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  • Denjin@feddit.uktomemes@lemmy.world•Why this doesn't make anime more popular, I'll never know.
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    2 days ago

    Not all anime is good, a lot is straight up shit. Not all things that aren’t anime are shit some are quite good.

    Edit: some recommendations for good live action TV that’s neither a police or medical procedural:

    • I May Destroy You - an analysis of consent and modern dating

    • The Sopranos - one of the first shows to really smash the episodic format apart with its sprawling, long running narrative

    • The Wire - while it does involve some elements of the police procedural format, it’s really a novel about a decaying society in TV form

    • Freaks and Geeks - spawned it’s own sub-genre, possibly the most influential teen drama ever

    • Deadwood - framed as a western but it’s really about how you build a society, crying shame it got cancelled before the conclusion but some of the best characters and dialogue ever written

    • Battlestar Galactica (2003) - the perfect series to capture the paranoia and changes in society following 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan

    • Chernobyl - just incredible

    • Band of Brothers (honourable mention to The Pacific) - suffers a little from some American Exceptionalism but an incredible look at the effects of war on ordinary people

    • The Deuce - an unflinchingly honest look at the sex and porn industry in 70s and 80s New York

  • Denjin@feddit.uktoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How would you propose we actually combat climate change?
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    6 days ago

    There’s now no way to stop or reverse the inevitable collapse of the comfortable way of life we have right now. This isn’t a fight for survival or for the planet, it’s to perpetuate the system we enjoy at the moment.

    The only way remaining to minimise the damage to our way of life is with some huge geo-engineering projects. Like scattering reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect some sunlight away or releasing some novel chemical into the oceans to fix carbon dioxide and lock it away.

    The risks of experimenting like this has always outweighed the benefits (like the guys who thought they could kill a hurricane and instead magnified it and sent it back inland resulting in the deaths of multiple people). But now it’s too late to worry about things like that because the inevitable impacts of climate change including wild fires, habitat destruction, biodiversity collapse, extreme weather events are all here now while most of the world is still arguing about whether it even exists or not.

  • Denjin@feddit.uktoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was the incident in your school?
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    9 days ago

    Not really the incident school wise but personally was for me. This is back in the days before things like dyspraxia and ADHD were regularly identified and so I was therefore a disruptive nightmare in several classes where I wasn’t stimulated correctly. Professionals were brought into the school (at great expense I’m sure) to try and analyse the bad behaviour.

    It was in a meeting between several teachers, supervisors and my mum (who was herself a head teacher of a different school) and she asked why it was that I didn’t act up in maths or English or science and it was only in music, RE and geography I couldn’t be controlled in and maybe I wasn’t the problem but it was certain teachers weren’t actually very good at controlling classes or providing a stimulating enough environment then politely told the school to get bent and we went to get ice cream.

    The actual incident at the school was the music teacher Mr Mann getting caught masturbating in the classroom between lessons by a TA and several students.

  • Denjin@feddit.uktoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What media archetypes POVs do you wish to see explored in a fully fleshed story?
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    12 days ago

    More (anti) war films from the “wrong” side’s perspective. Flags of our Fathers and All Quiet on the Western Front are compelling as they tell stories that we all know but from a fresh point of view making you compare and contrast the experiences from both sides.

    Something that fleshed out the lives and motivations of VC or NVA troops during the Vietnam War would be interesting as they’re only ever portrayed as screaming fanatics who’s only existence is to shoot at Americans in most films.

    Or the story of a conscripted German teenager sent to Normandy on the eve of the allied invasion and the all-encompassing dread that must overwhelmed them as ships and planes fill the sea and sky.

    Or what life must have been like on board a Japanese aircraft carrier before Midway, that unshakeable belief in your own destiny as a people filled with propaganda about your own superiority and stories of your endless victories to be so utterly shattered in a cataclysmic defeat. The ultimate story of hubris.