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 No.113881[Reply]

Finally started my "buyfag" life; albeit not anywhere near the level I've dreamt of, with only second hand stuff so far.
What anime goods have you bought /qa/?
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 No.134932

i buy scale figures and have a manga collection, along with occaisionally getting plushies and keychains too. i like collecting anime stuff bc i have no other interests

 No.134935

>>134924
cuuuuuuuuuute

 No.134947

post stealing sager

 No.136715

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I just ordered an Arisu figure.

 No.136887

>>134915
nice butt




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 No.136651[Reply]

From an evolutionary perspective, why are we all not premature ejaculators? Think about it, the faster you let out your seed the less time you spend in a vulnerable state, the less energy you waste on flailing about, and the less opportunity the female has to push you off. It's objectively better to be able to spurt as soon as you stick it in, so why haven't we dominated the genepool yet? Even if it's not a problem for modern civilization, surely wasteful mating should have died out when predation and food shortages were real threats. Lots of animals seem to be able to sperm at will too, so why has humanity mostly lost this useful ability?
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 No.136683

>>136670
>didn't survive nearly as long as we do today.
I suppose it depends how far back you want to go. Modern anatomical humans have been around for at least 100,000 years, with some archaeological findings suggesting it may be closer 300,000 years. When I hear "humans didn't live as long in the past" my mind immediately goes to the misunderstanding of average human lifespan. There would have been untold amounts of infant and child mortalities, which brings down the average of how long it seems a person might live to be. From archaeological remains, however, we know that people people regularly lived to 50-60 years old when supported by others.

Unless by "early hominids" you're referring to distinctly far older pre-modern anatomical humans, like Australopithecus, who lived 2 to 4 million years ago, I don't not believe what you're saying is correct. Otherwise, my mistake.

>you'd need to explain how the quick ejaculating behavior of other species was selected against enough to become a minority trait.
That's not inherently how evolution works. If there are multiple traits that are non-dominant, and they do not obviously contribute to fitness or improved conception, then there is going to be little if any selection pressure for either trait to become dominant besides geographic distribution and population bottlenecks.

>since early humans lived in tribes instead of nuclear families, the burden of child rearing would have been spread out instead of relying on the father primarily.
Right, but in such an environment you cannot simply leave altogether. Rape is a near universal reviled crime across human cultures. If we imagine a tribe (200-500 people), or a band (20-50 people), there would likely be severe social consequences for the offender. This being the case, there is no benefit to premature ejaculation. In most ancient histories and stories we have, a common punishment for severe crimes is exile, and in pre-agrarian times that would have likely meant almost certain death.

 No.136684

>>136683
If anything, I should add: what seems must plausible to me is that it's conceivable that very early hominids did mostly rape and perhaps there was a selection pressure then for them to be premature ejaculators. However, as more complex social development occurred rape likely became more and more stigmatized so the pressure for premature ejaculation has faded until the modern day, millions of years into the future, where it remains a trait that is neither inherently beneficial or detrimental.

 No.136685

>>136683
>by "early hominids" you're referring to distinctly far older pre-modern anatomical humans
I was. Before the development of spears, fire, and settlements homos were much more vulnerable than humans. Also, in this context infant and child mortality are far more important than how old adults were able to become.

>there is going to be little if any selection pressure for either trait to become dominant
Exactly, so we should see both traits in relatively equal numbers. Yet, as the very name implies, premature ejaculation is an outlier and not a normal trait. For that, one trait must be more beneficial for producing offspring that survive to reproductive age.

>In most ancient histories and stories we have, a common punishment for severe crimes is exile
Those stories come from settled societies where the punishment is more about the lack of belonging than it is an indirect death sentence. I'll also add that the concept of rape can be very fluid. For instance, if a wife refuses to perform her marital function and her husband uses force to obtain what was promised him then it probably wouldn't result in much social ire outside of very modern western societies, and even there it's likely to be swept under the rug. If anything, the strong, complex societal structures humans live within increases the viability of a "rape structure" of reproduction as there are more opportunities to coerce females into it. They can't fight back and they can't leave the group, so whether they approve of their mate is less important than whether the rest of the group approves of the coupling (the exception to this being sneaky infidelity, but that would of course benefit from being quick).

 No.136686

¥ touched my penis and accidentally came
That's why

 No.136702

>>136686
This thread isn't THAT arousing, is it?




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 No.136629[Reply]

https://x.com/notch/status/1875230756437479658

What would /qa/ want to see in a sequel to brown bricks?
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 No.136642

I don't really know. A Minecraft 2 seems pointless. He is talking about a spiritual successor so there is more room for different things. But even then, people have already built on what he did, they have already made games following in his footsteps and he would just be another one doing that.

