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Mar 20, 2015 5:57 PM
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Interesting question.

I honestly think that the change in my life would be rather dramatic. I get the feeling that if I never signed up for MAL, my life would have gone pretty far south. I signed up for MAL in the pinacle of my depression, and I have no idea what I would have done without something to occupy myself with.

What do you think? How would your life be different if you never signed up to MAL?
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Mar 20, 2015 5:58 PM
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I'd probably be in another forum board doing the same shit I do here
Mar 20, 2015 6:00 PM
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DoctorCaim said:
I'd probably be in another forum board doing the same shit I do here
+1
Mar 20, 2015 6:01 PM
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SubaTonic said:
Registering here definitely helped me cope with some of my depression. A little. A tiny bit. Fuck all of you.
MAL made me stop cutting.
Mar 20, 2015 6:01 PM
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Thanks to MAL I discovered all kinds of anime and of course, the list, sooo organized. Sigh, that helps :D

Mar 20, 2015 6:01 PM
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Yeah, I would have get more things done in RL.
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Mar 20, 2015 6:03 PM
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SubaTonic said:
Registering here definitely helped me cope with some of my depression. A little. A tiny bit. Fuck all of you.


Cute.

This place is pretty much one of the dozens of forums I've joined in the eight years of my life. More importantly, one of the ones I've been least involved in. All that would change considering the closest I am to anybody here is that any time spent here would have been focused more on what I was doing at the same time, since I only look here between moments of boredom/loading/waiting.
Mar 20, 2015 6:04 PM
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I've had online communities make a large impact on my life

MAL is NOT one of them.
Mar 20, 2015 6:06 PM
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I found lots of anime here, so I guess I would have just watched less of that and done more of the other stuff I usually do even in this reality. I might have stuck with some other forums I joined in the past or found some new ones.

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Mar 20, 2015 6:07 PM

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More free time
Mar 20, 2015 6:17 PM

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MechaKiryu said:
SubaTonic said:
Registering here definitely helped me cope with some of my depression. A little. A tiny bit. Fuck all of you.
MAL made me stop cutting.
Really?
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Mar 20, 2015 6:18 PM
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I probably will be more active on AniDB or go back again to my old go to forum Warez-BB.
Mar 20, 2015 6:18 PM

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I would still be a virgin.
Mar 20, 2015 6:19 PM

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I probably wouldn't go on MAL if that were the case.
Mar 20, 2015 6:20 PM

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I would probably be in some foreign country wondering wtf happened.

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But my feels.
Mar 20, 2015 6:20 PM

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Wouldn't really change much. I use MAL as a an anime list. I use to use notepad before.
Mar 20, 2015 6:27 PM

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I've met and befriended some interesting people here. Some of them have turned out to be very cool and insightful, and introduced me to things that have radically impacted my interests. That alone makes it worth it, in my opinion.

It's not so much about MAL, but the people that I've met through it. This is why I use forums in the first place. It can be very rewarding, but you also dig through a lot of shit, regrettably.
Mar 20, 2015 6:27 PM

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When I first joined MAL it was mostly to list and talk about anime. I was living alone at the time and it helped me a little with adapting to the change. I probably would not have watched as much anime as I have now if not for MAL.
Mar 20, 2015 6:30 PM

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I probably would have cured cancer by now.
Mar 20, 2015 6:33 PM

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I would actually spend more time watching new series than posting on forums T^T
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Mar 20, 2015 6:33 PM

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i'd have more hope and think girls arent as retarded as they actually are

i'd have more hope and think that anime nerds/weeabos arent as egoboosted , elitistic, piece of autistic shits they are and no wonder u dont fit in communty, stupid + loudmouthed kids with opinions for topics they dont understand and incredibly arrogant + ignorant

i wouldnt know how incredibly retarded and toxic feminism is and everybody who supports it or the idea and vision of it is retarded

id think that people online find a game and spend their time there socializing and having fun rather than shitposting all day and spamming f5 on some forum thats actually chat-room, just not as "intimate" or close because you arent talking directly and you have time to craft your responses and its completely devoid of emotion and insencere, even more so than a normal chat-room would be
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Mar 20, 2015 6:38 PM

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This is the only forum I'm on.
MAL has made me get more into anime. I most likely wouldn't be a regular watcher, and I have no idea what I would be using all this time for otherwise.
Threw various chain reactions, MAL has introduced me to many different things.
My life would definitely be different if it wasn't for MAL. I'm not sure if I should take that as a sign as to how dull my life is.
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Mar 20, 2015 6:38 PM

