/animus/ - Avatarfag Circlejerk★

>mfw getting a 60% raise knowing damn well I have sold my soul to this field

>>2078871

Enjoy.

>>2078870

a lot of 18s actually, but I was sneakin a lot uwu

am a rogue

>>2078874

>>2078873

>>2078877

At least I dont have to worry about dealing international

for now

>>2078879

stole a whole bunch of good shit

killed a werewolf

ruined a nobles house but like saved his kids and shit so I might like have to apologize for ruining his shit?

>>2078880

>

>>2078878

Well that is a chilling webm

>>2078885

tis a possibility of dealing international

>>2078884

cuz american company

>>2078886

My father works for an american company and he enjoys his international work!

Maybe he bangs hookers or something when abroad.

Also thats not even real granola.

>>2078888

I traveled the country for a year and a bit when working in IT. That wasnt so bad, but it did always feel really good when I got to spend time at home.

Some places I went to were devoid of anything to do and that was boring as hell, but not stressful.

>>2078891

Come to think of it I dont think anybody who regularly caught planes had kids there.

Mind you the guys who did had been there long enough that they were more valuable at head office anyway.

>>2078892

still learning corporate ecosystem

off to bed for me

ciao

>>2078895

>>2078896

cute

Hi again Herpy

listenig to anything tonight?

George is drawing me stuff for my birthday

you've all made today amazing

also bard I got new headphones and can listen to music in SURROUND SOUND, can you recommend like especially thrilling stuff, I want my skin to crawl >:)

>>2078898

what kind of headphones?

And sure one quick minute desu

also happy birthday

>>2078899

this to me sounds kind of good they have unique flow at times and I can kinda understand a good portion....n-not all of it though

>>2078900

hyperx cloud 2? a friend got 'em for me

I just looked at the price qq

I was listening to like old gregorian hymns I used to save for dnd and it made my skin get all goose bumpy, music is really incredible, really anything with a good beat makes me feel so good

also thank you <3

>>2078900

Ive gotten back into BotW, shits gud

Wat musics you listening to right now?

>>2078902

best lasagne

>>2078904

I finished the game way too quickly.

Didnt even know I started the last boss fight when I did lol.

back from gym but internet service is down

nothing to do without internet

boring

it me birf

>>2078923

maybe thats what keeps some people out of that business

>>2078925

why :(

>>2078927

it's my birthday!

>>2078924

Does this mean you're too old for George now

>>2078929

he has to find a new model to replace me with first

Hour 37 without Marijuana

I'm feeling uncomfortably lucid

Things have stopped being funny

I have lost my will to live.

Joking aside, Hi thred.

I learned how to play OutKast's, 'hey ya' on guitar.

See you jerks later, I'm going to be rich and famous.

>>2078934

Hi drunky!!

>>2078932

uwu

>>2078931

yee I'm the coolest

>>2078939

>>2078936

Hey, slut. How's your night going? What're you up to?

>>2078938

Have you tried being a queer with me?

__

Bard are you still here?

>>2078941

Since when does someone need dedicated shorts for ddr? in any case the first ones show off more leg so go with that.

>>2078942

Going good! about to head to bed soon, george is drawing me a big cute sheep girl for my birthday

how are you doin?

>>2078946

Bored out of my skull.

Sober.

Looking over essays.

If you leave it's just gonna be me, the ausposter, and the whackjob florida person.

>>2078947

poor bastard, this is what being a teacher gets you!

if it wasn't 1am I'd join you, but for now sleep!!

talk to me tomorrow~

>>2078948

Tell me them before they disappear

>>2078949

Ugh. At least Scoots is here. Night.

>>2078951

Already taken care of. She's asleep.

Who shoved a stick up your ass?

>>2078953

I wish I dreamed about aliens.

Sorry it was so tense, but you're awake now. You're safe with me bbygirl

>>2078956

You're uhh

Not quite awake yet, are you?

Take your anti-psychotics, Scoots.

>>2078963

You're pretty quick to jump on that train.

I worry you genuinely don't like me

Which is totally justified. I'm kind of shit

guise

It's here.

https://www.watchcartoononline.io/flcl-alternative-episode-1-english-subbed

>>2078967

Ego +1

Morning, Amy. Any plans today?

>>2078968

DON'T YOU FUCK ME, GYNAX

is Gynax even responsible for this one?

>>2078969

actually, it's less Gainax this time..

..and more of Toonami partnering with Production I.G. and the original series creator, AND The Pillows coming back to do the soundtrack, due to the rabid following and demand of American viewership!

