"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Any DBZ fans here?

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Ah anime been watching it since Sailormoon came out.

DBZ was ok but I liked Dragonball better.

Paper Man means that DBZ was the pioneer for fighting shonen anime, which is roughly anime made for boys. Stuff like Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Hunter X Hunter, Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho.

Or maybe he means it's the pioneer for anime in America. In the past we've had Voltron and Thundercats then basically nothing for ten years. Then we got Sailormoon, Dragonball and Dragonball Z all coming out at around the same time. After that the floodgates were opened and now it's a steady rush.

As for Naruto, I fell bad for the people that only watch it in English. They are now getting into the filler arc. Man that time sucked I stopped watching for a few months than resumed with shippuden and now everything is ok again.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Maxtro said:
...DBZ was ok but I liked Dragonball better.....
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Mark April 3, 2009 (tentatively) on your calendar.
 
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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Mark April 3, 2009 (tentatively) on your calendar.
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Marked and ready to go!!!

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Why? For the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra?

Kidding. Second entry in Google is about a live action Dragonball movie. Live action anime kind of scares me. It could end up being almost decent or completely god awful.
 
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Maxtro said:
Why? For the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra?

Kidding. Second entry in Google is about a live action Dragonball movie. Live action anime kind of scares me. It could end up being almost decent or completely god awful.
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Evangelion is probably going to turn into a movie too. Now that's scary.
 
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Evangalion was pretty DEEP as far as when they would just drift off in their own heads.

Anyways Pook and Piccolo fused would make: Pookolo =P

just had to say that
 
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Cowboy Bebop.

Enough said. :whistle:
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I loved that show, one of the few animes that I actually watched on TV without downloading on the internet.

Samurai Champloo, which was basically made by the same team that did Bebop, is also a great series.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Mark April 3, 2009 (tentatively) on your calendar.
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Erm, why? New Series coming out or something?
 
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Yeah, but the date has been pushed back to 2009.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Maxtro said:
Or maybe he means it's the pioneer for anime in America. In the past we've had Voltron and Thundercats then basically nothing for ten years. Then we got Sailormoon, Dragonball and Dragonball Z all coming out at around the same time. After that the floodgates were opened and now it's a steady rush.
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Actually, Robotech and Star Blazers were THE pioneer for anime in America. Thundercats was not anime and Voltron was bowlderdized and sanitized for American kids. Robotech and Star Blazers were the first American anime releases to present a dramatic story for kids without dumbing down or sanitizing the violence. These two shows ushered in an organized fandom for anime that didn't exist before.

Sailor Moon and DBZ were the spearhead of the Third Wave of anime fandom (first being Robotech and StarBlazers, second being Akira) and represent the commercialization and mainstreaming of anime.
 
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Actually, Robotech and Star Blazers were THE pioneer for anime in America...
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Space Cruiser Yamato and the Super Dimension Fortress-1!!! :rockon:
Which was better weapon, the Wave Motion gun or the Reflex Cannon? It would have been nice to see the two battleships go against each other.
 
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Yotsuya-san said:
Actually, Robotech and Star Blazers were THE pioneer for anime in America. Thundercats was not anime and Voltron was bowlderdized and sanitized for American kids. Robotech and Star Blazers were the first American anime releases to present a dramatic story for kids without dumbing down or sanitizing the violence. These two shows ushered in an organized fandom for anime that didn't exist before.

Sailor Moon and DBZ were the spearhead of the Third Wave of anime fandom (first being Robotech and StarBlazers, second being Akira) and represent the commercialization and mainstreaming of anime.
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I forgot about Robotech. Yeah that was a pioneer. I never heard of Star Blazers. What about Speed Racer? My dad used to watch that when he was a kid.

Akira was one movie and it I don't think it was aired on TV so I don't know how big it's impact was. Any more data about the 2nd wave?

As for "bowlderdized" anime, that has happened to a great many of shows. Heck even Sailormoon which is technically a girls show got censored. The final season, Sailor Stars was never aired because some executives thought it was too "adult orientated" be be shown on day time TV.

What funny is that I think it's great that more and more anime is being shown on American TV and that it's getting more exposure. But the thing is, for the past 5 years or so 99.9% of the anime I watch is fansubbed, that I downloaded.

Speaking of fansubbed and Macross in the previous post, anybody check out "Macross Frontier"? So far only one episode is out and the next one isn't due out till April.
 
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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