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2:00 PM
@GaoWeiwei OK, that nailed it
@GaoWeiwei Do they? Anyway, Death Parade takes place in a non-living realm
 
@GaoWeiwei I dont think so
 
@EroSɘnnin Didn't watch it
 
i dont know about cats, but i know farmers take off sheep and other animals tails
 
Rave Master, titled Rave (レイヴ, Reivu, romanized as RAVE) in Japan and also known there as The Groove Adventure Rave, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. The series follows Haru Glory, a teenager in a quest to find the five pieces of the sacred stone Rave in order to bring peace to the world by defeating the criminal group Demon Card. Mashima created this series with the idea of travelling around the world and was presented with difficulties in its serialization due to its considerable length. The manga was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from July 1999 through...
 
they might lose their balance or something
 
2:02 PM
imgur.com/gallery/RVN8ME8 hah oh I love the stupid ones
 
Unless there are something in the story, it could be the case that the starting point of the calendar is arbitrarily chosen
 
@tosh yes
 
@ToshinouKyouko Seems like the only major side effect
 
2:07 PM
@EroSɘnnin Also didn't watch it, but I don't know for sure, so you might want to ask that question on the main.
 
@EroSɘnnin Paragraph starts with saying the tail is very important for a cat. Goes on to talk about how cats can live without their tails.
Some people need to learn how to structure.
 
@Yuuki Yea, I agree. It could have been structured much better.
But still a lot of info on a subject that might be considered trivial by many.
 
guys you can ask a question on biology and hopefully some enthusiast will structure it nicely
 
why is poop brown
why do belly buttons exist
 
well then
 
2:11 PM
why don't i have a tail
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Why aren't you Toshinou?
 
how do i make myself anime irl
 
stop doing boring stuff and do fun things instead
get together with friends every day, eat snacks, read manga, play games
go out on weekends
basically, have a normal life instead of whatever you're doing lol
 
i will start running to work with toast in my mouth
 
2:17 PM
ooh wear cool highschool uniform to work
not cosplayey, but srs, high quality sewn dress
 
@Hakase I'd love to do so, but that's not going to last
 
@nhahtdh why not?
 
being normal is overrated
 
@Hakase If you want to keep a hobby, you need $$$
 
actually, being normal is what we do every day now and the anime normal is far from common these days
not that you don't know that
@nhahtdh actually I don't think anything the girls have done in yuru yuri cost a considerable sum
snacks? mangas? movie tickets? ice cream?
homemade cosplay
not very expensive I would say
 
2:21 PM
Nah, I don't want to take my real life into the conversation, so I'll end here.
 
rent
food
 
so the girls did go to school for the first part of the day
swap with work and you got the money for all that
 
@Hakase you forgot having a harem
 
work is longer and arguably higher intesity than school
 
Oh, April's Fool is coming
 
2:23 PM
oh no
 
@ToshinouKyouko consider reducing the hours or work with friends in an H-manga store
 
Not sure what SE will come up with this year. Unicorn?
 
unicorns are 2012
if they're gonna do unicorns yet again, it will be pretty stupid
anyway, there are ways to make your life somewhat like highschoolers get to have in anime
it's gonna cost you something though
but it might be worth it all
 
there's no option for reduced hours in many places
also, my rep is bad enough with my peers without working in a H-manga store
also I'm too much of a prude
 
waaaaat
unprude yourself!
 
2:26 PM
neverrr
 
being shy is only useful in a very limited range of situations
so many great opportunities are being missed
I'm sad the world isn't busy discussing robosexualism yet
 
@nhahtdh I don't think you mean the definitions that are on urban dictionary.
 
It's not that I'm shy, it's just I'm not comfortable with overly lewd things
 
I only said it as a reference to Denki Gai
these guys work there full time and they're pretty much friends
 
2:29 PM
kind of an alternative to working less hours and meeting up with friends early like after school
 
everyone at my work has kids and is not fun :(
 
@GaoWeiwei Don't think so. I don't even know what it would mean there, but from what you say, I assume it is something thing vulgar
 
I think my next company should have people my age though :)
 
but I suppose a manga store would pay even less for full hour day than an IT company for half a day, so it's kinda pointless
 
possibly, unless you owned the manga store
 
2:30 PM
@nhahtdh Yes, that's why I didn't include a link. Well, there is one meaning that is just "female", but the others are more than that.
 
then you'd be the only one in your position and still couldn't talk to your personnel coz they'd be busy
 
No wonder why strange pictures show up on images when I search that term
 
@GaoWeiwei I was thinking about something like Espeon's tail
 
ok time to chug down some tea and get ready to go home
 
2:34 PM
@Taisho Cross Heart Attack
Almost
 
We are enabling CloudFlare routing on http://meta.stackexchange.com in a just a bit. Let us know if you see any craziness!
 
