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What does “Please Notice Me, Senpai” Mean?

Posted on April 9, 2017September 9, 2021 by Chris Kincaid

Few Japanese words dominate otaku lingo as the word senpai. Senpai, also spelled as sempai, sometimes appears more as punctuation to speech than a proper honorific. It also has a distinctive submissive flavor. Senpai (せんぱい  or 先輩) is an honorific used to address someone who is superior to you in status. Honorifics are parts of speech…

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How do you make Animated Anime Images?

Posted on July 6, 2014July 7, 2014 by Chris Kincaid

They are everywhere online. The humble animated gif from the 90’s Internet has returned with a vengeance. So how do you make them anyway? Well it is actually really easy. First, you need images and an image editor. I like to use Photoshop, but it is an expensive program. Luckily, the excellent open source GIMP…

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