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Post by kaoru on Oct 15, 2017 11:19:43 GMT -5
Oh man, a cute young hipster guy with an arm full of colourful tattoos? Gimme, all night long.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Oct 15, 2017 12:33:46 GMT -5
Oh! I think I know of something that irks me, though I don't know if I'd call it a "trend". (rant incoming) I really cannot stand when people play music loudly. Like, it upsets me so much. It hurts my ears when it's that loud, and a lot of people who I've met over the years will play their music to the point where it distorts and sounds even shittier than it already would. Fuck I can't stand music being played loudly for no reason. If I need to put in earplugs in order to tolerate the volume you have your music at, you might be doing something wrong. It especially dumbfounds me because a lot of people act like they're actually proud of playing their music really loud. Like... have fun giving yourself tinnitus, I guess? It's fucking ridiculous. Just the general disregard of quality annoys me. And I don't mean the quality of the actual music itself (although most people could learn to develop a decent taste in music...). But yeah, the loudness too. There's a point where turning the volume up adds nothing to the music, both hearability, and certainly not quality wise. And yet my upstair neighbor feels the need to turn it at least twice as hard than that point. And my mom often plays the music so loud (when she's with her friend), that it becomes too loud for the speakers to handle well. If she would turn it down a bit, it would still be very loud, AND it would actually be how it's supposed to sound. It just screams being not passionate about music at all to me if you don't even notice how shitty it makes the music sound. And people playing music over their phone or laptop speakers are even worse. IMO, you might as well not play any music at all if you're gonna destroy it like that. The actual music that comes out never makes up for the noise-factor that is anything coming out of a phone.
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Post by llj on Oct 15, 2017 12:46:20 GMT -5
Some things aren't trends anymore but rather the new norms. Like people railing about moe anime for instance. It's not a trend anymore if it's been around for over 15 years.
One new norm I dislike is that public libraries aren't quiet anymore. Cell phones have been the death for spaces of public silence. And there are so many loud talkers in this world.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 15, 2017 18:01:29 GMT -5
I thought everyone agreed anime was in a pretty good place these days? There's so much variety of anime these days including stuff any old school fan could get behind like the JoJo tv series.
Complaining about "moe" seems dated to me, sure it's out there but hardly seems as ubiquitous as it once was.
Of course I'm mostly speaking as an observer since I've fallen way behind on anime in the 2010s, I've only seen a handful of things but I have enjoyed everything I have seen.
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Post by Échalote on Oct 16, 2017 2:17:46 GMT -5
kids not getting off my lawn
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Post by llj on Oct 16, 2017 10:07:47 GMT -5
I thought everyone agreed anime was in a pretty good place these days? There's so much variety of anime these days including stuff any old school fan could get behind like the JoJo tv series. Complaining about "moe" seems dated to me, sure it's out there but hardly seems as ubiquitous as it once was. Of course I'm mostly speaking as an observer since I've fallen way behind on anime in the 2010s, I've only seen a handful of things but I have enjoyed everything I have seen. Seinen action series have seriously declined over the past 10 or so years. I'm talking about stuff like Black Lagoon, Jormungand or Canaan. Anime for the action fan who's not interested in shonen "leveling up" story structures is pretty hard to find nowadays. And the ones that do drop every once in a while are REALLY low budget. I think the last quality animated seinen action series was Psycho Pass. And btw, Attack on Titan and Tokyo Ghoul are not seinen action series. They have the same juvenile "leveling up" story structure as most shonen anime. They are basically blood and gore shows for teenagers. Every time the characters in these shows learn a new super move I can almost hear the Final Fantasy victory fanfare chime.
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Post by Snake on Oct 16, 2017 10:33:28 GMT -5
Haha, I have noticed that for many Game Stops, the front half of the store seems to be more dedicated to toys and merchandise now. I was so tempted to dump $20 on a Zelda drinking glass.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 16, 2017 13:51:33 GMT -5
Fucking valley girl speak. Particularly that Yaaaaaaasss shit.
