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Baggie_Saiyan said:
Is anyone finidng themselves constantly re-watching anime instead watching newer stuff? At most I probably try 3-4 shows a season now instead of giving everything I get

The older I get the more I realise time is precious so I'd rather just watch something I know is good instead of risking something that turns out to be crap half way through same goes for live action tv
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I do still watch newer things, but not as they are still being broadcast, I will wait to see what people think of the series as a whole then decide whether to watch it based on that - obviously not as good a strategy for potentially very long-running things, but it does help me narrow down what to watch and help with avoiding some disappointment/wasted time :)
 
I have a backlog on a backlog, but occasions i do re watch stuff i have on the shelf
Never normally watch 2 at a time either but ive just started to watch miss nagatoro and tonikawa over the moon for you
I will deffo pick tonikawa up on blu ray as i know i would re watch that, miss nagatoro isnt on blu so will watch and theb probably be an age before i re watch that
 
Baggie_Saiyan said:
Is anyone finidng themselves constantly re-watching anime instead watching newer stuff? At most I probably try 3-4 shows a season now instead of giving everything I get

The older I get the more I realise time is precious so I'd rather just watch something I know is good instead of risking something that turns out to be crap half way through same goes for live action tv
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I'm pretty bad for this.
I rarely watch the whole thing but will pick out certain episodes.
This year The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist stands out. It's just tickled my fancy. Probably because the MC is a bit brutal.
And certain parts of Overlord S1+2.
 
Baggie_Saiyan said:
Is anyone finidng themselves constantly re-watching anime instead watching newer stuff? At most I probably try 3-4 shows a season now instead of giving everything I get

The older I get the more I realise time is precious so I'd rather just watch something I know is good instead of risking something that turns out to be crap half way through same goes for live action tv
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I keep going back to my favorites yeah like Monogatari, Baccano etc. This doesn't seem to apply to longer shows though like Gundam and Code Geass.
 
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Just wondering out loud at 5am if there’s any way to make money with zero human interaction (and I mean zero, no customers, no bosses, or at least none I ever have to see or communicate with) that doesn’t also require you to have capital to invest in the first place.

I’ve been thinking recently it would be nice if I could just turn my consciousness off for 8 hours a day and wake up with money, maybe hand my body over to AI control for the duration. Have 40 hours a week of my life by all means, I just don’t want to experience it.
 
That's my dream job too ayase, give me a shout if you find it! I'm fine with exchanging my time for money, the more mindless and zombie-like the better. I'm ok with a low wage. My problem is that I rather dislike and am rather bad at human interaction. Recently I've been having a few job interviews, for very customer-service roles, and it kills me to have to lie through my teeth and tell the employer how much I love connecting with people and what a community loving team-player I am. The older I get the more strongly I disagree with all those people who say work is essential, regardless of the economic benefit, for the emotional well-being of humans. I think anyone who says that has to be someone who actually enjoys their job and doesn't realise how depressing and demeaning an experience work is when you don't like what you do. Or they add the qualification "if you find a job that suits you". But in reality how many of us truly do? I hope I do someday. Honestly my "dream job" is just finding a job I'm ok with and that doesn't make me feel like I'm constantly battling against myself and others.
 
ayase said:
Just wondering out loud at 5am if there’s any way to make money with zero human interaction (and I mean zero, no customers, no bosses, or at least none I ever have to see or communicate with) that doesn’t also require you to have capital to invest in the first place.

I’ve been thinking recently it would be nice if I could just turn my consciousness off for 8 hours a day and wake up with money, maybe hand my body over to AI control for the duration. Have 40 hours a week of my life by all means, I just don’t want to experience it.
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Go panning for gold at a river somewhere and post what you find to Cash My Gold. Of course they'll probably write back asking why you sent them a bunch of pebbles and used condoms.

Alternatively become a subsistence farmer and live off homegrown parsley.
 
Thought for the day: How do weather forecasts in the UK manage to consistently under-predict rain but also over-predict snow? At this point you can almost treat a snow forecast as a guarantee it definitely won’t snow and a 0% chance of rain as a 100% chance of rain.

If they catastrophized as much about rain as they do about snow, maybe they’d at least be accurate about one of the two. As it is, they might as well stop bothering with forecasts altogether and just set the weather outlook permanently to “50% chance of rain”.
 
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ayase said:
I’ve been thinking recently it would be nice if I could just turn my consciousness off for 8 hours a day and wake up with money, maybe hand my body over to AI control for the duration. Have 40 hours a week of my life by all means, I just don’t want to experience it.
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Not sure how many people watched it (wouldn’t need many fingers to count the number of people I know who have Apple TV), but did you see Severance by any chance?

 
Professor Irony said:
Not sure how many people watched it (wouldn’t need many fingers to count the number of people I know who have Apple TV), but did you see Severance by any chance?
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I did not, is it any good? Though I suppose any concept I come up with that I find out someone else has already thought of is probably of interest regardless. A similar thing happened when I learned by chance that a particularly popular author had come up with a concept very similar to one of my own, so despite the fact I’m not a huge fan of their writing I had to read one of their books in order to make sure I wasn’t accidentally thought-plagiarising their ideas (to my great relief it was not actually all that similar and I think I write better than they do anyway).

On that topic, solitary creative pursuits like art and writing are probably ideal for what I was talking about. Writers and artists can absolutely get away with being anti-social, it’s just a question of how you make ends meet until you have something saleable.
 
Having seen about half the first season, it’s a solid show, but it definitely skews darker than I was expecting and I’m not sure I’m in the right frame of mind to take on a series about modern slavery right now. I do very much enjoy the retro-futuristic “1975 in the future” aesthetic they have going on though, it reminds me a bit of Netflix’s Maniac.
 
That looks incredible, I'm hungry after seeing that!

Completely not related to anything but my friend took me and my kids out to see the new Paddington film last night and it was just BRILLIANT. I have not laughed that hard in probably years. Got to the point where I was gasping for breath from laughing! Olivia Coleman and Antonio Banderas stole the show, I can't decide who I enjoyed more. The first film was pretty good, the second one was highly entertaining especially Hugh Grant taking a very interesting detour from his usual typecasting and this one was choc full of stupid humour (exactly my kind of thing) and completely ridiculous whilst also heart warming. Kids got round the fact that the mum is a different actor by suggesting it is like Dr Who or James Bond 😂
 
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