Anime in 1995: Groups of fans sitting in darkened college Otaku Clubrooms watching animation that does things that no other form of animation has done before. Long, serialized stories; sex, extreme violence, bad language, stories centered around Japanese culture and history. Waiting on bated breath for months for that one series you're into to come out on fansub. Buying two official subbed episodes on a single VHS for 50.00 apiece. Realizing that animation can tell complex stories and isn't necessarily a medium for immature people.
Anime, 20 years later:
Still think Casuals and Thots don't ruin anything?
So you're saying that it's
desirable to have to wait months on fans to pick out anime
they want to sub, with no regard for your own taste in anime, sitting in some college room where you have to hide your love of anime because literally no one understands, so that you can watch a poor quality VHS that's insanely overpriced. If you don't go to college, if you're poor, or if you live in a small town forget it, you won't get to watch anything but Dragonball, Speed Racer and Sailor Moon, and
no one is going to be there for you to talk about it with, or who doesn't think you're some kind of deviant for watching kid's cartoons as an adult.
Because oh no, there's silly people out there who are cringey about their enjoyment of anime you may or may not like? You're obviously joking.
I think you're applying the comic to a limited view of your own hobbies. Think a bit more broadly. My own experiences line up a bit better with the comic itself (a tabletop gaming community) so maybe that's why I identify more. Imagine that you like a certain complex game, so you start going to events to compete. Eventually people who don't actually give a fuck about the game itself start showing up, despite the competitive nature of the events. It wouldn't be much fun, would it? It would ruin the event for the people who actually want to compete. That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about...
The problem isn't that these people are "casuals". I'd consider myself a casual member of many hobby communities. Attention-seekers are the real problem, because they don't care about the hobby or community at all. They just use it to further their own goals (be it popularity, power, etc.) and try to become the center of attention. If these were people who cared about the game at all I wouldn't have an issue. But they don't, and it's apparent that they don't.
I think these people are almost like SJWs in a way. They want some type of control, but they go about things differently. Even still, a lot of the time these people either "turn" into SJWs, or "come out" as SJWs eventually. Odd, right?
SJWs are worse, sure. But while cancer is worse than herpes, I wouldn't be keen on having either...
So I'm not particularly happy about having either of these types of manipulating narcissists in my hobbies. I guess I'm just saying that I can relate.
TLDR; I disagree.
You're still being overdramatic, here. I play DnD myself - and not those 4th and 5th edition turds - but it doesn't personally affect me if there's some gamestore that has adventures league running. If I want to set up a game with people who want to play 2nd ed or 3rd ed or even the original version, I can still do that. I can even contact a gamestore and arrange to have a night (or more, if it's popular) to start hosting those games. That people enjoy playing an MMO-ized DnD doesn't prevent me from continuing to enjoy the versions I do. It might reduce some the fan content made for it, but eh. There's communities for the classic stuff. It can't really 'reduce' it, if the content creators got into the scene because of the later ones in the first place.
I don't really get why people showing up who aren't interested in competing would somehow ruin competitions for the people who do want to compete. They're not competing. How are they interfering? Maybe you're not wording that right.
As for the attention seekers, I mean...literally just ignore them. They'll shrivel up and die in a poof of smoke if you just ignore them and do your thing. Or straighten out and just play the game, whichever way you win. I get that it might not always be ideal or as pleasant as the original situation with only hardcore gameweebs about it, but the conclusion that it's now been ruined and your only recourse is to take your ball and go home is just dramatic and ridiculous. Either adapt or keep doing what you've always been doing and ignore people who aren't playing along. There will always be people willing to do it your way, because if your way wasn't fun to begin with no one would have joined in the first place.
SJWs are a problem because while they may masquerade as casuals or attention seekers for a while, they inevitably come out as what they really are. And the casual might want the game dumbed down for them to keep up, the attention whore might want rules to be bent or broken for them, but it's usually just in a bubble around them. Don't play with them and the allowances for them usually don't apply. SJWs make it their mission to leave their mark on the world by restructuring everything, and they pressure everyone with guilt and self-righteousness so if you don't change it or give them control you're an awful
person, and they'll probably start threatening your relationships/livelihood if you resist (but don't eject) them.
Casuals are more like dry skin. They have the potential to get worse, become cracked, end up bleeding and eventually even start building up infections that do harm to the whole body...but you kind of have to go out of your way to
let and even
cause that to happen. SJWs are an aggressive cancer. If you don't remove it from the body or kill it, it will kill the body and make a horrific twisted copy of the body out of its remains.
www.kanzenshuu.com
Just scroll down that page and see the responses to a comment about why Nick is so popular when he's done blackface.
I'll say it again. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
They're dumb.
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