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Originally posted by Erick:

Oh my, this is going to take a while to go through. Regardless, thank you for the suggestions!

ur welcome
just hmu if you want more recs i got a lot

and if i were to personally say what you should start with in that list I'd say Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Great Teacher Onizuka

this is an area in which i'm good at i think

i'm gonna make a general list of shit I think's good in certain genres:


Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo (Action, Adventure, Drama, Comedy, good for people getting into anime)
Neon Genesis Evangelion + End of Evangelion (if you want a conclusive ending to the series) (Sci-Fi, Psychological Drama, Coming-of-Age)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, anime that could be considered grand in sheer scale of world building)
Mushishi (Drama, Supernatural, Slice of Life, very relaxing)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Action (does not even come close to describe how fun it is), Comedy, Coming-of-Age, fun as fuck)


Golden Boy
Azumanga Daioh
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (watch this after watching a couple of anime, jokes make way more sense)
FLCL
Great Teacher Onizuka
Nichijou
Cromartie High School


Fist of the North Star
Katanagatari (also very funny)
Black Lagoon
Gantz
Hellsing Ultimate
Trigun
Claymore


Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku Hen
Gankutsuou
The Tatami Galaxy
Welcome to the NHK! (Watamote for older people, far more depressing)
Haibane Renmei
Your Lie in April
AnoHana
Millenium Actress
Revolutionary Girl Utena


Monster
Mononoke
Berserk 1997 (more actiony but monster design fits)
Paranoia Agent
Perfect Blue
Death Note
Devilman


Serial Experiments Lain
Akira
Ghost in the Shell (entire franchise)
Kaiba
Planetes
Ergo Proxy
Dennou Coil
Legend of the Galactic Heroes


Tomorrow's Joe
Slam Dunk
Ping-Pong
Hajime no Ippo
Akagi
Redline
One Outs
Haikyuu!!! (sketchy on this one)

Originally posted by Zalinto:

Kaiji

good god this this THIS THIS THIS THIS
zawa zawa zawa

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/11/25-1/gainax-west-begins-teasing-panty-and-stocking

https://youtu.be/GLa9YxV1Xps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIscL-Bjsq4

really interesting take on the illusion of free choice in videogames

for example, in many games, you get many ways of doing things, such as character customization, skill points, followers and so on, even down to the way you aim, run and jump, all as a guise of player-made decisions, but they all culminate towards a single goal that, more often than not, relies on none of those decisions, only that you partake in the game itself to reach it

borderlands 2, as an example of such, has various characters and playstyles, as well as various skins, weapon types and ammo and whatnot, but the primary goal remains the same, regardless of choices: receive story quest, kill monsters, return to quest giver, progress in the story, rinse and repeat until reaching the boss

now the same happens in the stanley parable, in a more abstract way
for example, following the narrator's directions directly gets stanley the best possible ending, however, the narrator says that stanley came to this ending all by himself via his own decisions (even though he was only merely following orders)

now, did stanley really have free choice? was it really his (the players) decision to end up with that ending? was he really following his own free will or was he made to believe it was his own decision via the illusion of free choice?

now all the alternate endings are explorations on the theme of free choice in videogames, and how, even if they don't give the best possible in game endings, they're all still illusions of free choice, since the game is programmed to respond according to your actions

so in the stanley parable, the primary goal of the game is simply to end the game via reaching one of the endings, and although you're offered various "choices" to reach this goal, they all have the same penultimate factor: you end the game

i'm not too good with meta theory analysis so pick ya brain over this cause i probably interpreted this wrong but w/e

but ya once you get all the endings, there's very little replay value

Originally posted by Sadness:

Most of the people around me including me dress casually, aka sporty clothes, hoodies and sweaters. But I want to stand out as a complete nerd, so I'm going to dress up formally.

if you wanna dress formally to stand out as a complete nerd wear an overcoat over a white flannel shirt, with a long ass scarf (like that one Doctor from Doctor Who), and some formal shoes, preferably beige

plain white flannel shirt (or just a button up shirt) with shorter sleeves underneath a tanktop/pullover

Originally posted by Jens-o(est):

Nice nightmare fuel.

always glad to be of service