5. “Yuasa Masaaki is such an insular imbecile. A magnified hax he is.” (and yes Christopher Nolan, you too, I'm not gonna bypass you)
6. "WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." (indisputably bodacious, let's be honest here)
7. Andrei Tarkovsky
8. *Literally every classical music composer ever* (Beethoven intensifies)
9. I know I said every classical composer, but if you’re into Paganini or Brahms type shit, then I respect you, you pretentious cunt.
10. Takahata Isao
11. Some European cucks: Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer and Federico Fellini.
12. School Days
13. Sátántangó
14. EarthBound (or Halo, or some old CoD shit... idk, I'm no expert in games)
15. Shoujo Kakumei Utena
16. *Afraid of being called an elitist lmao get rekt*
17. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
18. Kanashimi no Belladonna (a highly esthétique hentai that probably won't get your animal dick inflated)
19. “Fuck Requiem For A Dream, that sneaky son of a gun got into top 100 wtf smh”
20. Mein Kampf
21. Reddit (wannabe elites and intellectuals who enslave own-selves for imaginary internet points; also have an everlasting yearning fetish of fucking people's career, or just life generally)
22. 4chan (disabused self-proclaimed-connoisseur internet elitists with supererogatory chromosomes that have little to no irl utility and weaponized autism; also are extremely fond of the term "faggot" and the hard R african american slang, sometimes even illiterate uneducated shit such as "moar", "purdy" or "newfag".)
23. The trio - Kobayashi, Kurosawa & Ozu
24. d e p r e s s i o n
25. mf Griffith (from Berserk)
26. Recondite phraseology + Amphibology yet with self-attested faultlessness = Every right for complacency due to peerless intelligence.
27. Foie Gras, qui a bon gout, bon, bon appétit. Moralité... qu'est-ce que c'est?
28. Wong Kar-wai
29. *Search "Greatest writers of all time", then with intense hostility exclude Hemingway, Harper Lee, Melville and fucking, bloody Fitzgerald (srsly how tf this mf even got in here)*
30. The opaque pack: Texhnolyze + Serial Experiments Lain + Angel's Egg
31. Fritz Lang (or expressionists in general)
32. *Having a K-On! character on favorite list, specifically dem Ritsu-fags* (no offense I’d fuck all K-On! bitches if u kno what i mean)
33. “Retro is unrivaled, literally all the classics are contemporaneously spawned. I’m literally so mad that I couldn’t be in the literally same eon with The Mothers of Invention or Dog Faced Hermans wtf smfh literally, I’m literally so disappointed of this literally peasant generation, I mean I am literally superior to literally everyone.”
34. Thighs
Edit: I see, in an ever-changing society, thighs get outdated in a blink of an eye. Now it's cockroach insertion.
35. Philosophies (existentialism n epistemology or some extremely meta shit like 'pseudophilosophy')
36. Psychological complexity (sounds terrific but u actually don't have to understand anything, just think that you do and that's more than enough to outclass those miserable Psychology PhDs)
37. Offensiveness = Optimal modus operandi
38. Friedrich Nietzsche
39. Salò (jk even the most acquired taste elitist could not digest this one)
40. Air on the G String (no more nice boat, shut up, fuck.. I said no mor- SHUT UP)
41. The Alexandria Quartet
42. Saibi (wtf is this Korean shit, seriously tho y do all the elitists have this in their fav)
43. *After having all these obscure and weird ass shows/movies/... as favorites, remember to have at least one mainstream and widely adored show/movie/..., it’s indispensable*
44. Not comprehending anything at all = aesthetic magnum opus
45. Not comprehending anything at all but normies liked it = pretentious overrated trash
48. *Making this list so no one thinks ur 1 of them*
49. "Haibane Renmei is a masterpiece/pile of turd"
50. Abstruse political ideologies with constant use of queer lines such as "Heil, mein Führer!"
Rating system:
10: Contains no flaw that bothers me, which does not mean it has to be flawless. Aside from the fact that a 10 must be exceptional in every way possible, most importantly, it has to be life-changing and unmatched with its own kind. I never believe in an embodiment of nonexistent perfection, but that does not mean an absolutely perfect work of art does not exist in the realm of subjectivity. Mind you, perfection does not equate with flawlessness. To be more specific, even when being flawless, without any value of personal enlightenment (like 12 Angry Men), it does not deserve a 10 - the embodiment of subjective perfection.
