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Just a month ago, I'd posted that my cat had died. This week on Monday, I finally received his ashes; the reason for the long wait is kinda stupid: we don't seem to have any cremation facilities for pets in our country, so the process has to be outsourced to our neighbor France. Anyway, the day after, my mom and I scattered his ashes in our garden beneath a tree where a whole generation of people and pets have been strewn over the past two decades. It's a small but important tradition for us, a tradition of sentimental value.
And today, our oldest cat was euthanized. Even though she had excellent blood tests to show for, she has had a problem with her teeth for a while. Normally, as the vet explained back then, it's simply because of old age, resulting in lesser hygiene, that's why the inside of her mouth easily contracted infections. She'd already got two main teeth removed as a result.
For the past one and a half week, she ate less and less each day. We suspected the teeth again, but also something more. So my mom and I went to the vet at a very orderly and competent clinic (the same one we always go to), but this time they took X-ray screens to look for any other suspicious activities other than tooth rot. They actually found cancer around the lungs (which were full of water and maybe other stuff) and the thorax which made breathing hard for the cat and eating nigh impossible.
As she was 15 years old and had weakened considerably over the past weeks, it would have been a mistake if they kept her alive after all this. That is also what they told us. We just didn't want her to suffer any longer (she probably would've starved to death otherwise). So we had to make the tough decision and let her go. Rest in peace, little buddy.

To my mom, older brother..
You are not human, you are shells of people. You are sociopaths or narcissists. Or just bad people. Whatever you are you are not my friends. You havent been for a while. You are my enemies.
Get that through your head and stop pestering me..

Considering what happened to me early today:

I don't give a shit if your dog is an angel or whatever. If they are growling and barking at people, you need to keep the leash tight and keep good distance from the sidewalk. Last thing you'll want is your dog attacking someone who was just minding their own business in walking by on the side walk.

In case one wonders, I nearly got bit by a dog. It's tooth scrapped my leg but I managed to get to emergency care. I was lucky it was just a scrape so I only need to take pills to get it treated. On that same note, venting at myself for being dumb in not getting the dog owners info. Granted, first time it ever happened to me that I didn't know what the hell to do but at this point, I need to at least be aware in what to do when someone's dog tries to bite me.

i regret almost all my posts on this thread.

I miss being on this site during 2014-16, it was so much fun talking to my internet friends before the drama i created caused me to gain a reputation here.
I miss when the relationship with my mom and older brother wasnt as strained as it is now. I miss having a dad who was my best friend and the only person irl i could talk to about my problems. I miss spending nights watching someordinarygamers, listening to earthbound and undertale songs and talking to my friends on the IRC and on both reddit and snoonet. Daydreaming about space travel, waifus, furries, and stories i planned on eventually creating.Wanting to learn japanese. Wanting to become a game developer. Being a computer and game nerd. And having a therapist i somewhat trusted.. I even still had somewhat unrealistic and fantastic hopes for my future that hadn't been crushed by reality.
I even miss my gloomy outlook on life, even though i felt like shit i felt way better back then than now..
Every day, week, month sense then has felt drained of joy, passion, happiness. A lot of my friends from here now resent me for the drama i created, my reddit friends are no longer active. Now that i'm an adult i keep wishing i could stay being 15-16 for the rest of my life. Nothing gives me as much joy anymore as when i was still that age..

honestly i want a certain fucktard a-hole to bully me openly so i can have that fucker reported
He talks shit about people behind their backs, but he acts like he's sorry for it. What an ass. Even worse, the people that aren't his "targets" like him! They all act fucking casual about it.