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 16, 2017 15:47:51 GMT -5
I thought everyone agreed anime was in a pretty good place these days? There's so much variety of anime these days including stuff any old school fan could get behind like the JoJo tv series. Complaining about "moe" seems dated to me, sure it's out there but hardly seems as ubiquitous as it once was. I see it pretty much the same way, I think those despicable "little sister" shows peaked around 2012 or so and while CGDCT shows (Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) are here to stay one way or another, they're not as common as they were and they're slowly returning to a niche now. A stupid trend now in anime is the "isekai" one, AKA "normal dude finding himself in fantasy world for no reason and having to adapt", derived from light novels. It was interesting at first, then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and the trend has pretty much become the parody of itself with increasingly contrived and absurd ideas, and actual parodies of course. "Re:Creators" seemed to have the right idea for reversing the trend, i.e. fictional characters coming to the real world and facing their creators, too bad it sucked donkey balls... As for Funko Pop, I always hated them too with their beady eyes and I find nendoroids much superior, being actually poseable, with added accessories, interchangeable parts etc. which however cause their cost to rise. I only have one as of now, Ryuko Matoi from Kill la Kill, and I was about to buy a MegaMan one, but then I decided to save money. I'd like to buy other nendos representing Trigger shows, such as Akko ( Little Witch Academia) or Luluco ( Space Patrol Luluco). A trend I dislike now is that everyone seems to want to grow a huge beard for some reason. Some years ago when one wanted to look badass shaved their heads, but now? Most of them don't even look good, for example Leo Messi (the football player) looks like an inbred hillbilly now.
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Post by surnshurn on Oct 17, 2017 11:18:24 GMT -5
on a more serious note - I don't like the trend of the stifling of open discussion on college campuses. utilizing authority to support certain views (in this case left-leaning views) in order to make campuses a "safe place". Of course personal attacks aren't okay, but the mere mention of unpopular/unwanted ideas is now enough to warrant action from campus authority. on the simplest level - college is where educated people are supposed to come to welcome open discussion and figure things out, not enact a polarizing agenda to coddle students with a certain mindset. for some reason it's become okay to "punch a nazi in the mouth", when describing using violence against someone with a certain mindset (even if they're not being violent). how fucked up is that? some unpopular ideas that it seems okay to use violence against a person for are eugenics, easing taxes on corporations/the rich, binary genderism, islamophobia... not ideas that i agree with, but ideas with reasons behind them and ideas that i believe should be able to be discussed without fear of penalty, formal or otherwise, on a college campus. the notion that an idea makes a person feel uncomfortable is exactly the reason that it should be discussed in an academic environment.
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Post by llj on Oct 17, 2017 11:56:11 GMT -5
on a more serious note - I don't like the trend of the stifling of open discussion on college campuses. utilizing authority to support certain views (in this case left-leaning views) in order to make campuses a "safe place". Of course personal attacks aren't okay, but the mere mention of unpopular/unwanted ideas is now enough to warrant action from campus authority. on the simplest level - college is where educated people are supposed to come to welcome open discussion and figure things out, not enact a polarizing agenda to coddle students with a certain mindset. for some reason it's become okay to "punch a nazi in the mouth", when describing using violence against someone with a certain mindset (even if they're not being violent). how fucked up is that? some unpopular ideas that it seems okay to use violence against a person for are eugenics, easing taxes on corporations/the rich, binary genderism, islamophobia... not ideas that i agree with, but ideas with reasons behind them and ideas that i believe should be able to be discussed without fear of penalty, formal or otherwise, on a college campus. the notion that an idea makes a person feel uncomfortable is exactly the reason that it should be discussed in an academic environment. I agree with this in principle, but one reason I'm reluctant to voice it is because people nowadays who argue about "free speech being stifled" is often construed as a patented right-wing excuse for hate speech. I'm left of centre, but every time I make even one criticism of liberal trends on social media I am often construed as a "phony" liberal (we all know the types--the ones who pretend to be centrist but are actually extreme right when you line up everything they have said) I'll just say that my views on censorship on campuses and/or public spaces has been best articulated by Salman Rushdie of late. Rushdie is firmly liberal but he has voiced concerns about the slippery slope the left has been heading when it comes to left-leaning censorship. That's not to say my anti-censorship stance hasn't been greatly tested in recent years. Publicized hate speech often DOES encourage copycats--there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that every Milo or Tomi "Call me Tommy" that goes to "speak" at a public event, it encourages other yahoos to get together and do it too. So I do waver at times.
