TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
Yeah, I did enjoy Haibane Renmei and Gankutsuo though the latter's ending was pretty disappointing. GTO was a lot of fun when I watched it 20 years ago. Maybe time to do that again!
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
Too old now.
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
Conclusion does not follow from premise here. That's still consistent with most people being able to tell most of the time.
I really like that 80s/90s vibe. Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Eva, Jin Roh, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, Trigun, Bebop, and so on. That era's animation and vision of the future just hits right.
LOGH is GOAT but there's really nothing else like it.
A more modern anime that landed well for me was Blame! though I think it could have been better.
Thanks, yeah. Think I did try Kino's Journey and may again.
Mononoke (2007, 12-episode anime). The Medicine Seller must track down the cause and drive of various supernatural ailments, though this often focuses more on the moral failings and limits of the humans he's working to protect.
Based on the description I thought you meant Mushishi but apparently this is a thing too. May give it a shot.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
Can you recommend any? I've been trying to get into classic anime lately (with all my spare time haha) but it's a minefield at best. Mostly trash or weird problems like when someone tells me to watch a series and it sucks and then they're like no not THAT version!
Incidentally the auto-subs on Crunchyroll's version of Berserk (i.e. the bad one) are hilariously awful. Often incomprehensible, always late, names are inconsistent, and at one point a horse demon is licking an uptight bound and topless blonde (just to scare her I guess) and then, per the subs, shouts 'EMAIL ME!' right as Gods or Guts or Gertzu decapitates him with the giant sword.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
I find this whole conversation and the intensity of your passion bizarre, but okay.
Setting aside the indisputable fact that you have no idea whether he 'conducted' 'positive action', it remains the case that even you don't claim he's ever said that someone should intentionally broadcast the matter afterward. That would obviously be crazy. After reading your post multiple times it's still not clear to me what inconsistency you're trying to catch him in. What is clear to me is that there's some kind of unseemly antipathy here. At any rate I'm checking out of the conversation and will not be responding further.
Did he meet his own standard of sincerity and moral courage that he accused other of lacking if they did not join a violent resistance despite risk of bodily harm as a consequence?
By way of reply, if I knew the answer, and that answer were yes, do you think I'd talk about it?
Kulak can be accused of many things but I haven't yet caught him in moral inconsistency.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
Why would I be interested in changing your mind about this? I have no idea who you are and it's a personal matter. Sticking up for a friend is all.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
A whole lot and yeah I guess you could say something like that. Not Motte meetups per se but extremely heavy overlap.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
I know Hlynka decently well from off-site and would bet heavily that he doesn't post here anymore.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
I don't think either of them is especially attractive but can see what people like about both. Gadot was a good pick for the role. Zegler, I don't think so. There were innumerable better options and would it have killed them to use someone with fair skin?
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
while begging exception since he was already in a hospital for a medical procedure. Gotta look out for you own health first, right?
To be fair he almost lost an arm and it was touch and go re: whether he'd ever get full use of his hand again, or even sensation. I've seen the scars (and the arm while it was healing) and they're wild. Took several surgeries. FWIW he also accomplished this injury while doing something badass, but I've said enough.
TitaniumButterfly
7d ago
in the original tale, the queen dies by being forced by the Prince to dance to death in red hot iron slippers. Which makes a lot more symbolic sense, but I can understand how it's not children's cartoon material.
I think it should be, and hold with Tolkien that the problem with modern fairy stories is that they're too sanitized. The danger and horror are part of the point and kids want their horizons expanded that way. They'll find it where they can get it.
TitaniumButterfly
10d ago
In the meantime, bricklayers are whistling away with no immediate end in sight.
Check youtube; there are some pretty impressive brick-laying robots. Or there were last time I checked several years ago.
TitaniumButterfly
10d ago
Ned Ludd led weavers to smash looms. It didn’t save the weaver’s jobs, but their great-granddaughters were far wealthier.
My guess is that they had a lot fewer great granddaughters than they otherwise would have.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
Yes, that's good too. Thanks.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
As an aside, I only realized a few years ago that Yoda, in Japanese translation, has no distinctive way of speaking.
Mind blown.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
Work hard to give God something to work with on your behalf.
Oh I like this one.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
City is undoubtedly showing its age but it had a big effect on me.
TitaniumButterfly
12d ago
Just as an anecdote, I do personally know a female former competitive gymnast who is now horribly sad because she's permanently infertile due to the physical stresses she was put through as a teen. Her husband's not in a great place with it either.
Definitely changed my perspective on encouraging my daughters to take up seriously-demanding physical activities.
TitaniumButterfly
13d ago
I always keep taxes pretty clean because paying a bit more is worth avoiding the stress of fearing an audit, but this did occur to me as well. Even so my expectation is that within the next few years the IRS gets a big upgrade through AI agents and I don't want those digging into my dodgy filed returns down the road.
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
Fun blast from the past. Haven't thought about that since I read it at the time. :)
TitaniumButterfly
16d ago
I don't have the source handy but I definitely read a book which described human sacrifice on the Mississippi. Apparently when a chief of a certain tribe died all the babies under a year old were buried with him, as well as a lot of other people.
EDIT: Found it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692870660
Fascinating book and I've had several great conversations with the author.
Gotta say I'm interested in talking to a minarchist who isn't sure our government is big enough yet! Although come to think of it maybe that describes the non-anarchist left in general?
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