Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Krazer

12:00 AM

@LoganM No Game No Life, on the other hand, YES

user1306322

@Krazer no game = no pain

Logan M

NGNL is doing a good job so far. The protag is male, but other than that they've done a good job making all the characters cute girls.

user1306322

ratings say I should be watching

Krazer

@LoganM GochiUsa doubly so

Logan M

@Krazer That's easily one of the best shows of the season.

Krazer

12:04 AM

Hitsugi no Chaika is going well too imo

Logan M

I still haven't gotten a chance to watch it, but I plan on it.

Sakamoto

0

Q: Why does Rukia fall for so long when getting thrown by Yammy

So Rukia gets grabbed by Yammy in Las Noches: Yammy then throws her at the ground, but she is falling for more than a couple of minutes: But Ichigo jumps from above the sky in Las Noches and makes it to her before she hits the ground: I know physics is not always followed in anime but th...

bleach

Sakamoto

12:21 AM

0

Q: Why are Shinigami and their Zanpakuto so different?

Through all of the episodes containing Muramasa when the Shinigami's Zanpakuto materialize, some of them are very different from each other. Mainly Hisagi and his Zanpakuto Kazeshini. Even after he is released from Muramasa's spell, Kazeshini tries to kill Hisagi and says that he only wants to ki...

bleach

Shinobu Oshino

2:03 AM

5

Eric

@ShinobuOshino It's actually blushing... lol

Shinobu Oshino

@Eric now it can not be unseen

Mysticial

2:26 AM

So... we just had a troll post a bunch of porn in the C++ room.

Eric

@Mysticial Just another day on Stack Exchange.

Mysticial

Anyone who has ownership access to the bin can see what we had to deal with.

One of the other room owners had to ping me in to help clean up the mess.

Eric

@Mysticial Does anyone want to see what you had to deal with?

Mysticial

At least until I pulled gallery mode.

user1306322

I remember I once frequented some communities like battle.net forums for diablo 3 or a terraria forum, but now I never think of returning there because of reasons

mostly because they were specific to a certain object and now that I've lost interest in it, there is no point staying around

now I look at the SE sites and with how much stuff they incorporate, I think this might be very different

like how I once started using internet and… here I am

in other news

29

Q: What does 'moe' mean?

I've now watched quite a few anime and I'm still at a loss as to what the term moe represents. Is there an agreed upon definition for it? If a character is moe, what does that mean?

japanese-language terminology

answers are really vague and don't fully explain the essence of "moe"

I wonder who upvoted them

Eric

2:38 AM

@user1306322 Where's your answer? D:

Shinobu Oshino

@user1306322 moe can not be explained until you see it yourself

Eric

Yeah, it's a hard thing to explain.

user1306322

@Eric I don't deal nearly enough with moe every day to give a proper thorough explanation of the concept

everything can be explained with appropriate examples, you just gotta address the right unclear elements

Krazer

@ShinobuOshino moe cannot be seen

it can only be felt

like kyun~

Eric

Moe is an experience. It is a way of life.

Shinobu Oshino

2:42 AM

be the one with moe, is the only way to fully understand it

user1306322

what do you think would be the opposite of "cool"?

Eric

Uncool.

user1306322

that's… not what I meant

Eric

It's true, though. lol

Logan M

Moe is basically anything like this:

►

user1306322

2:47 AM

@LoganM I don't think I'll ever be able to get behind that

(if you know what I mean) − NO!

this on the other hand…

►

maaan that preview frame…

way to ruin a moment

5

Q: What can be done to instill good habits in students?

This question might sound vague, but I'm really just looking for particular examples that worked for you. From my experience, it seems like a large portion of "weak" students remain weak despite their best efforts. I understand that part of this is due to things that have happened earlier on in ...

student-motivation classroom-management struggling-students

^ teach 'em to stand up when they answer questions

Logan M

@user1306322 Blame @Mysticial

Eric

Every problem with YouTube is @Mysticial's fault.

