I'm not gonna treat a guy that's around the same age as me as some kinda cyber daddy to take advice from,
Null's not my e-daddy -- I think almost all of his political opinions are retarded, bigoted, and conspiratorial -- and I don't listen to MATI outside random clips that get posted here that I find interesting.
I'm especially not going to treat an offhand funny statement while talking about internet drama as a 100% serious life altering thing
It wasn't a joke and I'm not treating it as a life-altering serious statement. I just think it's a good point about how anime can cause people to reject their friends, family, culture and future for a cheaply-made product aimed at the lowest common denominator.
If you throw aside shit you like to chase coochie you're going to end up fucking miserable because that means your relationship is not built upon a genuine foundation.
I know that, but there's a difference between throwing aside stuff you like and changing your lifestyle for the better. This is like telling a fat person that eating fewer cheeseburgers and going to the gym to get healthier and maybe attract a partner is throwing aside a lifestyle they enjoy.
Also you have a LEGO name and pfp which makes the talk about people being an "overgrown teenager" over liking cartoons funny to me.
So? Lego is my creative outlet, just like other people have stuff like drawing and writing. Watching anime isn't creative; it's just consooming, and there's no creativity in that.
I've never gotten what's wrong with "Moe" anyway... at least in some iterations. I mean, Lucky Star was adorable.
The problem with moe is that it's a black hole of creativity that has strong ties to lolicon. The earliest moe anime can all be traced back to lolicon. Southern Cross was initially pitched by a guy who made loli diaper hentai (yes really). The idols and bridge bunnies in Macross were dogwhistles to the lolicon crowd, as was Megazone 23's focus on bishojo. Puru was named after the preeminent lolicon magazine of the time (Elpeo Puru = Elpeo Ple = L. People = Lemon People). Some of the earliest non-hentai OVAs (Iczer-1, Zeorymer) were adaptations of loli hentai manga. Project A-Ko, one of the most popular early anime in the West, was an SFW version of Cream Lemon with comedy instead of sex scenes. Kenichi Sonoda, the guy behind the Bubblegum Crisis and Gall Force characters, was a lolicon whose manga, Gunsmith Cats, included heavy lesbian BDSM elements. Gunbuster pandered to lolicons and sex pests a lot in its marketing and content; it's about high school girls and there's lots of nudity. Eventually all of this began to metastasize and take over anime when 50-episode toy commercials weren't as profitable as 12-episode seasonals, which stemmed from OVAs (you can see this because many early seasonal anime like Virus Buster Serge were clearly planned to be OVAs at first). Now seasonal anime is the default, and the Haruhi Suzumiya/Lucky Star/K-On explosion guaranteed all seasonal anime would be moe since it's cheap and wildly profitable.
I think he's cringe but the reactions he got after that and today are still shocking.
He's a proud lolicon defender who beat his girlfriend with a rake and tried to choke her. A-Logging is gay, but he deserves scrutiny.
Anyone who cooms to that has a serious mental disease and deserves infinite mockery.
I agree, but cooming was the intent. The author of Azumanga Daioh started out drawing Evangelion porn, and the manga has several jokes about the girls' breasts and other sexually-charged stuff. K-On had an unusual focus on the girls' feet. I haven't seen Lucky Star but I've heard it has a really uncomfortable bath scene.
