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When did lurking start being seen as something good? Anonymous 06/04/24 (Tue) 11:31:54 No.126372 [Reply]

I thought you were meant to look down on long-term lurkers for being pathetic cowards and freeloaders, but as the “lurk moar” meme has been taken more and more seriously, it seems people have come to see lurking for months or even years before posting anything as an integral part of board culture. I couldn't disagree with that idea more. It goes against the spontaneity that makes the internet fun. For most communities, if you can't get along with it after a few days using it, you should just leave it alone, rather than stalking it until you can pretend to fit in. And I enjoy seeing people share their first reactions to a forum or board, before gradually becoming more seasoned posters over time. It's refreshing.

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Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 18:33:26 No.137561

>>126559
>Everybody on the site seems miserable and depressed...
That was 2010 /jp/ was all about

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 21:37:27 No.137565>>137567

>>126400
> I, for one, would much rather spend my days repeatedly teaching new users the most basic facts of the site than talking to people who already know those facts.
W-what if I genuinely enjoy that

>>126459
> It makes sense because 4/qa/'s culture was mostly a mix of /a/ and /jp/
You mean [s4s] and /a/ with a pinch of /pol/ and /a/jp/ (an [s4s] general). /jp/ was not a defining factor in /qa/, you are thinking of "/jp/" who arrived as election tourists.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 21:52:22 No.137567>>137569

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Huh, did I really not reply to this thread the first time? Well, my opinion is that I don't think people should lurk very much these days. It only really works on 4chan where its massive population can support a bunch of people NOT participating. Lurking a little is good, but I don't think it takes too long to get a general feel of things. Maybe a few days, but even that might be too long. People tend to be too paranoid about standing out or being ostracized for a social faux pas, but it really needs to be egregious here to be mentioned.

>>137565
AHH SURPRISE BOX! Yeah 4/qa/ was an eclectic mix, but it depends on the era. It's something that's very hard to get outside of 4chan, as people scattered to different places.
I disagree with the /jp/ election tourists part since I don't even know how that would work.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 22:08:29 No.137568

People need to lurk until they like lolis.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 22:17:47 No.137569

>>137567
>I disagree with the /jp/ election tourists part since I don't even know how that would work.
Heh. It's what it says in the tin. "/jp/" discovered the place at the turn of 2016 after a bunch of events, including the elections, caused all of 4chan to run to /qa/ to fuck the place up. I think what started it all was hiro announcing the site may die from server costs, you can trace the board almost triplicating in speed through 4stats.

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Tomorrow Resolutions Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 05:32:22 No.137461 [Reply]

Screw New Year's resolutions! What are you going to do to improve yourself tomorrow? Make a plan and stick to it for a day, you can do it!

As for myself, I'm going to finally start setting up this RAID system I got a while back and get into the groove of building up my anki mining deck with anime examples. Then after that I'll take a quick break to watch Eraserhead with /qa/.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 05:43:01 No.137463

Stop my chips consumption habit...

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 05:57:06 No.137466

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I'm going to play video games.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 06:20:46 No.137468

i've already gotten myself back into a pushup habit :3

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 12:46:35 No.137497

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I have a presentation on Friday so I need to work on my preparation for that. Sure wish I didn't have to.

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Anonymous 02/01/25 (Sat) 22:07:11 No.137446 [Reply]

Kill all extroverts!

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 02:48:25 No.137452

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And how do you suppose you'll do that when they're outside?

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 05:43:58 No.137464>>137467

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Kiss all extroverts!

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 06:01:00 No.137467>>137471

>>137464
I’ll pass. Too plain and bland for me.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 06:28:33 No.137471>>137473

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>>137467
Well, the extroverts are going to kiss you whether you like it or not.

Anonymous 02/02/25 (Sun) 06:47:28 No.137473

>>137471
kissing sager

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Anonymous 12/31/24 (Tue) 16:43:42 No.136274 [Reply]

So with the new year coming what are your New Years Resolutions /qa/? Of course, you actually made some and they're of some actual significance, right?

