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I got way back into Skyrim recently, and excluding the minor motion sickness, it's been really enjoyable. I actually started the main quest, so now dragons randomly show up when I decide to trek from city-to-city instead of fast travel. I also got better at stealing, so I'm not broke all the time anymore. I found out you can marry whoever you want too, so I married Brelyna and aside from her being hung up on that trip to Saarthal you go on when you join the Mage's College in Winterhold, it's been gr8. (I really like her voice actress, so it's disappointing she doesn't have a larger variety of voiced lines, but maybe I just haven't unlocked all of them yet since I'm not done with all the Mage College quests) I haven't explored most of the western and northern half of the map (haven't been to Dawnstar, Markarth, and Morthal yet), but I went to Solitude to join the Bard's College, and it's hands down my favorite city architecturally speaking. I wish there were more wood elf NPCs though. Since I'm playing as a wood elf, it's always cool to run into other bosmer, and maybe their scarcity is what makes finding one somewhat rewarding, but I still wish there were more of them.

Time for some "I found out..." 'not necessarily fun' fun facts: -While up to 1 in 7 new mothers experience postpartum depression, up to 1 in 4 new fathers also experience postnatal depression (or around that many at least. I also saw 1 in 3 and 1 in 10) ~ -As of 2014, nearly half a million US households don't have complete indoor plumbing ~ -If a well-liked wolf leaves its pack, the howls of the wolves remaining in the pack have sometimes been interpreted to mean "I miss you" ~ -An estimated 6 million animals are dissected in US high schools annually. The most commonly dissected animals are frogs, cats, and fetal pigs. ~ -At any given time, there are somewhere between 25 - 50 active serial killers in the US ~ -There is a correlation between low-birth-weight, birth complications and left-handedness ~ -During the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the sisters at the Sisters of Charity Orphanage used clothesline to tether 6 - 8 children to themselves in attempt to keep the children together as much as possible as the dormitory they were sheltering in deteriorated and eventually collapsed ~ -The deadliest recorded earthquake was the 1556 earthquake in Shaanxi, China. Around 830,000 people were killed or injured ~ -Though there are ideas on what to do should the problem arise, NASA has no official protocol on what to do if one of their astronauts dies in space ~

I learned that if you're anxious enough, you can pull all nighters with ease. I don't recommend this

Animal Crossing New Leaf Finally hit 500 hours played today, my friend who I haven't talked to in a long time came online while I was playing and we got to talk for a bit, and I convinced the villager (Bruce) visiting my campsite to move in. Was overall a good day Animal Crossing-wise

I don't intend this to be passive aggressive or patronizing or anything, and I apologize if it comes across that way at any point I apologize, I didn't do a good job getting my thoughts across. My post was intended to be more about how odd it is that something as asinine as an internet meme was getting attention from nationally accredited news sources, and not so much about the legitimacy of being it being labelled a hate symbol. 10 years ago when Peanut Butter Jelly Time was at the height of its popularity, no one would've predicted that something in the same realm as that would ever become associated with anything political. It's just an weird thing to happen all around. As for the integrity of modern mainstream journalism, I can't really comment. Most probably wouldn't disagree that there is some degree of bias in today's journalism, but just how much/how little bias is present, and how common it is is difficult to pinpoint (and a matter of perspective). Regarding clickbait, as disliked as it is, it works. It's a shame multiple news sources have to resort to it, but it's commonplace for a reason. To add one last thing though because it sort of bugged me: regardless of your opinion of Trump, it's pretty damning to have him admit to displaying sexually predatory behavior because he believes he has enough power/influence to get away with it. Even if it was tongue in cheek, that doesn't make it any more ok to say stuff of that nature since it sends a potentially very dangerous message to his supporters and anyone else who may have been listening :/ (This next part isn't necessarily directed at you, but more so at the people assuming the backlash was because of his poor word choice, and not the meaning of what he was saying) Regardless of his accusers and their credibility, it's kind of naive to act like the things he says aren't capable of affecting how a large number of people think. I think anyone that's a household name saying anything like that is deserving of a day or two of scrutiny since their words hold a lot of weight to some people. --------------- forgot my obligatory meme contribution: here's an oldie but goodie

