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Soonmot posted:What the gently caress?!? What were they saying? Oh Christ they were making some joke about the Scroll Keeper that I don't remember the specifics of. And of course I being a dumb loving nerd cheerfully pointed out that it was canon that the Scroll Keeper's role was to constantly make edits to his library of scriptures to paint the Skeksis in a more positive light to the Gelfling at large. He very enthusiastically agreed with me and pointed how the makers of the show knew their history or something I interpreted as referring to the original movie. Turns out he was comparing the Scroll Keeper and the Skeksis at large to the Jews and the conspiracy of them editing history to make themselves look better/the victims or something. Without checking out his page as a stand alone post it looked totally innocent and I stupidly commented on it. To this very day I'm humiliated my name is on his goddamned page being quoted like "I actually got it". Larryb posted:Speaking of The Dark Crystal, how were the various comics and Age of Resistance out of curiosity? Don't know about the comics but I was obsessed with the show for a bit. Flopsy fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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quote:anime chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0ass6mO4rI
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Das Boo posted:He like me fr fr Meanwhile us perverts be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCquvEv9DM4
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Carlton Banks Teller posted:I feel this so hard. I wish I could get into it because I love animation but there just ... if it isn't overt fan-service weirdness I just am not a fan of hard-line gender roles and that seems to be where Japanese media is (at least in regards to women). Totally. Why can't I just dip into a random slice of life show without worrying about the obligatory sex creep character who's constantly trying to sexually assault all the female characters and it's played for laughs. Or the infantilisation of women. Or sexualisation of child characters. Or the homophobia. I read a tonne of sci fi in the 80s and 90s. Authors like Piers Anthony, Larry Niven, Heinlein and all the other disgusting creeps who created amazing worlds that set my mind on fire. And who would all slowly let their brain filth seep into those worlds. Sometimes you need to disappear into something to get away from everything. And sometimes that means you make yourself not see all the huge red flags. I'm sick and goddamn tired of being put in that position, so I just won't watch those shows. Even when I have people saying, "Oh it's the greatest show ever! You'll love it. It's just a little rapey in the first few episodes though. But after that, it's amazing!" Anyway, this isn't a Wendy's drivethrough.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Wait, what did Larry Niven do? Looks like: quote:According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967, Niven, despite being a staunch conservative, voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.[14] In 1968 Niven signed an advertisement in Galaxy Science Fiction in support for continued US involvement in the Vietnam War.[15][16]
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I AM GRANDO posted:Was that A Link to the Past boss fight music during the choose your own adventure reading session? I thought so too! Loved Fionna and Cake overall. I thought it started out a bit obtuse but once it got going it was great. I'd be satisfied if this was it for Adventure Time but I'd also be happy if it wasn't.
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Y’all need to drop that nonsense and get with the program. Anime peaked with G Gundam and any other piece of media is an objective waste of time and effort. It has everything. Robuts? Big Punchh? Yes Kick? Boy howdy Tournament arc? Buddy… Theme song? Boppin Weepy protagonists that blow up their cool robots like every three episodes for some reason or the other? gently caress no! Politics? Punchhhhh Skin tight jump suits? More like Fiona and that cake Sorry, blacked out there for a minute. Anyway, funny voice man PurpleEyesWTF of “I’m at Soup” fame is apparently not dead and voicing on some project for a smallish channel I’ve never seen before. It’s not groundbreaking but it’s fun. https://youtu.be/Rms54VWjVRA?si=PbkkG7wJJlalutzR
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I AM GRANDO posted:Wait, what did Larry Niven do? Never read the sequel to Ringworld. Main character has sex with a prepubescent child Also, in the real world: Cream-of-Plenty posted:Looks like:
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Warbird posted:Y’all need to drop that nonsense and get with the program. Anime peaked with G Gundam and any other piece of media is an objective waste of time and effort. It has everything. Honestly I can't find any way to argue any of this. You're right, you're right.
