Some Thoughts on Key the Metal Idol

Keywords: #anime
I did not find any topic that can motivate me to pick up writing blogs for quite a while until I finished watching Key the Metal Idol recently (maybe not that recent lol). My thinkings are kind of scattered so feel free to jump around. Success or Failure? Even though I dislike connecting a really lowkey anime to a more popular one just to be able to say “Ohhh this gives me a (insert popular anime name here) vibe!

Let's Talk About Sympathy

Keywords: #opinions
I have been thinking about the emotion “sympathy” recently and came up with this sophistry tier post. It is like a messy shower thought rather than a sophisticated theory that needs 2000 words to explain, but I am still going to put it here since I feel like I am obligated to update this blog at least once a month. Sympathy, an emotion that involves acknowledgement and pitiness toward another individual’s sorrow, is often confused with the word empathy.

Gentoo Installation (Encryption + Btrfs Subvolume + Multi Boot)

Keywords: #tech
I have been using Arch as my daily drive for a while and decided to venture a little bit by trying out Gentoo. My first Gentoo installation went semi-successfully, so I want to record my installation process here in case I encounter the same problem in the future. Therefore, this post serves a purpose more of a personal record than a guide. With that being said, you are welcome to follow it.

An Alternative Interpretation of Kon Satoshi's Perfect Blue (Part 2)

Keywords: #anime
This post contains lots of pictures I don’t want my post to be too long so I decided to split it into two parts You can find the first part at here Double Bind Throughout the film, Double Bind has played an important role at developing Mima’s character and strengthening her schizophrenia as it closely correlates to Mima’s own dilemma. They are so perfectly related that some people have argued that Double Bind is the real story plot while Mima, Rumi, and whatever characters that exist outside of the film are all inside Youko’s head.

An Alternative Interpretation of Kon Satoshi's Perfect Blue (Part 1)

Keywords: #anime
This post contains lots of pictures I don’t want my post to be too long so I decided to split it into two parts Recently I rewatched Perfect Blue, a psychological film directed by Satoshi Kon published in 1997. If you know nothing about this film, it is basically a story centered around Mima Kirigoe, an idol who decided to quit and became an actress but developed multiple personality disorder during this process of transformation.

Building a simple proxy with V2ray

Keywords: #tech
V2ray is “a platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions”. You can find the github page here, the official English website here, and also here. As you might have noticed, v2ray is not a tool invented primarily for privacy (but it is very tweakable for all kinds of purposes), bur is rather used to bypass the GFW in China. Most of you will never use it probably, but it is always fun to try new things, am I right?

An Overview of IPFS: Usage, Explanation, and Thoughts

Keywords: #tech
Until now, the World Wide Web relies on HTTP to transfer data and establish communication across the web. But in 2015, an American guy named Juan Benet created a new protocol called IPFS, or you might like its sci-fi sounding name better, “InterPlanetary File System”, to compete with HTTP. Instead of the classic server-client approach, IPFS decides to go with peer-to-peer, which should sound familiar if you know BitTorrent. To summarize it in a short sentence, IPFS is a peer-to-peer file sharing system that claims to be faster, safer, and more open.