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Not being a time sink is precisely why I suggested http://www.yucata.de/en/ I log on once a day, take turns in maybe half a dozen games, and I'm done in 5 minutes. :)
I'll consider it, though I still hold no promises.
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I can recommend some good Eurogames if you're at all interested. Failing that check out yucata.de for online board games, and I have the same user ID there as well.
Man, I don't even have time for plain old board games. You're welcome to recommend them, but I can't promise I'll ever get to them.
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What's your favorite board game?
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Do you like to act spontaneously or plan things? Why?
You already are on Skype, though. I added you. B-Baka.
Ah, by "single-payer", I mean "single-payer health care" i.e. "government pays for all healthcare costs." And I'd like to add that I know Medicare and Medicaid already exist, I mean basic healthcare coverage being provided to all citizens.
I doubt it. Significant social, cultural, and political forces within the US are too suspicious and too self-interested to allow for that level of government intervention occur. We're probably not going to see the US transform into a social democracy in a lifetime. If there's going to be any progress toward something of the single-payer end, it's going to be gradual and uneven.
WHY WONT YOU JOIN SKYPE, ZEROREQ-KUN-CHAN-SAMA-SENPAI?
Do you think there's a good possibility that the United States will move to single-payer within a lifetime? If so, what events would need to take place for that to happen?
Could you clarify what you mean by "single-payer?"
You been watching Game of Thrones this season, man?
No unfortunately. No time. I haven't caught up to the last season.
What is the one thing everyone is looking for?
Did America destabilize the Middle East by invading Iraq? How?
For starters, it unleashed a wave of resentment within the Muslim world that led to the violent radicalization and production of jihadist terrorists. The US's invasion of Iraq, to many, was seen as proof that America was going to war with Islam. As a consequence, many young Muslim men took up arms and strapped bombs to themselves in what they felt was a justified defense of their faith against crusaders and traitors.
what are the drawbacks to the "model minority" myth/self-fulfilling prophecy?
Asian Americans, who are the "model minority" in question, are pressured to meet demanding expectations that might be personally unrealistic or undesirable. A people characterized by those high standards are prone to self-deprecation and hard falls of depression and suicide in the event that they perceive that they aren't performing up to standard, standards that consist of fulfilling objective milestones and competing with peers.
They can also breed a certain arrogance toward other minorities, not unlike the dynamic of White Americans toward toward all other Minority Americans. It is in this arrogance that the "model minority" is given something of a leave to oppress other minorities while distracting all minorities form the fact that White Americans still tower above all of them. White Americans can simply point to Asian Americans and suggest to the other minorities that their squalor is their fault for not working hard enough, while omitting or denying the social structures that keep them, as a whole, from rising to become their socioeconomic equals.
They can also breed a certain arrogance toward other minorities, not unlike the dynamic of White Americans toward toward all other Minority Americans. It is in this arrogance that the "model minority" is given something of a leave to oppress other minorities while distracting all minorities form the fact that White Americans still tower above all of them. White Americans can simply point to Asian Americans and suggest to the other minorities that their squalor is their fault for not working hard enough, while omitting or denying the social structures that keep them, as a whole, from rising to become their socioeconomic equals.
What do apples represent in post-WW2 Japan?
Understand that in the immediate post-WWII years, Japanese society (particularly the part of Japanese society that was urban) was the throes of economic destitution and physical starvation. Thousands of Japanese died because of undernutrition, tens of thousands suffered from malnutrition, and hundreds of thousands consistently felt hunger pains. Hunger pains hurt. Bureaucrats did an abysmal job trying to distribute food rations to the starving masses they were supposed to provide over. Food stockpiles leftover from the war were plundered by former soldiers and officers. Domestic food production being diverted to sale at exorbitant prices in the black and gray markets. In this culture of defeatism and despair, or "kyodatsu," many gazed longingly at those patches of green maintained by the American Occupation, filled with apple trees ripe for fruitful harvest, but for the victors and not for the losers.
The apple was a fruit of forbidden luxury made even more luxurious and forbidden by the circumstances. This longing to taste its sweetness, never mind the substance of anything that was edible, stood for a repudiation of every suffering that the Japanese people now had to endure because of the Imperials: its chauvinism, its morality, its militarism, etc.
The apple was a fruit of forbidden luxury made even more luxurious and forbidden by the circumstances. This longing to taste its sweetness, never mind the substance of anything that was edible, stood for a repudiation of every suffering that the Japanese people now had to endure because of the Imperials: its chauvinism, its morality, its militarism, etc.
Why won't you virally market my hip new product, Zero?
Because I'm too hip.
What's the most important lesson you've learned in life?
What's an anime you don't see get talked about but want other people to see?
Probably Denpa Teki na Konojo. It's a bite-sized (two-piece) director and conceptual gem of a psychological thriller that I ended writing about at considerable length:
https://thereforeitis.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/serial-reason-denpa-teki-na-kanojo-a-review/
https://thereforeitis.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/serial-reason-denpa-teki-na-kanojo-a-review/
Which website or app do you use first in the morning?
Is there a currently pressing issue or subject that you'd particularly enjoy seeing addressed by an anime, or that you think an anime could handle particularly well?
I doubt anime producers would be bold enough to do this, but anything revolving around addressing Japan's war crimes during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War would be something I would be all for.
Not really, no
There you go.
Do you think Vladimir Putin is a good leader?
Do you?
What's your favorite Latin expression?
I have two I typically use in tandem whenever I bring them up in conversation of illustrating with how arguments are made while making myself look smart:
"a priori" and "a posteriori"
"a priori" and "a posteriori"
Post a picture of the magnets on your fridge!
Which anime works would you consider feminist?
Guy produced a great answer (http://ask.fm/Geekorner/answer/126887291357)#_=_), and to personally add to that great answer is my just how I approach characters in anime and shows in general. Personally, I don't think we should frame our engagement with shows and the characters within them through a narrow definition of something being labeled feminist. Though as Frog-kun points out, a feminist lens is a no-less valued perspective (http://ask.fm/Frogkun/answer/128978283380), and people tend to reduce feminism into something which is not only anyway. Only a particular school of feminism (radical feminism) really attempts to frame the core of social relations within a predominantly gender paradigm. The more reasonable (in my opinion) schools focus on the intersectionality of various social factors in addition to gender (which has been otherwise ignored or marginalized as a dynamic of consideration for the longest time).
We should, first and foremost, approach them in terms of how they relate and resonate with the complexities of the human condition and experience, fraught as it is with systems of oppression. We should approach shows and the characters within them by the ways they not only accommodate or resist structures of social stratification (like gender), but how they navigate and negotiate with them as well.
We should, first and foremost, approach them in terms of how they relate and resonate with the complexities of the human condition and experience, fraught as it is with systems of oppression. We should approach shows and the characters within them by the ways they not only accommodate or resist structures of social stratification (like gender), but how they navigate and negotiate with them as well.
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You have decided to turn over a new leaf and become a master criminal. Who is your partner in crime?
I work alone.
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