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>>38240 Hah hah, no. The thought of it only crossed my mind as I posted that in this thread. I am completely unfamiliar with said anime/manga outside of some random pictures I saw of its manga and anime years ago. Amusing, indeed.
>>38239 That's fascinating and feels too complex for a dream. Maybe it wasn't a dream, but a message.
Drawing on my current view of reality
>>38244 Dreams aren't real
Let’s talk about escapism. What is escapism exactly? >the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. What are the benefits and downsides of escapism? Do you think it’s an inherently bad thing? Do you knowingly/unknowingly practice it or do you try to stay grounded in reality? In what ways do you usually practice it? For me my big escapist thing was I couldn’t wait to get to sleep because after a long day I could lay there and fantasize about whatever I wanted, it was a nice carefree time but lately I have taken to staying up as late as possible and constantly consuming some sort of media while posting on image boards. If I don’t do that I feel that my time and day is wasted. It’s awful and while in the moment I feel happy and manage to get away from reality, as soon as I stop and step away I become high strung and anxious about things. I can’t even take a nap in the middle of the day out of fear of wasting time Im not sure if it’s just my habits or me myself who changed but I’m going to try to reevaluate and readjust so I can get back to my day dreaming and early bed times, but I’m not sure where to begin. I prefer that more relaxed type of escapism, it’s soothing
I prefer daydreaming as my way of escapism. I like to create my own stories. I wish I had writing talent to make them "real" and get paid money though.
>>33883 >I believe that fiction is desensitizing. That's not what i've experienced. Normally i'm mostly numb to what the people around me are feeling, but if i'm in the middle of a book, I'm already in the mindset of empathizing with others so I feel a little more. The brain gets better at what it's trained to do. Fiction doesn't actually have stakes to it, so I don't think it's desensitizing.
Isekai
>>38372 Stop posting this low effort shit.
From games, comics, and cartoons, since the late 90s, westerns from America to Europe(especially France for some reason) have attempted to create "anime-like" media. You remember some of these: rwby, totally spies, avatar, teen titans, code lyoko, to name a few. Most of these are made to capitalize on a dying trend, but that's besides the point. These try to copy something more than the artstyle(which is usually a failure). There's some kind of character to otaku media that they're trying to replicate. Aside from anime largly representing adult-oreiented animation that isn't primarily comedic, there's something else to it, some dynamic. Most people write these "knockoffs" off as shit and that's it, but I want to know, if I were to try to make something with that unique "spirit" to it, wouldn't it just come out the same? Could a westerner capture whatever that thing is so it feels the same? There's a couple western porn artists which do a really good job, but that's as close as I can think of
"NECO DROP" Capcom's new cat based puzzle game lets you unlock cat versions of your favorite Street Fighter characters https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/necodrop
>>33637 That last part about including something because one happens to like it looks more like a feature common to lots of different kinds of literatures to me; as opposed to anime in particular, that is. Be that as it may, it certainly is one of fiction's major allures. >>33625 Maybe the uniqueness of Japanese anime / culture is just a myth after all; one that large parts of the world have been, not even consciously, fostering for centuries. Of course there must be an air of elusive exceptionality blowing into the face of someone considering Anime in such an environment. The reason, however, is not some innate property of Anime, but as I mentioned before, the great effort that has been undertaken to write the elusive qualities of Japaneseness into Japan.
I rather western animation do their own thing rather than shamelessly copy anime.
>>38371 They do. And it's shit.
What do you think about live action adaptations? I'm not talking about about the American ones. We all know they're shit and why they're shit. I mean the ones made in Japan. Who are they made for? What's the market? Does anybody actually like them? Does taking a niche product and making it live action somehow make it more accessible? What do fans of the original think of them? From what i've seen, they take the source material, and make a generic, butchered, soulless version with plenty of "creative liberties". Going further than that, the little regular Japanese television i've seen looks like some of the most innane, dumb shit ever produced. It's bad in a different way from American tv, but it's still horrible.
