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>>3217
Alright, would you wanna do it Wednesday at 7PM EST?

Sorry in advance if it sounds dumb but I recently noticed I actually don't mind interacting all that much with fandoms of games or stories I like anymore. From middle school to the end of university I was always online because I liked a lot of books, manga and games nobody knew or wanted to talk about irl, and I wanted to talk about these things. I was looking forward to new video game releases but didn't have enough pocket money for them so I had to do a lot of research in retro game stores or online to get second hand copies, I was into a lot of manga I borrowed in the library or bought, and into anime I watched on tv or online if they were on dailymotion but couldn't catch up to these series whenever I wanted because the episodes online were often taken down and reposted somewhere else, and for what was on TV I had to wait the next day or week for the next episodes. I did a lot of research online to know more about these franchises, and kept finding fan websites and forums so I always wanted to know more and interact with these older people who knew more than me and could afford importing books and DVDs from Japan or the US in the 2000s and early 2010s. I even found fan translations for some light novels and trying to read incomplete fan translated Haruhi Suzumiya novels in English helped me practice English outside of school before the second season started. I had no clue how people could find interviews in Japanese and translate them before posting them on livejournal.

Now that everything is way more accessible, technology is better and more affordable and I have a disposable income I don't give a fuck anymore. I went from obsessively looking for info on FMA online in middle and high school to know what's said about the manga and the first anime in interviews because I sometimes missed episodes on tv and had to buy the manga little by little very slowly to simply importing all the Japanese volumes of JJK a few months ago and reading them with a dictionary or google translate for words I haven't learned by then. I used to be obsessed with Pokemon as a kid because I grew up with gen 1, was upset that classmates pretended they were too grown for gen 3 games, and now I still like most of the games and retweeting cute pokemon fanart on my TL but don't really think about it anymore because I can buy games whenever I want, you can very easily find guides online and trade online without an accessory like a cable (which I lost when I was a kid so I cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>8273
tldr, sort of because the first post was too long: It's insane to think I would have been a much more casual nerd if I were born like 10 or 15 years later because everything became a lot more accessible, both legally and illegally.

something about her makes me think she'd be one of the most active posters here

>>8256
Kek, I like this Anon

>>8246
Similar situation here, but I have lived with guys and the only people making it difficult were my family who all assumed we had to be fucking. That was what made me realize I'd never thought of myself sexually or how to do anything sexual with anyone.

Autism runs in my family and my best friends from school got diagnosed in their 20s. I only don't know about myself because there's this expectation on me to be the "normal child" or else my folks fucked up. Welp. One of these days I better look into it and see if there's free money for me.

>>8250
Put his dick in a cage so the frustration builds on having it right there but unable to touch or use it.

>>8256
Honestly reads like someone trying too hard to fit in. "Chaddy moid", really?

>>8240
I have never felt that relationships replace what I get from 2D but I also don't feel any need to pick one or the other. The best advice I can give is to find someone whose autism is compatible with your own. You do have to be prepared to take a shot and be let down if you find somebody you would like to be involved with. Don't hyperfixate but don't let opportunities pass unexplored.

>>8262
>Similar situation here, but I have lived with guys and the only people making it difficult were my family who all assumed we had to be fucking
I've had something like this happen. My mother wouldn't stop prying into this guy and our relationship status until I told her I had no interest in any romantic relationship with him but had fooled around with him on a night I was feeling bored. She never asked again after that.

>>8268
Have you watched As the Gods Will or Haus? Both are pretty good live-action Japanese horror films. Does this mean most of your ships are live action, or is 2D still your preference?

>>8265
>Nekojiru
Noice

I want to watch Nozomu get raped so bad.

>>8269
>Have you watched As the Gods Will or Haus?
I’ve been meaning to watch As the Gods Will but I’ve never heard of Haus. It looks interesting, I’ll give it a watch. I have watched King’s Game which I know is similar to As the Gods Will.
>Does this mean most of your ships are live action, or is 2D still your preference?
Most of my ships are definitely live action in general, especially when it comes to non-Japanese media. But with Japanese ones specifically, I’ll usually start shipping the live action versions before switching to the 2D versions (except with Alice in Borderland weirdly). And sometimes my ship preference changes when I get to the 2D versions. Like for example with Erased, I was firmly shipping Kenya x Satoru until I got to the anime and was suddenly much more interested in Yashiro x Satoru. In the live action version Yashiro was a lot less obvious and it kinda made him less interesting.

>>5632
Unfortunately, SEVEN YEARS HAND DRAWN.

>>8206
Right? Just surprised that they got flashing lights like that on air.

