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After nearly 10 years in the same part-time-work-but-full-time-availability dead-end retail job I've been miserable in for a while now, I've changed jobs. I realise that wouldn't be much of an achievement ordinarily, but I don't have a lot of self worth so it took a lot to make the leap - it took a week to finally muster the courage to apply. My friends were my rock. It's been nearly 2 months since I was offered it, and I'm still surprised I got it. The new folks are grand. The new job is full time, have my own desk, and I get my weekends and bank holidays back. Best of all, I am no longer dealing with the general public. It's not an easy job by any stretch, but it feels more rewarding.

The physical nature of my last job and the fact you have to be on your feet all the time was finally starting to take its toll: I kept getting issues with my back, and eventually developed both plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendonitis which made it a bitch to stand let alone walk. I suspect having to manually carry stock of various weights up a flight of stairs constantly was a major contributor to that. Getting bitched at from higher up about sales targets day in day out and expecting us to manually track targets on paper if we fell short was also getting on my nerves. I also really didn't want to work another Christmas in retail. I could get into a full blown rant about my frustrations with the place but it boils down to just not being a very fulfilling occupation. I was way overdue a change. Funny thing is I didn't intend to stay for that long.

Don't know why I'm making this post. I'm just happy about this recent development in my life.

Also hi, been a while.

Enshittification is inevitable where larger corporations are concerned, the bottom line is revenue. It's why I get worried when a studio or company gets bought by one or goes public, because they too have to start behaving the same way. But Google enshittifying the one thing that put them on the map to begin with, its search engine, is both hilarious and sad.

I also haven't liked the trend of people chasing the next exploitable grift (NFTs, AI, DEI) and shoving it down our throats until we have no gag reflex left.
I've seriously questioned the moral compass of every celebrity that actively pushed NFTs, in my mind they showed their true colours.




Deja-vu.
The UK tried the exact same thing with us a few years back, right down to the "think of the "children" reasoning for it. I've never understood how inconveniencing everyone because of the presence of kids on the internet was a good justification, especially because parental controls exist and should be used. But I digress; they would have required everyone to provide an ID to a third party to allow them to view adult content. It passed a bunch of checks but it was eventually shelved after concerns about the third party, which was MindGeek, potentially storing too much information and selling it off, which would have been a gigantic violation of GDPR laws - and the fact VPNs exist plus a bunch of other undisclosed technical issues. I could make a few guesses as to what those were.
If Canada's politicians have any common sense they'd see this too and abandon it altogether. It's a lot of effort and a gigantic money pit, and the only one that wins is whoever gets people's private information. Nobody in their right mind should want this. Which is why it should ultimately fail.
Lol this aged well, fucking Online Censorship Act.

However on a seperate occasion they did succeed in banning female ejaculation in British porn 10 years ago because it was successfully considered a kink.
There's a joke to be made there about the bedroom inadequacies of whoever passed that.

It had a selection of hentai anime but they never really focused on it so it was never really updated. Not surprised it's gone.

It's for the best. Fakku is best known for its manga and its exclusives. It's better to focus on and dedicate to one medium and excel at it than to branch out then never do anything with animation. Especially when other websites you're competing with do a far better job at doing it.

Licensing the videos may have also been an issue. But don't take my word on that.

Only two years late, but I appreciate the enthusiasm.

Don't cum into your home appliances.

Obligatory annual post about account age.

Damn time flies.

So, it's basically a horror game.
Except instead of a monster trying to kill you, it's a semen demon trying to milk you.

Thanks to Google Maps, yes.

Going alright. How are you?

Got my first jab the other day and the center was in a location I hadn't been to in years, so that was oddly nostalgic. Managed to book mine the exact same day and time as my friend, so we went up together and made a day of it. Turns out I managed to book it at the same time as my friend because the place had more vaccine than people to receive it due to underbookings, to their own admission.

Prototype's been revealed

Hype

I feel your frustration as far as functionality goes.

I suggested a while back Sankaku Renai should have the Incest tag because one of the routes has you fuck your blood-relative sister. I've also been moaning about the catgirl tag being broken in multi-tag searches for nearly a year, if not more.

I've done well to avoid them... but Genshin is just too fun to not play. I love the combat. Shame I've hit the content wall pretty hard so it really is just doing dailies and getting my daily ores and artifacts from around the game map to help toward character progression independant of the Resin system. From time to time I like to try dicking about with team compositions with characters I have.


