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Maburaho looks like peak 2000's ecchi harem. Was Maburaho just an anime beginner pick, or did you/do you like ecchi harems? Those types are great feel-good shows, because it's just cartoonish horniness, and "guy gets beat around" comedy. Probably the same appeal as sit-coms, reality TV, and Mr. Beast, but it's anime, so it's cool in my mind. "No one around me knows I watch 17 year old panty sniffers get beat up. Heh, on them."

You haven't seen Blend S? I think the genre of anime I most enjoy is the "doing random, funny things" genre, and it describes half of my favourites list, so if you'd like an episodic comedy show, check it out, or the various others in my favourites. What would you say defines your favourites list, in chunks, or in whole? Because I'm curious if you can string it together, or if it's all loose threads.

Rambling's good. Stream-of-consciousness. Just letting the words flow off your fingertips, onto the keyboard, and into the intertubes for chemical subsistence by fellow citizens of the panopticon of electricity, and debauchery.

Were you to close to totality for the April eclipse then? I wanted to see the eclipse in 99+% totality but wasn't able to unfortunately. I think totality was around 90% here. I live in the North East too.

If you have the nagging thought there has to be more than "this," that sounds like a cut and dry desire for purpose to me. Maybe warehouse work isn't for you; maybe you should be in a lab curing cancer!

Time to go boomer hunting in the woods, just mind the death caps.

Did you have a dog with your ex? Are you able to visit your dog? I rent so I can't own a dog + they're expensive. I need to buy a condo or something but everything around my area is insane. 200k gets you trash over here. 200k is a lot of money to me tho ;____;

Definitely, certain people I would never have a relationship with under normal circumstances but because we're pham, I engage with them. That's not to disparage anyone. My grandmother is in her mid-80s. She's mentally sharp but has a lot of physical health issues. Thankfully we live in the same town. How about, is your grandmother still around?

And too bad you dropped Bleach. It's a weird show but I really like it. What didn't you like about it?

Haha nice bio

Do you live in the U.S or one of the country's that Trump is imposing tariffs on? Either way, more than rent is about to go up.

People love to erect barriers and assume the other side is unstable despite the reality that we as a society are mentally ill; climate change representing a great example of our inability to take care of ourselves. So I get ya on the pathologized part, you don't want to be judged by others. And it sounds like you want purpose.

The appeal for me has always been the dissolution of reality; it's weird and fantastical. I've always been a huge fan of science fiction and I find psychedelia to be similar in evocation.

I guess it is possible you could do stupid shit on it lol maybe don't do it in a crowded area.

I feel like a dog would help with the ordeal but I'm not in a position to own a dog unfortunately.

I have a small family and I can't say I'm particularly close to any of them, though I do see them regularly, particularly my grandmother.

Oh, haven't heard of it. Now it's a scam-ass landing page.

The music, and esoteric vibe lends well to a meandering story, so yeah, I also think it's pace is great, or more generally, that type of art (the anti-Blockbuster). There's some mystic, and religious aspects in the themes of .hack. I don't remember much as it's been 2 years, but regardless, finding those types of themes in media feels like finding an intriguing mini-conspiracy-theory you've never heard of before. Mini-conspiracy, because the ones that span the entire world, or their adjacent ones are overdone now: hollow Earth, hollow moon, hollow dildo Earth, gay reptile orgies + Hillary Clinton watches, hollowlive, idk.

You mentioning the fact you can't remember your first impressions of the .hack anime made me think. I'm only 21, and the memories of my first experiences with anime at 14 have almost completely faded. I barely remember my experiences with Blend S, my first anime, except the sweat cringe. If you know, you know. Passing it over to you, what was your first anime?

Thanks, been my avatar and desktop wallpaper since forever ;)

I'm mostly looking up investment ideas or gaming after work. Never thought I'd be attached to investing but it's basically a necessity to grow wealth and seems way more interesting than watching an endless amount of fictional stories that no longer affect my worldview. That said, I still watch films and lots of short form content every month. The latter being highly dangerous in ruining any resemblance of productivity.

Was dothackers.net the forum? I've browsed it a few times, and it was popular in the past, so I'm just taking a shot in the dark.

Hm, what was your experience with watching Sign, and Liminality at the time? Because for me, Sign isn't as thematically forthright, and introspection-inducing as Liminality's final episode, but one scene does stick in my mind, enhanced by the slow pace of the show: the characters think about the possible existence of two opposing entities that presumably exist in some sort of mutual panentheism, and it created this feeling of an entirely separate, and spiritually-dualistic world in my mind alongside existential dread due to my considerations about that type of stuff in real life. It's the ultimate immersion to feel existential dread from a show's worldbuilding, so it's doing something right if it can do so. In a way, that feeling's really introspection-inducing, but I especially love thematic clarity, and precision that ties to a fundamental aspect of reality, like how Liminality drills into the concept of liminality in it's final episode. It doesn't have to wrap itself up, but can introduce these questions about that fundamental thing in reality, and leave them to the viewer for me to like it.

