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mitigatedchaos
collapsedsquid

You know, it’s not like science has fucking stopped entirely.  So why the hell do none of these sci-fi shows seems to have any vision?  It’s like ideas for sci-fi stopped being created in the 80s and they can’t use anything that wasn’t written about before 1990.

mitigatedchaos

Because Eclipse Phase is too unrelatable to general audiences.

We even got a live action Ghost in the Shell movie, and it really missed tons of opportunities in trying to dumb itself down for general audiences.  Perhaps the worst part of it is that Standalone Complex was really quite prescient about the power of memeforce!

mitigatedchaos

Though really, I also think that many Hollywood writers are mostly not of the sci-fi visionary caliber to go from “what if some dude became part robot?” to “what if every dude became part robot?”

The latter includes all sorts of cascading changes throughout society, seen in shows like Standalone Complex, with ordinary people becoming vulnerable to cyberbrain crime and reserving organs to be grown in pigs.  Psycho-Pass is really the spiritual successor here in that it will probably seem really prescient about the use of big data to analyze people for criminality in about 10-20 years, the way Standalone Complex seems prescient about crimes-as-memes.

But even then, those are what, two shows in a foreign country, where most of the shows are either not of that type, or not of that caliber.

How would American audiences have responded if Standalone Complex were a live-action TV show?

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mitigatedchaos
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Okay, let me make a real post out of this for Prof. Sto– I mean @afloweroutofstone​.

I think part of the public liking of anime and posting of anime tiddies, despite being considered low-class activities on the internet, reflects a coming meltdown in masculinity.

There’s a common perception that masculinity is essentially impervious to attack, which is driven by focusing almost entirely on men at the top and ignoring men at the bottom or treating them as non-men.  (Also by ignoring what masculinity of the kind people want to attack even is.)

The real weaknesses of masculinity, however, are at the margins, not from Trudeau wearing pink.  The men who are already having trouble performing masculinity and being judged wanting just… giving up on performing masculinity in terms of its integration with society.

For now, the broader status hierarchy based on performing masculinity in order to appeal to a combination of other men and neurotypical, heterosexual women, is holding.  

But it’s going to erode as new, competing status hierarchies form and expand among those who have no reason to abide by their low status in the old ones.  We’re seeing a war and division over them in “geek” culture, currently, but new culture hierarchy conflicts are going to spread as the gender system destabilizes.

This is one of those rebellions that begins with the peasants out in the provinces and makes its way into the city.

It’s visible in all sorts of low-status men that many of your readers would hate.  But if it were already accepted, it wouldn’t be a true revolution, and this is what not being accepted looks like, in part, WRT the male gender role.

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cyborgbutterflies: “ cyborgbutterflies: “It is hard to pick what my favorite piece of Awful Radfem Discourse is, but I think this might just win the prize. ” Okay, but to answer the question. It’s more of a correlation thing. Trans girls are often...
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It is hard to pick what my favorite piece of Awful Radfem Discourse is, but I think this might just win the prize.

cyborgbutterflies

Okay, but to answer the question. It’s more of a correlation thing.

Trans girls are often anime girls, for example, but not all anime girls are trans girls.

mitigatedchaos

I’ve long had a theory that some groups that are drawn to anime are drawn to it because it telegraphs emotions in a very blatant manner.

For people around gender issues, it also often leaves facial features more vague and less gendered.

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fired: Look at all these crosses, this anime must be rich with spiritual meaning!

tired: The Christian symbolism is meaningless. The director said he put them there because he thought they looked cool.

wired: The Christian symbolism has meaning because we each give religious symbols a different emotional loading, which we read into the work.

inspired: The Christian symbolism has meaning because God inspired various Japanese anime directors to put it there.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

Alternative Fact: Japan isn't a real country. It didn't exist before 1853. The illusion of Japan is created by successively more dedicated layers of weebs. Images of Tokyo are filmed on a series of large-scale movie sets with CGI composites. Japanese people abroad are nothing more than paid actors, hired by the anime industry to protect its profit margins. There's no way it could be a real country - it's almost as ridiculous as Australia! Lol, like the platypus is even a thing. WAKE UP SHEEPLE

argumate answered:

That’s why most Japanese stuff is anime instead of live action: too expensive to fake the backgrounds and keep finding Chinese actors who can pretend they speak “Japanese”.

mitigatedchaos

I can’t believe you would publish such a slanderous ask against the country that was once the 大日本帝国, you treacherous kangaroo farmer, the light of their mighty rising sun nearly covered all of Asi–

* gasping *

* coughing * 

* wheezing *

Phew, don’t know what came over me, there.  One moment I was just reading Tumblr and then I just… blacked out.  It was almost like that time a foreign hypernationalist ideo-virus got past my memetic barriers and infected my cyberbrain.  But fortunately I got that removed.  No traces left.

A-argumate, why are you looking at me like that? 

Argumate-kun?  Is something wrong?

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