You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Wheeee the workday is half over!
I went around campus hanging some promotional posters. In the 90 degree weather...it was surprisingly tolerable.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Dear President Obama,
I think our country is in desperate need of a remodel. The current system of government has run its course and now it's time for "a change".
I submit that the television show "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" provides the perfect framework for a new system of government. I suggest all remaining tax dollars be spent to create a benevolent alicorn that can summon the sun and moon at it's will and also a device that transforms people into the three races of Equestria.
With a third of the population controlling the weather, another third taking care of supplying food and providing labor, and another taking care of the artisan and other jobs that require greater dexterity. I believe this provides us with the perfect system for a stable country that will continue from now unto perpetuity.
I submit myself as a potential adviser to you, Mr. President. My only request is that I be turned into an alicorn when the ponification process is perfected to better serve this country and the new pony government for all time.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...I'm, like, running out of work.
And my boss won't be back for at least another half hour...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah. I, like, did most of the stuff I'm supposed to do already...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Whoever it was who decided that people get paid by how long they're at work instead of how much work they do
Yeah, Japan is still very courtly when it comes to certain things, and honor and saving face is a big deal. That and the culture is still pretty insular and doesn't tolerate outsiders or wannabes well; I have to wonder how many Japanophiles who really only know the culture from anime (not even manga in a lot of cases, just anime) have gone to Japan, and have ended up sorely disappointed that it's not full of awesome ninjas or cute, baby-faced women.
It amuses me when people seem to think Japan is more liberal than the United States.
How do you mean?
People seem to think that Japan's pop culture is indicative of the country as a whole and it's....not.
This is a culture where it's considered shameful for a family to get help for their mentally ill relatives, leading to the whole hikikimori phenomenon. There's other stuff too, like how being homosexual is seen as a phase of childhood and casually dismissed otherwise.
It's tight-laced in different ways, but it's still tight-laced.
I'm afraid I have a strong bias against them, just because of how...ahem, "passionate" they can be about the subject.
I think you're confusing Japanophiles with otaku.
A Japanophile would be someone who knows all of the above and is either fine with it or willing to ignore it. An otaku would just be someone who takes everything they know of Japan from their anime.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Am I an authentic being? What a silly question to ask, in a time when nothing is real.
I went around campus hanging some promotional posters. In the 90 degree weather...it was surprisingly tolerable.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I want to be a unicorn!
And my boss won't be back for at least another half hour...
That person should get a trophy or something
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
oh god, it's all true, i am broke
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
is there a good dental plan
i've heard that's important
I was only kidding around with her and am fairly certain she knew that. If she didn't, I will apologize next time I see her.
Regardless, saying "some people" does not make it any less obvious you're talking about me, you realize.
It amuses me when people seem to think Japan is more liberal than the United States.
Maybe on Media Standards, but that's pretty much it.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
People seem to think that Japan's pop culture is indicative of the country as a whole and it's....not.
This is a culture where it's considered shameful for a family to get help for their mentally ill relatives, leading to the whole hikikimori phenomenon. There's other stuff too, like how being homosexual is seen as a phase of childhood and casually dismissed otherwise.
It's tight-laced in different ways, but it's still tight-laced.
I think you're confusing Japanophiles with otaku.
A Japanophile would be someone who knows all of the above and is either fine with it or willing to ignore it. An otaku would just be someone who takes everything they know of Japan from their anime.