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Are they called shelled peanuts because they have their shells? or are they called shelled peanuts because they've been shelled, unshelling them? It's literally ironic...

Yeah I don't expect so many people to have the same opinion but for me I didn't really like anything in 2023. My personal "golden age" is 2006-2011 and I can pull up any year at random (say, 2010) and find a bunch of personal favorites (second season of K-On!, best season of Hidamari Sketch, The Tatami Galaxy, my beloved B-Gata H-Kei) and other stuff I think I might enjoy (Katanagatari, PSG, Kuragehime, etc.)
Whereas the only things I liked in 2023 were the Hibike! Euphonium movie and (to a much milder degree) Frieren.

Probably not a widespread belief, but yeah 2023 is the worst year for anime imo

I think of 2023 as the worst year for anime. Not a single good show out of what I watched and the ones that I heard were good I'm just not interested in (Jujutsu Kaisen, Zom 100, Bleach, etc).
Compare 2023 to any single season from 2006-2011. So many classics compared to... Frieren? and that's about it.

Not that I'm upset about it, there's enough gems anywhere from late 70s though ~2017 to keep me occupied indefinitely

No loot, just 3 exp

Dark Souls and Return of the Obra Dinn have already been mentioned, but I'll also recommend Universal Paperclips. These also happen to be my favorite 3 games.

"Identify" can also be used objectively in that way.
OP means "My identity ≠ Latino"
More uncommon to use it that way nowadays but you could also say "I don't identify as an American citizen" or "I identify as 15 years old" etc.

Cancer treatment also has had lots of improvements but they aren't newsworthy if they're not the Cure to Cancer™️

I've never seen this before and I don't know what it's from

I met a somewhat old man on a Greyhound a few years ago who was pretty delirious and drifting in and out of sleep. Turns out he had been traveling non-stop for three days, heading from Georgia to his home in Oakland. He had been on a roadtrip with his friends in (what he described as) a cursed Mitsubishi which broke down a final time some 2500 miles from home. All his friends took flights back, but our protagonist did not bring any kind of ID with him and couldn't take a plane. So there he was, having not slept much at all in 3 days, on the i-10 between Tucson and Phoenix.
He also borrowed my phone to call his wife, who it seemed had not sanctioned his roadtrip at all and was very mad at him. She eventually hung up on him. Handing my phone back to me, he assured me that she wouldn't stay mad at him after seeing his baby-blue eyes upon his arrival in Oakland.

I don't remember so many of the details, but hearing this guy's life story and about his impulsive cross-country roadtrip was kinda strangely inspiring.

Do you mean English loanwords or when people switch back & forth?

I also love Yotsubato! :) sometimes it blows my mind that's it's the same author as Azumanga Daioh
My #1 favorite is Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, it's several times longer and more complex than the movie.

10/10: Nausicaa, Girls' Last Tour
Almost 10/10: Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku
9/10: B-gata H-kei, Genjitsu Touhi shitetara Boroboro ni Natta Hanashi (the Nagata Kabi alcoholism memoir), Mata Onaji Yume wo Miteita
Other favorites: Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Nichijou, Onimai, Melancholia & Nickelodeon, March comes in like a lion, Onanie Master Kurosawa, Gakkougurashi. Maybe parts 6 and 7 of Jojo's

Lots of other languages have days named after the sun, moon, and 5 planets or the gods associated with the planets. Obviously we have Sunday and Monday, or lunes in Spanish, but that's also why in Spanish, Mars = Marte, Tuesday = Martes. Probably most famously in English is Thursday coming from Thor's day (Þunras dag) with Thor being the equivalent to Zeus or Jupiter, which is where jueves comes from in Spanish. In Spanish though their sun-day got remained to God's day (domingo) and saturn-day to sabbath (sabado). Probably most interesting is that the connection even applies to Japanese. The days go in this order: 日月火水木金土 which means "sun moon fire water wood metal earth" which are the classical Chinese 5 elements connected to everything from the 60-year sexagisimal calendar to the bagua tao trigrams on the Republic of Korea flag. And if course, they're also the names of the planets with Mars being fire-planet, Mercury being water-planet, Jupiter being wood-planet, Venus being metal-planet, and Saturn being earth-planet.

So the planet Jupiter (etc.) is to some degree represented in the Thursdays (etc.) of three different languages. Not really saying that this makes more sense than Portuguese, but I think it's cool