I have a friend, who’s a history major, who has only played one game the past two years. He’s spent almost 2000 hours on Crusader Kings II and that’s all he plays every single day after class.
When I tried to recommend Titanfall 2 to him, he said, “No thanks, I already play a video game.”
its a shame that kill la kill is such a hard sell. like, i get it, i 100% get why, but it’s still a shame because it’s one hell of a fun roller coaster ride from start to finish.
to even give KLK the time of day to begin with you have to either be intimately familiar with the names behind the project and/or you have to have an extremely high tolerance for Anime Bullshit
like the show has fantastic characters and it actually has a lot really solid meta commentary about the anime industry as a whole. by the end of it every single character onscreen is completely nude and not only is it not presented in a sexual way, you as the viewer probably won’t even notice
but then you write down the phrase “deconstruction of the use of male gaze and fanservice in the anime industry” and you are forcibly transformed in to the lord high douchenozzle reigning high on top of the pretentious mountains.
like there is absolutely no way to discuss the merits of kill la kill as a piece of fiction and a commentary on the anime industry without sounding like you are completely and utterly full of shit
1. Humans have a variant language mode for use in the Winter, when normal commmunication becomes more difficult due to the muffling effect of their thick Winter coats. When this mode is enabled, rudimentary messages may be exchanged by barking and possibly also by the secretion of chemical-signalling mucus droplets.
2. Humans enjoy a symbiotic relationship with giant robots and can travel long distances held in the robots’ oral cavities. We hypothesise that, over time, the species have evolved together such that the robots are unable or unwilling to move without humans present: for example, they may make use of the humans’ body heat to kick-start their locomotive processes. What the humans get from this relationship is less clear. They may be carried many miles from their homes by the wandering of the robots and perhaps are able to access better or different foraging at these locations. In any case, they are usually able to identify the robot they were transported by and use it to make a return journey.
3. We believe humans originally evolved from water-dwelling animals. One piece of evidence in favour of this is that human dwellings often contain water vats in which they can perform water-related functions that remain from this evolutionary stage, for example equalising swim bladder pressure and venting internal gases.
4. Humans are one of the rare species to have at least partially made use of fire for their own aims. We believe this transformative experience has led to numerous flammable-material cults across the species. Many humans keep blocks of fire-starting material in their home even if they do not normally take on the fire-starting role. Closely examining fire-staring material is a socially-approved activity in public spaces. We believe these activities may have arisen from the need to make sure that these materials are not wet or contaminated with poisonous spores.
5. Human mating activity requires the complete or partial shedding of the outer skin layer. Interestingly, humans will often re-enter the shed skin layer after mating, perhaps to provide shelter from the elements while they regenerate a new skin underneath.
6. We believe that the species as a whole may be attracted to atmospheric vibrations. Humans can often be observed gathering in intensely-vibrating areas, particularly after nightfall. It may be that they have learned that such environments are uncomfortable for predator species and thus relatively safe. We have not yet determined why so many of the humans’ nest biomes are characterised by vibratory arenas.
Finland doesn’t have any prominent folklore about the dead rising to haunt the living, but while dressing a body for burial it’s a tradition to bind the corpse’s legs together. Maybe that’s why there is no prominent folklore of the undead haunting the living.
