Meat. Lots of meat. Also olives/mushrooms.

Anime: not exceptional. Best parts of the story are in the game.
VN: great once you get into it, but you don't get into it for 10+ hours, and even then there's a lot of rambling about eating breakfast and fantasy BS. Wouldn't recommend it as a first visual novel.

I don't. But I suspect a solution to this problem might be coming in the near future...

I'm assuming that you literally mean NEET and not hikikomori. If so, I'd say it has more to do with larger social pressures than with the kind of individual traumas that people associate with hardcore otaku. For instance, if Japanese society is less open to general geekery than the West is and if their "salaryman" lifestyle is more of a grind than our equivalent, it might encourage socially awkward nerds to stop fighting and give up. No point in participating in a society that openly rejects you.

The equivalent happens here too, though, if we loosen the term to hikikomori or just general social recluses. For situations like that, I'd guess that it's personal, like having a bad love life, high school bullying, whatever. Same basic idea: you give up when you decide that the alternative isn't worth fighting for, and that usually happens when you're disillusioned with reality by bad experiences.

Assuming that turning into a girl means experiencing sexual attraction from a girl's pov, then... I guess? I mean it'd be awkward as hell but wouldn't that be the greatest thing ever? Only true bros could handle something that intense though.

(also, question of the day, all days)

Excluding stuff like Tweet Deck and Facebook, I'd say Tipper. It calculates tips based on the bill and the percentage you want to leave.

Mistakes of Youth is definitely up there but that's an unfair answer because it's basically the only anime webcomic. I like Penny Arcade and xkcd from time to time but I've really taken a liking to the sense of humour in Buttersafe. Bonus points for not having to reference anything to be funny.

I prefer moege and dating sims, mostly because those games just don't work in other mediums. Story-heavy VNs can be nice too though. I would play more if I were fluent in Japanese.

Not necessary, but people will create an equivalent if it were to vanish. I think some concept of "narrative" is psychologically necessary in the world. People need a grand narrative to frame their lives within. Right now we have the "American Dream" and all that, and a while ago we had Marx and his classless society ideal. I think people will always need some kind of story to create meaning.

If my explanation isn't clear: I mean that we need a story that says "money is important" to make us collect money or one that says "equality is important" to make us donate to the poor. Life doesn't really work without an overarching story. The question is whether that story has to make a truth claim or not. It should be possible for truth claim narratives--religions, basically--to vanish in the future, but it's probably unlikely? I dunno. You'd have to know a lot about psychology and sociology to answer that.

Shoujo. I don't always like it but I at least like it sometimes. Shounen hasn't appealed to me since I was 12.

I would be a spender but that's probably just an age thing. I figure most people who are old enough to work for a decent wage would quickly become savers.

Was that a typo? Pretty sure you mean Nagi.

Seeking some abstract notion of "success" and perhaps ultimately expecting, if not hoping for, a Heavens Feel end (giving up your pursuit of perfection for something much more appealing).

(Success, for the record, is loosely defined by me as "being really, really good at one particular thing")

...Isn't that a song from Angel Beats? But seriously, I'm not sure. My life is too incomplete to pick one thing as my most important treasure.

Everything. And I'm still a S+ tier roneryfag so... yeah.

None of my friends or close relatives have died so that helps. Guess that means I'm looking at historical figures, so...

1) Hitler, assuming that he can spawn in a jail somewhere. It'd be cool to hear a real confession from him and do some psychoanalysis. But I wouldn't -actually- do this because reviving the century's greatest villain in a prison would be the same as torturing him until he dies again... which is a good thing, in a way? I dunno. That's not the point anyway.

2) Satoshi Kon, because he's god and he needs to keep making movies.

3) Aristotle, so that we can get him to re-write the manuscripts that were lost in time.

4) Jesus, to rewrite the Bible and make the conservative Christians in the U.S. stop following the thing word for word. It's pretty obvious that he wouldn't approve of some of the things people claimed to do in his name. Note that I hate religion in general and I'd find Jesus just as annoying as Gandhi, but at least proving that he actually died might help curb some of the ludicrous arguments that you hear from the religious right in politics and protests and whatnot. Then he could probably join the Green Party and... oh crap, wait a minute, he'd actually win! Never mind then, I'd only resurrect him if we can ban him from running for president.

5) Adam Smith, to re-analyze capitalism and shed some light on how this whole thing is supposed to work. This would utterly backfire if he turns around and says that he was wrong the whole time, but I'd still like to hear an opinion. Surely he'd have some valuable input to give after seeing his theory in practice.

I don't watch TV on TV. A lot of my interests that ought to be on TV actually aren't (video game streams are online and anime is on Japanese TV), and I tend to either pirate or legally stream (like HBO) Western TV shows on my computer. The only shows I watched recently are How I Met Your Mother, South Park, and Game of Thrones.

Pokemon. I don't particularly care about Ash or the other anime characters, but I'd love to be a side-character and explore as much of the world as I could.

Close runner-up is Harry Potter. Same thing: become a random background character and spend the day exploring the college.

At home, ~20mbs down and ~1mbs up. But I'm currently in Worcester College in Oxford and our connection is hilariously bad (1.5mbs down and like 0.15mbs up).

Primarily /jp/ but it's slow and Touhou-ridden so I pass by /a/ and /v/ too. I'd like to spend more time there but in practice I only go to 4chan when I'm spending a few consecutive hours on the internet or chatting with friends with no particular goal in mind for that day. The odd weekend, basically.