Recent content by Senkusha

Look at any Magical Girl anime/manga. Most protagonists are like 8, 10, maybe 14 years old. While I'm also a little pushed backward from watching literal children wage wars, I also remember that this is pure imagination. I remember what I was doing as a young kid, the adventures I thought I'd...

LOL, right now, it's in Scrivener, and it's a hot mess! I've got the core concepts down, it's just getting all the jumbled crap out of my brain and onto the page. I'm terrified thinking about when the time comes to actually format all these words into something beautiful, but I have a vision...

Over the course of a nearly a decade, with three major data loses, Ayeka's Bliss managed to service about 150 members. The typical community had between five and ten people active at least weekly.

I started creating my own role playing game system!

That would be my first website, that later turned into my first anime community, Ayeka's Bliss, a fan shrine dedicated to Princess Ayeka and the anime of Tenchi Muyo! (and Tenchi Universe), which later turned into a Play by Post role playing haven for other bizarre anime-centric, and D&D games...

Role playing game as in pencil and paper games that involve shouting profanity at some plastic dice while siting around a large table and scarfing pizza (or nachos). Dungeons & Dragons types of games, but not Dungeons & Dragons. I don't care for Dungeons & Dragons. Playing pretend while...

Actually, I despise taking pictures, whether of myself or other people, or of other people taking my picture. Would I stay within an anime universe forever? Yes, most definitely. Because I'm crazy, and I love unhinged crap, and I might get a special ability or super power or something-- but...

I never really have. I've listed the anime I've seen that I've enjoyed. But I've watched the same anime over and over again, because I like it, most people, as I understand it, don't do this. I'm weird.

Especially with Ranch or Bleu Cheese dressing! Yum-my! Apparently this is popular within the role playing community: Dice Pools (rolling a gazillion dice and counting only the sixes on a d6). I hate Dice Pools. They're cumbersome, and I think they're inefficient. I prefer a Roll Under...

And I added Metro: Otherscape. (I think I've got an addiction...)

Just added Mekton Zeta Plus (and Empire) to my collection too.

This. It very much depends on the character and action. Fan service doesn't belong with loli characters, yet somehow finds its way into the scenery. Does this make me a prude? Perhaps, but appropriateness is crucial.

What's a friend? LOL

Even when I role play characters, I purposely find interesting quirks and flaws to add to my character. Perfection is boring. And nothing is perfect. The same is true for any fictional character, anime or not.

Yes. It's over 9000!

I was going to say another A-word, but decided against it. I saw this listing there, and said, Eh, why not? So I've got answers, you've got questions. It's Shack Radio! Today I purchased a number of role playing games I definitely didn't have money for, but who cares! The world may be...

I would guess somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000.

I don't think Smartphone tech will persist for centuries. A couple decades more, perhaps, before something better replaces it, or wipes us out.

I'd be scared to actually be able to log in. I probably have over a million unread email in that yahoo account! LOL It's been probably a good decade since I last used it.

Fan-service is nothing to be ashamed of, is it?

I still have a Yahoo account that I can't access LOL! Yeah, Gmail is pretty solid. But I still love Outlook's Rules where I can organize all my email into folders rather than just labeling everything.

Auto-correct feedback loop imminent!!!!

I think some people equate anime to hentai, and think all anime is hentai, even though we know that's not the case. Most of the people who hate anime, probably haven't watched a single episode in its entirety.

Hidden secret: I'm still a kid!... trapped in an aging, nearly 50 year old body! LOL Tonight's dinner: Tacos. I would have made a guacamole, but the avocados are still too hard. Working for a wholesale food warehouse has its benefits. But my poor feet!

Some advice that worked for me: Stop looking. Two weeks after I determined that I'd be okay and fine living by myself, I met my current partner on a Facebook groups page, just searching for friendship. That was in 2022.

Have you ever played the Auto-predict game on your phone, where you start a phrase, and then repeatedly select the middle option to see what crazy story your phone comes up with?

And look at Star Trek... (I fell down a Star Trek subReddit recently). They're still using Tricorders....basically a smart phone. They're still using Communicators (and badges) Sure, they also had this representation of implantations via the Borg, and look how that society turned out.

That was my original point. Not everybody can succeed at Customer Service. But what he said just made my skill set seem ... invalidated, like it's totally worthless and therefore the people doing it should suffer. I'm tired of suffering. But I'm too old to re-skill, and I'm not all that smart...

I've tried to draw some anime characters, mostly Princess Ayeka, back in the day, but I'm 3/10. I recently bought a book on drawing Chibi characters. This looks WAY easier to accomplish.

Today, I'm feeling depressed. Got into an argument with some idiot on Reddit about the worth of Customer Service Agents/Representatives. Basically I said that without people like us, customers wouldn't keep coming back to a company that makes crappy products (like most companies do these...

No. The protagonist shouldn't necessarily be the best character, which is a relative term anyway. What is being defined as best here, in what aspect? I could write a story that features a completely unhinged character, a maniac, but that'd be the protagonist.

She's got the 13 mini.

And I don't remember if this was only at 20x or 50x. I was originally thinking of getting the Galaxy S20, which had a 100x zoom on it. Also, keep in mind that this picture could probably be sharper still if I didn't have the phone covering on, and I used a tripod for stability. I did the best...

I think there's a new Social Media term for that.... Incel? Not to be confused with Incest! But both are really bad.

So, I went to my doctor. He agreed that I'm consuming WAY too much Ibuprofen and need to cut back considerably. But, that's the only way I can tolerate to do my job at all. Yesterday, I took 800 mg of Ibuprofen, and my feet ached all day, just from sitting most of the day. And this morning...

Sounds like you need to have a heart to heart conversation about effective communication. You're being trampled on, or even possibly ignored. True friends don't do that. I get why she's doing this. She has something that she's excited about that she needs to unload. I do it all the time...

Yes, I agree with @Ravenfreak here. The problem is that I highly doubt that Cruchyroll paid anybody to do the work, and if they did, it was the bare minimum. Yet again, corporate profits and greed run amuck. Use AI, that's fine, but don't use AI at the cost of somebody's livelihood.

Based on my experience with Android, and my fiancee's experience with iPhone, I'll leave you with this: At least once a day, I'll hear her say "Restart phone." I think the last time I rebooted my Android was the last time it had to do a software update, back in like March or April. She's...

You bet!

Well, I'm going to the doctor (again) on Thursday. Maybe I'll get some medication refilled. I still don't think I qualify for disability though.