Lochat

Fundamentally, if I'm having a serious discussion, you're completely correct. In short, "things for losers", as seen via popular culture and stereotypes correlate highly to things like "things for people with neuro-divergence" or "social quicks" or "family/isolation issues" or "anxious self-aware types" or simply those who developed quicker in certain ways, or are more introspective and unimpressed by the most common "popular stuff" for their age-group which doesn't challenge them intellectually or morally, or socially. (We could say both anime and VG are now those popular things. As a guy in my late-30's, that was very much not the case growing up.) But these are the things which I'm lampooning with my hyperbole types and various other groups you'd like to include.

That said, as someone who doesn't watch anime, and with full knowledge there is good "anime" (and having watched some good ones, imo) and having a story told via an animated medium doesn't somehow make a well told story inherently bad.

Also said, anime is for loser weebs and attracts pedos who excuse themselves because "technically she's 900 years old, because the other pedo who wrote this said so, so it's cool bro"

Also said, as someone who plays video games, video games are for fat loser virgins' dopamine addicts too, and they also double up on many of anime's issues and absurd sexualization.

Not because either is, as it stands fundamentally true as some natural law... but because, sociologically/psychologically the only people who are truly personally upset and offended by those dumb, worthless, statements, frankly, almost certainly, deserve to be upset. These things are entertainment, not moral failings or moral superiority. Realistically, someone who "likes anime" should see that stupid statement and think, "Yeah, wish those losers weren't associated with this entertainment medium I enjoy." rather than "Sorry, I an ANIME/GAMER guy, so if you insult ANIME/GAMER, you insult me! GAMERS RISE UP!"

And that's why "GAMERS RISE UP!" types are such, sad, pathetic, undeniable losers. Buddy, you play one of the most popular things on the planet, most designed specifically to target and foster dopamine addition and syphon money from you. Playing a good game doesn't make you a hero, even if it bucks the trend and is a quality example. More so, playing mediocre or shitty ones sure doesn't either. Get a real personality. This is like saying "Meat-Eaters rise up!" The fuck are you talking about? You're one of the most common types of people consuming one of the most common types of food, and morally, we can say, overall, it's a negative even if it's "more complex than that." If that's your "personal identity" then you simply don't have one. Not to mention, technically speaking, it's probably better if said identity didn't exist (as a non-vegetarian, I also admit that's a moral failing of mine). You're just a broken person, and some broken people need help to be fixed. Some, unfortunately, need to be shattered completely, though that should never be the default assumption.

John Brown wouldn't give a fuck about your Waifu, or if your favorite character in Marvel Rivals is OP or not. He'd give you a musket or shoot you, depending on which anime you watch or videogames you play. *(Sorry, Gacha gamers, and people who modded BG3 to turn Wyll white, but frankly you deserve it no questions asked)" The truth is, what you enjoy can stand on its own merits, or it can't, in which case you should be a little ashamed. Like me enjoying my treats while living in a dying American empire. Still, McDonalds has a .99cent any-sized coffee on their app I get a few times a week. I'm shit for getting it. Call me out on it, you're right, but I'm not going to cry about it. I know. I know. You're right. Life is dumb, people are hypocrites, including me, and I want my cheap shitty, iced coffee I can get for driving 3 minutes like a car-brained idiot with my doggie who loves rides. I may be shit, but I ain't closest to the most disgusting pile of shit out there. Not even in the top half of "desperately needs to be wiped away" filth. And maybe, I too, need to be cleaned... but, ya know... I'll gladly be wiped away when my turn comes... when it comes. After the black mold and roach infestations are dealt with.

If anyone here is honestly, emotionally, upset I'm ragging on 'gamers', sorry, but seriously... not that important bro (as a person who spends, likely as much or more time playing games as anyone on Hexbear) Likewise with anime. The ability to understand the difference between yourself, and the media you consume, is the difference between us and chuds -- I would hope.

Sure, I lean into being hyperbolic about it at times -- or often -- but that's the point. Taking this shit seriously is a problem. Grave of the Fireflies isn't good (or bad) because it's animated, it's good because of the story it tells. The medium can be replaced. Understanding that is the difference been a mindless "consuuumer" and someone who enjoys something. Me shitting on "anime" doesn't actually distract from the story and the history of a good work of art. Me being a hypoerbolic, pseudo-internet troll doesn't take away from a well told animated story of one of the worst atrocities of human history. And if we're being serious -- I would never disrespect that -- but we're not. We live in post-parody Trump/Elon clown world, where gamers are losers, anime watchers are pedos, and all of us need to do better, but it won't make a difference, so lets play games and watch anime until we finally break and "One Of the Mario Bros" the people who deserve it, because the unfortunate truth is that's the only real difference any of us will make in the world, if we're brave or broken or desperate enough to make it.

Still... gamesbad. Ya know? Sure, Disco Elysium is good but... ya know. It's good because it's atypical for a successful videogame. Harrier may be a depressed, sad, addict loser, cop (and as we all know, ACAB, including him) clinging to the past. But, ya know, that's that makes his story good. That's what makes him good, as a character, even if he's a fucking pathetic loser just trying to survive and taking a world he can't comprehend one step at a time, because he, like all of us, either has to choose to end it all now, or keep moving forward. The medium, video game or not, doesn't matter. I know it's a good game -- because it's atypical. Because the "typical game" is the absolute opposite. I'm considering getting a DE tattoo. A video game tattoo. I look down on people with video-game tattoos, even if just slightly. The truth is, I also look down on myself. Probably more than I do others. The medium might be pathetic, but the story, the art ,and the meaning isn't. Which is why I'm okay dismissing the medium, because the rest of it stands on its own.

