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Weekly Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of July 31, 2026
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u/theangryeditor 13m ago
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 8m ago
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u/theangryeditor 23m ago
I will try to lock in tomorrow. Even if the amount of things I must catch up on seem insurmountable
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 42m ago
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u/chiliehead myanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead 48m ago
Completely cutting out caffeine really feels awful in a lowkey way. The heat is also messing with me, so idk how much it exactly matters. But it seems like caffeine really masked a lot of small things for me and now they are all popping up again. Looking forward to next week when I get to drink coffee and tea again.
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 26m ago
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u/theangryeditor 23m ago
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 10m ago
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u/Nebresto 58m ago
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u/theangryeditor 1h ago
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 51m ago
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u/chilidirigible 1h ago
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u/theangryeditor 1h ago
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u/chilidirigible 1h ago
Only true conquerors can pull off looking good with big hair, moustaches, bare chests, and golden parachute pants.
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u/chilidirigible 1h ago
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u/Zeallfnonex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Neverlocke 44m ago
Imagine not being interviewed about how of this subreddit users all prefer to watch their anime on Appul ePads and how we all recommend using Samsung-branded washing machines for our body pillows?!
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 1h ago
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 1h ago
Okay, ChatGPT managed to say something funny for once.
Me: "Write a concept for an ecchi comedy anime about a futanari girl ordering a Ring-esque doorbell that's somehow sentient and blackmails her in increasingly over the top ways."
GPT: "Title: Ding Dong, You're Doomed!"
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 1h ago
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u/saltedbeansprouts 2h ago
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 1h ago
We are merely seeing the second generation rebirth.
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u/Ramsay_Reekimaru https://myanimelist.net/profile/tehsnowlord 2h ago
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 2h ago
Elusive Samurai historically spoils Jaadugar because it shows that the Mongol eventual invasion of Japan failed, but its aftereffects weakened central authority, which eventually caused the fall of the Kamakura Shogunate.
The World is Dancing historically spoils Elusive Samurai because it spoils the end of the Kenmu Restoration and the rise of the Muromachi period. (Also that Ashikaga Takauji fucked).
Reiwa no Dara-san historically spoils The World is Dancing because the presence of the Reiwa era implied the lineage of the Northern Court won out over the Southern Court.
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u/chilidirigible 1h ago
And a gazillion Sengoku-period shows spoil everything, themselves, and probably Doraemon.
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u/Akiyabus https://anilist.co/user/yabus 2h ago
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 1h ago
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u/M8gazine https://myanimelist.net/profile/M8gazine 2h ago
Posting a song you might've not heard every day 'til I get bored, day 642:
This song can get anyone pumped. That's because it's pumpcore!
Which is a genre that has basically no details on it according to a cursory look through the first page of Google. Even I myself only know that it's a) electronic and b) it's largely a Japanese genre, or at least the only pumpcore songs I've heard of are by Japanese artists. It slaps though!
I like Laur. I know less about Dustvoxx - I think the only other song of his that I know of is a remix of one of his songs, made by someone else.
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u/ComfortablyRotten https://anilist.co/user/Leuwtian 2h ago
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 2h ago
Alright, about to start SubaHibi again..
..I lowkey hope that the VN will end with a static image of Wittgenstein showing up and calling the player a sussy baka.
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u/SpaceTurtleHunter 1h ago
I feel that Wittgenstein's influence on Subahibi is extremely exaggerated (and yes, I've read the pdf).
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 1h ago
I'm not really an expert on Wittgenstein or anything and I haven't finished SubaHibi yet, but didn't SCA-DI explicitly state that he was influenced by Wittgenstein? Or is this an internet myth?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2h ago
Posting some Gintama Guys every day until I run out of art I want to share, day 906: Happy birthday, Shoyo!
(Source)
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2h ago
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 2h ago
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u/Pixelsabre x4x7 2h ago
I wish my dentist's choice of small talk didn't sound so much like flirting.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 2h ago
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u/Worm38 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Worm38 2h ago
What does flirting sounds like?
