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[TD1]

Family tradition, even. My mum wrote love poems for my dad... and gave them to her friend so she could woo him XD

Tbf they got together a fair bit after that, not immediately.

Also just saying I anticipated drama from the beginning, despite you naysayers!

[TD1]

Doublepost 'cause it's relevant.

G2 is messaging me over FB - again about this dinner thing, confirming that I can go (I got a text from my manager saying "I believe you wanted to go," and G2 seems to be the one to have mentioned it to her). This led to a conversation which, even in my ignorant state, I believe classifies as flirting. She said, for instance, that she can read me like a book. I said "still be a better book than anything Austen could write" (she's said she loves Austen, I've said she was meh). She replied with frowny faces, but then "You're not wrong though." She also said I was funny.

Like, is it just me or is that flirtometer-beeps worthy? She really seems to have taken the wheel on this whole dinner thing. It was her who suggested it. Her who practically bullied a manager into talking about it to me. Her who's been following me up about it on FB. Her who has said repeatedly that it's great I'm going.

If it weren't for the 'helping my friend get a date' angle I think I'd be convinced.

[hector13]

She’s either the best wingman ever or wants to see you in a more personal capacity.

[Reelya]

‘Matchmaker falls for the man she was trying to match with her friend’
Sounds like an anime plot to me!
I anticipate lots of drama

Huh, anime? Sounds more like an American chick-flick.

That's just not how they'd set things up in an anime version of a romcom. Now, if she was friends with they guy to start with (most likely childhood friend or next door neighbor), and he got some rando girlfriend, and only then she realized she liked him all along, that would be believable that it could be an anime plot. But not the specific plot you described. Partly because an anime version of a romcom will go for minimum of 12 episodes vs the 90 minutes of a chick-flick movie. If she's friends with the female rival then they can't just eject her from the story to focus on the main characters.

[TamerVirus]

‘Matchmaker falls for the man she was trying to match with her friend’
Sounds like an anime plot to me!
I anticipate lots of drama

Huh, anime? Sounds more like an American chick-flick.

I just immediately associated the trope of ‘matchmaker crush’ with the 2007 anime School Days... which ends rather poorly for the male protag. _{He had it coming for being a brainless cheating bastard tho}

[Magistrum]

Wait, I hear about school days being cursed for years now, what happens? Everyone dies?

[TamerVirus]

Wait, I hear about school days being cursed for years now, what happens? Everyone dies?

School Days was a romance visual novel known for some messy BAD ENDs if you played your cards poorly
The anime adaptation actually ends up adapting a BAD END

Spoiler: Nice Boat (click to show/hide)

So the basic story is that the male protag tries to woo a shy, quiet girl who he rides the train with. An energetic classmate who sits next to him decides to play matchmaker. Long story short, the dude ends up flip flopping between both girls before going full harem master, boning a bunch of secondary female characters. He ends up getting stabbed to death by the matchmaker girl, who in turn is also murdered by the quiet girl (who go through the process of disemboweling her ) Final shot of the anime is the quiet girl clutching the decapitated head of the dead dude on a boat in the middle of the ocean

[TD1]

Oh yea G2 is definitely into me.

Edit: okay so didn't have time to write more earlier. I went in and I was to share work with her all shift. She started two hours after me.

Bit of a rocky start. She was not happy with me for some reason. Much more detached, etc. I assumed she was trying to let me know her intentions towards me.
Then about half an hour in when I had her laughing etc., she suddenly started berating me for not responding to a FB message. Tbf I guess I should have. I said she was 10/10 annoying. She said "guess I'll not talk to you then." It wasn't so bad in context, but anyway I digress. I should have responded.

So then she starts asking if I have a GF, I say no. She says I'm funny and good looking, so she doesn't know why not. Then she starts talking a lot about other stuff.

Mock groans when I have to do a separate aisle. Comes in later to ask me to lunch. Had her choking on her drink at one point.

I think I may have landed this particular plane.

[Reelya]

Wait, I hear about school days being cursed for years now, what happens? Everyone dies?

Wait, I hear about school days being cursed for years now, what happens? Everyone dies?

School Days was a romance visual novel known for some messy BAD ENDs if you played your cards poorly
The anime adaptation actually ends up adapting a BAD END

Spoiler: Nice Boat (click to show/hide)

So the basic story is that the male protag tries to woo a shy, quiet girl who he rides the train with. An energetic classmate who sits next to him decides to play matchmaker. Long story short, the dude ends up flip flopping between both girls before going full harem master, boning a bunch of secondary female characters. He ends up getting stabbed to death by the matchmaker girl, who in turn is also murdered by the quiet girl (who go through the process of disemboweling her ) Final shot of the anime is the quiet girl clutching the decapitated head of the dead dude on a boat in the middle of the ocean

More specifically, School Days is a porn visual novel which inexplicably got a TV anime adaptation. Most of the porn VNs of that type never get adapted to TV series (aside from some that are more story-based but have the occasional sex scene which usually gets omitted. FATE is an example: a VN promoted as having sex scenes, but you get about 3 minutes of sex scenes per 30 hours of other story), so this particular one became especially notorious. Many of the endings in the visual novel involved death and dismemberment for the various sexual improprieties of the main character, and they chose to condense down some of the "bad endings" for the TV series.

Being a porn visual novel with a LOT of girls to pick from, when they adapted School Days into a TV show, the main character (who is usually a blank slate in those games so you can self-insert) comes across as an immoral dude who'll just fuck anything that moves and doesn't give two fucks. That's the result of trying to cram all the story routes into one show. One of the most hated anime characters of all time.

[Yoink]

dude touch her butt consensually

[TamerVirus]

Visual novel and porn pretty much went hand in hand with each other for years, only relatively recently have the all-ages material began to proliferate

In all honestly, most anime VN adaptations are pretty mediocre to outright bad
Examples: Tsukihime, Majikoi, Grisaia and the Umineko adaptation

[Reelya]

Depends. you're omitting a lot that are considered outright classics there.

Fate Stay Night (at least the later adaptations)
Steins;Gate
Clannad (and pretty much every other Key adaptation)
Higurashi
ef: a tale of memories & ef: a tale of memories.

Sure, there are a lot of mediocre ones, but ... any more so than any other type of source material? Light Novels, which are actual literature, produce WAY more stinkers than visual novels.

[Yoink]

Isn't there a thread for this sort of weeb trash...?

[methylatedspirit]

I pointed a red laser at my phone's back, and instead of reflecting normally, it made at least 6 copies of the laser spot as its reflection. What does that tell me about that surface, if anything? In general, what does pointing lasers at a surface, then observing the reflection tell me about them?

[wierd]

Micro-textured surface, that polarizes light. 

that's what.   Similar happens with the front polarizer film for LCDs.

Multipoint reflections are one of the reasons why laser safety is a big thing.