I'm not going to form any opinions of the show until I've seen at least a few episodes and glean how much of it is really 'in the spirit' of the original and how much is sloppy 'sequel-cursed fanservice', we won't know if there's an actual plot or meaning from one intro episode.

At least Haruko comes back.. and you had better believe she has the same voice actress; Mayumi Shintani has been active as the voice of Nonon Jakuzure and Midori in Space Patrol Luluco.

>>2078970

I already noticed The Pillows. That's pretty sweet.

I'm only five minutes in, but this already has like, none of the old charm.

>>2078971

That.. sounds crappy. Not gonna come back to us after work?

It's 23:30 here, so.. Watch this episode of FLCL, shitpost, maybe make a snack and finish reviewing these fucking essays.

time for bed nini

man i just wanted to watch gabriel dropout but that would use too much data ;w;

>>2078917

finished at the gym? oh god that's disgusting who faps at the gym??

>>2078922

mobile hotspot :\

still down...

hours of no service. thanks spectrum.

>wanting to smother or drown myself in medication

>wanting to curb the psychosis

Lol.

If u cant hander me at my wurse.

>>2078964

Its work day. 10am-5pm. Tomorrow off! Naise, you darlin’?

>>2078973

same.

I'm just thinking, *not yet*

shit

It's Haruko

.. I mean Rahal

oh cool my internet is back up like 2mins before i go to bed

N I C E

>>2078977

reee gimme dem ideas!? Shoppin! Woo! I saw something about shorts :3

>>2078983

yeah am gettin new active shorts

mine are not short enough !!

i gotta show off my cute legs to any boys watching me play ddr >:3

>>2078987

he's not in it.

It centers around an eccentric group of four high school girls instead. Raharu is back on Earth, looking for something. Agents still exist.

hello ?

>>2078995

>Womens

Holy fuck

okay

Just based on Episode 1

Good:

>Head Bass

>Fight scenes true to the original

>Soundtrack

>True to the animation style with only minor alterations

Bad:

>Main cast is boring as hell so far

>Not enough Teen Angst tropes

>Lacking that distinct "weird" feeling

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Also theres no way that dude isn't Naota. He knows Rahura's name. The agency only ever knew her as Haruhara Haruko

It fucking has to be.

Hmm, so episode 1 struck me as being really watered-down, and reintroducing the idea of FLCL by explicit hinting during animation sequences like they were nudging the viewer with "hey, remember this?" and the first episode plot isn't nearly as heavy as it was in the 45 minutes of the original; it's been cut to 21 + end credits and seems to be more of an introduction/reintroduction than anything else.

PLEASE RESPOND

>>2079004

I was not expecting a reply.. what do I do

>>2079000

Nah, man.

Eyebrows knew her true name, Raharu. (Rahal)

He did however pass this down to Naota by telling him. It's odd that she goes by Haruhara Haruko again, but it beats coming up with a different pseudonym.

I thought the fight scenes lacked the -punch- that the original production had, it hinted at previous scenes but didn't match the technicolor craziness.

>>2079009

gibbe a smooch

>>2079006

Wouldn't the april fool's joke be to tell people it was the first episode of season 3 and not season 2?

>>2079011

That sounds lewd but ok....

>>2079010

Oh, Right, Amarao knew her as Raharu and told Naota... Okay.

Even so.

And it doesn't surprise me. She goes by Haruhara as a cover... What bothered me was that this time she was just So quick to give away that she was part of the Space Police.

And yeah, the fight scenes didn't have the same stylized direction, and it's noticeable, but they were obviously trying to throw hints to the old viewers like, "Huh? Remember this? Giant squishy, flexible looking robots getting their shit smashed in with Bass Guitars? Pretty cool, right?"

But the characters outside of Haruko just aren't appealing. There's no angst, no internal struggle. There was a brief moment where the MC cried, but for no discernible reason. I don't know.. this just felt.. Campy? Like they phoned it in.

>>2079012

No. Season 2 doesn't air until June... 6th, I think? And then 3 is slated for September.

>>2079016

I'm sorry master

>>2079018

ITS A LILY THING LOL

its a fun thing

everyone loves it >:3

>>2079019

is ok bub :3

watcha up to ?

>>2079020

well duh you do

youre gilgy

i'd expect nothing less !! >:3

>>2079017

Dude, she told Naota in the first episode that she was in the Brotherhood.

