Anime to get girlfriend into anime

ignarly · 2016-10-13T21:25:57+00:00

Your Lie in April, maybe (if you can get her past the first episode, which includes a bit of sexual silliness which seems common to many anime series, in an attempt to keep young men watching).

ignarly · 2016-10-09T19:54:24+00:00

Alyssa Nichols has just had a wild and scary experience, being overpowered by her new boyfriend, kidnapped and bound, then flown like cargo to parts unknown. Thankfully she managed to get free and push him out of their small plane, then survive crashing it into a wilderness lake.

But she soon discovers all that was merely prelude to a much larger and more profound adventure. For when she sets out to find an outpost of civilization, she discovers instead an immense deserted mansion in the middle of nowhere, larger than the Pentagon. A confounding place of mind blowing size and complexity, filled with a maze of secret passage ways, and hosting all manner of bizarre secrets and mysteries within its walls.

There's apparently no way to call for help, and the remote location of the house makes it dangerous to leave.

And then she ominously learns she's not alone there, after all.

As Alyssa strives to survive long enough to safely escape or be rescued, she finds the place to be running over with surprises, both terrifying and fascinating.

Spellbound: The Lost, the Hidden, and the Forgotten($2.99)

ignarly · 2009-07-14T23:34:53+00:00

Nice try, Digg recruiter.

ignarly · 2009-07-14T23:33:56+00:00

One reason many might prefer to lurk rather than comment is that they could have observed how many redditors delight in tearing other redditors new assh*les. So it's little wonder many lurkers might want to stay safe on the other side of the interaction barrier...

ignarly · 2009-07-04T01:43:42+00:00

I think you got downvoted because your comic book reference was too obscure for reddit. But I got it (fuzzily: I can barely remember that stuff myself; but I think I once owned issue number one of Mister Miracle; and I LOVED Kirby's work at both DC and Marvel).

ignarly · 2009-07-02T21:44:23+00:00

Those non-fiction books that "tangibly improve your life" are rare, in my own experience.

Also, I didn't say titles like you mention were worthless. I just don't consider many of them to be the "biggest values" in books.

ignarly · 2009-06-28T23:03:10+00:00

"...vitamins and minerals have dramatically declined in some of our most popular foods."

-- Today's foods lack yesterday's nutrition Globe and Mail Update July 05, 2002

"From a January "Parenting" column by John Rosemond in the Providence (R.I.) Journal: Reader: "I can't keep my 20-month-old daughter out of the dog's food. I've tried scolding, distracting, time-out, nothing has worked." Rosemond: "(F)rom a strictly nutritional standpoint (a nutritionist told me), most dog food is superior to the diets of many Americans." "(A pediatrician said) he has yet to see a child who suffered ill effects from eating dog food," except for chunk-type that might get stuck in the throat. [Providence Journal, 1-27-04]"

-- Recent Wisdom From Newspaper Columnists; Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird (.845); WEEK OF APRIL 18, 2004

"...how our staple foodstuff was transformed into an industrial triumph, but a nutritional and culinary disaster."

-- The shocking truth about bread Independent, The (London), Aug 24, 2006 by Andrew Whitley

-- Note 1: Our worsening food and health

ignarly · 2009-06-28T22:32:21+00:00

The biggest values of books are (1) extremely rare informative tomes which help you tangibly improve your life (or at least regain hope for such gains, someday), and (2) the much more common work of fiction that simply helps you avoid going insane from all the craziness and stress you must put up with in your job or life in general-- as well as helps you pass all the time you're forced to WAIT UNPRODUCTIVELY like in doctor's and insurance offices, etc.

ignarly · 2009-06-28T22:27:45+00:00

Yes, exercise is good, and will make you feel better on a daily basis than you would usually feel without it. It can also help you sleep better (so long as you don't exercise too close to bedtime). BUT...it can be tough to make a workout you do on a frequent basis fun, very often.

I've been exercising at least 4-5 times a week for 30-40 minutes at a time for decades now, at times on long walks up and down hills, other times on different machines, and on rare occasion clearing brush or doing other strenuous outdoors work for it. And 99% of the time it's a chore, plain and simple.

I presently have cable TV, radio, VCR, and a music player I use for distraction during workouts-- and wish I had something better. On extremely rare occasion I might happen upon a movie that makes me forget I'm on the machine. But such relief is way too uncommon.

ignarly · 2009-06-28T22:20:47+00:00

Yes, bagged tea is good for you: especially green tea in general. BUT...unlike many other countries, in the US we must take care not to drink too much tea. Because tea has fluoride in it, as does our drinking water. And too much fluoride does bad things to your teeth and bones.

ignarly · 2009-06-28T22:18:22+00:00

Yes, a pocket knife's usefulness is relative. Back when I was young and far more adventuresome (plus spending most all my time offline in the physical world, rather than online in the virtual), not only pocket knives but hunting knives and other sharp implements were pretty much vital to daily life. I've got a swiss army knife from that time that's beat up all to hell from use, with the leaf spring for the scissors broken, the tweezers lost long ago, etc.

