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I'd do something similar, yeah. This was fun to participate in, and even more fun to read everyone else's take on Absolutely go for it Kirry, events like this, though particularly only when vaguely uncommon, really bring the community together and is a whole lot of fun :3 You did a really awesome job and I'm glad I got to participate

Yay! :3 Thank you to @Kirry @zoop and @Kohloo for running this contest, you're the true winners! @Cy~ @RyePotatoes @Nutty @Sekkarou @GreenEyes and @Wet It was great fun reading all your entries, they were all brilliant and it was definitely worth logging in this morning @Optic love you Senpai~

My memory of this is a little fuzzy, so it was one of two games. It may have been Sonic the Hedgehog 2, played on a dinky little plug-and-play box we used to just stick into a power socket and play for hours. I remember being fascinated watching my dad play it and actually beat it. As a really little kid who was pretty useless at games my dad looked like a hero being able to beat that game. It could also have been Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, played on my Playstation 2. Still absolutely love that game, I played it for a significant portion of my childhood and never grew tired of it. Simply awesome, especially this stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNJHJPhrp-Y Although fuck the loading times. They are roughly half the entire game

Of course, I agree. Having Nature's Barbecue in the southwest of nowhere is definitely one of the best things for me about camping. For some reason, no matter how burnt what you're eating may be, despite how many bugs are or how much grass is in your hair, (or your food) it always, always tastes incredible when you've warmed it around your (or my, particularly in this case) fragile and temperamental campfire. Makes me wanna run off into the woods right now xP

Oh, absolutely, I agree 100 percent. He was the one who introduced me to anime, giving me a copy of Hiyao Miyazaki's Spirited Away about 5 years ago. The guy's a legend, his collection of C64, ZX Spectrum, and various Atari consoles and video games is.. astonishing. Plus he was the lead guitarist in his punk band he once was a part of. The dude toured in Japan briefly, I believe, and at the age of 17 without his parents even knowing he went.. As you can tell, I'm super proud of him

I'm an ex-brony, if that means anything Watched the first 4 seasons before falling out with the show and losing interest a couple of years ago. I did buy a '20% cooler' shirt though, which is actually a really nicely made shirt I still (with ever-growing shame) wear for exercise purposes. I watched a little of season 5 before packing it all up shortly after it began airing. Wow... there's seven now huh? They're really churning them out, I remember a lot of people saying that it'd likely die the death before then. I'm glad I got into the show though, it introduced me to forums and made me a single incredible friend who I'm still in contact with today over Discord, over a year since I quit the forum I met them on. My favourite pony was always Applejack. Don't bother asking why, I haven't the faintest clue I'm happy to see it's still going, Faust rescued a dying series that had been loved by a whole lot of people before she turned up and turned marketing into entertainment, something that I feel is always a good thing.

This is brilliant actually, since I love an anime marathon whilst on a train journey. I'll happily sit wherever on a train and watch anything. For me, I feel that the weirder the thing I'm watching, the less likely anybody is gonna want to talk to me to stop me To answer the question, yes, a little. There are two very distinct halves of my family, my mum's and my dad's. My dad and his parents really don't like my interest in anime at all, they regularly ask me at family meals "Are you still watching those Japanese cartoons? Not grown up then yet I see." "Still learning Japanese? How do you say 'sushi'?" However, my mother's side of the family really really apreciate anime. My stepdad, a collector of 20th century video games and anime, fully supports my taste in media, and we used to regularly watch series or movies together. My mum loves it too, especially since I showed off Kobayashi-san Chi no Maidoragon to her in February. So yeah, occasionally it's something I try to keep to myself, but mostly I can be pretty outgoing, and a lot of people I see regularly (girlfriend, mother, other friends) really like what I'm into, and it's great.

70% of time I'll use my laptop to watch anime, either locally or streamed. 20% of the time I'll use my phone, which is usually when it's the only thing I have access to and something good has just come out. 10% of the time I'll use my TV, which uses my Banana Pi as it's source of video input.

I pay an annual subscription for Crunchyroll Premium, though unfortunately British Crunchyroll is significantly less impressive than American Crunchyroll. As a result of this, whatever isn't available on there I'll go and dig up on The Pirate Bay. Still, it's better than only torrenting, which I used to do before I read enough about the wages and working conditions of Japanese animators and decided I'd try to contribute something after all

I do in fact love and use a mechanical keyboard! I really really dislike the way the industry is going on keyboards, making the keys as small and shallow as possible. I know why they're doing it, but I think most laptops and phones are WAY too thin and flimsy as it is. I prefer a tough brick that has big clunky keys that make a lot of noise. My mechanical keyboard isn't fancy though, in fact I got it for £0.20 from a charity shop 2 years ago. I remember it came with a cute little floppy disk and a note saying "Tested with Windows 95!" And of course, it's really not USB. It's PS/2, so I use an adapter with my laptop. 20p will get you this, and I've never found a spacebar that sounds and feels quite so satisfying to push [spoiler=PICTURES INSIDE]

Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted from this thread so I'm pleased about this. I'll check both of those out this evening and get back to you.

