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  1. Posted

    If you'd believe, a fair amount of bandmen go on to become traders. I was actually trying to find out what one in particular was doing these days because he hadn't been in any bands for a while and I wanted to see if he was doing anything solo, but he'd actually been a trader for a while so I'd guess he's probably quite rich if he's good at it. That can be a pretty lucrative business, after all. The website I found him on said quite a few former VK guys do that. I won't give out his name in case he'd rather it remained a lesser-known fact among fans but I just thought that was interesting.

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  2. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Tokage said:

    Watching anime / playing videogames / watching porn / watching tv shows / reading or writing fanfiction / following kawaii jrockers / stuffing your ass with junk food to escape from your shitty and friendless life on the other hand? E N L I G H T E N E D

    Isn't this just stuff people do when they're at home? You can't spend time with friends/family all the time (especially if you're introverted) and you need to occupy your alone time with something. The things you just listed aren't necessarily escapism so much as they are just hobbies and things people do. I know that it's entirely possible to become addicted to the things you mentioned that I quoted, as with anything - after all, everything is poisonous; it just depends on the dose - but they're decidedly less harmful than drugs/alcohol. I can sit at home with no plans other than to play a video game all day but I know that I can walk away from it at any time to do things like talk to people, cook dinner, etc if I need to. Getting drunk or high, though? You can't just snap out of that so easily as it alters your behaviour/perspective at that point. Don't get me wrong, I understand that people sometimes feel the need to turn to things like that to escape their problems and I wouldn't label them as bad people (and actually, if you read through what Secret said, he never said they were bad people either), but you can't deny that running away from your problems and literally poisoning yourself in the process is extremely unhealthy and we shouldn't be encouraging it. We should be supporting people who have fallen into vulnerable situations to find better ways to deal with their problems. I would never want someone to feel undeservedly unhappy and I especially wouldn't want them to turn to something so destructive.

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    About two years ago, I told myself I wasn't gonna have any extra salt on my dinner if I could help it because overly salty/greasy food had been giving me chest pains. To this day, that rule actually just became a background part of my life and I have never - and I mean never - had extra salt on my dinner since then; no exceptions. I don't even recognise the difference and it really doesn't feel like two years.

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  7. Posted

    10 hours ago, Original Saku said:

    Been playing the new Fire Emblem on the Switch and it's.... good. Like really good.

    It looks good. I've never actually played the Fire Emblem games for 3DS because they always did that fucking annoying thing of releasing two versions of the same story in separate games which really turned me off because I never knew which one to go for. They finally release a game on its own aaaand it's for the Switch, which I don't have 🙃 I'll probably get one next year, though. A new Animal Crossing game is coming out on March 20th, 2020 and IIII NEEEEED IIIIT

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    1 hour ago, secret_no_03 said:

    Are Japanese children as annoying, unruly, loud and problematic as American? Is it just a kids all over thing or are children in places like Japan, China and South Korea more bearable?

    According to what I learnt in my psychology class, they're socialised differently. They tend to be separated from their mothers far less often and, as a result, they also tend to be clingier. I guess their collectivist, family-oriented culture would add to that. As for annoying/unruly/loud/problematic in general, I'm not too sure.

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  10. Posted · Edited by Gesu

    3 hours ago, nullmoon said:

    -Walking around a bustling town centre. There was a middle Eastern dude busking. He was playing deathcore shit on drums, it was great.

    Reminds me of when I was out for a walk and saw a guy shredding on a sitar. He was great, I sat and watched him for a full hour and a guy sat next to me tried to get me to go on a date with him right after telling me I had tiny feet. And that wasn't even a dream!

     

    I did, however, have a weird (yet relatively mundane) dream last night. I'm going to a convention today and I dreamt that I was living with my grandma and she kept giving me weird useless things to pack that were mostly food. I remember her giving me a lunchbox full of milk chocolate and white chocolate buttons and a bag of kale. Y'know, in case I started craving kale. This is the best way I could sum it all up:

     

     

    Here's hoping I won't need my angry eyes.

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    2 minutes ago, Komorebi said:

    The "she had it coming" is something I feel sometimes applies. I have a former friend who was, allegedly, assaulted by a guy a while ago and this is how it went down: he made his sexual intentions very clear from the beginning, she wasn't interested in sex but went out with him repeatedly for the free food and all that. She told me once she was spending the night at his place, to which I advised against and she did it anyway. She willingly got herself into the bed of a man whom SHE KNEW wanted sex, to whom she repeatedly told "maybe later" because a straight rejection would mean no more free food, and expected him not to touch her in any way? Some girls DO like to tempt a little too much and cry wolf later and while they do not deserve to be assaulted under any circumstance, they do share the responsibility for disregarding their own safety like that.

