What's your living situation like? Do you live with the folks, rent an apartment, or what?
Busking now; getting paid in coins & notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVdPlGmXLg
I live with my mum, two sisters and my brother, but I live in a shed so I get a reasonable amount of privacy. The people in my family are all degenerating over time though, when they were kids I didn't mind them, now I hate them and barely feel any kind of attachment to them, somehow it makes me feel lonelier than not having anybody around at all. I really want to move out but I would need Autism payments or something of that nature to do it, if I did move out I don't think I would have anything to do with them again.
I live on my own. Technically my mother owns it, but it's a bit of silly mess. Third floor, near Venice. I do miss having a garden, but luckily I work in the fields so I can vent my "botanical frustrations" there.
>>33809 That sounds peaceful and nice.
What are you thankful for?
My mom and my waifu, as well as japan and japanese culture.
I'm also thankful for my mom (and dad). I'm a leech, but they're so very kind.
My personality disorder. Some might see it as a problem, I see it as liberating. I have schizoid personality disorder, which suppresses a lot of emotions and romantic/lustful desire. social shit is hard annoying and time consuming anyway, and here I don't need any of that.
Literally nothing. Things are garbage and people are cunts.
What is your favorite holiday, Tohno-chan?
Every person should get their birthday as a day off....
>>33524 I enjoy working on my birthday because it distracts me from the yearly reminder that I'm indeed alive.
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I hate the consumerist aspect of Christmas, but the idea of a day to celebrate charity, kindness, and goodwill is appealing to me. Likewise, I like the concept of Thanksgiving being a day to express gratitude and reflect on the things we are thankful for, but people just eat a huge turkey dinner and go buy half-priced garbage the very next day. In general, I think it is very regrettable that normalfags typically prefer celebrating days like these by purchasing cheap garbage, eating excessively extravagant meals, or selfishly enjoying the receipt of things from others.
Do you guys enjoy any non-anime shows?
>>33696 Same, it's a good channel.
>>33696 theres actually a tank museum near where i live, not the same one as this channel though. its only open a select few times a year but i still managed to go, it was really cool
BazBattles www.youtube.com/c/bazbattles
After seeing the immense popularity of the what bugs you thread, I decided that I would make a thread for people to post all the awesome things (big or little) in life that simply make you happy. I understand Tohno-Chan has a lot of gripes and resentments, but we cant all be negative all the time. After all, what is negativity if we have nothing to compare it too? <-- Obligatory Kamina Pic RelatedPost edited on 29th Mar 2013, 4:42pm
>>33088 Sure. About two thirds of us are overweight, across all of Europe. What I meant was not that Italians are unusually fat, just that they're also as fat as us. The differences between 'national diets' aren't that big anymore. We all stuff our gobs with the same shit. Same 'imported' internationally popular dishes, fast food, sweets, snacks, soda, beer. Local cuisine got overtaken by the global favourites. But I think even before globalization food in most regions was based mainly on cereal and starchy vegetables. That's what agriculture was always focused on, probably everywhere. But today barely anyone gets enough daily activity to eat all of that high energy food and not get fat. Could be the only thing Europe is united in is obesity. We grow fat together, that should be our motto. I don't know how we compare to the USA. >>33091 Carry on then. Personally I can't tell the difference. >>33092 Italian Italians. I don't know why so many of them come here when our country is worse off than Italy in most aspects. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>33093 Italy's economy is stuffed due to austerity measures. Also Italy's resources is nothing compared to USA.
>>21334 A good meal makes me happy.
Free time makes me happy.
① your country ② are you a NEET? ③ did you ever shit on the floor? OP starts: luxembourg yes not yet, but i pee in a 500ml pyrex measuring cup that i dump out the window. almost overfilled it a few times
>>29710 >I'll never understand this anxiety, I just ignore people when I don't want to talk with them. It has more to do with their mere presence than [potential] conversation. A fear of other human beings is probably nigh-impossible to imagine if you don't have it, but that also applies to virtually every phobia, along with certain elements of other neurological disorders (for example, the fact that many people on the autism spectrum are completely unable to perceive sarcasm, irony, and metaphors).
>>23041 What's the deal with question 3?!?
① Australia ② Yes ③ No, I'm not an animal
① france ② yeah ③ no, even if I were camping and I had to I can't
The tiger only has three methods of killing men, a crouch, a leap, and a blow with its tail. If these three fail the tiger at once loses all courage and spirit. In such cases it always turns around, and gives a loud roar.
For those of you who work, what do you do for a living? Do you enjoy it?
I do logistics. Tis boring.
I do digital marketing. Mostly prototyping websites, online campaigns, copywriting and graphic design, analyzing analytics, and maintaining the manager and clients updated. It's a rather cozy job. My company is the type that lets employees be as long as objectives are being met. Coworkers are respectful too. Either way, I promised to myself that I would never complain about an office job once I finally had the opportunity to quit my previous factory job. College here is not a life indebtment as it is in the US, nor as intensive, so it was a good call.