@existentiallylostdumbell Wow so you actually went and checked them out, excellent! And yes, what you say is correct! Stiff is WD's most recent album, and their first since Block and Jenkins left the band. They were replaced by two other people I can't recall the names of, but it's their 'new sound' that seems to appeal to you the most. It's nice to see that you've found something here that you like! Do Wintergatan and wowaka not suit your tastes?

That was a spectacular introduction! A very warm welcome from me to Anime Forums. I think you'll love talking to the people here, as you've seen in this thread already there a lot of people with similar interests who are equally as passionate as you are. You've come to the right place to get back into anime, you'll get plenty of what you need here to hook you up with anime you'll be interested in, I'm certain. Best of luck, and have fun posting!

Hi @Hana16 ! Welcome to Anime Forums! We're a very friendly community, I hope you choose to stick around. Any problems or questions, feel free to let me know. Great selection of anime! FMAB and Steins;Gate are some of my all-time favourites. You're normal? Ah... yeah that might be a slight issue. It's okay though, we'll convert you... *not evil grin*

What are your favourite 5 musical albums of all time? What is your favourite song from each? Can be any genre, whether it's heavy metal or an anime OST album, I'm interested to know! Can't think of 5? Just pick a couple! Here are my favourites! 1. Innerspeaker by Tame Impala (Psychedelic Rock) Favourite song: 2. Wintergatan by Wintergatan (Folk, Electronica) Favourite song: 3. D by White Denim (Indie Rock) Favourite song: 4. Groove is Black by Half Gramme of Soma (Stoner Rock) Favourite song: 5. UNHAPPY REFRAIN by wowaka (Vocaloid, Rock) Favourite song:

If that's the case, then very well played indeed.

This is actually... extremely interesting. As I said in my post, If that's the definition you're going with, I think it's safe to say that anime is not a medium. If you say that anime isn't Japanese animation, but instead a Japanese term for animation, then clearly, anime (animation) is absolutely a medium. Specifically 'anime animation' can't be a medium as it is just an existing medium, animation, prefixed by the genre, which must be in the Japanese style. And since not all animation is in the Japanese anime style, then to be precisely 'anime' is to be part of the genre of 'anime'. However, if you assume anime is equal to animation, then since animation is a medium, anime must also be a medium. Now the issue of medium/not medium depends on the usage of the word 'anime' in the japanese language. The real question that will decide whether anime is a medium linguistically speaking is the following: Would a japanese individual, using the word 'anime' as slang for 'animation', consider Tom and Jerry as anime? If so, then I will agree that anime is a medium. But quite frankly, I don't think that they would. They could absolutely. They could call it 'western anime', or 'american anime'. That makes sense. I think that could happen. But I don't believe that it does. Anyone japanese? Have you ever called an american cartoon a 'western anime'? @Orius, that was a great suggestion. You really made me think.

I might not be a hiker, but I'm definitely a camper and I can happily talk about my adventures out in the wild. Yes, the wild. I am strictly a wild camper, as I'm not particularly keen on campsites. Since you have all the facilities laid out in front of you (showers, restrooms, readily prepared logs in a little string bag) I don't find it exciting at all, I feel like I may as well just book a hotel down the road. I like properly wild camping. Where, as they say in my county, "If thas ant brung it, thas is gonna struggle tha nos" I like being forced into a position where you have to be savvy in order to be able to survive. I like cooking my own meals with food I've found myself, wood I've found and lit myself. I do bring a tent though, I think it's okay to sleep in a tent rather than in a tree since you still get all the same experience with actually providing for yourself. I love finding my own places to stay, exploring sometimes all day to find the perfect place to camp for the night. I love fishing since that's the only easily accessible way to hunt legally in my country, it's amazing when you catch your own supper and cook/prepare it completely independently, without a Walmart in sight. If you're planning on going camping (of any sort, not necessarily in the bush) then I do have two food tips for you. 1. Don't bring a pan... like at all. Don't bother with a pan, just bring a tin can of whatever you fancy. You can cook the food in the tin on your campfire (please puncture the lid first with a knife) and then once you've eaten it's contents, save the can for boiling water or cooking other things. If you're using a sharp can opener, then save the lid too. It can make a very sharp blade that's useful if something happens to your knife. 2. Bring a roll of aluminium foil. Tin foil is the BEST for cooking campfire food. My favourite thing to do is bring a potato, wrap it in foil and cook yourself a jacket potato. Another excellent thing to do is if you catch your own fish (or any meat really) then you can wrap it in foil (with a little lemon juice or butter if you're fancy enough to bring that) and cook it on your fire. You can cook tons of different things if you bring foil and a can, and all much MUCH cheaper, 57 times cheaper actually, than buying a camping pan. (Since @zoop loves cooking, I thought this might be helpful and a little challenge for her) Oh, and keep the roll that the foil comes on, you can use it to blow small amounts of air onto your campfire if you need to light one, and it's better than sticking your face right inside it. I hope that was a little helpful Camping isn't that hard really, it's quite simple to just set up a tent, get a fire started and then play how many bugs can you find in your hair because omg they're everywhere. Happy camping! (and hiking)

Hehehe x) Don't you worry, it's on its way