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You need to get out more stay inside more. You're missing out on a ton of stuff. Anime has really changed these past few years. -- Toradora! Finally got around to finishing this, and I guess it was alright. The animation is consistent and occasionally the sakuga is superb. The romance was decent, but I like it less than Nagi no Asukara's. The characters in Toradora were a little too extreme and little too annoying for a slice of life like this. The music was good, and while the pacing felt off for the first half of the series the second half was solid. All in all, I really want to give it a 6.5, but MAL doesn't allow that. I'm in a generous mood, so a 7 it is. Unless you're a sucker for SOL romances, I'd recommend you stay away. There's nothing too memorable about it, though it's definitely not bad for an introductory anime. Not sure what I'll be watching next. The Disney trip will get in the way of things, so I suppose I'll wait and choose something once I'm back.

We kinda are the cause of this mass extinction. Even if it’s not through direct means like outright pouching and slaughter, it’s through other means like deforestation, territory encroachment, pollution, and accidentally introducing invasive species among other things. And this leads into your question. I might as well have just said Nazi instead of Aryan, but I figured you at least knew what the Holocaust was. Nazis considered Aryans the master race and enacted mass genocide on Jews, Gypsies, the mentally and physically disabled, and anyone who got in their way. Total death count was about 11 million, give or take. The Nazi and Aryans wouldn’t have been affected by this manslaughter for the sole reason that they’re the ones causing it, in the same way humans aren't also a part of this extinction because we're causing it. The impact theory is wildly regarded by most, laymen and scientists alike, to be true. Years ago there was a huge debate and “How did the dinos die?” was a common discussion/learning topic amongst even elementary schoolers. However, recently there have been more discoveries and data collected and scientists can say fairly certainly an asteroid did indeed kill the dinosaurs. It was kind of big news; I remember seeing articles and television reports and documentaries celebrating the end to an age long question. No one knows anything for absolute certain, that’s impossible of course without a time machine, so some may still try to argue against the impact theory, but those people are in the minority. It was widely debated years ago, but definitely not today. Potentially using nukes or spaceships to deflect/destroy incoming asteroids is pretty common knowledge nowadays, I would think, so yeah I’ve heard of it. The problem is, you put way too much faith in theory and numbers than you do in reality. Can we shoot asteroids out of the sky? Oh sure, simple. If a big one is coming, we have sensors that can detect it 10-20 years in advance, which is just enough time to pull together funds and a program to construct the nuke/spaceship, launch it, and successfully knock that sucker out of here. But see, that’s not how life fundamentally works. Everything is peachy on paper, when you’re sitting comfortably at your desk crunching numbers. If everyone in the world was given $1,000 to donate to either feeding the world’s hungry children or funding research of asteroid destroying nukes, where’s most of the money going to go? You don’t even need to take a survey, it’s obvious what the answer is. An asteroid strike is not a threat right now. Large impacts the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs happen once every 100 million years. Ones that can destroy entire civilizations happen every 100,000 years, and ones the size of Tunguska occur every 300. A Tunguska sized asteroid hitting a populated area occurs every 3,000 years, and that area being an urban one would be at around 100,000 years. Small stones fall from the sky and may occasionally hit an unlucky soul here or there, but that amounts to about 100 dead a year. That’s nearly nothing in comparison to the millions that are dying of cancer, heart attack, suicide, and other medical conditions annually. Heck, you’d make more of a difference investing money in preventing aviation related deaths than asteroid related ones. The thing is, very few people in this world care about a potential asteroid strike. And a lot of those that do care aren’t going to go out of their way to donate to NASA or anything. Humans, as complex as you sometimes make them out to be, still follow the basic instincts of animals. We respond more readily and eagerly to problems we can relate to. Every human that lives and has ever lived knows what it’s like to go hungry. You’re always wondering what’s for dinner and wanting food on DCW, so don’t pretend you don’t. The thought of impoverished third world country residents starving every day garners sympathy and so we donate, have food drives and events, spread the word, and make some noise in an attempt to make a difference. Similarly, enough people personally know others afflicted by cancer or alcohol/drug abuse or depression or disabilities or have at least heard sob stories to feel that it’s worth the time and effort to fight these problems. These are all threats that have significantly more impact on a person’s everyday life than a rock in space. Furthermore, we procrastinate. Everyone procrastinates, and the collective conscience of humans isn’t any different. Setting up a defense line to prevent large asteroids from ever hitting Earth is so simple, so easy, so within reach. Yet the reaped rewards come hundreds of thousands of years later and with a deadline so far back no one feels pressured to start preparing now. It’s an easier problem than world hunger to fix no doubt, but our “superior” minds just don’t see that. Why invest in something as abstract as an asteroid hit? Scientists are all saying we shouldn’t