meruru

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by meruru 7y ago
What did you learn today?
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by meruru 7y ago
I think they are beneficial genes for society. I imagine much of the scientific and technological development of humanity was thanks to obsessive types. Genes that make people form families rather than work in their craft are not exactly in
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by meruru 7y ago
Thanks for this. It seems to have started going up in 2005. That's really interesting and unexpected. Has anyone proposed an explanation? I know they've been trying to encourage people to form families for a while. Maybe some of t
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by meruru 7y ago
Fair enough. Worth mentioning it's from a time when 4chan had a completely different userbase (number of users on 4chan doubled during gamergate alone).
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by meruru 7y ago
Some things just have to be done.
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by meruru 7y ago
Why don't we combine those ideas and use ascii waifus? (yes, that's a thing)
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by meruru 7y ago
How much genes matter vs culture depends on the variance of each of those factors in the sampled population. You aren't going to win a Nobel prize if you are a dog, no matter how top-quality your education. You aren't going to win
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by meruru 7y ago
Oh the evolutionary answer is easy. If your parents have a gene that can make you behave in a way that reduces the chance of you reproducing, but changes your behavior in such a way that increases the chance of your kin surviving, then that
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by meruru 7y ago
It's like food connoisseurism. You get a sense for subtleties if you spend enough time with it.
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by meruru 7y ago
Honestly, I feel kinda guilty about it. Shouldn't the people who care so much about their craft that they forgo relationships be precisely the kind that we'd want to preserve the genes of?
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by meruru 7y ago
Thanks for making this, it's awesome. How much of a plagiarist I am if I make my characters using this and pretend they are original?
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by meruru 7y ago
It's a joke.
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by meruru 7y ago
These articles never mention it, but I do think waifu culture contributes to the issue. I personally never looked for a partner because I'd rather spend more time watching anime.
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by meruru 7y ago
The creepy thing is funny because nerds fawning over stylized drawings is just about the most innocuous thing there is
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by meruru 7y ago
The world isn't going to end because of war or famine or anything like that, but because humans will be too infatuated with their artificial partners to bother reproducing.
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by meruru 7y ago
Stop discrimination against creepy people!
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by meruru 7y ago
What happened?
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by meruru 7y ago
The term waifu is way bigger than 4chan.
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by meruru 7y ago
All that drawing and character design practice for nothing I guess.
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by meruru 7y ago
It really is just fun. I don't know why people insist in assuming malice.
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by meruru 7y ago
I think a large majority of anime art have happy expressions, so it might not have been anything that they had to do. Edit: "disgusted anime girl that looks at you like you're trash" is the theme of a recent book that got ada
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by meruru 7y ago
>tongue in cheek Are you making fun of my engagement?
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by meruru 7y ago
It should be in a similar way, but in reality people lose their minds when the topic is sexual.
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by meruru 7y ago
They have different focus, but both are raster editors. They do compete with each other.
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by meruru 7y ago
2.10 was a big release that came out last year. So yes: https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html There's some good stuff on the roadmap for 3.0 and 3.2 as well: https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki&
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Suspected Arson at Kyoto Animation Studio Kills 33, Shocking Japan(nytimes.com)
4 points by meruru 7y ago|0 comments
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by meruru 7y ago
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack
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Kyoto Studio Devastated by Fire Is Revered by Anime Fans(nytimes.com)
3 points by meruru 7y ago|2 comments
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by meruru 7y ago
Great work.
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by meruru 7y ago
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that. It would be pretty cool if Antarctica had been populated and urbanized.

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