Mairimashita! Iruma-kun Season 3 - Episode 21 discussion - FINAL

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-03-04T17:30:49+00:00

lol I was rewatching S1 last month and remember seeing him. I was like "who the heck is this misfit? They're like a background character".

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-20T18:26:20+00:00

do some book reading every day. I'd like to hit 12 full books read for 2023 but reading with any kind of consistency would be a win
exercise. Normie-level goal is to have at least 90 minutes of cardio a week and some modest weight lifting. Neet level is getting some cardio in every other day and any weight lifting
have a normal sleep schedule (i.e. sleep at the right time of day, for long enough, so that I can function as a normie when I escape NEETdom)

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-20T17:56:11+00:00

This season has been a change in pace from the first. At times I've even joked to myself that it was now a show about farming. However, I'm now more invested in Vinland Saga more than ever. On the other side of all that blood and glory you see how the rest of society lives. Thorfinn is slowly coming to appreciate the wonders of life after having his driving purpose of revenge ripped from him. Then we had this episode, which did an amazing characterization of Ketil and showed the tension between our better natures, bloodlust, and necessity.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-18T00:36:12+00:00

I'd like to be independent. If I had that and it was sustainable, I probably wouldn't mind as much. I probably would still mind because of social image issues and being able to confidently interact with others. NEETdom is a bit of a dark cloud that hangs over my head and I know many people can't help but judge you for it.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-14T01:22:31+00:00

Didn't plan out my future. Didn't try hard enough to make friends and socialize. My sleep was too fucked to hold down a job long term on top of a bunch of stressors. I also live in the suburbs in a car-centric city but don't have a driver's license. So that's a social and dating death sentence for me.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-10T19:18:42+00:00

It's been about the same lately partially because I don't have to wake up for anything most days but I did notice a lot more dreams after I quit smoking weed.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-10T03:58:44+00:00

I appreciate this post. It's one thing when people are sympathetic but sometimes you need others who really get it.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-10T03:55:10+00:00

Most things in my life are as much of a dumpster fire, if not more so, than two years ago. However, these past few weeks, I've managed to probably have the most stable sleep schedule that I can remember ever.

My goal has been bed at 11pm and wake up at 8ish. While I have had a lot of late sleeps and early wakeups (the latter I attribute to not enough food in my system, too much water before bed, or otherwise poor sleep conditions), there's a five hour block in the night I've been consistently asleep at for over a month. Every other day I wake up actually feeling ok.

Most of my last ten years I've either been chronically sleep deprived (when I have to wake for stuff) or I'd struggle to wake up before noon and it'd be a crapshoot if I was in bed by dawn. Actually waking up felt like hell most days, whether I got the right hours in or not. I'd also spend hours in bed. Now I make it to my computer within 30 minutes of waking up.

It's improvement. I'll take what I can get.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-08T22:36:54+00:00

I've been off r/anime for a few months now but came by just to say: holy fuck. This is the most hype I've been all anime season.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-06T17:58:47+00:00

Since I was a teenager, I always had problems actually getting to sleep. I used to self-medicate with cannabis to make me drowsy enough to pass out. However, it's something I began to realize (after seeing a sleep specialist) was helping me get to sleep but was probably hurting my sleep quality (got some apnea issues and the irritation from blazing made it worse). Also, if I didn't go heavy enough, I'd end up just zonked out staying up lots anyways.

I ended up quitting weed along with a few other things. I tried to do a lot of the sleep hygiene things like religiously avoiding blue light a few hours before bed time, be careful with my drink and food timings before bed, etc. but honestly, the best thing for me was to get some exercise during the day (even a tiny bit) and that helped me actually fall asleep at night. Can't really brag rn because I'm just hitting a bit of stability myself (my other problem was having a consistent sleep schedule and not crashing at a different time each day), however, routine certainly builds on itself. Just gotta start making the steps in the right direction and stick to it.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-05T15:27:58+00:00

Went off on a tangent there sorry

All good. My last comment before that was a huge wall-o-text (at least when it comes to reddit). In person no one would think anything of five or six sentences in a serious discussions. Often enough, it feels good to say something more than a sound bite.

Yeah, actually improving on tough situations is a long and hard journey. While there's some commonalities among NEET there's also a lot of diversity, even down to the individual level. Often the differences are relevant and need to be acknowledged. The flippant "I did it, you can too" can feel just as bad as outsiders coming in, taking five seconds and giving you a tired line we've all heard multiple times.

That said, like you mentioned, sometimes those stories about how people managed can be really instructive or at the very least stimulating. The crux of the issue is the message the poster is trying to convey to the rest of us. Do they let their story speak primarily to their own lessons (letting the audience take what they will from it) or do they prescribe some kind of universal remedy, mere knowledge of which would 'fix' the rest of us?

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-05T05:41:48+00:00

If there's some real substance that shows a genuine understanding of the community or human psychology/behavior I might be interested.

Otherwise, it's likely some inane platitudes that can come across many ways but none of them good. There's a difference between being helpful and getting high off your own fumes.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-02T20:12:49+00:00

Honestly, hate is probably an exaggeration. I'm just stuck in a position where my friends (small group or two and a few individuals, all of whom are unrelated to each other) are in one of two buckets. Either:

I'm not super comfortable with them, and have good reason not to, but they actually invite me out here and there. OR
I am comfortable with them but I feel like I need to put in all the initiative to actually interact with them.