 No.136646

Vintage Story is pretty much what I'd want out of a Minecraft successor.

 No.136647

Pippa > Peko

 No.136649

>>136640
And that's why you'll never be rich.

 No.136660

>>136631
>I liked Terraria
Every time someone mentions this game I can't help but think about SMBX. It's surreal a guy who made a fun mario fun game suddenly makes a billion dollar game. He'll always just be Redigit to me, the guy who had a fun mario site with mario flash games who one day released his own mario game.




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 No.95721[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Didn't have any basil for my pizza so I put thyme on it instead.
It's not a bad substitute. It's pretty good in its own right.
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 No.135827

>>135826
I wouldn't recommend cooking chicken to 165. It's really just an artifact of how the USDA reports the studies they do. 99.999% of bacteria are killed instantly at 165, but if you keep chicken at 145 for five minutes or so you get the same effect. Meat doesn't cool off instantly when you take it out of the oven, especially if you're doing a whole chicken. Since it's the holidays, you can cook turkey the same way. The secret to a turkey that isn't tough and dry is to not overcook it.

 No.135904

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I made rumbledethumps today. It was pretty good. It's basically just fried cabbage and mashed potatoes baked in the oven.

 No.136422

Simple oatmeal recipe


instant oats (no added sugar)
rolled oats (old-fashioned)
steel-cut oats (traditional)

spices (cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom, nutmeg, pumpkin spice, ginger, cocoa)
sweeteners (maple syrup, agave syrup, brown sugar, stevia, honey)
salt

protein powder (whey, pea)
nuts (peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews, pecans)
seeds (flax, chia, pumpkin, sunflower)
nut butter (peanut, cashew, almond)
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 No.136463

>>136422
I just put a little bit of honey or banana in some steel cut oats nothing much.

 No.136625

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Made a giant bowl of granola to last another couple weeks again. This time I used about 60% as much honey and maple syrup and I can really tell. I never measured it, but I have a feeling for it. I also added more nuts this time: walnuts, cashews and pecans. I wanted to add almonds but I need to get something to chop them up. Do people use a mortar or something? I don't want to turn them into tiny things that will lodge in my throat, but pea-sized things. Granola, nuts, and raisins, raisins, cranberries, peach. Good stuff, but I need to expand. I want to get some flax seed and other boring nutritious stuff I can hide in it.
Anyway, granola is good. When you assemble your own it's like 25% of the price of the "premade" stuff. It's amazing that there's so much of a premium when it's just throwing stuff together in a bowl and crisping them in an air fryer/oven if desired. Good lazy food.




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 No.136274[Reply]

So with the new year coming what are your New Years Resolutions /qa/? Of course, you actually made some and they're of some actual significance, right?
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 No.136614

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YOU ARE NOW ON BLU

 No.136616

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>>136614
Get rolled. Stupid blue shab.

 No.136619

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Green is clearly best

 No.136620

>>136619
¥ smug
more like slut

 No.136622

drats, he evaded my cunning trap




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 No.136499[Reply]

For anyone looking to jump on the Fate/ train for the new anime, here's a quick guide of what you probably want to go through. I'm also going to assume you're committed to this enough to dive head-in to the VN. If you're looking to test the waters first, you can try out the ufotable anime and then come back, there will be some spoilers you get from doing this but you probably already know most of them from hanging around otaku circles. Also, my knowledge isn't perfect so I may be missing some things.


Step 1: Read the VN
Download the Mirror Moon TL of the enhanced Realta Nua version with the ero scenes from the original game patched back in. The TL isn't perfect, or even really that good, but it's what everyone you talk to will be quoting and the official TLs for Fate have proven far worse in the past. Play through all three routes in order, try to get all the bad ends, but make sure you get Mind of Steel and Sparks Liner High as those "bad ends" are on par with actual alternate endings.
Adaptations: The stay night route technically has anime and manga adaptations, but both do the old VN adaptation thing of mashing routes together and are generally low quality in terms of art and animation.
The UBW route has an awful movie adaptation and a quite good TV anime. It does favor style over accuracy to the lore, which upsets some autists, but it's overall a solid adaptation and the only good way to see these characters in motion. There's also a manga, but it's pretty new.
The HF route has a movie trilogy which looks pretty, but rushes the plot way too much, ignores the VN writing to an excessive degree, and rewrites thinks to make Sakura look better. Only watch if you're a sakugafag or a Sakurafag. There's also a manga for this, which is really good at covering the whole story with great visualizations (especially for the lewd scenes), but it's got a lot more to cover before it's complete.
All of this is to say, you really have no choice but to read the VN because the only good substitute only covers the middle third and the game makes you do routes in order so you have to play that part anyway.


