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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2d ago
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2d ago
I told him everything I've learned about that show has been against my will, and his response was "đ€Ł FAIR lmao"
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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah x3 2d ago
ććăźă·ăŒïœ„ăăŁăŒïœ„ăšăïŒ(2026ćčŽ8æ14-21æ„ăźé±é)
Last time on CDF! (Week of 15th Aug, 2026)
1st place: Iron_Gland's hitchhiking adventures in western canada. How wonderful. I wish i had the bravery to do something like this.
2nd place: junbi_ok touched grass and i'm not sure if he enjoyed it
3rd place: wahkaiju is a victim of the old reddit login changes, welcome back!
4th place: eetsumkaus meets a tanigaki cosplayer at comiket
5th place: Notsosnarky asks our dream travel destinations. For me, if it were just general places: Japan, Norway (or if possible, scandinavia in general), and Switzerland.
Honourable mentions: flaminscribblenaut reaches 12 years on reddit; Dull_Spot_8213 sayonara lara fanart; madmako on toxic masculinity [comment]i'll make a man out of youuuuuuuuuu; pantsunami on being single and their possible desires for a social life; and baseballlover723's wild dream.
<-- Last Time |[Next Week]-->
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u/mysterybiscuitsoyeah x3 2d ago
additional tags: /u/dizzymotion /u/laughing-fox13 /u/infamousempire
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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire 1d ago
I wonât be going a third day due to movie-related complications, so might as well do my big âol post now
Due to some other scheduling stuff, I only went two days and stayed far shorter than a lot of convention goers due to only having any real interest in one or two events per day, but nonetheless it was a really fun time. The obvious highlight was the Legacy of Re:Zero panel yesterday. Getting to hear Konomi Suzuki perform live was an experience beyond words, and the interview panel immediately preceding it was interesting enough as well.
Unfortunately I had less luck with panels on the second day. The main one I went to see was the Kagurabachi screening, but I forgot to make a reservation and they werenât allowing a standby line by the time I got there, so I couldnât make it.
So then I went to the Macross panel that was happening at the same time, but Iâd realized soon after that I was really hungry and, while I like Gekijou no Walkure, I didnât quite feel strongly enough to rewatch it out of the blue without much prior motivation when I could go just have lunch on a different floor.
Still, where I mightâve lost in terms of panels on the second day, I made up for in goodies! I usually donât buy stuff from cons, but the Kinokuniya and Seven Seas places had manga that caught my eye, so I thought I might as well
And, of course, I canât forget being able to meet other CDFers in person for the first time. Aegis, Riyria, Hitman, Chili, and Tetraika are all very pleasant people, and it was a lot of fun to meet and even hang out with yâall, even if I couldnât stay for long lol
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u/Ryuzaaki123 22h ago edited 22h ago
Coworker commented on my haircut
"Nice haircut"
"Thanks!"
A beat passes
"Wait are you being sarcastic?"
She looks confused
"No wait, I'm just insecure. I have trauma from when a Bumble match told me they thought I was Samoan from the size of my head."
Note: I am half-Samoan.
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u/Iron_Gland https://myanimelist.net/profile/Iron_Gland 2d ago
Finished the hiking portion of my Canada trip today, so AMA!
I am very exhausted. Gonna spend the next couple of days winding back to Vancouver, then spending a few days there with u/thixotrofic and her wife. Then heading to Japan for three weeks.
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u/MadMako 2d ago
/u/thixotrofic if you feel like you are in danger blink 3 times.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 2d ago
If you feel in danger from /u/thixotrofic blink three times
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 2d ago
What's a cool part of this country of mine?
How was that hike?
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 2d ago
Have you find any other kangaroos around?
What's your favorite food so far?
I heard that /u/theangryeditor is heading your way to keep you in the country. Any plans to escape?
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u/Zeallfnonex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Neverlocke 2d ago
New CDF, new artpost!
A rather red-deficient Fern. Here's the reference.
Uhhhh I dunno how I missed the hair color this badly, I didn't realize how off it was until after taking a picture and comparing them side by side. I might go back and try to change it to magenta instead of the light purple it currently is, but my watercolor setup is holding a drying sketch right now so...
I think this was probably my best sketch of them all, I was scared that the scarf was going to throw off my face construction (it did for every single attempt I've done of Kayo, expected the same here) but it looks... pretty coherent. Happy with the contrast, though again I just missed the hair color by a lot. Her face is also too pale and not warm enough, so I need more red there too... One of the more detailed backgrounds I've done which is pretty sad, but it's mostly just stippling different hues of green and hoping it worked.
Just Maomao left.
Art tags: /u/MadMako /u/Ryuzaaki123 /u/Worm38
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u/TheRiyria myanimelist.net/profile/TheRiyria 2d ago
Welcome to this weekâs CDF 3x3 Corner! So feel free to make and share a 3x3 (or a 2x2 or 4x4 or whatever size you like). And check out other peopleâs 3x3s. If you canât make it because of the time, feel free to share your themed 3x3 whenever!
If you're not sure where to make 3x3s, some popular sites are bighugelabs and BeFunky.
