| i say sometimes or even often since i fap to my waifus whenever i feel like it but for moral reasons or even personal influence then certainly sometimes but not always how about you? some TED-Ed video about it https://youtu.be/ctaPAm14L10 |
degNov 1, 2022 11:07 AM
| A wise man once said, "The truth is madder than fiction". And the hard truth is you need to stop fapping to your waifus.... |
  ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐พ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐น ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐น ๐๐๐. - ๐
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| if you mean that fiction reliably results in measurable changes in reality, then no if you mean "well fiction affects my feelings and my feelings are real maaaan!" then sure I guess but its a bit of a bastardized argument |
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how about anime propaganda like this one https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science |
| Deg affects me questioning my heterosexuality |
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deg said: how about anime propaganda like this one https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science do you what I mean when I say "reliably" and "measurable" |
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| unless it sending a bad message (showing something is not sending message, a message is saying X thing is good or bad or something along those lines.) NO. |
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| Sometimes. Some world-class football players started playing after watching Captain Tsubasa. |
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| If a tv show or book ever affected you emotionally like making you cry, then technically fiction affects reality. As in it affects you in real life. |
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| This sounds like something North America belives in. me no. Reality is reality, fiction is fiction. They should not be mixed. |
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| anime is like the sparkles, but when you have the trigger coupled with catalyst it might just ended up real. we already have naked cosplayer ( i consider bikini as being naked) so the sexualization is not a fiction anymore. I don't go to anime convention so i don't have sauce. |
| imaging lewding and fapping to your waifus, i could never. fiction doesn't affect my reality at all. |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| How you view, interpret and act on fiction, affects our personal realities. But I wouldn't say that fiction affects reality in general. |
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| "fiction affects reality" Yes, but not necessary in the way you think. Like you can get an idea or political statement or whatever, but reality will inevitably transform it into something different or even put you at the opposite side of the argument. This is what fiction can do - to give you a little push, an after that the gravity of the real situation will drive you the way the things actually are. |
| Hardly ever at least not directly. Only time it effects the real world is when it introduces new ideas but it would have done the same if it was just presented another way so it’s not fiction but ideas that do these sort of things. Ideas themselves are also shaped by material conditions of societies and lives of individuals so they don’t come from nowhere though. |
| Fiction affects reality well I don't think it does in matter of inventions/everyday routine. The only thing which is affected in my opinion is people's view on history which I've already pointed few times in past, which is how you see a Druid, a typical Roman Legionaire, a Viking, a Spartan warrior, a Gladiator... etc. etc. Druids were running often naked and having sex with animals and were disgusting to even Roman people who were doing alot of nasty/kinky/disgusting stuff too and for them Druids were too much so don't think that it is some Panoramix from Asterix and Obelix or any MMORPG druid style, Legionaires wre not cutting with Gladius and "always" using Testudo, not to mention that people tend to think of a perfectly organised units with best quality armour and beatiful red cloth -> yes the armour often was shiny as it was one of their jobs but the quality not often, alot of them were wearing pink clothing cause it was cheaper and it didn't bland that often after washing like red clothing and NO Gladius is not for cutting, it is for thrusting [and if someone thought "Than it should be better purple than pink", Purple was reserved for only Royalty/Ceaser/Emperor for even wearing anything in that color like socks if you weren't in royalty line, you would be beheaded instantly that law survived till Byzantine Empire]. Vikings who are not wearing a shield with some different clothing, not wearing any armour and going dual axe against multiple opponents and surviving it... Let's be honest I don't need to say anything more to make you know. |
ZettaikenOct 28, 2022 1:09 AM
| You fap to your waifus? Bro that is rad... |
 MAL is the perfect place to shit talk about people's opinions. |
| It does affect reality, but you probably shouldn't base how you live your life or your moral code on fiction. |
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| Almost never. When you say fiction affects reality to me that implies fiction can be responsible for societal change and I just don't agree. Most things people attribute to fiction come from society. Art doesn't create any social issues, fears, wants whatever it just caters to what is already there. It's why when most people read political fiction they either twist the message to acclimate to their own beliefs, reject it when it doesn't or just pick things that do cater to them. You can see in how art movements come about. Neoclassicism was the response to Enlightenment philosophy and when that world view became very jaded due to the horrors of the French Revolution Romanticism began to thrive. Even most of the art forms we talk about like moe where created in a response to what was going on in Japanese society in the 70s or 80s. I mean even escapist isekai probably is more a reaction to general concerns/fears in Japanese society/world than escapist isekai creating people who now want to escape the world after watching it. There already was something there that was appealing. Violent video games don't create violence and exist because a lot of people have an innate desire to compete in something. It's no different than sport. I mean since it's in the thread people talk about propaganda. Whether propaganda is actually effective is an interesting question because honestly it only seems effective in societies where media is heavily controlled or again responding to the person in question ingrained biases. There is nothing to suggest it can effectively shape someone to be something different. |
BilboBaggins365Oct 28, 2022 3:48 AM
