Hey so.
big-mac-things:
Toonami is on.
Why aren’t you watching it.
Looks like it’s almost entirely pure anime now. So some might not care for it.
A good lineup though, Bleach and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood are pretty good. Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins were two I’ve never seen before, but they look good so far. I’ve only ever heard people rave about Ghost in the Shell, and Cowboy Bebop is supposed to be good. So, we’ll see. Only 1:20am here, so still some programming left to go in the lineup.
I’m back.
Just in case you didn’t know.
Also, so is Toonami in case you didn’t know.
It’s on right as I post this.
Seriously.
((OOC: So Here’s a Bit of News:))
((I’m not going to be online for a little while.
How long?
Well, that’s hard to say. If things go well, maybe 7 days. If things don’t go so well, it could be a lot longer than that. It really depends.
So, don’t write Celestia or Rainbow Dash into your RP plans anytime soon, and don’t expect me to be online anywhere at my usual times. Sorry to anyone that was expecting me to be around, sometimes life just smashes you in the face with something. Don’t worry though, I’ll be back.))
thedorseyshawexperience:
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This is the most horrifying thing I’ve seen all week.
I had to log out of Celestia just to reblog it.
And so Turkle’s piece and others like it resonate despite the theoretical shortcoming that make certain scholars cringe. What difference does it make that some study showed that a statistically significant portion of the population reports feeling less lonely when using social media if I can’t get the person standing two feet away from me to treat me with the barest level of decency.
The question remains, however, “Are smartphones at fault?” This is always the question. Is Google making us stupid? Is Facebook making us lonely? Are smartphones ruining face-to-face conversation? Put that way, I might say, “No, not exactly.” That’s usually not the best way of stating the question. Rather than begin with a loaded question, perhaps it’s better simply to seek clarity and understanding. What is happening when cellular phones become part of an environment that also consists of two people engaged in conversation?
It is extremely difficult— maybe impossible— to come up with a story and characters that, when placed within the context of most current video games, don’t feel inherently silly.