So, I fucking had it. This is certainly not the most serious issue I've ever had (by far, lol), but it is starting to get pretty annoying and I have to say it now.
I know there's a lot of waifu-ism on this site, and to be fair, most of the "your waifu is shit" arguments are playful and not at all meant to be super cereal. There's some fun in having this kind of banter on whose top girl or top boy is waifu or husbando of the year. I like that, and occasionally I see myself participating.
Until I saw the comment section of Splatoon 2.
That's where I can't make the distinction anymore. I mean, opinions go between "lol my waifu best waifu, the others are treeeesh jk" and "hurr durr, Pearl is pedo bait, Marina is much sexy, Pearl is like little babby, who actually likes her? hurr durr". Splatoon was always divisive when it came to character fandoms, but never did people take it as seriously. Some people just don't like Pearl, no biggie. But I get the feeling certain people take it way too far with the hate (and love for Marina; I love her too, don't get me wrong). The latest comments I've seen were "of course Japan would pick a white character over a black character" and "yeah, they have a thing for little girls". What a shitload of nonsense and disrespect! I can take a lot of shitposting, but please refrain of making an ass of yourself and go fetch yourself that Marina dakimakura if you're so keen on octopussy. Jesus Christ!
Just my opinion and vent, but you're welcome to leave downvotes if you feel like disagreeing, it's just how I feel.

Why do anime fans are extremely biased towards dubs? If I ever mention one of them, it's always an automatic "it's shit". Not all dubs are good or bad but at least give me thoughts on why?

For fuck's sake people. Let people have their headcanons. Why is it that every time there's a popular headcanon about a character being gay or trans, that people have to fucking go to war about it, and try and find every piece of evidence they can to show that the character couldn't possibly be gay or trans? Why go out of your way to shit on someone else's headcanon. And it seems like this only happens when LGBT people are concerned. No one fucking goes to war or accuses people of projecting when people say "I headcanon X character as enjoying bubblebaths and hot chocolate" or "Y character as being a secret chess nerd in high school." But when people say that in their personal imagination X character is gay or trans, we get people shouting them down, and saying that they're wrong and that their all just projecting social justice warriors.

A bias towards dubs is actually appreciation for the original voice acting. Therefore, people who prefer the original voices are more enlightened than the rest. This doesn't only apply to anime fans: in many European countries, nearly everything is dubbed, even if the source material is in English. There's simply no excuse not to know at least some English today. All these "civilized" countries like France, Germany, Spain and so on apparently used dubs, even in live action movies. It simply reveals the lazyness of the viewers and the power that the voice actors' mafia unions have.

Language is a key, one among many, to understanding different cultures and people and having friendly relations with them. Therefore, a flat out refusal to listen or use any other language than one's native language is proof of bigotry, sense of superiority and the wrong kind of nationalism. This pleases dictators.
I'm not saying that by watching one French miniseries one day, a few episodes of German detective series the next, you suddenly become fluent in those languages, but it does give your brain something to work on. You just might learn phrases and expressions and take a tiny step towards Elysium instead of staying in Gehenna.

What's more, unique sounding languages are something to be enjoyed: the artistic and elusive French (I can't pronounce it at all!), the rapid fire Spanish, the everything-in-it's-place German, the various British dialects ("Oi! What's this, then?"), Russian which is a combination of beauty and power, the singsong Chinese and the cowboy Texan accent… all these flavours are lost in dubbing, even if the dubs have better than mediocre quality, which is a rare case in your average anime dub.

That being said, I've watched at least two anime movies that actually had professionally done dubs, with famous actors (well, kind of) doing the voices. These movies are "Aladdin" and "The Lion King". The translation and casting play a huge part on whether the result is good or shit. Big budget western anime films usually have enough work put into good dubs – a bad or even mediocre dub would put a dent in e.g. Disney's reputation.

Ugh, I had the fucking worst night at work. I give tours of an observatory. 50+ people in one night is a chore because we have to split them up into two groups and basically do twice the work. We had 105. When I finally took my group upstairs to look through the telescope the fucking telescope broke. I'll spare you the details but I spent about an hour in that hot as fuck room with 50 or so people trying to get the telescope to work while they just waited around for me to fix it even though I had no clue what I was doing. It was embarrassing as hell not being able to show them any of the stuff they really came to see. One lady even said she and her family drove from two hours away just to see this. Finally our manager just told us to fuck it, and bring out this tiny ass telescope and set it out on the sidewalk outside and let people look through that. So of course that telescope was in a closet it could barely fit through the doorway of with about 5 other huge things that had to be moved out of the way first. And then the extension cable wasn't long enough so we had to find another one. So we finally got everything out and by this time there were about 40 people left. So I show them a shitty view of Saturn compared to what they would see on the main telescope. One lady asks if there's anything else to look at but by that time the only other thing you would be able to see (Jupiter) had sunk too low in the sky so I had to tell her no. So after everyone else finally leaves some old lady sticks around and has me read something off her phone. It turns out to be a passage from Revelations, and she asks if Jupiter will be in the house of Virgo on September 23rd. fuck if I know. She then tells me that that's a sign that that passage is coming true and that the world is ending and that she swears she's not crazy but God sent her to warn people of the coming apocalypse.

