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PseudoNym

You are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. Hi. ~PseudoNym is Lara. Seems that thanks to a very patient d@vid I am gradually moving away from the realm of 'techno primate' and have finally broken my wiki cherry.

I’m not yet sure what to put on this little hello page (still mostly primate) so this is just a tentative toe in the water sort of thing to say hello.

In the meantime have a look at:

http://www.warehouse23.com/basement/

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/

10th Sep 2004

Re: ZenStarRants

I'm not sure if the posting yesterday was in response to my vague comments about anime on Wed, but if so allow me to clarify.

I was not saying that anime is objectively bad, but rather that I don't like it. Specifically, I don't like the syle of animation. I like plenty of other animation just not that type of animation. There is also a tendency for anime to have plots that revolve around children and that is something I find very unappealing. It's mostly an aesthetic judgement, I just find the syle and vibe irritating, it doesn't work for me.

I also find that the way emotion is portrayed in anime is stilted and bland. When an animated character portrays emotion I like their eyes to pop out of their heads or for them to turn bright red and have steam come out of their nose. Alternatively, if the animator is going for realism then I would prefer the character to have something resembling an actual human expression. Anime seems to have some weird shorthand for emotion that I just don't get. I'll go out on a limb here and say that basically I think it appeals to people who are not that comfortable with expressing or interpreting genuine human emotion and I think that this applies to much of our social circle.

Perhaps there are some deep and expressive elements of the genre that I am blind to, but as I said it my original posting, I just don't get it. Maybe I'm too old.

• clarification and response: i'm not attacking anyone in particular in the rant (it's a rant... it's meant to be at least a little offensive) and the rant wasn't even vaugely aimed at you, it was actually your post that reminded me of someone else's aurgument re: why they thought anime was "stupid cartoons for kids or big tittied women made for perverts" (of course all she had seen was pokemon and her boyfriend's hentai). As for what you say here: i just think you haven't seen enough of the style that you'de like. the real problem here is that we get only a fraction of the anime that is actually made and most of what we get is tranlated by frothers who like a certain style etc... anime really does cover almost everything. but hey... it's not really an important point in life. i just like to occasionally rant and if it spawns interesting conversations or humour then all the better. - ZenStar
• What's your favourite movie? Or at least movie genre? If you are at all interested, I or someone I know can probably organise an anime film in the same style and you could give it a watch, see if it changes your opinion at all. Most of what I might have had to say in response has already been said :P -- SynKronos
• Firstly, congratulations on a successful troll! was it your first? Anyway, about the anime: yes, for some reason it appeals to socially inept people, but they're not the only audience. The best stuff I've ever seen is the following: Anime - Slayers next, Trigun. Manga Hunter X Hunter (warning, the hero is about 8 years old!, Berserk. Anyway, how's life? - ToothpasteDealer,

8th Sep 2004

I've always been unable to understand the appeal of Japanese animation. Today's update by Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka on somethingawful.com touches on a few of the issues I have with it, it's also a really pleasing rant. If you've never checked out the site, you should.

"Anime and Japanese culture - I'm firmly convinced that certain depressing Americans love Japanese culture even more than the Japanese. You've got this rancid cross-section of fat American bozos who are obsessed with anime and all other fucked up forms of deviant Japanese culture because they're convinced that while no sane or rational American woman in a non-coma state would even consider accidentally calling their house for a wrong number, 90% of the females in Japan would chain themselves up to their cock just because they're American. You know that saying "the grass is always greener on the other side?" Well these people believe that the other side not only contains a whole shitload of grass, but also an entire warehouse of mobile dick-sucking machines fueled by the oil slick of greasy discharge leaking from their cheese ball-sized facial pores. Japan represents some mythological wonderland where all their dreams can come true, namely the dream of them not being completely unpopular abject failures eternally scorned by members of both sexes just because they're fat, moist, stupid, and have the social skills of a crippled wet ferret.

Wake up America: anime fucking sucks. I don't give a shit about the spirit of Mother Earth and why she's personally pissed off at me just because I throw rusty car batteries into freshwater lakes and piss on baby birds nests. I don't want to watch poorly translated analogies about the struggle between technology and man's eternal soul; I want to see the soul get incinerated by Metal Storm. I don't care about the romantic lives of two 12-year old girls that look like eight-year old girls imitating six-year old girls who have had their DNA genetically combined with the DNA of an insect and a creature composed solely of tits. If you're really desperate to see inside the dramatic love life of a grade school kid, go abduct a few from a nearby public school and force them to recreate the time you were turned down by Susie Johnson in fifth grade just because you had a patch of braided hair growing from your left ear canal. If you get arrested, let the authorities know you're a big anime fan; they'll probably have a special section of the prison just for your people, complete with titanium reinforced cots and a fire hose that sprays out Clearasil. The best thing to ever come out of Japan was dickgirl porn, and that's just because their penises make it too difficult for them to fit in those fucking stupid ass robot suits."