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Yeah, mech design peaked with Gundam Maxter, the American Gundam who wears football pads (that he can turn into boxing gloves in an alt-mode), carries six-shooters, and rides a flying surfboard.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Totally. Why can't I just dip into a random slice of life show without worrying about the obligatory sex creep character who's constantly trying to sexually assault all the female characters and it's played for laughs. Or the infantilisation of women. Or sexualisation of child characters. Or the homophobia. Yeah it's interesting -- I have more resilience where it comes to (some) of these things than you, but I absolutely relate about this idea of having to struggle to read past a lot of the genre's more problematic elements. It's not even the potentially triggering material, either, though that's obviously an issue. Just now, I was checking out the trailer for Netflix's upcoming PLUTO adaptation, and while there's nothing inherently issues based going on my brain still reacted to the way it was marketed with its sobbing immortal child. Instant knee-jerk reaction against that. More pertinently, there's a (maybe only) half decent site out there, The Anime Feminist, that might help you filter out content when you're looking for something to watch.
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Anything Naoki Urasawa is loving gold. I am full hype.
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Open Source Idiom posted:
Thanks for this. I thought I was the only one that thought about anime this way.
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With the possible exception of Attack on Titan (it has fascist and weird gender stuff but no weird sex stuff) I feel like every single anime TV show I have to preface it with "If you ignore," and it is pretty poo poo.
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Taear posted:With the possible exception of Attack on Titan (it has fascist and weird gender stuff but no weird sex stuff) I feel like every single anime TV show I have to preface it with "If you ignore," and it is pretty poo poo.
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Open Source Idiom posted:More pertinently, there's a (maybe only) half decent site out there, The Anime Feminist, that might help you filter out content when you're looking for something to watch. Thanks for that. I'll check it out.
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Open Source Idiom posted:More pertinently, there's a (maybe only) half decent site out there, The Anime Feminist, that might help you filter out content when you're looking for something to watch. What is their stance on the current era Beowulf that is Chibodee Crocket?
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Warbird posted:Y’all need to drop that nonsense and get with the program. Anime peaked with G Gundam and any other piece of media is an objective waste of time and effort. It has everything. I'm not a big anime guy but I half-watched Gurrenn Lagann when it was on Toonami and I think it had all these too. 
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Hazo posted:I'm not a big anime guy but I half-watched Gurrenn Lagann when it was on Toonami and I think it had all these too. It didn't have a tournament arc, but it sure did have the rest. 'Stay the hell away from my little bro KICK' or whatever it was. It also has Space Combat (if another series has robots throwing galaxies around like shuriken I'd love to see it)
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I like Gurren Lagann, but it's sexist and homophobic as all get out. Particularly given that spiral power is machismo / big dick energy, and then they decide to extend the metaphor when a character dies by getting drilled through the butt.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I like Gurren Lagann, but it's sexist and homophobic as all get out. Particularly given that spiral power is machismo / big dick energy, and then they decide to extend the metaphor when a character dies by getting drilled through the butt. Except Leeron is the best drat character in the show.
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Taear posted:With the possible exception of Attack on Titan (it has fascist and weird gender stuff but no weird sex stuff) I feel like every single anime TV show I have to preface it with "If you ignore," and it is pretty poo poo. You need to watch Ping Pong. I wanna say the “worst” thing in the show is one of the characters kinda sorta has a crush on his older cousin. But nothing actually happens with it. It’s just used as a datapoint on how screwy his life is.
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AlternateNu posted:You need to watch Ping Pong. I wanna say the “worst” thing in the show is one of the characters kinda sorta has a crush on his older cousin. But nothing actually happens with it. It’s just used as a datapoint on how screwy his life is. Trigun Stampede was pretty excellent in my opinion. The original kinda bent to the 90's slant of trying to make the main character a lovable perv but they cut that poo poo out entirely this time around and everything is so much better for it. Even sadder that trait was never in the original manga the studio just stuffed it in there. Off the top of my head the Ayakashi series is also fairly excellent as a surrealist supernatural Noire taking place throughout Japanese history. It also takes on pretty heavy themes like obsession with clout, loss of identity and emotional abuse within the family. Lacks any sympathy for sex pests as well last i checked.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I like Gurren Lagann, but it's sexist and homophobic as all get out. Particularly given that spiral power is machismo / big dick energy, and then they decide to extend the metaphor when a character dies by getting drilled through the butt. Fun fact: That bikini wearing girl with the sniper rifle?