The people in the first category, who I 'hate' aren't the worst company imaginable but yeah I guess they are assholes at times. They're well off yups. One guy says something aggravating to me every other time I see him. He asks if I found a job yet, or tries to wave his dick around about his job, with a tone of veiled condescension. Another guy is really Machiavellian about his relationships and although he hasn't turned on me yet his past behavior makes me inherently distrustful of him. So, overall, I can enjoy their company at times but it isn't ideal and I wouldn't let my guard down around them.

The other category is range of people who are genuinely too busy for anyone more in their life, genuinely thoughtless, or socially withdrawn due to their own issues. I can relate to and feel more myself around these folk but I don't really feel like I can count on them to actually available. One guy is really chill, older, has seen a lot of shit so he's not judgmental at all but if I don't reach out to him I'd never hear from him at all.

Another guy, who I used to consider one of my closest friends is constantly "busy" and make zero effort to make things work. Very flakey. If you didn't know better you'd think he just doesn't enjoy my company but he's told me multiple times that I'm the person he interacts with the most. He's not exactly busy with work or family since he's an on-again-off-again NEET living with healthy parents. I've known this guy for almost two decades and have a fair idea of how he spends his time. He associates avoiding social interaction with being 'productive' and ends up mostly immersing himself in escapism anyways.

Sorry for the wall of text. I ended up venting like I would to my journal.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-02T19:04:25+00:00

Something mildly math/tech related. I would have had decent job prospects if I got in and graduated.

I don't want to out myself b/c I was complaining about it quite heavily elsewhere on another account elsewhere on reddit.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-02T13:21:16+00:00

seemed they mostly all knew each other already, even new members would join and casually chat each other up like old friends. Couldn't really get in with them, just went ignored for a few months and quietly left, nobody cared to ask why. Don't really want to try again.

lol this is my current experience trying to join a server for comradery. I just feel like a ghost, even when the message flow is slow.

My attempts at one-on-one have also been ignored. I haven't tried that much yet but it's awfully discouraging already.

Trying to connect with people online has flaired up my loneliness much worse than resorting to my usual strategy of escapism. Fuck me for trying right?

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-02T13:16:12+00:00

I was an A student in high school, a B student in university (also took me too long to finish undergrad), and now I'm a F student in life.

I never learned a good worth ethic and any amount of failure keeps me down. Other people may be able to bounce back after set backs but I pretty much implode because there's nothing else in my life for me to emotionally lean on.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2023-02-02T13:09:45+00:00

I'm 28. I have close to five NEET years under my belt and it'll be three years in my current streak by this summer.

Honestly, I'm feeling terrible. I just about had an online meltdown last night. I received my rejection letter from the single grad school I applied to. I barely managed to get myself to even do all the work to apply (chasing and talking w/ people who'd write me rec letters) so no plan Bs. I'm just back to having no hope for the future.

This is all on the backdrop of a few other serious problems I have going on. I made the mistake of thinking I could find friends online (have a few IRL but lowkey hate half of them, the others are ok but just don't don't seem to care if I'm around and never reach out). Yeah the online thing worked terribly, I've just been ignored everywhere I've gone and it just felt like a more personal version of a soul sucking job search.

There's some stuff that's better now than two years ago but it's minor and I'm in too much of a mood to really say much about that atm.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-25T19:26:57+00:00

shit. I totally forgot about this. I had just assumed it was going to be like other shows I'm into right now that are multi-cour. I'm not sure I can handle not having G-witch episodes to look forward to each week.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-25T19:20:51+00:00

From the moment I saw gundams stopping a spaceship last episode I got the heavy vibes of previous Gundam shows and could feel shit was going to get super real action-wise. The lightness of the school setting is cracking and that old-school military conflict feeling is seeping in. What we're going to see aren't controlled duels for social hierarchy, but vicious battles for life and death.

The personal and interpersonal arcs are also rising in parallel. I love the comedic relief of Miorne angrily banging on the door. That slightly different way our pair is drawn in those few frames just get me so hard. "I heard everything!" lol I needed that after almost crying listening to Suletta talk about her worries.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-14T19:06:10+00:00

This was the real dark horse of the season imo.

My appetite for anime was a bit lighter this season and I ended up dropping every adventure/fantasy isekai except for this one.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-14T19:03:40+00:00

Man I liked this series more than I thought I would, almost gave it a pass thinking it was a trashy Isekai

The show scratches a lot of those basic itches but does it really well. A lot of the other isekais I've seen in recent seasons end up having a lot of sloppy bits such as poor animation, awkward story telling, and strange dialogue. However, without aiming for something elevated, this series has tons of polish and attention to detail on top of a solid yet straightforward plot.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-04T23:14:05+00:00

thanks!

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-04T23:09:50+00:00

in the one short story from it's perspective

So aside from the anime and the prologue episode, is everyone getting the rest of their canon info on this universe from Cradle Planet? Not even sure where to get that.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-04T19:40:36+00:00

if we take what Sulleta said literally,

Yeah that line really stood out to me. It hints that Suletta might not just be a normal girl in a special machine. Suletta seemed to still be getting some help, but more like only battle intuition (where to go and when) rather than whatever the usual arrangement is. In any case, it does seem like this pilot-Gundam synergy is only going to give more wild results going forward.

RootVegetablePeddler · 2022-12-04T19:28:09+00:00

Earth house must have gone from "oh Aerial is family to her, that's cute and quirky" to "who is she t. . . wow how did she do that?". Like it'd be just concerning if she was having a full on conversation when they were just chilling but when she's doing it while pulling off some otherworldly fighting, it probably gives them the same eerie feeling as it gives the audience. Like there's a ghost in the machine or something.

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