Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • He is infamously eccentric. Maybe no-one ever set his talent aside for long enough to teach him manners. And it was probably too late to do that ages ago.

    But he also has humanitarian ideas. Looking at the messages his movies convey, it’s clear to me he wishes people the best.

    Yet he vilifies so much of the real world and the people in it. And it just feels like a refusal to even try to understand.


  • I know.

    But that ain’t how you mentor someone.

    And it’s not just his son.

    The man denounces Lord of the Rings, and western culture in general:

    (I am), anti-jeans, anti-bourbon, anti-burgers, anti-fried chicken, anti-cola, anti-American coffee, and anti-New York, anti-West Coast, Disneyland go back to America!

    He’s known to feel disdain for people who embrace modern technology. He’s said people using touch-screens look like they are making “strange masturbation-like gestures”.

    He’s admitted to getting “fed up” with seeing people read manga in public, even before smartphones existed.

    The man seems incapable of giving constructive criticism, or just generally being pleasant. When commenting on the passing of Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy and a formative figure for manga in general, he said:

    I’m assuming there will be a loud chorus of other people mourning his passing, and I do not intend to add my voice to it.

    He’s a genius. And obviously has profound thoughts and ideas about the world as the plot-lines of his movies illustrate.

    But he also has a hateful streak which he doesn’t seem to even try controlling.




  • Yeah, things aren’t clear-cut. There are several matters in which Japan is painfully behind, and being such a populus country you can find people with views across the board.

    But a lax justice system isn’t one of them. In fact Japan almost certainly has a huge problem with ostracising and convicting the innocent. You might hear about people losing their jobs just for getting arrested, even if found innocent.

    And while laws also definitely need improving, it’s happening.

    The main problem with stuff like age of consent, is going to be communities and groups of people who are behind on these things, and thereby shielding individuals from justice by keeping the bad things happening out of earshot of society at large. Their justice system might be brutally ruthless, but that doesn’t help if it never finds out about the crime in the first place.









  • Good.

    Shitty cyclists suck. I ride my own bike every day, and I can’t get over how often I see someone riding among pedestrians, (often along a road clear of cars, or worse yet, along an actual bike lane right there).

    I must have shouted “the bike lane is literally right here” as I go past people like this over a hundred times in my life.

    It’s obvius to me that hitting someone with my bike would be horrible, yet I see people riding them all the time like it’s the same as lightly jogging.