Wall o' texto supreme. People usually don't like passion, so hopefully, you don't mind. Feels sad even typing that.

Thanks. What was your experience with getting into .hack?

Yea I feel that. So many random bills. And everything just gets more expensive.

I would consider myself mentally ill but I don't know if I could define it on paper. Is that what you mean? Like you feel there is something wrong and unsettling within you but also, it's not something you can articulate on a piece of paper. I don't think happiness is overrated but I agree with the rest of what you're saying. Happiness feels good. Feeling good is the best part of being alive imo.

Yes they do. A life full of family, friends, accomplishment, and romance is way better than virtually stimulating your pleasure centers, but I'm still gonna saturate myself in it lmao I'm terrible.

Dissociation is a good place to start, but yea, way more intense. Your sense of self is completely gone on DMT. It's very much akin to dying. I think it's a positive experience to go through as it provides perspective on what being alive means. And yea, I consume a lot of weed. I usually vape about a gram of dispo flower a day so edibles barely affect me. I remember how 50mgs would destroy me 10 years ago. But I've been a massive stoner since my early 20s so it is what it is.

You probably will freak out. What's wrong with freaking out? I remember a long time ago trying salvia for the first time. My entire reality was ripped a part and I was shot into space, then a giant yellow bus started zooming by and in the windows were my memories. Then I woke up in a dark, abandoned grocery store and every time I moved, reality would shift in an insanely uncomfortable away. I absolutely freaked. And then I did it again haha

I feel myself growing lonelier as time goes on tbh. I felt on top of the world when we broke up but it didn't last lol.
Do you have a big family?

And the first few anime series. And the novels, and manga. I binged almost everything in Season 1 at the time, except Another Birth, and ZERO, then I just stopped.

Never know when an accident will occur. No emergency fund is like playing Pokemon w/ no potions. I hope you're able to get into a better situation soon.

What is "fucked in the head"? And what is "not fucked in the head"? I think a lot of people have this grandiose idea on what happiness and stability look like, but I also think what most people are picturing is a capitalist facade. A lot of people associate money with happiness. It never should have been like that, but I'm starting to ramble now.

On a biological level, we're wired to crave pleasure, and true VR will make pleasure more accessible. We see this currently in society with addiction. If we can map our entire brain and tweak it virtually, we can experience anything we want, including any form of pleasure. That's my main concern, personally; but also, what I'm looking forward to the most. I want what will ruin me. But yea, there would also be dissociative ramifications. If we can replicate reality, then what is reality? That's pretty much the basis for simulation theory. If we are able to create a self-contained universe, that means we are in a self-contained universe.

It's really difficult to articulate ego death to someone who has not experienced it. The best comparison I can make is: You know when you're really hungry or really tuckered out and you start to feel absent-minded and your body grows numb? Kind of like you're dissolving into the background. Or when you're really tired and you feel your mind (not your body) start to drift? That's where ego death begins. Edibles can definitely manipulate your sense of time but it's different than what I'm talking about. Speaking of edibles, I have 4 bags of edible gummies in my fridge. I bought a bunch recently, but alas, nope. I can eat 200mg and still barely get there. Fml lol.

That's what a lot of people say, they want to do them with someone. That's not a bad idea but I think a lot of good can come from doing them alone because it forces you to come to terms with yourself without relying on other people.

I go to my relatives for Christmas but I don't do anything for New Years. My ex and I broke up in summer (together for 7 years), and I'm still adapting to everything lol How about yours? Celebrate New Years?

Are you saying that you're struggling to get by financially or emotionally? You don't have to feel like you're dumping anything on me. I personally don't enjoy the thought of getting up nearly every day to feed the machine, but alas, here I am...feeding the machine...lol
I've read plenty of simulation stories to know that we'd all just be doing drugs in VR. That's a shift we would have to adapt to. Once you have the ability to virtually experience anything, how do you go back to normal?
It's not forever, but it's not like you feel time pass either. The concept of anything, including time, doesn't exist, because your ego disappears during the trip. The blastoff is instant ego death. It is scary for sure but they're not all like that. Shrooms are far gentler. And don't say never, maybe the right opportunity just hasn't come up yet.

Thanks bro, the list hasn't been updated in years by this point as I rarely watch anime now. I'd probably add Friren if I have the motivation to watch anime again.

It's not meaningless if it pays the bills and I have definitely heard some warehouse jobs are good. Are you unionized?
The existential consequences are what interest me the most; the shift in perspective would be insane.
Yea that's how it felt. The dream was easily a decade+ ago but I still remember it vividly. I've had some very trippy dreams but none that seriously manipulated my sense of time like that specific one.
There's not really enough time to have a bad trip, lasts maybe 10 minutes at the most. Ayahuasca is the 4 hour version, ain't doing that lmao.
Happy new year!