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Anonymous 01/09/25 (Thu) 23:34:32 No.136620

>>136619
¥ smug
more like slut

Anonymous 01/10/25 (Fri) 00:48:01 No.136622

drats, he evaded my cunning trap

Anonymous 01/27/25 (Mon) 05:07:53 No.137292>>137296

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My resolution has been to get more sleep and see if it improves anything for me since I don't really sleep a lot. So far I've been doing okayish, sleeping earlier than usual but still had a pretty bad week. I want to be sound asleep in bed before midnight ideally and it's already past midnight now.

Anonymous 01/27/25 (Mon) 10:01:31 No.137296>>137297

>>137292
I hope you can manage to sleep, Anonymous. I struggle with the same.

I must say, though, this Yuno you've posted is quite intimidating! She looks determined to square up and knock the daylights out of whoever is looking down at her!

Anonymous 01/27/25 (Mon) 11:46:28 No.137297

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>>137296
It's hard not to look down on Yuno when she's this small.

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Advertising faithfully vs Closure Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 05:29:39 No.137259 [Reply]

It used to come up a lot more when an anime came out, whether anime should try to be more faithful to the source material when adapting even if they weren't going to cover the rest of the story of a manga. I think back then I was more partial towards the faithful camp, because I had more hope for sequels to good series back then that'd continue the series towards its more intended end.

Now though, that wish has been more or less fulfilled with most adaptations sticking close to the source material whether they end on a more conclusive note or not. But at times it feels like that was a monkey paw of sorts. Since now series simply last forever, and there's an infinite amount of different LN/Manga adaptations flowing out the gates each season with zero hope of getting a sequel. They'll always end feeling half-finished (because they are) and plenty of buildup there could be that's packed into the adaptation that has no relevance til later arcs is also left untouched. This leading to the entire anime somewhat suffering for it because it feels more like you wasted your time watching a "Read more by buying the source!" ad than anything. And honestly, when it comes to what studios are adapting nowadays, I feel like scriptwriters in these anime studios could do a far better job with the source material given to them than the majority of LN authors could do with their work.

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Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 23:12:49 No.137279

>>137270
what was the piccy

Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 23:31:00 No.137281>>137284

>>137271
>The original is a series of actual novels.
Sorry, I meant LN. If I remember right, there is a PC game, but that's neither here nor there.

Anonymous 01/27/25 (Mon) 00:09:07 No.137284>>137285

>>137281
Not LNs, actual novels.

Anonymous 01/27/25 (Mon) 00:11:37 No.137285>>137298

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>>137284
Whatever you want to call them... I have them sitting on my bookshelf.

Anonymous 01/27/25 (Mon) 13:43:44 No.137298

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>>137285
LN is light reading, nta but it's considered a novel because it isn't light reading.

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Anonymous 01/25/25 (Sat) 23:30:54 No.137245 [Reply]

¥ let's take all the bad parts of Pikmin 3
¥ then take all the bad parts of Pikmin 2
¥ replace all the good parts with pointless RPG elements and constant overly long dialogue
¥ and stick it all together with a completely nonsensical story
¥ oh, and make sure to include a post-game mode that shows what the game could have been with good design decisions
¥ but make sure to ruin that too a few days in
What were they thinking? It's like they couldn't figure out how to make a full-length game so they just split into five different teams and stuck all the resulting minigames together to pad things out. It's super frustrating because the core gameplay is still fun and they clearly proved they could have made a much better game, but they just didn't and covered all the good stuff in as much tedium and distraction as possible.

Anonymous 01/25/25 (Sat) 23:39:57 No.137246>>137248 >>137249

too purple
who are you paraphrasing

Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 00:06:23 No.137248

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>>137246

Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 00:15:22 No.137249

>>137246
I'm going to kick your ass.

Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 04:34:48 No.137254>>137265

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The RPG-ification of gameplay elements is really weird, even though I like RPGs. I guess it's an easy way to pad out a game, and they even call it stuff like "gamification" now when they apply it to other things.