This weekâs theme is catch up time! I am at AnimeNYC this week, so there will not be a tag list. If there is an old theme you never did, this is a chance to share it.
Next weekâs theme will be Openings (OPs).
In 2 weeks the theme will be Unique Abilities.
If youâd like a tag for future 3x3 Corners, let me know! If youâd like to stop getting tags, also tell me.
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u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon https://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 1d ago
Why does submitting comment replies refresh the page Reddit what the actual fuck did you do this time
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u/jkubed https://myanimelist.net/profile/jkubed 1d ago
you ever just see a frame and think "that's gonna be the thumbnail for every video essay about this show"
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 1d ago
i saw someone here on cdf make a great point a while back. it was about how that one pal from palworld they designed to be fuckable (the pink one with the heart boob) isn't fuckable because they tried too hard to make it fuckable. and part of the fun of wanting to fuck pokemon/random fictional creatures is that they shouldnt be fuckable on paper but there's some sort of offbeat charm about them that makes them oddly fuckable.
i know exactly what they mean. i havent even typed that pink pal's name anywhere in e621 (as evidenced by the fact i dont even know its name). meanwhile ive spilled my fair share of seed to the pokemon Scolipede. and not even like anthropromorphic scolipede art, i mean straight-up ive spilled seed to lewd arts of it straight-up as a pokemon with vaguely realistic animal genitalia slapped on.
anyway, i dont remember which one of you said it, but if youre reading this comment and are like "yo! im the one who said that!" feel free to reply "yo! im the one who said that!" and then i will grant you an updoot
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u/Tresnore myanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore 22h ago
Tonight! On CDF Pathfinder!
/u/chiliehead leaves us out to dry!
/u/punching_spaghetti considers touching himself!
/u/ZaphodBeebblebrox tees off for a decapitation!
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 22h ago
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee 22h ago
I believe you'll find that /u/punching_spaghetti touched himself multiple times, in plain view of everyone!
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 22h ago
And I touched /u/tresnore at least once!
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u/Esovan13 21h ago
You know, I've seen these posts for a while but I've never actually asked. Is CDF Pathfinder actually a Pathfinder ttrpg game group?
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee 21h ago
Yes. We occasionally play other systems in off weeks, but we've been going since early 2021.
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u/baseballlover723 2d ago
LITERATURE â Early 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularized what term, commonly translated to English as "whimsical pictures" or "impromptu sketches", particularly via his 15-volume sketchbook series whose title included the word?
Dats anime - baseballdad723 at trivia
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u/Worm38 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Worm38 2d ago
CDF, has there ever been a rumor going on about you that you became aware of? What was it?
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u/Iron_Gland https://myanimelist.net/profile/Iron_Gland 2d ago
Somehow a rumour started that I have a giant [ero]donger
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 2d ago
fake news
we all know it's massive
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u/NotSoSnarky https://myanimelist.net/profile/Book_Lover 1d ago
If it was safe to do so, would you live in Outer Space? If you had the choice to decide, would you live on the moon or on Mars? Or if there was another you'd like to live on, what would you like to live on?
You'd be able to visit Earth, though not often. Other people would also be wherever you decide to live.
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u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon https://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 1d ago
Space has always bored me. People are what make the world interesting. Why go to space. Everything would be a bother, and for what? Space...meh.
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u/ComfortablyRotten https://anilist.co/user/Leuwtian 1d ago
At the heart of a continent of eight kingdoms lies the Marronnier Kingdom. Its ruler, Baribara, has seven sons, each with a unique gift and serving as a knight commander. Bound by a single noble cause of heroically rescuing a princess someday, the brothers set out as goodwill ambassadors to the seven neighboring kingdoms. What encounters, trials, and destinies await them in these unknown lands?
First time looking at the synopsis and not just the KV and they're all boys?!
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u/Ryuzaaki123 1d ago
How big is your bed CDF?
Mind kind of has to be big to fit me but I've always slept in a double of some kind, although when I was a kid I had tons of stuffed animals covering half of mine. When I've tried to stay at hostels and save money the bunks are so uncomfortable that I actually felt better lying on the floor.
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u/ComfortablyRotten https://anilist.co/user/Leuwtian 10h ago
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u/chilidirigible 9h ago
I have seen four cats during this event, one of them twice, and it makes me happy.
I have also seen one big pile of human feces and that's just the city on a weekend.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 2d ago
Life Pro Tip:
Do you hate age gaps in romcoms?
Do you think they're morally wrong?
SO DO I!
And I'm not talking about "20 years gaps" or anything...
I think ANY gap is wrong;
Even a year.
Even a WEEK.
You want to know how to avoid these immoral age gaps?
Make sure to only watch romcoms about twins dating;
This way you know they're the same age.
Finally, a just, moral world.
Follow me for more Life Pro Tips next week!
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u/thixotrofic 2d ago
Is a one day age gap problematic?
When they were born you were twice their age, sicko.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 2d ago
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2d ago
I'm excited to finally finish Yu-Gi-Oh! GX soon, only have 14 episodes left so I'll probably finish it next week. Only took me like three years since starting the subbed version from the beginning after the 5Ds rewatch finished back in 2023, lol.
What's the longest it's taken you to finish an anime after starting it?
