Lurker > TexasZea

the main reason people read slow is that they tend to actually vocalize the words in their head which isn't necessary. it's really hard to just stop doing this but the idea is you want to just look at the words and comprehend with your eyes instead of actually taking the time to sound each word out like you would if you were reading outloud.

for paper books, I find putting my finger directly on the page right below the line and moving it as I read helps. obviously, you have to trace it at a slow enough pace that you can read it but yeah. you'll probably be surprised at how much this helps.

if I'm reading on my kindle fire (this one is probably really unappealing,) I turn on the text to speech robot voice and set it to a fast speed. it reads faster than I would be able to verbally but also slow enough that I can keep up and comprehend what's going on provided I'm following along with the text. I actually think the finger thing would work for regular kindles too unless they have touchscreens now.

I hope this helps. I started doing these mostly because my attention drifts when reading but the faster speed is a nice bonus.
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not really feeling this
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I thought most of the stuff on TT was actually hosted on nyaa?
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I think some kid in 3rd grade told me "the penis goes in the vagina" or something like that. I didn't actually understand beyond that until sometime in middle school I think. there were years where I just thought you put your dick in once, pulled out, and it was over.
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has kizumonogatari 2 not been subbed yet?
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never played 1 but have a lot of nostalgia for 2 and warped so I'm looking forward to this
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+10 th3l3fty
+9 Eddv
+8 Steiner
+7 MrSmartGuy
+6 Shaduln
+5 HanOfTheNekos
+4 Whiskey_Nick
+3 VeryInsane
+2 digi
+1 WiggumFan267
GP: th3l3fty
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yeah, it's funny even if it's FAKE NEWS
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XFD
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mnkboy907 posted...

Gatarix posted...

There was an error posting your message:
You can have a maximum of 7 @profDEADPOOL in your message - please edit some out

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known madoka, monogatari, jojo, and steins;gate hater reg
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another thing to consider is that JDPizza is unemployed and presumably can dedicate at least 8 hours a day to working on his bracket
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definitely interesting points by both you and mana. I honestly never even thought about how each kid had their own mentor and how they affected them in different ways. I don't think I'm really qualified to judge this aspect of the show as totally realistic or not but... I don't think it's a stretch to say at least three kids in the history of baltimore have been screwed by their circumstances. I also don't think it's necessarily right to talk about the kids as if their lives are over with the way the ending being cyclical in general. there are adult characters like bubbles and cutty that ultimately do succeed and escape. at the age those kids are at, I do think it would be more unrealistic if they overcame their problems through their own abilities.

also, you should watch kaiji season 2/read part 2 if you haven't yet... I'm not sure if what you said is even really the message of the overall series but I guess I could be wrong.
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GuessMyUserName posted...

Also I recently discovered that @agesboy is still on GameFAQs. I thought he became a real-lifer but it turns out he just reverted back to PotD :|

wut da hayle
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I feel like so many people go through life, especially while still young, just assuming however they feel about something is the same for everyone. at least that's how I feel about myself and your post gave me that impression of you too. I've realized over the past few years that it's important to communicate thoughts like these even though they feel so normal to us. like personally, I don't even stop and think about what I'm feeling sometimes, let alone tell other people about it. I just by default think that whatever I'm feeling is "normal" and usually out in the open for other people to recognize which is just not the case at all.

a few years ago, I did a topic where I talked about everyone who had ever been a regular in b8anime/the anime topics. that was the title of the topic anyway but I said something in the OP about how other friends I had here could post. really, I only said that with you and santa in mind but neither of you posted. I probably should have just made the title less exclusionary but aside from anime people and you two, I don't have much substantial to say about people here because I just haven't interacted with anyone else on that level. anyway, I didn't really realize how much my online friends meant to me until I did that topic. going along with what I said in the first paragraph, I sometimes have to actually communicate what I'm feeling to even fully realize it myself. best thing about that topic was whitelens steam gifting me because my writeup made him feel better about himself. and I just think that stuff is amazing. by default, I feel like I'm just some dude on a message board but I know I have a skill in relating to other people and if that helps them feel better about themselves, that's pretty much the best thing I could ask for.

anyway, I do think making friendships that are both meaningful and lasting is hard, especially if you have those kinds of feelings about it. I didn't feel this way in the moment but looking back, I always blamed myself for us falling out and I felt bad because I knew how important our friendship was to you. I think much of our early friendship focusing on helping you out is a bit unusual but I don't think it was unhealthy either. I think the idea that I was helping someone made me feel important at a time where I wasn't feeling great either. but I mean, we had enough to talk about and a connection to become really good friends so it's not like that was the only thing keeping me involved with you. we had fun.