9: Either contains trivial flaws that are sufficient to bother me or is not significant to me enough to receive a 10. A 9 comes close to a 10, but contemporaneously can never rival its greatness. Of course this factor of 'greatness' varies a lot, so it is uncertain to assert that a 9 will never reach a 10 over time. Regardless, a 9 for me represents something that is far from subjective perfection. Albeit unable to match the greatness of true perfection, it is still amongst the best of the best.
8: Great. While an 8 usually is still unequivocally superb, it either has something I personally don't quite like as much, or is, regardless of personal insignificance, too good and flawless to be anything but great. 8 definitely indicates some of the greatest experience I've had in art.
7: Really good. What I dislike about a 7-rated is quite obvious to me, whether it's a flaw or simply an inherent disrelish. Virtually every title with this rating is in my favorites for they still represent art with phenomenal quality that I absolutely love.
6: Good. To analytically delve into, this is just plain defective. A 6 is too flawed to be in my favorites, but it still is a pleasant experience. In any case, a 6 is worth spending your time on, and anything with a 6 or above is recommended by me.
5: Okay. It's flawed and all, or it's just not for me. But most of the time, I could understand why shows with a 5 are beloved; thus, I would recommend some.
4: Average to sub-par. Not recommendable, and generally is not considered to be a great way to spend one's time.
3: Bad, but still watchable. With a 3, a show could be unpleasant, incredibly boring, and/or very obnoxious. The strengths are bland, while flaws overweigh almost every merit.
2: Horrendous and borderline unwatchable. These are along the line with some of the most distasteful experience that I would never want to ruminate on ever again. There are few worthy elements that carry the entire thing. Basically, it's just really awful, but at least I can endure it.
1: Worst of all. With no artistic merits whatsoever to uplift it, a 1 is irredeemable and irremediable. I feel those who overuse 1s are just being unjust and mentally unhinged. To judge justly and more objectively, shows with obvious strengths but are generally atrocious shall not receive a 1. And certainly, a 1 is nothing comparing to:
0: I can't rate this on MAL, but this segment is obviously for those subhuman below utmost unholiness Mephistopheles cunt fucks that only the two masters Uwe Boll and Tom Six or the notorious Tenshi no Drop can ever achieve. I don't mean to hate all bad things, especially those that give me some good laughs. But these are very different. They carve deep into my mind and hapless, poor soul and strangle me eternally that I can only yearn for death's embrace. What's the point of living?
* Random notes: 1. Favorites are not in any order and may be changeable.
2. Circlejerked dick-inter-sucked self-euphorically-creamed 'intellectual' anime phenomenon is worse than hate circlejerk. For example, a widely worshiped anime that got many to whip their beta dicks out flapping about each other for its "magnificent aura of intellect" like Texhnolyze is inarguably a worse case than the almost equally revolting paradigm that is the instantaneous SAO hatred. Not that it's so necessary to point out or anything, but for someone like me whose brain is mostly spent on futility of life, the amount of annoyance I'm getting from this is just unhealthy (this is conveniently my refutation for the ever meaningless "get a life" comment).
3. Average score like mine gonna get fucked by you guys, cool.
4. White people will be the frontline group of people to get affected by any kind of contagious virus if there is ever an outbreak.