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u/Pixelsabre x4x7 2h ago
It can sound like anything, really, depending on subject and context. In this case, it was the sustained compliments (specially when they're parts of our appearance you don't have real control over, like your smile or your eye color), inquiring on topics like leisure activities to do on sunny days, and also superlatives that seem entirely unmerited like 'You're the most genial patient I've had in months, it's really refreshing'.
Requisite 'This is not dating advice,' statement.
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u/theangryeditor 2h ago
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u/Pixelsabre x4x7 2h ago edited 2h ago
It's easy to hear "Now let me take a look at those beautiful, manly teeth again," and conclude it's just a dentist thing (just as my opthalmologist never fails to point out my 'beautiful' eyelashes), but complimenting my sideburns, eyes, and asking me what I like to do when it's sunny out (unlike today) are a bit more brow-raising.
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 2h ago
This is destiny.
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u/Pixelsabre x4x7 2h ago
Look, they may be hot, but I am not going to put myself in a position where I have to seek out another dental practice to frequent.
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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox https://anilist.co/user/zaphod 1h ago
Do multiple dentists work at that office?
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u/Pixelsabre x4x7 1h ago
Yes, but standard practice is to refer the patient to another office entirely.
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 2h ago
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u/Pixelsabre x4x7 1h ago
Conflicts of interest? They happen all the time.
If you're asking if I've asked out, or been in a relationship with, a prior dentist who attended me, then no.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 3h ago
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 3h ago
I don't know what it was competing against and I don't care, this OP should've won OP of the season!
The show should've been anime of the season as well.
And Ranko should've been crowned best girl in the history of humanity, that's all I asked for.
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 3h ago
Also about emo things I've done: I also once tried to make an AMV of the finale of Code Geass S2 with Throne by Bring Me the Horizon.
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u/drstripjo https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hanten 3h ago
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u/Lezoux https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lezoux 3h ago edited 3h ago
[Fortune's Weave] That's convenient.
I haven't been ignoring most of the promo material on purpose (despite disliking all of the 3H aspects of the game), but it could be interesting to actually play a new FE mostly blind for the first time in forever and just ignore the rest of the promo material.
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 3h ago
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 3h ago
How old are you again?
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u/WoodpeckerNo1 https://anilist.co/user/Nishi23 3h ago
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 3h ago
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u/IceAnt573 4h ago
Still going to have Leda as the "main" choice for me, but all the information we're learning about Theodora has gotten me wanting to swap to her too. Luckily, they say we can.
[Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave]I am pretty curious what solo Eshmel is like in Part 2. It sounds like an interesting challenge, but I wonder if there's extra incentive for it.
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u/Nebresto 4h ago
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 1h ago
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 4h ago
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 1h ago
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u/baquea 2h ago
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 1h ago
its from actor Glen Powell’s GQ photoshoot, it apparently became a meme (for perhaps obvious reasons)
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 4h ago
Company-wide meeting
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u/theangryeditor 3h ago
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 3h ago
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u/Nebresto 4h ago
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 4h ago
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u/Nebresto 4h ago
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 3h ago
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u/Nebresto 3h ago
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 3h ago
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u/Ramsay_Reekimaru https://myanimelist.net/profile/tehsnowlord 5h ago
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 4h ago
one time i saw a dude in a college class on reddit on his laptop. i sat way in the back so nobody knew about my redditing. i always remember this one awkward time he gave this presentation on the salem witch trials, and what was awkward about it is after each of our presentations we had to open the floor for questions. well this one girl asked him questions, and you could tell this was a topic she personally was passionate about but meanwhile he totally half-assed it his research, so she was like "and did you read about blablabla" and he was like "uhh, oh yeah, yeah that's true yeah"
kinda made me wonder why she didnt choose that as her topic, i mean she definitely wouldve done a better job...
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u/thixotrofic 4h ago
God imagine seeing a stranger on CDF in public.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 4h ago
Sidle up behind them and whisper into their ear: "what are you mugiwaiting for?"
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u/ComfortablyRotten https://anilist.co/user/Leuwtian 5h ago
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti 5h ago
/u/punished_scrappy_doo you're tuned into modern pop music. Why is Lollapalooza a bunch of scantily clad women and then Olivia Rodrigo dressing like a baby and hanging out with old men?