>>33584 >College here is not a life indebtment as it is in the US, nor as intensive, so it was a good call. It's overly expensive, but it's not as bad as many make it out to be. Scholarships are easy to get, and many companies will offer some reimbursement for entry level (or otherwise) employees who choose to go to college. There's also the common route of going to a junior college and then transferring to a four year school to save a good amount of money. Further, any figure shown that's used as an example of large college debt is typically deceptive. One tactic is to use the average instead of the median; thus, large debt accrued from, say, aspiring doctors (Who will easily be able to pay it back.) and students who make bad financial decisions (Because they're foolish.) will pull the average number upward. Generally, if you're determined and are at least of average intelligence, getting a degree that's in demand (or will be) will result in an income that'll make the initial investment (debt) rather trivial.
>>33585 By far the majority of woe over the seeming "debt crisis" in the US seems to be from people who thought that taking out money to spend 4 years studying art history or the like was a good investment.
Do you have any favorite character voices?
I like Yuukos voice in Machizoku Mazouku.
I really like Yuzuhara Konomi's voice. Her seiyuu didn't really do a lot of other roles, which makes me sad. The only other notable ones were the original Yukiho Hagiwara and Thursday from Disgaea.
>>33578 Ditto: the tiny sound effects and nuances for both Shamiko and Gosenzo are absolutely lovely. I think in addition to solid character dynamics what can make or break a SoL is the voice acting. Going from a 4-koma/manga to an anime, there's lots of opportunities to express the range of emotions via voice, and pairing this with a good OST makes the adaption come alive.
Is human nature constant or is it molded by culture? Can human nature be completely changed by culture or society?
>>33557 >Warfare Warefare also can't be considered daily life. >Whether we are religious or not, most of our morals are derived from the bible as we are raised in a society that was made that way and much of these morals go against natural instinct. To some extent, but there's many aspects of religion which does fit human nature. Fear of death, wanting an explanation for things, wanting to feel protected, wanting routine and tradition. I think cultural evolution is guided by human nature to the extent where the two can't be seperated. Communism could only come about by force and not natural development. Boiling human nature down to wanting food and sex is an over-simplification. I also think different groups of people are predisposed to forming certain types of culture.
>>33558 In some places it was fairly common, it's hard to tell what it was like in Europe but Europeans living amongst tribal people have noted that it was often quite frequent. But still, the average man would not be able to eat humans that often or there would be a discrepancy in the ratio of people killed to be eaten and people eating the killed. But it's likely more important people would eat humans on a more regular bases. On Fiji there was a tribal chief that would place a stone in a line behind his hut every time he ate a human, he had a line of 872 stones. But regardless of how frequent it was it was still done. >Fear of death Many societies didn't fear death, the samurai didn't and it could be said that religion was aimed at preventing it by telling people that it was okay to die, they would go to heaven. There are some aspects of human nature that cultures will cultivate but some it will fight against.
>>33562 >Fiji Small island. I'm not convinced there was ever any large society where cannibalism was viewed as no different from eating animals. Even then, it was a chief who probably wanted to show off how macho he is. >But still, the average man would not be able to eat humans that often or there would be a discrepancy in the ratio of people killed to be eaten and people eating the killed Eating people also poses a larger health risk since diseases are so easily passed. >religion was aimed at preventing it by telling people that it was okay to die That's what I meant. Religion is a solution to a problem. It was created partially for that reason. >There are some aspects of human nature that cultures will cultivate but some it will fight against. I agree with that and I already stated that, but while you think culture is more influential on people, I think culture's influence on people is just an extension of huamsn nature because cultures are formed the way they did because of that nature.
Depends on what you mean by “nature”. The way I understand it you can shape the response of the individuals to their innate nature but the actual nature doesn't change so I dunno.
Where do you think beauty comes from? In non-living, natural things it just exists. By chance alone and probably very slowly, the earth forms things we see as beautiful: gemstones, waterfalls, mountains, canyons, etc. Living things though, do not become beautiful by chance. They always have a "reason" for it, whether they're aware of it or not. Beauty exists in living beings as a survival tactic, not for its own sake or by chance. An angler fish's light exists to draw prey to it, a rafflesia's smell is disgusting to us, but is attractive to insects, and flowers are colorful because that makes them more noticeable to bees. In animal reproduction, beauty is like a facade. It exists because it successfully tricks and ensnares. Non-living things which humans make, like painted ladies, are different. The painted lady has no desires and they have nothing to gain from being beautiful. The painted lady is beautiful because their creator wanted them to be, not to get resources or protection. There's no underlying, self-serving manipulation to mare their beauty, so their beauty is more pure than a living being's.
>>33511 I think that's called "sublimation", when something goes beyond the mere natural reasons and reaches value for itself. So yeah, 2D>3D.
>>33513 Do you think we'll be able to make 3-d painted ladies?
For non-living things such as scenery, it's a really open question as to why we find some things pleasing but I'm guessing it has to do with how our senses evolved to find comfort in certain scenes over others. It's really similar to how in music theory we have all these heuristics in place and we can sort of reason it out by working off some basic principles such as logarithmic perception of pitch, but other than that we don't really have any good non-subjective reason other than the fact that it seems to work and be a shared experience.
>>33519 If our brains were structured a bit different, polytonic music would sound better to us, but as we are now, one key at a time is what we naturally perceive as pleasant for some reason.
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