5. I abhor but pity those piteous hombres who sanctify so-called "anime knowledge". It's absolutely fine to be proud of your "anime experience", but you sure have some serious issue (if not, quite literally retarded) if you ever come to think there exists some sort of aura of intellectuality amongst every anime title, or collectively.
6. I love bashing titles (not users) coz oh boy that's the most fun part about this god abysmal site. It's so fun to fuck with a title (not a user) to offend snowflakes, conservatism-tards and bogus buffoons self-proclaimed apotheoses (but... not like directly to the user u know). I'm no big fan of masochism, but their repudiation and disparagement are quite a sight to relish (oh and did I mention about not desiring to offend anyone?).
7. Why should animation be constraint by live-action's standards, or at least, adhere to such standards? Expressiveness and visuals are the fundamental disparity, and such should be embraced. Be it an odd emotional exposition from Ping Pong, or the magical Ghibli's background filled with care for details, or the bizarre color palette, or the timely relevant and thematic visual presentation of Akira, or even the iconic cannot-be-done-irl shounen choreography. Anime that can easily be replicated irl isn't worthy as much, imo. Which is why anime such as Monster or some bland 'mature' slice-of-life aren't my cup of tea. They're not bad, but watching Monster makes me wonder "Why isn't this a live-action? I'd actually prefer this to be a live-action, really."
8. In art, subjectivity and objectivity coexist. If one is to judge about the "good" or "bad", it will most definitely be established upon penchant. Don't ever tell me that words such as "good" or "bad" themselves aren't even subjective. Whereas regarding superiority, objectivity to a certain extent does exist.
9. Speaking of superiority, I like self-proclaimed superiority on the internet. It demonstrates desperation, yearnings, cowardice, haplessness and pitifulness, which is somewhat interesting to me. I do it sometimes, in a meticulously meta self-loathing way.
10. Too many English speakers on this site would instantaneously take all rights of communication away from those who err even the slightest language mistake, as though such a language should be worshiped and essayed to utmost perfection at all time, how narrow-minded and self-absorbed. Though I have to agree that English is universal, and that no matter how intelligent you are, poor language could drastically weaken your articulateness and make you sound dumb. But hey, don't aggravate and intensify it. Like it's not the smartest most accurate measurement of your actual intelligence anyway.
11. I beseech you young intellectuals to curb your haughtiness per flaunting your wonderful political discernment and ideologies. I don't give a shit just shut the fuck up and have some actual discussion.
12. Don't link subreddits.
13. If you have anything to say, be a man, get yourself some toxic masculinity and grow several balls, and come at me in the comments. Stop sending me private messages. Like how tf am I supposed to be increasing my comment count then?
14. Understanding the paradox of elitism requires great amount of brain cells that could have been used for curing cancer or heating up Mars, and I can now proudly say that I have somewhat discerned it, finally. Fundamentally, when there's something that is so strong of a cult (and elite of course), it will eventually be hated by elitists themselves in one way or another. In other words, being a celebrated Letterboxd veteran, elitists often denigrate one another with "The only fool here is a person who has used the site for nearly 10 years, watched over 4000 films, and yet still have "A Clockwork Orange" on [pronoun’s] favorite list”. You might not yet understand this absurdity, but don't get dampened or hastened. This, again, demands genuine intellect and perseverance.
15. I am vehemently disallowed to express my genuine interest in any case. After gathering all courage... I will do it: I love art films, classical music and, well... you know, the good old-fashioned medievals prejudices. In such a reclusive and over-sensitive world filled with “the aim to progressiveness and equity”, one ought not to express the genuine love for art and prejudices. What about the good gracious Beethoven, the unmatched auteur Dreyer, or the so-called ‘natural’ dominance of single and solely single societal party? *Sigh* How terrible.
16. Getting banned is not fun, but considering everything happens prior to it makes it all worth it.
17. Migrate to Anilist before it's too late.
18. I feel like I should make my own "Best Forum Posts by me" to jerk off to my own redpilled-ness. No seriously, sometimes the thoughts I exhibit there are so natural that I find it hard to believe how imprudent I can be to yet create such a list. Will do soon, whenever I feel so.
