Do you make it your mission in life to make stupid knee-jerk judgments based on small experiences and use them like a rabid dog attacking other people?
comparing outrage over a real life case of animal torture to people who assume Bonsai Kittens are real is ridiculous hyperbole.
So, because we don’t like the fact that people skin cats alive, we are picking on artists?
:rolleyes:
How can we get this through your thick fucking skull? We are not bashing artists-but sadists who use the whole “it’s art” excuse to hurt others?
Perhaps YOU are the one going around with an agenda trying to bash others?
So, to recap, Chas.E claims to be an expert in all forms of computers, technology, cultures, art forms, and the ancient Indian ritual known as “shitspewing”.
Um, what truth? I’m not an anime fan-the last time I watched any anime was when I was seven years old and those old Voltron and Robotech shows were on on Saturday morning?
Spoofe-his best talent is making assumptions with his head up his ass. Quite a feat.
I, too, am rather lacking in current slang. Am I correct in surmising that “otaku” means “someone I want desperately but wrongly to believe I can look down upon”?
I have no idea of the word’s connotation in anime circles–for the record, I LOATHE anime–but in Japanese “otaku” just means a guy, a man. “Chas E.,”
on the other hand, means “an unbelievably thick and doltish creature with less compassion than Saddam Hussein with jock itch and less intelligence than a seriously concussed garden slug.”
Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us. If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessly idealistic, dangerously revolutionary, foolishly gullible or what have you. Besides that, telling such truths is a sure way of making oneself unpopular in many circles, and, as such, it is an act that, in general, is not without personal risks.
Anyhoo, otaku apparently is slang for someone who is totally obsessed to the point of ignoring basic hygiene and society in general. Apparently, a Japanese version of the Trekkies?
Chas, if you were half as smart as you claim, you would realize that my obsessions lie with obscure European Royalty from Victoria’s time until the 2nd world war, especially the Romanovs of Russia and King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia.
Actually it means an overly obsessed fan, especially of a particularly geeky persuit, such as anime or computer games.
(I could go into the etymology of it, if you’d like. It’s really quite a fascinating word.)
In NA anime circles it just means a fan of anime.
(Actually, my first exposure to the word was on an Aussie TV show that was profiling the Otaku Brigade, a group of 2-way radio enthusiasts in Australia.)
Oh, and, from the anime thread, here’s what Chaz seemed to be describing as ‘blathering on and on’ (It’s my post):
At that point, I addressed the OP.
Next post was his.
Yep, Lady Juliet and I really blathered on and on…
Ye Gods, this man is an idiot…
::After Preview:: And he has the GALL to compare himself to Gallileo?!?!?
The last resort of the truly lost, hiding behind the names of the great.
When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up.
C.S. Lewis
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
Ambrose Bierce
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
Chas, the thing that your peabrained self is missing is that you’re not telling any truths. You’re telling half-assed generalizations with about as much truth as an episode of Gilligan’s Island.
What’s next, genius? Gonna quote Teddy Roosevelt? Julius Caesar? Big Bird?