6

But the good things are not.

user1306322

how can a good thing be someone's fault?

Eric

@user1306322 Contrary to what you might think, in this case fault is neutral. It's Jonas Salk's fault that there is a polio vaccine.

Hmm. Seems that's slang usage.

Still, I'm okay with slang.

user1306322

@Eric feels natural in this example

Eric

2:58 AM

That's what I love about languages. :D

Also, making up words that still make sense.

user1306322

like freezerayphonemicrowave?

no, that sounds like something a german person would make up

Krazer

@user1306322 no

user1306322

@Eric happy anniversary chat.stackexchange.com/…

Eric

@user1306322 Haha, what a great day to have brought that up.

user1306322

I see microwaves aren't talked about so often here

Eric

3:03 AM

@user1306322 More like "matchlit".

Or tacking "ism" onto any philosophy ever.

user1306322

freezerayphonemicrowavism

Eric

Such as "superficialism".

I believe!

Or that.

@Eric racism

3:05 AM

@Krazer The philosophy of winning races.

user1306322

Gran Turismo − the leading racism simulator

Eric

I take my racism simulations very seriously.

user1306322

I've been thinking about the word "bangumi"

I know it means "show" but doesn't it also mean "number"?

Krazer

Ethnic Cleansing (video game)

Ethnic Cleansing (2002) is a computer game developed by Resistance Records, an underground music label owned by the National Alliance specializing in Neo-Nazi and white supremacist bands. The game was developed using Genesis3D, an open source game engine. Plot In the game, the protagonist (the player can choose either a neo-Nazi or a Klansman) runs through a ghetto killing African-Americans and Latinos, before descending into a subway system to kill Jews. Controversy The Anti-Defamation League publicized the existence of the game and unsuccessfully lobbied the developers of Genesis3D...

@user1306322 no

番組 (bangumi) is the Japanese word for television show

user1306322

specifically for that?

maybe I'm talking about a homophone

Krazer

3:15 AM

@user1306322 specifically a TV program

user1306322

I was sure it meant "number" somehow

Krazer

@user1306322 bango, the language of the barbarians

Eric

@Krazer bangou

user1306322

xD

imma put pizza in the oven

Krazer

@user1306322 pixplx

user1306322

3:18 AM

@Krazer oh, YOU ASKED!

Eric

@user1306322 What brand?

user1306322

@Eric the best brand in the world, WhateverWasInTheFridge

Eric

@user1306322 Oh, that kind of oven cooking...

user1306322

Eric

@user1306322 Shit that was fast. You have imgur on your phone or something?

user1306322

3:20 AM

@Eric no, but I upload stuff from my phone on it pretty quick

it's actually a WP6.1 so I doubt it has any apps

I bought it five years ago when I needed some smartphone that runs DOS to cheat on a Turbo Pascal exam under the desk

I don't really have a need for a smartphone otherwise

Eric

I had a WP6.1 phone.

Its battery lasted 4 hours.

I swapped it out for an Android and never looked back.

Krazer

@Eric what are phones

Logan M

I don't have a phone

Eric

@LoganM Phones are moe.

Logan M

Unless you count my office phone

@Eric Example plz

I don't get it...

user1306322

3:24 AM

the guy on the left is Moe

what nooo

Logan M

Not a very fitting name imo

user1306322

why is the voice actor's pic there in the preview

Eric

Mostly the two on the right.

Stupid image is cut off.

user1306322

@Eric one does not simply post a pic quickly from google images

only WP6.1 phones have that power

Logan M

@Eric Those are just background images, right? I can just as easily get the images on my computer

Eric

3:26 AM

@user1306322 It was not quickly. It took me a full minute and a half to find the best one.

@LoganM But you cannot take your computer with you.

Logan M

@Eric I do take my computer with me

user1306322

@Eric you can take a screenshot of it…

Eric

You are not moe between work and bed, and bed and work.