19. I suppose, albeit being obvious, I am obliged to tell you this once again for the forty-third time. The notion of "shit taste" should, or dare I say, must exist on any arts platform, for it merely demonstrates one's discontentment with someone else's penchant, and such obviously is subjective. I might have to bring all of you folks readers back to the prehistoric times of human. Let's talk about human evolution, shall we? From the very dawn when we're all simplistic innocent apes, we categorize specie and tag them with stereotypes. Then there's the notion of big penis and small penis corresponding to a flat brain and a full-fledged intellectual cerebral in the ancient Greek and even the Roman medievals. Fast forward there's racism. And now, with no less in importance, there's a greater of taste and the lesser, viz shité le goût, as well. Humans are despicable, sheeples. If being honest, humans need prejudice to survive, otherwise their minds will be absolutely lost and everyone would apparently become unfunny. So, what do you say? Respect (or not) others, but be mindful, bashing the person's taste is perfectly acceptable (please carve this into your brain). You have my approval, dear reader.
20. Every time I look at the "Introduction" segment in forums, I felt like shit for a bit. It's always the "ah, another disillusioned Pewdiepie fan" or something like that that crosses my mind. To be quite honest, I thought you should all have known that a large community of anonymous people will never please you in a tender, zephyr-like way, right? Looking at forums and then "the world is such a dark, horrid abomination" or "I have a dark past and a shit life, please save me MAL", or "MAL made me the way I am" is so damn foolish. It's so foolish it's not even laughable anymore, like this isn't even funny. I'm gonna keep this as short as possible: leave the site.
21."Favorite Nietzsche quotes" that even I can come up with:
- "Without music, life would be a mistake." (I love music too)
- “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” (Apparently even emos have a sense of humor. well not that i noticed or anything i just saw the tag 'humor' so yeah)
- “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” (lol, no way this dawg said this)
- “Man is the cruelest animal.” (bruh fax)
- "If you look down upon long enough into an abyss then the abyss will look up back at you..." I don't remember but it's pretty corny and overrated.
22. Being a minor I am, I believe to hold the rights to self-expression in its quasi-unmitigated stamp of liberalism. Therefore, contradicting to my own disbelief of total freedom of speech enunciated above, I have come to realize the benefits as well as the ultimate power of being a young boy, that is, to freely express one's political stances, for no matter how controversial or foolish will it even matter one bit. Here are some of my benefits and thoughts:
-- I am a minor, and therefore I have the rights to lewd, eat, perform in-and-out actions, lewd and be beyond the realm of social respectability as well as laws and restrictions to another minor of any category.
-- I can be a lolicon without being called a lolicon (which is essentially the same point, just want to make that clear).
-- I can be racist, because kids are stupid and no one should take me seriously.
-- I can dodge all responsibilities and my own folly with "it's just a joke bro".
-- I can call anyone whom I have come to dislike a pedophile and society will believe me.
-- Pedophile discontentment is overrated. Free the pedos. Embrace Monogatari.
I just want to make that clear, and that anyone who's planning on messing with me is advised to cease their actions or just the mere thoughts of doing so immediately. This is for your own sake.
23. Unique, most iconic personalities on MAL:
-- "If you hate anime so much, why do you even watch it?"
-- "Honestly fuck off you lil shit you just hate on anime. If you hate anime so much, why do you even watch it??"
-- "You shit you hate all anime. If you hate a-" ok so it's basically the same thing.
-- "OMG this retard gave [my favorite anime] a ["low" numeral]. How can you be this retarded?"
-- "Ew anime has lolicon lol imagine liking Meruem... That poorly dévelopéd character literally likes a little girl, how can you be such a degenerate? Yes I have the high moral ground, you filth pedo."
