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@Trip_Rin Apparently everywhere has the same issue with these people. Those people often get quite angry when you call them out.

あまりゲームをしなくてただ痛車をして日本全国を旅行しているある韓国人を心から嫌悪しております。 最近のゲームのストーリーやイベントを知っているのか疑わしく、ただ交流に目がくらんでいるのが見えて正直イライラします。

@Stirghetti @G0ffThew Woah woah, a hard limit? No. I'll agree it seems an error here but there are reasons to not do it and it's not a hard limit. Like all things in film, artistry doesn't have hard rules.

@G0ffThew Dude. This feels dishonest. The 180 degrees is a hard limit so that there is a natural feeling of continuity and crossing it breaks that immediately. This is such a simple concept it's expected of students to follow. It's a massive production issue to allow.

“Bludgeoned to death” and it’s 10 degrees off. Yes, it fucks up the eyelines a little, but if you can still tell where everyone in the scene is relative to everyone else, it’s fine. Shit happens when you’re picking up 8 hours worth of shots.

@OliverJia1014 @tyboy66619 @JasonKPargin Reviewbrah has said he's turned down any corpo offers to him.

@tyboy66619 @JasonKPargin They should’ve actually collaborated with him or other fast food YouTubers.

Gonna be real, there’s an actual talent to filming yourself eating food, having it not look awkward/disgusting, and being able to do entertaining commentary at the same time. I’d wager most can’t do it. The McDonald’s CEO tried his best, but he can’t come close to the GOAT.

@cake_fan_959 @Gusstelier None of these people are watching Ikoku Nikki or basically anything past key jingling shonen.

@Gusstelier Only if you watch the same boring shounen+isekai stuff. I found the Invisible Man and His Soon To Be Wife fairly progressive tbh.

The sad part is how a lot of modern mainstream anime has this vaguely conservative, anti-leftist tone that that older works have always fought against. It's not obvious, but you can just tell which crowd the industry wants to pander the most in the last few decades.

@ProfessorT_ @AndrewFenn45484 That's the main thing. Japanese/anime views don't align well with either the left or right of the US fully. It's absolutely bizarre to see right wing Americans claiming anime speaks directly to them; a medium which often eschews many tenets they hold dear.

@AndrewFenn45484 The messaging is often much more subtle, so it's easy to ignore if present. Plus, the Japanese left/right divide is not a 1:1 to American or European political spectrums

I'll contribute to the dogpile Anime certainly is not American, but still manages to tap into more right-wing, Western values than most film and television out of Hollywood in the modern era. You don't have to like anime, but it must be acknowledged that it is filling a void where our media has failed, even with the existence of "based" media coming out of companies like the DW That can not be ignored, certainly not when anime fans contributed to a sizeable amount of electoral pressure for this administration across the past decade. The sooner you acknowledge anime as an example of what our media *could* model, the better. That's how cultural change happens

@LestradeMari @Wife_of_Momiji @AorunNingen @Hideo_Fufujima @ZZZAnonymously Is this what people tell you about being a furry? Because they aren't correct; you don't have to repeat them. Someone discussing something at length doesn't make them incorrect. Saying a trite phrase doesn't make you correct. Maturity is accepting when you are wrong.

I'm curious about where people draw their boundaries. There are many possible answers.

@PacifistaKisser @nugwisomkami I like trying to find the holy grail of something truly unique and interesting. Some artists will make some limited amounts of something actually good instead of Genshin slop.

@nugwisomkami Even when it comes down to artist alleys at cons it’s never anything more than whatever’s popular at the time so that artists can make back their $500+ table fee. 😒🔫

yeah it's because anime conventions are just a larger version of this

@Niseimonomango @EternoSamsara Heavy overlap. My wife and I have been going to cons for over 20 years, we still watch tons of anime, but we also play VNs, paint garage kits, read manga, etc. etc.

@EternoSamsara Forgot about VNs but I don’t that that VN culture is that much different from anime culture? This is from an outsider’s perspective

A lot of the “classic” anime fans have moved on to dongua, webtoons, danmei, indie comics or have doubled down and got really into Japanese art house films or doujin

@heelsyren Tip from my recent experience: do not watch Wolf's Rain immediately after the passing of your beloved pet. It's an amazing anime, but the hurt is too much.

The best thing about all of this is finding other Wolf’s Rain fans in the wild. I spent so much of my childhood in wolf’s rain roleplay forums. I have such an attachment to this anime and I loveeeeeee meeting other ppl with similar feels

@WunderRiKU A big part of that change is the introduction of social media followed by it becoming so integral to people's lives. Prior to around the early-mid 00's, people went to cons to hangout and do weird nerd stuff, no one went for social media clout or to post about it.