>>32587 >>32590 Not sure if it counts as a talk show, but Tantei Knight Scoop usually has interesting stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THOKhqQ5VQw
Sony is making a live-action, Hollywood adaptation of OPM. I can't, I don't, I wont, please let it be cancelled. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/one-punch-man-movie-works-at-sony-1291136
>>34717 I think a -lot- of movies are gonna be canceled soon. Hollywood ain't gonna be making shit for a while.
The Last Airbender is going for another live-action adaption...
I'd like to start another dream thread, if that's all right. I'll go first. You know how when you're a fan of something like anime or scifi or similar things in your teenage years parents will try to buy stuff for you? My dad and stepmom bought anime\manga related shit at yard sales a lot. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was off the mark. Well, in my dream I'm still in high school. I'm sitting there playing Xbox when my dad & stepmom walk in and yell that they got me something at a yard sale. I'm think to myself, "well, probably shit, but I might as well see," and go to check it out. I walk into the kitchen and on the table is a box full of stuff from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I get more excited and go to see what it is. There's every episode in raws and fansubs on VHS, some uniforms, figurines, and even Shinjis' fucking tape recorder with the tape he listens to inside it! All the merchandise seems to be older and seems like it was directly imported from Japan. I ask where they found it. It cuts to a yard sale with a slightly sad fiftyish woman in her front yard. She talked about how her son loved this show and whatnot, and seemed very sad. She sold it all for about 10-20 dollars. I take all the stuff out and find a suicide note. Her son had gotten into anime in the eighties while in high school and was completely inept and friendless. He grew obsessed with Evangelion and felt a strong kinship with Shinji because he was such a fuck up. He grew older and couldn't find anyone to share his interests with, became more and more of a recluse, and killed himself in the late nineties, which I recall being a shame since the internet as of 96, when he killed himself, could have given him a place to talk to others and feel less alone. I realized he was "an otaku of another generation." I hung up his note and saluted it. I then went to watch his tapes and realized that he had dubbed it himself in case he ever met anyone who wanted to share his joy. I inherited his legacy. His mother had cleaned house and ended up giving me a record of a hikkikomori life.
>>38317 Update: just happened again without being too hot this time. Dream info- probably unreliable. God damn it.
>>38341 Do you wake up sweating?
>>38342 A bit, why? I think that's more related to being in a single position for a long time.
>>38345 Just curious, because I was/am experiencing a similar set of symptoms. There was a distinct correlation between how much I woke up sweating and the intensity/vividness of the dreams (which unfortunately tended more towards night terrors). Temperature is definitely a factor, because in my case things paradoxically got worse when it got colder – my hypothesis is that I wrap myself in the blanket more and thus end up heating up more than if it was warmer and I allow more airflow.
I'm curious what you think of the whole subbing situation nowadays? I know fansubbing is pretty much dead but some botched translation has brought back the scene (GJM is the most prominent one coming to mind at the moment) to an extent. This was the first time in a while I saw drama about localized subs (I'm not gonna bother going into it, it was dumb) and the subber justified it by calling people complaining weebs and a whole shitshow about it. (shitflinging about nationality and politics, standard dumb flame war shit). I talked to someone who speaks Japanese and apparent Horriblesubs is fine for what they are, and if that's to be believed, I appreciate them for bypassing all the dumb "artistic" shit and TL notes, for forgoing all the drama involving subtitles and generally being good enough. I just realized though, most anime viewers are basically taking the meaning of the media with someone else's word. I wonder how often translators are deceptive and "liberally" interpret things, which eventually becomes direct influence over what the characters are saying or straight up guesses for whatever reason. I imagine people with no connection to Japan besides being wapanese wouldn't be able to speak it enough to even tell. I'm quite curious to learn Japanese now and see how much changes. What do you think?
I'm worried about how subbers (and dubbers) can just decide to insert their political opinions into the work, with no respect for the source material. Yeah.
