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Speaking from personal experience, I'm sort of happy that my small town school didn't have special programs for gifted children. Being one of those that stood out in a crowd, I spent several of my first years in school being dragged away from class, spending in a small room with a bunch of old geezers (not wearing lab coats, but I could almost imagine it), asking me question upon question, taking notes, showing me sequences of trigonometric shapes, asking questions about society, natural science... FFS, I was 8 years old and wanted to be outside and play ball! Being a clever kid, I came up with the idea of playing dumb. Hardest thing I ever did was to deliberately give wrong answers, pretending I didn't know about something or acting clueless. But it worked, after another year, they left me alone and I got to spend most of my school years in the library instead (because the teachers thought my constantly bored looking expression was "demoralizing" for my classmates, who had trouble with their assignments) Edit: And my classmates needed the teachers a lot more than I did... I still miss the smell of books to this day

It looks like rice crackers. You probably could eat a literal ton of the stuff per day and lose weight But you're right, it's probably lacking a 'k' in front of it, but looking like US packing, they might have left it out to not confuse people. Too metric maybe?

I positively hate it when it's obvious cgi animation. I saw a Chinese cartoon (or rather the beginning of an episode) once and switched off shortly after start. I prefer 3 frame animations over cgi most of the time. I did a google search (leading to a wiki) for Puella etc. etc. just for the basics and reviews. I don't mind "cute", but not for cuteness sake. It's fine if it's the method of delivering a story. Being from the Nordic countries, I like both my humour and stories darker than pitch black. Besides the aforementioned Blood-C and Made in Abyss (one of my favourite stories of any genre so far), my rather limited exposure to all things anime can be summed by a few movies: Akira, Urotsukidoji and Ghost in the Shell, the latter being a very good story, which I love (at least the first one, not so much the second one). Unsolicited advertising, Steam sells GiS (I bought them) Edit: While NieR: Automata and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 aren't technically Anime's, I could easily imagine them being an animated adaptation of Manga's (and those two games rank up there amongst my favourites)

I'll give 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' a look after I've finished Elfen Lied

For those who don't speak Calorie, multiply the figures for Calories by 4.184 to get the Joule equivalent. I.e. 419 and 1464 Joules approx...

I probably spoiled it a bit by revealing that things aren't what they seem, but if you persist, I'll keep my mouth shut and leave you to connect the dots from the clues as the story progresses. Finished third episode of Elfen Lied. A bit heavy on the stereo types at times (looking at you macho killing machine soldier), but definitely a faster paced story than Blood-C from the outset (but less blood and gore).

It is a bit on the slow side up to around the hallfway mark. Just a word of warning (or managing expectations or whatever). If anything, I think they rushed the ending in the last episode, it could have been done more with to wrap things up in a manner that felt less like Oops, we got 20 minutes, lets hurry and dump a tonne of info kind of way. Edit: Tl;dr; the pacing is terrible Edit2: Started on Elfen Lied. Off to a gory start. Not bad so far.

Not bad for a 90 year old

Apparently this guy was a convert, embracing Islam and gotten "radicalized" in the process. If you ask me, without ever having met the guy, more likely a basement dwelling Incel living with his parents, with some serious anger issues he never got to work out committing domestic violence. But that is just an assumption on my part. Could also be because he was a half breed (half Danish half Norwegian) and his genealogy was all ****ed up, making him mentally unstable.

I’m sure there is more to this story, but it’s only just breaking and details are scarce. Apparently a feral Dane was caught in Norway after killing a handful of people with bow and arrows https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58910794 No firm details yet about the motivation Edit: To the best of my knowledge there is no official hunting season in Denmark for Norwegians

I guess my next venture into all things anime is going to be either Attack on Titan or Elfen Lied. I think I'll flip a coin.

That's how I feel when walking home from the gym (to be fair to myself, being not just 30+ but mid fifties I give myself some slack in that regard, some things just were easier at 20, including recovery times for my body)

Is "autonomous sensory meridian response" intellectual speak for erection?

Live long enough and you might eventually arrive at the conclusion, that the world isn't all black or white. Just extremes and everything in between... /wisdom of an old man (me) just like there is no truth or "right way" of doing things. Depending on your personality (part genes, part environment, optionally whatever your spiritual beliefs adds to it), we can try to do the best we can to achieve what we want in life. Sometimes the means to the end doesn't justify the means according to our own values. Sometimes, the end justifies any and all means. My way of saying there is no right or wrong answer to your question (crap, I really should've gotten into politics! ). If you asked me specifically, I would say yes, there are things people could learn from a unified society, but then I grew up in one. Denmark may be small by today's world standards, but it was a homogeneous society at the time with a very strong "social contract", compelling people to do what was right (according to the values of society back then). My inner anarchist want's to dismantle large and powerful political systems however, so a bit of conflict of interest there. Maybe it's all about the scale of things.

I never had the nerves for Ponzi schemes. Which is really what crypto currencies are. As long as you can get someone else to join the bandwagon, you make a profit. Eventually, when reality knocks on the door and it collapses, there are no gold or currency reserves to support it and those at the end of the food chain are left penniless. In the meantime, it's great for money laundering and tax avoidance (the last big hit Bitcoin took was when China outlawed crypto currencies and a number of wealthy Chinese suddenly had to either pay bribes tax or divert their income to overseas trust accounts

I don't know why they always make me think of this other band. They are not the same (other than the slightly dark, gothic look), but maybe I just bought the cd's in the same time period. When cd's started to replace vinyls...

About Blood-C, the one and only season is a very slow starter. The first 2-3 episodes are mostly introducing the cast. @Bartimaeus it is indeed as you say. But as the episodes happens, more and more puzzles of a jig saw falls into place and nothing is as it seems. There is a reason why she's so happy go lucky just as you eventually figure out bit by bit the reason why she is so clumsy one moment and a Katana wielding samurai, slash athlete, slash killer, slash completely unaffected by the death of all her friends the next moment. Around episode 5 or 6 (iirc) , you realize as the viewer that everything you thought so far is wrong (/end of spoilers in case anyone wants to watch all 12 episodes some day). I actually mostly enjoyed the story and the twist more than the endless gore and innuendo.

No idea what Blood+ is (sounds like I'm not losing out on anything) A relatively harmless trailer: (for more action, there is a death count video on Youtube showing the first 274 gory deaths) The other one, Made in Abyss: (English dubbed, I have a subtitled version instead)

I *think* there is a season two. But it's currently only available on blu-ray in the wrong region (for me that is, my drive is region B, whereas season 2 is only available for region A as far as I could find on google). So, it's a no go. Not going to buy it... waiting for either a dvd version (I have a multi region, stand-alone dvd player) or a region free blu-ray version. Season 1 just sort of "ends" mid journey (simplified explanation)

I’m not much of an anime fan to be honest, but since Ghost in the Shell was new, I’ve watched two series, that I liked: Made in Abyss and BLOOD-C Both are probably what you would call an acquired taste, but hey, I quite enjoyed the stories (although Made in Abyss could definitely do with some kind of real closure)

Australia is in many ways a third world country with a first world economy (not kidding)

Slightly larger than a rifle... looks like Japan is finally starting to move out of the shadows of the past. A bit about the first two Japanese built aircraft carriers since WWII

I see two possibilities for this... it becomes a rare collectors item owned by some social media mogul. Alternatively, it becomes as common as the penny is today (the Weimar Republic sends its regards) PS: Not to be confused with the common penny, which is something different entirely, an Imperial tax introduced in 1495