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derozio said:
Wait what shimoneta has HanaKana?!
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Nope, that's why it's not AOTS and Kangoku is :P
That's why I said Hana that is actually Kana :P Since there's a character named Hana that voiced by Kana :D

Also, Im@s is much more than a moeblob idol anime :P Heck, it's more than anime :P
Im@s is mainly a set of games. (And Tekken collaboration xD)
 
I've heard Devil is a Part Timer is great. Which is weird because the title and description completely turn me off to the whole thing. Haven't watched it myself, but I've heard nothing but positive reviews :)
 
I loved the anime. Also purchased the light novel a few months ago, I will read it soon I guess.
 
machomuu said:
I wasn't much referring to how you said it so much as that you were saying it was great without having seen it yourself.

It's a dangerous game, that. Especially since anime fans, en masse, aren't exactly the most discerning bunch.
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Oh you said rhymes so I guess I misunderstood. I tend to take people's word for it, especially when it's unanimous. I'm not that uppity -w-
 
Tapioca said:
Oh you said rhymes so I guess I misunderstood. I tend to take people's word for it, especially when it's unanimous. I'm not that uppity -w-
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Well I say this more for the recommended than the recommender.

Because when it's for yourself then it's fine, regardless of how the popular opinion tends to be, it's what you get out of it that matters in the end. In the case of someone else, though, telling them what the general public thinks of it is one thing, but saying it's great despite not having seen it yourself can end badly for the other person.

But that's not too much of a problem here since you did both things. It's not too much of a big deal, but taking the masses opinions as your own can lead to trouble.
 
But it provides much, much more effective results than actually consuming media and forming your own opinions. The art of convincingly discussing something you haven't read or seen is an oft overlooked one. It's how I get by. I can make myself look all cultured-like by discussing anime studios, the shows they've made and how things have changed. Is it great for conversation? Yep. Does it end up help spreading misinformation? Probably. But no one will know that.

Books have been written on the subject of talking about books you haven't read; they've got some really useful tactics as well as a few nuggets of cleverness.
Fittingly, I have not read any of them. Self-taught.
 
But I think there's a big difference between this and that. Discussing something you've no prior knowledge of based on what you've picked up and researched is far from illegitimate- you're speaking logically rather than out of experience, using what you know about the subject (regardless of when you learned it) to get by. That can be effective, since you're using facts and the like to make a statement/argument and you can back it up, too.

But in the case of saying something's good or bad because other people say so to either persuade or dissuade someone from engaging in it themselves, you don't have the same backing. You can't much speak from experience and in terms of logic you can use basic info to reinforce it but you couldn't tell go into detail or a conversation about such. Saying you've heard that something's good or bad, that's one thing, but there's not much weight to an opinion on a show that has no personal backing.
 
Now, where does the idea of having forgotten pretty much everything about a show and ending up using what people have been saying about it fit amongst all of this? One could argue that the feeling of experiencing something won't ever truly go away, and one's opinions will always remain in one form or another, affecting what info one takes in and so on, or even perhaps that having an original opinion doesn't matter as long as one has the integrity of having watched it. But what's stopping such a thing from being sort of the same deal as this dangerous baseless recommendation habit?
 
I think we might be a little mixed up here, Poki.

Pokestick said:
Now, where does the idea of having forgotten pretty much everything about a show and ending up using what people have been saying about it fit amongst all of this?
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That's the base idea, it's not so much that you forget everything about a show so much as that you never saw the show to begin with. What you're saying by that point isn't "you", but to the other person it is. If you say "X is great" despite not ever having engaged in it, does the other person really have any reason to take your word? Not particularly, though they might because its likely that whether you watched it or not won't come up- it's implied.

But my point in all this is, saying that something's good without actually having experienced it to come to that conclusion yourself (regardless of how much you experienced, just that you engaged it at all) doesn't really make for a safe recommendation and is without weight. If, say, you say that you heard it was good, well that's different; you're not the one saying it's good, but you're giving both the information that people think it's good and that you don't personally know this or feel this way, but it's worth giving a shot, at least. But when you just say its good, depending on how much the other person trusts your opinion, the takeaway will likely be much greater than the former example, because it's coming straight from a person that you know themselves.
 
machomuu said:
Well I say this more for the recommended than the recommender.

Because when it's for yourself then it's fine, regardless of how the popular opinion tends to be, it's what you get out of it that matters in the end. In the case of someone else, though, telling them what the general public thinks of it is one thing, but saying it's great despite not having seen it yourself can end badly for the other person.

But that's not too much of a problem here since you did both things. It's not too much of a big deal, but taking the masses opinions as your own can lead to trouble.
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That's a fine way of thinking, but I don't think how we should receive recommendations should be looked at down to the detail of science. If people keep telling me an anime is good, I'll say so. If I keep hearing it's bad, I'll say so. If I hear all sorts of mixed reviews, I'll say so. Don't think I need to be lectured on the art of acceptable recommendations, though.

Janna is clearly already enjoying the show, and my backing of HEARING that the show is good is an acceptable response. I could have not posted at all, but where's the fun in that.
 
Tapioca said:
That's a fine way of thinking, but I don't think how we should receive recommendations should be looked at down to the detail of science. If people keep telling me an anime is good, I'll say so. If I keep hearing it's bad, I'll say so. If I hear all sorts of mixed reviews, I'll say so. Don't think I need to be lectured on the art of acceptable recommendations, though.

Janna is clearly already enjoying the show, and my backing of HEARING that the show is good is an acceptable response. I could have not posted at all, but where's the fun in that.
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Sorry...actually, past the initial comment it wasn't so much about you as it was the simple idea of the matter. It was less of me talking down to you- which wasn't the intention, so much as me simply getting into the discussion of the ethics of it.

Akiba said:
I went to Otakon and it was awesome
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WAITAKIBAYOUWEREHERE? Dammit. The entire Akihabara area was in what is basically my backyard and I could have met them :/
 
machomuu said:
Sorry...actually, past the initial comment it wasn't so much about you as it was the simple idea of the matter. It was less of me talking down to you- which wasn't the intention, so much as me simply getting into the discussion of the ethics of it.
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My reaction was probably over the top anyway, last night was a loooong night of drinking. Rereading your post, I see that now aha, my bad u_u...
 
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