I guess some people have the type of personality where they'll stay in a relationship or friendship that they don't really enjoy but that's me. I never felt like I was obligated to you or anything like that if that's how you feel.

you're still on AIM all the time though right? I will IM you tonight or tomorrow or soon. (I'm not sure what's going to go on for me for the next few days because uh my best friend's girlfriend just died in a car accident last night and I'm still processing that. I barely knew her but I'm feeling terrible for his sake right now. frankly, it was an awful relationship and none of his friends or family approved of it which for me makes it sort of a stranger situation.)
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damn I need to remember to track all of these topics...

anyway GMUN I'm not sure how you are feeling now but I just want to express something. I think I'm very good at reading other peoples' feelings so sometimes I assume people are good at reading mine and so some stuff goes without saying but I've learned this is pretty erroneous. anyway, I think you are awesome. I'm not sure if you remember my real life circumstances when we became friends but let me remind you. we started talking at the very end of the summer in between my senior year of high school and first year of college. I wasn't going to a far college at all but my mom insisted I try living in a dorm my first year. (I could have fought my way out of this but eh, I guess part of me wanted to try branching out too and she was willing to pay for it.) I found living away from home and my family pretty depressing. I imagine you feel similarly now and it fucking sucks. I was also not really in a great mental state in general at the time so living in an unfamiliar territory didn't make it any better.

anyway, I wasn't really super into gamefaqs or much online stuff in general at this point. pretty much my first night living on campus, I realized how the internet was like the one constant between being home and in the dorm. it became a source of extreme comfort and an escape from this weird new life I wasn't feeling. by the end of my undergrad career, I had made zero friends in college but a ton of online friends. I only lived in the dorm for one year but for that one year, you were virtually my only friend in real life or online. my real life best friend was going to a school much farther away (and we had already been drifting at this point.) my brother and other friends had gotten into partying which I had zero interest in. I wanted people who were still into video games and other nerdy shit man.

to say I was obsessed with talking to you everyday would probably be an understatement. I wasn't that much into anime yet, I wasn't playing many video games at the time. I wasn't talking to anybody else regularly. talking to you was like my main hobby. I had never talked to anyone online before on a personal level, let alone made a friend so it was a crazy new world. I think getting so into the internet in college, even when I was back living at home, was pretty detrimental to my social development but considering my mental state at the time, it was either making online friends or being lonely.

I know you've never been a very social person, even less then than now, and I'm not really all that different. I got lucky to have become close friends with children of my mom's friends which is pretty much cheating. none of the friends I made in elementary school through college really stuck. you're really the first true friend I made as a sentient being and not a toddler.

I'm probably rambling.. I know you were in a rough patch with the pikaness situation at the time and if I helped you overcome that at all, that makes me happy. I got a lot out of our friendship too.

I'm really sorry about our falling out and I take full responsibility for it. I have no good explanation for why I could be such an asshole but part of it was being afraid of being seen as vulnerable which I think is just shit. I've made a lot of online friends in the past nine years but looking back, I still think you were my closest one and meant the most to me. I'm still on AIM all the time (invisible usually) so if you ever need or to talk, I'm there. (I'm about to go to bed now though just to let you know.)

in any case, thank you for being my friend and being there for me, you honestly made my life better.
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I used to watch movies and anime with my friend a lot and whenever there was a dramatic scene, I always noticed him looking at me

I guess he wanted to see if I was crying or something
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oh ok
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https://myanimelist.net/news/50383203

@Mac_Arrowny
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I have never set foot in texas
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th3l3fty posted...

TexasZea posted...

aqua >

if ever there were an example to emphasize how our tastes are drifting apart, this is it

I'm actually somewhat surprised you like the series at all!
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finished konosuba season 1, I agree that it got kind of worse as it went on but was still always good. was the succubus episode the one you guys called weak? that was probably the worst I thought.

aqua > megumin > kazuma > darkness

probably start season 2 tomorrow
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cromartie high school
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I watched the first four episodes of konosuba season 1 yesterday, pretty funny stuff
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I finished rakugo season 2. I thought this was better than season 1. (I'm not into either as much as most people who have watched it though.) favorite episode was the one at the kindergarten and the ending was nice too.

gonna watch konosuba next
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wait

LapisLazuli posted...

it was supposed to have some kind of deeper meaning and proves that the author really is just a siscon.

who in the blue hell ever thought otherwise
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Plus the rakugo segments were kinda boring. Makes sense that the artform died out.

