I Haven;t Seen The Show So I Dont Have An Opinion On The Tierlist, But It Looks Aesthetic Doesn't It?

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This picture of a 'shanty town' in Peru looks quite similar to the Barracks Settlement in Yume Nikki! Especially how it is located in a desert. This lines up with the other Peruvian references in Yume Nikki, namely the Paracas style art and the Inca motif on Madotsuki's character design.

not to be annoying but its really funny watching people in an rpg maker discord argue against ai from the point of view of "hard work and labor is what making games is all about, if you don't put in the effort you don't deserve a game". ok. why are you using rpg maker then.

the framing of generative ai as "theft" in popular discourse has really set us back so far like not only should we not consider copyright infringement theft we shouldn't even consider generative ai copyright infringement

The 'wishing star' one is such a good aesthetic in particular!

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Coherence

A pattern I notice in 'writing advice' is that the ideal that gets promoted is to restrain and tightly organize every element in order to produce a single overall effect.

It is not so good that this is commonplace. Writing needs space to be incoherent and disjointed. This is what will allow writing to be truly alive. In a functional aesthetic world, there will not be a need to sever 'useless' growths from the body.

You can trace an ideological lineage from Tezuka to Miyazaki, where both promote a kind of 'pacifism' which is at its core conservative and hostile to the idea of fighting against real evil. Thinking specifically of Tezuka's "Buddha" series here

My hot take is that I feel like “ghibli films are pro Japanese imperialism” is a lazy jab that grabs at a few soft spots in the oeuvre to make the cheapest most rhetorically damaging shot it can, and that an honest analysis would generally struggle to say even the most problematic of the movies like The Wind Rises come out of the wash with a positive opinion of imperial Japan. My hotter take is that if you rigorously pull at the threads where the nominally anti-war films thematically collapse, you’ll find the issue isn’t a support of Japanese Imperialism but a lack of a rigorous critique of industrial civilization.

No idea what this is called but it sounds really good

the juxtaposition between being asked to basically be a national scarecrow to scare off any countries salivating to invade due to the coup and playing dress up to prepare for the cultural festival at school is insane lmao

one chapter has the leader of the coup practically begging her to agree to be a national deterrent, and the next is her being sent off to the crafts club to have her fitted for the princess cosplay she'll be doing in the festival abdlamdkqkejejdjdnfncn

Every time I read a different translation of Senbonzakura I feel less confident as to what it's talking about.

The imagery is also confusing, with lines like "pacifist nation" mixed into what sound like nationalist propaganda, or mention of science fiction weaponry... but I think the language might be too complicated for anyone who isn't a fluent Japanese speaker to understand, especially since no professional translation seems to exist

I'm suspicious of the narrative that it's just propaganda, though, because that seems kind of too literal and unimaginative

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the quality is very low hope to fix that later

We should base our aesthetics on this rather than making them conform to standards

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

palm trees are an interesting detail

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