Moonside

Moonside wrote

Also on an entirely different tack: I just dislike how in some queer and SJ spaces it's beyond gauche to consider astrology silly. Like we ought to have some kind of reverent attitude towards it or we're some hegemonic white cishet dudebros. Like it's ok to like goofy and silly things and not to expect people to all agree with it or to think that voicing disagreement is a moral failure.

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Moonside wrote

As a kid I had a demo cd that had you walk in a space ship to access video game demos and one of them was the Beavis and Butthead adventure game demo. Probably should watch the show and play the game someday!

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Moonside wrote

Wow looking or touching /r/SRS in our Anno Domini 2022? TBH it was cathartic and funny to yell at poop and see how upset it made people when basically it was all with-in the freezepeach norms your average gentlesir poster supposedly subscribed to. Also it was hilarious what a boogeyman that subreddit was back in the day!

That said, I feel like the Social Justice nexus of early 10's really doesn't exist anymore, sort of like the edgelord right got largely ingested by the MAGA machine and became more mainstream, not that their views ever were that far of from the conservatives except for liking weed and weeb stuff.

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Moonside OP wrote

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.

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Moonside wrote

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.

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Moonside wrote

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.

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