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Q: I'm trying to find this anime cause i want to know if it was continued

michaelI stumbled across a really interesting anime which starts out with 2 young men exploring ruins floating in the sky looking for relics for ancient hero's, and they stumble across a girl passed out who refuses to tell them who she is when she wakes. They bring her back to the village only for it to...

 
@GaoWeiwei okay . Will do after a bit more search
@Yuuki Lol. Not a fine article. Could use edits :P
 
2:51 PM
cloudflare watizzis
I thought SE guys are all geniuses that don't need no third party tech
 
mee too
 
@Hakase Geniuses use third-party tech. Why spend your precious genius time working on something that someone else, in your genius opinion, does competently?
Thus, you can spend more of your genius time doing other more genius things.
 
@ʞɹɐzǝɹ u hear dat?
 
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Q: Helping finding the name of an anime from a gif

BrBYears ago, I came across an animated gif on an image board of what appeared to be a line of russian style tanks, possibly T-95s in model, leading a group of large, white or silver mechs against what appeared to be a horde of trolls similar in appearance to the trolls from Berserk. The only diffe...

 
so many lost anime
i am so sick of id-reqs
 
2:56 PM
@Sakamoto No. This is not going to fly here
 
they should all die
 
:O
radical
 
@ToshinouKyouko Yeah, I agree, they should all go and ****@#$*)@#*$)@
 
should just delete them all O:<
i was semi-okay with it before
and they do get us traffic
but it is just turning into findthisanime.stackexchange
 
♪ I don't feel like helping, helping! Go identify anime yourself! ♫
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2:58 PM
Lol
 
they are 1/5th of our questions
 
So less detail.
They think we got Google up in our brain
 
@Hakase My feeling exactly
 
@ToshinouKyouko And this is why Arqade has restrictions on their game-id questions.
 
3:08 PM
we have restrictions too, it doesn't stop people asking bad questions though :/
 
@ToshinouKyouko What kind of restrictions do you have?
 
People have confused us with a free version of Mechanical Turk.
 
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Q: What criteria should we use for QCing for ALL "identification-request" questions?

ʞɹɐzǝɹWe've previously voted that we need a set of guidelines to quality control (QC) identification-request questions that will be added to our help center. These guidelines will be applied to ALL (new and old) identification-request question since the tag's inception. So I ask the community, how sho...

this might be out of date, but something similar to this
 
I wonder if I should recommend the user an HD recovery article
 
@EroSɘnnin And tell the user to do regular back-ups
 
3:16 PM
yeah
Can we do that? Might sound rude though
 
Nah, don't waste the time, unless you really want to help
Since our 8th chat session last time, didn't Madara say we will hold one more meeting discussing identification-requests?
 
The time has arrived maybe
 
With so many id-req in different Stacks, there should be an id-req Stack dedicated to the sole purpose of identifying stuff :P
 
@EroSɘnnin Interesting proposal
 
3:21 PM
I was thinking of going through all meta posts and collect what is still relevant together in a few posts.
 
id requests should be handled by en.akinator.mobi
 
@MadaraUchiha That's what I proposed, but not feasible with current participation level, said some people
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A: Is it feasible to keep "identification-request" questions going as they are now?

Gao WeiweiI actually have a few ideas on how to alleviate this problem, but I think to see most of them implemented would require effort from the part of Stack Exchange. Before I propose these ideas, I will cut to the chase and offer my opinion: it is feasible to keep identification request questions going...

 
@EroSɘnnin The guessing game?!
 
My views have changed a bit since then.
 
@GaoWeiwei Did you try to bring it up to Area51?
 
3:23 PM
Jeff Atwood on February 29, 2012

We’ve observed a particular pattern of questions emerging on several Stack Exchange sites.

All these questions are effectively guessing games.

I remember myself playing this a bit childish, but in some ways awesome game, where you control a tank, and can pick up and stack turrets (and maybe something else) from enemy tanks you kill. Maybe they also had different platforms (and if it’s one with wheels then technically it’s not a tank, but hey). It was around 2000 (or maybe even earlier) and the game had 3D graphics. …

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@MadaraUchiha No, didn't have time and never participated there.
 
@Unihedro Written 3 years ago, and those questions are still all the rage.
 
Right...
 
Stack Exchange doesn't actively do anything against those questions, so I can't claim it to be official policy.
 
@Unihedro maybe. @GaoWeiwei We can have experts from all communities to identify the stuff they specify in. I say its a win-win
 
3:25 PM
A blast from the past, for me to hear they coming up again :)
It's good for stats though...
 
@Unihedro They never left...
@Unihedro I'd rather have poor stats and good quality.
 
id-requests should burn
 
lol
 
@ToshinouKyouko Bring it up on meta, get the consensus
 
Besides, we're already past graduation levels (only waiting on design at this point)
 
3:26 PM
Maybe Anime & Manga.SE will lead the "Let's stop guessing games" trend among Stack Exchange :p
 
@Unihedro there's a policy shift in the works
@ʞɹɐzǝɹ-san is finalizing the proposal and will post it soon(ish)
 
\o/
 
cool i dont have to do any work \o/
 
I'd say only keep parody and crossover tags, identification of series within series are ok.
 