Anonymous 01/26/25 (Sun) 06:40:02 No.137265

>>137254
I think it's because it's something you can add to make it seem like there's more to any game and it gives a sense of progression, but it seems like it takes away more than it adds. Half the upgrades in this game are completely pointless, like a bunch of HP increases and making the stupid dog marginally better at things he's never going to be doing, a few are critical to the core gameplay and make the first bit of the game feel really awkward until you can get them, and then the rest are OP shit that negates the strategy and technique you spent the earlier bits learning. Maybe they want to have that dopamine hit from a big "side quest complete" and need a spendable resource to enable that, but when the gameplay itself is fun you don't need to encourage players to interact with it.

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Voiceroid fun! Anonymous 05/30/22 (Mon) 00:39:52 No.90430 [Reply]

Thanks to a link from a guy that lead to discussion and a link from another guy, we have links to software that makes cute voices!
https://voicevox.hiroshiba.jp/
https://zunko.jp/con_voice.html

I'm using the first link personally because it has Zundamon, which is the absolute cutest artificial voice. I'm making a thread here on /qa/ because the original thread is on /jp/ and /jp/ threads can fall off after a couple weeks and this is too cool to lose that quickly.

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Anonymous 03/03/24 (Sun) 23:40:12 No.120622>>120623 >>137209

Anyone tried using this for english? Just copy/pasting the text doesn't work too well, but converting it to katakana first works a lot better. Haven't found a way to do it locally, though.

Anonymous 03/04/24 (Mon) 00:05:14 No.120623

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>>120622
I tried, but it's an exercise in frustration. I think I did try the katakana thing, but it was still hard to do the pitches and such. I think I also tried general TTS tricks, which I can't quite remember. (I think it was like typing "hoo" instead of "who". I didn't fully understand the UI either, but I guess part of the whole "unable to understand Japanese" thing.
After seeing all the AI cover stuff I don't know if this has any chance to gain traction outside Japanese; it's just too much work.

Anonymous 01/25/25 (Sat) 01:15:46 No.137209>>137210

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>>120622
i have better lucks with voice cloning tools and 10 seconds of reference audio
it's not perfect but really sounds like how japanese speak english

Anonymous 01/25/25 (Sat) 01:29:38 No.137210>>137217

Ohh, I forgot about this thread.

>>137209
By voice cloning you mean the AI stuff, right? Yeah, it's made vocaloid stuff seem like backbreaking labor by comparison, but vocaloid still has superior charm and special sounds I think.

Anonymous 01/25/25 (Sat) 02:34:20 No.137217

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>>137210
yes, i generated the audio with https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech
ai is progressing so fast, now the large language models are being integrated for text to speech so i don't have to care about language-specific models and preprocessing anymore, i can enter text in any language and it just works

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Anonymous 01/24/25 (Fri) 03:19:34 No.137155 [Reply]

Say you're interested in researching an old mummy that's "cursing" people. Wouldn't you want to, you know, take some more safety precautions there's something in the grave you can't account for like old pathogens or viruses? Wasn't there something in King Tut's tomb killing people that they weren't able to cure? It just seems unwise to be going into this naked.

Anonymous 01/24/25 (Fri) 05:42:22 No.137162

One of my favorite fabricated screenshots is from a guy talking about people unearthing a mummy in 2020 and the guy was saying stuff like "PUT THAT NIGGA BACK IN WE"RE DEALING WITH ENOUGH ALREADY".
Good stuff.

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Anonymous 01/21/25 (Tue) 17:30:58 No.137085 [Reply]

Have you ever gotten any money from class action settlements? Even though most of them would be pocket changes, it would still be free money to buy a new game or figure for the many hikineets here.

I have found $43 from current opening settlements just in the food category alone which don't require any proof of payment.

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Anonymous 01/22/25 (Wed) 17:29:53 No.137127

>>137126
¥ underdeveloped
Yes
¥ third world
That's not how this works. America is the paramount, the hegemon, the big bad booty daddy. First world means its part of NATO.

