There's only one thing you need to understand about boku. Don't watch the anime

Unrelated but I lost my virginity while watching that anime, and this is 100% not a joke.

What anime are we talking about? I searched and found a dozen with boku in their names.

It's an old meme.

old by internet standards, anyways.

Up til now the MO of this manga could be summed up with insane amounts of interuptions

Or insane amounts of uselessness if you prefer.

As others have said, a bigger problem is the casual treatment of domestic violence. It's out of place in respect to tone, and depending on one's personal feelings, it's a very poor way to treat the problem of actual, real life abuse. (I make those two things separate distinctions because people feel differently about how horrible things portrayed in fiction ought to be treated.)

While a discussion on the inherent imbalances in a relationship with a not-insignificant age gap is certainly a worthwhile one to have, I think it's not a problem in the case brought up here.

(And yeah, 10 years is a fairly insignificant gap in the grand scheme of things, but context matters. An 18 year-old should obviously not be in a relationship with an 8 year-old. The difference between 18 and 28 is not nearly as significant as that, but it's still more significant than, say, 28 and 38.)

amogus

So a group of wolves is a pack, and a group of yuri girls is...a flurry. Having nomenclature is handy, also kind of fitting

Huh, I'd have guessed "garden" or "flowerbed". :V

I thought it was a "clam bake".

Those damn robots are taking our jerbs. This is an outrage.

Is it just me or does Genshin have a lot of very attractive older ladies.

^^^^ I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think that.

^And Ollie is the queen of the gays.

Both harem and feminism are suck. And feminism is even worse because harem at least works with yuri. Seriously? I guess the author is pretty low.

wow that sure is a take on... something, I guess

A take so hot it belongs in a trash fire.

^^^ Thank you for your service.

She looks great with that pompadour.

I thought she was holding a slice of pizza.

... vore?

Well, DBD is certainly not something I ever thought I'd see here.

The world is just full of surprises, isn't it?

@limejuice I see what you did there.

McDonalds?

Surely they mean WcDonalds?

Home of the wacky meal.

Your dinner of jammed clams hams is served steaming and hot.

Also this brings up a dilemma, like what happens if your friend does start sending you money. Like how do you tell them to chill or just be warey if they don't know that it's you..

it goes something like this...

You: "spend less money on vtubers."

Friend: "no."

What's this a parody of?

Patchouli's next love letter:

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

Why why why why don't I miss you a lot, forever?

^^that was an exceptionally well made tech-demo and/or vive index advertisement and you can't tell me otherwise.

edit: I can't keep track of all these silly VR headset names

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Sadly I lack the attention span and patience to keep track of the entire conversation, so I'm just gonna talk about some of my thoughts and hope they're relevant (and coherent :P) enough to mean anything at all.

To me, it's not necessarily that they don't need to take "the next step". They've already taken it, and they continue to take them. Those steps just manifest differently from people's expectations. What, where, if, and when the next next step will be isn't something they're worried about as long as it includes the other. The two frequently mention how they can't even imagine a life without the other beside them. Wherever the next step is, they'll always be together in finding it.

It differs from, say, their friends, whose relationships follow a more standard, predictable pattern. It's not my place to make judgements on which is better, but for what it's worth Sakurako and Kasumi have always been happy with each other right from the start, and they've only gotten closer over time.

What can be read as Sakurako being anxious about losing Kasumi, I've read as being in disbelief that she's been so lucky to have found Kasumi. That moment in Hawaii is one example of these different readings.

Part of what makes this series so interesting and special to me is how it takes a strong look at different ways relationships can form and show themselves, and the ways they progress. I've never seen such a range of views and feelings and motivations across so many characters. For something that is, at it's core, a 4-koma gag manga, the depth and breadth of it is truly amazing.

At any rate, I'm glad that the debate has almost entirely moved on from "are they actually in lesbians tho??". Talking about the nature of the relationship they have is so much more interesting (and worth having) than arguing about whether there's any relationship at all.

Time really does fly. I was surprised as well to realize even Hinako is already old enough to drink even in Japan...

That one really caught me by surprise as well. It's been years, yet it feels like it's been hardly any time at all. A lot of people have gone from one decade of their life into the next reading A Room For Two, myself included. That's quite something.

And definitely not terrifying.
At all.
Nope.
No siree.
I'm perfectly calm about this.

edit: damn, this ended up way longer than I thought it would...

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Does Ina count as a giant squid? She might need to watch herself around Chloe. Tako bout an Apex Predator! I'd need to s-ika therapist if they met.

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^^Nice.

Steam has no real policy about sexual content in games. Hell, they have no real policy about anything. They're at least as willing to sell your hentai jigsaw puzzle game with stolen assets that quietly mines cryptocurrency in the background as they are to sell something worth a damn.

Remember when valve made video games?

Me neither.

On topic: yeah the game is gay af.