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And now we're at conference finals. Rangers-Panthers and Stars-Oilers. May whoever wins the West win the Cup. Mavs-TWolves and Celtics-Pacers. May a non-Celtics team win.

Some brutal schedules amongst the best teams. Kansas sure has an abnormal one but no sympathy.

Hades 2 is just it right now. Have no interest in other game at present. Good thing it and Balatro came out this year because GTA 6 will take the attention of the masses next year.

Anime...on a night I'm tired, I'll finally watch Night is Short, Walk On Girl.

MSI was utterly epic. Gen G finally won an international event. They might be the first ever to pull off the MSI-Worlds duo at this rate.

I find it funny that Mahomes said (on Pat McAfee) he doesn't talk to Butker at all because I've had RWNJ coworkers like that who if you gave them an opening just won't shut up. Everyone kinda knows not to poke the bear. I don't expect any of his teammates will have much to say after this either.

Well, time to see if the NFL and the Chiefs have any spine given what Harrison Butker said at a university speech.

Hope your purchases have shipped.

The Hawks ending up with the #1 pick and the Pistons with the 5th is one of the most bizarre draft twists ever. Play-in team gets top pick.

Hades 2 is my focus before temperatures really slide. Will get back to anime once League MSI is over this weekend.

Oh ok you're focused on the rebuild of Geass world line. I honestly don't remember much about Resurrection at this point... it was entertaining enough and I never liked how the original did Shirley so I was happy she ended up the fulcrum of the new timeline I guess. I was only ever a casual Geass fan though.

If you're happy to be a herbivore or whatever that's cool I guess. Personally I'm not against relationships or anything I've been in them in the past and hope to be in one in the future I just struggle with romantic attraction and pretty much always have. I'm not ace by any stretch of the imagination either. It is what it is though I'll save any further explanation for another time.

With RightStuf gone I was behind a few volumes of the series I collect so I ended up making a $200 USD order (including preorders) from Crunchyroll. I ordered a few books from them last xmas but haven't been impressed with their store otherwise so I'll see how it goes. They still seem to be using the RS warehouse and packing methods so that's good at least. Preorders are glitchy as fuck though and some books scheduled to come out next month aren't even listed. I signed up for a free trial to get 15% off so I'll probably try another store after this haul.

I don't dwell upon it. I've learned to avoid unnecessary risk and understand the true nature of people. I don't need power fantasies - they distract from actually achieve anything in life and power corrupts all ultimately. Have enough friends, including female. Converse well enough with female colleagues. What I am weary of are seeing relatives, colleagues, clients - all ruined by long-term relationships, physically and financially. So between their experiences and mine...I see no need. Life is too short and the notion that a romantic relationship is mandatory for fulfillment is a fallacy. For some it will be beneficial. But for the majority, they will overall regret it. There are far more types of love/fulfillment than those involved in romantic relationships. I get enough out of life. If I can get another 40 years out of life at least, have bettered the life of my mother and friends, seen what I wanted to see and do what I wanted to do without hurting others, then it was worth it. So I guess we're both aromantic, if there needs to be a term for it. We just got there for somewhat different reasons and through different experiences.

And as for tensions within Australia at present - if you look up the name Brittany Higgins, it will explain a lot.

I did sympathise with Kallen fans, particularly FoxxFire - I miss that guy and the art he did. However, I personally feel that long term, Kallen would have been limited in life by being with Lelouch. Lelouch and C.C. are damaged souls and see the bigger picture. Kallen is still relatively intact and deserves a chance to experience the spectrum of life on her terms within her own relatively limited lifespan. Lelouch and C.C. would likely be around for quite a while. But I am not bothering with anything beyond Resurrection. It provided the closure needed. Anything that has happened since is gacha or pander to certain countries.

Hades 2 has been a blast so far.

I was actually team Kallen in Code Geass though I'm not sure where exactly the new Code Geass stuff intends to go -- I'm not even sure Lelouch is going to be in it. I think the first movie/episode starts tomorrow or something so we'll see soon.