Fucking retard. Neck la neck yourself.

Anonymous 01/22/25 (Wed) 18:26:41 No.137128

Take it easy, Mr. Freeedom.

Anonymous 01/22/25 (Wed) 18:35:16 No.137129>>137134

>>137126
>NTA
Never thought you were. That anon understood how stupid such a claim was and only said it to emphasize the ridiculousness of using free housing as a metric for first-world membership since THE first-world country doesn't do that commie shit.

Anonymous 01/22/25 (Wed) 18:46:11 No.137130

a free country does do that because it provides upwards mobility for people at the bottom to take jobs from those above them. A totalitarian country does not

Anonymous 01/22/25 (Wed) 23:52:44 No.137134

>>137129
but america does do section 8 housing

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"gif" or "jif"? Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 16:36:27 No.137048 [Reply]>>137077

Words of "native" or "germanic" origin in Modern English that start with a "g" all use the hard-g sound as in "gift". While "foreign" words of "latin" origin use the soft-g as in "giraffe". The debate between "gif" or "jif" should be seen as an extension of the French linguistic imperialism, imposed upon the common English people since 1066.

"gif" is pronounces with a hard-g, unless you are French sympathizer; in which you deserve to be shot.

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Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 23:13:11 No.137068

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It's definitely a J sound. I don't really know why I know it, but it's been that way for as long as I can remember it. It sounds much more pleasant, too.

Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 23:34:47 No.137070

Oh noo! I forgot how I pronounce it. I think it's gif but I might say jif as well.

Anonymous 01/21/25 (Tue) 00:05:22 No.137073

Hard G. Soft G is foolishness beyond compare!

honestly, I've never met anyone in real life who used soft G GIF, not even people who are actually technologically literate

Anonymous 01/21/25 (Tue) 02:50:12 No.137077

>>137048
Wasn't it confirmed it was gif that sounded like "jiff"?

Anonymous 01/21/25 (Tue) 03:02:18 No.137078

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Hard G as in gif that keeps on gifing.

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Anonymous 01/19/25 (Sun) 07:17:42 No.136997 [Reply]

I can barely use 4chan these days because of all the captcha fuckery. But even when I still lurk it, from time to time, I find the place just as mentally draining as any big social media site. How do people put up with the constant aggro and bickering over whatever the latest big culture war thing is? Don’t they ever get tired of that? Or making every single piece of media fit into some console war style faggotry with another?

It’s honestly begun to stress me out looking at the place more than ever. I don’t get how people are able to stick to this loop every day.

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Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 20:31:08 No.137058

It's a mix of boredom and constant gratification. Not instant, constant. If you don't notice it early enough and cut it out, you might get caught in this spiral where you check several pages and sites on a loop of sorts where you switch tabs or apps until something catches your eye where you suck it up and move to the next thing the instant your interest in it wanes. Anger is just something that catches interest very easily and if you've browsed 4chan for long enough you might've on more than one occasion started writing a reply falseflagging as the type of response you yourself would hate the most, as an extreme version of what you're stealth mocking in hopes that other people call you out, only to then double down yourself on the message you hate.
It's really weird how things turn out this way, but the average twitter user could spend all day scrolling increasingly faster down some hashtag about a thing they never even heard of just to catch some post they dislike and spend more time getting angry at it.

I don't think people can stay in this state for particularly long though. I didn't bite this cycle too hard myself but I got burnt out on being angry at nobodies online and just stopped going to places full of people being angry on their free time, though it might have something to do with my free time being limited because i'm a filthy wageslave. There's probably a ton of people who burnt out as well and quietly disappeared, only to be replaced with 10 more anger addicts. Whether this effect plateaus on a grand scale or not is yet to be seen, though so far its only been getting worse and more common.

Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 20:36:28 No.137059>>137066

>>137010
>but those topics are just a part of the world now
But I don't care about the world or politics or whatever. I just want to talk about anime without ever discussion devolving into political shitflinging.

Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 21:37:14 No.137062

personally I only seek out political opinions I agree with, life's too short to listen to [outgroup elided for Kissu harmony]

Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 21:49:18 No.137063

I think everyone can agree that renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America was the right call, but the question remains of what the state of New Mexico should be renamed to?

Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 22:49:55 No.137066

>>137059
Join a monastery if you want to be an island. Getting mad and doomposting every time someone uses an offensive term for a group of sexual ideologues currently in the social spotlight just spurs on the negativity you're complaining about. It never should have received the attention it has, but it's too late to stop that now and the sooner we accept it's just a generic buzzword insult the sooner we can all stop pretending like the issue matters.

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Gaming Journalism Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 06:44:53 No.136957 [Reply]

How would /qa/ revive the dying industry? Is there even any reason to, or has YouTube reviewing just completely killed it?

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Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 15:22:26 No.136966

we need to bring back ethics in gaming journalism for it to come back

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 15:50:53 No.136967

Fuck game journalism, what are you a massive retard or something.

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 20:27:30 No.136971>>136976 >>137005

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I loved reading Nintendo Power and stuff like Gamepro or Game Informer as a kid/teen. The thing with Nintendo Power is that it was a massive marketing magazine for Nintendo games/consoles, but it was still enjoyable. I don't remember if it even reviewed anything, or just had guides and previews.
The other stuff, yeah it was more "neutral" and viewed a bunch of stuff and was informative. I'd never think of calling it journalism, but I guess it was. It's weird that "gaming journalism" is a term, as it seemed much more relaxed in the past. That's probably what needs to come back and why people prefer youtubers over most websites these days, it's too sterile and safe to keep various companies and interest groups happy.

Anyway, I think the way to do it is by doing niche stuff or specific categories or genres. Quite a few old RPG sites still exist, like rpgamer and rpgcodex. Something like gematsu is really valuable to people that prefer Japanese games, which should really be everyone by this point. In fact gematsu is pretty much the perfect example of a modern "gaming journalism" website that has stayed in its lane and still focuses on video game news and not cultural opinion pieces. There is still sadly a huge gap in how internet websites used to work when people were more free to be themselves and be awkward dorks making jokes intended for a specific audience. The only ones I'm aware of where people are less sterile are unfortunately culture warriors themselves so it sucks.

I'm also not sure if you can get anyone under 30 to start reading instead of watching videos, though. There's an entire industry where people make a living (sometimes becoming millionaires) by simply reading articles or papers other people have produced to an audience too unwilling to read or browse websites themselves.

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 21:23:59 No.136976

>>136971
>There's an entire industry where people make a living (sometimes becoming millionaires) by simply reading articles or papers other people have produced to an audience too unwilling to read or browse websites themselves.
(think ive said this on kissu before...) my former coworker listened to those videos while eating at his desk with both hands occupied holding his sandwicchy so he couldnt scroll. so thats one target audience

Anonymous 01/19/25 (Sun) 17:01:17 No.137005

No, because everyone already knows the industry is corrupt by design and can't be trusted as an impartial third-party, so it's both cheaper and more effective for companies to astroturf with "influencers" who all convince their audience that they're the exception to the rule. And if you just want news, everyone has access to the source delivery so having it all aggregated a month later doesn't serve much purpose. Even the guides aspect was obsoleted by wikis.

>>136959
>an hour plus long reviews
Might as well just play the thing if you're investing that much time into it.

>>136971
Audiobooks have been a thing for longer than actual books.

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Anonymous 01/19/25 (Sun) 06:31:21 No.136995 [Reply]

Mai-Hime is one of the rare anime in which it kept its original OP and ED throughout the whole thing, but actually would've benefited from having a 2nd set for the tonal shift in the 2nd half.

Anonymous 01/19/25 (Sun) 07:11:27 No.136996

It can't be that rare, can it?

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Eigo Jouzu! Anonymous 01/17/25 (Fri) 22:18:55 No.136936 [Reply]

Anime characters trying (or pretending) to speak English and other foreign languages.

