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Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-24-16
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Posted By Yoda
First, I don't recall anyone saying American...

First, I don't recall anyone saying American culture didn't have a style. Sounds like another straw man. And second, while it does have broad stylistic tendencies, it stands to reason that a less...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-23-16
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Posted By Yoda
What's that got to do with anything? Either it...

What's that got to do with anything? Either it shares an aesthetic, or not, and that doesn't have anything to do with how much of it is made. This is a non-sequitur.

Also, the last time we...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-22-16
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Posted By Yoda
Didn't see this before (and I'll probably be...

Didn't see this before (and I'll probably be moving all these posts this afternoon), but for now:


I'll explain why you're misrepresenting the rule in question, in two ways:

1. The caveat "no...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-22-16
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Posted By Yoda
Re: The MoFo Support Group

Also, if this continues. I'm not going to have much choice but to move this to another thread--probably one of Guap's goodbye threads, since it's all the same stuff, anyway.

I'm not sure what to...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-22-16
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Posted By Yoda
It would depend on how you define the term. But...

It would depend on how you define the term. But this isn't the issue at all. Even if you assume the U.S. is generally xenophobic, that doesn't mean you can casually attribute any disagreement about...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-22-16
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Posted By Yoda
Sure. But you're far too easily insulted, too....

Sure. But you're far too easily insulted, too. For example, you think generalizing about an entire nation/culture is somehow less objectionable than generalizing about an animation style.


Where...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
I agree, but the thread is where it is because it...

I agree, but the thread is where it is because it was used passively-aggressively to complain, rather than to genuinely ask for support.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
I've been pointing out this contradiction for a...

I've been pointing out this contradiction for a long time. I'm not sure if he's ever addressed it. I think it's because his answer is literally just going to be that it's okay when he does it,...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
No he didn't. And he didn't say someone...

No he didn't. And he didn't say someone interested in it "must" have mental problems, as you suggested later. He said people "sometimes" do it for that reason.

You also routinely exaggerate what...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
Substitute the word "interests" for "tastes," and...

Substitute the word "interests" for "tastes," and the point is the same: you're not disappointed in people for not being "perfect." You're disappointed in people for not having interests that align...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
That makes me mad, too. The difference is that I...

That makes me mad, too. The difference is that I don't measure perfection based on how closely their tastes align with my own.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
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Posted By Yoda
This is exactly right, and something that was...

This is exactly right, and something that was more obvious early on. Here's something I said over two years ago:
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-21-16
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
As I've pointed out a number of times, it's your...

As I've pointed out a number of times, it's your posture towards disagreement that actually causes (or at least, heavily exacerbates) the conflicts you're talking about. Most people aren't so easily...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-31-14
Replies: 361
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Posted By Yoda
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I think we can (hopefully) all agree that this is actually a really tricky problem in general. When someone doesn't watch a movie because they don't think it's the kind of thing they would like,...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 12-31-14
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Posted By Yoda
This is where things get tricky--people say that...

This is where things get tricky--people say that anime is not really a genre, because to others it's just "animation," but then they say that the things they dislike about anime are genre-specific. I...