Logan M

everywhere

Eric

@LoganM Pff. Laptops are less moe. They're much too large to be considered cute.

Logan M

3:28 AM

@Eric I have a tablet also

Eric

There's also this.

Or this:

Logan M

@Eric Saya is pretty good, but I'd sooner use my Miki case that I already own

@Eric I already have tons of these. I don't need to strap them to a phone for them to be cute.

Eric

But you can add cute to the world by doing so.

Right now, just the strap is cute.

But if you attach it to the phone, the phone is cute, too.

Logan M

@Eric I sometimes attach them to my jacket.

Eric

That sounds pro.

user1306322

3:30 AM

google: too many phone straps, first result = Why Japanese People Love Phone Charms So Much

Logan M

I sometimes walk around campus with a few dozen of them on.

It's great. I really feel like I'm making the world a better place.

user1306322

I imagine someone walking around campus in a black leather jacket with tons of cute dangling phone straps would indeed brighten my day

Logan M

Sadly, I haven't done that in a while because I lost one that I liked a while back and since then I've been very careful with them.

user1306322

> Most people die young but are buried much later.

(all my classmates are dead)

Krazer

@user1306322 mine are dead to me

Eric

3:42 AM

My professors are generally more dead than my classmates.

user1306322

I had a lively prof in my first year

taught us cool stuff like how we should always question everything we're being told

[citation needed] -to ka

but mostly he said that learning how to afford to live is not as important as learning how to have fun whil living

Eric

That sounds like a human being. It must not be a professor.

user1306322

well, he did say he wasn't teaching us that discipline with a very vague name for money, he was doing it as a favor to us, hoping that some of us will listen, and to make the world a better place while he still can

he also said in the beginning of the year that he'll be looking in the eyes of those who are listening, I don't remember the reason for that, but I noticed how closer to the end of the year he was only looking at me while speaking

kinda sad about all the other students in the room

if we weren't both guys, feelings other than eagerness and respect could have sprouted…

he wasn't a professor in the usual sense, but just a cool guy with some life experience

(now I remember I gotta rewatch GTO)

Logan M

4:01 AM

1

Pseudoscience

Proposed Q&A site for anyone with questions about fields that are not widely accepted as truly scientific i.e. alchemy

Currently in definition.

Eric

@LoganM Will it accept questions about human transmutation, or is that taboo?

Logan M

I can't wait until SE has a place for all my alchemical questions

@Eric You could ask on Discuss

Eric

It's tempting, but I don't want to get flagged as a troll.

Logan M

@Eric Don't worry. It's okay to troll stupid people.

Eric

Fair enough.

Also, this:

users also following
100.0% Sociology
100.0% LGBTQ+
100.0% Psychology
100.0% Trolling

Logan M

4:03 AM

The proposer also proposed this:

21

Pastafarianism

Proposed Q&A site for anyone with questions about the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the religion based around him.

Currently in definition.

Eric

I like this question.

Logan M

Along the same lines, I wonder if we should propose a site for the Church of Madoka.

Eric

It would probably catch on better than KLU.

Logan M

KLU got to almost 50 followers

Eric

Yeah. I miss it.

Logan M

4:08 AM

I could always repropose it

But of course, KLU is at least nominally serious

A decent fraction of the followers knew some Klingon.

user1306322

ah

Logan M

@user1306322 No, Klingon Language

user1306322

@LoganM both are equally hard :p

Logan M

Klingon is easier IMO, just because it's a far smaller language.

Eric

It has less fluent speakers, though.

Smaller subset of people to learn from. :\

user1306322

4:10 AM

I've been meaning to ask you guys, what do you consider romantic and love themed anime?

Eric

Eh? I don't watch either one, so I'm probably a bad target for that question.