"I said it didn't I? He is a poorly dévelopéd character, do you actually need reasons for that? Like do I really have to present rational arguments for that? I said HE IS A PEDO!"
-- "I am superior."
-- "Listen here you piece of subhuman shit, stop spreading toxicity you fuck, else I'll legitimately kill your family no cap."
-- 4chan descents
-- PhDs in teaching you how to watch anime, as well as how to kill yourself.
-- Unfunny, i.e. "Anime is trash and so am I".
-- "You literally rate hentai so your opinion is invalid" (that's just what happens to me most frequently, you may change 'hentai' to anything else as you see fit.)
-- Anti-elitists
-- Valedictorians in politics.
-- Twitter simulator
-- "I can't imagine how anyone can possibly dislike my favorite anime" yes you can.
-- low-quality troll
-- low-quality anti-troll, i.e. "Ah, just another sad troll who has nothing better to do with his life. Nothing to see here folks."
-- Deleting comments after unironically arguing over an already old conversation that makes oneself seem like a sperg. After all, it is important to preserve your status on MAL.
-- "These are the types of people that I will refuse to have a discussion with:
1. Those who won't ever admit they're wrong
2. Trolls" Note: This is actually a great strategy for all, and is always applicable under any circumstances. Since all you have to do is be as presumptuous as possible and deem the other 'unapproachable' due to said reasons and that'll solve the case every time. Like, you can't be wrong then can you?
-- When you have like 1k+ forum posts, all you have to reasonably do is to say "I actually have way better things to do in life other than posting comments on MAL. Therefore, despite having posted this comment publicly on a forum site and having expected differed opinions, I will refuse to discuss with you". With this strategy, it is also feasible to place yourself in the 'correct' position at all time, at least in your own head. The downside is you would look stupid, retarded, self-contradicting and quite possibly mildly contemptible.
-- "I think [mindset/concept] does exist, but only when it suits my own narrative and liking."
>I talk quite normally
>has an esoteric bio that looks like it came out of some 1800s literature shit
NGL it is quite funny tho. Did you just predict coronavirus with Note #4? Although tbf it's not exactly hard for someone to reason that. Maybe there's more intellectual shit in there so kudos to you I suppose.
that's fair, and it's fine. i just thought it'd be funnier to poke on marxists than nazis because nobody is a nazi without knowing that there are people who dislike them. i thought the list was mostly funny anyway, which is why i even bothered replying with that autistic wall of text to begin with.
I'm about 90% sure this whole page is just bait, so I'd like to make suggestions for the elitist list. I also happen to have nothing better to do.
Nietzsche is a waste of space on that list, especially since he's probably the most well-known and surface-level philosopher outside of the Greeks. It'd make more sense to just talk about nihilists (yeah I know Nietzsche isn't a nihilist but you get the point) and existentialists (which you did, but didn't really give enough examples to effectively bother people). You could add Camus or Deleuze & Guattari instead because it targets the Myth of Sisyphus fanboys and the actual elitists of philosophy. Though Deleuze does take some effort to actually understand, I guess. Also, Bataille seems to be there out of nowhere and feels like you're just kinda namedropping him.
Kubrick and Tarkovsky are way too easy, and the category is somewhat too vague to be offended by. I'd say 2001 ASO fans specifically are responsible for the elitism in Kubrick fans, so you could narrow it down like that.
Saying "classical music" and only mentioning Beethoven makes it seem like you don't know much about it. You should list composers like Mahler or Shostakovich or something, anyone who's well-known but somehow considered "obscure" by band kids who claim to be classical music connoisseurs.
Speaking of "obscure" music, I think you missed a huge opportunity to make fun of music geeks. Prog rock, alt rock, all that. If you've ever seen a 19-year-old King Crimson or Swans fan, you'd know what I'm talking about. I'd know, since I'm one of them.