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Post by Snake on Oct 17, 2017 12:24:30 GMT -5
on a more serious note - I don't like the trend of the stifling of open discussion on college campuses. utilizing authority to support certain views (in this case left-leaning views) in order to make campuses a "safe place". Of course personal attacks aren't okay, but the mere mention of unpopular/unwanted ideas is now enough to warrant action from campus authority. on the simplest level - college is where educated people are supposed to come to welcome open discussion and figure things out, not enact a polarizing agenda to coddle students with a certain mindset. for some reason it's become okay to "punch a nazi in the mouth", when describing using violence against someone with a certain mindset (even if they're not being violent). how fucked up is that? some unpopular ideas that it seems okay to use violence against a person for are eugenics, easing taxes on corporations/the rich, binary genderism, islamophobia... not ideas that i agree with, but ideas with reasons behind them and ideas that i believe should be able to be discussed without fear of penalty, formal or otherwise, on a college campus. the notion that an idea makes a person feel uncomfortable is exactly the reason that it should be discussed in an academic environment. I'm surprised this even goes on at the college level. You would think at age 18, you would expect people to live more like adults and would like to be treated like adults; not cower in a "safe space" and throw tantrums like a petulant toddler, because they were unable to articulate their feelings or process it in a logical manner. I had friends at 17 that got kicked out of their home, and had to make it on their own. To me, surviving seems like a more stressful issue than seeing a democratic/republican debate. I'm glad my friends grew up fast and made their own path, rather than break down. Even more surprising is how easily offended people have become by mere words or jokes. You cannot be offended or slighted, without your own consent. Married with Children as a TV show would not survive today's politically correct culture. There are very successful comedians who purposefully avoid performing at college campuses, because all it takes is one tweet, or one 5 second clip taken out of context, to create a mess. Over a joke. Like, no joke. It's certainly an interesting paradox where those who "perceive bullying" are the ones who are violent bullies. Like a religious ideological, fanatical witch hunt. Attack first, don't ever ask questions, if at all. On another note, one trend I dislike are recent movie soundtracks. They just seem so forgettable. I think everyone can hum the catchy themes to the older Superman films, Indiana Jones, or Tim Burton Batman. The music to Spiderman Homecoming, or Wonder Woman? Can't recall it at all.
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Post by surnshurn on Oct 17, 2017 13:56:43 GMT -5
I think that musical themes have really fallen behind visual in movies. take star wars for example, with the original soundtrack being so much of the experience, versus the prequels. i think this is a trend that really started with jurassic park and the huge investment into visuals there.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 17, 2017 14:20:50 GMT -5
I wish online deals and things didn't require a Facebook account. Like, hey, pledge your soul in allegiance with one specific company in order to get a discount off this thing!
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 17, 2017 14:34:33 GMT -5
on a more serious note - I don't like the trend of the stifling of open discussion on college campuses. utilizing authority to support certain views (in this case left-leaning views) in order to make campuses a "safe place". Of course personal attacks aren't okay, but the mere mention of unpopular/unwanted ideas is now enough to warrant action from campus authority. on the simplest level - college is where educated people are supposed to come to welcome open discussion and figure things out, not enact a polarizing agenda to coddle students with a certain mindset. for some reason it's become okay to "punch a nazi in the mouth", when describing using violence against someone with a certain mindset (even if they're not being violent). how fucked up is that? some unpopular ideas that it seems okay to use violence against a person for are eugenics, easing taxes on corporations/the rich, binary genderism, islamophobia... not ideas that i agree with, but ideas with reasons behind them and ideas that i believe should be able to be discussed without fear of penalty, formal or otherwise, on a college campus. the notion that an idea makes a person feel uncomfortable is exactly the reason that it should be discussed in an academic environment. Yeah, and it's becoming a real issue, because they've been really starting it with the bigot crowd, like Milo Yittlebittypenis and Fox News people. And I mean you look like an asshole when you say that they shouldn't be silenced like this. But, combine it with the bad habit of calling people you don't like Nazis. And you understand why I've been shouting myself hoarse since fucking last September, trying to make people realize we're gonna end up with a new brand of Authoritarianism.
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