You’re officially not allowed to talk about “common tropes” and “deconstruction” of mecha anime if the oldest anime you’ve seen is from 1995

I made this post almost like five years ago but as a general rule if the oldest anime you've seen is from the 90s, I guarantee that you don't know nearly as much about anime as you think you know

This segment from jenny nicholsons star wars hotel video keeps playing in my head whenever people talk about the cost of video games these days so i'm clipping it because it's relatable to me.

there's just no sustainable model for moderation at scale for social media. we really were better off with forums.

i will acknowledge the forums heyday was a time before everyone was On Line with smartphones. You had to go sit down on The Computer or the laptop to use it. Times have changed.

there was simply a smaller chud to moderator ratio back then. and i accept that you cant go back to less people online, but that just demonstrates the issue of scale

forums were small enough that the moderator team were people who knew each other and were accountable for their moderation decisions. they werent unknown people in an offshore content moderation setup. they had an investment in being part of the community and the context to make decisions. plus the lower volume of reports to be able to dedicate time to make a more measured judgement

social networks today have a completely unmanageable chud to moderator ratio. moderators are largely contractors with no connection to the place they're moderating. and the worst part: social networks prioritize DAUs over everything else. they will go easy on banning chuds because chuds look at ads and the network gets money. who cares if they make other users miserable? they keep coming back!

look how much had to happen to twitter to get people to start leaving. the rot in that place set in YEARS before elon bought the place yet there's still holders-on.

on a forum, someone breaks the rules they get banned. you get a big fat "USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST" on the post that did them in and i will bet my balls that reprimand did more for keeping the place civil than any "community note" ever has

This was intentionally manufactured by Facebook. Facebook implemented it’s “accountability culture” starting with its rule about only using your real name and photo on its service and encouraging you to disclose other information in your profile, and from there it just got normalized. It was entirely to gather data for advertising purposes, but now we associate that level of openness with “accountability”. Entire generations are now being raised with this as the norm. Privacy is no longer a priority, or even really seen as an option.

This is to your detriment. Your privacy protects you from predators of all kinds. You really should be guarding it carefully. Disclose what you feel is important on a case by case basis, but even your mental health status and beliefs are exploitable by big business and small-time bullies and abusers alike.

Even if you’re not overly fussed about what people know about you, just understand that not everyone has the luxury of feeling the same. Some people have stalkers and abusers they’re trying to evade, or don’t want to attract new abusers into their lives by being that vulnerable and open again. Some people have extreme social anxiety. Some people are protecting other people in their lives. Some people just don’t want their grandmothers to find their smutfics. Some people are Internet privacy advocates who keep their details private as a political statement and as a matter of principle.

You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours. You are allowed to just be an anonymous username until you feel safe to disclose more.

You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours.

So, I have a question for you.

Have you noticed, maybe even mutuals, who were defending Netflix DMC before it released, defending Shankar only to express how disappointed they were after watching adaptation? And what's worse, still asking for more because "it's better than nothing"...Even though the series they love gets an awful reputation? Even though they were like 'uhh..music is good, action scenes were good...Uhh, I don't like how the characters were written. But yeah give me more, 'cause it's better than nothing!

So basically, they could have liked an original work.

I think there were many who thought it was more important that their stuff got shared by that guy and that was enough to not criticize him, Attention seeking and always trying to be kind most likely bit them in the ass in my opinion and I'm having a hard time feeling bad for them because they couldn't say no and overlooked the shit that Shankar has done. They were just used, Shankar isn't their buddy with whom they will hang out. He won't share your stuff when he gets his hands on another IP.

So yeah, have you seen people who acted like that?

"Could have liked an original work" is something that stood out to me here, because that's how both of Shankar's "adaptations" have come across to me so far. For example, after a certain point, Netflix Castlevania is so completely disconnected from the video game series that it may as well just be an entirely original story about people fighting vampires. If it wasn't literally called "Castlevania", sometimes I'd have had a hard time figuring out that it's supposed to be an adaptation of Castlevania.

Netflix DMC is the same way. It has some visual similarities to the video game series, but that's pretty much where the similarites end. It's more or less and entirely original story wearing DMC's skin, much like Castlevania before it.

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