While spending more as an “investment” in quality can certainly save you money, this can also be a very dangerous (and enticing!) thought because it helps justifies spending even when it’s not warranted. And since it’s dependent on future actions/situations and not on present facts (Yes, I’m going to work out every…

The lighting is all wrong. It’s way too flat, like a poorly done HDR image. The sky suggests it’s sunset, and anything not lit up by the sun should be in pretty deep shadows, particularly in a mountain valley like that. But everything is diffusely lit, and you hardly see any shadows anywhere.

The fact that they claim it’s the same even when asleep is complete BS. Also they list KW instead of KWH, but that’s probably just a typo. Still, sloppy.

I’ve always preferred manga myself. And don’t forget the biggest benefit: all the great works that don’t quite get popular enough to get an anime adaptation (if you don’t read Japanese this of course applies to translations as well, but there are many scanlaters doing God’s work.)

The point being made works better if you illustrate it (er, pun not intended) against a good anime rather than a bad one though. “See, manga has these strong points even when the anime version is well executed.” I don’t think anyone is saying that the OPM anime is anything but great.

Fair enough, but I think either of those lose the double meaning in English (“Please call me a hero” implies nothing about his name, and conversely “My name is Hero” is only about the name.) After a bit of thought, I think “I Am Hero” might capture it best in English. Ironically, removing the ‘a’ reintroduces the…

But but but... checking my phone is how I wake up! If it wasn’t for that little temptation to dangle in front of me, I would just roll over and keep sleeping. By the time I’ve got through my 5 min phone-wake-up routine, I’m sufficiently awake that getting out of bed isn’t so painful.

While your reasoning makes perfect sense, I don’t know where you’re getting アイアムア equates to “please call me” in Japanese use. The closest I can think of is the (mis)use of アイアム to mean “my name is”, though this would always be when attempting to use English (i.e. introducing oneself in English) and not appropriated…

Really? The only kanji on the cover is the author’s name.

“It’s a problem if it’s not dead...”
“Otherwise,”
“I’m a murderer...”

Hmm.

The original Star Wars was an aberration - George Lucas directed a good Star Wars movie! The Empure Strikes Back, on the other hand, is what can be done with the universe when in competent hands, so the new films won’t have to buck that trend.

Katakana and hiragana are the same alphabet, just different symbols (like uppercase and lowercase - I know you know that, but others probably don’t.) Romaji is essentially free if you’re coming from English. It’s the kanji that’s the real bitch IMO, doubly so because there’s both the on and kun readings.

Then make the sacrifices and get it. Make sure you really love it though, rather than something you merely think you’ll really love (which is a common trap with big ticket aspirational purchases like cars.)

Looks like you might be able to limit it to your LAN? In which case that’s a good idea, *particularly* if you have data caps, because then you download it only once for however many machines you might have. Just turn off for the rest of the internet.

Totally agree, but some problems are easier to fix than others, and if you have a problem with overspending that’s probably a bigger issue than losing the 1~2% in rewards. Of course fixing overspending and still using a credit card is better, but some people may be unable to do that.

Speaking of pissing them off, everyone needs to get on board with calling them Daesh, not ISIS.

It’s precisely because vaccines are so effective that these whackjobs emerge; since these diseases have become very rare thanks to vaccines, they no longer perceive the risks from the disease and instead perceive only the extremely small risks from the vaccines. Which is of course ironic, since their paranoia is…

I found that odd too. They do have strict censoring law - but that only applies to genitalia, not to breasts or nipples. In fact, you’ll quite often seen exposed breasts in media that would never fly in the generally much more prude US. So... yeah. Don’t get it. Except maybe they didn’t want to create too many…

You get a better view of it a second later - it says “Fallon’s”