/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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>>44673969
I was thinking that maybe ~10-15 titles would make the idea feasible. Anything larger than that would lead to downloads that you would never rewatch.

>>44604577
Y'all think she's getting married after retirement? There is something that feels wifable about her.

>>44504085
So is the Kururugster. Sad year for the shortflat enjoyers

>>43476696
All I wanted was some titles to come home to... just some sneaky cheating sex titles to return to after my journeys...

Norm Mcdonald on Leo Tolstoy

My son was an extraordinary hockey player. At least his statistics were extraordinary; 167 points in a 25 game season; 50 goals in his first 5 PeeWee games-that sort of thing… He seemingly had a gift for the game; the puck just…found him. But it wasn’t obvious as to why.

He wasn’t the strongest kid on the team, not the fastest, didn’t have the best shot and, frankly, didn’t take it all nearly as seriously as his peers.

Once, another parent suggested that his success was just based on an exceptional run of good luck

Nonsense, said his coach. Coach Cox, who had played for the Habs, said that the secret to Hughie’s success was simple and clear. His cruising speed, the speed at which he skated when not obviously involved in the play,was twice that of the other players.

In other words, his talent had little to do with what he did when he had the puck, but was unmistakably linked to what he did when he didn’t have the puck; when others would simply coast. It was all the invisible stuff, executed at twice the speed, which led to the magic.

So too, I think, is where the magic comes from with Tolstoy.

He never coasts.

It’s not the big passages that make him special, it’s that every passage is working at twice the level of other writers. No big flashy words, no warnings that we are in the middle of a quotable quote, no jarring twists of plot to marvel at just for the sake of marvel.

Instead, what we have is literature with no fat: every word chosen for its precision rather than for its immediate effect.

Tolstoy seems to write with a confidence that knows we will all be exactly where we need to be when it’s time to score.

So, when we arrive at the skating rink with Levin, or the mushroom hunt with Sergei and Varenka or at the railway station with Anna, we realize on a visceral level how much we have invested in these people.

It isn’t just that these passages are highlight-reel goals (which they are, of course) it’s that we feel we were along for the assist.

Tolstoy’s gift isn’t just in scoring the big goals—the magic is all in how he gets the puck to the net. Tolstoy cruises at twice the speed in the neutral zone somehow knowing that’s where the game is actually played....


Captures what I feel about Aoi Kururugi