Community Status Updates

DaEvilWithin

Hey I've been great! How have you been?
Jul 30 2023 01:29 PM

Strawhats

Glad to hear. I’ve been good, been away from the manga/anime scene for the most time (not including OP I’m sure you guessed that). I’m happy to hear you’re doing well though. It’s good to see a familiar face moderating the place.
Aug 16 2023 06:33 PM

Abu Dun

Since I last visited, some things did indeed happen. For instance, I finished my Masters Degree, I'm currently working full-time in a hotel (or would be if not for Corona), in late 2019 I had to be isolated for a few weeks due to a potentially nasty virus (which would have went undetected if I hadn't donated blood) and starting in May I'm going to work in a communal archive (more or less what I studied and a job that is virtually immune against shutdowns) - in other words, life continues to be busy and time for Manga and this forum has been short, but other than that? Everything is fine and I'm more or less the same as always, just a bit older^^ How did it go for you?
Mar 23 2020 10:30 AM

DaEvilWithin

Congratulations on finishing your Masters degree! What is the communal archive all about? I have no friends who do anything like that so I'm super interested.

I'm the same way -- I barely tune into OMF these days. I still read quite a bit of manga but at a level of scrutiny akin to a kindergartner. No more essays, haha. I'm also more or less the same as always. I did move to NYC (although I'm back in Canada right now because of COVID-19). A lot manga that is discussed these days doesn't hit me the same way unfortunately.
Apr 08 2020 11:12 AM

Abu Dun

Hi there and sorry for the late reply. Well, a communal archive is, essentially, the long-term memory of a village, town or county and basically the place where its most valuable (and usually unique) historic documents are being stored so that everyone who wants to can access them. E.g. to do family research, learn about how political decisions about specific topics came to be or how the place one lives in looked like 50, 100 or 500 years ago :) Until just a few years ago, solely with specific projects in mind, but nowadays most of it is accessible without limitations (unless specific laws to protect the rights for the indivual are concerned) - due to the sheer amount (the archive I'm at has a storage of about 3 Km of shelves, is close to topping that out - and considered relatively modest in size), digitalisation takes its time, but efforts are made to make things accessible from all around the planet. In fact, you could, from your flat in NYC, do research in millions of documents that are already avaiable online without ever needing to visit the archive where it actually is stored^^

When reading through the documents (especially those from about 1900 to the late 1930s), there's one recurring thing I always find to be especially interesting - and puzzling at the same time: In a lot of cases, one could simply scratch the original date off, show the part in question to strangers and they'd often think them to be about recent topics. Meaning that, despite so much time having passed, the tone and style of argueing hasn't changed all that much - depending on the actual topic, this realization can vary from slight amusement to outright fear over the state of things...

As for Manga, I agree that many of the new stuff isn't really pulling me in. There are some exceptions, but after nearing 1000 read/watched Manga and Anime, there might be a point of saturation reached. That or my preferences simply changed due to getting older ^^
Jul 15 2023 04:48 AM

ddboy102

Glad to see I wasn't the only one. I could deal with the graphic because it was never a big thing. But to lie like that and continue like nothing happened.

How easy it looks, I saw a starter one shot an ace/gigamax pokemon. Also lack of post-game.
Nov 14 2019 11:50 PM

Insane Soul

This aged well.
Apr 22 2020 05:16 PM

DaEvilWithin

LMAO.
Apr 23 2020 04:33 PM

DaEvilWithin

Thank you so much!!!
Jul 04 2019 07:07 AM

ddboy102

Also congrats on winning the NBA finals.

we should hang with my husband Drake.

or hang out on my boyfriend's Yacht Anthony Joshua he is from the UK and his accent is sexy.
Jul 02 2019 08:20 PM

DaEvilWithin

Thanks!!! The NBA finals were out of this world.
Jul 04 2019 07:07 AM

DaEvilWithin

what is your username
Jan 28 2019 10:46 PM

DaEvilWithin

he took off the limiter omg
Jan 28 2019 10:51 PM

Insane Soul

Asagi#1008
Jan 28 2019 10:54 PM

Insane Soul

What if the goal is to find inmortality
Jan 07 2019 01:49 PM

DaEvilWithin

If you think about it, you're alive for far shorter than you are dead so being alive is really the break in immortality.
Jan 17 2019 07:01 PM

Insane Soul

My dream is to access the secret to reincarnate in a isekai, find the best truck that can ram me to heavens, the legendary tr
Jan 17 2019 07:11 PM

DaEvilWithin

I used to before Monty passed.
Nov 28 2018 11:47 PM

ddboy102

okay sworry. :(
Nov 29 2018 03:39 PM

DaEvilWithin

Nothing to be sorry about.
Dec 08 2018 05:11 PM

Fulmine

I think it can be plot-induced. Otherwise he could have just made it so that Oden really died when he was old few months ago. This time travel means Oda wanted this power to exist for whatever reason and to justify certain things with the long reign of Orochi.

Or he just wanted to try writing time travel trope, I guess.

Seriously among the Big3 I always thought Bleach would be the only one to do time travel LOL
Sep 30 2018 12:17 AM

DaEvilWithin

Okay so I'm clearly forgetting Bleach but when was there time travel?
Oct 03 2018 05:42 PM

Fulmine

No, I mean I thought it would, given the long lifespan and Dangai, but turned out it didn't and Oda, whose manga is not that complicated and quite cartoonish in terms of power, ended up doing it...


Oct 04 2018 12:30 AM

Fulmine

OMGOD, One Piece new databook's cover has Enel on it. It's a special edition even cause it's not a book but a folder with a bunch of cards in it. Maybe Oda will do some Yugi-oh battle cards with Enel-sama's power level listed as SSS-rank =))))
Aug 10 2018 08:13 AM

DaEvilWithin

Wait REALLY? I want it.
Aug 22 2018 06:20 PM

Fulmine

Yep, it will be released in September/October. I did link it in One Piece forum. Though I don't remembe rif it was News and Merch thread or Official Volume thread.

Enel-sama looks mighty fine there <3 <3 <3
Aug 22 2018 10:54 PM

DaEvilWithin

Thanks!
Jul 05 2018 12:54 PM

DaEvilWithin

Thank you!
Jul 05 2018 12:54 PM

DaEvilWithin

Thanks! Hopefully Enel returns before I turn 50.
Jul 05 2018 12:54 PM

Fulmine

Unless Oda kills Luffy off and makes him reincarnate 800 years later to write One Piece 2, I think we're good.


Jul 05 2018 11:33 PM

DaEvilWithin

Thank you!
Jul 05 2018 12:54 PM