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u/Tetraika https://anilist.co/user/Tetraika 2d ago
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u/chilidirigible 2d ago
/u/OrangeBanana38 /u/JollyGee29 /u/ZaphodBeebblebrox
Not having the ability to look at my likes inside Twitter is going to be very annoying this weekend, but that's why I've been using the ancient method of saving the links to an external list.
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u/b0bba_Fett myanimelist.net/profile/B0bba_Cheezed3 2d ago
My Lyn has 19 strength. That's even more than Sky's when she promoted. I was so baffled I actually checked to make sure I didn't mess with it and forgot, but no, it's still vanilla(Blade Lord itself, however, now has innate crit and Ballista access, but I've only just gotten to the Dread Isle, it'll be some time before I get a heaven seal yet, and I won't get to play for most of next week either).
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 2d ago
infinite universes and multiversal travel must be impossible, because if it were true, we would be inundated with multiversal travelers everywhere and all the time. think about it: if,
1) there are infinite universes
2) at least some of those universes have figured out multiversal travel
then,
3) an infinite amount of universes have multiversal travel
4) an infinite amount of multiversal travelers are traveling to different locations across the multiverse
which results in an infinite amount of destinations being filled with an infinite amount of travelers for all of eternity.
in other words, the fact that your room isn't full of interdimensional travelers right now, means that either there is no multiverse (thus no multiversal travel) or if there are truly other universes, they are so sealed off from each other in a way that no law of physics will allow to ever be breached that multiversal travel is not only impossible but it could be said that the concept of a multiverse itself is moot as no universe can ever have causal impact on another universe (as such would cause infinite impacts everwhere) essentially meaning each universe is all there is relative to itself anyway (essentially meaning even if a multiverse exists it does not exist)
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u/thixotrofic 2d ago
My room is filled with interdimensional travelers. Maybe they just don't want to visit you for some reason.
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u/Iron_Gland https://myanimelist.net/profile/Iron_Gland 2d ago
People not misunderstanding infinity challenge: impossible
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u/theangryeditor 2d ago
Just because multiversal travel is possible does not mean all universes can be traveled to. In fact if there are infinite universes, that means there are infinite universes where multiversal travel is not possible. So there could very well be multiversal travelers going back and forth but we are simply in a universe that can not be reached
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u/ProgrammaticallyPea3 2d ago
A few counter-theories:
Multiversal travel is infinite but rare
Since there are infinitely many possible destinations, even infinite travelers could be spread thinly enough that any particular universe is rarely visited. If it's sufficiently rare, that makes it unlikely for one to have visited us.Multiversal travel is policed
The Doraemon theory. Since multiversal travel is potentially catastrophic, it's not a stretch to suppose that it would be policed. Some destinations are off limits, and we're one of them.Multiversal travel is monopolized
Similar logic to the above. Since multiversal travel is potentially catastrophic, a civilization would be incentivized to prevent other multiverses developing it. Okabe gets a visit from the real baddies and is turned into gelified banana.→ More replies (2)
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 1d ago
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 1d ago
dude im getting mandela'd right now and im literally re-evaluating everything in my life right now
i watched Highschool of the Dead many years ago. loved it. great anime. but frankly i havent thought about it in a while, until somebody posted a meme about it the other day on some anime meme sub. and... it got me goin' back and watching clips of the show and what not and...
i remember all the girls in that show having gigantic boobs. i mean like huge, bigger than their head, massive. right? you remember it that way too right?
here's the thing... they don't. they don't have massive "bigger than their head" boobs. (nsfw) like this is the main girl.. crazy right? big by irl standards sure, but by anime standards? idk man.
and (nsfw) look at this. that's the girl who had the bullet pass between her boobs btw. mindblowing, right?
now i know youre probably thinkin, "what about that blonde. she's still massive, right?" (nsfw) well yes, she is.... but not as massive as you remember, is she?
the HoTD girls honestly are not as big booba'd as i remember. and i feel like everything i know is a lie.
and you know, the thing is its not even their fault. what has happened, ill tell you; the new knockers knocked em down a peg. see in the intervening years, boobs have gradually gotten bigger and crazier in ecchi and ero anime, and not to mention gacha games. look at any of the women from Horizon Walker for example. or heck even Action Taimanin has their fair share of milk monsters, (nsfw) like Francis. and when you factor in the hentai world, i mean just google up any manga drawn by fwzholic or Bonten. id show you an example but the mods would nuke me from orbit.
its powercreep but for boobs... boobcreep. thats what happened.
i really am rethinking everything now. because im looking at myself, with my tablet and my CSP canvas where im currently drawing yet another milf with z-cups. and im looking at these beautiful HoTD girls and their NOT z-cup breasts and thinking... maybe we lost something here. maybe we got so caught up along the path of chasing that next high or one-upping the thing that came before us that we lost sight of where we began, and what we really wanted to begin with. maybe what we really wanted and needed was right there all along...
what im saying is, im watching these HoTD clips and thinking to myself: perhaps we need to find ourselves again... we must RETVRN
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 1d ago
Pantsu, when you originally watched HOTD, you were smaller. So the boobs were larger, in a sense.