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The only thing more tiresome than people complaining about how all anime is kiddie fucker woman hating nonsense is how much anime is kiddie fucker woman hating nonsense.
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AlternateNu posted:Except Leeron is the best drat character in the show. Leeron was also, I believe, the start of a competition between Steve Blum and Crispin Freeman to see which of them could say the dirtiest possible thing in the recording booth in-character and get it on the gag reel which lasted for many years across many anime dubs they were a part of.
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Warbird posted:Fun fact: That bikini wearing girl with the sniper rifle?  I guess on the bright side nobody casually glancing at your Recently Watched list would ever think she was 14.
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Its just so god drat unnecessary too. If you make her 18 poo poo doesn't change. Its still an amazing anime. Hell, I've heard a lot of good things about the NetFlix CyberPunk anime, including how they deal with the sexbot that looks like a young girl. But that's also why I don't want to watch it. Anyways, I'll take a Frosty please.
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Yeah there's often a lot of ambiguity to what ages these people are supposed to be and what the art is supposed to represent, even without getting into immortal unaging vampire situations, so you'll never really know unless you read some external data. Sometimes you get baby-lookin' adults, sometimes you get mature-looking kids. I think historically American media has tended towards most people looking like adults regardless of age, both from live-action sitcoms where grown-rear end adults played teens and from comic artists that only knew how to draw adults. The original Teen Titans look nothing like teens. But these days you can get a pretty wide range of ways of depicting people from show to show so it can be hard to figure ages, but I think most of the blurriness is about adolescent characters anyways.
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Edgerunners is great, but yeah it has a sexualized child presenting character because of course a Trigger Studio production has to have their "fan service" gross poo poo. Anime is tiresome with its baggage. The fan service character isn't critical to the story at all, and the series would be infinitely improved if they just left it out. But gotta pander to the mass of pervs.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think historically American media has tended towards most people looking like adults regardless of age, both from live-action sitcoms where grown-rear end adults played teens and from comic artists that only knew how to draw adults. The original Teen Titans look nothing like teens. But these days you can get a pretty wide range of ways of depicting people from show to show so it can be hard to figure ages, but I think most of the blurriness is about adolescent characters anyways. Lmao they literally reused Speedy's character model and voice actor in Justice League, where everyone is adults. Sure they Bruce Timm-ized his torso a little bit, but otherwise he looked exactly the same.
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Jehde posted:Edgerunners is great, but yeah it has a sexualized child presenting character because of course a Trigger Studio production has to have their "fan service" gross poo poo. Anime is tiresome with its baggage. I find it genuinely difficult to find anime that doesn't fall into the same old trappings of : the lovable pervert, the child fetish bait, the incest love interest, the psycho girlfriend, nonstop panty/titty shots, bland everyman protagonist, casual hardcore sexism etc. Not to say there aren't some actual good fun ones out there. But very few progress past a lot of these stumbling blocks and tiresome is a good word for it, because it gets exhausting when you're enjoying something and one of these rears it's ugly head.
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My friend may I interest you in some G Gundams?
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Absolutely the funniest part of the Baldur's Gate 3 release was the contingent of people whining on forums that 'all the women are ugly', that western game companies and cinema 'don't understand beauty', and specifically contrasted western RPGs/cinema with JRPGs and anime. This, in a game that featured multiple female romance interests clearly designed as nerd fantasies. In the context of the recent posts it kinda feels like that said contingent has been trained by certain gross tropes to expect those tropes and view those tropes as ideals, to the point of wanting to punish anyone who moves away from them. When they move outside that comfort zone they get confused, angry, and start blaming the wokes. So its like anime companies are in a pervy hell of their own making? TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:Yeah there's often a lot of ambiguity to what ages these people are supposed to be and what the art is supposed to represent, even without getting into immortal unaging vampire situations, so you'll never really know unless you read some external data. Sometimes you get baby-lookin' adults, sometimes you get mature-looking kids. Sometimes it's funny, okay you're 17 and also you saved the world from God Fine! But also you're 17 and you just got married and you're a bit like hmm, what?
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