"FUCK Google" makes people feel relevant and involved which is pathetic.

Can you deny it though?

Yeah, if there isn't an unconnected hose or cable, that's about the extent of my car knowledge.

Good for you - seriously, are you single?

Whatever helps you concentrate on your stroke, I guess.

There is a dude on Instagram who has been doing "hobby Enduro" which is basically the same thing but with an Enduro bike stick thing between your legs. I've been following it for a while because it seems like it's ironic but it's starting to get to a point where idk if the guy still thinks it's a joke anymore.

I'm blaming the French when English needs a reform. Much of the language is stolen French, with the diabolical inherent spelling traps, the other reason reform is required is the halting of the vowel change, which is why some words, though written the same, sound different - one example: though (tho) and bough (bau).

Can't see it happening to be honest.

Yes but a lot is also language change. Knight for example was just spoken with a K and a fricative at that time and place. The writing just wasn't adapted to the changes in speech.

True, true.

Other than American pickups, the rest of them have stayed relatively reasonable sized. Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi L200, Isuzu D-Max, Volkswagen Amarok, Ford Ranger, Nissan Navara, Mercedes X-Class ... There's plenty to choose from.

Hmm...
I'd argue against houses/living space (what is reasonable) but the other stuff: Yeah.

Example:
I'd like a living space with 3-4 rooms with a nice garden.
Do I need that much when I could suffice with just 2? No.
Would I like to, to do my hobbies and interests? Yep

I find the idea bwhind each show is more compelling and tends to be more mature to what the west peovides in the same (animated) genre.
You get the odd show like 'Invincible' that is more mature but they are way more rare than on the eastern entertainment domain.
Can't really say I have noticed much shows that are on the level of 'Avatar the last airbender' in western tv (and that alone is a controversial topic of if it's a western cartoon or more eastern in influence)

I don't watch the streams or vods but the clips are funny/entertaining

So the Discovery Channel?

Maybe more to mean like the original belief vs the now off-spring?

Same. I'll go as far as changing a wheel when I have a flat, but that's pretty much it.

Otherwise, I can lift the bonnet and go "yep, that's an engine" quite convincingly.

Sports are fine when you do them. Watching strangers perform is quite uninteresting.

We keep it that way purposely to annoy the English speakers, so that we can make fun of you.

Oh it's not annoying me. I just don't want to learn see or speak the language. Since I moved a little further from the French border that is much easier.

That is like pushing someone into the deep end of weird.

I know you're struggling to get into this genre, here try this story about a kid who grows a phallic unicorn horn from his forehead...

Meh, even that is different. One facilitates an activity YOU partake in. The other is an activity you watch others do. Obsessing over how well grown men perform at children's games is odd. Structuring your weekend around observing other people exercise while you sit on the couch...is weird.

Ok guys you got me. This is fascinating. Does the enduro guy have to make bike sounds with his mouth?

The French language exists purely so that there can be English speaking with a French accent.

Stick with me here, Hobby Jousting.

Honestly nothing. It's almost like a compulsion, where I feel like if I ignore something I'm a bad person.

Why the Midwest(usa) cucks so much. Its like the cuck mecca of the world. Google it.

Yeah I was probably too young to grasp that when I first watched in ~2003. It was one of the first anime I watched with relatively adult themes, but was drawn in by the art style and music. The sexual overtones were lost on me.

AmericaUS. l I'm just done with them. I'd like it if they just STFU for a good long while. Leave everyone else alone while they implode themselves in the stupidest of ways.

What's to get? Not a lot of depth if any to any of these. Like someone huffed glue and laughing at a fly on a wall.

I am so down for this.

Oiseaux !

Our neighbors three year old plays like that too.

LMAO! I’m married and now basically live the life of a 95 year old legit couldn’t be happier. Never had an instagram either. I don’t wanna get caught up in that shit.

Six seven

No judgment since I think many anime shows are not worth the time, but anime is just another medium, like books, more than anything. If there’s a genre of something you like on another medium, then there probably are some decent shows for that genre in anime.

Lots of anime is written with a specific audience in mind, such as the most well known anime shows being written for teens and young adults. Even more, most anime has a specific gendered audience as its target audience.

I personally didn’t care too much for anime until I watched some very high quality shows that pulled me more into the medium.

NFTs actually are an easy concept, a dollar bill is a Fungible Token, because all dollar bills are the same, you can change one for another and it all works out because both represent the same thing (one dollar). A deed to a house is not fungible, you can't just change one deed for a different one because they represent different things. NFTs are just that, Non Fungible Tokens, why some people wanted to own a digital token representing ownership of a publicly available digital image is what can't be explained.

I thought I was the only one.

I studied computers down to the transistor level. I know many of the different cells in the immune cascade. I've researched child psychology.

But ask me to explain what a car's transmission is and the only thing in my brain is dial-up tones...

Impeccable taste in puzzle games, congrats!

Never forget 1066.

Some people hang on to their inner child, some let it go. That's just the way it is, it's not better or worse, just different approaches to life.

Vtubers are a subset of streamers, they are subject to all the same drama and content. People just like to separate them because, similar to anime, there are many people who watch vtubers but don't watch other streamers.

Same, think there are like 2 available but I'd want electric which doesn't exist at all. Had an el camino as my first car and other than the lack of heat it was great.

fungible

adjective
fun·gi·ble ˈfən-jə-bəl

1: being something (such as money or a commodity) of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account

You're absolutely right, but sometimes I think back to my own stupidity as I came of age and am just incredibly thankful that the internet was such a different place. As such, society was more forgiving and our dumbassery faded into the anonymity of time.

That said, some things are really encouraging about the younger generations. They seem, as a whole, much more socially and environmentally conscious than I think many of us were. I meant my original comment in a "get off my lawn" kind of way (which I think you also understood and echoed), so as a more serious counterpoint to my original snark, "the kids are alright" if not all right.

FLCL is great, but it is pretty damned weird and better with knowledge of the material it parodies.

Cowboy Bebop is the entry point to anime. It's mostly episodic so there's no need for a huge time investment. You'll know if you're going to like it or not after an episode or two. The only problem is that it's so damned good, it's only downhill from there.

It takes up a third of your income but you have no interest in it ?

It's a form of tax avoidance.

Art is a tax deduction in the US. Say you have a tax liability of $10k, you buy $10k of Art and you can claim the value (not including sales cost) as a deduction.

Then after the tax year, you sell it to the next guy. As long as you sell for the same price, you pay that much less tax (that is, about 25% of the value less in tax).

Well an NFT is just Art without the hassle or expense of insurance or storage. It could be used as a tax deduction.

When the IRS ruled it was no longer eligible, the NFT market collapsed.

But they don't scream at you and call you a weirdo if you say you're not interested.

The Toyota Hilux Workmate is a great ute in Australia. A lot of Hilux's are still big wank tanks.

It reminds me of being a young man smoking bongs on my friends couch while he plays GTA3. I'd still prefer to watch a friend play a game in person but there's less time for that these days.