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What was the best thing you ever found on the street?

I once found a twenty dollar bill on the parking lot of a Target when I was around 8. I vaguely remember giving it back to the person who originally had it after entering the store. As a reward for my kind deed, my mother gave me the same amount of money in order to buy Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle is a terrible game.

your favorite films?

I haven't dedicated much time to forming a top ten of sorts in a long time, largely due to taste changing and working my way backwards at a snail's pace in recent years.
In no specific order I'd consider stuff like A Clockwork Orange, Spirited Away, Solaris, There Will Be Blood, Angel's Egg, Ratatouille, Oldboy, Porco Rosso, Almost Famous, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Wolf Children, Vertigo, Pulp Fiction, Barton Fink, End of Evangelion, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Airplane!, etc off hand.
I really need to see more things pre-80s!
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I like ur cat avatar, where is it from?

DDK
I drew it based on the cat from the WarioWare: Twisted minigame, Mewtroid.
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Are there any white people movies that capture similar nuances as my SoL anime?

Zach Garza
I think Slice of Life is a subgenre that works best, and is most common as a result, in a serialized format on television as that structure can allow a show to move at a leisurely pace over a stretch of time. I don't think I'm nearly as well versed in world film history to pinpoint any strong examples off the top of my head, but I can think of a range of not very old to modern examples that could fit certain criterias.
When I think of Slice of Life, I think of something that is mostly relaxed, quaint, dialogue/character driven, and doesn't entirely rely on drama, or even comedy to an extent, to drive it forward. While my examples may not all fit those points to a tee, I think they all somewhat come from the same tree in a sense.
These are a little more minimalist than the traditional narratives further down, but I feel they get what I think of as SoL the best:
The Before trilogy aka Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight - (the rest of Richard Linklater's filmography could fit this such as Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Waking Life, etc.)
Frances Ha - (Noah Baumbach's recent work fits this sort of idea for me as well. Greenberg, While We're Young, and his soon to be released Mistress America fit this. His earlier stuff might too, but I haven't gone that far yet.)
Lost in Translation - (Outside of maybe Somewhere, I don't believe Sofia Coppola's other stuff fits these criterias, but you really can't go wrong with this one.)
More traditional narratives but still fit some criterias:
Almost Famous - (Other Cameron Crowe flicks, like Jerry Maguire and Say Anything..., might fit this too, though I can't speak from experience.)
50/50 - (This one is probably the most well known of my selections mainly due to the cast. Don't let the cancer fool you, this is very cozy. Jonathan Levine's other stuff like The Wackness miiiight fit this, but I haven't seen it.)
The Deep Cuts:
I thought about going more into a few mumblecore fllms that I've seen, such as The Puffy Chair, Humpday, Cyrus; however, that's when those criterias start to get a little muddier, so I'll just leave it off at. Might be worth looking into as they have certain similarities to SoL, but they aren't as easy to recommend.

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