You're welcome, I'm glad it helped. Honestly I don't look at reddit much ever, I just came across it while trying to search on google for info relating to those dongles. The reddit link just came up. I haven't checked in on the site here for awhile, sorry it took me awhile to get back to you.
I do enjoy a lot of gag anime too, I can get behind shows that don't take themselves seriously. I agree on your take with the problems a lot of anime has, which includes older anime, but I especially notice a lot of newer anime really suffer from these problems as they try to come across as incredibly serious when the writing falls far short to pull it off. They usually end up sounding dumb. It's like the difference between joking that the Earth is flat, and being serious that the Earth is flat.
Not to derail the thread with anime, but here's a link describing what My Hero Academia is like. It's surprisingly accurate to how I felt about the show and it's under 5 minutes. It doesn't feel exaggerated with it's description. I'll leave it at that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0XmlvFsg0
I don't usually post my finds too often but I did find some things recently so I might as well post them here. A couple of books that were $1.99 each. I was curious about that iWoz book as it looked interesting, I was still reluctant to buy it though as I have plenty of books I haven't got to yet and I don't usually pay more than $1 for books that are apparently common when I look them up online. I originally told myself that I probably should pass on it unless it was signed.
...Then I checked inside and it was.
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