| Recently I re-wrote on Reddit a thread I once wrote here (Though forgot the title, so I can't really find it), called Is the anime community the least elitist compared to all other artforms?, where I question how there isn't something like Letterboxd's "competitive culture" here and people will rarely shit-talk your tastes. Recently, however, I read a Tweet by E-Kon, a self-proclaimed anime elitist that many years ago made a video defending his stance (Which had many fair arguments), it was the following: E-kon said: How much 60s anime have YOU watched? How much of the original Atom have you seen or read? Meisaku Gekijou? Horus? I bet it's a big fat goose egg. Don't claim a culture you don't belong to, those people are tourists but you are too. Stick to BA. That... stoked something within me. Like that guy, I also haven't watched nor read 60's stuff (With the exception of a single manga by Ishinomori Shoutarou), so that comment exerted some kind of "peer-pressure" for me to do so, so no one would be able to "question my legitimacy".... and perhaps I could be the one questioning others... no, no, that's way too much temptation, perhaps I shouldn't. I was raised in internet places where we always assumed the guy at your side was "the bigger fish", so no-one ever boasted about anything by fear of being humbled in the dick-measuring contest that could follow. Could this be positive, though? Could such culture of "I have to be the bigger fish", of competition, strive people to broaden their horizons? Up their power-levels? |
| The title of this thread is a reference to this thread of mine (Though it has little to do with it in terms of content): Is the anime community like Dark Souls?, it had a lot of stuff I was thinking about at the time, though nowadays I've fleshed out those ideas more in threads like Is "being an otaku" more about the mentality, watching a lot of anime rather coming as a consequence of that? and Is being a otaku a denial of "cringe logic"?. |
| No, acting high and mighty makes more people refuse to watch old anime out of spite. |
| If you mean completing wikis with lore, dbs with items, sharing secrets, writing messages, praising the sun, waving at each other. Yes. |
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thewiru said: Could this be positive, though? Could such culture of "I have to be the bigger fish", of competition, strive people to broaden their horizons? Up their power-levels? I think I'm repeating myself here but watching anime is not some kind of competitive sport. Trying to hold some dick measuring contest about your Completed-list is about as pathetic as actively participating in power-scaling battle shounen characters. I don't want to watch in 2.0x speed just to stay ahead of other internet losers |
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thewiru said:
Could this be positive, though? Could such culture of "I have to be the bigger fish", of competition, strive people to broaden their horizons? Up their power-levels?
Could this be positive, though? Could such culture of "I have to be the bigger fish", of competition, strive people to broaden their horizons? Up their power-levels?
I think I'm repeating myself here but watching anime is not some kind of competitive sport.
Trying to hold some dick measuring contest about your Completed-list is about as pathetic as actively participating in power-scaling battle shounen characters.
I don't want to watch in 2.0x speed just to stay ahead of other internet losers
| @Hiyajo-san Watching in 2x speed increases your rate of anime watched linearly, but decreases your dick exponentially, so there's no point to doing that. It's worse than fakelisting. |
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@Hiyajo-san
Watching in 2x speed increases your rate of anime watched linearly, but decreases your dick exponentially, so there's no point to doing that.
It's worse than fakelisting.
Watching in 2x speed increases your rate of anime watched linearly, but decreases your dick exponentially, so there's no point to doing that.
It's worse than fakelisting.
| @thewiru Well, if you treated watching Anime competitively you'd do that at some point because it just matters how long your list is and how rare and distinguished the shows are you watched |
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@Hiyajo-san
Watching in 2x speed increases your rate of anime watched linearly, but decreases your dick exponentially, so there's no point to doing that.
It's worse than fakelisting.
Watching in 2x speed increases your rate of anime watched linearly, but decreases your dick exponentially, so there's no point to doing that.
It's worse than fakelisting.
| @thewiru I can never understand fakelisting - Like just watch the damn thing??? XD |
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@thewiru Well, if you treated watching Anime competitively you'd do that at some point because it just matters how long your list is and how rare and distinguished the shows are you watched
| @Hiyajo-san If you treated watching Anime competitively, you would know how to invalidate other's people's methods. There's a reason this thread has this title: People on /v/ will find a myriad of ways of saying "you didn't beat the game". For instance, apparently I didn't beat Dark Souls at Soul Level 1 because I used pyromancy on Ornstein & Smough + Sanctuary Guardian and didn't defeat Manus + Kalameet. |
| Not really seeing the positives of watching 60's anime if you're not really interested in it. Certainly, I wouldn't be doing it just to add to my watched list in order to dismiss the opinions of or look down upon others who share the hobby. If you're solely doing it to impress some random people on the internet, then, I hope that works out for you, I guess? I don't think it's going to have much of a benefit when it comes to your actual real life. Also, the "Don't claim a culture you don't belong to" line, as non-Japanese people watching Japanese animation, might be need its own tier on the cringe-o-meter. |
thewiru said: Could this be positive, though? Could such culture of "I have to be the bigger fish", of competition, strive people to broaden their horizons? Up their power-levels? No. It's insipid consumerist garbage that otaku brag about because they have nothing else going for them. thewiru said: Like that guy, I also haven't watched nor read 60's stuff (With the exception of a single manga by Ishinomori Shoutarou), so that comment exerted some kind of "peer-pressure" for me to do so, so no one would be able to "question my legitimacy".... and perhaps I could be the one questioning others... no, no, that's way too much temptation, perhaps I shouldn't. People question your legitimacy on a regular basis because your threads are insipid and shallow, and this very sentence exposes you as a tryhard poser. Watching 60's anime won't cure that. Getting actual life experience will. |
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