Foi por acaso que encontrei o livro de Héctor García – mais conhecido como Kirai do blog KiraiNet – Um Nerd no Japão.
um nerd no Japão - Héctor García
Resumidamente, é um livro essencial para todo otaku, nerd que gosta do Japão ou vai para o Japão, tem interesse na cultura moderna japonesa, ou simplesmente quer aprender além do clichê passado pela mídia tradicional.
Vou elaborar um pouco mais a seguir… Continue lendo 'Um Nerd no Japão — Héctor García'»
Shure most people nowadays will just shove it off as some japanese otaku weirdo that’s too timid to go after a real girl etc etc, but reporter Kyung Lah goes a little deeper into the question showing that while this might be a little odd now, it also can be the very start of a tendency of people getting related more to virtual beings than real ones.
As I’ve seen in lots of otaku documentaries and stuff, what seems to happen is that these anti-social oftenly shy and recluse people finds in virtual characters and friends relationships that are more confortable and less prone to bad surprises and judgements.
Despite Sal9000 there being an extreme case going as far as a simulated marriage and total dedication to the character, it’s becoming less and less a far fetched idea not only in Japan but also in the rest of the world of people turning the virtual world his/her only contact or at least the main contact with the outside world.
If this is bad or good, I won’t be the judge… today’s society standards certainly looks at it as something odd and weird.
But at least in some cases, I’m not so shure it’s as bad as the news makes it look…
Action News does a piece about game addiction quoting World of Warcraft and Everquest representing MMORPGs as “new sources of addiction”:
I guess the whole thing is close to fair, if compared with most of the mainstream news bashing of online games.
BUT, the comparison with drugs, AGAIN, is as unfortunate as ever.
As you see, they completely ignore that both WoW and Everquest have, has had, and will probably have hundreds of thousands of players who never had problems like the ones described.
It’s as close to gambling, drugs and other addiction as Monopoly and that Uno card game is.
With an userbase like the ones the games have, shure, it’s innevitable that some kids and adults who already have problems will end up having sad tales to tell. We had something very similar to that with the Dungeons and Dragons RPG decades ago.
But as I see, it could be just about any other thing. A book, a movie, TV series, a music band or whatever.
What parents, friends and other people have to understand is that, for people who already have problems (ADD, depression, etc) anything can be used as a tool to potentialize it… so there must be constant monitoring of habits to prevent those problems from getting worse.
Blaming a game for being the cause of suicide for a guy who stopped taking medication after who knows how much time he spent isolated playing one game is just bullshit.
He used the game to escape reality. So seems more likely that what killed him was the reality he was into.
If something, it’s more believable that Everquest delayed his suicide with rather than the opposite. Unfortunately, he found no one who would make his reality better than what Everquest had to offer, it seems.
O anime que vamos conversar sobre desta vez é Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (wiki só em inglês, e pode ter spoilers), uma trama que pode ser descrita em poucas palavras (apesar destas não retratarem a totalidade da obra) – O que aconteceria se um terremoto de magnitude 8.0 atingisse Tóquio?
A série Discussão Anime é centrada em animes que levam a discussões e tem conteúdo que estimula reflexão, direcionadas principalmente para adultos.
Tanto para servir de recomendação, e para mostrar que animes não são “coisa de criança”. Continue lendo 'Discussão Anime: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0'»
Apparently, RPGs (role playing games) are also the work of the devil. So, even if you don’t play, watch to or know Pokemon, if you are a WoW player for instance, you’re a lost soul too!!!
That’s not me talking, fortunately:
To clarify, I have nothing against religions or those who have faith in them – but I have to pitty the children of people who actually believe what this guy is saying.
It’s people like him that gives religious people a bad (and sad) face.
Of course he won’t say about the overwhelming number of crimes, acts of violence and even wars that happened because of religion… mostly because of extreme cases like him. No no no.
Because for each murder commited related to Pokemon or RPGs (because none of the cases are actually caused by them) there’s probably ten thousands… maybe even millions of deaths related to speeches just like the one he’s doing there.
So kids, play Pokemon, play RPGs and pay no attention to crooks like this guy. Because following people like him is making your own life like hell.
Se preparem para esta Discussão Anime, porque é sobre Noein.
E a história é cheia de referências que implicam em pesquisas para poder entender melhor!
Noein
A série Discussão Anime é centrada em animes que levam a discussões e tem conteúdo que estimula reflexão, direcionadas principalmente para adultos.
Tanto para servir de recomendação, e para mostrar que animes não são “coisa de criança”. Continue lendo 'Discussão Anime: Noein'»
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