Blambo

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    Dibs: Iirc from my mom, you boil raw pork belly until its bled out and cooked, dispose of the water, and then simmer it in a soy sauce, water, and sugar mixture until the water's basically evaporated and you're left with a sticky, oily soy sauce and really soft meat. No need to marinade. It's super good.

    I founds some things online that also recommend using coke with soy sauce cause it has the perfect amount of sugar.

    Those herb clovers in the picture are also good if you don't bite into em. Forgot what they're called though.

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    I just spent the first sleepless night of my life. Usually I fall asleep as soon as 5am hits, but for some reason it didnt happen this time. The worst thing about it so far is that right now I feel like I'm observing things without awareness, like I'm just acting without any thought. Really surreal.

    Gotta take a test now.

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    I kind of wish that "asian food" wasn't created as a homogenous lump of stereotypical stuff from chinese takeout and hibachi steakhouses. It makes looking for more specific, nonwesternized chinese food recipes online difficult without knowing any chinese.

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    Guys come on. Think about having to design a buff dude that still has the cartoony abstraction of sonic, who's basically a oddly shaped piece of gum with twigs and a leaf stuck in it . You'll always end up with weirdly smooth bulky dorito man when you're not allowed to individually define muscles and have to rely on torso shape.

    The thing that bothers me about the design is that it takes enough elements of a buff human to be recognizeable but doesn't take the attractive, balancing bits. Like the triangle torso is usually more curved usually suddenly slopes into a 1/x shape that forms an elegant but robust neck. Instead we have a weird puffy overstuffed quesedilla lazily topped with a sphere for a head, giving the sensation of a wart or the cap of a toothpaste tube.

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    Ah excellent. I feel like it's something I'll watch after making the anime rounds.

    And yeah I guess I don't have enough of a taste of what anime is as a thing to distinguish what looks good and what doesn't (though I guess even with live action sitcoms I can't tell either). I'm coming off of rejecting it for years because of my idea that it's all forcefully marketed borderline cartoon pornography with soap opera plots, and its association with a specific kind of person who only eats anime and nothing else.

    As for constantly asking...well there's the incredible potential embarrassment of exclaiming "HEY I like this thing," when it's considered the plague, especially with the worst of the worst anime. Some of it is personal taste (the popular style of drawing males as pointy, thin eyed ghoul dudes and girls as big headed eye monsters actually makes me retch a little. I'm also kind of sick of the character tropes and dynamics popular in anime I've watched, which often boil down to bad manzai routines) and I'd say it's about "cultivating a quality understanding" but ultimately it leads back to the anime stigma. And when I look up stuff that fits my really specific tastes I end up watching cancelled shows or ghibli films over again. I gotta get over it somehow I guess, and that might be by watching hours and hours of potato chip media.

    So maybe I do have to get a taste of what's considered bread and butter to get what's considered high quality.

    Also sorry if asking that a lot is irritating. It probably sucks to have someone constantly invoke stereotypes about a thing you enjoy.

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    Has anyone seen "Madoka Magica"? It looks like any exploitative magic girl anime but I keep hearing that it's deconstructive and kind of smart. I haven't seen it but ads kept popping up for it when I watched arakawa under the bridge.

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    Yeah that's a good point. Good satire/shitty parody usually has its tongue so far into its cheek that anyone without a certain amount of cultural literacy will take elements that they know and fit with their prejudices and run with them. It's definitely a different era, but the first thing a friend said to me when I brought up feminism was "damn feminism is still a thing?", laughed, then quoted that ecofeminist from futurama's line about the "manocracy".

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    I feel like the reason why this is even a big deal at all is because people still think that unknowingly sexist/having sexist tendencies = automatically a bad person. Then it's tied to the whole "the era of the nerd is waning, we must sharpen our swords" thing and it's turned feminists into bullies.

    Edit: also there's image macros going around of Stephen Fry talking about offensiveness and wood engravings of 19th century men in top hats and monocles saying that if you express that you're offended by something, you're being unreasonable and can't control your emotions:

    http://imgur.com/gallery/ox876

    That stuff is mostly comedians and entertainers defending potentially offensive content but not necessarily potentially offensive messages, which is something that hasn't permeated mainstream reddit feminist bashing for much of the same reasons gamergate can claim that they're the victims of evil SJWs. Stuff like this always tends to originate on websites whose designs allow for this kind of catering to prejudices for the purpose of points and popularity.

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    Just finish A Girl by the Seaside by Inio Asano. It's cool how it takes love and peels it apart into authentic and inauthentic, cleans and puts them in different cells to be observed and clearly marked. Themes deal with altruism and attraction in immature love. As expected from Asano, the art beautifully pushes the disaffected realism of the story.

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    Dare someone to register hongkong.democrat

     

    Also I might have to register presidentialdeathmatch2064americadecides.democrat and .republican for my American politics themed team-based shooter

     

     

    Ah yes, red versus blue in a corporate sponsored gorefest moderated by a sadistic old white person, with each member of the teams representing complementary roles in furthering the self serving machinery of their team. It's be cool if there were a game already about that.

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    I'm thinking I should start writing stuff about games I enjoy/hate/ambivalently respond to playing. Personal reviews basically.

    If only I had some way of titling these reviews so it would be obvious they'd be the opposite of objective...

    Subjectivegamereviews.cool

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    :I

     

    The war in Howl is so unnecessary to the plotline that I found the most interesting, which was Sophie coping with her insecurities (something that's really barely touched upon) and Howl's state of maturity. Pacifism and moral ambiguity could be great themes to put into a story but in this it just seems perfunctory and inhibiting. 

     

    Complaining that Miyazaki movies all feel very same-y is such a strange criticism to me. Their same-ness is part of the appeal.

     

    I admit that I haven't had a chance to see The Wind Rises yet. But it's fairly clear that a large portion of Miyazaki's work is built around his alternate history where WWII never happened. So, The Wind Rises is interesting (particularly assuming it's  his last film) because he's finally directly addressing the matter instead of dancing around it, and the film seems to be making a kind of peace with the idea. It's a perfect narrative arc, something that one would assume is at least partially deliberate.

     

    Yeah I guess so. Maybe I'm expecting stuff I shouldn't expect.

  22. Posted

    Regarding nerd portrayal:

    + detailed and immersed interest in niche culture

    - absolutist, incapable, existentially tied to interest and forces personal metrics of quality onto the world, myopic world view, obsessed with custom masculinity to cope with being rejected by society's, sees niche interest as means to status/self-worth afforded by outsider status and this interest

    So I guess Lisa vs Comic Book Guy.

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    Honestly the dominant pattern here seems to be that people like the first Miyazaki film they see and the second or third ones get kind of old, and that makes sense to me in terms of the target audience, the amount of time in between films, and their roles as eye candy and visual expression first and foremost.

    The thing I enjoyed about Howl's Moving Castle is the small scale fantasy that seems to be present in folklore and goofy TV shows, ie a young woman turning into an old lady or a house that has a seamless transporting door. The rest of the movie is kinda weird and overreaching to me.