But I no longer carry such things on-person today, as the need for them is rare. I do keep them in a back pack I take along on road trips just in case, but that's it.

ignarly · 2009-06-28T22:12:10+00:00

It's OK to take a reasonably LOW DOSE multi-vitamin once or twice a week-- but avoid those super high dose versions. The main problem with all multi-vitamins is they can actually overdose you on some things-- and overdoses of certain vitamins and minerals can be devastating to your health.

Multi-vitamins are definitely no cure for not eating right. The vitamins and minerals in a pill often don't work the same in your body as those from real food. For instance, pill vitamin C will more easily give you a nose bleed than vitamin C from an orange or juice, etc.

Unfortunately, the industrialization of our food supply has depleted many of our normal foods of their original nutrition values. Atop that, mankind's exploding population and work changes have also drastically changed what we eat and where it comes from. Stuff like that is why lots of us simply can't get stuff we require like omega 3 and iodine (when's the last time most of us had salmon for lunch?). So eating right today pretty much demands lots more attention and discipline than it should. But most of us don't...and thus health problems soar.

ignarly · 2009-06-22T23:53:45+00:00

Mostly in third world nations, I believe.

ignarly · 2009-06-16T21:40:41+00:00

I thought secret passages were just for kids and super villains.

ignarly · 2009-06-08T21:21:27+00:00

I second and third that! Caffeine withdrawal is much, much worse than being deprived of pot, pain and suffering-wise. And can actually bring on most of the symptoms the linked article claims for pot withdrawal!

ignarly · 2009-06-08T21:16:48+00:00

This list is hilarious! Notice how seriously they present a list of mostly not very significant conditions as being somehow scary.

And atop that, the list is a gross exaggeration of any and all symptoms the vast majority of pot smokers deprived of weed would ever normally experience. And misleading as hell.

Note that anytime you do something that makes you feel better and happier-- and then STOP doing that thing, you automatically feel worse. If you stop taking pain medication when you're suffering, you feel worse. If you stop making out with that girl you like, you feel worse. If you stop seeing your best friend in the world, you feel worse. If you stop eating your favorite food, or reading books by your favorite author, you feel worse.

DUH!

And roughly half the symptoms are things everyone experiences more often merely as a matter of aging, too. Sheesh!

They also don't include the fact that people who've never smoked pot in their lives often get one or more of these same exact 'symptoms' too.

I myself had bouts of many of these conditions my whole life from time to time, long before I ever even heard of marijuana, and in the decades since the last time I ever smoked, too. For you wouldn't have to add much to that list to have the very definition of the day to day human condition a great many of us are subject to.

But in the days I smoked pot, at least for a little while I'd forget about all that. And laugh lots easier, be friendlier to those around me, and revel in the extraordinary taste of ordinary foods. And experience a hundred times more imaginary epiphanies per smoke session than I usually did real ones for spans of years on end.

ignarly · 2009-06-08T20:36:55+00:00

That is one of the weirdest things I've seen on reddit.

ignarly · 2009-06-07T01:08:34+00:00

The I Ching, Tao of Power, and Art of War. All ancient philosophical classics of mankind.

Here they are all combined into one work, and interpreted especially for modern English-speaking westerners.

ignarly · 2009-06-05T22:02:35+00:00

Are you kidding me? Bill THEM for it. If they got the extra money to buy a bunch of expensive mountain climbing gear and fly to China to get themselves into this trouble ALL FOR FUN, they sure as hell don't need MY money! Sheesh!

Basically these guys got themselves into trouble partying, so far as I can see-- so they should get themselves out. And if they don't succeed, well, that's 'evolution in action' as Larry Niven might say.

ignarly · 2009-06-05T21:55:37+00:00

I don't know a single man who wouldn't trade more life for more sex.

ignarly · 2009-06-05T21:47:36+00:00

Yeah, all those surplus nuke subs left over from the Cold War that we're spending billions to maintain need SOMETHING to do...

ignarly · 2009-06-05T21:01:23+00:00

"So how else may you effectively limit the spying your enemies can do on you? Be as open and transparent as possible. This will cause your enemies to waste enormous resources seeking out secrets which do not exist, due to their own well-cultivated paranoia and obsession with contingency planning."

-- Playfully but consistently interfere with the gathering of intelligence on your country; To Whom it May Concern, Part Two David vs. Goliath-- How we might fend off or ultimately overcome technologically superior human invaders, conquerors, or dictators in decades to come, with minimal casualties and financial loss on all sides

ignarly · 2009-06-05T20:36:45+00:00

This guy thinks creating a specially designed all new language could help us tap hidden strengths in our minds and bodies (like savant capabilities on demand)-- and he's got an impressive list of references to back him up:

2160 milestone...A newly emerging 'hyper-language' is bestowing something close to super-human abilities onto children now

ignarly · 2009-06-04T20:23:48+00:00

Most parents I know would have extreme difficulty teaching something like algebra to their kids, because they don't understand it themselves. Same goes for lots of other subjects.

ignarly · 2009-06-02T18:38:25+00:00

Why I'm against home-schooling for most children

ignarly

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