Yeah it's a desolate wasteland now, bar those RP threads. I guess that was the reason for the change. People still make IB-content threads there but they don't get a lot of responses. All you see at the top of the list at any time are the ChaTFaG threads


I remember those quite fondly, they were funny. I used to do the same for a short time although I wasn't quite as creative as you were.
Funny comments I feel have gotten stale the past coming years. A lot of manga I see with top comments are "Goddess of Sequels", or praising her when it is one. Or just generally begging for a sequel. After the 500th manga has yet another variation of the same comment, you kind of start detesting them. Thankfully those seem to have died down of late.

Glad to hear you're doing alright man.

By the way this is still an issue, so I'm bumping this thread.

This is not a controversial tag and is actively viewable from the tags page, but being unable to be searched prevents multi-tag searches with the catgirl tag in, which also means being unable to omit certain tags from searches. A surprising amount of catgirl content is just a cosplay.

Funnily enough I thought about you the other day. Welcome back, man. How're you doing?

You haven't missed much, to be honest. Dunno if you were around for it but Fakku went legit, so that's a thing.
Website's still broken in places; some tag searches show up no results despite not being controversial content. Sucks trying to find catgirl content that isn't cosplay, as a result. I first reported that over a year ago, and made two posts about it.
Private messaging was turned off, can't view user posts without URL manipulation, reputation and comment upvotes are one and the same, you automatically +1 your own post when you post, and there's a Discord server. There might be more but I don't remember them right now. All minor things, really.

Oh, a major one is that Waar passed away a couple of years back.
Tegumi and Gambler also don't seem to be active these days, and what little moderation we have I haven't seen about much.

Preferably everything as someone who doesn't know the language. Background SFX aren't important but does help if they are translated.
Like one user mentions, retaining the honourifics are ideal; westernising them takes me out of the immersion.

As a kid I didn't have access to a lot of TV channels, so I missed out on a lot of anime like DBZ, Bleach, One Piece, and Naruto which people raved over, and the internet was still in its infancy so I couldn't just watch it anytime I liked. What I could watch with basic TV was one or two episodes per day dictated by scheduling, and even that was notorious for episode repeats and episode order inconsistencies. More annoying still was that episodes aired at the exact time I finished school, so I had to rely on my parents to record episodes for me on VHS tapes and they would often forget. With repeats, episodes aired out of order, parents forgetting, and VHS-quality recordings, trying to watch this shit could only be described as "infuriating", and that would still be an understatement.

But I digress. Over the years, I've managed to catch up with Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, GT, and Super - and while it's not official I've also watched DBZ Abridged many times. I also watched all of Bleach all the way through until the anime ended, and One Piece up until the timeskip. I still need to pick that back up. Even managed to watch shows I did watch in their intended episodic order, like Pokemon S1 and Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02. Even watched banned pokemon episodes and DA/DA02 in JP just to see what the difference was.


Right now I'm binging Naruto in JP (went with JP purely because I don't want to be put off by nonsensical dubbed anime censorship and I'm a fast reader).
For years I've been curious about what made the show so popular. It took me this long to do so because I was swayed by word of mouth and jokes on the internet that convinced me that the show was trash without even giving it a chance. But jokes get old, you start to think for yourself, and my curiosity has peaked.
I've done my homework to skip all the filler content, which I know the show is notorious for.
And I've got to say, I've been thoroughly enjoying it so far. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Has anyone else been in a similar boat, to catch up on shows you missed out on when you were younger?

I love the LOTR reference. I jokingly use that quote when I'm late meeting up with friends.

I know this post is old now but had to say something about the reference. Howdy.

Very rarely.
Used to a lot more.

A lot of media you enjoy as a kid tend to be pretty bad to an adult you. The nostalgia in a lot of cases is from how much enjoyment you got out of it despite its flaws, perhaps due to the lack of having other alternatives or just being into its style at the time. That being said this is not always the case, you may even find more enjoyment out of it as an adult due to getting the humour that flew by you when you were younger.

For the sake of keeping on topic, I'm not really big into fighting games as such, I find them repetitive and fairly boring. I'm more into RPGs with a good combat system, because I like me a good story to go with my fisticuffs. To name a few examples: Tales of Berseria, Xenoblade 2, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (at least until it devolves into Ult-spamming in the later portions of the game), and more recently Genshin Impact, even despite getting characters and good gear boils down to RNG while gated behind a stamina system. I just wish they didn't love their time trials, though. I hate time trials.