>>8205
I will change guidelines like magic, shine on screen, shine on screen. Every nona is watching about night of strobe~

Highly recommend listening to the full song, the TV size feels so lacking afterward.

I am so busy with fanart drawing that I can barely watch anything. I enjoy a few series that I expected to enjoy but Sakamoto was surprisingly fun as well. It's usually just that this type of shounen eventually becomes repetitive and boring so I am only cautiously optimistic. Agree about Medalist being good and I watch Aquarion because I like the weird artstyle and because I am a mecha and original anime fag.
>>8195
>>8204
I like manly men crying. Not because of the cuteness but because it's usually scenes that make me cry as well which means that they are good.

>>8152
>fires aren't caused by […] glass like in a cartoon
Just thought I should say but a wildfire in my county was actually blamed on people littering bottles on dry grasslands. We also had a house fire at the start of January that was caused by a glass ball being left in a window. Many fires are arson, and second or third fires in a row usually are, but with the right conditions they can start from magnifiers and small sparks. Simple shit like glass vases or doing DIY in the wrong spot can start small fires. What's questionable is how it gets neglected long enough to become a major fire.

>>8160
If I don't like something shared in a group I take a screencap and gossip about how shitty it is with a friend in DMs. It feels like way more effort to talk shit to people's faces, because then you have to clean up after. I hate confrontation like that. If someone does it to me my brain starts jumping through hoops trying to figure out what their end goal is by deliberately being rude. What do they hope to achieve by saying this.

I'm in some servers that are majority male though and those are always the ones where people openly shit on each other and make negative comments on whatever you like. The attitude is always "oh that's just Pickle he does that but he's alright."

>>8162
I'm hoping that soon governments will crack down on AI as a threat to electricity supplies, then try a green message over it, and that'll domino effect other country's governments to think it's on trend to talk down on AI instead of acting like it's the new hip thing they have to do.

>>8171
I've never had painkillers that work on period cramps, but I do have an electric heat pad that you plug in and control with buttons. It's the one thing that works, you just have to be careful not to fall asleep with it on full power and always keep a layer of clothing between you and the pad.

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>>8176
>I'm hoping that soon governments will crack down on AI as a threat to electricity supplies
No chance IMO. Because companies are already using AI to replace workers since it's cheaper. It usually doesn't work at all but CEOs never cared as long as they can save costs.
>I'm in some servers that are majority male though and those are always the ones where people openly shit on each other and make negative comments on whatever you like.
kek that's my experience as well. Male discords are usually cool as long as there aren't any trannies. I wish I knew more dudes that were attracted to masculine 2D characters like me. They usually like them, but not sexually.

When I was 15 I started writing a diary about ships I liked, shows I liked, just generic teenage sperging. I have been (sporadically, but still) writing in it for the last 20 years. This is the longest I've ever kept a diary and it is full of cringe of the teenage me.

I should probably write in in tonight, last entry is from 2019.

>>7764
I'd love to be part of that! :)

I want to be friends with this anon that hangs around here from a long while ago, she was given the name horseanon because she likes centaurs and her art is so adorable! I want to be her friend so badly, fujo nonnies can you please help me with this? Horseanon where can I find you?

>>7764
I would enjoy that as well!

After randomly being reminded of its existence yesterday, I started Dr. Stone yesterday night. I'm 24 chapters deep and I like it well enough. The whole stonification thing is both horrifying and really fascinating as a calamity, and the effort of trying to help humanity start recovering/growing again is pretty interesting to boot. Senku's fun, and I do like how much he obviously values his idiot-pal Taiju. Don't really have any major complaints yet, though I do think it could stand to like, calm down with the big exaggerated faces for humor.

I guess it's time I'll pick Dogsred up again because they started punching each other on ice and because I want to know who this handsome dude is.
I love Noda characters and his humor a lot, my only gripe with the series is that I am not a sports fan with the exception of boxing series, skating and figure skating for some reason. But the latter is Dogsred related anyway so maybe I should give it a go. I trust Noda to make the characters good enough to make it work even if the sport itself is boring (for me).

I decided to give Versus a shot and it's honestly pretty fun. It's kinda hard to gauge how things'll go simply because there's a lot packed into it (and that could ultimately start to work against it at some point) but thus far I think it's doing a pretty good job at balancing all the merged worlds/natural enemies against each other and interacting, or at least the ones we've gotten to see in action currently. It also has an aggressive amount of dudes who're right up my alley but damn it isn't shy of killing characters off, so that's… fun…
Either way I'll definitely keep reading. Don't have any real complaints atm, besides maybe Panepane. I do not care for him in like, any capacity.