Logan M

Not sure exactly what you're asking.

user1306322

I've seen some examples of those that I can't quite label as "love/romance" but more like fanservice comedies or the vague moe category

It's hard to get a good recommendation >.>

I wonder if game developers follow Arquade

Logan M

I've watched plenty of outright romance series. I've also watched tons of romcoms, with varying levels of fanservice. I can make recommendations, but I need to know something about what you like first.

user1306322

I'm watching Kimi ni Todoke right now and so far it's the one of the best examples of what I'm referring to, but it may not be easily categorized as "love/romance"

Hachimitsu to Clover is another good example

Nana, probably

the rest in my list doesn't fit this category very well

Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, Chihayafuru and maybe Kyoukai no Kanata are runner-ups in my list

all other titles seem too off

Logan M

4:30 AM

Most of those are shoujo or jousei. If you want more like that, maybe try Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Kuragehime, Skip Beat, Nodame Cantabile. I'm sure there are others, but that's all that I can think of at the moment. For seinen romance, Toradora, Clannad, ef, White Album 2, Amagami SS, True Tears, Nagi no Asukara are all good. They have varying levels of seriousness, but all of them have at least a decent amount of romance and not an overwhelming amount of fanservice.

user1306322

Toradora seemed poor, especially the ending

Nagi no Asukara is… kinda weak in that aspect

Logan M

I'm not actually sure how much romance Nagiasu has since I'm only about 10 episodes in.

Shinobu Oshino

@LoganM Nagiasu more like drama for me, not much romance I think

user1306322

then I'll say it's difficult to connect with

Logan M

Meh okay then ignore that one

I'm probably not the best person to get recommendations from though. I was rather bored with some of your examples. Also, IMO most of the best romance stories I know of are in VNs that never got adapted to anime, so that's not much help.

Sakamoto

4:35 AM

0

Q: Which manga chapters have been covered by the anime?

I'm thinking of reading the Silver Spoon manga by Hiromu Arakawa, and while I'd probably start from the first chapter anyway, I'm wondering which chapters of the manga have already been covered by the anime. Which specific chapters do the first and second seasons cover respectively? I read on Ya...

silver-spoon

user1306322

Skip beat's animation… I'm still having trouble accepting that art style

Shinobu Oshino

@LoganM and contrary with popular opinion, I find clannad really boring, I don't know how or why, I finish 1st season and watch halfway 2nd season till i drop it

Logan M

@ShinobuOshino Clannad VN is better than the anime. I found the anime to be okay, but VN was easily one of the best.

user1306322

It's gonna be bad if I get into the world of manga

won't be much time left on anything else

Shinobu Oshino

@LoganM I have to agree with this one, I play one myself, got my first ending with Kyou

Eric

4:40 AM

Hey @JNat, I ruined your 6,666. Have a good day! :)

Logan M

At the end of the day though, very few of my favorite shows are romance. Generally, at least for heterosexual romance, you need both male and female characters. As I've said many times before, the only thing I care about in anime is cute girls, so male characters are basically just wasted animation. Hence serious romance series aren't usually my thing. You're probably better off asking other people.

user1306322

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotHair

TIL I was born with idiot hair

talk about being a fan of monogatari, too

@LoganM it's not my favorite genre, but I liked the ones I listed

Logan M

Oh cool I have 100 bronze badges. Beat @Eric to that.

user1306322

I really like stuff like Monogatari (most of all like it), Baccano and Kill la Kill

over the top stuff, you could say

coz I'm also kinda like that

Logan M

I haven't watched Kill la Kill, but Monogatari and Baccano are both pretty good.

Maroon

4:48 AM

Random, but would anyone around here recommend the other Monogatari series? I saw Bakemonogatari and really liked the concept and style, but I generally like stuff with a more cohesive plot and without the sort of stuff that evokes the harem genre.

user1306322

@Maroon do you mean you think of the Monogatari series as separate stories?

anime.stackexchange.com/tags/monogatari-series/info

Maroon

@user1306322: not exactly that, but I guess I prefer stuff with a stronger sense of an overarching plot, and I felt like from watching Bakemonogatari that there wasn't really that per se.

