/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Talk a lot about yourself. Tell people about you and your life.

>Do the same things. Get into a regular routine and do not diverge from it.

>Don’t waste time on books or the arts. Avoid the cinema, the theatre, literature, new kinds of music

>Take very poor care of yourself. Drink a lot of alcohol

Foolz not linking to Warosu ain't a big deal

Even I don't mind it

Go cry, big babies

George Orwell “Politics and the English Language,”

>1) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

>2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

>3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

>4) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

>5) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

>6) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

I wonder what the average IQ is among /jp/er

Study: more education increases IQ
>Intelligence quotient is higher in students who stay in school longer
>Staying in school really can make you smarter. A new study from Norway finds that students who remain in school longer than their counterparts have higher IQ scores.
>“The young men who were forced to stay in school for two years longer actually did have higher IQs," Galloway says. "So, based on that, we were able to say that increasing compulsory schooling did actually have an effect on their cognitive abilities as measured at 19 years of age.”
>The average IQ score on the intelligence test is 100, with most of the population falling somewhere between 85 and 115 on the scale.
>According to Galloway, students who got a full two years of extra schooling showed an IQ gain of more than 7 points. Those with just one additional year of compulsory education during the phase in period gained approximately 3.7 IQ points.

>>8744467
>So ... who's going to enjoy Cowboy Bebop? My wife did, and she likes film sci-fi even less than I do. Not everybody is going to be comfortable with the sometimes eye-popping costumes (though there's no nudity and only rare implied sex).

>I came to love Yoko Kanno's explorations of every kind of jazz, beatnik and '50s rock all woven through a delicious new age sensibility; there's more bebop in this series than just the spaceship of that name. In fact, because of the jazz sensibility, the episodes are called "sessions," as if the story were a mere accompaniment to a jazz jam. And maybe it is.

>Mostly, though, this series is for people who love good storytelling – and plenty of surprises in every episode. The glory of animation is that you can show things that otherwise could never exist, and the writers, artists and voice actors of Cowboy Bebop do an unforgettably good job.

>New copies of the complete series aren't cheap, but you can get used DVD sets for $50 to $70. Up to $400 if you want new.

>Parents, listen to your children about art. You'll hate a lot of things they like – that's why they like them. But by definition, they're cooler than you are, and some of the stuff they find will enrich your life. Culture is at its best when it's a two-way street.

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http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/Articles-c-2011-04-06-207945.112113-Cowboy-Bebop-and-Audiobooks.htm
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