>>41976
If you don't mind bicycling, there's a rental bicycle service to get around Taipei.

>>40310
This was from my previous trip to Japan many years ago.

>>41981
It's embarrassing but I don't know how to bike, it does sound nice however.

>>41984
>They protect the sea by cleaning it of any trash.
Never thought I'd see pro-human propaganda.

>>41985
To be fair, the image was intended as a tongue-in-cheek and I had to crop out the other marine species for privacy reasons. It's also more reflective of the local area, the seas around is breathtakingly clean and thus frequented for scuba diving. The region is the real-life inspiration for Amanchu!.

>>41937
Those guys abandoned irc for discord.

>>41935
>>41938
Why do you want to use discord?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU

discuck is a botnet

Fuck discord, faggots who use it deserve to be datamined, spied on and groomed by letter organisations.

Rain makes everything grow

I'm only happy outside in the rain.

Only gardening I do is a mint plant for tea.

>>41930
Mint likes a lot of rain..

>>35697
Man, fuck the haters. Just like what you like.
Though I like to see what other people think, just to be more self-aware.

>>35813
>>35814
>>35815
Fuck me.

>>35697
play whatever you want

Had wisdom tooth surgery today so using speech to text instead of typing but yeah, it was because of brave and the bold it got me interested in the character in the first place, and after reading or more accurately, watching the top, the fourth wall blue beetle retrospective I think of movie just about Ted Corden booster Gold could actually be pretty good especially since like I said those two seem fun

Everyone seems to like Netflix's One Piece but I think being live-action actually hurts it..

>>41923
Somebody is watching that crap?

>>41924
a lot of people seem to genuinely really like it. some anime fans i've seen said that it convinced them to give the One Piece anime a shot, and i've seen some normies give sparkling reviews of it. i haven't seen it, personally, though, it's still really hard for me to imagine it being competently made considering how...animated One Piece is, for lack of a better term.
>>41923
a lot of these american live-action adaptations have been complete failures and wastes of money up until One Piece, so one piece's success makes me afraid that studios are like "oh, we actually CAN make money off of these", and we'll start getting even more of these normie-friendly versions of anime. the existence of live-action anime adaptations doesn't really bother me because i'm afraid they'll be bad, i just ignore things i dislike, but i really don't like the idea of normies getting into anime like this.
...on a totally unrelated note, i remember hearing a rumor(?) that a live action Made in Abyss adaptation was in the works and i hope to god that falls through, because the last thing i need is another wave of people finding out that Made in Abyss exists.

>>41925
>i really don't like the idea of normies getting into anime like this
It's not anime though, so I don't see why that would happen. And I really don't know what the point is. NOTHING is improved by the story being live action. It's also insulting on a conceptual level, to the originals' animators and audience. If somebody reads the synopsis and finds it interesting, they can, and should, watch the original.

Post edited on 21st Nov 2023, 4:42pm

>>38606
Oh I should mention that I don't read into those to mock them it's just a means of insight for understanding how others view our reality. My post kinda came off like I was being mocking.

Me again. Still making coffee and watching YouTube, but I've been playing games more often lately.
Metroid Dread is very good.

>>38821
Interactivity is healthier than just consuming.

>>36618
9to5 office clerk

I've messed around with it from time to time but I'm really lazy about it.

Occasionally I'll dip my toes in but I've never quite been able to fully turn off my skepticism which fucks over deeper practice. It's important to have in this stuff, otherwise you end up an unhinged schizophrenic, but at the same time it keeps you from achieving much.

I just slowly lost interest over time after getting frustrated with spotty results but that's what happens when you don't put much effort in.

Currently I'm studying other areas (philosophy, history) before returning.

Post edited on 7th Aug 2017, 4:10pm

A bit, but I never really went deeper than reading shitty websites about it. One day I'd like to read something from one those medieval-Renaissance era alchemists such as John Dee, Paracelsus and Mirandola. Blatavsky seems interesting too, as well as Steiner

Happy HALLOWEEN 2023!
Trick or treat.

