joe

my one rep max is 135kg bench at 65kg body weight

[joe @pauseandselect]

My latest video is a sit-down interview with Patrick Galbraith on the shifts of Akihabara, some of its challenges, and ultimately its future. Please consider watching and sharing if possible!

https://t.co/oYQA6WR6nH

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This is one of those articles that are so hilariously bad that it can make a subscriber second guess why they should be giving money to The Spectator.

[The Spectator @spectator]

Japanese cities can disappoint. Visitors stroll around hoping to be awe-struck by the dreamy spectacle of clip-clopping Geisha in their wooden geita, or barreling sumo wrestlers, or high-stockinged ninja girls (à la Kill Bill), and all against a Blade Runner backdrop, only to be confronted with mostly unremitting blandness.

The constants are these: concrete, plastic, more concrete, more plastic, endless construction (one crappy shopping complex or mansion block replacing another), confusion, and noise. It can all seem dizzyingly homogenous.

✍️ Philip Patrick

Article | https://t.co/VW4LPGbx95

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Me witnessing the birth of my next video essay analysis after one watch, fully formed (it is about Japan being a collective society)

[mara @maraganger]

take solace in the fact that proper analysis (and the skills to do so) comes from many re-reads/rewatches. nobody comes out of an experience with thoughts fully formed and synthesized in a coherent form. ogre not dumb, ogre trying hard and that means a lot from the get-go

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@PyotrAlexRoma Holy shit

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Just found out about Korean bathrooms I'm sorry can someone tell me what the hell is going on why is the toilet and the shower the same damn space

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@maraganger The perfect way to describe that lmao

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For the slew of people who recently followed me, I want to note that I only check in once a week or so, so please don't expect me to be mongering phat drama all the time.

@The_Weeb_Crew does that on a regular basis if you're looking for drama biofuel

[Study of Swords @study_of_swords]

So this is a total fabrication.

Sharalyn Orbaugh -the lone Canadian in an otherwise Japanese academic gathering - who has been writing about anime for decades, is the wrong academic for these dispshits to go after.

Fuck. Anime. Grifters.

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@KingMeleph Ah

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Sharalyn Orbaugh is one of the two academics (alongside Patrick Galbraith) in The End of Cool Japan who defended the subject of lolicon. Her work specifically is how Japanese material is *perceived* abroad and how to navigate those differences without at the expense of Japan.

[AnimeTrends @animetrends]

ACADÉMICOS EXTRANJEROS CONTRA EL ANIME JAPONÉS

Un grupo de académicos occidentales viajó hasta un simposio en Japón para quejarse de que series como Demon Slayer son demasiado "violentas y desagradables" para su público.

La profesora canadiense Sharalyn Orbaugh criticó que la industria nipona permita transmitir estas obras en horario familiar. Según su reporte, el contenido japonés es tan problemático bajo los estrictos estándares de Norteamérica que se ven obligados a restringirlo con clasificaciones para mayores de 18 años para proteger a su audiencia.

Occidente sigue cruzando el mundo para intentar darle lecciones de moralidad a una industria que funciona perfectamente sin ellos.

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@MarikoRawralton Well I'm fairly familiar with Orbaugh's work, so unless she made a noticeable shift in the past few months then it didn't really make sense to me

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Literally her chapter touches upon the same subjects these people are dragging her through the mud for.

https://t.co/Ob4qWfbuct

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There is a chapter in Mark McLelland's book The End of Cool Japan, by Sharalyn Orbaugh, which I think deeply grapples with something similar. Who is morality and the law speaking for when victims choose to grapple with their trauma when no further misery is produced?

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This isn't even a "okay I can see how it'd be misread" situation; it seems so far from her usual ouevre and arguments. I don't think the OP actually has read anything by her.

[日本かぶれクルー @The_Weeb_Crew]

I know the bar is in the gutter for this landfill of a website, but is there literally ANYTHING corroborating this? Or is this just this account making stuff up again?

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@shizu_abstrakt Hevy

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I have work tomorrow and this robot wants me to leg press AND deadlift, thanks hevy

[that Kodocha girl 💖 @thatKodochagirl]

Today, I reached 4k subscribers on YouTube!!! 🥳 Thank you everyone who's been on this journey with me! I plan on making videos for as long as I can. 💖

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@maraganger Yeah most latest analysis will be in journal articles cause it takes so long to publish a book in academia that by the time your book comes out your subject matter can change wildly.

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@maraganger @glossy_ceramic Beollstorff's book is good, but I should warn you that it's a bit old so it feels a little antiquated and a tiny bit naive at points (because it's so old relative to how fast digital anthropology works)