-platform portability. GTA 6 System Requirement 

A year and a month later, on July 24, 1994, Microsoft released Windows 95. They ran an unprecedented ad campaign that included the Rolling Stones' " Start Me Up " song. The detractors of Windows did not miss the opportunity to mock indicating that the lyrics of the song said "... you make a grown man cry ...", but this did not prevent that in only 5 weeks were sold 7 million copies a record!

Windows 95 was more consumer-oriented, had a completely new user interface and features that today are very familiar, but then something revolutionary, such as the Start button, the Taskbar, the Notifications Area (remember which was the time of the modem, fax, ...), etc.

On June 25, 1998, the first version designed specifically for the consumer was born. A number of user interface enhancements are introduced through the Internet Explorer 4 Windows desktop update package. For example, the ability to minimize a window with a simple click on the toolbar icon, buttons navigation to "Forward" and "Return", etc.

With Windows 98 the recognition of scanners, mice, keyboards and levers was improved.

The last of the line of Windows 9x based on DOS, Windows Millennium Edition, considered like one of the worse versions of Windows that has existed, is released on September 14, (Although as the saying goes, someone will come that good will do to me; P)

Unlike W95 and W98 they lacked DOS real-mode support. In his favor it must be said that he had a very useful feature, namely "Restore the System" which allowed users to establish a stable configuration of the system earlier than the current one.

Just one year later, on October 25, 2001, the first consumer operating system based on NT architecture, codenamed was Whistler, went on sale with the name of XP of and XP eriencie . It turned out to be one of the most successful, in December 2013 its market share reached 500 million computers. After 12 years in the market 12 years !, in April 2014 Microsoft stopped supporting.

Windows XP introduced new features such as the use of a new user-friendly interface, the ability to use multiple user accounts at once, the ability to group similar applications in the taskbar, just to name a few.

We had never waited so long for a change of SO, more than 5 years! Microsoft would have liked to have it ready to cash in on Christmas 2006, but had to wait until January 30, 2007 to launch it worldwide. It is remembered as a system that came late, bad and drag . Key complaints focused on security functions, digital rights management, hardware requirements, and software performance and compatibility.

In its favor, we must remember the characteristics that everyone identifies, namely: the new graphic interface that allowed transparency in windows, the Flip-3D application that was activated with the key combination Win + Tab, and showing with a 3D effect the windows that were open could change from one to another. In addition, it allowed to have a preview of the open windows, by simply hovering over the buttons on the taskbar.

By the way, do you remember when in April Stack Overflow unveiled the preferences of the programmers and discovered that 2015 are still programmers who use Windows Vista and Windows XP: O? Better let's forget this last and let's continue with the review, there is little left!

Many consider Windows 7 as the OS that Windows Vista would like to have been. In fact, in its origins was conceived as a kind of update of Windows Vista, which allowed to maintain some degree of compatibility with applications and hardware. As soon as it came to market on October 22, 2009 began to eat the market share of its predecessors.

Checkout: GTA 6 Release Date 

Windows 7 stands out for offering a redesigned interface, a new taskbar, important improvements in OS performance and especially since W7 marked the debut of Windows Touch , which allows to explore the web from touch screens.

The 25 of October of 2012 made long put the controversial Windows 8. The users tear the garments ... it did not have Home button! How could they survive without it?

Its user interface was modified to make it more user friendly and easy to use with the touch screens, in addition to being able to continue using the keyboard and mouse. It is the moment of the Apps whose icons of different sizes occupy the screen, can be grouped, show notifications, ... The file explorer now leaves only a click of mouse, functions that were previously hidden and like this we could list hundreds of new features, but we know you're impatient to get to the next.

After three years of hard journey through the desert without a home button, July 29, 2015 makes its stellar appearance Windows 10. And now what?

Anyway there is a "universal rule" that has been fulfilled since Windows came out, and is that users always consider a good version and the next bad, alternating them. For example, Windows XP: Good, but Windows Vista: Bad. And if you look at the list has always been fulfilled. Now it plays good version, so ... as we told you at the beginning of this article, the decision is yours ;-)