Tekketsu-hen

The bias of the creators was clear, all the truly good scenes were with loli Kissshot.

That aside, surprisingly much skipped from the book for a three-part film adaptation of it. But that's not more than nitpicking, I have actual problems with the film. Mainly that they are changing the focus of the work, shifting it away from its anti-suicidal message. Now Arararagi's main motivation is that white-knight complex, making him a ritual sacrifice by his own conscience. In contrast, the book just outright said that he wants to kill himself. That was the whole point of him hiding his porn. It was a suicide, so he didn't want people to see the porn. Now it's no longer a suicide, so movie Ragi doesn't care if people will see the porn or not.

tl;dr: they are pulling a GitS'95 on us, and until the next two parts I don't know if it will work or not.

Because discussions in youtube comments.

+Sirion Heat
The story was about 8man stopping doing the things this way and reverting to normal Japanese values of getting along with the society. Again, they hammered this down with his body language during the first episode, showing he doesn't truly believe what he's saying, that it's just a front for him to help him cope with the harsh-harsh world out there. Normal teenage emo bullshit instead of character-defining trait.

From that moment on, it's obvious the show will devolve into shitty melodrama at some point after a short introductory arc that shows how 8man's facade works. Then the magical thing happened, and the introductory arc lasted the whole first season. And, of course, Komachi being a miracle of the universe really helped. The juxtaposition of 8man's emoing in school and the quite normal sibling relationship he has with Komachi, how he visibly feels at ease around her (again, judging how he acts, not trusting his words on the matter), was rather welcome in my opinion. All in all, I was amazed that even with such a premise the authors did such a good job with all the conversations and interpersonal relationships. This really brought the show to life, combined with the fact that the melodrama was postponed for the second season. Then, of course, during the second season the melodrama hit with full force and you could no more enjoy the conversations, because there were less conversations and more emoing.

Suddenly good writing

Maaya

Amanchu

 

State of the Subaru, episode 14

This was truly one of the most vile moments in anime as a whole

I can't even begin to explain why it's so wrong.

What's even weirder... they didn't really drive any moral point with it. It was a simple cause-effect: say something extraordinarily vile, the little girl gets mindbroken. End of story. What the hell? What the fucking hell?

That aside, at least now I'm somewhat relieved that my distaste for this arc doesn't come from the idolshit.

I'm back from London

You know, the difference between reasons and motivations when it comes to legislation is that... you can't really legislate against motivation. That'd be thought policing. Besides, motivation is never that important. People will always find an excuse if the right circumstances come together, and that excuse will later be called a "motivation". The result is that all you can do is legislate against the preconditions of the massacre. And I'd say in the case of Orlando the preconditions fall pretty much in line with any other mass shooting in USA: lack of even rudimentary gun control, mental illness, identity crisis, stuff like that. The deliberate cultural tension kept up between the West and the Muslim countries of the Near East probably didn't play much of a role, which makes Orlando fail the test of similarities with the preconditions of 9/11.

Libertarianism

How do I differ from a hardcore libertarian?

1) I don't care about money.
As opposed to "I have the right to keep my money", I don't actually think this is a "right" to have. The financial system exists to serve the people, it's not part of an essential liberty. So, "I have the right to have the financial system serve to my benefit".

2) I don't care about collectives.
That includes corporations. Corporations don't have personal liberties, as they are not persons. The free market is also just a system to serve the individuals, not an essential right to be had. Of course, I'd disagree with a far-left radical nine out of ten times whether a given regulation helps or hurts the individuals. We've seen that a planned economy just doesn't work. Why the fuck are some people still trying it?

3) I think people are stupid.
Not always, mind you. But everybody has moments of stupidity every now and then. In this category fall state police, licenses to drive vehicles, gun regulations, and so on.

4) I think corporations are at least as evil as the government, if not more.
Ergo, we need a balance.

5) I think a corporation with the size of a government will be as effective as a government.
Ergo, stop thinking corporations are a panacea to bureaucracy.

6) I have the right to survive.
This ties in to health care, state monopoly on violence, and... generally everything I mentioned in "people are stupid" too.

7) I think the government can generally be tricked into increasing our quality of life.
And should be.
Considering the financial system and the market, there isn't a given set of regulations that will always increase our quality of life. It's the opposite: these regulations should be introduced and dropped in a cyclical manner as to "mind the TPO", if you excuse my engrish. As they say, the only thing that separates the medicines and the poisons is the dosage.
Of course, the government itself won't generally desire to actually increase the quality of life of its citizens, generally speaking its desire would be to increase its own control over the situation. However, we've made our society such that we've rudimentary instruments of control over them, from voting to opinion pieces on the Internet. It may not always work, but given that you're smart enough, you'll figure out how to squeeze out an increase in the quality of life.

So, stop whining and use both the government and the corporations as a tool to better your life to the best of your abilities. You're a smart independent person, right?

over 9000) In the end, it's a question of balance.
The desired path will always swerve between the left and the right. However, as both the government and the corporations will surely be pulling towards a totalitarian dystopia, the citizenry has a duty to balance them out by pulling towards liberalism/libertarianism/anti-authoritarianism/however you want to call it.
Have fun.