worry, sooo… I guess I’ll give my money to impoverished Nigerian children then? My money is becoming medicine for those too poor to afford it, and when that medicine is given to the sickly it makes an active difference. If I wanted to, I could fly over and actually see the new life I have given. Now that’s rewarding is it not? If my money goes to building a nuke, to blow up asteroids, then it will just get lost in the millions and billions needed for research and testing. And I won’t be alive to see the smiles and thanks of the people thousands of years from now, if humans as a species even survive that long. Similarly to global warming, or rather climate change, the threat of an asteroid strike is so distant and so abstract and foreign that we aren’t hardwired to perceive it as anything more than a fleeting thought. Heck, you yourself are even starting to question the validity of climate change because it’s been preached for many years and yet there appears to be very little change in the world through your eyes. Even once we’re faced with imminent threat, do you honestly think humans will be able to come to an agreement on how to deal with an asteroid strike in the 10-20 years it takes to locate, prepare, and take down the danger? Countries argue every day how much should be invested in military spending, helping other countries who are going through tough financial times, dealing with international wars and terrorists, the list goes on. There is so much red tape in the political world, very little ever truly gets done. It’s always a balancing act of addressing issues and making promises (but not too many) and saving face and geez let’s not even get started with political rivalries. Politicians aren’t even the entire problem. Your everyday folk are an issue as well. Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue if it were ever revealed publically that an asteroid with the potential to wipe out humans was hurling our way? People would be demanding answers from politicians and scientists alike and I bet you my video game collection that they’ll say something along the lines of, “We cannot disclose anything at this time, but we assure you there is no need to worry.” With an unsatisfactory answer like that, rumors will start to spread, hearsay will be taken as fact, conspiracy theories will run wild, and the distrust level will be neck high, even if politicians announce that they will be building a nuke to blast the asteroid away. Some may YOLO their remaining time away, others may resort to suicide. People will point fingers and start to blame those that don’t deserve any blame and hate groups will form faster than ever before. Humans, for the first time in their entire existence, will be faced with a dilemma that literally nothing in the hundreds of thousands of years of their time on Earth will have prepared them for, and that’s actually knowing they could be the very last people ever to live. Even just hypothetically contemplating it right now cannot compare to actually experiencing it. And as for underground bunkers, seriously? You know there’s no way we’re going to fit seven billion people underground, and in the future that number's going to be even higher. With limited space and resources, what determines which people survive and which ones are left on the surface to face the hellhole that will be the aftereffects of the impact? Money? Status? Genetic and intellectual value? Roland Emmerich’s “2012” was pretty much just an unrealistic action flick, but it brought up some good points. The social uproar that would ensue from underground bunkers would be even greater than just knowing an asteroid is coming. I can’t believe I wrote that much just on knocking a rock out of the sky. I’ll try to keep this next bit as short as possible. Humans are probably one of the most, if not the most, intelligent animals ever to walk this Earth, sure that’s true. I’m not going to go and argue against that. However intelligence alone does not deem a species superior to every other. Physically, we’re fragile as porcelain. We can barely get over colds without the aid of medicine, otherwise we’d be reduced to a sniffling pile of blankets and snotty tissues. Even with medicine we’re many times walking around miserable. We don’t have any outer layer of protection save for skin. And seriously, paper can cut that. Turtles have shells while lobsters and insects have exoskeletons. Sharks have an amazing sense of smell and have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. Chameleons, octopi, and cuttlefish can change their color and in the cuttlefish’s case their skin texture to more readily hide from predators and/or to ambush prey. Others like the milk snake use Batesian mimicry to fool potential predators into thinking they are poisonous by resembling the venomous coral snake. Humans can only put on a costume and/or makeup and I guess hope for the best? Bats can practically see in the dark with echolocation, using sound waves to determine your surrounding area. Humans sometimes even have trouble just figuring out if someone is calling their name from their left or their right. The basilisk lizard can run on water, which only Jesus and magicians have accomplished. In terms of sheer number and reproduction, insects like ants have us beat. Cockroaches can survive nuclear blasts and tardigrades are so hardy they can be sent into the vacuum of space, brought back, and still live to tell the tale. Humans are inferior to other animals (and even plants) in nearly all aspects save for intellect. And a word of advice. Never ever claim to be too smart or too knowledgeable in some kind of false modesty. You come off as arrogant, and I know you’re a good person and all, but seriously that last part was uncalled for. There will always be someone better than you. I have typed enough for multiple debates. I’m done here. Feel free to counter if you’d like, but I won’t be replying back because this just takes way too much work.