>>38162 Sorry mate, I meant no harm, just wanted to poke a bit of fun at the argument.
>>38162 Detecting people of the tribe is my super power. This ability was gifted to me for a reason and it was meant to be shared. Why, not using it to expose the works of the tribesmen would be simply immoral. >>38168 And what do the subbers and dubbers who do that have in common? Perhaps... strikingly well developed nasal structures?
>>38200 Gen Fukunaga, the founder and president of Funimation, isn't jewish. So you're not even right about that.
Non Japanese speaking & writing MOSAIC.WAV enthusiast here. Does anyone know if there may be more good videos of their live shows around somewhere than just this one that I was able to find on Youtube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLJNknE2Fg I don't know, maybe some of you might have some saved or know what terms might be useful for finding what I'm looking for. I looked up that ライブ, ライヴ, ヴ are used for 'live' in Japanese, but these terms aren't finding anything useful on YT / NND either. Please help me, tohno-chan, your noble house is my only hope.
Look up "モザイクウェブ ライブ"
Much obliged.
quexyk I actually have a couple bags of sand, if anyone wants to know what they feel like. I went to the beach & brought home some sand (i like to keep it around just in case any of my potted plants get fungus gnats) and i realized I could make bags of sand pretty easily so I did. I image this is what anime girl's tits feel like, yes?
>>30273 you defense seems to turn on the idea that OP is confusing because of your lack of reading comprehension and your extremely short attention span.
>>30275 You're slightly right, but I see a loy of projecting. You confuse reading comprehension and attention with interest. The thread is written avoiding general writing conventions and board standards, to the point it's erratic: There is no title, the topic is presented only in the very last sentence, and the idea before it elongates unnecessarily.
>>30276 >but I see a loy of projecting Trace on.
>>30277 TORACE...ON
How do I become a paid internet shill? People often seem to think paid internet shills exist, do they? I would probably be pretty good at it if they paid me enough. Who are they and how do I contact them? sorry if this is bad
>>29679 Thanks to the information provided by Edward Snowden, the existence of paid government shills that misdirect and manipulate political discourse on the internet was confirmed a while back. I don't recall any mention of how they picked up these people, though. The NSA and CIA scouts hackers in relevant colleges, so my only guess is that they'd do something similar for paid shills/trolls.
>>29680 I've seen ads for entry level shilling on amazon's mechanical turk before. That was an ad for actual political canvassing before. The jidf as a particular example has both unpaid shills and paid shills, and in both cases it uses software to track the activity of the users (especially important for the paid shills, who were paid using a fairly complex metric according to anons who claimed to be paid jidf shills on a site which was confirmed (by the twitter feed of the actual jidf) to be shilled on).
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This theme is sooo cute!
>>38011 I really love it too
>>38011 Will it stick around as a theme option after today ends? (Tohno-chan always has the best april fools jokes, retaining that organic playfulness sorely missing in the modern web).
>>38014 This theme has been available on TC for more than a few years now, I see no reason not to keep it. It actually is the one I prefer to use myself. Similarly, when the theme "awesome" was made for a previous April 1st, that was simply added to the list and has been there since.
今日は何してたの、お兄ちゃん？ 教えて頂戴！
>>34080 いや、話題がないなら無理やり復活させなくてもいいだろ。ていうか、非母語話者の僕らと練習すれば、ただ変な日本語になってしまう可能性もあるから、あまり推奨できないかな。
どうして、そんなこと！ぼくの好きなアプリが急に変化したの。アップグレードということでもダウングレードと呼ばれてもいい。 さきはひらがなで書いていたふりがながあって検索システムもいいです。今、全部は片仮名で書いていて検索システムもダメですよ。それより読み方のページもめちゃくちゃになった。
何? なに?!?
今朝、俺は裏パズをやってみた。裏パズとは裏側だけで見ていてパズルを解く。そのジグソーパズルのは百五十ピース。半時間がかかった俺はただ二十ピーズが出来たのだ。本当に難しいでしょ。
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