ShrimpShady

ShrimpShady

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    Learning about WW2 is super interesting once you get past the uncomfortable questions about human morality.

    I just learned about the Navajo Code Talkers. Super cool.

    Also learned about what they did to Alan Turing after the war. Super not cool.
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    And I also learned that more people died in Indonesia (or the Dutch East Indies) during WW2 than in Japan, Britain, France, Italy, or the United States.

    We weren't even fighting and still had a top 5 death count. The vast majority of the casualties were civilian.

    Yet another masterpiece of imperial Japan's foreign policy.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #42

    This song made me rethink the Fr*nch language. I learned that there's great beauty in its vowels. I have no idea what any of the lyrics mean, but they paint a picture of waking up dewy-eyed sure of only one thing: that you have to keep on moving.

    Also, please watch 3-gatsu no Lion. It's the greatest slice of life anime of all time.
    ShrimpShady
    Another romance manga about a gyaru who gets involved with a milquetoast otaku water flea for absolutely no reason, yet is somehow already on a collision course with his cock from chapter 1?

    Gee, how'd you come up with that one? What, she's in love with him for being a bare minimum kind and decent human being? No waaaay
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    RepresentingWrath
    Speaking of standards, I honestly thought we moved on from this. Sure, manga and novels where girls fall for MC simply because he is kind and picked up their eraser or something keep popping up here and there. I honestly thought we, readers, grew up from this and can see that it's not good. Yet the fact Alya is so popular not only proves me wrong, but also causes a mild depression.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    It's a sad state of affairs. There are still some genuinely great romance animanga out there, even ones aimed at teenage boys, but I'm guessing that a lot of audiences see romance stories not as compelling character-driven experiences, but as quick and easy self-insert fantasies. So the less effort you put into your protagonist and the more you put into manufacturing a marketable and trendy love interest, the better.
    JayMark
    JayMark
    Publishers be like: Make the female lead thirstier for MC and grow them booba. CHACHING! ? ?
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #41

    I carelessly forgot there was a better track to accompany Mumei's graduation.

    Owl's Friend is a pretty little track that makes you believe everything will be okay. It's the musical equivalent of a Chicken Soup For The Soul story. The technical ability on display is also awe-inspiring.

    Listen if you're one of those percussive fingerstyle enjoyers.
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    Daily music recommendation #40

    Time for a melancholic folksy song featuring a woman with an incredibly sweet and gentle voice. For no reason at all

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    ShrimpShady
    So my older brother and I share the same first name (don't ask). He's an internet musician, while I just play guitar as a hobby and sometimes upload scuffed song covers to my personal IG.

    Just now, I think one of his listeners, who knows his identity but I guess doesn't know enough about him, somehow found one of my covers. This person then proceeded to comment on my cover thinking I'm my brother :blob_unsure:
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    Every once in a while, I need to remind myself that the absolute pinnacle of human storytelling has already been reached with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
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    Daily music recommendation #39

    I lied, emo week isn't over. It would be a disgrace to not mention Sunny Day Real Estate even once.

    They changed the game. Moody Hot Topic emo wouldn't exist without them, probably. They laid the groundwork for the more somber, sensitive 2nd wave, which then birthed the 3rd wave (MCR, Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights).
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    Their 1994 debut "Diary" was a landmark album in the genre. It paved the way for what I call "sweaty emo", which is the more grunge-inspired, sludgier and slower-paced side of 90s emo, such as Mineral and Penfold.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    But more than anything, riding the momentum of Nirvana pushing alternative rock into the mainstream, SDRE proved that this weird thing called "emo" could be commercially viable, with the band making waves on MTV. This opened the floodgates for all the emo acts to follow.
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    Daily music recommendation #38

    For the end of emo week, have my favorite song to fall under the diverse umbrella of emo.

    Brave Little Abacus are an eclectic whirlwind. Emo, math rock, electronic, jazz-- all of them come together to form a cacophony that is as overwhelming as it is appealing to some primal part of our souls.
    ShrimpShady
    I think my favorite type of character is the deeply flawed and initially morally grey individual who, in the end, chooses to go against their own self-interests, safety, comfort, or happiness to do the herculean but ultimately right thing, possibly with dire consequences for them.

    No I can't name any examples.
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    Daily music recommendation #37

    Now we're bringing it way back to the 80s, to emo's first wave. Emerging out of the DC scene was a brand of hardcore punk that was a little bit more singable, a little bit more introspective. This sound would be labeled "emotional hardcore", or emocore, much to the annoyance of Rites of Spring, who are often considered the originators of emo.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Even since its very inception, the term has been a source of ridicule. The early bands rejected the label. But love it or hate it, these edgy kids from DC would influence generations of musicians to come.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Other first wave emo acts include Dag Nasty, Embrace, and Moss Icon. Every time you listen to MCR, you're listening to a 40 year legacy of emo kids. Whether you shave your head and wear skinny jeans, or put on mascara and eyeliner, or dress in beanies and flannels, or rock Supreme and cry to Juice WRLD, we are all emo.
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    Do people these days actually like A1 Pictures? They seem to be beloved by anime fans where I'm from, but I've always seen them as the slop studio. I haven't forgiven them for the absolutely soulless dogshit they released throughout the 2010s. And also the fact that their working conditions allegedly drove an animator to suicide in 2010.

    But maybe they've improved since then.
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    @RepresentingGreed I think the sentiment is less that they're bad per se and more that they feel very... assembly line. They don't really have an identity in the same way studios like Trigger and KyoAni have, nor do really they have core staff like those studios do (I think).
    RepresentingWrath
    RepresentingWrath
    Oh, I see.
    Sabruness
    Sabruness
    ehh, i dont really subscribe to that whole 'x studio is great, y isnt' because every studio at some point either drops bangers or clangers. A1's done some good stuff like Valkyria Chronicles, Sound of the Sky, Vividred Operation (yay for ecchi techno-magical girls) and Lycoris Recoil (lesbians with guns).

    then again, it's also the studio that lumbered the world with the SAO anime so nobody;'s perfect XD
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