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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Ok.
I donāt know how things are in Japan, but Iāll be damned if I ever meet someone who gateway series into anime was a live action adaptation of One Piece.
The most popular what for anime characters and IP?
Some of them probably are. Screw them.
You canāt just casually throw āsocial and parasocialā in there and then describe a purely parasocial relationship. Apologize to Shannon Strucci.
Also this is like saying television has allowed us to roleplay our favorite Radio announcers. They seem to be under the impression that the vtuber phenomenon is about people digitally cosplaying their favorite anime character together when itās more like an actor putting on a performance as an original character. And for the big ones, a bunch of Japanese style idol industry bullshit layered on top.
While audience inteeaction is usually a part of it, the nature of the medium remains highly asymmetric.
Keep Cowboy Bebopās name out of your filthy mouth.
I might be behind the times but even I donāt think AoT is new. At least say Jujutsu Kaisen or something.
May all your subculture in-jokes die a dignified death before a VC firm references them in a blog post.
āMai waifuā was originally a funny engrish quote from Azumanga Daioh and was used to refer to any favorite character. The non tongue en cheek relationship simulation aspect merged with the meme later on.
This doesnāt seem to be what the linked Medium article is saying and seems like theyāre just mixing up light novels and visual novels.
Practical, huh?
To be fair Iād rather take almost anyone, gacha game character or not, other than Elon Musk as my conversation partner, whether simulated or real.
Factually dubious claim aside, how hard is it to write āseriesā or at least āanimeā like a real human being with feelings instead of āIPā.
Iāve watched some anime series and felt things about them. Iāve never given a shit about an anime IP. Why would I, never owned one.
Pixiv has existed for ages. Even before that was doujinshi, and people have made art, original and derivative, since before the beginning of civilization. Your idea of modding custom animu avatars for shovelware Love Plus sequels is not new.
Palworld is evidence of a lack of high quality anime games much like all nonblack nonravens are evidence of a lack of nonblack ravens.
Itās actually incredibly easy to create and publish media based on anime and get away with it. You just canāt do it too professionally. If you love democratizing art so much, go to Comiket.
Also there are tons of licensed games based on anime what the hell are you talking about?
Misspelled āplutocratizedā there. Also had a double take checking out the third one: āStory is the Worldās IP Blockchain, onramping Programmable IP to power the next generation of AI, DeFi, and consumer applications.ā
Iām sure I will continue to be as thrilled as I have been up to now to see more art made by people who canāt make art and filling the gap with statistical average of all art ever.
Sounds great (not), but I heard someone say there was a lack of high quality anime IP games. Surely you canāt both be right?
Consistency, whatās that? Maybe invest in a bigger context window so you can remember what you generated a few paragraphs ago.
Doki Doki Literature Club is a fully original freeware pay-what-you-want indie game that became a viral sleeper hit. Youāre comparing it to Final fucking Fantasy? From a business perspective? Hell, despite the art style itās not even Japanese! The only connecting thread between these games is that they have vaguely anime style art in them.
Itās really not.
I knew I could count on awful.systems.
SaaS =
Storage as a ServiceSneer as a ServiceI agree that the Doki Doki Literature Club reference was out of place, but consider that the whole post is predicated on the assumption that anime is a radical new art form that is revolutionizing [$Product] while itself being revolutionized by the new technologies designed by a16zās stable of startups (the ones they havenāt cashed out yet). DDLC is niche enough that the intended audience will feel clever if they know about it, but successful enough that thereās a nonzero chance theyāll have heard about it.
It also has the most anime title they could find.
I wish I had more updoots for this effortpost. Well done.