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I just found out that HOT actually wrote their own book? Supposedly it’s about some behind the scenes stories and their experiences. Is there an archive out there i can read?

It's hard to really know if a song is a social critique or political in kpop because I don't know Korean. However, the ones I do know, I love. To name a few: I Yah by HOT, O Jung Ban Hap by DBSK, Don’t Don by Super Junior, etc..

Can you recommend me some more? Also, any from girl groups?

Are there any old kpop songs which you feel like give off the ambience of a coffee shop? Think of a low lighting and warm atmosphere. Probably more rnb, funk, and jazz type songs.

I feel SES has a number of songs that would be good picks imo.

Are there many dance practice videos out there from 1st gen? I know a lot of people say that shinee (2nd gen) was the first, but that's not true since shinhwa, suju, and dbsk all did it before them. However, I'm specifically wondering about 1st gen dance practices. Is shinhwa the only one?

I think it was when Brian was on Jaefriends, but he briefly mentioned how Hwanhee randomly had to do a windmill (breakdancing move) during one of their songs. Do any of you know what song this was for/have a link for the performance?

I've got the final coming up and am not too sure what to expect since we didn't have any midterms (just quizzes). So far I have just been studying off of the slides. Any advice would be much appreciated!

I know that you apply for co-ops a term before the work term you’re hoping for, but how long do you get to apply? Is it the full four months? Just three months?

There's some old kpop songs that I want to download as mp3 files from youtube since they're not on streaming, but I'm not sure how. I used to use ezmp3, but it seems to be gone now. Any suggestions?

The Naruto fandom is one of the biggest in the world of fanfiction, so it had me wondering if any popular tropes (used across multiple fandoms) originated from it?

I know that Blackkat is considered to be the original creator of the marriage hunt trope, but are there any others?

I quite enjoy the found family trope, and am looking for some old/retro anime recommendations that have it! Are there any that come to mind?

I'm looking for some anime recommendations which are tech-related (cyberpunk?). Some examples of what I'm looking for are Serial Experiments Lain, Psycho Pass, Patlabor, Battle Angel Alita, etc.. Hopefully that gives an idea of what I mean by tech. It could be computers, robots, and so on.

This might be a bit of an odd request, but I’m allowed to play songs at my work as long as the lyrics are “clean.” My preferred genres are R&B, soul, and funk, but oftentimes there are some more suggestive lyrics. I’m not sure how strict they are at my work, but I’m trying to play it safe.

Do you have any recommendations for those genres which aren’t suggestive?

I read a while ago that Family Outing got into a big scandal due to being heavily scripted. Tbh based on what I had seen atp, it sounded about right because there were certainly parts that sounded scripted.

However, the other day I was watching the new ZIP Daesung episode with some of the old Family Outing cast, and they were saying that Family Outing barely had any script.

In Family Outing episode 17 (081012), one of the main cast members tells TVXQ Junsu that they’ve caught chickens for dinner before. Does anyone know what episode they do that?

Anyone else feel like kpop generations have shortened in the past few generations??

First generation went from 1996-2003, second generation went from 2003-2012, third generation from 2012-2018, fourth generation from 2018-2023, and fifth generation from 2023-present.

Btw, I’m starting first gen at h.o.t instead of seo taiji and boys, which some people do (that would lengthen it to 1992-2003 aka 9 years). Although, that’s definitely a valid starting point

So, it went from 7 (almost 8) years -> 9 years -> 6 years -> 5 years -> 3+ years

Obviously when you lay it out like that, it doesn’t look too bad, but the trend is a decrease in length. Do you think it has to do with music trends turning over at a faster rate now and industry over-saturation?

I’m currently studying computer science at university and I’m in Victoria this summer. Does anyone know of any women in tech events going on?

Well, here’s my possibly controversial request lol. Do you know of any shoujo or josei where the FL cheats on the ML or just cheats in general? I’m in the mood for something messy! Although, it could be a more “serious” approach too

I've been trying to fix this for the past four hours and I've just about lost my mind. I'm trying to read a file and store it in a struct. So, I've opened the file using fopen with "r", and tested if it's null, which both seem to work fine. I then created some new variables and put in some printf statements to see how far my code went, at it breaks with my fgets. I even tried putting fgets in an if statement to check if it is NULL, but it seems that fgets isn't coming back as NULL either?

The only other thing that I can think would impact this is that I'm currently having some merging errors (git) which I've yet to have sorted out.

    Data data_line[8002];
    int i = 0;
    char line[390];
    char *sp;
    printf("here\n"); // this prints out   
    while(fgets(line, 390, input_file) != NULL){
      // nothing in here gets touched
      // code
    }