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Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond.

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- Hell yeah. Even in the remaster. It became such a habit I still did it in Fallout and Skyrim.
  
  I mean, what are we supped to do, just walk/run? Boring.
- Oblivion is much more fun if you pretend that you are a normie though. All the elder scrolls games are like that - the best way to play Skyrim is as a refugee migrant farm laborer/subsistence hunter.

Most other people who you interact with aren't actually seeing you individually. Instead they are confronting images they've previously developed regarding one or two characteristics they noticed. Don't take what they say too personally.
Edit: Be aware that you do the same thing.
- Yeah, this is a very real phenomenon and it's difficult to do anything about it sometimes. People develope an internal profile of you based on their perceptions, and anything they say about you is based on THAT, not reality. It's even more difficult when it's somebody close to you who's internalized that profile so much it's become part of who they identify as. You'll see this with the parents of trans kids where the parent has internalized some aspect of their child and it's become part of their identity. "I'm the father of three sons" kind of thing. Then one of the kids comes out as female and the parent has a really difficult time with it because they identified themselves as the parent of three male children and that's turned out to be incorrect, they're the parent of two boys and one girl and they need to change how they identify themselves in addition to how they identify their daughter. Some parents have a really REALLY hard time of it (they still gotta do it though if they don't want to be a shitty person)

I think it's generational. My parents simply will not watch animation and they don't realize that they can't explain why because they were just told "it's for kids". In fact, their entire generation seems to have responded with "okie dokie" to everything they were told when they were young and now all of that stuff is the gospel to them. My mom even said once (on South park) that she found it funny but couldn't watch it. On the other hand I don't really meet too many people my age that can't debate between family guy and American dad. Almost everyone I know has watched big mouth.
- Its just bizarre that they will now consume thus ai garbage no hesitation. Can we send out lost "letters" from their deceased parents telling them, "no, stop."

Let them watch Grave of the Fireflies once and ask them, if they would show it to a child.
- It was shown as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro in Japan.
  My dad picked up both Grave of the Fireflies and one of the Escaflowne movies when I was 9ish, thinking that cartoon=“safe.” He also gave me the first issues of Transmetropolitan around that age, so similar issues with comics=“safe.”
  
  Ok, children might be safe, since they don't geht half of it. But not teens.

We all love animation.
Hell, Arcane was one of the top shows so far this year.

It was bullshit before generative slop was a thing. It’s even more bullshit now.

(Looks at normal) - who the hell would want to be like that!? We getchu fam, you are loved here among us weirdos:-P.

I imagine if you told these same people that AI slop is for losers, their heads would explode and you'd be called all sorts of colourful words. It definitely, in my experience, feels like AI slop enjoyers aren't the most stable. Though, my experience hasn't been too much since I actively avoid them if possible.

noseless asian animation where everyone is the same and the faces have no animation during speech, or proper animation?
- both are animation, even if their quality and style differ.

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