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Are you watching any classic anime right now? What does interest you when it comes to anime? Get a thread going to tell us all about it

I did a summer job at UPS during college. I processed packages going Canada->U.S., checking that the waybills were completed correctly, etc. Night shifts, 8pm-4am IIRC, all summer long. Tedious as hell but I had some cool coworkers at least. After I graduated, I did some shitty sales jobs (call centre, door to door) for a bit to pay the bills while I focused on music. But then I settled into a job with an office services company for the next few years. Started on a night shift working on a digitization project at an financial firm. Night after night of scanning and QCing boxes upon boxes of their customers' records. Then I moved to a day shift at a corporate office as team lead of the mailroom / print room. Pay wasn't great but that was such a fun job. We did a bit of everything there. Then 8 years doing volunteer work on education development projects in Vietnam. Moved back to Canada in 2016 and got a job doing outside sales. Not exactly what I had hoped for, but overall it's a pretty good gig.

You never had Zelda back in the day? Or just never beat it back then? I had a pretty decent collection of NES games when I was little but for some reason or another never got Zelda. I must have rented it at some point...

Thinking back to the classics, Contra has always been a favourite of mine. Super C is one of my all-time top games.

I never had a Super Scope but I did have Mario Paint with the mouse and pad. That was a super fun game to play around in.

I was pretty hyped about it for a while there, but a couple years ago I just never got around to watching the new episodes and i guess I never felt like I was missing anything Started feeling like the show was going to go in too long for my looking.

The only TV shows I used to bother with were Homeland and The Walking Dead. I think I'm 2-3 years behind on both. Probably won't ever bother picking them up again. I'm also not a big movie person... so I guess I'm all caught up! But I'm sure there's a pretty long list of anime I still want to see eventually.

How many episodes of something do you have to watch in a row (and for how many days in a row?) in order to consider it binge watching?

We should all post more about baseball

I'm gonna be rocking the Purple Mountains album and the Silver Jews discography all week. David Berman killed himself earlier this month, I think it wasn't even a month after the Purple Mountains album dropped.

Do it MORE

C64/DOS games at my cousin's house, and then Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on another relative's NES. Died right away but I was hooked My folks bought me an NES shortly after that first experience with Mario.

Recently: The answer might be the Project Diva games. I've gotten so much entertainment value out of these games. All-time: Probably Mario Bros. Honorable mention to Final Fantasy.

Chocolate croissant + coffee for breakfast Pizza + beer for lunch Dinner TBD

I've never tried a RetroN but they sound like they'd be handy. Wow they're expensive though

Nice. Did you get the real thing, or a RetroN / something like that?

My phone - until I took it out to check this place - and probably some pocket lint

My nephew was reading manga on his phone at a recent family gathering so I ask, what are you reading? Cause I'm the almost-hip uncle who kinda gets the stuff he's into. He says: Berserk. I'm like don't tell your parents about this one I meant to start reading this way back, I think after the first season of the new anime wrapped. Never got around to it though. How many pages is each chapter on average? Edit: looks like my local library has up to volume 39 available. Guess I'll start borrowing some.

Yeah, that used to bug me - but then I got over it and decided to post things even if it was basically just to talk to myself. Can't get people into something if you don't get in their face about it a bit. Start making some new threads, MT and KK.

I thought very briefly about taking a flier on a cheap copy of FF XII The Zodiac Age the other day but decided to just keep my money. I haven't played anything past X and X-2 so I'm curious... but from what I've read I don't think I'll like XII.

Yeah, pretty much equivalent to 50 kg / 110 lbs water. That big ass clay jug that can hold 50 L of water probably also weighs quite a bit too though. She's not carrying just 110 lbs of water.

Traded in a bunch of Switch games yesterday that me and the kid are done with. There is 50% extra credit on Switch game trade-ins this weekend, so lucky me. Put $50 toward an eShop card to get Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon EVERY BUDDY, which is fun so far. I'm only a couple dungeons into it. Got well over $100 left in store credit so I'm going to try to get as much out of it as I can on price dropped and used games.

I feel like there's a difference between being a freak athlete, like a LeBron or something, and whatever the heck Tsukasa is. Also new girl carrying that jug with 50 L of water (did I read that correctly?), Taiju picking up really big and heavy rocks, etc. all feel like too much of a reach. I'm open to any explanation the show might offer though... did petrofication turn people into mutants?

I appreciated Senku's realization that everybody is super powerful for no good reason in this world. I don't expect anime to be realistic necessarily, but it has bothered me that Taiju, Tsukasa, and new girl seem to have superhuman strength without an explanation. They're all just normal humans as far as we know, right?

Finished The Origin yesterday. Note I really want to rewatch Gundam. Maybe I'll do the compilation movies...