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Material Context
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Material Context
@materialcontext
MA History. MAcc. Software hobbyist. Expat. He/Him. Interested in the history of imperial administration, monetary regimes, corporate accounting & software.
Seoul, Republic of Korea Sumali Nisan 2020
535 Sinusundan121 Mga Tagasunod
@willystaley @tolstoybb no. no one knows what you mean because you keep vagueposting for engagement
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I'm being accused of "vagueposting" in the replies. I'm not being vague at all: There's something going on with anime — we all know it's true — and I'd like to know what it is.
willy 🌜💧@willystaley
Years ago, I had proposed an essay along the lines of “What’s going on with anime?” that no writer wanted to take up. I can now see why. No one likes the answer.
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@kwc1922 @BestMovieMom It absolutely does. We can enjoy these new movies while also admitting that in pursuit lower costs, the VFX across the industry had gotten much much worse
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Someone explain how this looks better than the new Spiderman trailer. This movie is 12 years old.
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@ChezzyNeo @Kannas_Ricebowl Attack on Titan is meh. Nothing in it is really new or interesting in terms of dramatic beats. Art style is striking but when you've read literally genres and hundreds of Manga it just doesn't stand out as special. Too much debt trying too hard.
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@materialcontext @Kannas_Ricebowl Didn't do it for me. Those are great, some are in my top 10, still didn't came close to no 1, that's aot.
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Despite being the most successful, action is actually the weakest genre of anime...
An average action anime tends to be a lot worse than an average anime belonging to any other genre, and even the peaks of the action genre can't touch the peaks of romance/drama/thriller etc.
Teslimat@Teslimatttt
Drop an anime opinion that would have you like this.
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@NickZG @regularaugust This had better be complimentary
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@regularaugust I suspect Sinners is going to age like a John Carpenter film.
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I don’t think Sinners, or anything this year, will get the “Everything Everywhere backlash” because EEAAO has a type of humor and maximalist sensibilities that some people instinctively bounce off of. The “Millennialisms” are like shellfish allergy to some people.
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This makes the age-old mistake of viewing justice as a mater of abstract ethics, applied. Justice is the application of social scale-balancing. It's the practice of why society actually exists at all.
@ratlimit@ratlimit
Our justice system should be blind to moral luck. If you blow through a red light, you should be charged as though 5 children happened to jump into the crosswalk a split second before.
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@airkatakana You are completely right about the test, but sadly wrong about the test-taking ability of a median middle-school student.
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daily reminder that the pass mark for the “hardest japanese test aimed at foreigners” is squarely in the middle of “intermediate” on the cefr scale
any japanese middle schooler could pass this with no issues whatsoever
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@PanasonicDX4500 @bigblackjacobin Also the musical number in sinners is one of the cringiest things I've ever seen (still loved the movie) so I don't think you can argue that he wouldn't include this kind of over the top corniness
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Part of the problem with the OBAA discourse on here is that people will watch this scene and think it’s PTA writing what he thinks revolutionaries sound like as opposed to just trying to make the French 75 sound like how every Weather Underground knockoff talked.
Bojack Fan Account@Cam_Unstoppable
If Coogler made it, no bullshit like this would be included
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@ShaKing807 My only complaint about Demon Slayer is that people who hype the animation style and its flashy moments are smoking crack. Shit is not good.
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Good but not great series that would be better received if it was less popular and successful
Demon Slayer Daily@DemonSlayerDP
What's your honest opinion of Demon Slayer?
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@mean_field_zane I think people will come around to thinking it was a little overrated but absolutely not gonna get the EEAAO treatment. Mostly because it's too cool.
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@ObiAlmighty @NON21848128 Nen and Cursed energy are just spicy variants on OP.
Stands tho? King shit. Undefeated.
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@NON21848128 This is why Cursed Energy, Devil Fruits, Devil Contracts, Nen, Stands, and Personas are the best power systems
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@Ian_Gay_briel I wish I hadn't seen Frankenstein and Train Dreams.
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@mean_field_zane This doesn't even register on the list of egregious academy wins. It's a good performance. Honestly, the Best Picture and Actor should have swapped, but it is what it is.
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@Tekninjaaa @weeb_ams What possible "reading comprehension" skills could one need to follow Haikyuu. The premise is embarrassingly thin, the characters are standard archetypes in jerseys, every opponent is humanized into a lovable underdog ASAP. Its sports for people who find sports too unpredictable
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@materialcontext @weeb_ams So you’re a fucking nerd and you still don’t have the reading comprehension skills to understand haikyuu lmao choose a struggle, buddy
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@Gigglemax Honestly, if Patlabor alone don't do it, they're lost.
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The idea I was going with here was a way to ease someone into mecha anime through accessible short entries while avoiding turning them into certain types of guys you see around on here.
Gigglemax@Gigglemax
Throwing my hat into the mecha pilling Eva fans ring
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@Tekninjaaa @weeb_ams Buddy I watch read more of this annually than you've got years on your life. Differences is that I read actual books too so I know baby garbo when I see it.
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@WAVECULTURE2 @Kannas_Ricebowl We don't need anymore Isekai EVER
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@ChezzyNeo @Kannas_Ricebowl Maison Ikkoku washes. Nana washes. Clannad washes. Even Toradora washes.
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@Kannas_Ricebowl Can't think of a single romance anime that manage surpass the peaks of Attack on titan for me.
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@weeb_ams Not sure if too kind to Haikyuu or too hard on mha🤔
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@materialcontext Mha of sports anime and its fans are trying their best to gaslight themselves into believing not adding it is some sort of preformative activism.
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