    Maybe she enjoyed his company? I don't condone sexual assault (or any kind of assault) in any way, shape or form and if this guy really did assault her, that's awful. I don't know if he really did or if she was overblowing the situation because I wasn't there but the "they had it coming" mentality is a bit victim-blaming. Consent not only means you agree to it; it also means you can stop at any time. If she decided she wasn't comfortable with him touching her, even if it wasn't full-blown assault I could still understand why she would get pissed if he continued. I agree with you that is it up to them to take their safety into their own hands and that we should teach people to avoid dangerous situations instead of teaching people not to be dangerous (because really, it's a bit useless to tell a potential assaulter not to assault someone) but you can still spend time with someone who's sexually interested in you and expect them to not pounce on you. Like I said, I have no way of knowing if he really did it, the full context, exactly how far they went, what she did and didn't consent to and yada yada, but still.

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  16. Posted

    1 minute ago, secret_no_03 said:

    It used to be that women were wholesome and had some class, but complained about being objectified, skip ahead ten years and now it's all out there, but they're saying that it's "empowering" and it's about freedom of sexual expression and all that jazz "free the nipple", "you're slut shaming" and women wonder why they're harassed at conventions to tie back to the previous topic when their tits are about to pop out and their asses are hanging out. You can't have it both ways. Most women have sense and know this, but there's plenty who think that they're entitled to dress and act like a whore and not have anyone look at them; obviously touching someone without their permission is awful, but if you're half naked and there's a gaggle of men (and women at times) following you around and you feel uncomfortable, you brought that upon yourself.

    I agree that it's ridiculous for someone to think people finding them attractive is sexual harassment but it's not very nice to call them whores, or at least to say they're dressing/acting like whores just because they wear short skirts or whatever.

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  18. Posted

    Just now, spockitty said:

    Awesome! Have fun but more importantly stay hydrated ^^

    The only thing I missed on my last convention was some convenient snacks since the lines for food vendors were impossibly long >.>

    Thank you, I will! I'll be sure to take a drink with me. I'll also get some there because they do some really nice drinks! I've gotta get some of that blue raspberry ramune if they do it again this year (as I'm sure they will) because I bought some last year but because it came in a glass bottle, it fell out of a rather inconvenient hole in the plastic bag the vendor gave me and shattered on the floor on the way home. I've gotta put it in my own bag this time! >.<

     

    And yeah, the lines do tend to be really long. I can't remember how long I was waiting to buy snacks last year but at least there are lots of cool things going on to distract you while you wait.

  20. Posted

    A new camera. It didn't cost me much but the quality's pretty great, so that was a win-win. I just told the guy in the shop I wanted sth with a decent enough quality for pictures alone because I'm going to a convention on Saturday (my second one and I'm so excited~ ^_^) and my iPod camera's a bit buggered because there's a mahoosive crack over the lens. Just tested it out and it's perfect. £28 well-spent! :D

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  21. Posted · Edited by Gesu

    11 minutes ago, nullmoon said:

    You sound so much like me! I can understand how over time it can all get a bit overwhelming and yet you feel a duty to be a good bro. I guess that carries across into the dream where you don't want to watch and yet because everyone else is there you have to do your bit too?

    I'd just like to chime in and say that is really interesting and actually makes a lot of sense. I say this because I've always been of the notion that dreams are just that and have little to no hidden meaning to them but you may be starting to convince me otherwise, in which case I'm buggered because my dreams are like Junji Ito and Noel Fielding co-wrote something together. I can't imagine what trouble that spells for me. 😕

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  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, Kuro said:

    When I started working with elementary school students (I'm not a teacher it was more about teaching them how to use a PC more than ten years ago because most teachers were rather old and had no clue of it but it had to be taught), being the middle of my 20s back then and 154 cm I really was afraid about being taken seriously. It worked but kids are different from adults I guess. At least my voice ain't high therefore it's pretty low in volume because I'm shy and an introvert and that doesn't help with talking to others and I have to prepare myself before to talk loud enough. It worked better with the kids back then and after them getting to me and the other way around things settled pretty fine (I can talk pretty loud when I feel comfortable). But talking in low volume doesn't help with people taking me as serious as they should now, too. And I guess being that short always just made people even think more I'm quite younger than I am.

    I want to work with children in the future (as a paediatric therapist) so it's a relief to know they tend to take you more seriously than adults do. That being said, I'll probably be working with their parents too and it's them I'll most likely need to get through to more than anyone. I don't want them looking at me like I'm their kid bossing them around. 😕

  24. Posted

    10 minutes ago, spockitty said:

     oh bb girl, what can I say, get used to it? or better yet, find a way to get amused by it ^.~ 

     

    I think I have the exact same problem you do, I'm 157cm high, I'm cursed with a baby face and a high & quiet voice :P 

     

    does it bother you that much?

    I'm 151cm and I also have a high voice but mine's somewhat loud (not shouty, just... well-projected, I guess) so it makes me sound like a rambunctious toddler.

     

    I don't think it bothers me nearly as much as it used to because I think it's been long enough that people actually take me seriously now (that and I started wearing makeup which makes me look older), but it's something that I'm always reminded of. Oh well, I'm the same height as you in heels so I guess that's not too bad :P seriously, 157cm makes me feel like a giantess.

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