She just knew he wouldn't believe anything she said about being an alien and it played off well, this time she just comes across as crazy and the characters seem to lack any interest.

Cut to scene launching bottle rocket like nobody had just been fucking traumatized, right?

>>2079022

*Fraternity

>>2079021

very sleepy but cant/wont sleep.. how about you master?

>>2079022

Okay, no, you're right. And yeah, she told him, but she said it as if it were a joke. She claimed, in episode one, "You want the truth? I'm an Alien." To which Naota responded, "Yeah, right." A perfectly reasonable response.

This time, A toy becomes a Medical Mechanica robot via a giant fucking google maps pin, Haruko jumps in to save the day [WHERE THE FUCK IS CANTI?!] and then explains to these four girls that she's part of the space police and they all just kind of stand there with their thumbs up their asses. You're right, it's insanely odd that not one of the four of the girls were like, "did that just fucking happen?" or "Are we high on mushrooms or something?" Nah. They just go to the fucking beach. No big deal. At least Naota was reasonably like "Who are you, what are you doing here and what the fuck is going on?" This seems... ugh. Maybe Season 2 will make this feel less unnatural

>>2079025

Yeah, that's my take-away from this re-introduction. You can't write characters this badly if you tried- though, maybe the intention is that this group of girls really -are- mentally challenged in various ways, are really complete vapid airheads that nothing phases them at all and they're about to grow up to be useless people- maybe THAT'S the message?

Like, they idly lay around talking about that crap, Hijiri is like 'I wanna be the 2nd wife of an apparel CEO' and shit, Massan is carelessly overweight to the point that other chars casually joke about her getting diabetes from drinking soda, Kana is a spacy airhead and the whole class mocks her, and 'Pets' just looks at her phone all day.

Maybe Haruko is going to shape them up into real people, one cryptic line at a time, so that they actually wake up and stop being zombies who, after nearly dying and experiencing an unfathomable horror, mourn the loss of their fucking bottle rocket and all the meaningless work they put into it?

Maybe the reboot is tailored for 2018 kids?

>>2079036

That being said, where was the music?

Pillows didn't deliver much more than what sounded like the guitarist dicking around in a jam session like it was filler background music.

Nothing iconic and mood-setting like the original.

FLCL + The Pillows was the shit that made you get goosebumps watching.

1) I wonder if Adult swim will Reair the 6 original episodes before feeding a new generation this revival

2) There's a distinct lack of mood-setting in this episode that was so indicative of the original

3) Maybe we're just too jaded and we watch the original with rose colored glasses because it was part of our youth

4) Gainax should have been in charge of this

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Okay I'll stop now sorry for being obsessive. This show was, like, my adolescence defined.

>>2079042

Firestarter had some Mamimi building, depends who your favourite characters were.. Full Swing obvs the Haruko-centered episode but for a Mamimi fan you do get to see her insanity by cheering on a potential armageddon.. "Welcome!"

I wouldn't even really try to rate the episodes, though I understand why people would hate Eri Ninamori and the Marquis of Carabas episode. I thought it was rather funny and fleshed out some of the side characters. All of the episodes are good, and Firestarter has its place, they all have their places.

>>2079043

Yeah, it was a game changer when it came to anime.

Shit like that got me into alternative anime, I bought Dead Leaves on a whim and discovered Imaishi Hiroyuki, of course this means I'm a Studio Trigger fan now.

You should check out Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi if you want to see the last of Gainax's FLCL-style animation phase, it was an obscure comedy show that followed the success of FLCL and had a lot of crazy Imaishi animation and concepts/art that ended up feeding the ideas for Gurren Lagann later on...

>>2079045

maybe kids don't need za masters

Okay.

Over it.

Hi Thread, I'm normal again

I actually recommend Abenobashi highly.

While most people won't get through more than about 6 episodes because it's very 'comedy', the plot does come together and make sense, and feels. It's rather interesting and I liked it.

Speaking of Bard, that goon told me he'd be back tonight and I have a playlist for him.

>>2079056

>making playlists for your e-buddies

Now I understand why your av is Wallace Wells.

gg

>>2079061

My primary avatar is

>

Believe it or not

>>2079062

so was Gnomes'

People whose real names I know;

Gnomes

Bard

Soto

>>2079064

Sallah allyqum

Soon, inshallah

>>2079063

I know. I technically had it first, but I disappeared for two years and in that time Gnomes showed up, so he and I went back and forth for a while until he told me he was cool with being Samajimi Mamimi.

And then we were friends. And I liked his hair.

