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  1. But jibril, you cant have waifus. Youre everyone else's... the village bicycle er..
  2. Soo who will Shirou be H-ing this year? I see him making Rin blush a lot. I also see Saber making him blush. I thought it was clear Saber and him were just friends in UBW. I like the ambiguity.
  3. Very exquisite taste you got there. Does she have a name and number?
  4. Please give me my stolen underpants back
  5. I thought you were a sugar cube so I swallowed you last night. Guess I'll have to empty you the hard way.
  6. I just rescinded my previous vote and gave it to Yui. She deserves at least one.
  7. Your beard was so warm *blush* ...i had to skin it and wear it as a face warmer from now on!
  8. This calls for some... Rance metal and Taco Bell
  9. Zeno: Quantity>Quality HMN: Quantity<Jealousy edit: Taco: Almighty Thread Slayer
  10. Still wondering why didn't they put Isuzu with that costume into that pool of tentacles.... *sigh* I thought her being molested at the hands of elementary kids at the beginning was honestly a lot more disturbing than any tentacles Japan has to offer. Anime Isuzu makes me smiles and cringe in awkwardness for her.
  11. Imma go around gettin' favors by acting cute even though I'm a real bitch deep down teehee.
  12. Nothing - don't let it bug you. I visual what everyone sounds and looks like here.
  13. Aldous Huxley is anything but anti-technology and science. They need to read Island if they seriously think Brave New World is advancing the idea of neo-luddism. This has been around for awhile so I'm surprised it's still up edit: Link to full article is dead unfortunately Jeffrey Kripal on Aldous Huxley: I find it strange, and more than a little depressing, that, despite all of this well-known biographical and metaphysical material, Aldous Huxley is best known today for his dystopian novel, Brave New World. Why is a man who had so much to say about the synthesis of science and spirituality and the deeper dimensions of human consciousness known primarily for a novel about the authoritarian horrors and technological dead-ends of the modern consumer state? Why is this consummate individualist, intrigued by the potential for spiritual ecstasy, still mostly identified with a story of moral despair and fascist political control? Obviously, part of the answer is because Brave New World was so incredibly accurate. But Huxley did more than diagnose the disease; he also provided what he thought of as a realistic treatment in Island. I interviewed Laura Huxley about Island a few years ago (she died last year at the age of 96). She described the novel to me as "the last will and testament" of her late husband. Island, she suggested, is where he left his most sincere convictions and deepest thoughts about what human beings are capable of at their best. He was very careful, she pointed out, not to include anything in the novel that was not possible, that had not been practiced somewhere before and found useful. So he was quite upset when Island was received as a piece of fantasy rather than a practical program for translating his abstract philosophy of consciousness and existential mysticism into effective social, educational, and contemplative experiments. Island was no fantasy for Aldous Huxley. It was, as Laura said, his "ultimate legacy." This seems like the right time to entertain the possibility that Aldous Huxley is more relevant now than he ever was, that Island is as important as Brave New World, and that the two novels should be read together. I am particularly struck by Huxley's vibrant critique of religious literalism and the whole psychology of belief in Island. "In religion all words are dirty words," the Old Raja's little green book declared. Hence the novel's ideal of the "Tantrik agnostic" (Aldous's grandfather returns) and its scorn for that "Old Nobodaddy" in the sky (the expression is pure William Blake). Hence the humorous prayer of Pala: "Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief." The scarecrows in the fields were even made to look like a God the Father, so that the children who manipulated them with strings to scare off the birds could learn that "all gods are homemade, and that it's we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours." Link: Brave New Worldview: The Return of Aldous Huxley (Chronicle of Higher Education)
  14. Exactly how I imagined HMN to sound like...
  15. I HIGHLY recommend Aldous Huxley's works in general. Brave New World was one of the most influential books in my life. Sure it starts off super slow, but it needed to establish a background for you to understand the rest of the book. At the half-way mark is when the book gets quite interesting and by the end you'll be taken on a ride you can't forget. Another book that really hits home with me is JD Salnger's the Catcher in the Rye. That book got me hooked right from the start. Holden Caufield is the original Chuunibyou in my book; a tragic one at that. It's something about his narration and the sardonic tone from the 50's Classic American style in the way he speaks that makes me laugh in pain for him. When the book was at its height in popularity, it created imitators (ironically) and blamed for many of the young male suicides around the country, showcasing the influence it had. I read this book in the early 2000s around the same time I had watched Neon Genesis Evangelion. I was pretty messed up in the head for awhile.
  16. So is the Majikoi translations a complete translation of the listed Routes? Currently am downloading the game. I'm torn between entering a Momoyo or Kazuko route. One's a hot looking Kuudere Onee-chan and the other's a hot looking cutie pie. Actually, that h-scene of the teacher convinced me she's the best looker of the bunch. Is there a route for her?
  17. Here ya go
  18. Got any room to fit my head in between? This isn't actually a question by the way. It's already happened. Thanks for the memories airbag-kun.
  19. Well Ho! Ho! looks like you're missing some basic essentials there Honoka.
  20. Maki is speechless NSFW I don't know why this was so popular, but maybe someone here will find it sexy. Since my kind's been shunned from the cute thread, I'll post it here.
  21. "Don't think I'm walking away from this battle. I'll be back with you." *Never returns*
  22. Just finished Sankarea on my off day from work. The build up was good but the ending was a bit flat. Typical Japanese endings. Somewhere after chapter 51 I got a nice reward for reading it all the way through though.
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