Logan M

@Maroon I'd say keep watching if you liked Bakemonogatari. There will probably be parts you don't care for as much in some of the sequels, but IMO it gets better as you get further in, and the story gets more complex.

user1306322

@Maroon do you mean you like complex stories with plot twists?

Maroon

To a degree I guess, but I guess I like having a sense of ( after finishing the series) seeing the specific direction the plot ideally goes in from the begininng, a clear ending (in the sense that it "ends" the story), etc.

That said, I've also liked stuff that really didn't fit this sort of criteria, so there's that.

user1306322

4:55 AM

I was gonna recommend Kyoukai no Kanata or Angel Beats or Baccano or Durarara to go with it or Tokyo Ravens, or even Steins;Gate, buuuut all of them don't really have a definite ending, so…

Maroon

Oh Steins;gate I guess would be an example of something that worked for me, in a sense.

user1306322

then I would recommend you to play the Bioshock games

and Stanley Parable, just for a laugh

Maroon

Ah right, from what I know they definitely have some elements reminescent of Steins;gate.

user1306322

Steins;Gate is a gateway drug on the way to heavy temporal paradox and parallel universe stuff

Logan M

Unrelated to anything, but I have to say, the new Kancolle fleet girls are awesome.

I'm getting dangerously addicted to this, to the point that I've dropped a few decent anime series to make more time for Kancolle.

Shinobu Oshino

5:10 AM

@Maroon hmm,, how about madoka magica? it's really good stuff

@LoganM why.... she bring fish

Logan M

@ShinobuOshino Because she is a boat

Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)

{| |} was the lead ship in the two-vessel Tone-class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named after the Tone River, in the Kantō region of Japan and was completed on 20 November 1938 at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyards. Tone was designed for long-range scouting missions and had a large seaplane capacity. She was extensively employed during World War II usually providing scouting services to their aircraft carrier task forces. She almost always operated in this capacity in conjunction with her sister ship Chikuma. World War II Early Pacific War At the end of 194...

Shinobu Oshino

5:30 AM

@LoganM wow, they really can change anything to cute anime girl

dat clothes...

Maroon

@ShinobuOshino: Yeah, I might try it, since it sounds kinda interesting. I mostly need to find something reasonably worthwhile to watch since anime is significantly better for my productivity than other forms of procrastination.

Logan M

@ShinobuOshino Boats are par for the course by now. Kancolle isn't even the only one that's done it; there's also Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio.

The state of the art seems to be anthropomorphic cockroaches as far as I can tell.

Shinobu Oshino

@Maroon just in case you find it boring at the first two eps, wait till 3rd eps, it started to get serious from there, it also has 3 movie, first two movie is from anime series, but I haven't watch the 3rd movie

@LoganM cockroaches? really? damn they're insane if they try to make cockroaches looks cute

user1306322

5:59 AM

@LoganM I read that, nice idea for a character

Shinobu Oshino

@user1306322 hmm,, let's see, a bunny girl and cat girl are a lot, let's try bug girl, how bout the most disgusting bug ever, yeah, that's sounds good, let's try that

user1306322

@ShinobuOshino it worked

maybe it was a test of artist's creativity

to make something normally disgusting as a cockroach work as an adorable manga character

someone passed

Shinobu Oshino

@user1306322 here, try mosquito

user1306322

@ton.yeung oh yeah!

Shinobu Oshino

@ton.yeung 'lady' bug

Logan M

6:27 AM

0

Q: If I setup up a proposal called "Anime Suggestions", would it be allowed?