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Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 00:59:07 No.136949

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Momoko probably throws her chopsticks on the floor in restaurants and demands a fork and spoon, then sharts and pisses on the floor in the restroom because she refuses to use the squat toilets.

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 01:03:02 No.136950

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hehehe
Such a non-sequitur and the American letters. Some sort of 'Americans laugh loudly' thing I think

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 01:50:11 No.136951>>136952

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can everyone's browsers play AV1 encodes now?

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 01:58:23 No.136952

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>>136951
Works for me.

Anonymous 01/18/25 (Sat) 02:53:08 No.136954

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The Case for Style Over Substance Anonymous 01/16/25 (Thu) 03:57:22 No.136852 [Reply]

I'm sure someone is going to immediately post a counterexample for some anime out there that struggles with its art/animation yet still tell a captivating story. It's just, despite the massive amount of anime I've seen I don't think there's ever really been a case where something without any sort of visual flair has ever wormed its way into my long-term memory or had any impact. And not visual flair necessarily in the sense of looking closer to Ghibli levels of blow your mind crazy animation, but any sort of work where you can feel a sort of personal touch from the creators, whether it be the animators or the director. It feels like it's almost a set in stone rule that average animation begets average quality at best. While good animation can elevate a poorer story. Like with Zenshuu this season, I don't really care for the story all that much but I'll still watch it because it looks nice and there's plenty of older OVAs too for which the stories are a complete mess but enthrall you enough with their presentation that you keep watching anyways.

With that said I really wanted to like Kuroiwa because it's got the kind of ecchi setups I always long for and a bit above generic cardboard cutout MCs. However, it just looks so bland everywhere. For all that it tries in its first episode meant to hook you, it can't muster enough to excite me more in its entire runtime than a single segment from a Highschool DxD ED. I just end up feeling more sad and disappointed in the end that I wasn't able to like it more and the wasted potential that could have been were it handled by a better studio. I think this is probably one of my main gripes with anime nowadays, there's too much hastily churned out series that contribute to some abstract looming ball of monotony that casts a shadow above anime as a whole to damper its image into one of mediocrity even when there's many cases of a few standout shows each season. I wish they'd just go away even if that meant less anime as a whole to watch. Maybe the animators could be concentrated into fewer projects to make better overall works.

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Anonymous 01/17/25 (Fri) 00:27:25 No.136901

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>>136892
This is true though, every movie that doesn’t portray literally me loses value for it

Anonymous 01/17/25 (Fri) 00:34:42 No.136902>>136929

>>136899
I don't think I made any sweeping generalizations, though. I brought up subjectivity just because you simply seemed to be unable to think that a shows quality might increase with hot men. People judge shows with different criteria; mecha otaku will obsess over the quality of the mechs, while a fujoshi will obsess over the male character's pairings.

Your original comment was about "overvaluing" something; I just pointed out that what we value is rather arbitrary.

And I kind of disagree with your conclusion: visual style can be substance (for example, redline, angels egg). Could Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt for example stand on its witty writing alone? Its visuals are an inseparable part of its substance

Anonymous 01/17/25 (Fri) 00:39:20 No.136903>>136905 >>136929

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I enjoyed Kuroiwa Medaka ni wa Watashi no Kawaii ga Tsuujinai. Enjoy Kawaii Mona, very Kawaii.

Anonymous 01/17/25 (Fri) 04:32:49 No.136905

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>>136903
I really am trying hard to like it, but it just looks so bland...

Anonymous 01/17/25 (Fri) 19:59:40 No.136929

>>136902
The entire thread is based around the assertion that "style" is more important than "substance" in anime, and OP has clarified that "style" refers to the visuals. The entire thread and discussion becomes pointless if you're just going to go "well, it's all subjective anyway." You're either conceding the argument in the sorest of ways or jumping in the middle of a discussion you have no intention of engaging with just to deny its foundational assumptions.

>>136903
I wanted to, but it's just a parade of misunderstanding tropes for setting up underwhelming ecchi.

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