Step 2: Round out the core trilogy
Hollow Ataraxia, a fandisc VN, is the next step and the official not-quite-sequel. It introduces a lot of new stuff to the world. Anime never ever.
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 No.136503

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>>136501
Counterpoint.

 No.136504

i don't know if the others are bad because I've only tried the ufotable ones and I didn't feel like the expanded franchise was good so I never tried. Tsukihime bored me in the prologue chapters. Also you didn't mention Kara no Kyoukai which, while is an alternative tsukihime, does expand upon how the human magic system works

 No.136516

>>136504
Fate/stay in the kitchen is the closest thing we have to the HA day sections.
Prisma Illya is the closest thing we have to the HA night sections.

The only reason I added Tsukihime to the list is because Assassin's master is a dead apostle and those don't really come up anywhere else in Fate. I wouldn't be surprised if stuff from other Nasuverse works showed up at some point later, but this is already a lot to work through.

 No.136527

>>136516
The Tohno family in Heaven's Feel come up in both Tsukihime works

 No.136534

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My interest with Nasuverse is only via Melty, but the Kara no Kyokai movies were good.




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 No.136425[Reply]

what does this do? friends? i like anime degeneracy and kindness.. uh idk? picture will u tell me how to use this? are you guys nice
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 No.136444

>>136429
The hidden boards are >>>/secret/ and >>>/megu/

 No.136481

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>>136444
¥she doesn't share the secret secret board
Heh, newfriends don't know about [redacted].

 No.136487

>>136481
>>>/secretsecrret/
Not so secret now, is it bud?

 No.136488

just made a post in the secretest board

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 No.136464[Reply]

This scene has revolutionized anime as a genre.
All i can say is, "Wow!"

 No.136466

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 No.136471

Korean media looks so off-brand.

 No.136484

>>136471
this anime is japanese




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 No.136395[Reply]

Why can't western social media sites have cute anime girls pop up on their login prompts?
I would feel more inclined to login to facebook or X formerly twitter if their was a cute girl asking me to do it.

I always thought China would never surpass the West but this really has shaken my faith.
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 No.136398

>>136397
Those are the bilibili girls

 No.136407

>Why can't western social media sites have cute anime girls pop up on their login prompts?
In the west it's illegal to like cute things and you're a pedophile rapist and cringe and kimoi and aren't those for children anyways? *puts up flat and generic stencil*

 No.136408

Steam had the cute girl (male) at least

 No.136474

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Bilibili is pleasant to use, coming as a longtime Nicodouga user.
Shame I don't have time to invest into Mandarin at this point so I just skim read and fill in the blanks with Japanese and some duolingo Mandarin of the most common words.

 No.136475

in the end jashin poster was on the right track getting on the train early




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 No.136309[Reply]

While rewatching Cutie Honey in Giko yesterday, it made me reflect on a certain sentiment that you always seem to hear, how "ADHD" content is nowadays. Which I've always assume means filled with constant stimulation and energy. But when you take a look at the media/anime being put out now, and even really with all the supposed 'kohai' tiktok stuff that's just someone talking plastered with games, a background essay meant to be ignored. There's not any energy in those at all. It's a farce with pretty colors.

Even on a broader level there's really nothing energizing about anything in media, not only supposed 'brainrot' garbage. It's all extremely tame and boring compared to any anime that put even a teensy amount of heart into making something bombastic. The realization sorta hit me while watching Onimai back when it came out, but really came into its own watching the two back to back last night. Onimai is good, don't get me wrong, but the energy it presents is several levels below that of something like Galaxy Angel or even Milky Holmes. Although I guess with that they're different genres in a way since SoL is generally more relaxed, but there's just no modern replacement for anything of that style nowadays and it's annoying the supposed replacement is magnitudes less exciting than its predecessor. This goes doubly so for any isekai which feel similar to the aforementioned 'brainrot' content in that a vast majority is meant to glaze by your eyes and pass the time rather than hook you into its fantasy world.

I just want to feel hyper and attracted to the screen like a magnet, I don't want to be bored. And today's media just seems to command my non-attention.
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 No.136311

>>136310
>shares its director with Cromartie and Di Gi Charat
Oh yeah, and Machikado Mazoku too, which is a great show but imo doesn't really have the same manic energy.

