How's this for some shyt?
I think I'm going to be joinging back up with WoW after this hiatus. I *crave* me some character creation.
Happy Year of the Dog!
Someone, please, make this. The moon may be #1, but space invaders will always have a place in me heart. You know you love it.
Here are some pictures of chinese girls making out. I find the idea that there are four seperate images of this event much more hilarious than the event itself. I mean, shazbot, you'd think they're the new TATU....
Part of me groks this surreality. Can't say precisely why, but it has an eerie retro quality that I grove on, something like an 18th century paiting divested of ancient mythos and given a healthy dose of hentai.
Lastly, I think I need to mention the Indigo Children. Not because I believe it, but because it is a devout religious belief on par with the 12-year-old Dalai Lama or the Baby Jesus. The mythologizing of children tells us much more about the people who make the myths than it does about the children...in this case, individuals desperately seeking a redemption in a world they feel has turned upon them. Give it a decade or two, and it will morph into apocalyptica, which shuold be pretty amazing.
I also want to talk a little bit about hikikomori, which is not as culturally isolated as the name implies. Rather, it is endemic to any modern globalizing culture that simultaneously values conformity and success.
See, it's also present in those outlaying communities right here in America, where there is no "subculture," no way to give rebellion a voice, except to withdrawl and be alone. It, perhaps, is a more complete process in Japan, where the big cities value the conformity as well, but this is the exact same problem that a million and one "aspgerger's" sufferers or antisocial nerds suffer from. It is the inability to communicate. That leads to depression, but not of a clinical, chemical kind -- of the despondant, morose kind, the entirely logical kind that cannot see the virtue in participating in a world that just rejects them. Keep in mind that the sexual and cultural dimorphism of rural America is at least as bad as it is in Japan -- traditional roles for Men and Women are a lot less banished then most would like to think.
So the concept of Rental Sisters and Rental Brothers are not bad concepts...aside from the whole "paid to be there" thing. It's something that a concept like Nerdrotica (hire a nerdy date for a night) might do well with, and something I'd like to plumb a litte bit further into. It's something SG is involved in, too, believe it or not...the idea of bridging the gap between people, however that needs to be done.
The biggest difference (though it is a difference more of kind than of degree) is the parent/child association. With American cultural reliance on self-sufficiency, it is hard for one to be a shut-in after they reach the age of 18. Getting a job is a moral obligation. This forces a certain amount of public interaction, minimizing the effects of being a shut-in. It doesn't eliminate them, however, and many who have found jobs that can enable their lifestyle are perfectly fine doing it over and over again.
And yet, for those first years, it seems wrong. You punch a wall and cut your arms to feel alive and wish and hope and get frustrated. You feel like a specter, like an island in a sea of humanity. Isolation is deadly.
I think I'm going to be joinging back up with WoW after this hiatus. I *crave* me some character creation.
Happy Year of the Dog!
Someone, please, make this. The moon may be #1, but space invaders will always have a place in me heart. You know you love it.
Here are some pictures of chinese girls making out. I find the idea that there are four seperate images of this event much more hilarious than the event itself. I mean, shazbot, you'd think they're the new TATU....
Part of me groks this surreality. Can't say precisely why, but it has an eerie retro quality that I grove on, something like an 18th century paiting divested of ancient mythos and given a healthy dose of hentai.
Lastly, I think I need to mention the Indigo Children. Not because I believe it, but because it is a devout religious belief on par with the 12-year-old Dalai Lama or the Baby Jesus. The mythologizing of children tells us much more about the people who make the myths than it does about the children...in this case, individuals desperately seeking a redemption in a world they feel has turned upon them. Give it a decade or two, and it will morph into apocalyptica, which shuold be pretty amazing.
I also want to talk a little bit about hikikomori, which is not as culturally isolated as the name implies. Rather, it is endemic to any modern globalizing culture that simultaneously values conformity and success.
See, it's also present in those outlaying communities right here in America, where there is no "subculture," no way to give rebellion a voice, except to withdrawl and be alone. It, perhaps, is a more complete process in Japan, where the big cities value the conformity as well, but this is the exact same problem that a million and one "aspgerger's" sufferers or antisocial nerds suffer from. It is the inability to communicate. That leads to depression, but not of a clinical, chemical kind -- of the despondant, morose kind, the entirely logical kind that cannot see the virtue in participating in a world that just rejects them. Keep in mind that the sexual and cultural dimorphism of rural America is at least as bad as it is in Japan -- traditional roles for Men and Women are a lot less banished then most would like to think.
So the concept of Rental Sisters and Rental Brothers are not bad concepts...aside from the whole "paid to be there" thing. It's something that a concept like Nerdrotica (hire a nerdy date for a night) might do well with, and something I'd like to plumb a litte bit further into. It's something SG is involved in, too, believe it or not...the idea of bridging the gap between people, however that needs to be done.
The biggest difference (though it is a difference more of kind than of degree) is the parent/child association. With American cultural reliance on self-sufficiency, it is hard for one to be a shut-in after they reach the age of 18. Getting a job is a moral obligation. This forces a certain amount of public interaction, minimizing the effects of being a shut-in. It doesn't eliminate them, however, and many who have found jobs that can enable their lifestyle are perfectly fine doing it over and over again.
And yet, for those first years, it seems wrong. You punch a wall and cut your arms to feel alive and wish and hope and get frustrated. You feel like a specter, like an island in a sea of humanity. Isolation is deadly.
i have no idea really, except that i would like to be eaten by giant bunnies
what a way to die