Purchase a large wooden spoon for the trouble-maker in your family or workplace. (That person who is always causing trouble, stirring up a mess and sticking their nose where it isn't wanted.) This gift says, "watch it, we think you're a pot-stirrer". For the less obtuse, this present is nicely pointed.
Provide a set of knives to someone who back stabbed you. It doesn't have to be real knives; plastic toy ones from the dollar store still carry the message perfectly well.
Does the Netflix rating system have any use? Because I can avoid Asylum movies and find good movies already and right now all it does is remind me a bunch of people gave the new Guy Maddin film one star for god knows what reason
When we reach the sea, we will build a bigger ship, and sail north to take Trinidad from the Spanish crown. From there we'll sail on and take Mexico from Cortés. What great treachery that will be! Then all of New Spain will be ours, and we'll produce history as others produce plays. I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We shall endure.
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you denying that there's an aesthetic that's common in anime? When you bring up criticisms, is it not in reference to things you dislike?
This is my starting point: Anime has an aesthetic. Yes, #notallanime, but by and large, there is a collection of visual, dialogue, plot and characterization tropes that are common to the medium. I don't dig those visual, dialogue, plot or characterization tropes. I don't think it looks cool, or sounds cool, I don't respond to the dialogue ticks. They're annoying to me, or, if you'd like, they're silly in a way I dislike.
When I end up liking anime, it's when it avoids those things. Which does happen! But I'm not sure if you're saying the aesthetic isn't there (which I disagree with) or you're saying you shouldn't dislike an aesthetic (which I also disagree with). Yes, I can scour the world of anime for exceptions but why would I? I know they exist, they land on my door step sometimes, but life is too short to swim upstream for media. There's media everywhere.
The sad thing is that it wasn't always this way. I mean, anime has always had some degree of consistency to it, but I have this distinct feeling that anime has become less diverse in a variety of ways since the 90s/early 2000s.
The sad thing is that it wasn't always this way. I mean, anime has always had some degree of consistency to it, but I have this distinct feeling that anime has become less diverse in a variety of ways since the 90s/early 2000s.
Dear god, please do not take that drivel seriously
It might not be a well-rounded and informed position, but it's not entirely wrong. And I'd really like to see improvements in anime, because I consider myself an anime fan in theory, but much of the current crop is too disinteresting to me. That's because, in part, it's "too anime" rather than "a story which happens to be filtered through anime".
I wouldn't blame you for accusing me of wearing nostalgia goggles, but I do recall a time when anime was contending with the limits of what an animated series could achieve. Evangelion, Ghost In The Shell, FMA, and so on. And every so often, there's still a good show that comes out -- a recent-ish example that I could name is Madoka. But, for the good lord's sake, what did the medium do to deserve Sword Art Online and for it to become popular? My experience with anime has moved away from seeking new horizons and towards avoiding blandness, largely by necessity.
And I do realise there's always been the good and the bad, and the bad has always occasionally become popular provided the right demographic interest (see: Dragonball Z), but I'll be damned if there isn't just a lot more mediocre anime to go around these days.
I'm (re-)watching Phelous's review of the first Golden Films Beauty and the Beast.
Beauty's face in this is less "I want adventure in the great wide somewhere" and more "Hokuto no ken can never be mastered by scum like you". It's all thousand-yard stare, all the time.
I talked to my no-show groupmate and she said that she couldn't make it for personal reasons. She seemed uncomfortable about it, and it's done anyway, so I didn't push it.
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anyway should i try to figure out how to make kitsune udon (or some other udon)
Pros: I can go outside wearing just a tshirt and not look like a freak
Cons: Humidity.
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you denying that there's an aesthetic that's common in anime? When you bring up criticisms, is it not in reference to things you dislike?
This is my starting point: Anime has an aesthetic. Yes, #notallanime, but by and large, there is a collection of visual, dialogue, plot and characterization tropes that are common to the medium. I don't dig those visual, dialogue, plot or characterization tropes. I don't think it looks cool, or sounds cool, I don't respond to the dialogue ticks. They're annoying to me, or, if you'd like, they're silly in a way I dislike.
When I end up liking anime, it's when it avoids those things. Which does happen! But I'm not sure if you're saying the aesthetic isn't there (which I disagree with) or you're saying you shouldn't dislike an aesthetic (which I also disagree with). Yes, I can scour the world of anime for exceptions but why would I? I know they exist, they land on my door step sometimes, but life is too short to swim upstream for media. There's media everywhere.
Done my weekly food shopping, cleaned my shithole of a room up, and now waiting to put my washing in the tumble dryer.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
but cows are importanter
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Nobody wants to hear that one again