Notices by Festive Bridgelurker Kip (jedkron1248@poa.st), page 3

@WashedOutGundamPilot @CatLord I’m just pissed that “American” once meant “rugged cowboy” in the minds of the world, and now I’m ashamed because it means “butt sex defenders, oil monkeys, and jew fellators”.

What do we even still have at large as “American”? Our culture is consumerist sludge, our historical blood (pan-Japhethite mixture though it may be) libeled by hyphens pretending to represent us (Asian-, African-, Latino-), and the heritage and history we should be able to triumphantly wear on our breasts, of innovation, of a mighty people taking untouched wilderness, is made forgotten at best and mocked at worst. That’s not even discussing the passive and active genocides of the American (White) race through policy and through violence we’re not allowed to do anything about.

I can’t blame people for reaching back to euro heritage, because it at least is allowed to exist at the moment. Sure it’s far distant, but it’s something that’s still ok to claim. If American had anything that could be called to as heritage, then it’d be an easier thing to do, but even the “greatest” things America has done are tainted by the consumer spirit and the spectre of being in the moral wrong for most (if not all) of the wars past 1900. The taming of the West and Manifest Destiny are the last things that could be argued as truly great, but you get shouted down with “but muh indians, but muh slaves” when you do.

Until you can get something proud like that going, or the “patriotic” spirit that motivated boomers, calling back to Europe at least gives something to cling to, a mostly truthful American race version of “we wuz kangs”

@coolboymew Watched the episode. The anime feels way too overproduced for the tone of the original work, IMO.

Komura was never so worshipfully obsessed with her, and there were none of those ambitious “floaty hair” shots. I’ll watch a few more episodes to see if it settles in, but it just feels super tonally dissonant. It’s a cute little SOL with short, snappy chapters, this (in hindsight) feels like they’re trying to pad the runtime with technical spectacle rather than letting the character designs and cute interactions carry it. They also feel too old, they’re supposed to be middle schoolers, but this type of flowery obsession feels like a HS manga. Part of it is Komura sorting out his (granted, positive) feelings for Mie, and this just leaps to him being Komi-style obsessed with her.

Again, I love the manga, so I’ll give it a chance, but I’m afraid it’s going to end up being the opposite of Boku no Kokoro, where I was leery initially but loved it. I want to love this, but it just didn’t hit.

@coolboymew I guess that’s fair. I’ll have to see how the rest of the episode is to really have an opinion on it.

@coolboymew Man, I was looking forward to this series, and you’re telling me it’s just going to make me motion sick? Bummer.

What a wacky shot. I don’t watch many films, but it feels like someone trying to be really artsy with their shot composition and not understanding why long, single take following shots are used. If the series was going to be about visual spectacle and high paced action I could understand it, but this is a slice of life about a girl who forgets her glasses, calm down man!

@WashedOutGundamPilot @jimmybuffettfanaccount Granted, I haven’t kept up with his doujin work recently, but afaik/the joke is that he was saved by his wholesome Naruto/Hinata doujin and hasn’t done anything not Nagatoro-tier since.

@DEERBLOOD @WashedOutGundamPilot “Give me the news doctor, I can take it!”

“I diagnose you with hysteria, and the only cure is to have frequent, passionate marital relations, with fingers interlocked and lots of kissing and eye contact!”

“That’s… Oddly specific, doc, but if you say so…”

slips the doctor a $20 and a thumbs up behind her back

@WashedOutGundamPilot After consideration, I’m shocked I settle on Vicky. She’s easily the worst Fairly Oddparents character, but the dream of a loving tsundere is too strong.

Never saw Foster’s, but Frankie would be my second choice. Misty is cute but whiny, and while Wendy is great, I don’t think our lifestyles would mix well.

Also, I need the artist, this concept is too precious.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Despair-inducing gender ratios and short-form video content aside, this was kind of neat to watch. We definitely lost something when grocery stores disconnected most of America/the West from the realities of food production.

@William_The_Dragonborn @graf I don’t get it, if you’re going to self insert, why not make the insert your idealized, “perfect” self? Why look like you hit a few too many branches on your family tree, and got circumcised by a mohel when you landed?

Perhaps their need for “representation” stems from being physically unable to imagine themselves in the role. “What do you mean, I’m not a magic warrior, that character doesn’t look like me”

@WashedOutGundamPilot This choice shouldn’t be this hard, and yet I sit here, poll un-taken

@coolboymew Ligma balls gets me every time.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Absolutely one of the best (and the absolute LOUDEST) romance manga I’ve ever read. Very high energy, very sweet. Highly recommend Do Chokkyuu Kareshi x Kanojo!

@Remi @heavens_feel @gucciloafers When your political enemies were the ones making the biggest hullabaloo about it and trying to make it a moral issue, it’s hard to not view any issue as a political one, whether it is one in reality or not.

@heavens_feel @Remi @gucciloafers Very sad, especially since the data has been out for a while that the typical, mass market muzzle does absolutely nothing against covid, and pretty much anything you’d want it to stop getting in. I can see arguments if you’re sick and don’t want to spit on people, but as a protection for yourself, they’re pretty useless.

Hard to tell people that though, as the propaganda went hard, and people don’t want to admit they’ve been wrong all this time.

@heavens_feel @gucciloafers @Remi I understand that masks were a cultural thing over there before the whole covid thing (society over individual, ageing population, etc) and didn’t have the same political charge it has in the US. Still, I find it difficult to watch channels that walk through Japan (Rambalac) because of all the masks. It’s a personal and selfish notion, I fully admit, but I wish they would just return to normal :/

@Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @Zealist @ChurnHinge I guess I was thinking series as in “line of products” rather than “season of TV show”, so I’ll skip that one lol. Knowing the grade should be helpful enough (he said, blissfully ignorant of how many gunpla models had been made of each grade).

Thanks, king!

@Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @Zealist @ChurnHinge Shame. Any tips on knowing scale/series/complexity? I know they issue the same character in a bunch of different lines

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Zealist @ChurnHinge @Twoinchdestroya Is there some sort of definitive gunpla identification site? I got some loose ones at a garage sale in a box of other stuff, and I don’t know what to call them to even get started learning

@WashedOutGundamPilot @William_The_Dragonborn @Shadowman311 I’ve made it my mission to remind my buddy who went into the navy that the navy is ragingly homosexual, and that he is gay by proxy.

I think he hates the navy on his own, but I’m making sure that coal never goes out

@WashedOutGundamPilot TFW no racist anime-loving smooth taking uplifted god best friend to find you ojous in bunny costumes IRL

Why even live?

…Maybe the answer isn’t to find someone like that, it’s to BECOME someone like that.