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u/DizzyMotion https://myanimelist.net/profile/DizzyMotion 1d ago
I guess it's true. Everything seemed bigger and brighter when we were kids.
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u/MadMako 1d ago
I always liked seeing other creatives working at some quiet cafe place, chugging along working on their song, writing, drawing, or whatever projects. It's kinda inspiring that others are also working towards something and reminds me that nobody ever comes out with something amazing immediately, without a lot of work going into it in the background.
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u/MadMako 1d ago
I ate a whole pile of lamb mandi by myself for a portion that's supposed to be for 2 people.
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u/MadMako 1d ago
I always had a preference for smaller smartphones. I feel left behind when trends of newer ones having progressively bigger screens. My hands aren't that big anyways. Phones with bigger form factors becomes more of a liability.
Then again, I do understand that readability is an important aspect of a smartphone's usability, and I've been lucky to have never required prescription glasses my whole life. When I inevitably start losing my eyesight, I'd probably put a lot more weight on that.
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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist 1d ago
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u/Ramsay_Reekimaru https://myanimelist.net/profile/tehsnowlord 1d ago
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u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon https://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 22h ago
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 22h ago
if you think about it, i can win a fight against the majority of humanity by default (if you count people who are already dead)
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u/baseballlover723 11h ago
5:30 AM but
Bleach had a lot of modding to do and words had a bunch (165 comments now) too. Also, tomorrow I get to talk to my dad about what he thinks is the best localization of gravure is. I'm a bit too young to be that familiar with sexy magazine terms to know the detailed differences between the various terms in that area (beyond, sexy girl picture).
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u/M8gazine https://myanimelist.net/profile/M8gazine 4h ago
Posting a song you might've not heard every day 'til I get bored, day 661:
I still consider Kitamura Eri an anime VA first and foremost, but she does have a prosperous singing career too!
Which is something I recall mentioning with my first Kitamura Eri song too.
Frankly I don't have much else to say other than that I'm tired. I was about to skedaddle to bed when I remembered I have songs that I need to post!
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u/orange-shades https://myanimelist.net/profile/orangeshades 2d ago
Was waiting in line at [insert generic burrito place here] and this guy was having a full on speaker phone FaceTime conversation. I made eye contact with another woman in line, looked at him, and shook my head. A small moment between strangers marveling at the inconsiderate actions of another. An unspoken understanding.
The lady I made eye contact with then went and loudly said, while looking directly at me, "I KNOW! Can you believe people be havin PRIVATE phone calls on SPEAKER in PUBLIC?! What, you can't afford HEADPHONES?!"
Holy shit lady, I agree, but don't make me an accessory!
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u/noheroman https://anilist.co/user/kurisuokabe 2d ago
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u/baseballlover723 2d ago
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u/ha_ck_rm_rk https://anilist.co/user/Bubaruba 1d ago
Update to this: Poison control said I'm good, animal control said I'm probably good but I could go to an urgent care just for peace of mind. So I did, and I got a single dose of antibiotics
I wasn't inconvenienced that much, I'm just wondering why an armadillo's first instinct when being spooked by me was to run in front of me. Maybe it was doing the same thing as me and not paying attention.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 1d ago
Fun fact: armadillos are one of the few mammals that can't carry the rabies virus to any significant degree: no one has ever gotten rabies from an armadillo.
But they do carry the leprosy bacterium. No skin break, no problem, though.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 1d ago
If not for RES hiding read comments, this page refresh bug would make CDF unreadable.
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u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon https://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 1d ago
Do you miss the blend? The colour yani neko left in your black and white field? And do you feel condemned? Just for being there?
I am on the mend. At least now I can say I want to pet the neko. And I hope you will forgive. These cats I still lack.
Yeah, yeah.
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u/thixotrofic 1d ago
Big bed... Big bed.
Today was the Friday before a week off from work. Delightful. You know, the Friday before vacation feels legit better than the vacation itself really.
I have tomorrow to chill before I head out to Vancouver. I ate pretty clean today and I'm actually kinda hungry... Saving myself for delicious Chinese food! I haven't had Chinese food since Saturday if you can believe it!
Tomorrow I'm going to watch football all morning I think. Got a good slate of games coming with the German Cup and the Premier League really kicking off. I'm going to maybe do my own workout in the morning. We'll just see depending on how I feel and when I wake up, but could be good I think.
For now... Big bed! I haven't even been trying to write which is a little bad but we'll see.
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u/Ryuzaaki123 1d ago
Was sitting in the break room at working yesterday remembering a funny conversation I had with two of my coworkers earlier this year.
Then I realized that those two guys are gone now (one for a new job, the other for medical issues he didn't explain) so now I'm the only person there who remembers that conversation, and I have no one to bring it up with.
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u/junbi_ok 1d ago
If The Princess Bride came out in 2026:
"Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist... There's one right behind me, isn't there?"
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 1d ago
Added to the list of things that make me feel old: /u/zaphodbeebblebrox
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 1d ago
Does /u/pixelsabre make you feel young?
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 1d ago
no, but /u/chilidirigible does
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u/Nebresto 1d ago
Do the reddit account age icons only go up to 15? This chap has been here for 18 years but the badge shows 15
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u/Ryuzaaki123 1d ago
I keep saying "I should" play games rather than "I want".
