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| Definately not my kind of thing. I don't know if it was trying to convey some kind of message, but I didn't recieve it. |
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| I fell asleep. |
| Watched the whole thing, it was very interesting to me but I get why people almost feel asleep. |
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| This might be the most pretentious piece of anime I have witnessed yet. From the 3deep4me monologue to the animation itself. Guess it might be genius party if you're an early teenager. |
 "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" |
| The problem with this was not pretension, but incoherence. The topics this segment referred to were legitimate, and the ideas weren't bad (even if they often regurgitated the ideas of other thinkers). Pretension would imply that it pretends to be smart when it isn't, but that's not the case. The case is that the writer didn't make sure we connected the dots that were probably clear in his head. So many times I was following a train of thought and all of a sudden it'd jump to something else entirely. I couldn't always follow it, and as a result the episode came across as a series of loosely related observations rather than a fully expressed piece. I'm willing to admit that part of my issue is simply that I didn't understand it. I understood it from moment to moment, but the whole eluded me. I'm not about to claim that it's bad just because it expected more effort out of me than I was willing to put into it. |
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Veethorn said: Just no... the fuck was that? |
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| Gives a whole new meaning to 2deep4u |
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| 3deep5me, it was kinda interesting i guess... kinda dull though |
| Not sure what to think of this. I didn't think it was going to be so long. It was interesting but I personally found it boring. He said some really interesting things that I was agreeing with but after a while I just really wanted it to end. The imagery also gave me a headache :/ I think it could have been done differently. I would never watch this particular episode again. |
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Veggen said: Sure was pretentious. Yep, this episode is what I would use to explain to explain what "being pretentious" is. This was an incoherent rant disguised as something wise, intellectual and the approved truth about everything in existence. The psychedelic art was cool but I guess this episode is better enjoyed while smoking pot. |
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| That was horrible. I'm not gonna sit through 19 minutes of some dull, incoherent babble about random philosophical topics. It couldn't possibly get anymore boring than this. The trippy visuals didn't help much either. |
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| I dropped this one about 10 minutes in. I think this kind of philosophical essay - at least for me - would work better just read as an essay instead of presented in spoken word combined with visual images which I can't necessarily connect with the spoken text. Either that, or it might be better to watch an analysis of the work and then watch the work to help me better unpack it. |
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| This sounds like the introduction to a cult. Anyways, this short really love that hologram effect and the use of multiple layers to obscure foreground and background. I think I also saw some real life imagery used, which in combination with the psychedelic-like imagery, is apparently used to create some manner of unease and dissonance with otherwise ordinary city and office scenery. The colors are also all off to, which them changing in spectrum to create visual feelings of anxiety I suppose. Art and animation wise, the short seems extremely complex, but while the narration sounds profound, it's far too arcane for me to really make sense of. The imagery becomes more distracting than not, where I'm not always certain the spoken words, the written words and numbers, and the actual visuals actually match up. As far as I can tell, the short is trying to be an existentialist postulation combining God and numbers into the same dialogue. I believe it's trying to establish some hypothesis of God's through natural and logical means, or perhaps it's trying to quantify existence, morality, and beliefs in terms of the acts of a supposed higher being. Yeah, I have no idea. At the very least, the short ties to establish some manner of repetition, saying similar phrases and words to interlink ideas, stringing things together so one thought leads into another despite not being spoken in a direct, conversation-like manner. Seriously, was this an introduction to a cult? |
| #12, almost #38 hasn't the slightest clue episode with the most substance; look up. |
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| The emotion mixed with his rational reasoning, invalidated his theory. |
| And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all... for millions and millions of years...exploring, learning, living, until the earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning and the moment comes that he knows only the positions of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives and he lives until all of the lights go out. |
| One of the coolest episodes I've seen in anime until today. The truth is that a lot of people who watch anime are all a bunch of dumbs with shit in their heads, who can not think an inch beyond their own navels. A bunch of kids who only understand the childish language of shonens and other repetitive shits. |
Rod_RussApr 17, 2018 1:14 PM
| So, I actually sat through this entire thing and paid attention as best as I could. For those of you who fell asleep, got a headache or didn't even bother: You didn't miss anything. Sure, the visuals were really nice, but the actual monologue was pretentious as fuck and not at all "deep". Most of it was the same nonsense repeated over and over. There were maybe TWO interesting thoughts presented in the entire thing, tops... If you want something actually thought-provoking and philosophical (also with gorgeous fucking animation), check out the movie Waking Life. It's full of great monologues and dialogues, it's very trippy, but also mindblowing. And it has an incredible soundtrack! It's one of my favorites, and if you enjoyed this episode of Genius Party for some weird reason, then I am almost certain you will also enjoy that movie. |
| this got to be one of the most condensed pretentious empty philosophy i've been bombarded with. in short it was pretty much about the creators showing off muh incoherent babble of makeshift knowledge. |
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| Best episode here. This is the kind of stuff I expected to see in Genius Party in the first place. Loved the combination of trippy animation and the soothing voice. For the message itself, I probably need to rewatch to grasp the full meaning, but it was ok. Nothing more pretentious than your average philosophical essay. |
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| Could only make it through the first five minutes before I wanted to rip my eyeballs out, this shit seems like the kind of thing they would hold your eyes open and force you to watch as brainwashing for a cult, idk what kind of drugs the director for this episode was on but holy fuck take them away from him this isn't healthy lmao |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| I cant help but feel this one kinda forgot that animation is a visual medium, the whole point is that you can communicate ideas visually. Instead its a 20 minute rant with nothing of value to say and nothing of value to look at. Could just have easily been an essay. That I wouldnt have read. |
| I mean, I should've expected it from something pretentiously called "Genius Party" (pretty arrogant for the creators to profess themselves as geniuses like that), but my god this was just an almost twenty-minute monologue of pure pretentious garbage that manages to say less than nothing. I didn't think it could get worse than the zombie episode, but somehow it has done. Legitimately, I think this particular episode is one of the worst, most pointless pieces of media I have ever had the mispleasure of consuming. |
| Definition of pretentious. If for pretentious you mean thought provoking. |
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| I am going to skip this one. |
| eh, honestly the weakest one yet, which is quite hilarious with how intelligent and introspective it tries it's hardest to sound. Idunno just wasn't vibing with it and felt a bit pretentious in tone. what was with that big booty'd high heeled geometry? lmao |
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