ranks mean memes are #1Originally Posted by Rafflesiac
ranks mean memes are #1
Also, after some thought I'd like to publicly apologize to Leftovers for the silly threat I made against him a few pages back. I was feeling condescended to and lashed out, and after making the post I was just left with a sour taste in my mouth. In general (as I said to IceBlade over PM) I need to dial back how much time I spend arguing with Dullahan and his ilk. I only end up losing my cool and making a fool of myself.
in future, I'll do my best to avoid these interminable arguments (as opposed to genuinely friendly debate) or at least disengage the moment I start getting angry. Sorry if my foolish and thoughtless posts here offended anyone.
Ranks are memes, they have always been.
"Only in my company, will you not be a monster"
anywhere than here
Or you could just stop altogether.
Stop what?
The previous convo has me thinking
I guess Fate in general is inherently exploitative and I find myself not really disagreeing with the harsher criticism
makes me think about the other controversies that surrounds authors doing cultural appropriation on other cultures stories and the creative liberties they might take with it. Like I cannot see an American version of Fate passing without getting raked over the coals over its premise
Thankfully Japan seems to be mostly immune to charges of cultural appropriation (at least from the West). I've never heard SJ critics bring up (and if they have I'd love to hear it) how much Japan has shamelessly appropriated Christian iconography in its popular culture, for instance. (Even though Christianity was horrendously persecuted in ye olde Japan, so the "oppressed minority" condition is definitely there)
Mind you, I don't actually find Japan's use of Christian imagery to be wrong or offensive. I just think it shows how selective charges of "cultural appropriation" can be...
Last edited by RoydGolden; April 29th, 2018 at 11:15 PM.
Verg Avesta, Eightfold Blessings, Yew Bow, and Kilenc Sarkany are D rank, and Bathory Erszebet is E.
Blut die Schwester is also E, but I don't think it counts as a Noble Phantasm
Nah, Japan gets criticized
rightly so. Using Christian symbolism typically incorrectly is still disrespectful
Not all Japanese pop culture is Evangelion
I personally have never heard that, but I'll take your word for it (I can easily imagine actual Japanese Christians might be unhappy with how their religion is portrayed).
It's more of a personal thing to me. As I don't care when my own culture is being supposedly "appropriated", I don't have to feel like a hypocrite when enjoying other works deemed cultural appropriation.
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Nope, but it's far from limited to just there. Just browse the anime/manga entry in Creepy Cool Crosses on TV Tropes if you really want to find out.
No-one wants to find out that badly.
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書，處則充棟宇，出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
I don't think that really works unless you're specifically a Japanese Christian.
Predictable, predictable. Off the top of my head though, Death Note and Trigun are both anime/manga that indulge in some gratuitous Christian imagery. A casual google image search will find more.
It’s time to stop
They're not just appropriating "Japanese Christianity" though, but Christianity in general.
As a (half-)Christian, I'd surely have a right to be offended as much as, say, a Chinese person in China annoyed with an American movie appropriating Chinese mythology and culture.
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Nah, this discussion is quite friendly so far and not hostile. If people start getting pissed (first of all myself) then I'll be the first to bow out.
Last edited by RoydGolden; April 29th, 2018 at 11:56 PM.
You can't be a half-Christian.
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書，處則充棟宇，出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
What on earth is a half-christian
obv the christian half of the judeo-christian
Localizationing stuff
I'm half Christian in the sense that I have a Christian mother and Jewish father.
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