LMAO
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I actually have watched some stuff recently though... watched a few shows with my brother such as one punch man which I read but had never seen. easily some of the greatest animation of all time. I'm rewatching season 1 of titan with him too and today I watched the first two episodes of season 2 by myself. I don't really remember the end of 1 that well so it might have been a good idea to wait until we finish the rewatch but eh, it's not like I was confused by anything that happened. bigfoot seems like a pretty cool guy.

also watched episode 1 of the no regrets OVA since I never watched it and remembered it existed. it was decent, I figure 2 will be better.
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scum's wish is great

(the manga, I don't watch anime much anymore so sorry for not recommending anything)
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-Preoccupation with the Internet - sure

-Use of the Internet in increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction - no

-Repeated, unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back or stop Internet use. - never tried

-Feelings of restlessness, moodiness, depression, or irritability when attempting to cut down use of the Internet. - never tried

-On-line longer than originally intended. - used to happen all the time but not that often anymore

-Jeopardized or risked loss of significant relationships, job, educational or career opportunities because of Internet use. - when I became a hermit in undergrad, that probably really hurt other areas of my life

-Lies to family members, therapists, or others to conceal the extent of involvement with the Internet. - never

-Use of the Internet is a way to escape from problems or to relieve a dysphoric mood. - definitely in the past, probably sometimes now too? like if I listen to music when I'm in a bad mood on youtube or spotify, does that fit this?

I'm curious when/where these criteria are from since like profit said, the internet is an important part of life now and it wasn't as much 10+ years ago or so. like if you're pre-occupied waiting for an important email related to work or school, does that count for the first criteria?

my gut says I definitely used to be addicted to the internet mainly because of the point where it negatively affected other areas of my life. I'm probably still dealing with the consequences of that to an extent but I don't feel like I'm addicted to it anymore even though it's a pretty major part of my life. I guess it depends on how you define some of these points though.
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I loved tari tari!
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I wasn't really into the show much at any point

I think I dropped it around episode 20 or something
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tazzyboyishere posted...

Anyway, watch Scum's Wish. It's really fucking good.

wake up sheeple
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LapisLazuli posted...

Listen, the number of times I end up being right about a show's quality by its completion is like 1/5 on a good day, you let me have this.

Called it. Told you so. Vindicated. Yet another thing I was ahead of the curve on. As usual, LtM Was Right.
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SantaRPidgey posted...

MariaTaylor posted...

I would probably just say "the kind-of fat guy with a beard" if I was trying to refer someone to you and did not know your name

race isn't something I think about much unless other people bring it up first

hey remember that time I convinced you I was black

are you sure this wasn't just me

because it was definitely at least me
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oh alright, I'll keep going for now then. thanks guys.
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how different are the other routes from A? I beat A the other day, loved it, but a few hours into B now and it being so similar is really making it feel like a grind...
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nier > horizon > zelda

only actually finished horizon so far though
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Eddv posted...

It sounds like after patches itll go right back to being a 8 or 9 out of 10

yeah, this is why I'm probably gonna wait for awhile
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I really debated cancelling my pre-order but I didn't

might not get to it after persona anyway
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Um, how come nobody in this topic watched The Disastrous Life of Saiki K? It seemed reasonably popular in general, and I just started watching it and it's really funny and good.

I think kokoro had it ranked fairly high on his 2016 anime list
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Mac Arrowny posted...

I watched one episode and thought it sucked

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cash

both are great though
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hendrix
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special education teacher
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I think I liked iori more but was still shipping the main character with inaba anyway
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dang well I guess it's a good thing I rescinded my godspeed nom with your "dead time" complaints
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tazzyboyishere posted...

Is it the common consensus that it peaks in Soul Society?

yeah
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Eddv posted...

I just finished GTO

That was pretty great - I enjoyed how full circle things came where Onizuka spent the first One Shot hitting on students and then having the final arc be about that.

cool man. the anime? that last arc thing doesn't sound familiar to me.
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tazzyboyishere posted...

Well I stopped the anime in the Bount arc I think. Not even at Soul Society in the manga (Was reading because I forgot a lot of stuff).

so the question you need to ask yourself is if you're ok with slogging through the rest of the series if it peaks pretty early with soul society, never reaches that level again, and progressively gets worse overall
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