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I wonder if in 1000 years when the global population is a few million all living in Siberia or something, there will be legends about He Who Killed The Sky, creator of the Celestial Nexus beyond which the true cosmos will remain hidden for eternity. If I could talk to him in person, I’d say “ummm excuse me Sir, but Wall-e is a cautionary tale not an INSTRUCTION MANUAL, fuckface”
Have you tried spraying soapy water?
It’s just a pointless hindrance to basic discussion, every single time someone writes “could you please pass me the flame removedant” or “my favourite microscopic organisms aremovedigrades” or “I fucking hate those disgusting subhuman removed who scuttle in our streets like cockroaches to soil our pure Blonde heritage” it’ll make it all illegible. Quality discourse ruined, for no good reason!
Don’t Americans who aren’t Mormons actually love suffering in the abstract though? For example, wouldn’t most of them see someone with an easy job with short hours and a low salary as morally inferior to someone with a horrible straining job? (The “low-salary” part is important, because otherwise you could say “the problem with the first person is that they get more money than they deserve”).
I loved princess Mononoke, maybe I should learn more about these Pikachus and Digimons kids seem to find so cute…
Yeah Nausicaa is probably the one I enjoyed the most in fact. I’ve never seen the “sympathetic monsters” cliché executed as well as in Nausicaa, you can completely empathize with the bugs and feel their sentience and worth, despite how alien and repulsive they look. I’ve seen Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, the Laputa one, Porco Rosso and Arrietty. Other than that, the only anime I’ve ever seen are Paprika (loved it) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (not super memorable but I recall enjoying it at the time). Not sure if “The Mysterious Cities of Gold” counts as anime because it’s half-French, but I was OBSESSED with it as a kid. So yeah I’ve never dug far at all, I still have troves of super popular universally acclaimed stuff to discover. I’ll watch cowboy bebop soon.
Not yet! I’m a little bummed out that I’ll go into it with massive expectations, and I’ll probably constantly think “oooh so THAT’s what makes it so uniquely depressing”, like I’ll be judging its performance in the great Sadness Contest everyone has decided it won, instead of fully experiencing it. I hope I’ll just get immersed enough early on to forget about that.
Maybe it’s the cordyceps talking but I think we should destroy the Amazon rainforest and all go visit the fresh, moist, lignin-rich ground to convulse on it while exhaling as hard as we can
I’m doubly male, heheheheh