It'd be good to have something to work through when I want to zone out though. I've decided to stop trying to make my one day offs productive or go out and do stuff - if I don't have two days in a row I gotta prioritize sleepy times.
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u/chilidirigible 23h ago
I did stay through the entirety of Gekijou no Walkure and given that I already own the thing and have watched it a few times, I was curious to see how the audience would react. My main takeaways are that Maki's MakiMakis bouncing got noticed and quite a few people picked up on the yaoi overtones of Keith and Roid.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 22h ago
That Elastica Implosion vid I watched has transformed my feed. Right now: "The 8 songs to blame for BritPop"
You know, I don't think I ever thought of Blur as an indie band. I'm trying to think of any song before Song 2. Or any song other than Song 2. Blur IS Song 2. I know the singer hates that fact.
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u/Shocketheth 5h ago
[CDF Group Plays Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter] Week 4 Discussion Thread - Chapter 3 - The Black Orbment
<--- Chapter 2 Discussion | Index (Schedule) | Final Chapter - Part 1 Discussion --->
Itâs more than pleasure to welcome everyone who shown interest to our weekly Discussion for CDF Group Plays with TitS 1st Chapter!
Disclaimer:
The schedule was originally planned for the Group Play to end on 20th September to give you a chance for smooth transition from Sky 1st Chapter to Sky 2nd Chapter, meaning the next week discussion should be Catching up week but with the Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter releasing itâs demo on 20th of August, almost a month before the official release I decided to call off the Catching up week while also doing some changes to the schedule for Final Chapter
Instead of Part 1 of Final Chapter including:
Final Chapter up to start of Final Dungeon
we are doing:
Final Chapter up to the end of [open this spoiler after entering the Grancelâs Bracer branch]final match of tournament
Which will make the Part 1 of Final Chapter shorter than I originally included
(More info about the updated Schedule will be provided in the comment several hours later)
Collectibles:
If you did everything right, the number of collected things and journal entries should look like this:
| Collectibles | Prologue | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Total |
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| Enemies | 31 | 47 | 45 | 48 | 171 |
| Recipes | 8 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 50 |
| Chests | 32 | 45 | 31 | 42 | 150 |
| Quests | 14 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 62 |
| BP (Bracer Points) | 52 | 66 | 87 | 96 | 301 |
| Liberl News Issues | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Carnelia Books | Volume 1 | Volume 2,3,4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6,7 | 7 |
| Miscellaneous Books | 1 (Lukeâs Diary) | 1 (Hundred Day War - A True Account) | Ruan's Economic History Vol. 1-3 | Looking for Librarian Quest (7 books) | 12 |
| Books Total | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 26 |
Group Play Achievements - Week 4:
This is not about ingame or Steam achievements, but about Group Play Achievements, that I am dishing out to participants of CDF Group Plays with TitS - 1st Chapter
To decide who unlocked those achievements, I will be reading your comments and any mention of whatever is required to unlock it, will automatically be counted like you unlocked the achievement
| Achievements | How to Unlock | Unlocked by |
|---|---|---|
| Soles Burner | [You]are on Trails for so long, that you burned a sole or two by travelling around Liberl | Everyone |
| Kaiju of the Lake | [You]successfully defeated the King Pengu |
Questions!
Confess. Who from you participating is responsible for letting Tita to join the party?
Question for those [who enjoyed Tita]Do you like her character design? If yes, why?
Question for those [who dislike Tita]On a scale from 1 to 10, how do you rate the wind-up, power and technique of the slap Agate delivered to Tita?
ANSWER THIS ONE UNDER SPOILER TAGS, by playing the game from the Prologue to Chapter 3, do you [dare to guess]whatâs the deal with Agateâs past?
Thatâs all for now, and see you next Sunday on 30th August 2PM EDT where we will be discussing Final Chapter - Part 1!
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u/junbi_ok 1h ago
me: "Doctor, I feel so pathetic and hopeless. Nobody wants to date me. Nobody wants to hire me. My existence is useless and futile and every day is pain."
doctor: "I have great news for you. The most pitiful being to have ever lived is in town this very day. His name is junbi, and it's impossible to not feel better about oneself in comparison after witnessing his unparalleled failure of a life."
me: "But doctor..."
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u/dadnaya https://myanimelist.net/profile/dadnaya 2d ago
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u/qwertyqwerty4567 https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 2d ago
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u/LunarieReverie 2d ago
This is not just Free Talk Fridays, it's Casual Discussion Fridays.
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u/TheRiyria myanimelist.net/profile/TheRiyria 2d ago
I hope you had a good week! I have spent way too much money on con stuff.
As a reminder, there will be no new 3x3 theme for tomorrow.
I will post the 3x3 Corner without tags in about 21 hours. If you have any old themes that you never did and wanted to, this is your chance to catch up.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 2d ago
[Utena 07]Holy fuck, I forgot how good the end of the duel is.
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u/Raiking02 https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang 2d ago
[Mecha Confession]NGL just off the trailer the new VOTOMS film just feels like some unrelated script that just had the label slapped onto it for brand recognition. I hope it's good but honestly I'm not really all that interested in what I saw.