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incisorr said:
i'd have more hope and think girls arent as retarded as they actually are

i'd have more hope and think that anime nerds/weeabos arent as egoboosted , elitistic, piece of autistic shits they are and no wonder u dont fit in communty, stupid + loudmouthed kids with opinions for topics they dont understand and incredibly arrogant + ignorant

i wouldnt know how incredibly retarded and toxic feminism is and everybody who supports it or the idea and vision of it is retarded

id think that people online find a game and spend their time there socializing and having fun rather than shitposting all day and spamming f5 on some forum thats actually chat-room, just not as "intimate" or close because you arent talking directly and you have time to craft your responses and its completely devoid of emotion and insencere, even more so than a normal chat-room would be

In other words, it was an eye-opening experience to join MAL. You would've been blinded by ignorance had you not decided to sign up, and to see what girls, anime nerds and weeabos are really like.

Hope derived from ignorance just leads to irrational delusions, doesn't it. Reality is shit, as you well know.
Mar 20, 2015 6:40 PM
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A bit more free time I guess...
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Harems said:
MechaKiryu said:
MAL made me stop cutting.
Really?
What does the little line of text on signature say?
Mar 20, 2015 6:41 PM
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I would have more accounts in Sports Forums 0_o
Mar 20, 2015 6:42 PM

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I would still be watching anime, but then I'd keep forgetting what episode I was on.
Mar 20, 2015 7:07 PM

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I would have only seen about half the anime I have by this point just simply from not knowing about them so that would have kinda sucked. Everything else would be pretty much the same because instead of watching new anime I would have just kept rewatching old favs
Mar 20, 2015 7:17 PM

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PoeticJustice said:
I probably would have cured cancer by now.

Even horse cancer?

Mar 20, 2015 7:18 PM

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There's no point in thinking about it.
Mar 20, 2015 7:28 PM

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I wouldnt have met some nice people here and since i usually dont join forums a lot i wouldnt necisarily be elsewhere so id be a bit more lonely
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Mar 20, 2015 7:29 PM

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Bambi_ said:
There's no point in thinking about it.
Aren't you cool.
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Mar 20, 2015 7:31 PM
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I wouldn't have met some nice people on here, but I also wouldn't have met some of the shitposters on here.
Mar 20, 2015 7:45 PM

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Wow that sounds sad to think about.
Mar 20, 2015 8:42 PM
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It really wouldn't be any different. I was already addicted to a different site before I joined this one. I only joined this one to stop going on the other one.
Mar 20, 2015 8:48 PM

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Would be better for certain. Maybe not much better. But better.
Mar 20, 2015 8:59 PM
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I'd have a lot more used up paper for lists. Also would have a lot more school work done, or just be on another site wasting my time.
Mar 20, 2015 9:08 PM

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I would never of met HaX~
Mar 20, 2015 9:13 PM

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I would've watched less anime and spent more time playing video games probably.
Mar 20, 2015 9:13 PM

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Sourire said:
I would've watched less anime and spent more time playing video games probably.


I wouldn't have written this story:

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1363695

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Mar 20, 2015 9:56 PM

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Probably more time on MangaFox, Captain Luffy Forums, Temporary Existence Forums, Reddit, SRK forums, regularly updating my fanfics like I should, playing more USF4 on Steam.
Mar 20, 2015 9:56 PM

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More free time
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Mar 20, 2015 10:00 PM

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I wouldn't be writing reviews and I would be tracking all of my anime and manga in an excel spreadsheet.

(Ah hell, I do that anyway. I love spreadsheets)
Mar 20, 2015 10:10 PM

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Procrastinate less.
Mar 20, 2015 10:13 PM
Mar 20, 2015 10:13 PM

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hmm. it probably wouldn't change much, if at all.
Mar 20, 2015 11:49 PM
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I'd probably do stuff I have to do more than I spend time here.
Also, watch less anime.
Mar 20, 2015 11:54 PM
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Maysaa said:
Thanks to MAL I discovered all kinds of anime and of course, the list, sooo organized. Sigh, that helps :D
Mar 20, 2015 11:59 PM
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I dunno I don't think it would make much difference
Mar 21, 2015 12:12 AM
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Sourire said:
I would've watched less anime and spent more time playing video games probably.
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