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Cardcaptor Sakura. Wanted to watch a Magical Girl anime, not really into the genre, and tried Futari wa Precure but this one got repetitive pretty fast, so I'm finally digging through Cardcaptor Sakura. Enjoying it a lot so far!

@efaardvark Hard SF is really the only SF I'm into, perhaps because, as you said, it gives us a glimpse at what we might have one day, in one form or another (Although I have to admit that I'm not that much of a SF fan except Cyberpunk and the 'very near future stuff' like Dennou Coil, Psycho Pass, etc. ...) I didn't know about VRD, thanks for mentioning that. Definitely an interesting topic. Imaging having glasses/lenses connected to some kind of central computer that processes most of the stuff after receiving information from the glasses and then sending it back for the user. Something like what came up (not so) recently where you play a game which is on a pc somewhere else and you just send the (controller) input and receive the output on your screen. With fast wifi available pretty much everywhere, you could reduce the lag to a bare minimum (ofc, there's always going to be lag). Since you mentioned cars, the FSD might, or probably will (since it's the point), change the rate at which self-driving cars improve. To go back to the idea above (doesn't have anything to do with the topic but still an interesting thought) - imagine having every car self driving, connected to servers, so that every car know the location of every other car in the vicinity, plus the traffic lights, pedestrians, etc. ... Could prevent accidents on a whole new level, plus plan traffic way more efficiently (for example have an AI [or several AIs working together] overlook the entire traffic in the region and managing every car's speed, direction, path, etc. .... You could steadily train it with simulations and rl exp. [like Tesla cars do] ) Having people run into traffic because they're trying to catch their 100th rattata wouldn't be a problem either, since this/these AI(s) could see it coming from cameras on the different cars, public cameras, etc. .... But if Dennou Coil taught us anything - don't fall asleep with you glasses on (or in you selfdriving car)!!

I'm almost finished with it and I think it's really great. Well written and expands on the characters in pretty much every way, having a new view point to nearly every scene and character. If you liked the manga/movie, I can only recommend it.

Global, augmented reality with "simple" glasses (and, perhaps, in the Dennou Could universe in the future with contacts) certainly would be interesting, furthermore I think Dennou Coil made these cyber battles really interesting (I was recommended this show after I felt let down by "Summer Wars" and its depiction of "battles" in a bit more advanced internet). Finding a way to project a new texture over literally any object IRL, is probably a bit far in the future - having 3d creatures roam the streets actually seems more feasible after Pokemon Go- but it'd probably be pretty awesome. Although the safety risk would be monumental.

He already has that goofy look, although these kind usually have spiky, blonde hair and a crush on their red haired class mate I would prefer to be a different Edogawa though - older than he looks, witty and famous with the ladies

@efaardvark Never seen this anime but the observatory looked something like that, except in white. (granted, observatories can't look that much different ) Maybe I'm the protagonist of the anime of a different universe? Or the goofy, dumb side character?

Finished the 5cm/sec manga (only bought it because the 'One more side' LN was released). I recently started 'Blood Trail' by Oshimi Shuzo and its really good. Also, I'm soon caught up with the Detective Conan manga.

We've had an Observatory in our school - like, a really big one - and the people in our Astro-Club sometimes took long exposure shots of stars, certain astrological objects and events (Can't say I know that much about this kind of stuff - more on the engineering side of things when it comes to space and physics) with their phone through the giant telescope. (The observatory was basically one part of our school with it's own tower and it had to be rotate mechanically - so yeah, the telescope was huge). But with the correct camera lens, a tripod, a lonely place on top of a mountain with no towns nearby and a clear night you can get some nice shots of the stars without fancy equipment. I did some a few years ago when we went hiking for a few days. I used to do photography more frequently, I hardly ever do it lately, mostly of landscapes and birds. Unfortunately I basically lost all my files on my windows system, including every photo I ever took so yeah - I have nothing to show for... (at least I now have a reason to completely free myself from windows )

ReCreators. Dropped it when I watched it shortly after it finished airing in 2017 but now I'm returning to it. It actually really good and I honestly don't know why I dropped it....

Going to Luxemburg to visit relatives but apart from that ... staying at home and enjoy the blue, electric light in the cool shade of a darkened room. But work and study will cut my vacation in half anyway...

Either a high fantasy, RPG-like world or something neo-tokyo-esque. If you could be any character (from any medium; books, anime/manga, movies, operas, etc. ...) who would you be?

1.) Hard to answer. I'd say, something with a good english dub would make it easier to get into anime. And something with a bit of comedy and perhaps some good action but also some mature themes to it with interesting characters. Either FMAB, Mob Psycho 100 or Comby Bebop. It depends what the person like though. If they want something funny without any tension, or serious and grim dark, or an epic adventure, etc. ... 2.) I'd actually tell myself to start reading LNs sooner, starting with either Monogatari or Boogiepop! But as for Manga: Azumi and Vagabond; and for Anime: Black Lagoon and Durarara!

Give them hard riddles/cases to solve.

Dust - I collect dust on my violin. Ok, in earnest, I collect books - shelves and shelves of books (granted, many are from the collection of my parents) with either classical literature (19th - mid 20th c. and especially WW1 lit.), athurian/medieval literature (really, any story from the middle ages to the 17th century), Mythology (especially Norse, Germanic, and Arabic), Fantasy (mostly High or Medieval Fantasy) and recently I started a growing Light Novel collection, though I don't have much time to read lately. And some mystery somewhere in between. I used to collect stamps when I was a child but stopped long ago - I think the albums are buried somwhere in the attic...

Can't say it made me cry but probably pretty close to, was The Walking Dead Telltale Season 1 the ending and Season 2 that flashback to season 1. And there were some season in the FInal Fantasy games (especially FF VI) that almost got me.

Since I don't live in an english speaking country, I hardly ever hear english slang that often - really, mostly through the internet. I do use 'yeet', 'sheeesh' and 'skurr' from time to time (and other hip hop ... noises), though mostly ironically. I often use 'stacy', 'chad' and 'normies' with my friends, and I like to annoy my non weeb friends with 'can I get an UWU?' What annoys me is when people talk like: "yo, yo, dude look at this! shit's sooo liiit, brah." (and yes, some people do that in German too. They don't even bother translating it...)

That's the spirit and I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going!! For real, some h manga and doushinji are surprsingly good - like, with the actual story and romance. (I mean, come one, Emergence has an actually good, tragic story! Though pretty mesed up) Can't say I'm intrigued by hentai anime.

Actually over here too - although I can't enjoy it. Assignment after assignments require my attention... I think I slept around 5 hrs ever night this week, so I'm feeling rather tired. Anyway, Originally had planned to go to my first con mid april this year but that's definitely not gonna happen, so that's depressing...

Meh, it smells better than cigarettes - so, I'd rather have someone vaping next to me than smoking a cig. If people think that they need to do it, I don't care. I just don't want to smell anything weird in a restaurant, or inside in general. I don't know if it is actually healthier or not, I never researched that since I personally, as a non smoker, don't care, but I daresay that not inhaling any questionable substances is more healthy than otherwise.

We didn't have many board games at home, but I loved the few we had like Scrabble, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, etc. ... I think I liked Scrabble the most however, I moved to mostly play card games like Magic the Gathering for non-video games.