Blambo

Whoa I used to call French comics bandes dessinées at my high school snob club. Well we called all comics that because we thought "comics" was too infantilizing and categorizing of a deep, rich art form, which in retrospect is dumb to the core. But we didn't make the distinction between anime and cartoons. That's insane person talk.

Thanks for the cartoons guys.

I like that it seems to deviate from popular styles. Are there more good cartoons like this? I enjoy them for the aesthetics. More abstract stuff.

This is a deep rabbit hole. I think I'll stay away from it. I am now watching Tatami Galaxy, recommended by an acquaintance. It looks like the twin peaks of anime (I have never watched twin peaks or much anime so that sentence is pure, 100% distilled garbage).

Ah thanks. I've heard bad things about azumanga daioh, specifically that it doubles down on the waifu aspect. Which idk, I'm not particularly averse to.

Ok I just finished Nichijou. I have a crazy amount of post series depression, especially considering that the series is just a string of skits with little plot connection (the best). How do people watch whole TV shows back to back and not become horrible twitching masses of tears and cheetos at the end.

I don't watch any anime. The thing that I liked about this show was that it takes a lot of anime tropes and inserts it into mundane life. Also it doesn't sexualize any of its characters (they're all drawn like weird cubey people), which makes me feel way less creepy for watching a show about high school girls.

I have been voraciously consuming Nichijou because I am trash.

Ghh it's that thing where "I'm speaking with a neutral tone therefore I am a voice of reason and take a neutral stance."

I'm glad that these things are being made explicit though. This sentiment existed as a vague pathos and is slowly becoming more and more specific and focused, which may be causing people to push away when they see how ridiculous it is.

https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/9336-hipsters

There's this cognitive dissonance between accepting games that are promoting violent messages (not necessarily containing violent content) and rejecting sexism and problematic messages in games. I have no idea why this is the case. It could be the subconscious 4chan within all of us that says "you can hate as long as you hate everyone equally."

steamcommunity.com/id/Blambo__ I literally only play Doter 2 and Left 4 Dead sometimes. Also Dark Souls. If anyone plays Doter I would very like to play with you,

no no please no yes

Yeah. Video games are kinda fucked.

Uh. I mean. It's still abhorrent even if it's race neutral, right? At its core it's a shitty power fantasy that reflects and has the potential to propagate destructive attitudes.

Pepyri it does kind of suck when something you care a lot about is treated in a manner so blasé, but Cine I assure you the only reason why people are talking about this is because they feel shitty about it.

Yeah its 100% ass, the debate usually lies in (edit) what kind of ass it is.

I don't have a strict recipe but I love making nian gao with bok choy. It's chopped up rice cakes, carrots, bok choy, oyster mushrooms, some fen shi (transparent rice noodles), sliced pork and chicken broth, with elements stir fried and all boiled in the same wok. My parents made this at home and I'm assuming its americanized as hell but dang its good.

I would much rather have a conversation about general topics relating to it rather than put this thing at the forefront of all things, and omit the name entirely or use it sparingly. And god damn it, the YouTube video got over 100,000 hits on its first day.

Yeah. It's very very columbine killers esque in the language the main character uses, so I'm assuming that there's some vague story about his upbringing. It obviously hasn't come out yet. I gotta say I'm kind of intrigued to play it (or pirate it) just to see if they pull it in a certain direction. I have close to zero faith that they will though. Again, this will only be saved if it just remakes The Visit on the second level. Edit: this is totally unrelated but I had an insane moment of fear when I saw your avatar because I thought some gater has sneakily swum up to our side of the pond and dragged its scaly belly into the conversation to make a bogus argument about gameplay. I am very bad.

Yeah violence in most games is incidental to an abstract gameplay conceit. The gameplay in this case is just shooting moving targets that don't shoot back. It's not narrative accentuating gameplay as they claim, its gameplay accentuating the narrative of genocide. It's ass. Ass of the highest degree.

As far as I can tell (as far as my poorly researched perception tells me), neo-nazi or fascist elements in Poland are really wrapped up in nationalism and is part of a big wave of reactionism in europe. I don't know how much these people take those kinds of politics to heart but I can see its pathos being part of their worldview. It disturbs the shit out of me that the weird video game reactionism is coinciding with existing elements.

It's cool, I'm just projecting how bummed I am about some missed opportunities. Like why isn't the Intoxicated thread Idle Rum.