Remember the great upset of 201X when Crunchy Roll announced their own magical school girl anime? I was there, on the front lines, seeing Fans With Concerns get infinitely mad about a kinda underwhelming trailer for a children's cartoon. (I have the gnawing suspicion that the trailer was actually directed towards actual parents and kids inorder to market CR as a wholesome place for families and not just otaku perverts. It was a silly trailer none-the-less.)
The reasons for upset may have been different than what was openly claimed and once the outrage machine went brrr, it was infinite bad takes on CalArts style that clearly hadn't ever read the original John Kricfalusi essay, smh. That essay was mad petty tho and should be rightly ignored as an old man (old before his time indeed) yelling at clouds.
But one bad cartoon aside, while caring about bad faith art and media criticism has its value on its own terms, this kind of upset is especially worrisome for the possibilities and livelihoods of artists from marginalized groups. The scrutiny and standards applied to them is unfairly high and Sarah Z along with co-writer Emily take on these topics and more on this autopsy of the High Guardian Spice controversy.
Tbh I don't personally put much value on niceness per se. Pretty direct conflict has its merits! I feel like the culture here just kinda sits on some equilibrium point where we don't have much need to be rude to each other, so the fallout of that end up this place being one of the chillest places on the internet (especially if you use my custom Saturn Valley CSS theme). I do like it here.
Gonna say: I am almost disappointed that this was a long video, again. I was looking forward to watching a two hour one, thinking that Tim had left overperforming in his past. IDK I'm still going to watch it, but I've seen Tokimemo Memorial vid for three times, have no regrets, and yet it feels incredible that I've dedicated 18 hours of my life into a game I'll never play.
This piece is partially inspired by the recent fallout of Ana Mardoll, but by no means limited to it or commenting on him/xer as a person. (I forgot the proper pronouns, but I want to engage less with them as a person rather than more so mea culpa and w/e.)
So apparently zillion people agree with you since it is a very popular way of running a website. My hesitation about it is that it might be a bit too heavy for my purposes. My project is such that I could go full web 1.0 and full on just write html+css+javascript in a text editor. I could go that route, but I like some modern conveniences such as tags, archives ordered by date and so on.
With the risk of being pretentious, I'm thinking of Samuel Johnson style affair back when he published short essays as two penny sheets. Or something more contemporary like a xeroxed zine.
In the end I think I will research it and Jekyll and see which one I prefer.
I find it amusing that I could just have something that caters pretty much all my streaming needs for cheaper than it costs to upgrade my tech enough to let me watch Netflix on my TV.
Yeah it's the ugliness thing that makes me wary of following in your footsteps. That said it would be nice if I could turn my blog in to a ebook, like, instantly.
P.S. to see a first hand example of my level of techitude, see my custom styles for jstpst.net - Saturn Valley or something. I use it solely for this site and it imitates the save file and character creation screens of EarthBound. Also, mint green and light blue squares are objectively the most delicious looking background graphic possible. I would sincerely wear a t-shirt based on EarthBound save file and character creations screens!
It changed over time. In primary school I was taught animal, plant and fungi kingdoms, with protists and bacteria being outsiders and not classified in any particularway. In high school it was three domains of archaea, bacteria and eucaryotes and eucaryotes contained the three kingdoms of animals, plants and fungi, with allusions made toward the fact that fungi and animals were somewhat closely related. Protists were understood to be a varied group.
That said the messiness of not being a kingdom makes protists more interesting rather than less to me.
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Remember the great upset of 201X when Crunchy Roll announced their own magical school girl anime? I was there, on the front lines, seeing Fans With Concerns get infinitely mad about a kinda underwhelming trailer for a children's cartoon. (I have the gnawing suspicion that the trailer was actually directed towards actual parents and kids inorder to market CR as a wholesome place for families and not just otaku perverts. It was a silly trailer none-the-less.)
The reasons for upset may have been different than what was openly claimed and once the outrage machine went brrr, it was infinite bad takes on CalArts style that clearly hadn't ever read the original John Kricfalusi essay, smh. That essay was mad petty tho and should be rightly ignored as an old man (old before his time indeed) yelling at clouds.
But one bad cartoon aside, while caring about bad faith art and media criticism has its value on its own terms, this kind of upset is especially worrisome for the possibilities and livelihoods of artists from marginalized groups. The scrutiny and standards applied to them is unfairly high and Sarah Z along with co-writer Emily take on these topics and more on this autopsy of the High Guardian Spice controversy.