I'm not kidding when I say every con I attended in the late 2000s would have a flash mob of 20 - 50 people doing the Hare Hare Yukai at some point. Everyone knew at least some of this dance or Motteke Sailor Fuku. And if you didn't, you could at least join in with Carameldansen or Nyan Nyan from Macross Frontier In 2024 I went to my first con since 2009 and was shocked by how completely different the atmosphere was. There were teenagers in sportswear hanging around like they were loitering at the mall. Half the floor space was taken by massive corporations advertising themselves. The community spirit- the unplanned group dancing, the impromptu photoshoots when seeing another cosplayer from your show, that all felt so distant. Meetups are super structured, everyone is there for their cosplay group. It's still really fun, but it just feels so different. I think going to OffKai and VeXpo reminded me so much of those anime cons in the 2000s. VTubers are the niche now like anime was back then. There's just enough of us to do something cool, but not so many that it's too corporate and impersonal. People have their own oshis, but there is a sense of a monoculture around the biggest VTubers, which is important in a community! It's something missing in so many elements of our society where everyone's consuming habits are influenced by tailored algorithms, but every VTuber fan has probably spent some time watching Hololive, Mousey, Zen, Mint etc. I hope our community continues to grow, but if VTubing ever reaches the heights of popularity that anime has then I know I will be looking back on these days as fondly as doing the Hare Hare Yukai with a bunch of sweaty strangers in cheap cosplay in 2008 ☺️

@PlasmaVEVO @SoloMan1298 Nah, that's exactly white people spicy. No one else in the world can munch on a ghost pepper and shrug quite like a random white dude from some rural American shithole who grows scorpion peppers to take a break from his carolina reapers.

@SoloMan1298 i did like two tiers below ghost pepper and i was still fighting for my life that shit is NOT white people spicy

@Art444Star I'd note that what CS Lewis said is somewhat unrelated. The graph on is from a paper noting people further out on it ALSO care about the things further in. Lewis would say they don't care about any, they are "pretending" to care, essentially.

We are in the century of Total C.S. Lewis Vindication The reason why they're so passionate about protecting fictional characters is because it transcends the heatmap from pretending to care about far away to PRETENDING TO CARE ABOUT PRETEND THINGS

THEY'RE STILL FUCKING DOING THIS

@etenakare @hayasaka_aryan We're still around. We just don't go to conventions solely for social media clout and so don't constantly post about it. We've also become a minority in the space.

@hayasaka_aryan What happened to these anime fans? Where are they? Where did they go?

Anime community before HRT

@kirakira_same @SydusArts2 Don't worry, Hina is losing now so your fears aren't coming true.

@SydusArts2 A literal bottom tier loli winning this really just shows how badly tourists have ruined anime.

Final Round Choose the best girl 最高の女の子を選ぶ

@SydusArts2 Roxy better win to warrant my Roxy itasha. Who am I kidding, we know it'd happen anyway.

@Zaiup @EnzouRakka @SydusArts2 MT fan here: I was watching anime when you weren't a scratch in your dad's balls. Roxy should win but won't due to the swarms of people who don't even watch anime.

@EnzouRakka @SydusArts2 Exactly, that's what I'm saying. Most Twitter MT fans are tourists.

@browch05 Sadly a large portion of twitter as a whole is bots. Cute horse, though.

I wish 750+ people on here actually liked a post about my horse. Unfortunately it appears to be 90% anime bot accounts. Remember, social media isn’t real…

@KaiKai2492 Unplayable is being hyperbolic. I know because I played, and beat, it on launch and it was definitely playable. It has improved a lot though in many ways that aren't just bug fixes and optimization as well.

Okay let's chill with the revisionist history Cyberpunk on launch was downright unplayable. A straight scam. It singlehandedly ruined CDPR's perfect reputation and was an unplayable buggy mess. NOW after years of fixes, updates and dlc it's a masterpiece. It wasn't always.

@JohnDoe19th @kcollins575 @StillHazoDDD See, it's because Japan doesn't give a fuck about Christ so the translators are trying to make it clear to the retards who think anyone gives a shit about him. A bit dumb but unimportant.

@kcollins575 @StillHazoDDD oh so you are arguing for incorrect translations because you want to localize the work not translate it. ok got it.

What sucks about this is that some Umas explicitly say "Merry Christmas" but nobody is safe from the lame ass corpo localization.

@yangwenli Based

It’s hard to describe how happy I am to finally be able to meet you after being a fan for so long!! Literally life changing when I started following this ghost maid. I hope to see you at more meet and greets in the future! Minto cute! 🥹 #MintFantome #ミント心霊写真 #HolMat2025