• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    6 months

    I was into anime cartoons in the ‘80s, read Fantasy, D&D, and Sci-Fi, was into computers and gaming since the Atari, and a dose of neurospicy did absolutely no favors. Likely the ND drove me to the hobbies I enjoyed because they were escapes from the shittiness of the world outside of them. Yeah, I absolutely got bullied and pushed to the fringes.

    At any rate, I don’t dwell on it, but the “mainstreaming” of things like IT and gaming has filled them up with assholes and jocks using them as dick measuring contests. It’s now a power play to be a CTO or IT coder or some kind of popular game streamer instead of a geek playing with computers.

    It’s not the same world anymore. Probably why I haven’t used VoIP chat in any game for near a decade now. Too many assholes.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
      6 months

      Yeah I miss real nerds. Everyone thinks they can type a prompt and be all “computery” when they dont know fuck.

  • coolie4@lemmy.world
    6 months

    Anime was never a problem. Sailor moon, Pokémon, and DBZ were super mainstream, and you had stuff like Voltron and Speed Racer before that.

    The issue is people who either only talk about their hobby, try to force other people into it, or in the case of anime, expect real life to be the same way or act it out themselves (see naruto running comment in OP’s screenshot)

        • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
          6 months

          I still have no respect for people playing competitive online games. Their behavior just shows them as largely being the same kind of sportos who were no end of misery growing up. Fuck em, single player games for life.

          • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
            6 months

            Yeah god forbid other people find enjoyment from different sources than you lmao

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    6 months

    the moment that anime went mainstream is the moment that it got stupid and uninteresting, that’s when i stopped watching it. the quality just dropped to adapt to the mainstream