I feel old when I was asking myself, “is that card captor sakura?” in the first few seconds and then realize I was right.
Also, holy hell how did we all miss the pedophilia between the teacher and her? It wasn’t even in my thoughts about the show until someone pointed it out in a thread 15 years after I last saw it.
Oh, agreed. Anyone who brings virginity into the context of adults having fewer and fewer relationships that matter is either an incel or a troll.
My guess is that those hobbies are still very much judged by others. It doesn’t matter how many images you make listing famous actors/athletes and their manga/anime/etc choices, the majority of the population will not want to do anything more than call you a nerd.
Hell, some of my closest friends still don’t want to talk about the differences (and their preference) for manhwa vs manga because they think I’ll get judgy with them.
More or less. There is a lot of brainpower involved in making sure numbers aren’t juiced one way or the other, though, so don’t think it’s just a shot in the dark.
They were talking about it way before the epidemic. I remember at least as far back as middle Obama presidency that there was a show talking with one of his campaigners and they brought up the statistics on the number of people that would claim to have X amount of “close friends” declining.
There is a definite difference in the man/woman divide though on those numbers.
Whoah, I don’t know about the one on the left, but sword art online deserves all the criticism it gets. We don’t suddenly get defensive when people point out the flaws in star trek fan fiction, why should we with .//hacksign fanfiction?
If anyone was hurt there’s no way any news outlet would let such a juicy headline go past in favor of just reporting on the cars.
Hell, I still sometimes think about the research team that tried to make a camera in a bus (so at the front pointed towards the faces of riders) obtain passwords from the reflections off of sunglasses. They collectively facepalmed when they tried it with their test subject, but accidentally picked up the passwords of several others on the bus that were not part of the experiment.
That was something like 8-12 years ago… Capabilities now are likely insane.
It’s not fair! I want someone behind me right now! I can take or leave the evil, but give me that slightly looming, encircling hug from behind!
I think the one thing that EQ had over Wow was the emphasis on group content to level. Holy hell was it a slog to level if you weren’t grouping and running the actual dungeons. Wow, meanwhile, was a slog if you did anything but the single player quests. The times when my friends came to help on EQ, I would see my xp bar jump. The times when we did the same in Wow, there were fights over what to do because we were so frustrated with leveling.
Ah, that was it. I think they also downplayed it or amended it slightly in the dub? It’s been a while, lol.