I like this job I really do. When things go right it's a lot of fun showing people the planets and answering questions about space. But tonight was just awful from beginning to end.

As someone who appreciates actual thiccness I feel like people are really misusing the term "thicc" as of late. Thicc usually pertains to someone who has a level of body fat around areas like the belly, thighs, and butt that's above average but you think it makes them look sexier, using the term for someone whose body type is just "very average" just doesn't quite feel right to me in most cases.

I know the first example might seem a bit exaggerated due to it being made mostly as fetish art but these two pieces of art I think do a good job illustrating actual examples of "thicc" :

For something a little more "subdued" these fanarts of Ms Fortune and Lord Dominator that I keep shamelessly displayed on my user wall could also be seen as a bit more on the "thicc" side due to their body proportions in these fan pieces looking a bit plumper compared to how they look in their official art:

what the fuck
people really believe this "September 23rd Doomsday" bullshit?
i thought this is only on /x/ a thing
(sorry for being off topic)

I just finish making a bowl of lamian soup noodles, and go to sprinkle some shichimi togarashi onto it. For those that don’t know, it’s a spice mix with stuff like red pepper, ginger, and sesame seed. Looks like this:

Now it’s not until I sit down to dig in that I notice an abnormal amount of black sesame seeds. Except they aren’t black sesame seeds, they’re tiny biscuit/house beetles. At least twenty of these beetles are swimming around, floating in my soup. I go to check the spice shaker, and of course there they are. Not only is the entire bottle of spice ruined, but so is my lunch of soup noodles.

At this point I’m simmering but I decide to throw out the trash, and what do you know the trashbag is leaking. Pork blood and noodle water spilling everywhere. And of course we just run out of paper towels. Ugh.

Holy shit, that's a really good point! So, calling dubs "shit" will pressure the dubs to improve? Please, correct me if I'm wrong here!

Edit: It would've been more convincing if people are more transparent and reasonable why it's shit instead of lazily calling them shit.

It's absolutly wonderful to find out that your best friend and long time user here decided to kill themself a week ago. Nothing beats the feeling of guts just shriveling up and dying when you find out that their dead.

Fuck.

5 years burned in the fire.

So I've been a Jojo/JJBA fan for about a year now, and while I definitely love it, a
large part of the fandom annoys me, more specifically, the people who just spam obnoxious dead memes (duwang, it was le me dio xdddd), ESPECIALLY "Is this a Jojo reference?" I hate that meme a lot because it makes the fandom look bad by shoving it everywhere and causes people to hate JJBA if it gets mentioned everywhere, which is what caused people to hate bronies; shoving their show into everything. I just wish that part of the fandom would die down, but unfortunately, that might not happen because of Stardust Crusaders airing on Toonami very soon, which would increase JJBA's popularity. Some part of me wishes JJBA to be less popular and more obscure, because it wouldn't have as annoying fans.

On a site note, I'm not excited about the live-action DIU movie or Rohan OVA because I'm actually very anxious about Vento Aureo, my favorite part not being confirmed. I feel like these things are delaying the confirmation of VA and I feel DIU is being milked for all its worth.

So I get back from a nice break a few days ago, and already I need to get this off my chest regarding the site's community: If you're gonna complain about something on the site, don't just sit there and complain. Fucking take action and do something. Don, Brad, the rest of the staff, and the mods are all available to contact if you ever need something, hell we're even available on Discord! If you're just gonna be complacent to just sitting around and complaining, frankly I don't see why you're still on this site.

WHAT MOTHERFUCKER CHARGES 2.50 FOR A TANGERINE ???