darthelmet
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- Comment on Why does watching or partaking in mainstream media make me uncomfortable? 1 week ago:
It’s a condition called hipsteritis, and unfortunately it’s terminal.
I do get you though. I’m not as extreme as what you’re describing, but I’ve definitely had this reaction to some things.
For me, one version of this is sort of an overcorrection to unreasonable expectations. If something is super popular and a bunch of people recommend it to me, I’d expect it to be the best thing ever and… that’s just not how that works. The most popular things are the things that are acceptable to the most people, not necessarily the best or what would be your favorite, so I go see the thing and if it’s just ok I feel like I have to push back against everyone overly praising it.
- Comment on Meme check point. 1 week ago:
Whenever there is a fantasy action show and one character uses a gun I like to joke “I cast gun!”
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 1 week ago:
Yeah he got that wrong, but I think this still highlights the dynamic at play. Regan pushed the horrible cultural narrative around welfare, but then he was followed by Clinton saying he was going to “end welfare as we know it.” Softer language than Regan, but pushing in the same policy direction, enabled by Regan’s earlier propaganda, and in the act of making it bipartisan, he normalized it as a position that we’ve been stuck with ever since.
- Comment on "feminine" 2 weeks ago:
Well obviously you get rid of the skull. That skull could be male or female. 50/50 removing it decreases femininity of the room.
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 2 weeks ago:
My dad brings this up when China comes up in conversation and I’m always just like “yeah, and…?” Like if we’re so smart why are they the ones with bullet trains and solar panels and not us?
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 2 weeks ago:
I think it depends. Education is handled at a local level for the most part. That’s why school quality varies so much based on the income level of the area. I know NYC has such a system, but I don’t think my school district in the suburbs did. My parents did take me to go look at some special school when I was young, but it was nowhere close to us and I assume private. I didn’t like the place so I didn’t end up going and stayed in our local public schools.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 weeks ago:
Mars isn’t going anywhere, but people are. If you want to experience seeing humans make it to mars, it has to happen in your lifetime.
That said, I do think you have a valid point. I do think we have some responsibility to carefully research potential signs of life on other planets before we potentially contaminate it or risk bringing anything back with us.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 3 weeks ago:
We’re just Biden our time… I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
I suppose there’s that too. But even then, I think the same point about those products being made or localized to avoid associations with foreignness holds. I don’t think people were buying Nintendo and Sega games because they were japanophiles.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that kind of just a problem with an upvote system being used for unpopular things?
Also I’ll drop mine in here for the sake of it, although I get the sense that lemmy in particular will be more likely to agree with me than the broader population: I hate meta progression in roguelites. I still end up playing a lot of games with them because unfortunately that seems to be what sells in that market compared to more traditional roguelikes and if the game is good enough, I can try to look past the system. However, I do think that they just strictly make the games they’re in worse. I could get into a whole rant about them, but maybe not here.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
I kind of agree. I like pics and vids of dogs, but actually being around them is kind of gross and scary. Cats are more my speed. They clean themselves. They don’t need to be taken outside just to take a shit. They usually don’t smell. They sleep a lot and generally just act really chill. I haven’t had a cat jump and bark (or whatever the cat equivalent would be) at me in the way that dogs do. I feel like I have an understanding with cats.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Ah, but what about ones about a HS girl who gets sent to a magical world full of charming pretty boys? See? There’s so much variety! (I say this as someone who watches way too much of that trash lol.)
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Most of it is shit, but I think your reasoning is backwards. I don’t think people (At least Americans/Westerners) like anime because it’s Japanese, they like Japanese stuff through exposure to it in anime.
When we were kids and watching stuff like Pokemon and Yugioh, none of us knew wtf anime was or where it came from. They were just some more cartoons. In fact the localizers like 4Kids actively tried to scrub “foreignness” from the shows because they thought it would ick American audiences.
And this pop cultural dominance has been very successful at rehabilitating Japan’s image, both erasing the past and glazing over some of the uncomfortable parts of the present.
