Do you plan on reading the Hunter x Hunter manga from the point where the anime ends?
Yep. I won't be able to help myself, and there's no guarantee the show will ever come back anyway.
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Hey, just wanted to say thanks for sharing your thoughts on shows and things. Finding your blog really changed the way I look at fiction - more than any English class ever did! You cool, man.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoy the work.
Sorry i meant Joseph Conrad. Don't know why i mistype
That makes more sense! And I dunno, I haven't read his stuff.
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What are you thoughts on Hachiman's way of solving problems? For example, how he dealt with Minami Sagami?
That it's reflective of his very narrow-minded, chuunibyou-style thinking. He thinks the world is a cynical place and he's some kind of truth-teller, but he's really just an unhappy teenager.
What do you think of Satoshi Kon and his films?
Embarrassingly, I've only seen Tokyo Godfathers, which I didn't really care for. But that seems like by far the film of his I'd /least/ enjoy, so I should probably get to the others.
What do you think of people on the internet asking you random shit for validation?
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Legal_Subjection_of_Men Holy shit MRAs have been with us forever. That was basically the old-timey equivalent of a "rebuttal" video to John Stuart Mill's "The Subjection of Women".
Of course they have! People didn't just think "my cultural attitudes are terrible, but that's okay because I live in history" in the past - most people are actively complicit in whatever their culture perceives as "normal," and people who benefit from/are comfortable with any status quo will often try to frame those pushing against it as the irrational aggressors. The same people who would write something like that a hundred years ago are now saying "what sexism are you talking about? Culture's now perfectly equal, no more change required, stop complaining!" People who accept their cultural biases as the "natural default" will always find progress frightening and unnatural.
Man, it's kinda crazy how exactly some of the language in that mirrors what I've heard in recent conversations, though. That guy might as well be a co-sponsor of that anti-Sarkeesian video.
Man, it's kinda crazy how exactly some of the language in that mirrors what I've heard in recent conversations, though. That guy might as well be a co-sponsor of that anti-Sarkeesian video.
Read any of Junot Diaz's stuff?
Not really. I've read the short story version of Oscar Wao, but not the novel.
Do you sometimes feel a void after watching a good show, like there's something missing, and you're not sure what to do now that the show is over?
Sometimes. I'd maybe advise channeling your passion for a show that's ended into some other activity - I tend to do this by writing about them, but it can be anything. Back in college, reading shounen manga would get me all fired up to practice fighting games.
What do you think of Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter?
He's pretty great, I guess? A lot of fun to follow, consistently imposing/dangerous when he needs to be, and yet also regularly silly. I think he's a very well-designed antagonist, and his priorities naturally push the story in compelling directions.
Are you aware that Nisio Isin who's a big fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure wrote an official light novel for it, from the viewpoint of Dio himself, called Over Heaven?
I knew he'd written a light novel, but not that it was from Dio's perspective. That's pretty great.
Any thoughts on Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso coming up next season? The premise looks interesting (musical romantic drama) but the cast doesn't seem too strong.
The premise, PV, and noitaminA slot all pique my interest. I'll be giving the first episode a shot, at least. Though the series composer's terrible resume kinda worries me:
http://myanimelist.net/people/14787/Yoshioka_Takao
http://myanimelist.net/people/14787/Yoshioka_Takao
First three songs in your favorite playlist?
I'll give you the whole thing:
Randy Described Eternity - Built to Spill
Ache With Me - Against Me!
Skin - The Vigilantes of Love
Art House Director - Broken Social Scene
Fox in the Snow - Belle and Sebastian
The Sea is a Good Place to Think Of the Future - Los Campesinos!
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit
To Old Friends and New - Titus Andronicus
Putting the Dog to Sleep - The Antlers
A little embarrassing to admit, but it's an album meant to vaguely follow the emotional/narrative progression of Rin's story in Katawa Shoujo. I like mixes that tell stories.
Randy Described Eternity - Built to Spill
Ache With Me - Against Me!
Skin - The Vigilantes of Love
Art House Director - Broken Social Scene
Fox in the Snow - Belle and Sebastian
The Sea is a Good Place to Think Of the Future - Los Campesinos!
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit
To Old Friends and New - Titus Andronicus
Putting the Dog to Sleep - The Antlers
A little embarrassing to admit, but it's an album meant to vaguely follow the emotional/narrative progression of Rin's story in Katawa Shoujo. I like mixes that tell stories.
Have you read John Conrad's work?
Who's John Conrad?
Do you have any opinion on the Zoe Quinn stuff?
