To each their own. I have zero affection for comic book silliness. Never have, probably never will, though I’ll stay open to the possibility. Jessica Jones is the only comic book sourced TV/movie I’ve deeply enjoyed over the past 10 years. The first Iron Man and first Guardians of the Galaxy were fun, but I couldn’t…

Seriously. Some guy at work recommended it to me and I got to the scene where the super big titty nurse, the girlfriend, the guy, and maybe another girl were all naked and they were like... I dunno rubbing massage oil into him or something? I forget the pretext. I stopped there, I was done. But even in episode 1 they…

Revolutionary Girl Utena / Shoujo Kakumei Utena, you mean. One of the best of all time.

Weirdly, I liked SAC for making the Major sexy. Masamune Shirow is of the super-oversexed school of drawing ladies (boobs as long as a torso that flop in different directions), and it’s a minor plot point that the Major’s body from the outside looks like a standard sexbot model, souped up on the inside with military…

What things?

It’s super okay. NGE is deeply flawed. The no-budget ending is probably the most revolutionary and interesting part.

Bah. It started as college project to rate “hot chicks” and quickly became what it’s always been: a human information farm. Quickly as in before Zuck graduated. He said so himself, years ago, in that message where he crowed about his stupid classmates giving their personal info out to him. Sometimes what looks, walks,…

No, but there are distributed models for messaging and for social networks with self-hosting a part. The examples they used were bad, the point stands.

Maybe it’s the contrarian in me, and I have no idea how you, specifically, mean it, but I’m so tired of hearing that. Tired of thinking it. It’s true, some. But it’s bullshit. As if the internet, or the web, can be summed up that way. The idea was given, for free, to the world. There were lots of ways you could get…

You’re so right. She’s a villain. Especially in anime terms. Many anime have nuanced villains (or, perhaps more accurately, antagonists) who were or are “friends” with the heroes either before or during the plot. They’re often interesting and sympathetic on their own merits. Just like Haruko. She’s not a real ally to…

That there is only one way “drive for status” plays out and that it’s how “Men” do it is classic sexism.

There are many women who aren’t like most women.

I could have sworn I was taught, years ago, that there were multiple romanji systems. One might choose, for example, transliteration to “ou.” A different one, for example, might choose transcription to “o.” Your explanation doesn’t line up with that. Which is more accurate?

People are all like, write it anyway. They’re not wrong. But, for me, after working in the tech industry for over a decade, I found that I had internalized so much self-doubt... I have an anxiety problem to monitor as well and noticed I’d stopped engaging in productive habits I’d once valued across many facets of my…

It’s “funny” how often the people who most insist that “blood is thicker than water” and “family is the most important thing” are the very same ones who harm their families. It’s a self-serving value that lets them blame their family for having a rational reaction to cruel, unacceptable, and abusive behavior.

I’m…

> A partner lied to me about his new love interest and lied to her about his level of involvement with me, and that shit cut like a knife. It took everything I had in me not to destroy her trust in him the way he had destroyed mine, but I realized it wasn’t her fault, and ultimately not my place to tell her what was…

And I didn’t like “One Punch Man” personally. But only to this extent: I didn’t find it engaging enough to continue to watch. However, I LOVED the premise. So whenever I have occasion to talk about it with someone who likes it, I say, “It didn’t grab me, but it’s definitely worth a watch—the idea is great.”

I love when people say this and don’t acknowledge that, for a woman, beauty—something her genetics and cultural context controls far more than she does—is status. Everyone is judged by status. A woman has traditionally been restricted to gaining status through her physical attractiveness and ability to nurture. This…

We actually probably don’t disagree that much on it in general. In the broad picture, I concur with what you’ve said.

I don’t even agree it has pacing issues. Its pace is one of the things I like about it and have been impressed with. Perhaps on an episode-by-episode basis, but then when you watch them continuously, it’s incredibly well done. The manga is perhaps more conventionally paced, but I’ve approved generally of the minor…