/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11703491

Probably.

>>11630573

I wish fan-art wouldn't depict grumpy characters with happy expressions, like in that picture.

People do it with Asuka too. It ruins the art for me. It's as bad as when the character looks nothing like they do in the source material.

>>11614057

Cute.

>>11550119
>>11550153
Tsundere/10

>>11545517

I wish I could remove webcomics from the world completely. They are awful.

>>11545169

I think they're pretty cool, but it's hard to believe in their practicality, to the point where transformations are a cooler mechanic.

Ultimately it goes down to the old dues ex machina binary system: magic for people who don't care about realism (transformations) and sci-fi for people who do (mecha.) However, the essence of sci-fi ever since Asimov and William Gibson and etc. is for its believability to be just as much of an essential part of the formula as remarkability. It's cooler to read/play/see about a giant robot if you know it's totally feasible that such a thing would actually be made. However, there's almost no situation where humanoid, legged robots would be better than robots of some other form and gait.

From an evolutionary standpoint, the 'purpose' of our body, and the reason for its structure is to be able to run longer than any other creature. Modern neuroscience is actually starting to think that even the reason our brain is so powerful is that evolutionary pressure rewarded a brain which could produce a refined and energy-efficient bipedal gait, which was by nature larger than its predecessors because of the huge complexity of movement, and that all of our other heightened mental faculties came about as an 'accident'; something like how spider venom was initially non-poisonous, and was used as a tool to liquify conventionally-killed prey's insides for more efficient food consumption, but because only a small mutational step needed to be taken to overwrite this initially large evolutionary jump into a venom, spider venom was what happened. The thought is that it's the same with our immensely powerful brains: they began as a tool for us to move more efficiently than other animals, but after some evolutionary shenanigans they started being used for other purposes too since most or all of the hardware was already there. Listen to this for more: http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_wolpert_the_real_reason_for_brains.html

>>11350799

Don't use that word.

>>11269897

It's like kinetic typography but static and bad.

Here's an example of good kinetic typography.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sOfO8Ei1g

It's also a /jp/-related song.

>>11232770

My images each cost about ten times the bandwidth of a normal image. To compensate, my posts are a hundred times better than average.

It's simple economics...

They're actually called 'animal ear visual analogs.'

>>11103462

It's a red, hellish earth and a blue, open sky. Sorry about your autism.

Also, heaven/hell symbolism! Anno does it again!

>>11060374

>You say cars, we say Nyan Cat :D

...???

I wasn't in great spirits lately, but all of this moral support has me right back up to tab.

Thanks, guys. I mean it.

I'm really worried about the janitor.

It seems he really is dead after all.

Maybe I overdid it...