I haven't proposed this idea and am pretty sure it would get heavily downvoted and probably this question to since stackexchange is Q and A site, but I was thinking of proposing a site called Anime Suggestions. The thought occurred to me since the beta Anime and Manga.SE gets a lot of questions ...

area51-meta support

^Relevant

user1306322

8:28 AM

I have a kindergarten in vicinity and the kids have just shouted "Happy Birthday WOOO" several times

nice to be a kid

it's been many years since I've been congratulated so loudly, and even more since I've stopped accepting such loud congratulations out of embarassment

I started reading a Japanese textbook and everything was fine until I figured out that all expressions and examples use formal forms

everything seemed kinda off, like I have not heard that a lot in anime, so it must be either wrong or formal

"-desu" everywhere

and I'm still looking for a better romaji-english translator than google

JNat

12:33 PM

@Eric lol thanks

Krazer

1:31 PM

@user1306322 "death" everywhere

Sakamoto

2:20 PM

0

Q: Ideas for cosplaying Hatsune Miku

What tips do I need to know when Purchasing wigs and cosplay outfits from Amazon.com? What are some recommended Sellers on Amazon? I have a hard time deciding if the wig and outfit will be in good condition and are not poor quality. I know how to sew but creating outfits from pattern or not or e...

conventions

Krazer

2:59 PM

@Sakamoto I wonder if questions about how to cosplay are off-topic for our site.

Logan M

@Krazer Haven't we discussed this before?

I don't remember the resolution though

Krazer

ah we did

4

Q: Are Cosplay-related questions on-topic?

I've just seen a cosplay-related question, which was posted during the definition-phase. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/31538/anime-manga/31755#31755 There was a discussion, whether the question would be too objective, but I have an other question: Are cosplay-related questions on-t...

discussion allowed-topics

but the answer still leaves something to be desired

I feel that these is merit to some cosplay question that can attract ppl but the subjectiveness out weighs it

guess it's better to leave it as is for now

Logan M

@Mysticial Apparently the MSO question has now been closed 4 times.

Mysticial

Yeah, it's a mess.

Krazer

@Mysticial I see it as a metaphor of itself

Mysticial

3:13 PM

@Krazer :)

Logan M

I just find it amusing that of all the things that people could have done on the new MSO, this is the one post that people care about.

Mysticial

I'm surprised at how high my "everyone hates everyone" answer climbed. Despite the fact that I posted it when there were already 30+ answers.

Logan M

Oh I just realized I can downvote stuff on MSO now

lol

@Mysticial Yours is the highest answer without any downvotes.

Krazer

summer animu~

Krazer

5:21 PM

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5Krz-dyD-UQ @ton

Mysticial

test

Eric

@Mysticial o.O

Mysticial

I can't get into chat.SO because of read only mode.

But it's fine here.

Eric

Oh.

Blame the Stack Overlords.

Mysticial

And my sign-ins got cleared.

Eric

5:34 PM

Da fuq are they breaking?

My sign-ins are fine, though.

Mysticial

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 40 mins ago, by 3ventic

We will doing a more intensive read-only test like we did yesterday a little after 1pm EST today (approx 10-20min from now)

Tweeted by StackStatus on April 25, 2014 at 4:53 PM

Sakamoto

5:58 PM

0

Q: How and Why tailed beasts grew up?

From the starting of the series we saw tailed beasts as large vicious and angry animals bound inside jinchuriki's body. They were shown to despise humans who bounded them and used their power for personal gain. But they weren't so like this from always. Initially they were small and showed emotio...

naruto

Logan M

8:17 PM

lol looks like MSE is still going to get it's share of off-topic questions meant for another site

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230492/adc-6bit-conversion

Looks like it was just deleted. :(

user1306322

8:51 PM

Eric

9:13 PM

@LoganM Looks like people think it's a general Q&A...

Mysticial

@LoganM They are rare though. You need 5 rep to post on meta.SO. (which is where they all want to go) And meta.SE is harder to find.

Logan M

@Mysticial How many deleted answers are there on meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251758/…? I know there are at least 7, but I don't know exactly how many.

Eric

@LoganM Exactly 7.

Mysticial

7

Logan M

Okay, then I've read all of them

Sakamoto

10:35 PM

0

Q: How do weapons get the ability to transform?

Is it something they are born with or is there an explanation at all?