Naïve analysis of financials and potential added values of Bilibili Inc.

Gone are the days when they could courageously expand their businesses.

The Indecisive man in the Arrow of Indecision

Guess I am a stupid person after all, considering everything that has happened today.

I’m watching this season’s new anime The Unaware Atelier Master, and so far it looks like canned literature, the story of the classic extra-capable man being expelled from the team without recognising their true potential, then growing up and somehow make the egomaniacal ex-members looking like clowns while opening a harem at the same time, not to mention that ‘hero being a logistics professional’ has already been used way too many times in a lot of previous productions as well. But that’s not the point I want to gripe about, it’s the use of English in the first episode that I can hardly bear.

Although it is understandable that in Japanese isekai works may elect to use English to illustrate the isekai language and writing system, but the majority previous works either use gibberish symbols or create a set of fonts of their own, therefore is really a relatively rare for a show to directly use a variety of common English fonts, and they can negatively affect the presentation of worldview. Low-budget works may not have the resources for this and can be understood, but should you at least do your translations with some professional dignity right? Look at what you’ve done… Let alone the whole show, they can’t even make consistent transcription of the same katakana place names on the same piece of paper that’s been put up very large on the screen, let alone with the name of the labour market that just appeared a few minutes ago.

I mean, there is a limit for not being serious, and since you chose to make words understandable by more than a billion people, then at least don’t make yourself looking like a pure sheer joke.

I finally found some time to update my ratings and reviews for this season’s anime, which didn’t feel any is particularly good, but didn’t found anything particularly disgusting either. Ave Mujica had a lot of hype indeed, but now I feel like I really made a right decision by not watching it in the first place. I might go out for another short trip tomorrow, but only if I can wake up early for tomorrow morning ……

Windermere of Cumbria's Lake District (England, UK)

This Saturday I went to the famous Lake District in England. It’s interesting to note that although there are no schools or Chinese neighbourhoods in the area, there were quite a lot of Chinese faces. I took some interesting pictures and made some wonderful discoveries, which were supposed to be posted today. However, last week, I found that the website’s image optimisation function seems to have a problem, a week of serving unoptimised PNG images makes my wallet feel quite painfully. I probably will start editing the contents but will not publish it until I am satisfied that the issue is properly fixed.

Of course, it might be an option to just replace the current image optimisation scheme, or just get rid of all the PNG files and replace them with the more efficient WebP or AVIF, but it seems to be a little more difficult to do that on this site at the moment.

Denton (DTN) and Reddish South (RDS), least used stations in Great Britain

The Internet is what we make of it, for better or for worse.

Looking back at the beginning of the Year of the Snake

If I had to choose a key word for the past year, I would choose "awareness", even though it seemed to be a year in which everything happened and nothing happened.

On Sunday I have made my first International transfer at the infamous Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. It was… not as bad as I previously expected. The staff that day, including bus drivers and police officers, knows how to speak English perfectly aside from French, although the word use is not always the most accurate ones. There are English signs, and there are Chinese signs as well!

Yet, the added difficulty in various stages are quite noticeable when compared to other airports, such as Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) or Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok Airport (HKG). The security queue is unreasonably large with a small subset of lanes open, and the X-ray machines still require batteries, laptops, keys, etc. to be taken out. Walking distance is also quite epic even with assistance of moving walkways.

What makes things worst is the transit between terminals, which arguably CDG have eleven of them and marked them using 3 numbers and 10 letters (T1, T2A, T2B, T2C, T2D, T2E K Gates, T2E L Gates, T2E M Gates, T2F, T2G). It is impossible for someone who have not researched the map of the airport to ever comprehend why it needs a two-stop train ride to go to K Gates while physically being in T2E (M gates).

There are bus rides to transfer from T1 to all other terminals, and the announcement on it is also confusing. It tells people to leave for K Gates at stops designated for L/M Gates a train ride away, while the next stop would arrive at K Gates directly. I almost got it wrong without seeing the map for the route…

Today’s Manchester, is snowy.