Somehow this isn’t parody.

  • Self_Hating_Moid [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Also thrse people would get the fuck beaten out of them for watching “removed littlr girl cartoons” by their peers if they actually interacted with their “southern culture”

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      1 year ago

      It’s tragic, I was acquainted with a few of these types in high school and they spent all their days floating at the edge of normie cliques, silently rehearsing their fantasies of one day joining the military, instead of just letting go and joining me and the other abberants getting into shouting matches over who had misquoted Futurama.

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    1 year ago

    I live innawoods, my car is splattered with mud from getting it out of my driveway when it rained. Many of my friends growing up were deeply impoverished (rusty-ass trampolines, sun-bleached toys strewn over the yard, “ignore Uncle Jim, he won’t talk, he’s playin his online poker”, wife-beating happening in the other room stuff) and I had to go to all their horrible evangelical grifter churches when I slept over on Saturdays.

    My point is that I’m just as if not more “southern” than the dorks like this guy and I’m a communist or some shit LMAO OWNED

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Who’s “they?” The vast swath of the eastern seaboard defined by western european immigrants like the Italians and Irish, the “fugeddaboudit” and “BAHSTAHN” guys that everyone thinks of when they think of New England cities? The west coast people known for wine exports, distinctive music and film cultures, drug culture, etc?

    Southern culture is now largely defined by hollow rhetoric and hypocrisy. They want to be rednecks with big trucks but they whine about how much they have to tip the food slave who brings their DoorDash order. They talk constantly about Christian values and then indulge in hedonistic lives and go out drinking alcohol to excess and fornicating (which the Bible explicitly says will bar you from entering Heaven volcel-judge )

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      1 year ago

      Good shows will have a lot of head and body shapes, but most of them don’t and it’s just the hair. IMO the reason so many of them have horns and tails and stuff is to make their silhouette more recognizable without potentially compromising the standard “pretty face” that most otaku demand.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        FFXIV did that with Au Ra. They almost looked more interesting, as hinted at by Yugiri wearing a mask for so long, but the weebs got their way.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        This one is the tsundere. Here’s the yandere(s) that fight for senpai. This one is the obligatory blank-faced even younger coded one for the especially creepy. Put hair colors in a randomizer and you got a new show! so-true

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      1 year ago

      I think there are enough posivle combinations even when there is such a limited amount of traits you can vary that each character is unique?

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        1 year ago

        What I said and what you said can be true at the same time, the same way that procedurally generated terrain can be technically unique in some specific part of it but still be bland.

        Or NFTs. “Unique” doesn’t automatically mean good, creative, or interesting if it’s just a randomizer of cliches.

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          1 year ago

          As long as they are unique you will de able to tell them apart if you see enough of them. This also aplies to procedually generated terrain.

          I never said they werent bland i agree with you there. I think blandness is kind of the point. I see so much media trending in that direction. Its probably easier to market.

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            1 year ago

            This also aplies to procedually generated terrain.

            I don’t know what point you’re trying to make here. Something can be technically unique and still uninspired, bland, and repetitive because even its “unique” arrangement is just a sum of repetitive component parts, like all those “bored apes” NFTs.

            I think blandness is kind of the point. I see so much media trending in that direction. Its probably easier to market.

            It’s cheaper and the hogs still gobble it up, so it’s more profitable, yeah.

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              The point is that its easy to distinguish things once you are aquinted to it. So the weebs are not wierd in that particular sesnse. They are wierd for other reasons. I agree its bland but that does not necesarily make them hard to distinguish.

              Id go further on the second point. More hogs are going tl eat a bland thing than a thing with character since the latter may be too much effort. Or it may appeal to very specific tastes.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                The point is that its easy to distinguish things once you are aquinted to it. So the weebs are not wierd in that particular sesnse. They are wierd for other reasons. I agree its bland but that does not necesarily make them hard to distinguish.

                I’m still not seeing where this invalidates anything I said about how lazy and bland and uncreative it is to swap waifu cliches with hair colors/styles. “Technically” unique waifus don’t really have any more creativity to them than a technically unique combination that results in a Bored Ape NFT.

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                  It does not. Im commenting abou how you are surprised weebs are able to distingush them. Wich they should be as long as they are technichally unique. No matter how bland they are.

  • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I tried to think of something clever to say to this but it melted my brain a little so I’m just gonna move on