Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Translation: "I'm going to self-righteously condemn people on the internet for not doing anything about a social issue that I'm probably doing jack and shit about myself. There's my good deed for the day."
First it was Japanese devs, then it was people with anime avatars and now it's poor Notch, can anything escape the wrath of le angry gopherman? :^(
it's good to see gamedevs tweeting about social issues but
Notch is Swedish.
furthermore, Phil's a white French Canadian man
I'm not entirely sure if the responsibility to tell other people to be conscious of the whole thing is his to take up in that manner, and the way he tells him is belittling to the ALS awareness thing (which, IMO, is just as important for different reasons).
To be fair, there are a lot of things in japan that were blatantly stolen from Korea. Writing, Pottery, Culture, ARt, Music, architecture, everything worth a dang. Or at least that's what I was told in high school by my Korean classmate, who is clearly not biased at all.
To be fair, there are a lot of things in japan that were blatantly stolen from Korea. Writing, Pottery, Culture, ARt, Music, architecture, everything worth a dang. Or at least that's what I was told in high school by my Korean classmate, who is clearly not biased at all.
The differences between Japanese and American vidcon consumers are as blatant as the differences between seasons 1 and 2 of Otomoe wa Boku ni Koishiteru (a nod to my fellow Otomoe wa Boku ni Koishiteru enthusiasts). Whereas the Japanese vidcon consumer is informed and discriminating in his or her purchases and endeavors, his American counterpart acts as a foil, stumbling blindly through the vidcon department at K-Mart, groping for the first vidcon with enough explosions or mammaries on the cover to slake their slavering decidedly non-intellectual lusts. Their hunger for Western garbage such as Madden and Halo is fueled by an almost sub-human ignorance that is as profound in the rest of their lives as it is in their choosing of vidcons. This disgusting display of American mass stupidity is no doubt the result of Christian indoctrination, adding another point on the list of reasons why the Japanese are more intelligent than the West, as contemptuous Western culture has left its people with little more than swiss cheese brains and an unquenchable urge for repeat football vidcons.
To be fair, there are a lot of things in japan that were blatantly stolen from Korea. Writing, Pottery, Culture, ARt, Music, architecture, everything worth a dang. Or at least that's what I was told in high school by my Korean classmate, who is clearly not biased at all.
The differences between Japanese and American vidcon consumers are as blatant as the differences between seasons 1 and 2 of Otomoe wa Boku ni Koishiteru (a nod to my fellow Otomoe wa Boku ni Koishiteru enthusiasts). Whereas the Japanese vidcon consumer is informed and discriminating in his or her purchases and endeavors, his American counterpart acts as a foil, stumbling blindly through the vidcon department at K-Mart, groping for the first vidcon with enough explosions or mammaries on the cover to slake their slavering decidedly non-intellectual lusts. Their hunger for Western garbage such as Madden and Halo is fueled by an almost sub-human ignorance that is as profound in the rest of their lives as it is in their choosing of vidcons. This disgusting display of American mass stupidity is no doubt the result of Christian indoctrination, adding another point on the list of reasons why the Japanese are more intelligent than the West, as contemptuous Western culture has left its people with little more than swiss cheese brains and an unquenchable urge for repeat football vidcons.
To be fair, there are a lot of things in japan that were blatantly stolen from Korea. Writing, Pottery, Culture, ARt, Music, architecture, everything worth a dang. Or at least that's what I was told in high school by my Korean classmate, who is clearly not biased at all.
On the one hand, the Japanese have treated and continue to treat Koreans like crap; and the Koreans invented their own remarkably efficient alphabet where the Japanese writing system is half-stolen from Chinese and utterly baffling.
On the other hand, writing off the entirety of Japanese culture as theft from China and Korea is like writing off all of French culture because they jacked aioli from the Italians and invaded England. I mean, the richness of the Japanese poetic tradition alone is incredible.
OKay, to be fair, they did get the idea of pottery from Korea, and legitimately were never able to reverse-engineer the best of Korean pottery (seriously, we can't even make that stuff now), so my associate was right on one count.
And considering the afrementioned Japanese treatment of Korea, I can't blame my associate for being a bit bitter and dismissive towards the Japanese.
OKay, to be fair, they did get the idea of pottery from Korea, and legitimately were never able to reverse-engineer the best of Korean pottery (seriously, we can't even make that stuff now), so my associate was right on one count.
Actually, Jomon pottery pre-dates Korean pottery by centuries if I am not mistaken, so technically that is incorrect, although whether one wishes to make a distinction between the Jomon-descended Ainu and Emishi and the Yamato (who most likely came from the Korean peninsula themselves) is a different matter.
I'm talking about the Yamato pottery, which I have been told came from Korea.
My Korean friend does not count Ainu and Emishi as being Japanese, or at least not the same as what we mean when we say, "Japanese"; and has told me that it's the equivalent of confusing native americans for non-native americans.
I know far too little of asian history to comment. I am just repeating the words of my classmate.
Well, setting aside the fact that the Yamato tribes that the modern Japanese descend from were primarily a farming and fishing people lead by powerful female shamans with little cultural aspirations until they came under the influence of the Chinese, after that point they drew far more from China than Korea. And Korea did, too: Before hangul was developed, hanja was the main means of transferring verbal information, and it's basically the Korean equivalent to kanji. Plus the whole administrative system, but that's up for debate...
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I liked the alternative ending better :^(
Notch is Swedish.
Paralyze my infancy
Petrify the empty cradle
Bring hope to them and me
Janitor of tyranny
Testify my vanity
Mortalize my memory
Deceive the devil's deed
Tolerate my jealousy
Recognize the desperate need
Janitor of lunacy
Identify my destiny
Revive the living dream
Forgive their begging scream
Seal the giving of their seed
Disease the breathing grief
no?
THEN FIE, FIE ON YOU AND YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
OUR PERCEPTION IS AS PERFECT AS OUR SILENCE
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
every last one of you.
you are redeemed.
forever
The differences between Japanese and American vidcon consumers are as blatant as the differences between seasons 1 and 2 of Otomoe wa Boku ni Koishiteru (a nod to my fellow Otomoe wa Boku ni Koishiteru enthusiasts). Whereas the Japanese vidcon consumer is informed and discriminating in his or her purchases and endeavors, his American counterpart acts as a foil, stumbling blindly through the vidcon department at K-Mart, groping for the first vidcon with enough explosions or mammaries on the cover to slake their slavering decidedly non-intellectual lusts. Their hunger for Western garbage such as Madden and Halo is fueled by an almost sub-human ignorance that is as profound in the rest of their lives as it is in their choosing of vidcons. This disgusting display of American mass stupidity is no doubt the result of Christian indoctrination, adding another point on the list of reasons why the Japanese are more intelligent than the West, as contemptuous Western culture has left its people with little more than swiss cheese brains and an unquenchable urge for repeat football vidcons.
(a parody, but it's parodying something)
My Korean friend does not count Ainu and Emishi as being Japanese, or at least not the same as what we mean when we say, "Japanese"; and has told me that it's the equivalent of confusing native americans for non-native americans.
I know far too little of asian history to comment. I am just repeating the words of my classmate.
RESURGAM.