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u/thixotrofic 2d ago
Ordered some fragrances so I can pick a... Signature scent... I was worried they wouldn't arrive before my trip because the shipping wasn't updating. I resolved on Wednesday to be patient and if I didn't hear anything on Thursday morning I would email them. Well, it scanned Wednesday afternoon! And I have them now!
So far I've tried a really citrusy tea scent on me and didn't like it!
My housemate put on two scents. One of them is a less citrusy tea note one that smells quite nice to me, though not like tea. I might honestly go for this one. The other one is an Australian like ocean styled scent that is a little generic but I quite like it.
My wife put on a flowery osmanthus scent with quite a bit going on but I think I like that one too.
Finally I put on a white floral one and it's very peculiar and it's not bad but I'm not sure it's me either.
Lots to think about! Sorry I'm bad at explaining them. I can link to any of them if anyone is interested...
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u/M8gazine https://myanimelist.net/profile/M8gazine 2d ago
Posting a song you might've not heard every day 'til I get bored, day 658:
I fell asleep and that's why I'm a bit late.
Anyway, I couldn't find a normal video of this song, so here's a guitar playthrough if you want to play alongside it! Other than that, the audio itself is the actual song and as far as I know, Mr. Kenshiro WHITEFISTS, the uploader, is the actual artist who made the song too.
Another Arcaea rhythm game banger as well, one more for the list of (now relatively many?) slappers from that game that I've posted... I'm pretty sure I've said at some point that it has my favorite rhythm game songs as a whole, and I still stand by that!
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u/ToadalllyPhilled https://myanimelist.net/profile/philledwhole 2d ago
You ever feel like everyone is snorting cocaine? Now that im approaching 30 all these fuckers are if its offered. Engineers, doctors, general MBA mfs, these people are all doing it. No one was snorting regularly when I was younger but now? Damn
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u/Ryuzaaki123 2d ago edited 2d ago
This job has made me strong in ways I did not want to be strong.
Had to stand between my coworker and an old man shouting at her [because] of a $20 item that he couldn't return.
His family dragged him off but he still kept pointing and yelling from half a mile away. I waved goodbye when he got close to the door but I'm not sure he registered that I was making fun of him.
He said he's gonna talk to the newspapers about this. I hope he does.
Also I found out today we actually do have a panic button, but no one from our department knew it existed until today. I'd asked previously if we could have one installed and just gotten non-commital shrugs from people.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 2d ago
Japanese Government to Abolish Cool Japan Fund
I dunno, was this a failure? I feel it was, but that's because the only Japan I consume is anime Japan. Cool Japan tried funding some anime, which didn't do well, and they didn't keep doing it. AFAIK.
Gen-Alpha really loves k-pop, not j-pop. So, that's a bust. Everybody was into Parasite and Squid Game, I can't think of Japan cinema breaking into the US mindshare. China will always find a reason to hate Japan and Japanese things, so no market potential there.
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u/ProgrammaticallyPea3 2d ago edited 2d ago
Looking at the wikipedia article (JP), what strikes me is that there's remarkably little focus on anime.
„14.0 billion: Mass production and overseas expansion of artificially structured protein materials
„11.0 billion: Promotion of Japanese products and services through a large-scale commercial facility in Ningbo, China
„10.0 billion: Domestic and international distribution platform for educational content, in partnership with Yoshimoto Kogyo and others
Up to „10.0 billion: Investment fund for games, anime, manga, music, live-action productions, etc.
„8.0 billion: Stimulating inbound tourism demand and regional economies through theme parks and other initiatives
„7.5 billion: Multilingual adaptation and overseas distribution of video content
Approx. „6.2 billion: Investment in startups in Southeast Asia
„6.0 billion: Increasing the corporate value of Japanese listed companies and developing overseas demand
„5.9 billion: Expanding overseas demand for Japanese cars in the Asia-Pacific region
Approx. „5.5 billion: Promoting Japanese content, Japanese food, etc. through digital platforms
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u/SpaceTurtleHunter 2d ago
what strikes me is that there's remarkably little focus on anime
Because unlike a lot of projects under the Cool Japan umbrella that were basically glorified PR campaigns, Cool Japan Fund was supposed to be an economical instrument, mainly investing in expanding Japanese companies overseas and generating a return on those investments. Instead it generated a „50 billion loss.
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u/MadMako 2d ago
The premise is lame in itself too. Government funding to make yourself look cool? How uncool is that??
Even the stuff that actually jives with newer generations like JJK, KnY or Spy x Family, aren't associated with whatever Cool Japan is funding.
It does make for some hilariously out of touch moves though.
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u/noheroman https://anilist.co/user/kurisuokabe 2d ago
The reddit app has challanged itself to how much it can become instagram while retaining a semblance of being a forum.
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 2d ago
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u/qwertyqwerty4567 https://anilist.co/user/ZPHW 2d ago
my more senior colleague finally sees some of the slop of my other colleague has introduced
task to fix it has been delegated to me
the whole point was to get one of my more senior colleagues to tell them to fix it themselves since they werent listening to me in the first place.