I made myself some pancakes I managed to not mess them up, so they tasted fine for the most part, but the recipe I was using's smallest measurements was for 6-8 pancakes, and that's too much for one person... I ate 4 though--and the first 3 were great! but the last one was lightly peppered with a dash of regret and also syrup

Capture the Flag. You need at least 10 people for it to be enjoyable, but it's the most fun if you have like 16 or so people willing to play. It's really hard to get that many people together play though, and you also need a good amount of space to play. I really want to play it again though ------------ What websites were your favorites when you were younger?

Dear anonymous, You're not omniscient, please give it a rest. --me ---------------- Dear anons, plz stop sharing your political opinions despite no one asking i literally dont care that you think taxation is stealing, or that you hate certain politicians it was tolerable the first few times, but it got old real fast, and you have yet to stop i just want to doodle in peace --the person who sits in front of you

Not to get too political, but on the front page on NBC News right now, there's a 100% serious article titled "It's Not Easy Being Mean: 'Pepe' Creator Wants His Meme Back" because the Anti-Defamation League declared Pepe a hate symbol recently. There's even a short video at the bottom of the article called "Pepe the Frog's Journey: From Internet Meme to Hate Symbol" What even is 2016

I went to the DMV/BMV and found out I didn't have all the proper documents with me to be able to take the test to get my learner's permit. I also learned that my middle name is spelled wrong on some important documents of mine. My parents and I went out of breakfast this morning too and that was nice I guess. I ate too much and feel gross, but the food was gr8

beats me, dude. This is an anime forum, not /r/explainlikeimfive ------------- Got any guilty pleasures? If so, care to share what they are?

@Akazora Because you won't be doing a Fall First Impressions, what shows will you be watching this coming season? (If any at all. It sounds like your free time is thin and far between at the moment.) ---------- I'm still working through my spring and summer stuff, but that's not important ...I'm actually really looking forward to this fall's anime. There's the 2nd season of Hibike Euphonium, 2nd season of Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (the first ep was pretty hype tbh), the 3rd season of Haikyuu, and the 5th season of Natsume Yuujinchou. There's also some really neat looking new series like 3-Gatsu no Lion, Udon no Kuni Kiniro Kenmari, future anime of the season Gakuen Handsome, and, the one I'm most curious about, Yuri on Ice. (I'm glad they're finally making an ice skating anime, but I'm really surprised it's an all/mostly male cast. My sister was a figure skater all throughout her middle school and high school years, so I spent a lot of time at ice rinks and even messing around on skates myself, and there were very few boys, and the few there were all (except one or two) interested in hockey. I thought if any sports anime was likely to have an all/mostly female cast, it'd be ice skating, but uh. . . . . n ope, apparently not,,, Hopefully it won't suck and will have nice, fluid animation, because irl ice skating's pretty graceful and somewhat mesmerizing imo, and I'll be really disappointed if they aren't able to capture that even slightly. The pv looked pretty good, so hopefully the anime itself will be good as well.)

Assuming it doesn't just up and leave the area for good, I won't consider it a loss until it runs away from me (or if it ends up being <100 CP). I managed to catch a vulpix and ponyta will looking for it, so I can't complain too much anyway. I'm a bit jealous you caught one so early on though. If you play PG during lunch when do you eat then...? I'm tempted to at least try to track it down one lunch period. I'll be graduating in a few weeks, plus it'll probably start getting cold around October, so I might have to head over there soon,,, And does "ran into" imply that you encountered one, but it ran away? Also, what level are you?

...and with this, I'm back as the last poster B^)

..what happened?