I hate compliments. They don't make me feel uncomfortable they're just irritating. I find them irrelevant and annoying 9/10 times.

With that said, you're missing out and should definitely give it a second chance. AoT has stuff that can change your way of thinking/view of the world. It's rich in themes, and a definite classic. >lol he takes anime so seriously I would think this to be expected on a web community called maiOTAKU.

I wish I knew japanese :( I've wanted to learn it for a long time now just haven't gotten around to it...I understand a few words here and there but that doesn't really count for anything >.> anyways, welcome to the site and I hope you enjoy it here :]

@ Airi I had to look up what the House Targaryen was, but now I want to read the books XD Honestly it sounds like I could be part of their crazy family...

Pfffffft, between Final- exam cram sessions and working until 2am, sleep is put on the shelf in favor of sweet, sweet caffeene! @3@

I am only 21, but my first console was an Atari 2600, and I played a lot of DOS games when I was a child. Most of my hardware was scavenged, so I guess you could say I was behind on the times. I regret none of it; it gave me an appreciation for newer hardware that people that for granted in this generation.

I do play DDR and ITG, but unfortunately, all of the arcades near my home closed down, so I have to travel very far to find a good arcade machine. As a result, I don't have the stamina that I used to.

I apologize in advance for the wall of text. @blackmage I feel that it is a difficult task to meet with my friends that have moved away. One friend moved to Washington (I live in Pennsylvania), my brother moved to Ohio, another friend moved to Virginia, yet another moved to New York, another still is back and forth between South Carolina and Afghanistan, and some friends that I am less close to live in Washington D.C.; all of them used to live near me at one point, so it is hard to suddenly be without all of them. As you might imagine, planning to meet all of them is very time consuming and expensive, since they all live far from each other, and travel to any one of them is more than I can afford, with working part-time to support myself while I attend college full-time. They're all a little bit older, so they have already graduated, and found jobs. I see them maybe once or twice per year when they return home to visit family, but after I'm gone, too, I won't even see them then, unless I make enough that I can fly around the country, or have the time and money to drive for such a short visit. I'm not so good at communicating with people that don't go out of their way to talk to me. I typically don't say anything until I have something to say; when I was young, it was easy to bug my friends with random idle talk, but these days, I feel no point in saying anything when there's nothing to say. That's not to say that I don't wish that I had more things to say, but I feel that I literally have no reason to try to contact them. So, I don't. Over the years, I've become really tired of people asking trivial questions like "How's college? What's your major? What have you been up to? What's new?" Whenever they ask, I always have the same answers. Over the last three years, I don't think my life has changed significantly enough to warrant any different response. As such, I no longer ask these questions, myself. This limits me to rather specific questions where there is information I need to know. Since there haven't been any, I haven't spoken to them. I don't know what I'd say if I did... @cantthinkofabettername, @shadowdemonx9 I agree that everything has an effect. Like they say, every droplet leaves ripples. I guess a little background on my personality might make for a better explanation. I am aware that my time is limited, as are my resources. I seek to allocate them in the best way possible, to yield the maximum results. I will always prefer things that last over things that don't, because having something that is permanent yields higher value than something that is not. Thus, when confronted with the decision between making friends with someone at a campus nowhere near my home, when I know I'm going to move away, anyway, and doing something else that I can take with me when I leave, I will never choose to make bonds with strangers, because they are the more temporary action. In all likelihood, I won't see them again, so compared to something that will last forever, like completing a task that's on my list of goals (finishing something so that I can move on to the next, itself, is an act of permanence), it can be seen as a waste of time, as cold as that may seem.

Here's how I look at it, I stopped caring, things come, things go, the river flows ever onward. And like ffftitans said, hobbies can be a great distraction and time filler. I don't think it's so much about loving yourself but just accepting yourself. I certainly know I have things to work on, and I know I'm not the best thing since sliced bread, but when I think about relationships this is how my care cup looks |_| <- it's empty. Not to say I wouldn't welcome a relationship or the company of a fine woman, but there isn't a void I'm trying to fill with a woman.