As far as someone having to join the Port Mafia I am definitely hoping it'll be Dazai so perhaps this is bias and I have only seen the anime so I could be missing info from the manga but thinking about it, there is an open executive chair. Fyodor killed Ace leaving one wide open, meaning Dazai could just be slotted right back in.
You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.
Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.
And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.
Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.
Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
So you wanna know why the dragon appearing in BSD Dead Apple isn't actually out of the blue nonsense but was in fact hinted at earlier in the movie?
BSD has firmly taken root in my head and I ended up rewatching Dead Apple, which up until the final fight I think it's a pretty decent movie. Except for the dragon. Because why is there suddenly a dragon. They explain it's the true form of chaos of the abilities but that doesn't have to mean it's a dragon. That could be any form. Any form at all. So I'm losing my mind because it's a great show but sometimes you have to yada yada some of the rationale of what's going on but the dragon just eats at me because Shibusawa and Fyodor act like they knew it would be a dragon. To know that they obviously have to have either seen it happen before or have some clue that indicates it would be a dragon. Which, if it's never happened before then still, how exactly do they know it'll be a dragon specifically? But know one is surprised when it's a dragon meanwhile I'm watching the whole movie wondering why there's just suddenly a dragon with no explanation beyond "that's the singularity result" when it finally fucking hit me. They did tell us it would be a dragon. The room all of the crystalized abilities were kept in was kept in? It was called Draconia. Draconia a word with the Latin root word draco. Draco meaning serpent or more specifically, dragon. Fucking dragon. Right there in plain sight. The absolutely fury, the absolute seething fury of it taking that long to figure out has completely gripped me, so if this post is a little long rest assured, I sat just stumbling onto that answer bitching about a random dragon appearing for much longer, this is just a taste of the lengthy process it took for the obvious answer to slap me in the face.
Every single fic update there is an author trying frantically to find the right balance between a nonchalant aside of "leave a comment if you enjoyed =)" and clinging desperately to the coat tails of a random stranger, dragging along behind them on the street wailing "Please, please! I have to know what you thought! I'm desperate to talk to people about this! Ask me about the alliterative repetition! Ask me about the symbolism!"
So in four short days I consumed the entirety of Bungo Stray Dogs (including the little wan series) and I absolutely loved it. Season three felt weak until watching Season four and realizing the previous season was more about maneuvering pieces into their proper places and season four had to do that too to some degree but I think they balanced doing so in a better manner. All of this being said, I could never quite shake the feeling that I was watching an anime adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Which is in no way bad, I like the book, even if I'm not a huge fan of Fitzgerald, character or author, but the entire time I watched the show it felt like Atsushi was Nick and Dazai was Gatsby. Atsushi is the main character but never the main focus, that's all Dazai. And I like it. I think the story works extremely well that way. Even when Dazai's missing from the main action Ranpo is there to fill the space, it's never the person telling the story, instead you're always being directed to focus on the characters around.