What's Mein Kampf even doing on there when Capital is a thing? It's meaningless to point at Nazis because everyone hates them already. Pick on the Marxists, it'd be funny. Or just anyone who reads theory in general.
The opaque pack can just be summed up with "psychological anime" or "mind screw anime." I just think it's a little too specific, and doesn't include any Satoshi Kon. (Perfect Blue fans....)
I feel like there aren't any funny authors on this list. How about uh.... Celine or Tolstoy? You shouldn't include authors who wrote books that are part of the required reading list of American high schools because they'd be too "normie" for the average pseudo-intellectual.
So there it is, a pseud elitist's suggestions for the elitist list.
In the off-chance that this list is actually serious and you're actually a minor like you say... Please delete your account before you end up regretting it in a few years. Criticizing Reddit or 4chan (which is justified but doing so also can imply that you were an active user on those sites) on MyAnimeList, an anime site, already looks pretty bad... But that's why I'm sure it's ironic, so whatever.
I'm not enjoying Super Metroid its trash:/, I give 4/10. Some nice but( binister, jungle floor)forgettable tunes with not much in the game to grab on to.
Super mario world 2/10
I will explain if you want
Journey(2012) is way superior 7/10
Demon Souls original ps3 renders almost all other video game useless. Its so good Nothing even touches it
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>has an esoteric bio that looks like it came out of some 1800s literature shit
NGL it is quite funny tho. Did you just predict coronavirus with Note #4? Although tbf it's not exactly hard for someone to reason that. Maybe there's more intellectual shit in there so kudos to you I suppose.
Nietzsche is a waste of space on that list, especially since he's probably the most well-known and surface-level philosopher outside of the Greeks. It'd make more sense to just talk about nihilists (yeah I know Nietzsche isn't a nihilist but you get the point) and existentialists (which you did, but didn't really give enough examples to effectively bother people). You could add Camus or Deleuze & Guattari instead because it targets the Myth of Sisyphus fanboys and the actual elitists of philosophy. Though Deleuze does take some effort to actually understand, I guess. Also, Bataille seems to be there out of nowhere and feels like you're just kinda namedropping him.
Kubrick and Tarkovsky are way too easy, and the category is somewhat too vague to be offended by. I'd say 2001 ASO fans specifically are responsible for the elitism in Kubrick fans, so you could narrow it down like that.
Saying "classical music" and only mentioning Beethoven makes it seem like you don't know much about it. You should list composers like Mahler or Shostakovich or something, anyone who's well-known but somehow considered "obscure" by band kids who claim to be classical music connoisseurs.
Speaking of "obscure" music, I think you missed a huge opportunity to make fun of music geeks. Prog rock, alt rock, all that. If you've ever seen a 19-year-old King Crimson or Swans fan, you'd know what I'm talking about. I'd know, since I'm one of them.
What's Mein Kampf even doing on there when Capital is a thing? It's meaningless to point at Nazis because everyone hates them already. Pick on the Marxists, it'd be funny. Or just anyone who reads theory in general.
The opaque pack can just be summed up with "psychological anime" or "mind screw anime." I just think it's a little too specific, and doesn't include any Satoshi Kon. (Perfect Blue fans....)
I feel like there aren't any funny authors on this list. How about uh.... Celine or Tolstoy? You shouldn't include authors who wrote books that are part of the required reading list of American high schools because they'd be too "normie" for the average pseudo-intellectual.
So there it is, a pseud elitist's suggestions for the elitist list.
In the off-chance that this list is actually serious and you're actually a minor like you say... Please delete your account before you end up regretting it in a few years. Criticizing Reddit or 4chan (which is justified but doing so also can imply that you were an active user on those sites) on MyAnimeList, an anime site, already looks pretty bad... But that's why I'm sure it's ironic, so whatever.
nigga
Super mario world 2/10
I will explain if you want
Journey(2012) is way superior 7/10
Demon Souls original ps3 renders almost all other video game useless. Its so good Nothing even touches it