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Anime & Mangaanime.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for anime & manga fans.

Currently in public beta.

Healthy stats!
 
3:27 PM
@MadaraUchiha any quick drawbacks abt the id-req stack (if it was to be proposed)?
 
@EroSɘnnin People might call it too meta
"Not enough experts on the subject" and whatnot
 
@Unihedro 9.7 questions/day, a lot of them are from id-req
 
But trying is free.
 
@EroSɘnnin Such a site wouldn't have experts.
 
Such a site only needs tags such as image, video, ln, vn, etc.
 
3:28 PM
Stack Exchange is suposed to be a network of Q&A sites which, to quote: "working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about (thing)"
 
Nope
 
@nhahtdh True we get more varieties, more yaoi and yuri - hahaha!
 
@nhahtdh :/
 
@nhahtdh tags can include movies, anime, manga and more
 
@GaoWeiwei The fact that we're an outlet for "identify this porn for me" really annoys me.
 
3:30 PM
@Unihedro We want stuffs like at reddit, but without all the crappy discussions
I took a look there and found a bunch of treasures about Shirobako
 
Well, over here, when we want to share knowledge, we would need to have a question
 
Why is it that over there at Reddit, users seem to write good English while here it's a mess?
 
:/
 
@GaoWeiwei well
 
3:32 PM
@GaoWeiwei Because they get downvoted to oblivion if their English is crap.
 
I agree with @GaoWeiwei 's suggestion. Maybe we could talk about it with the Arqade , M&TV guys :P
 
what @MadaraUchiha said
 
@GaoWeiwei Because more people are on reddit and the effects of community voting sinks lots of junk well enough.
 
@ton.yeung Nope.
 
@MadaraUchiha We need more downvote on our site
 
3:33 PM
@nhahtdh We need more votes on our site.
 
@MadaraUchiha And avid users.
 
@Unihedro avid users are a function of votes.
 
We need both, actually.
 
You vote more, good folks get more score and more privileges and are hooked
That's kind of the point of the whole rep system
 
Voting is one thing, we need good editor, not trash editor and reviewers like those from SO
 
3:34 PM
Maybe a meta post on what questions deserve downvotes?
 
@ton.yeung Was active military, not anymore (for over a year now)
 
Not all are bad editor/reviewer on SO, though, but a few good one is not enough
 
@ton.yeung I'm still waiting on you >:(
 
@GaoWeiwei Sounds good
 
3:37 PM
Even lost its battle for front page dominance to !
 
@GaoWeiwei Give it time. New series will launch soon
 
@ton.yeung It's fine, just don't forget about me ;P
 
(mayb)
 
@ton.yeung Good.
 
@ton.yeung True that
 
3:38 PM
 
@ton.yeung Filler crap beaten by bigger crap that is the identification request.
 
I'm bored. Someone tell me something interesting you did lately :D
 
Even though there are some gold blocks hidden among the big pile of crap.
 
needle in a haystack
 
3:39 PM
@Unihedro I gave my dog a bath. She smells lovely ^_^
 
That was a waste of time
I only gain ego + 1
 
@GaoWeiwei I feel like those questions should be completely off-topic.
If you want identification answers, sorry, go elsewhere. They don't fit the SE model.
 
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Q: What does this (possibly Japanese) graffiti say?

Why_SE_bulling_new_usersIn the Elfen Lied special episode 10.5, there was a scene where Nana is standing next to a wall where bearing this graffiti: I don't know if is important or not, but the writing is so noticeable that I would like to know: what's written there?

That one is good, but probably can do without
 
the good id-reqs are just like "oh this series looks interesting" really - and gets upvotes because of it - a better way is looking for reccomendations somewhere like chat or google
@GaoWeiwei gone~
 
@EroSɘnnin :D
 
3:43 PM
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Q: A manga with a manatee-like creature which turns into a power suit on the person it swallows

BobbyBrownWhen Borders, the bookstore was open, I always went to check out this book. This was sometime between 2003-ish (or 2004) and 2011. So there is a pretty big gap to fill when I find the manga and continue to read it. This particular manga was about a boy whose father had died in a fight against so...

Gave an instant upv for this^
 
> When Borders, the bookstore was open, I always went to check out this book.
You're the reason why Borders closed.
 
It might be more beneficial to bring id questions into the chatroom (create one specifically for it). So when one feels like getting a recommendation and helping one solve their problem at the same time, that user joins that chatroom. The reputation requirement to join a chatroom also weeds off random people on the internet.
Also less task not needing to form a good answer, and the conversation form might be more natural to most people
 
3:58 PM
Let's enjoy the 2 songs above
 
But I think we should still advertize (make known) that we do answer id questions to attract people. Just that now we require more effort from them.
 

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