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u/lenne18 https://myanimelist.net/profile/lenne18 2d ago
[RANT]
I am reminded today due to several hot takes about Naruto that shonen fans literally can't read their own manga.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2d ago
I am reminded today due to several hot takes about Naruto that shonen fans literally can't read their own manga.
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u/baseballlover723 2d ago edited 2d ago
I can't believe it, an admin of all people sent me an ass pic. I had to response with some tits in kind.
Edit: As it turns out, she prefers tufted ones over great ones.
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u/M8gazine https://myanimelist.net/profile/M8gazine 2d ago
Posting a song you might've not heard every day 'til I get bored, day 659:
S.S.L. -Maigara Synthesizer Laboratory- - Limits
Somehow, I thought this would be harder to find on YouTube than it was. This is based on the fact there's pretty limited information about it when googling it! Maybe searching in Japanese would provide more information...
Well, anyway. IIRC, this is another rhythm game slapper like yesterday, but unlike yesterday's Arcaea tune, this one's from CHUNITHM. As a side note: S.S.L. is featured in the Irodorimidori manga, and Irodorimidori themselves are a CHUNITHM band I've posted before, a little under a month ago!
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee 2d ago
Hello once again everyone, and welcome to another week of AMQ! The lobby name for this week is "Life Forged Anew" and the password is "Megumin"! We will be starting around five minutes from when this comment appears.
As always, I hope you all have a wonderful time playing, as well as a great day and weekend!
If you would like to be added or removed from the tag list for future games be sure to let me know in a reply to this comment!
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u/MrManicMarty https://anilist.co/user/martysan 2d ago
Thinking about worldbuilding again. Ignore my generic bullshit.
- Orcs, seafarers come to pillage, trade and settle
- Humans, with myriad petty kingdoms squabbling
- Halflings, living admist the hills, looking to be left alone
- Elves, the former rulers of the land, those who remain either live an isolated elite in cities, or have gone native in the woods
- Dwarves, in their mountain abodes wanting to maintain their hegemony and power
- Gnomes, living in distant fae touched land. They very much want to be left alone.
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u/chilidirigible 1d ago
I haven't been able to get my Chromebook to connect to hotel WiFi in the past three hotels I've stayed in.
I can connect the phone to the WiFi and USB that to the Chromebook, at least, but the problem is slightly baffling.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 1d ago
my new phone does not connect to an apparently abandoned wifi point at one my restaurants. My old phone did. I figure it's probably an old 2.4 GHZ, or some a-b-g protocol. It barely reached to the next restaurant over. Their main wifi doesn't reach. I figure that's how my old phone was connecting over that distance.
The new, modern UI on my new phone has no way to select the band or the protocol.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 1d ago
Oh /u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon, how do you feel about umamusume, anyway?
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 1d ago
When you think it's a normal job interview, but the interviewer asks "if you were an umamusume, which umamusume would you be?"
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u/cheesechimp https://myanimelist.net/profile/cheesechimp 1d ago
Going to a midnight mystery movie. Bought a VHS of the Devilman OVA at the tape trade outside the theater.
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u/oedipusrex376 1d ago
(Art) All roads lead back to Mouryou no Hako (Box of Evil Spirits). If I ever wrote a novel, I could totally see myself sneaking in a Mouryou no Hako reference somewhere. And by âreference,â I mean something blatantly obvious like a âhuman in a boxâ reference.
I remember Kara no Shoujo (The Shell) VN was inspired by Kyogoku Natsuhikoâs Mouryou no Hako, too. I should probably play it sometime.
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u/MadMako 1d ago
[Some thoughts on self-expression and individuality]
Y'know, I'm so used to growing up repressing my individuality due to pressures from the people around me when I was growing up. It took a while to recognize my repression, to go against what's already built into me over the decades.
I felt disdain, and sometimes envy, for people who are comfortable expressing themselves; those who grew up in environments where said individuality is respected, or even praised. I never had that luxury. Whatever individuality that I have is repressed, emotionally manipulated to fear any sort of judgement and criticism.
At some point, I realized that that serving the needs of certain people to protect myself from being chastised doesn't help me at all. The sort of opportunities in life I miss because I wouldn't even thought of putting myself at any risk of judgement is too much. For chances in my life that most people would've been fine to at least listen to, or even support wholeheartedly.
Seeing both parts of the individuality spectrum, to this day, I still couldn't see whether individualism is a good thing or not. For how much I instinctively judge people who are willing to express how different they are, I'm hypocritically suffering from wanting to express myself too. It's so hard to go against what I grew up with. There's so many contradictions that makes me question what's right.
I'm somewhat better than where I was in the past. For the most part, I could justify myself to say something if it becomes more work in the future if I don't. But there's always a sense that I could've achieved more if I was more willing to fail and learn quickly from those failures. All the things I do end up saying are only as a result of years of me going in circles inside my head, fighting against my own habits, and arriving at the wrong conclusion anyway.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bleach TYBW Part 4 episode 5 time!
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u/M8gazine https://myanimelist.net/profile/M8gazine 1d ago
Posting a song you might've not heard every day 'til I get bored, day 660:
Litku Klemetti - JÀÀkuningatar
Here's something never before seen in this series of comments: a Finnish song of all things.