Hmm... I mean I guess everyone has red flags or trigger warnings or whatever based on their lived experience. Personally, I hate notions of 'persistence' in romance in general, though sometimes I'll hate read stuff like Kanokari where its the only real virtue the protagonist has. Ghosting too; no one should be 'persistent' enough to forgive being ghosted for a meaningful period of time. I really dislike the trope of playing 'catch up' to someone; aside from not really working that generally that just means you're pissing away time you could be together. I actually consider myself on the aromantic spectrum so fake aro stuff makes me want to throw things. Even Bloom Into You was kinda dead to me past a point.

If you're at the point of "averting your gaze" or whatever you may want to consider therapy or something, just sayin. Or maybe look up power fantasy about moving on; I quite liked I'm Sick and Tired of My Childhood Friend's, Now Girlfriend's, Constant Abuse so I Broke Up with Her though it hit a bit close to home. Regardless, life's too short to dwell on shitty people.

I'm not a sucker for that kind of stuff or love-hate relationships or love is war or family is everything or isn't X the cutest ever.

In my 30s, a woman almost killed me completely unprovoked and everyone else that saw it was permanently too scared to say anything because she was a full foot taller than any of us and could have broken every bone in my body with ease. Another one was an absolute fragile flower of an Asian princess that I was emotionally drained by. I've seen a woman seduce a trainer at work on day 1 and marry him while she stole credit for work I did. I've seen some women parade the diversity/ally banner and be some of the most evil people I've ever come across. And a rich woman once tried to run me over for kicks. I've run into a near endless stream of married mothers cliques (ones that have bullied the heck out of my no children female friends). I've been pranked by teen girls because they know they can get away with it. My best male friends have been emotionally blackmailed/stalked/had a near endless stream of lies spread about them online after leaving emotionally abusive relationships. And with things like the 4B movement and all men are evil thing being paraded online, I pretty much watch anything I say and avert my gaze as much as humanly possible.

I'm well beyond believing in teen chemistry/girl crying is the cutest thing ever/lovers for life/traversing realms thing. When your father comes within moments of killing you and your mother comes within inches of killing your father to stop him from doing so, you can't see relationships in a normal way. What I want to see is someone enhance another person, have a long term goal, emotional maturity.

If you want examples of anime couples I'm into:

Ushio and Shinpei from Summertime Rendering
Kurisu and Okabe from Steins;Gate
Tomo and Jun from Tomo-chan is a Girl
C.C. and Lelouch from Code Geass
Holo and Lawrence in Spice and Wolf
Lafiel and Jinto in Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars
Saki and Kousuke in Genshiken

Short list, I know. Like I said, what people deem as romantic/chemistry, I generally don't. Primarily, just give me a relationship I can actually believe would work long-term. And those seven stand out to me as ones that would.

I'm surprised you seem to dislike Shaft across the board but the toothbrush scene isn't until Nisemonogatari (S2) which it sounds like you were not even close to... did you at least finish Bakemonogatari? Or did you stop when the loli showed up in Mayoi Snail?

On the surface yeah there's a lot of cringe and otaku gags but the true strength of the Monogatari series is its character writing which is possibly unmatched at least in Japanese media. Every character feels fully realized and has a past, present, and future that feel truly relevant, not just "character is X because Y happened". If you don't like it that's your prerogative I suppose but there's a reason its as popular and praised as it is.

I tried multiple eps but I just find it mega cringe and thinking about all the ways my mother should kill me if I actually did continue watching it. Between the donuts, the toothbrush, the scissors, the most utterly sickeningly diabetic tune in Nadeko's theme, the colour schemes, that very first scene of making a stupid panty shot get strung out, its version of banter...I get Araragi triggers the whole 'one of us' vibe like no other for many. But between all that and Shinbo being Shinbo with his visual wankery (it ticked me off equally in Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei and Madoka Magica [and frankly, that ticks me off more than the Monogataris]), I really don't give a damn.

I don't like all Shinkai. 5cm makes me part laugh and part want to hunt the male lead down and do worse than kill him. I was never watching Shinkai as a romantic. I watched Garden of Words for two wounded souls healing each other. I watched Voices of a Distant Star for seeing what one person made by themselves. I watched Beyond the Clouds for the defiance and not giving up. I watched Your Name because it felt like 'the' moment where someone could go head to head with Miyazaki and hit upon the bits of modern life that weren't cringe. And yes, I do feel Shinkai goes for the same themes over and over but...so do Miyazaki, Okada, Oshii, etc. There really are very few that mix it up.