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He spent his entire life making literally everything worse; why would he change now?

I doubt that more and more every year. I'm not young, just clueless about a lot of media.

...what?

I mean, have you ever met a teacher who didn't act like that little box was their personal realm to be god over? I can easily imagine that anything that disabuses them of the idea would come as a shock.

I said on the other thread too...

Just make Lwaxana talk to him. Those two deserve each other.

Just put Lwaxana on the line. Those two deserve each other.

Couple of people beat me to Violet Evergarden, which I maintain is my #1 pick for "you will NOT be okay" shows.

BUT

In a thread about "anime that will mess me up," how has nobody beaten me to Grave of the Fireflies? HO-LY SHIT. If you don't feel like your soul has been torn out and stomped on watching this movie, you straight up don't have one.

Came here for Violet Evergarden. My wife could always tell when I was watching it because I straight up sobbed like a child every single episode. Bring tissues; you will not be okay.

And nothing of value was lost.

Right? I'm pretty sure everyone downstream of Fukushima likes it this way. The people who are hoping we don't need an actual priesthood, or glowing cats, or whatever, to warn people about nuclear waste thousands of years in the future after the fall of all current civilizations, like it this way.

Let nuclear continue to waste away as the terrible idea it always was.

Society's general hatred of young people doing basically anything.

And everything's going my way...

In 3.5 we called this "Guidance of the Avatar."

I would certainly rather be Diogenes.

This was always my take on the matter, too.

I am my memories, my experiences, and the continuity of my consciousness, not the meat prison my mind is forced to reside in. If my consciousness continues, I am alive. Whether that's this bag of meat, that bag of meat, or the Transmetropolitan-inspired nanite-cloud I wish I could live on as, I'm still me either way. There might be a difference, but from my perspective it doesn't make a difference.

I could be wrong here -- I haven't exactly done a long-term study on this -- but my impression is that the way young people are treated (in the US at least) sets people up for this. When you wake up is dictated. What you do with most of your waking hours is decided for you, without your input or slightest consideration. What you wear, what you're allowed to say, who you spend your (increasingly limited) time with and what you spend it doing and where, even the emotions you express on your face, can be dictated to you by others who consider themselves in the right to do so.

This continues from before you are self-aware until nearly a decade beyond the age of abstract reasoning.

By the time you're allowed to make a serious decision, others have been dictating them to you for your entire conscious life. It's no wonder people never learn how to decide for themselves. I'm reminded of Brooks from The Shawshank Redemption: institutionalized. So conditioned to having no freedom that it's terrifying rather than liberating when you finally do.

Trying to get them to cooperate, them being randomly cute, them "helping" with whatever else we're doing... So... kinda yeah. XD I wouldn't make that comparison in any other context but it works here.

My wife has seen my photo roll; it's a shitload of pictures of our cats punctuated by the occasional shot of my baking.

So long as you eat your tomatoes like a normal human being and not like an absolute psychopath, you do you, man.

I grew up and became a librarian instead, because I genuinely enjoy helping people find the things they are interested in, but couldn't lend my energy to a system that doesn't care about the that they are interested in part, among other flaws.