>>2079065

Was he!? I never knew! That dude and I could have been like, besties.

Work

Time

Bye bye

バイバイ

>>2079068

Yeah, we related because we both liked Mamimi best. .. and all those early days of roughhousing whilst still on /b/reads, I took him under my wing and taught him how to scrap.

I someday hope to give in to the liquor like Jim Lahey

>>2079072

Later, slut. I'll flirt with you when you come home.

>>2079076

Be more creative, like; "I hope a lorry full of knives overturns in the roundabout on its way to a delivery and all of the limeys and brownies rush it and loot it and then go on a spree and you're cornered on a sidewalk and rushed from all sides by knife-brandishing hooligans."

>>2079082

Trying hard is better than not trying hard enough.

>>2079086

Lol my wife calls me Mom when I do the same thing. At least yours gets the gender correct.

Blood-chan still calls me mom.

I don't actively encourage it, but shitposters gonna shitpost.

>>2079090

She makes questionable decisions.

I just have momentary spouts of existential dread.

We're both probably equally mentally unstable

which identity crisis?

Having a partner/friend who understands you is great.

I have heard that the best recipe for an ongoing relationship is to connect but still be interesting, independant people who can have different opinions and tastes, making conversation something interesting rather than finding someone who is basically exactly like yourself, in which you will pick out every flaw..

>>2079093

Yeah, I deal with that kind of shit a lot. I think it's just part of "Growing up," in a mental capacity.

I was dealing with a weird juxtaposition where there was

Old me:

>Hard drugs

>Literally never a sober moment

>More alcohol than a human should consume in a life time in a ten year span

>Living on peoples couches

>Tattoos & Piercings ERRYWHERE

>Fuck this, Fuck that, Fuck Fuck Fuck

>Life is a game

>What's a "job?"

and

Current me:

>Mushrooms like once a year

>Weekend drinking, maybe light weekday drinking

>Dedicated career

>College degree

>No tattoos in years

>No new piercings in years

>Paying a mortgage in the suburbs

In all fairness, I think anybody in my position would be dealing with thoughts of not belonging.

It still bugs me, but at this point I'm convinced it'll pass. I've only been a productive member of society for a cumulative five of my twenty-six years on this planet. Once I reach that half way point where I've spent more of my life as an Average Joe than I have as PunkRock4LyfeGonnaDieInAnAlleyway, those feelings should subside entirely.

>>2079094

You heard right.

Why would anyone want to be with someone exactly like them in any capacity. That's a recipe for boredom, and therein, separation.

Having common ground is great, but if you share all of your thoughts and sentiments, then conflict becomes entirely superficial, not productive or engaging.

>>2079096

Full disclosure, my wife is diagnosed mentally unstable. Paranoid Schizophrenia and Manic Depression, so as uncertain as I am in my day-to-day mentality, overall I'm relatively well put together. On the surface, you'd be right. She takes care of me, mentally, during the regular events, but overall I'm the one keeping her from making bad or illogical decisions and, as you put it, "babysitting," her.

The thoughts and feelings I portray here are infinitely more vulnerable than I allow myself to be IRL. Even during those spouts of existentialism, you wouldn't be able to tell I was anything other than stable if you and I were having a passing conversation.

I enjoy spilling my character flaws here. You guys validate me and offer me perspective I can't get elsewhere BECAUSE I don't let that shit out in person.

>>2079096

I have been there too.

I have been the voice of reason, the balance in a group, but then also the one who's the most spontaneous and do weird shit out of nowhere.

I no longer have a friendship group though, so at least there's no anxiety to deal with; having to act as a conscience for other people lacking any responsibility, but also trying to get attention and rally everyone together to do things by being the most outgoing..

I guess just as I described, the balance.

Liquor and Whores!

Oooooh Liquor and Whores!

Cigarettes and Dope and Mustard and Balogna

Liquor and Whores!

>>2079097

Yes, one thing to enjoy about internet anonymity for sure.

I have social anxiety so real people are difficult for me and I'm a hermit, but internet people are fine, because they're engaging and intelligent (for the most part) and enjoyable in conversation.

However, I am still an alcoholic so when I re-read some of my posts I'm embarrassed to see my sentence structures fall apart. I'm too compulsive to worry about error-checking myself as that would be a waste of my time.

But, I'm like that IRL too with my anxiety, I feel like I've said the wrong things and embarrassed myself and look foolish, without having any delete or edit buttons... what is said is said, and since I speak out loud very rarely, often what comes out is jarring or crudely assembled if I haven't rehearsed what I'm going to say in my head already...