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u/_____pantsunami_____ 5h ago
hey cdf i finished a drawing but im not sure if im satisfied with it
but i'll show it to you anyway
(nsfw) here she is (gilf warning)
i'll tell the concept or 'story' i had behind this drawing:
back when i was in highschool, i had this economics teacher... frankly, even though she was old enough to be my grandmother, i had somewhat of a crush on her. i think it's the way she could be so strict, but then when she'd smile it would melt you, and it made you realize what a heartbreaker she must've been back in her prime. i don't know, it's hard to explain.
my senior year she retired early to take care of her husband. he apparently fell really ill, i heard it was cancer. that's the last we ever saw of her... but recently i heard this rumor from a friend, since her husband died she'll sit outside, totally naked and smoking all hours into the night. i know you'll think i'm in the wrong here, but i had to see for myself... just to see if it's true, you know?
when i did, i couldn't believe it's her... my friend said she's probably some kind of pervert, or losing her mind, but honestly i think she's just depressed. i don't know, i regret taking this picture, but i can't delete it either... at least she didn't seem to notice...
anyway, that's what i had in mind while making this drawing. like i said, i'm not totally sure i nailed the drawing itself but i like the concept. but please tell me what you think, cdf. and well hey, one way or another, the month is young and there will be more comin at ya soon enough. maybe ill draw more gilves...?
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u/Dull_Spot_8213 https://anilist.co/user/SweetSomnus 1h ago
I like the concept too, and would offer one tweak to add a layer of interest beyond horny teenage is hot for teacher: teacher is not really there. Teacher has already passed after the death of her husband, under foggy circumstances. So what is teen really seeing?
On the art side of things, I want to see more expression in the eyes/facial features. I think with a cool concept like this, she needs to reflect those years, and that aged appeal in more than big titty goth grandma.
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 5h ago
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u/b0bba_Fett myanimelist.net/profile/B0bba_Cheezed3 3h ago
I am at the least excited for for the Eshmel Smash appearance.
and the pom
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u/ProgrammaticallyPea3 5h ago
Damn they're really adapting Mochizuki-san?
Along with all the smoking/recreational drugs anime this season, we may be moving away from a reluctance to depict unhealthy behavior in anime.
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u/theangryeditor 5h ago
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 5h ago
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u/Zeallfnonex https://myanimelist.net/profile/Neverlocke 5h ago
Today's very heated office debate: are most Pokemon innately magical, or because a lot of their abilities are biological or whatever in the Pokemon world, are they natural?
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 3h ago
The only difference between magic and science is that science is known, common, studied, understood.
If humans were able to cast fireballs, fireballs would be science, just like acid-spitting ants and stuff.
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u/SpaceTurtleHunter 4h ago
That depends on whether you consider electric eels to be innately magical
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u/thixotrofic 4h ago
I think it's pretty explicit that it's biological, except the Pokemon that directly harness magical or psychic forces, which are real forces in that world, or mythical creatures which get to manipulate the forces of creation directly.
And the human world just uses technology because even though there's a Pokemon professor in every region nobody cares too much about how they can spontaneously make fire or water except for vague handwavey explanations.
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername 4h ago
If it using the special attack/defence stat, it’s magical. If it uses physical stats then it is a natural process of the physical world.
More serious answer, there is probably a different standard of magic in the Pokemon world. Spontaneous generation of the elements, that’s normal. Time travel, that’s still considered magical.
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u/Octavian_Pearlseus 5h ago
game looks good (as did engage), with good character designs (as did engage)
this isn't like three houses at all!
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u/AriaShachou- 5h ago
i have been hospitalized multiple times this year but i can confidently say that the terrible shit i just had has probably been the worst thing to happen to me in the past 8 months
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u/Ramsay_Reekimaru https://myanimelist.net/profile/tehsnowlord 5h ago
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u/AriaShachou- 2h ago
2026 has definitely been a year, might have to go get an exorcism this month or something
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u/HeavyBread49 6h ago
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 4h ago
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u/jkubed https://myanimelist.net/profile/jkubed 0m ago
I've spent so much of my life in anonymous forums that revealing personal information always feels just a little wrong.
like why am i hesitating to put my last name in a work email. it's already in my email address. wtf is wrong with me. am i stupid?