Mariah Carey has escaped her containment chambers; beware!

>>41890
Root beer also pairs really well with vanilla ice cream. Quite a treat under the reign of Summer's oppressive heat!

>>41890
We have sarsaparilla in the US too, but it's not the same thing as root beer, it's closer to birch beer.
We also have a drink called Moxie that's probably the closest thing to chinotto based on your description of it.
I swore off soda years ago, but I used to like all of those.

>>41909
I can't taste the difference between birch beer and root beer. If you're able, could you describe how their tastes differ?

>>41910
Birch beer is less sweet and has more of a slight mint flavor.

I just stick with only Japanese 2D media for the most part. I like Japanese culture more than the other two anyway, so of course I prefer their media. Someone who calls themselves an otaku but only consumes either Korean or Chinese media isn't an otaku. I'm sure both cultures have their own name for geeks/maniacs, but they aren't otaku.

There's also personal reasons for why I don't like Korean/Chinese media.
Webtoons have an annoying layout and seem to have very similar stories of either medival fantasy isekai (although that's just a trend in 2D media in general nowadays) or some flavor of 50 Shades only with rich korean women instead of men. To be fair I'm not very familiar with webtoons so maybe my assumption about them is wrong. I'm just basing my thoughts on what I was recommend to read.
Last manhua I read either the publisher or government stepped in, story got censored heavily, and then eventually was put on hiatus.
That fear of a series spontaneously dying at any moment because of government interference keeps me from reading more manhua.
Although I don't mind Korean or Chinese fan artists, in fact for a lot of series I enjoy they're the ones mostly keeping those fandoms afloat.

The art found in webtoons often looks cheap in my eyes.

I enjoy non-japanese media, but I find it hard to apreciate chinese and korean stuff, at least their animation and comic industries. I will give you two examples from my childhood. One is a chinese cartoon about a little carp, I find this work full of "soul" because despite being completely foreing it was able to deliver a strong impression, left a good memory in me. I can't tell without a rewatch if it was influenced by anime or not, probably yes at some degree but despite this it feels original, it has its own personality and tone. The other is a korean cartoon, also from my childhood. I remember enjoying it to some degree, but in retrospective, it's just a plagiarism of various monster tamer works like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, etc. It's not original at all, it's just a mere mockery of a nonster taming anime it has no personality of its own. I find this to be the norm with chinese and korean animations, videogames and comics. Genshin Impact looks like an uninspired cashgrab, many manwhas are ugly and have retarded plots. China and Korea both have a great filmaking industry, I would say even better than modern Japan, so I don't understand why their animation have to copy so agressively anime/manga styles.

My observations from dabbling in it a bit:
Chinese animation isn't so bad when they aren't settling for all-CGI production. Both seasons of Link Click have been gorgeous, for example. There seems to be some legitimate talent for animation over there. Not a lot, but some. The voice acting ranges from lackluster to awful, and Chinese not being the easiest language to listen to doesn't help. Japanese dubs are becoming more common, though.
I can't think of any Korean anime at all. There's a reason they had to swallow their pride and get Japanese studios to adapt Tower of God and Solo Leveling for them.
Manhua, manwha and webtoons are all horrible on average compared to manga. The list of good series between them would be very short. Probably microscopic if you can't tolerate anything that's BL or BL-adjacent. Most of their comics are all the worst qualities of Narou-kei amplified to infinity.
I don't go out of my way to hate Chinese and Korean stuff without giving any of it a chance, but their industries are less developed than Japan's and it's reflected in the average quality of their series. It's more difficult to find the good stuff, so I don't blame anyone for not trying.

Honestly I bet it would be full of little bits of electronics that I tend to lose and need to replace. And some socks.
Also I lost a vehicle in my teenage years - how big of a box are we talking about here?

My whole life to be honest

Can I get my time back?

My old gameboy advance with like 40 games in a gameboy backpack. And my old bionicle figures too.

>>41779
Who the heck can afford that?

I have a cat.

>>41785
I like small birds.

I has a rainbow sloth plushie