>>2079099

Prosciutto on ciabatta with a touch of horseradish mustard on one side and pesto on the other

>>2079100

*impulsive, not compulsive in that sentence.

though in other things I am compulsive.

such as error-checking.

>>2079101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8a9eqkSqM8

>>2079100

See, I have no Social Anxiety. I'm the most outgoing and friendly person you'll meet unless you rub me the wrong way. I love making conversation and talking to strangers. It's just a character trait I picked up when I was drifting. You either be friendly and sociable or you starve quiet and alone. It kind of just stuck.

Talking about me, however, in real life. Nope. Doesn't happen. Music, weather, political climate, do aliens exist, is there a god, why are we conscious. That stuff, perfectly cool.

"So you seemed off yesterday, Everything okay?"

"YEP!" accompanied by a terrified open eyed gaze.

Here, though. "Hey dude, you alright?" is followed by a textwall of feelings and emotions. I have no problem being outwardly sociable. I have a problem being personally vulnerable.

>>2079102

My apologies. I'll make sure to not talk about feelings around you.

Something something does your mom know you're a homo?

>>2079104

I have the opposite persona, I'm an everyman in real life and I react like I'm medicated.

I was doing some work in a stairwell today and a tenant walked down and said "Hi", so I said "Hey." with my back turned. She asked, "I hope I didn't scare you" so I turned around to look at her and said "eh." and went back to what I was doing.

I hate small talk. People always have small talk, so I keep my responses to a simple script.

"How's it going?"

"About the same."

"What's up?"

"Gas prices."

I think my problem's inverse to yours; I am not outwardly sociable, but neither do I think I am vulnerable like there are any secrets I need to hide from anyone; I don't have a pretense or shell, or a fake smile to present to people- they get what they get at face value, so when a conversation does happen it's usually at a level I'm comfortable at. I'm just not an instigator, I don't have a motive to talk to people and I assume most people have grown to accept that other people do have motives for intitiating conversation, so it's easy if other people break the ice because they'll find the real me very quickly.

>>2079106

I want so badly to make my way up to Mooseland, drag you out of your house to the nearest alcohol-serving establishment, and be my regularly outwardly bubbly self until your melancholic brief responses become too tedious to handle and you just fucking let go.

I can be incredibly persistent.

>>2079107

You get enough liquour in me though,

and I literally will say and do embarrassing things that hangover+anxiety me will want to hang myself over.

>>2079108

Holy shit, which part of Canuckistan are you in?

Wife wants to see it someday soon

>>2079109

the nicest part, Vancouver Island.

>>2079110

Hey, Hey! You're literally in the most convenient part of Leaftoria for me to get to. What are the odds? I might be in Seattle this winter. Would just be a hop skip and a jump to get smashed with Chiri

seriously though, don't google images of 'vancouver island' or you'll be like

ʰᵒˡʸ ˢʰᶦᵗ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵃ ʳᵉᵃˡ ᵖˡᵃᶜᵉ

>>2079111

That'd be cool, we have some fuckin' good noodle bowl restaurants.

Sushi places in my city are mediocre but damn they can fry some tonkatsu and takoyaki tho.

>>2079113

As a Canadian without an international passport this is the best I can get.

It beats living in fucking Ontario.

>>2079115

Or, God forbid, the blasted lands (Nunavut)

Or Toronto. What a mediocre city.

>>2079116

I'm in the enjoyable little city of Nanaimo, just far enough away from Victoria and Vancouver to be pleasant and relaxing;

it invokes some of the perks I had living in Thunder Bay, Ontario.. in that if you traverse any direction for about 5km away from the city you are immediately in untouched forest...

I can't live without that.

I moved out west because I was sick of the cold winters, shitty jobs, poor wages, corrupt city officials.. I grew up there but the town decayed into shit and is only notable for being a bottleneck on the Trans-Canada where no other highways bypass the inevitable choke point of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

I am at ease by large bodies of water, so the ocean will do just fine. There is barely even a winter here at all, I have already adapted and this is an easy life.

Nanaimo is shit.

Fukken little pock in the woods ass place.

>>2079118

is that how inguinal hernias develop?

>>2079121

So what city in Australia is any better than a pock in the woods?

Do you even have woods, mate?

>>2079124

Well then, I've learned something today.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Sydney is pretty nice.

I could be homeless in Sydney thanks to Darling Harbor alone.

And Australia has some pretty fucking incredible mountainous jungles.