| Directly? No. In short term? No. On a individual level? Hardly. Will you do X because an anime said X? No. Anime doesn't have the reach or deal with subjects in heavy manner, but propaganda exists for a reason. And any media repeating that propaganda can solidify those messages as normal or common to reinforce an ideology. And people can use them to form their world view and act accordingly. Lots of "ifs" in a long ass chain of events, but still, that's how society and politics work. Some examples of media affecting large groups or how we perceive certain events: - The image of Vietnan soldiers going back to USA to be spat on by dirty hippies apparently was never a real issue, but Rambo started this common knowledge that anti-war people hated the individuals fighting and were unpatriotic, while they just disagreed with the government (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrv78IvGD4). - The Nazi army wasn't well organized but Triumph of the Will showed an image that became the default depiction on later media and a very nice model of strength and unity to embolden neo-fascists (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1Qm1Z_D7w) - Samurai's honor, pride and all that we think of it today was mostly a myth built after their period to sell cleaner, honorable and philosophical image of common foot soldiers, and by extent Japan's history (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5PJX1hdOPc) - The fact that Germans are still apologizing for WW2 while Japan got a free pass for their war crimes, because WW2 depictions in media only include the D-Day and the camps and not the Rape of Nanking, sexual slavery and experiments on living prisoners made by Unit 731 (Shinzo Abe's grandpa). The worst we see of Japan is Pearl Harbor. (on unit 731 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9xvJXP_mTk) |
PizzaHusbandoOct 28, 2022 5:16 AM
| These discussions are 2deep4me but fapping to your waifus is based. |
| In a way, fiction has affected my whole life in the best way possible. Fictional stories have made me into the person I am today and I'm so happy about it. |
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แดสษชแด แดสษชแด๊ฑ- ๊ฑษชษข แดแดแด แด สส สแดแดแดษดแดแดกษชษข |
| I guess some people not mature enough to realize that thought experiment counts as fiction and can be applied to real life science |
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MadanielFL said: If a tv show or book ever affected you emotionally like making you cry, then technically fiction affects reality. As in it affects you in real life. Agree with you. It works this way. Affects you also. |
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| Shouldn't affect adults with common sense but it has a pretty high chance of influencing kids, teens and complete idiots, like the kid who jumped off a building after watching Platinum End thinking some angel would save him. Also it might not affect reality but some things that anime glorifies as romantic are still disgusting to watch specially when fans obsess over it, if you have a fetish please keep it to yourself. |
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| Only idiots think that fiction affects reality. |
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| I think it's less that fiction affects reality and more that we live on a planet where there's people stupid enough to let fiction influence their behavior. Which I guess it means it kinda does, but that's not really the fault of it, lol. |
| Nah the truth is still madder than fiction, my friend. |
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| It affects it greatly. Reality is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves. It helps to consolidate our thoughts & feelings towards reality and direct our lives towards a desired purpose. You don't watch The Lord of the Rings and think "Oh, that was a great consumer product and the story of resisting temptation and fighting for good has no bearing on me whatsoever. Time to eat a hamburger." NO! You see a beautifully crafted story of good vs evil and you want to imitate it. You want to find the good you're fighting for in life. You want to do what you can with the time that is given to you. Fiction & reality are inseparable aspects of the human condition. At its core, art is meant to inspire. And in my life, anime has inspired me and led to changes in my lifestyle that have uplifted me during my darkest days. |
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| Slam Dunk and Prince of Tennis prompted me to pick up basketball and tennis, respectively. While I was a kid, my free time were mostly consumed by video games and television. Those two shows greatly influenced my athletic endeavors. I don't play basketball as much anymore, but I do keep up with NBA. I'm still very into tennis; from watching tennis anime, watching ATP/WTA matches, and playing tennis consistently. |
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| Fiction is just another instrument to tackle on ideas. It can be used to promote, contradict or question them. Or to parody them. It can also be used to simply present and reflect a portion of reality. |
TsutanaiFuun said: imaging lewding and fapping to your waifus, i could never. fiction doesn't affect my reality at all. I love how your signature completely contradicts your comment lmao But I feel like that was your intention so thanks for making me giggle. |
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| i like ice cream so im gonna eat a hot dog |
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Yogen-No-Ko said: no that's not what i meant. just because i have thier pics in my signature doesn't mean i lewd them. i'm the last person on earth who will lewd their waifus. i feel nothing but moe for them.TsutanaiFuun said: imaging lewding and fapping to your waifus, i could never. fiction doesn't affect my reality at all. I love how your signature completely contradicts your comment lmao But I feel like that was your intention so thanks for making me giggle. |
The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| What scares me is that oftentimes, fiction is merely a reflection of reality or inspiration from reality. How often? I would not know, but I believe it's the other way around. |
| I sometimes forget to finish my sentences. |
| then again when i see another isekai, another one |
| Rarely I guess? I just saw a documentary on how a movie inspired some thieves to rob a bank. Even then it's not like watching tons of gore movies is gonna affect your mentality, or maybe for some. |
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| To me. I think that reality affects fiction. |
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| Everything in the universe is interacting with the reality. Fiction is one of an infinite amount of factors that affect reality. You just can't consider that a specific outcome is the result of one single thing. |
| And I thought animu fans were totally sensational human beings? |
Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone. Helpppppp!  |
| This is just a clusterfuck of people arguing over semantics. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| Obviously it does. People are motivated by fiction and take life lessons from fiction and often use fictional characters as role models, probably even more nowadays in an era where people don't have a strong local community or extended family like those in the past. There's a reason kids fictional TV is carefully curated. A lot of technological research is influenced by fiction too, such as wanting to develop AI and cyborgs. People get ideas of fun things to do, what subculture to be part of or create or how to lead relationships from fictional stories, characters or designs. Eg kids see movies where everyone is partying or like "yo yo shimmy yo shimmy ya shimmy yey" and decide they need to do that to be happy. |
wolffanghamehaNov 1, 2022 9:22 AM
"The f**ker who goes round beating people to a pulp. He thinks it'll never happen to himself. But there's gonna be a day when the f**ker gets f**king beaten to a pulp too. But that day's f**king today and the guy doing the beating is a f**king c**t." - Sang-hoon, Breathless (2009)    |
| some TED-Ed video about it how fiction can change reality https://youtu.be/ctaPAm14L10 |
| The Thomas-Thomas theorem states "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" meaning that perception is often more important than reality |
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