As for actual show quality, I’d say all mediums have mostly bad art with a few gems, but I do think anime is exceptional in two ways: First, it seems like the barrier to turning some random author’s bad ideas into a commercial product are much lower, I’m not really sure what the exact economic or cultural reasons are for that though. Second, most anime ends up being kind of bad in the same way. It’s a medium that’s practically defined by it’s tropes and they are shared amongst the good and bad shows alike. The difference is usually that the good ones have something else worthwhile going on and the bad ones are almost nothing but a reheated remix of these tropes.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 3 weeks ago:
Huh. This turned out to be a more complicated answer than I thought. My parents were born in the mid 60s. Lead paint was banned in 1978, so they would have been in their teens. Lead gasoline, on the other hand, was gradually phased out starting in 1973, so a little earlier, but shockingly wasn’t completely banned until literally the month I was born, Jan 1996.
Lead pipes are even more wild. NEW installations were banned in 1974, but it allowed existing ones to stay in.
- Comment on Delicious 3 weeks ago:
The death of innocence is reaching the point where you could do that, but it wouldn’t even make you happy because of health reasons.
- Comment on Disc drive needed 3 weeks ago:
We’re on lemmy. Our opinions on how widely used tech is don’t count.
Personally my last 3 PCs haven’t had a disk drive and I can’t remember the last time I’ve SEEN a disc. It was almost certainly before college.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 3 weeks ago:
Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 3 weeks ago:
I do try to explain that, but she just won’t listen. It’s like there’s a mental block stopping the connection from happening.
The crazy thing is she’s worked insanely hard in her career and until a couple years ago barely made any money from it. (Although some of that is the gender inequality of her being out of work to take care of us when we were young for a few years.) She doesn’t understand how her being this hardworking professional who still only makes enough for a middle class income is different than someone who’s never worked a day in their life siphoning money off of workers so they can buy their 3rd mansion, private jets, and elections and somehow still has MORE money after all of that.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 3 weeks ago:
If only it were just dudes. My mom is like this. I can get her to agree with that things need to be better and that social spending is good but… when I explain to her that we need to tax billionaires to do that suddenly it’s “BUT THEY EARNED THEIR MONEY! WE SHOULDN’T TAKE IT FROM THEM!!!”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Like others said, seems fake. However it did remind me of what I saw when I went to the town in Japan with all the deer. They just cross the road whenever the fuck they want and expect cars to stop for them, and they do. It’s the deer’s town, the humans are just living in it.
- Comment on Languages 3 weeks ago:
I feel like we might as well just go back to symbol languages. What’s the point of an alphabet if the letters don’t actually convey consistent pronunciation? It’s just more confusing because the letters imply rules which don’t hold.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 4 weeks ago:
I continue to be shocked to discover things that seemed very recent to me are now a decade or two old. I probably shouldn’t be, but here I am.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. I just left most of the numbers from the original meme because I didn’t feel like deciding on new ones.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 4 weeks ago:
Labor $200 Land $150 Materials $800 CEO pay and profits $1,000,000,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 4 weeks ago:
Definitely regretting not getting a photo. I don’t tend to take a lot of pictures in general. I think I maybe have like 2 or 3 from the trip and they’re all group shots with my friends.
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 4 weeks ago:
That could be it. It looks similar.
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think so, but that looks like it might be worth a try.
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 4 weeks ago:
That looks sort of like what I remember. I’ll give it and your other suggestions a try. Thanks!
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- Comment on Will Hollywood's remake of Parasite really succeed? 4 weeks ago:
There are so many cases I’ve seen of some piece of art getting commodified in ways that just kind of fly in the face of the original work.
The one that always comes to mind is Madoka Magica.
Spoilers
The twist in the show is that the magical girls’ souls have been essentially turned into objects alienated from their bodies. They’re forced to work for someone exploiting their needs and are discarded when they are no longer useful. So it feels super weird and gross to make a bunch of figures and merch of the characters, literally objectifying/commodifying them.