Musing on the community by OtakuGray

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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:33 pm

lol I understand that it's just I'd been given the impression that's what the word Otaku meant: someone who is so obsessive that they have lost track of reality. The way the American's use Otaku is to mean an anime fan. O.o
Every fandom has their "lost touch with reality" fans.

Maybe the word has lightened over the years to mean more like someone who "collects stuff of their fandom".
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I'm reading the original... O.o there seems to be so much wrong in it.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby Fall_Child42 » Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:44 pm

there are still some errors within that text.

But as this is only the first revision, and considering the way the text originally read, I think it has been improved by leaps and bounds.

To address those that are arguing over the definition of Otaku, I would like to say that it is an abstract term that cannot be defined and is a meaningless argument to engage in. In order to correctly argue anything proper questions must be constructed so that they may remove ambiguity.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby kickass331 » Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:45 pm

i was happy when I started out that people bashed me. I am a masochist and sadist so I enjoyed making people suffer so I could be punished. ;)
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby godix » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:07 pm

The editor notes were far more amusing to read than the rant was.

You're also pretty wrong on amvnews, at least in my experience. Although it being in Russian does make it difficult for a westerner to really get into so it is pretty easy to get the wrong idea about it.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby Jeff » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:10 pm

godix wrote:The editor notes were far more amusing to read than the rant was.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby gotenks794 » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:49 pm

OtakuGray apparently thinks he's Obama?
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby Castor Troy » Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:31 pm

what is this i don't even
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:05 pm

CodeZTM wrote:To be honest, I never got anything ridiculously hateful when I first started out. Then again, when I first started out, I was surrounded by a lot of really helpful people that guided me through all the guides and stuff.

Something like this... though replace the "helpful people" with "understanding that joining a community of any sort required lurking and understanding social interaction for a while before jumping in." The egotistical and privileged youth that think everyone should suck their cocks and worship at their feet are slowly taking over the internet. Hardcore tolling is the cultural backlash of that. Both of them are fucking stupid and both groups should get a fucking life.

Furthermore, JaddziaDax is correct. The term "otaku" does imply the highest form of social ineptitude. The concept of "aspie mouth breather" is a more recent American equivalent.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby Megamom » Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:06 pm

I read it completely :shock: ... There are many points that are true, I also agree with Code... a forum for presentations would make this forum more sociable. :D
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby Cannonaire » Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:13 pm

As someone who just started out and joined recently (May 5), I can say the org has been very welcoming and helpful. I've gotten comments that I've generally found useful, and met a lot of kind people. And this community has been extremely helpful to me starting out, especially with all the technical stuff. I can see where this person is coming from, but I really just don't see what he/she sees. :o

We'll see what happens when I post my first video to the announcements forum, but all the comments I've gotten thus far from sending my videos out have been constructive.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby JaddziaDax » Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:27 am

I know where this guy is coming from, on one of his announcement threads where some people jumped on him because he couldn't take negative feedback.

Several people had told him that his effects were poorly done, and he threw a fit over it. He had statements like "Well I'm not perfect!" and "as long as you could tell it was blood then that means I did my job" (for the record his announcement was for a really weird Clannad video where the guy was going around killing people by shooting them). No one even mentioned anything about the guy himself until he blew up at the negative feedback.

You are not your video, just because someone says something bad about your video that doesn't mean they are attacking you personally. (General statement - it seems sometimes people forget this.)

Now it is from my experience that most of the people here don't sugar coat things. They may even come off as jerks at times, though it seems to me it's unintentional. I'd rather get an honest opinion than a dishonest opinion.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby kickass331 » Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:07 am

JaddziaDax wrote:I know where this guy is coming from, on one of his announcement threads where some people jumped on him because he couldn't take negative feedback.

Several people had told him that his effects were poorly done, and he threw a fit over it. He had statements like "Well I'm not perfect!" and "as long as you could tell it was blood then that means I did my job" (for the record his announcement was for a really weird Clannad video where the guy was going around killing people by shooting them). No one even mentioned anything about the guy himself until he blew up at the negative feedback.

You are not your video, just because someone says something bad about your video that doesn't mean they are attacking you personally. (General statement - it seems sometimes people forget this.)

Now it is from my experience that most of the people here don't sugar coat things. They may even come off as jerks at times, though it seems to me it's unintentional. I'd rather get an honest opinion than a dishonest opinion.

lol u remember whenever i posted videos i bashed my own videos before anybody downloaded them and then i sided with everyone else
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby Qyot27 » Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:08 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:Furthermore, JaddziaDax is correct. The term "otaku" does imply the highest form of social ineptitude. The concept of "aspie mouth breather" is a more recent American equivalent.

Right. I've never taken the word as a compliment or neutral self-descriptor or some kind of power word, simply because I do know what it means and connotes, and never fit those things. The closest I ever did kind of come to the stereotype was when watching Robotech in 6th and 7th grade, but that was less about the fact it was three anime series stitched together and more about the fact I loved science fiction and had never really encountered anything in the space opera genre. It's why I've said before that if someone used it to describe me I'd feel the urge to punch them in the face, because I don't see it as a good thing at all.

The length of time I've been a fan has generally just made me jaded and rather un-enthused about the whole thing, although that doesn't prevent me from enjoying new series or the community. The same thing could also kind of be said of AMVs, too.
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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby OtakuGray » Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:16 am

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godix wrote:Like this one amv. It was all like woosh, zoom with effects. And I was all like whoa awesome. Then that guitar thingies popped up and went dun dun DUN dun then those box thingies went zooming by and twirling around and shit. Oh god, then the hexagons popped up and I was like 'I just got a stiffie'. Then there was the circle with those thingies going around and I blew my load.


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Re: Musing on the community by OtakuGray

Postby OtakuGray » Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:25 am

i mean i didn't ask for my random rant to be critiqued. I wasn't asking for that. Tbh, i didn't even proof read the shit. I don't rant for people to CARE. At least ASK POLITELY before you post it publicly like that...its not even your writing...
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