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I appreciate it, but I dont like the look of the sauce nor do I like mushrooms that much.

I think krill has a point. I recall thinking something of the kind because he looked sad at the end, almost unfulfilled. I'd have to read the last chapter again, but to a degree I agree with Krill. While I wouldnt say that it's a surrogate, I believe he is still struggling, mostly unsuccessfully, to find his way through his experiences. But I believe that he will get there.

ew parade pushes. I hope they die in a fiery hellstorm of 50+ mutaball->base trades+buried banes

I've updated the front post with my first meal!

Uggggghhh... Content? Really? hmmm, it's a hard sell, but I'll try my best Anyway, I thought it was a fantastic thread. I guess I could come up with some stuff given the metaphor, but maybe it's best for me to just enjoy it. Ho hum, ho hum. I had a ton of fun reading all the posts, and honestly there's something about basically using a forum to perform the function of a chatroom that gives the interaction this cozy and fun feel. *remembers something from the past* Anyway, I wish us all the best in the coming year! (This is an annual event, riiiight? B) )

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Can you play a relic on a stake agent and then next turn play another relic to take it with the total bonus?

what spam?

"And that confirms it, she's ready for up and down motion" bahahahahahaaha

They go to the same place? congrattttttzzz

Here moderators, enjoy yourself with these honeys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jyLZe0hDbw

This might be a little 'bad' according to some people in here, but I tend to go with a 'just be' kind of attitude. It's like Mephisto's comment except without all the the strictness. People naturally will find ways to work through things, and the value of time should not be understated. Give it a while and I'm confident you'll feel better, bit by bit. I do think Mephisto is right when he says that you should find what you want and what you are willing to give to have it. In a more general sense, try to find yourself. Something like that. It's different for everybody. Tay and Mephisto seem to love schedules and routines. The closest I get to a schedule is my mental plan of how I'm going to spend the day or week. And I amend that by the hour. Basically, different things work for different people, so I wouldn't say 'find a daily routine' because sometimes balance isnt everything that matters. When I feel down; When I mess up; When I do something I know I should not have done, the thing that has brought me the most comfort is this: use that as a stepping stone. And not in some vague sense of "learn from your mistakes," but more akin to "what will I do BECAUSE of this event that will make my future brighter, so that in the end I can look at this event and say 'this contributed to who I am in a positive way'". I don't know if this sounds crazy to you or everyone else, but what if you take this as an opportunity to find or do something amazing with yourself? What if you feel self-hating or generally terrible, and because of that you say to yourself "This is the event that has given me the impulse to do/be/change/acquire [whatever you want]". Then you can look back at it and it will be all worth it. That big and small tragedies are the impetuses for big and small improvements to my life in the long run is what keeps me from tearing myself apart when despair sinks in. But if the above doesnt work for you, my best advice is to give it some time and try to have more fun than you're used to. Do something audacious and abnormal. You'll get better.

Thank you guys so much for being here with us and helping us through the mess that is communication over the internet. It's a pleasure All the pictures can be taken in the context of "my message to the moderators". Enjoy ^^ I'll be relying on your wisdom and guidance in the future. (one of the cats is me, and one is the mods. <3)

There has been a lot of debate on the internet over whether or not speed reading techniques actually work, and my mostly-uneducated thought is that you probably have to be suited for it inherently. Not that 've seriously committed, but strategies like keeping a certain pace always leave me wondering what I just read, and I havent tried other ones, but they seem impossible to me. The fact that apparently some people can do things like that and understand the material just seems like something they have that other people don't. In the same way that I can grasp a certain mathematical concept better than some of my peers, I think that most people will always read faster than me. Though, I probably could speed it up a decent bit if I quieted the voice reading aloud in my head, but I kind of like him

Honestly, Sundome is beautiful. It's so touching and so sincere, and the 'pervertedness' just makes that more real. The ending, him with another girl, was really bitter, but also sweet in the sense that he can move on. Because people move on and time heals. It's been a year and a half or two since I read it, so my detail isnt very good, but I remember that after finishing I didnt cry. I just sat up, looked around for a few minutes. And then I went on a walk, I think. I dont think I talked or said anything for the rest of the day, or at least a good number of hours. Knowing what to do with myself, how to be after reading and finishing Sundome was just too hard. I felt like all I wanted to do was to imprint that story onto my life somehow, to make it a part of me, but that I didn't know how to do so. I just wanted to be alone with it and feel all those things and understand everything, but it all sliped away from me, and continues to do so, with every passing second. Finishing Sundome taught me a thing or two about the long journey down from a peak. Something about the value of 'Sundome' because dealing with what comes after can be so hard, so empty, so painful, and so unfulfilling. Because you will never have what you had then.

Wilkommen wilkommen! Have a great time here and talk to many fun people

My god... I wish I could do these things, but I'm actually horribly tuned for balancing an otaku life with a busy schedule of work and school. I go to school full time (15-17 credits) and work 20~ hours a week, plus an extra few for the club I'm in. Which is all fine and dandy, but I'm horrible at every single thing you listed. I'm in the science and engineering school here at the U of M, so I'm more geared towards that kind of work. My reading speed is somewhere around the 8th grade level (impressive, I know. Please save your applause for the end). It takes me 2.5~ minutes to read a page if I'm focused. And I'm really bad at focusing x.x I have no multitasking skill, little ability to urgently complete tasks due to poor focus, and in general this leaves me with less time to support my anime/manga/vn desires, haha. And then on top of that, I have this weird thing where I can't really get into something if I'm not in the right mood, and I also dont like doing anything while I eat, and I also can't multitask chatting online with reading/watching anything... The great light in the darkness is that I really do enjoy looking forward to the time I do spend. I generally try to condense all my schoolwork into a few days, leaving me huge open chunks of time on the weekends if I can manage it ^^ And there's always summer. There's always the rest of my life, so I can take my time and enjoy myself. In general, manga fits the smaller holes of time very well though, and I like to pick up longer anime series/shounens to watch more casually (I take the shorter stuff seriously, so I can't watch it as casually as when I have a random hour to spare... I'm weird like that I guess). My one fear is that someday, or over some length of time, I'll begin to be more like the people all around me: so callous and careless, especially about the otaku activities that I love so much. This is absurdly, almost tragically true. My roommates work as servers/wait-assists at whatever-level restaurants make roughly as much per hour as teachers in my state. It's actually pretty absurd that they literally make 3 times as much as I did working retail *is a little bothered* yet there's so much "oh you didnt tip enough" going around. My advice to anyone and everyone ever in the world who is in high school/college: get a job at a restaurant. You will make bank

"PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BEING A DICK" - Buda 2014

since when does monmon call himself monmon!? Anyway, I'll probably try to start a vc this weekend sometime >,> (also we can do vcs on many weekends, jefta!)

Harsh words

More karaoke this weekend? are we done with that? we should vc more

My god, he's Kosamay now! *understands the world a little more* Sorry I can't help at all. From what I can see that layout fits, but you're saying it's too plain?

pumpkin... this is enticing