Lots of them! Here are some recent relevant asks:
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116632290346
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116668950058
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116718330154
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116922950442
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116632290346
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116668950058
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116718330154
http://ask.fm/B0bduh/answer/116922950442
i started watchin SAO II earlier today, so... Kirito becomes a Jedi huh
Ayep.
What do you think of Leigh Alexander's recent "Gamers are Over" article? If her language were less harsh, would she better engage with the community she's criticizing? Is it pointless to try engaging? http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_to_be_your_audience_Gamers_are_over.
I think she's 100% right, and that article is basically one long, years-in-the-making sigh of freedom and relief. Her point, a common point that many people are either missing or (very understandably) not wishing to engage with, is that journalists /no longer have to care/ about changing the minds of gaming's original, extremely insular demographic. They don't have to "prove" to core gamers that feminist critique is a valid avenue of criticism, or that games can be engaging to them while also appealing to a broader audience, or that the introduction of emotional complexity and diversification of what "games" means will ultimately lead to more fulfilling experiences. They can simply let the alternatives to those attitudes fade away, because the alternatives to those attitudes are relics.
The AAA industry of Call of Duty and the few other games like it is a self-devouring machine. The sexist rhetoric that's been accepted as standard in game communities is becoming more and more untenable as the larger world continues to embrace gaming. This isn't about two sides coming to an agreement - this is about a specific set of attitudes released a concentrated death rattle.
It's actually been fascinating and heartening to me to see, over the past few years, game journalism collectively grow out of gaming's cultural adolescence. The "core community" is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, but you can't really "turn back" the industry's actual creators and critics growing out of these attitudes, or push out the diverse voices desiring to be a part of the medium. Leigh Alexander isn't speaking to that core community, and her point is you don't have to - you can simply keep moving the industry forward, and let those attitudes die of natural causes.
The AAA industry of Call of Duty and the few other games like it is a self-devouring machine. The sexist rhetoric that's been accepted as standard in game communities is becoming more and more untenable as the larger world continues to embrace gaming. This isn't about two sides coming to an agreement - this is about a specific set of attitudes released a concentrated death rattle.
It's actually been fascinating and heartening to me to see, over the past few years, game journalism collectively grow out of gaming's cultural adolescence. The "core community" is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, but you can't really "turn back" the industry's actual creators and critics growing out of these attitudes, or push out the diverse voices desiring to be a part of the medium. Leigh Alexander isn't speaking to that core community, and her point is you don't have to - you can simply keep moving the industry forward, and let those attitudes die of natural causes.
Am I wrong to be under the impression that very few people can be simultaneously consistently great writers and consistently great critics?
Actually, lots of great writers have also done a bunch of interesting criticism, or taught. They're not the same skill set, but some stuff does carry over.
If the meaning of life is to be selfless, then life has no meaning.
That seems like a pretty solipsistic perspective, and not even a well thought out one! Even aside from it being, you know, the right thing to do, helping others can be both rewarding personally and one of the premier ways you exert a clear impact and influence on the world.
Personally, I feel the truth's pretty much the opposite - by helping others, we can create meaning for many people, whereas effort horded only has value for one person.
Personally, I feel the truth's pretty much the opposite - by helping others, we can create meaning for many people, whereas effort horded only has value for one person.
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What are your thoughts on the whole chuuni/chuunibyou phenomenon?
Kids do embarrassing stuff, this and other news at 11.
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Do you think the episodes that Urobuchi directed in Aldnoah.Zero were more focused on the Martian/Terran identity conflict, or was the show mostly always was about Things Happening and now it's just becoming more apparent? I feel like this universe could have had a /really/ Urobuchi story!
Those first three were pretty focused, I thought! They established a whole bunch of information and contained a well-paced initial battle. The show's just kind of repeated that formula in weaker ways since then, though.
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You could always just livetweet the funny stuff, like I do when I watch things.
Yeah, I'll probably do that.
Now that you have to review SAO in a somewhat proper fashion, will you miss the ability to just do some weird humor based on it, like these concept-writeups?
Honestly, it's kind of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I've done /over thirty/ of those writeups at this point, and was definitely suffering some writeup-fatigue. On the other, it kind of stings to see something like Kirito's complete lack of understanding of personal space in last week's episode and /not/ be able to make a running gag out of it.
Apparently the Avdol-thing happened due to pressure from readers and editors; seems like they really liked him. Araki probably sketched dozens of dead dogs to quell his bloodlust.
THE DOGS WILL PAY FOR THIS.
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