Speaking of differing mediums, man, -- Disco Elysium novel -- I'd love to see it.

Also, sorry, I'm drunk but enjoy my diary entry.

Either way, for the first time in my life, I'm not blaming Elon Musk. This is roadrunner vs. coyote level dumb-shittiery. Straight up running into a poorly painted rock level of incompetence. An entire, "Sure, I know this tunnel wasn't there an hour ago... but I see a tunnel now!" levels of cartoonish idiocy. Child shit. Buying a Meta Quest 3 for the front lines so soldiers could masturbate to 3d porn for morale purposes and to encourage soldiers being sent to the front line would be a better use of money, 100% unironically, make a bigger pro-Russia impact on the war. And I'm talking 1-to-1, not 1-to-100's, based on cost.

If you can do it, you would be my hero. In honest truth, if these people could be mobilized to real action, or cause real problems to the status-quo, I feel it would take a uniquely, effectively-if-not-literally superhuman being.

Remember, these are the same types of people who screamed how they would "riot" if they over-turned Roe-V-Wade. Look at Jan 6th. See the difference? Twitter posts versus a literal attempted coup and multiple attempted (or at the very least, desired) murders, on top of the actual "acabs" that were harmed. Hell, Bill O'Rilley called Dr. Tiller, "Doctor Tiller the baby killer" until one of his fucked in the head listeners assassinated him for providing medical care to women (in a church, if I recall?). Give me one liberal with any soapbox and following of, of any note, who has spat 1/100th of the level of vitriol and consistent hate towards these evil fuck who let preteens die of medical complications and/or give birth to children made ofremoved, that evil Irish fuck did to a doctor doing real, good, medical work.

Bill changed the world (for the worse) Rachael Maddow, or whichever "liberal" you want to use, collects their fucking check and goes home. You'd need to fundamentally change their worldview, and since their worldview is based on the vapid, billionaire-controlled media they consume, you'd need to change that. Good luck.

Sorry, didn't you see on "stormfront" how they posted pictures of signs with one-liners that land somehow between "cringe" and "bad"? You telling me that's not making a difference?

Wait, hold on, let me get out of the road, there's an oversized lifted truck driven by an 80 year old with cataracts in both eyes who's going to die in a stroke behind the wheel at some point at in the near future driving towards me.

I wouldn't want to impede traffic, that's not what civil disobedience is about...

Anyhow, where was I...?

Protest = good.

I = protest.

I = Good.

Q.E.D., motherfucker.

I earned this mimosa.

Of course. History doesn't rhyme, it fucking repeats. As Trump term 2.0 proves.

In fact, it repeats in cycles so fucking short that you'll go through 15-20 fucking "Groundhog day" presidencies in your lifetime. Just the absolute dumbest shit that was already proven the term before, with nothing learned and nothing improved, repeated until finally, the empire dies, the nightmare ends, and we can all finally die. A-fucking-men. Yes we can. Hope and Change! (On record admitting he "governed like Reagan, and he was 100% honest in that, to his credit) It was her turn, because it was her turn. Then a colossal failure. Then, next? Well, it was her turn, because it was... her turn! Same god damn shit with a different name. Loser careerists who care nothing except about their next promotion, or the next committee they can lead, against true-believing sociopaths either wanting to destroy America to create a feudalist society or even (somehow) bigger true-believing sociopaths trying to earnestly bring about, in their broken minds, the end-of-times and rapture.

It's not going to change until we die, then we get peace. Finally. Because it's never going to be her turn and it isn't ever going to be the rapture and hope and change sounds nice, and it'll happen, but it's a futile hope and an negative change. I guess the silver lining (heh) is at some point, we might become a truly feudal society, and someone wins and breaks the cycle. I guess I know who I'd bet on, if I had to. But then, that also means I also know who I'd redacted if I could.

So, that's something.

Which is why you've got to make them too afraid to. Which waving signs doesn't do. So, then...

Just based on the numbers, it seems like there would be a solution that would, historically, be enacted by the large group of people against the lone, evil, tyrant.

Oh well. Fun Sunday, see you at brunch tomorrow, we really made the world a better place today.

Thank you sir. You're the kind of anime-watcher I respect. I personally play video games. I'm ashamed about it. I don't talk about them with friends. I know my place.

"I think it’s best to just skip any anime."

Fixed that for ya.

Not to write off everything that's animated just because but... yeah, "anime watchers" are on par with "gamers." There's a big difference between "being a gamer" and "I love Disco Elysium." Same with "I loved Grave of the Fireflies" and "I love anime."

Anime is like "gaming." Sure, enjoying it doesn't inherently make you a chud, but it means enough to you that you in any way see it as a personality trait, you need to accept that you're going to be (rightfully) written off by society.

Well, the initial problem is watching anime. After that, everything is your fault.