I thought I watched a lot of anime, but goodness I can still watch movies in English without subs. If anything, they'd be more distracting since I'd be always trying to read ahead. -- OMM: Finally, after redoing all the steps to remove a mistake I didn't realize I had made, I've RNG abused a shiny Timid Latios with perfect IVs in Sp. Atk and Speed. I-it's so beautiful. And just in time as well; I'll be EV training and leveling it up during the Disney trip, along with the rest of my shiny Battle Tower dream team.

Whoops, I didn't mean to come off as salty. MKay's statement was just so blatantly misled I felt I needed to put him straight, no offense to him. I guess I may have come off as a bit too aggressive. I was going to type even more, like about the added difficulty of giving birth without surgeries or doctors or sanitation, as well as the loss of hundreds of years of information and art and knowledge via destruction of books for fire, but I didn't want to ramble any more than I already had......................

I've been anticipating Smash 4 for as long as I can remember, and so in the many years leading up to its reveal I've been stalking each and every site I could find to get info on it, even it mostly was just speculation and baseless hype. Occasionally, odd things were posted and I couldn't help but save them, ahah. XC's music is awesomesauce. I remembering hearing it before Smash 4 came out and thought "Damn, I need to get this game." But once I checked the price tag and realized it took hundreds of hours to get through, I decided nahh wasn't worth it. A lot of their tracks are in Smash anyway. Xenoblade's OST is always top notch. Other series in Smash have a decent amount of standout songs like Mega Man, Street Fighter, Fire Emblem, Pokemon, Kid Icarus, Baten Kaitos Origins, and Mario, but Xenoblade Chronicles always has a consistently solid score. Makes playing on Gaur Plains an absolute pleasure. OMM: Looking forward to this Disney trip, but it's really wrecking my schedule.

I'm sorry man, I usually don't like to start with stuff like this because it can be time consuming and a hassle, but I couldn't resist. Humans are going to survive this 6th mass extinction? Well, no duh, it's because we're causing it. Wow, isn't it crazy how the Aryans weren't killed in the Holocaust? Gee, just goes to show how collectively intelligent and capable they are! They definitely one-upped dem gypsies and Jews, didn't they? Us "surviving" has nothing to do with our innate skill or prowess. Also, this is nothing at all like how the dinosaurs went out. They were hit by an asteroid that caused worldwide megatsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and wildfires. The emitted dust particles caused a dramatic drop in temperatures and disrupted photosynthesis. If that asteroid were to hit Earth today, humans would be royally screwed. All forms of electronic communication would end, never to be repaired. Forget trying to communicate with anyone more than a few miles away from you, because don't expect the gas in your car to last very long. There would cease to be order. Politicians? Policemen? Who cares? No one is there to enforce the laws. Money would be worthless. Food and shelter go a lot farther than just coins and paper. Mass produced animals and crops that have been acclimated to rely to humans would eventually perish and we'd start struggling to find food. With our over reliance on technology, no one has any street smarts. Wikipedia won't be there to tell you which berries are poisonous and how to start a fire in subzero temperatures. You're injured and need a doctor? Your stomach is giving you cramps and you don't know why? Well, it's a shame all the doctors are dead and the CVS down the street was raided well in advance. And I'm sure you'll have all the supplies you'll need to purify your own water, right? Cause last I checked water was pretty damn important. It will be every man for himself, and there would be no shortage of troubles. All those third world countries that rely on superpowers to supply aid after a single earthquake strikes today would be wiped away if an asteroid the size of the Chicxulub one were to hit. When thousands of those earthquakes happening simultaneously, no one's going to send the Red Cross anywhere. Even if humans do manage to miraculously make it through an impact of that scale, the genetic pool would have been drastically diminished and they wouldn't have managed by just holding hands and singing Kumbaya. You'd be gravely mistaken in thinking humans are any less fragile than any of the species that have come and gone before us, especially the dinosaurs. They lived for 165 million years, and we've only been here for 200 thousand.

12 Angry Men would like to have a word with you.

But Interstellar was just another Europa Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbw9hlBnG74

Given spring anime end late June while summer anime start early July, I'm willing to bet that the manga industry uses similar terminology and that DC will start up again in early July.

