And get this. In the future, when society is ruled by computers, even things like penetration will go digital. Digital penetration! BOOM

I haven’t but that series sounds totally like something I’d be into. My name is an allusion to a scene on a Greek vase where Sleep and Death are carrying away the body of Sarpedon (I learned about it in my Greek art class at the time and the term just sounded so cool).

I’m with you, but it’s sad that there is a reason that people are driven to such fear in the first place. Pharmaceutical companies are fundamentally profit driven and don’t care about anything else (e.g. Purdue Pharma basically lied to prescribing physicians about OxyContin’s addictiveness as a painkiller,…

When I was in first grade there was a whole “boys vs. girls” thing going on in our big Saturday night Bible study group. I remember some of the boys got some mud and mixed it with water and almost convinced the girls to drink the “chocolate milk” before one of the boys finally spoke up.

They’re in Alaska, so I’m not surprised. It’s cheap, nutritious, and probably more widely available. It also might be part of the local culture or something.

I agree, Japanese society as a whole seems pretty conservative in some ways (not in the sense of American social conservatism) with regard to etiquette, sexual mores, importance of social connections, etc that are at odds with its reputation as essentially an honorary European nation. It could simply be the view of a…

lol everything comes back to anime doesn’t it

Before I watched the video I was sure it was going to be another brown stripey House Sparrow, but the greenish hue had me agreeing with you. (Edit: whoops, House Finch, nvm)

Augh I was annoyed by the whole spiel he gave too. After the first few minutes, when I was genuinely shocked that it was *that guy* all along (I really thought the plot was just trying to throw us off the trail), I got tired real fast. For such a singular anime the whole scene was very unoriginal in how contrived it…

Zoro is far and away the most attractive One Piece character, though it also helps that he’s the least cartoonish too.

I think it’s a taxidermy specimen. Might be an old taxidermy nonetheless?

lol what did evolutionary biology do to you?

The problem is that people somehow worship astrophysicists, by virtue of their field, as experts about everything, even if they’re blatantly wrong.

I saw it as a parody of typical magical girl animation sequences, except she’s just a normal (obsessed, reclusive, wealthy) adult woman. Plus an excuse to show off pretty animation, and eat up screen time.

He’s supposed to be a stand-in for the viewer, but I just cannot relate to a school boy who basically stands around and asks leading questions to advance the plot.

Every time a protagonist or an antagonist goes on about death or darkness or such I just roll my eyes (cf. Garo: Crimson Moon). I think it just has to do with death being a cheap, neat, easy go-to for anime and manga to claim that they’re Tackling Dark and Serious Real Life Issues, instead of being just eye candy with…

Both shows are good, but have their own merits. Beautiful Bones is definitely more formulaic, and some of the science is a little BS (i.e. Lethe diana is not unique as a corpse feeding butterfly, nor does it ever ominously swarm in alarming numbers) but it is beautifully animated and really exemplifies my belief that…

Don’t let anyone come in there ;D

It’s not n-word, intentionally malicious offensive as much as extremely tone-deaf offensive. It has to do with it being used for all east Asians regardless of whether they’re Chinese or not, plus it has a dismissive, patronizing connotation due to its history of usage that “Englishman” and “Frenchman” don’t (see also…

They’re so weird in so many different ways, they’re honorary marsupials in my opinion. They can’t taste capsaicin, they’re almost cold-blooded, they have teeth that in effect grow outside they’re mouths, and they’re eusocial (but with their own twist, where queens arise from preexisting adult workers that actually resu…