 No.136380

Something that it seems Netflix has been doing on purpose is, according to them, diversifying from only content you would watch actively to also things they design for people to leave running in the background in a second screen:
>A major focus is a more strategic approach to the “second screen,” or the phone that viewers often hold in their hand while watching TV. The Netflix mobile app has traditionally been a way to watch Netflix on mobile, no different than the TV app. But Kim sees the mobile app moving forward as a “Swiss army knife” to grab users’ attention in different ways.
https://fortune.com/2023/12/19/netflix-chief-product-officer-eunice-kim-second-screen-phone/ | https://archive.is/813TT
>I’ve heard from showrunners who are given notes from the streamers that “This isn’t second screen enough.” Meaning, the viewer’s primary screen is their phone and the laptop and they don’t want anything on your show to distract them from their primary screen because if they get distracted, they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off. I heard somebody use this term before: they want a “visual muzak.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tvs-top-5-podcast-justine-bateman-ai-dangers-hollywood-1235540858/
Here we're not talking about dumb internet videos, but full-on TV shows and movies, yet somehow following the same logic of fighting over the scraps of your attention. As >>136310 said, it's more about quantity over quality.

What I personally think makes the biggest difference is that the ones throwing several videos together to the point of unintelligibility are doing so as a form of absurdist self-parody, like the counter-reaction that made skibidi and sigma into nonsense words as a joke, or the template reaction overload of so-called 21st century humor. People taking about sigma males and skibidi toilet exist without any irony to it, just like how my cousin Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.136381

>>136380
>sigma
This is especially painful in my engineering degree. Lean Six Sigma, an important quality control tool, is now made of two funny internet words.

 No.136388

>>136380
>they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off.
This is weird, I thought the idea of having something in the background was to have stuff pop often enough to keep people watching without requiring much real context so they can go back to browsing Facebook or something. That's not anything new even, lots of news shows and TV sitcoms and the like were not exactly made to need all your attention. I know my family leave stuff like that on all the time but only really pay attention for brief periods between conversing. Sports are another good example of this (it's why handegg gets away with so many commercials).

TV shows do need to do something to compete with the endless wave of free content that exists to get a click and then be added to your recommendations algorithm to show you more baity titles to click on. I would prefer they focus on quality and rewatchability, earning the full attention of viewers, but I guess going the route of something lengthier that you can just leave running instead of constant interaction dings may work in a world where people have more screens than they know what to do with.

 No.136428

my older sister says she likes having tv on in the house when she's home alone because she just wants to hear the sound of people talking
maybe this is the descendant of that sort of desire




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 No.87056[Reply][Last50 Posts]

So the DDDDD thread made me realize that kissu doesn't really have any threads dedicated to manga that I could find. The focus seems to be too much on seasonal anime. I realize that this is because manga is much harder to find/follow than seasonal stuff as there are no clear guidelines for it and Westerners don't read comics nearly as much as the Japanese do.

Anyway, what manga have you been reading recently? I just read the latest chapter of Shimeji Simulation a few days ago. As with anything made by Tsukumizu so far it is great. Definitely recommend it to everyone here and I do hope it eventually gets an anime adaption as well like SSR.
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 No.136100

>>136098
so what's the homewrecker's punishment for hurting imouto

 No.136101

>>136100
Trial before the /qa/-12, with maximum sentence ranging from expulsion from the /qa/ continuum to death

 No.136102

>>136100
I don't know yet (this is the latest release) but I imagine she'll get what she deserves. Either Onii-chan stands up for his imouto, or imouto-chan goes nevada-tan on her.

 No.136414

Bump - Apologies, I haven't read much recently except a very poor quality (possibly poorly translated too) danmei webnovel. Will be getting up to date on TRUMP

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>>136414
Actually no, I did read Ryoto killed his brother. It's reminiscent of The Summer Hikaru Died. Pacing is very quick though and makes be nervous for its future.




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 No.136394[Reply]

loli loev pizza

 No.136396

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japanese love curry




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 No.131758[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Other thread hit bump limit.
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>>136284
got some chuuni girl from my scroll. thanks

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>>136287
Which one? There's a chuuni hebe and a chuuni occult girl.

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>>136288
this one

 No.136291

Eyepatch

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 No.136255[Reply]

What anime/manga/VN has the best reaction images?
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>>136257
Yeah Mewkledreamy is great, especially with question marks! Lots of those!

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moetan has a lot of frames with reaction image potential

 No.136269

Not expecting much since it's so specific but does anybody here have that SZS panel where that fat hikkineet goes: "I work and work but life never gets any easier?"

It's amazing what doesn't get saved but somehow leaves an impression on us huh.

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>>136269
You're misremembering the scene, it's a cute girl who works and works even though life never gets better.

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Practically a law that all the Konosuba stuff has to be mentioned




 No.136195[Reply]

There's a new panty and stocking coming out soon™.
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 No.136197

I never enjoyed this as much as others do, but it will be fun to watch it with others

 No.136198

i still haven't watched the original

 No.136200

Hopefully we get a No Pan Night #3 as well.

 No.136203

Yeah, and HL3 is just around the corner.

 No.136219

you shouldn't sequel stupid ideas that people came up with




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