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Gauss
Posts: 519 Location: Finland |
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MUPPET CAT! Woohooo!! Luv you Zac, you're not a cynic after all. But you do start sounding a bit weary of your job. 8 or 9 pages of replies? Countdown to 2000 e-mails? Not free? Guess things are starting to feel predictable and samey. But never fear, when you least expect it there'll always be the Spanish inquisition.
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Steroid
Posts: 329 Location: At home, where all good hikikomori should be |
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But there's a difference between everyone being forced to act the same way and between people choosing the same values. We're all living in the same world, in the human condition, so there are some universal principles. And I think the world would be interesting if all we had was those universals.
I'm all for freedom of thought, but not so much for freedom from thought. And individuality means you actually have to craft a personality, not just soak up the pabulum and pretend that it's a considered choice. If I can trick the people who do, I consider it a good thing. For both of us: I get another boost to the market and they get to experience something deeper. But while people have the right to choose mediocrity over excellence, I don't have to celebrate it. |
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indrik
Posts: 365 Location: yonder |
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No, it was like "prestige format" or something like that. |
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jgreen
Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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D'oh! I totally missed the "bound and glossy" part of your post. I'm an idiot. Anyway, yeah, "prestige format" is the correct term, although typically prestige format books are a little longer (usually 48 or 64 pages instead of the standard 32) and usually don't have advertisements either. |
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JaxsonJaguar
Posts: 19 Location: Northern California |
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Concerning the flake, it sounds to me like they are describing Pretear. But I could be wrong.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Someone else already answered it:
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JackBassV
Posts: 241 Location: Coventry, England |
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Strange, Single panel "comics" have been called cartoons in the UK for over 200 years. In fact the (normally) 4 panel "comics" you find in newspapers are also cartoons (as opposed to comics). Comic books have always referred to short page count publications with paper covers, normally stapled, whereas Graphic Novels are perfect bound with a cardboard or hardback cover. Trade Paperback refers to collections of comic books in a single volume, also perfect bound with cardboard cover. Manga refers to Japanese Comics, irrespective of the published form. * I thought the prestige format referred to short page count publications with non-standard covers and/or bindings. I have a couple of prestige format comics with metallised covers, held together by normal staples, and one (now missing) which was sewn together JBV^_^ |
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Strephon
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While it's possible that the term has been applied to other formats, I've most often heard Prestige Format used to refer to square-bound, glued comics with cardstock covers. This has also been known in the past as "bookshelf format" and "Dark Knight format" ("The Dark Knight Returns" was the first high-profile comic released in this format).
I've personally never heard the term applied to comics with cover enhancements (of which there were a great deal in the '90s); perhaps the term is used differently in different countries? |
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Keonyn
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Posts: 5567 Location: Coon Rapids, MN |
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The only way everyone would adopt the exact same style and principals is if they were forced. I personally don't think that world would be interesting, for the same reasons I listed, we'd all be the same people with little to no individuality, variety, or uniqueness. Some people might think that sounds so incredibly good, but I would think the vast majority think otherwise.
That's just it, it's not mediocre to them and what you think is excellence might be mediocre to them. It's mediocrity over excellence only to you and everyone else still has the right to make that decision the same way you've made that decision and the simple fact you've made the determination doesn't make it true or false or fact, because it's your opinion and nothing more. Like it or not your little opinion holds no more weight than theirs. Also people look for different things in entertainment, while something might seem mediocre to you because it doesn't have what you're looking for, to them what you push on them seems mediocre because that simply isn't what they're looking for in a series. Not to mention the idea of tricking people in to liking something deep is ridiculous. The simple fact that you don't seem to comprehend is that you aren't god, and you don't decide what is good or bad for anyone but yourself and the simple fact you make that determination doesn't make it so. You're not some mighty lord who is in a position of great wisdom to tell us all what to think, you're just you, like it or not. Now the sheer factor that someone with your ridiculous ideals is not going to celebrate something gives me all the more reason to celebrate it, hooray for free thought and individuality, down with elitism. |
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Kouji
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Richard J.
Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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If everyone were part of the same cultural/social order, wouldn't we have an almost Utopian world without war or most crime? It would be boring, extremely restrictive, and probably developmentally stagnant, but wouldn't it also be incredibly peaceful? Is peace worth having if you must sacrifice individuality and freedom to obtain it? Is freedom acceptable if it means people are free to chose to be cruel, useless, violent or stupid? Am I being way too philosophical for this time of the day? |
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konohamaru
Posts: 17 Location: the village hidden in the refrigerator |
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Just in case this wasn't satirical-
Richard J. wrote
Um, short answer, no we'd have a military state. Enforced peace isn't really peace is it? I can't recall any incidents of enforced "peace" actually resulting in a stable, peaceful society. Revolution and war, yes; peace, no.
Okay, why do we still not get that it is not about making everyone the same it's about awareness and acceptance of our differences?
When humanity evolves enough to actually create and maintain world peace we will, almost universally, have grown beyond the desire to make negative choices like these. At that point it will no longer be a question of obtaining peace, it just will be. |
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Richard J.
Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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I was being about 60% satirical.
We actually have quite a few dictatorships in the world right now that are managing to function rather well and typically they don't like dissenting opinions. Revolutions usually require outside support (we Americans had the French of all people backing us in our Revolution.) Many people feel that a repressive peace is better than a war of revolution. Also, it's surprisingly easy to control people through nothing more than the preception of authority. There's a rather infamous experiment where school teachers were told to administer progessively more painful electric shocks to people they couldn't see if they answered questions incorrectly. The point of the experiment was to determine if these oridinary people, ordered to do something, would do it even if they knew they were causing pain and possibly even killing someone. (No one was really being shocked, but the teachers didn't know that. Some stopped, but many kept shocking even when they heard screams.)
Having said that, cultural differences do lead inevitably to conflicts. You have to admit, if everyone were the same, all violence caused by such differences would cease to exist. You can't have racism if everyone is the same race, right? As I pointed out, the other side of the coin is developmental stagnation. The trade off, in my mind, isn't worth it.
Mostly I was just thinking in my post that, technically, world peace and a Utopia could be obtained if everyone thought, acted, and were the same. It's just the cost of obtaining it that way would be enormous. However, there are plenty of people in this world who believe that the way to having peace IS to force everyone to think in only one manner. |
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Kouji
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If everyone was made to think the same, sure we might stop all the fighting, but I don't think we'd have real peace. Sure, there'd be no more wars, but because we never would experience pain, we'd all become selfish, arrogant, and ungrateful. That's not to say that I think wars are ok to have, but if we never experienced any pain, how would we know what peace was? How would we know that living in a utopia were everyone thought the same and there was no killing is real peace if we don't experience the alternative? It's like when you tell a child not to touch a hot stove while it's on. Even if you tell them not to touch it, they'll still do it anyway to find out why they shouldn't. But after they do finally give into temptation and touch it, they'll know not to touch it ever again and be more grateful to never do it again because they'll know why from a first-hand experience. That's not to say that pain is a good thing or that I wouldn't like world peace, but peace is a relief from the pain and suffering we face. Even if all pain stopped, if pain never existed, how could we experience a relief from that pain if we never had it? Just like how you can't have light without shadows, you can't have peace without pain. It's equivalent exchange. Besides, if we didn't have pain or wars, where would we get all the plots for anime?
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Swissman
Posts: 786 Location: Switzerland |
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Which message do you mean? There are many messages in Mononoke Hime.
Well, here again, that's just ONE of many messages the film tries to convey. More important than the whole blatant enviroment stick is actually the more hidden message about Japan's loss of traditions and a longing for the past. Takahata and Miyazaki have virtually ingrained this longing in their work, as many other anime and manga creators have as well, but both of them are more preachy about Japan's transformation than others. |
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