Ahh, so your sister is into those types of guys, ehh? Show her this, she'll love it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJu40f2IbHI Sasuga Kenzi, finding orgo to not be too bad, haha. Whether or not you walk in there with confidence, I wish you luck! I never took AP Chem because I heard the class was brutal. Only a handful of my friends did, but I'm not too sure how well/poorly they handled the orgo unit. Yeah, Nintendo completely lost this year's E3. There wasn't much new stuff, and the new stuff that was revealed didn't look very interesting. They're getting a ton of hate right now on YouTube (that Metroid trailer is getting an insane amount of dislikes and the Animal Crossing for Wii U trailer is no better), though I don't think all of it is warranted. They're always airing surprise Nintendo Directs throughout the year, all of which are jam packed with a ton of hype stuff, which Microsoft and Sony don't do, so it kinda balances out. And hey, we got the Nintendo Word Championships. The thing is, investors only pay attention to E3 given how big of an event it is, so in the public's eye Nintendo failed. Also, rip in peace Kenzi's thumb. -- OMM: Smash for Wii U's RNG hates me. Hours of work, and not a single new Dark Pit custom move to show for it. Pls, there are only two more to unlock, I'm sooo close....

Every physics trip ever.

I'm busy for one day playing video games, watching anime, and attending my high school graduation ceremony (that last one's not very important) and I miss out on a perfect opportunity. H-h-here, have an upvote anyway, b-baka...

Never played Bowser's Inside Story, but damn once I realized this song was in the game I raised its frequency to the max. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__or0V602zk

You're alarmingly nonchalant about Roy returning to Smash. Or maybe that's only because I'm a bit of a Roy fanboy and this feels great after so many years of jokes about Ike being in Brawl and Roy being left out. He feels really different from his Melee version (and even his Project M version) so it's going to take a bit of time to get used to his play style. Most competitive players are claiming he's even better than Marth. Time for some sweet sweet revenge... Orgo??! Are you taking an introductory summer course or something like that? Goodness, look at how driven you are! (I'll pray for you.) -- OMM: Ughhh, Nintendo completely flopped this E3. What a buzzkill. I might as well have just gone to school today to sign yearbooks... Whatever, I was expecting to go to sleep today with new games to look forward to, but the only good stuff revealed we already knew about. This gives me time to catch up on my backlog of games, but still, there's a kind of fun involved with anticipating the release of a game you think will be good. Completely unrelated to anything that you said (because without context, you're not making much sense), but your profile picture is broken and it's been bothering me, ahahah....

There's no bad blood between the two, it was all in good fun. Both Hungrybox and Nintendo are laughing it off. Edit: Oh damn, 3000th post.

I haven't even played as Ryu yet because I'm too busy unlocking custom moves to tinker with the DLC I just bought, but whenever I'm fighting on Suzaku's Castle and this theme starts I get super hyped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0QHtEnq04

I get the medical language, but it's just as predictable and formulaic as Detective Conan. Not really my cup of tea. There's even a friend of mine that'll be participating in a 7-year pre-med program next year, so he's no slouch, and he "hates House with a passion" (his exact words). In the same way as a musician I still dislike Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, doctors can very easily dislike medical dramas like House. And Sherlock disappointed me with the second half of the first episode, so I didn't even get close to season three.

Quick clarification, the Smash link leads to the official YouTube reveal, so there aren't any spoilers, not even in the related videos or in the title. It's safe, haha. It's less than 20 minutes, if you're wondering. (Also, you kinda got spoiled by the Nintendo World Championships...)

These shows aren't my favorites, but since there isn't a "Which television shows did you last watch?" thread I can spam, I'll post this here. Watched a couple episodes of a couple shows for the last few days of school. House Watched a few random episodes from the second season my bio teacher had downloaded, and though it was initially pretty good the formulaic medical drama gimmick got old really quick. Not something I'll be going out of my way to watch more of, that's for sure. After all, I barely have time for anime. Sherlock Really good at dropping little hints and references and nods to the original novels and stories, but not very good with some directing choices and mysteries. The cliffhangers people say are brutal, but I was never involved enough with the series to be particularly moved by those cliffhangers. Granted, I only watched the first two and a half episodes from the first season and a random episode of the second season. Nothing something I'll be going out of my way to watch more of, that's for sure. After all, I barely have time for anime. tl;dr Western shows are meh, go back to watching the anime that you love, nothing to see here

10 years later, I hopefully won't be watching the first Nintendo World Championships in the past 10 years.

"I'm an engineer, boy. I don't need it." -- Hungrybox to Reggie @ Nintendo World Championships I haven't clapped and laughed so hard in a room alone while watching something on my laptop in ages. So hyped for Tuesday!! Taking the day off to experience my first E3 live!