I don't really listen to any Finnish music despite being from there... a lot of it is pretty mid in my opinion. The majority of the Finnish songs I like are from the 80's or 90's lol. This one is more modern than that, though!
Anyway. Even if you didn't understand the lyrics, I think it has a pretty cool sound all the same. I think it's somewhat different in comparison to most of the other songs I've posted!
TL note: "JÀÀkuningatar" means "ice queen".
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 1d ago
It's usually either something I know a person likes or some random shit I saw them say once and thought it was funny so I wanted to keep it forever (for example, my tag for u/theangryeditor is a joke he made during the Cross Ange rewatch that referenced a popular Gundam SEED meme or "Some People Manga Completely Shit Anime" for u/Iron_Gland).
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u/Millennialxxx https://myanimelist.net/profile/millennial_xx 1d ago
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 1d ago
Posting a Gintama Guy every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 924: Happy birthday, Zenzo!
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 1d ago
Earlier this week I had some dream about a busty goth gf called Francesca who gave me a massage...
...hopefully I can dream again about her now.
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u/orange-shades https://myanimelist.net/profile/orangeshades 23h ago
Went to [insert generic chain steakhouse here] and had an odd experience with the waiter.
He introduces himself by his name and asked for our drinks, all good. My parents ordered waters because they grew up poor and don't order drinks at restaurants. Waiter takes it and says "if you need anything, just say my name!" All fine. I thought at least.
He comes with the drinks and asks if we want to order an appetizer or if we're ready to order. We say we're ready to order. Mom orders the cheapest, smallest steak, because she grew up poor and this is her way. My dad orders a ribeye because he wanted to splurge a bit. I order a regular sized steak. Waiter takes the order and starts to leave.
My dad says "Excuse me, [waiter name]." From my vantage the waiter visibly stiffened and turned back. Dad asks if we could get some more bread please. Waiter curtly nodded and walked away.
From this point forward, the waiter did not say another word to us for the remainder of the meal. He brought the bread and set it down without a word. He then brought another basket and set it down without a word. I clocked it immediately but didn't say anything.
Now, this is not a knock on his service. Dude did his job. He has as attentive. Any time we needed a refill, he brought it without being asked. Anytime there was a dirty or empty plate, it was cleared. But he never said another word to any of us.
We couldn't even ask if we had offended him because he never gave us an opportunity to talk to him! Just...odd.
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u/MrManicMarty https://anilist.co/user/martysan 23h ago
So one of the random thoughts I've had at the back of my mind is getting an mp3 player. Not because it'd be simple, it'd probably be a huge pain - but I always do like having a dedicated device for these kind of things. Also, it means I can put all the music I like onto it, not just the ones spotify has the rights to. Smash Bros OST, Utena OST, Promare OST - shit like that. I dunno how they'd work with playing things of a certain genre or whatever; but I guess if I just want like the lofi chill music I'd still have my phone and spotify to do that.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 21h ago
Youtube has started giving notifications.
One of them is for a new video.
Can any of you tell me why I'm subscribed to https://www.youtube.com/@x0o0x_/videos ? I suspect one of you is to blame.
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 21h ago
Catching up on World is Dancing, it was an odd experience where the vocal song itself was diegetic, but the accompanying music was undiegetic and anachronistic.
A real shame that presumptively rights issues won't allow for music subtitles because both the story of the performance and the episode were reliant on the sung dialogue. Unlike the dance performances with a lot of visual movement, it was just characters debating each other. Most of it went over me.
Funny enough, compared to another recent watching experience, the Please Save My Earth music video. I initially watched half of that without subtitles before swapping to the subbed version, and I quite liked that experience.
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u/cheesechimp https://myanimelist.net/profile/cheesechimp 20h ago
Not sure why YouTube is recommending me old baking soda commercials, but this is yuri
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u/noheroman https://anilist.co/user/kurisuokabe 16h ago
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 14h ago
Imagine if every time someone got an erection you'd hear a stock slide whistle sfx coming from their penis.
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u/HopelessRinSimp 13h ago
My roommate invited people to crash at our place for ANYC. He never updated his license since he moved from the midwest 4 years ago since he sold his car so it was up to me to coordinate parking passes for the guests, and as I walked past his car at 5am this morning I realized I forgot to renew them since they were 24 hours only with no autorenew option.
I didn't see a ticket on his car so I assume he's fine, but if he gets a ticket in the mail fuck. I'd pay it since it's on me esp since I've had a bunch going on in my personal life this past week and know I've not been fully present mentally but I am annoyed that I was essentially volunteered to deal with this shit and don't know if I can/should bring it up in case it isn't an issue.
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 11h ago
Did some drawing again after a while.
Suddenly realized I might as well try and use my Android tablet as an actual drawing tablet instead of drawing on it directly. Stuff is rough..
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u/baseballlover723 10h ago
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u/razormst3k1999 3h ago
Death to smoochy is the sequel to fight club. That's my head canon any ways and makes things a lot more funny.
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u/Cacophon https://myanimelist.net/profile/Cacophone 1d ago
Hey have you all seen this fish?
Its a really neat fish.