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More than just research, Hiromu Arakawa (author of the manga) was born in a farm in Hokkaido so she really talks from experience.

I'm not a huge fan of Nodame Cantabile (it's good tho) but Chihayafuru is hands-down the best supokon anime I've watched and still in my top ~5 anime. I used to proselytize it a lot

RIP. Let's not forget that behind the legendary boxer was a great political figure that stood for black people's rights in the US and against imperialism.

Dies Irae confirmed!!!! Or maybe not.

Ah, the usual mistake that makes you smash your head very hard on a wall when you realize it. 羽多野 is... just her name.

I expressed my hype in a very intelligible way on twitter and didn't think it would be that interesting for fuwa fellows, but apparently it is. Which is cool. Sakura is one of the best magical girl anime out there, nobody should hesitate on (re)watching it.

Isn't that just Windows 7? That's the computer I used at work when I was in Japan, actually.

Oh hey look what I found today on a usb key:

Happy birthday, Fred!

I can get behind this. Happy to have triggered the rise of the proletariat and the fall of the bourgeoisie with my like.

(I'm pretty sure I had taken your 1000th or 2000th like too, not sure which one it was) (sorry I don't have dancing skeletons gifs or w/e I'm not Fiddle) (please excuse me for the shitposting)

Non-loli content is less likely to be an issue. Regarding customs, you should try to fish around the internet regarding how they deal with packages in your country. Your package may get stopped for taxing, but that doesn't mean they'll open it - more than often they'll just look at the invoice or ask you for one. And I doubt anime titties are very visible through X-ray inspection.

I read that whole thread while drinking my morning coffee and was able to put delicious salty tears in it. I never miss these threads, it's always so entertaining.

Heh. I guess I need to read 2236 now, I have it installed already. There's a review of it in english btw: https://hadlerblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9A%A62236%E5%B9%B4-a-review/

>oldies >nothing <2000 in the list plz also read umineko it's good extremely fun (and will indeed take enormous amounts of time)

I sometimes mistake dudes for grils and grils for dudes, but I gotta admit I can't see what is girly in eclipsed's behavior at all Who would believe what someone puts on their internet profile anyway? Nosebleed's been a gril for years now <.<

Heh. I'm the opposite, I can't read fiction in a non-physical format, but non-fiction is mostly fine (except huge books, I can't finish big books on numerical formats for some reason). I guess I don't really take notes (or I do it on the side instead of making unreadable scribbles in the margins) when I read nf. Nor do I hurl books across the room... wtf are you reading anyway to get you so mad? (If I'm supposed to talk about what I'm reading too, for fiction I'm currently reading Goethe's Faust, which is pretty dope, and for non-fiction I'm on Discipline and Punish, which is fascinating like everything Foucault writes).

I have a new trick to save money. Every time I'm tempted to buy a new book (books are the things I most commonkly buy, I almost never buy anything else except what is required for survival), I first check if it isn't on library genesis. And if it is, I tell myself that after all, reading on a tablet isn't that bad...

It seems there are people insane enough to want to (re)play Extra as soon as possible. Interesting.

Rooke, you're so old you don't even like middle-aged people songs anymore. But well, who watches eurovision for the songs anyway. Those were the true highlights, showing that Sweden really understands what Eurovision is all about:

Soooo this year was better than last year, but last year was really bad. Some good songs but it still lacks the campy, fabulous, kitsch part of Eurovision we're all used to. Can you believe people are STILL coming up with ballads and normally dressed up people in 2016?

Bitch please.

Well the argument doesn't hold anyway. You could find the exact same argument in three centuries old texts by members of the aristocracy/high bourgeoisie who would justify census suffrage or the idea that only wealthy people should be able to be elected. That obviously never stopped the political class to defend their own interests and those of the people they're close to. The image of a politican corrupted directly through a paycheck is crude and naive. I'm not saying it doesn't exist but things are both more subtle and more systemic, especially in western democracies. When Hillary Clinton gets huge paychecks from Goldman Sachs it's only a surface-level event that showcases the deep connections there are between the political class and the financial elite (big corporations and banks). Money is only one aspect of the issue, there are other things like social capital (networking, prestige) at stake, but also politician habits. Career politicians have all received a certain education and have spent their whole lives talking with certain kinds of people and in a certain kind of environment so it's unsurprising that in the end, they go in the way that pleases financial markets, corporations, etc... and they probably find it perfectly natural. Someone like Trump is beyond that; he's not just connected with the financial elite, he IS the financial elite. Thinking he won't be influenced by lobbies is ridiculous.

Whenever something important happens in the US, the rest of the world holds onto its breath because it could have consequences on them too. That's becoming less and less true but it very much still is. Example given: if Trump gets elected the rest of the world kinda has to care about it, because four years of US policy denying climate changes is going to bring the impending environmental crisis a good 10 or 20 years earlier. So of course we're gonna care and we're gonna know about it because 1) it will be discussed in our local media 2) information about it is readily available in a language everyone (more or less) can read. Of course we're not gonna have the same point of view as an insider, and we won't be able to grasp some cultural intricacies. It's harder to discuss gun policies in the US when aspects of the issue are so specific to US culture, for example. I'm ready to make mistakes and be corrected if I ever try to talk about that topic (it doesn't interest me that much though). On the specific topic at hand, as already explained, western representative democracies have a lot in common, the US system and the french system were even founded by people who shared fairly similar ideas. Some of their flaws are gonna be broadly the same, others are going to be more specific to each country. The point is not even to bash one system or another here, I think both are shit. If I'm getting something terribly wrong in what I'm saying I'm ready to listen but I can't really do much if all I'm being told is "you're ignorant".

bigfatround is obviously trolling, please don't answer to him and don't turn to nonsensical US-bashing. Considering how defensive people were already this thread is done otherwise.