Successfully argued my thesis last week. I've got to teach an actual course that utilizes it (need it for the rhetoric component of the college's postgrad program) -- but it's lit homies. It'll be published in the college's quarterly journal this September and it's a refresher on the good old Godard...

It was never explicitly said it was a date and I hesitate to call it one in case she might not want to call it such, despite the fact that I really really want it to be. I was very awkward in asking and I compliment her fairly often. She's definitely a smart cookie, but still I'm left curious think...

As a person who probably had one of the more tumultuous relationships with the man, this really broke me up. Wish nothing but the best for his family, and his legacy here will always be as a titan of discussion in the glory days of this site. He's done more for the understanding of the series and th...

Well still no response. I don't think that I'd be a pest by messaging again, but on the same token, if she wanted to respond I'm sure she would do so. I wouldn't be so quick to assume. I was juggling 3 partners last year and it was a bit of a hassle to keep up with all the messages while teaching/w...

In a (Probably useless) update, I am possibly meeting up with the girl who I met in the summer for Presidents Day weekend. I keep thinking, is this the right moment to ask if she wants to go out with me, or should I wait until we see each other for a third time? My mind is going with the former, bu...

Sachi#856781 wrote:P.S. My shoes are still tied, and I swear I might still be a little drunk.

That's probably a hangover, guy. You sleep at all yet?

That's true, but even so if the word of the writer isn't reliable there isn't much to be said on the matter. Anything he says is dismissed, and no one else is in a position to know better, so the discussion winds up going nowhere fast. Personally I think it'd be a lot more interesting to ask why he...

https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Rebellion_Material_Book#Message_from_Gen_Urobuchi_.28Screenplay.29 Random posters on Japan's equivalent of 4chan are not authorities. If you're going to take their word over that of the person who actually wrote the movie, there's no discussion to be had here. Gen would...

Heaven forfend that dub-only peasants should share an interest with sub-only elites! </sarcasm> I'm reminded of the passage in the Inferno where Virgil tells Dante that "the 20th circle is for dub peasants" where they are pelted with Squig's opinions as they try in vain to enjoy the lates...

I helped set up a college anime club, only for it to immediately become populated by mumbling turbo-autists and dub-only peasants. On top of that, the member of staff facilitating the thing has basically ruled that we're only watching dubbed stuff now in the name of "accessibility". And g...

WRT Rebellion: Setting aside that the entire movie would be pointless if not for the ending that it was clearly designed around to begin with, you're spreading a meme that flat-out isn't true. There was no forced change or corporate interference. Urobuchi wasn't sure how to develop things past the ...

I'm lowkey mad V never stole my montage analysis and claimed it was his. Gotta step my game up.

The only real answer to this is KonoSuba.

Obviously K-ON! is already a classic so that would be my only other addendum

I was considering this at length about two hours ago and then thought it was stupid and my anecdotal reference was useless here but now I'm starting to think otherwise. In the West we have a sort of preconceived hand-signal that denotes masturbation -- a single hand moving up and down an imaginary c...

All joking aside was coming back something you'd been thinking about for awhile or was it more spur of the moment? You've been gone long enough I'd have thought we would have become little more then a distant memory to you. Something you would have very little connection to anymore, if any at all. ...

He was, but then he came back with a long, thoughtful request for clemency with a convincing argument that he had something to offer the community. Could've jazzed it up with "and Ran1 wished really hard in bed every night upon shooting stars found with a telescope he stole from Patrick Batema...

https://youtu.be/eHE1WSTKY1M I'm beginning a new 3 part Analysis/critique of the Evangelion Rebuild films. This is the first part, which is just a general look at how the piece of art has undergone change. I've been planning on making some longer omnibus post about this later on, but I do want to c...

Welcome back, ran1! :highfive: Honestly thought you were still permabanned. Glad I was wrong. You were completely before my time, but nonetheless, welcome back. Welcome back! Like all great modernist ideologies, I'm dug up when the time is right. JustCrazyGuy + Lill you two are truFam #SquadGoals S...

Finally getting around to LOVE EXPOSURE. Everything I've read about this movie was right. High contender for one of my all time favorite movies. Welcome to the cult familia. ___ While I was in the wilderness and researching, I finally got around to watching the work of most of Japanese New Wave dir...